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Full gaily climbs he to his chosen seat! -Her saddened looks his smiles elated meet!

The School-Boy with other poems. By Thomas Cromwell. 12mo. Riving-The steeds are cap'ring, as in haste to go, His comrades shout-their merry horns they tons, London. blow

1816.

The wheels revolve-" Good bye!" she
(And in the tone her tend'rest feelings rise)
faintly cries,
While he, scarce heeding, turns a tearless

eye,

And, smiling, answers with a gay "Good bye."

We are not sure that we should do wisely in commending these Poems, whatever be their merit, because they are unfinished and Fragments;-they are acknowledged to be such. The unfinished labours of great men, called away by Time, 'ere they had opportunity The Poem ends very piously: but, to mature them, may be, and often are, the writer should have indulged his muse extremely valuable, and they are all we in the pleasure of depicting the Schoolcan have; but the effusions of a youth-Boy's interview,-when he visits the ful fancy have not the same protection. The Author has probably years of life before him, sufficient to allow of his finishing his pieces, with his best abilities, before they are presented to the Public Eye.

School after some years of absence,→ with his old School - Master: a scene not seldom of great affection and inter

est.

Ah! long by the hearth of the warrior's

home

[come; His children shall listen, and wish he were And long shall that wish to each bosom be dear,

From the minor Poems we select a passage, which displays genius: the abTo enter a public assembly in a negli-sent Soldier recollected by his family. gent undress, is surely not becoming in a youth. The picces are not without poetical feelings, and poetical ideas; but, the best advice his friends could have given the Author, would have been "take them, and finish them." From those which are best finished, we select a specimen; as favourable to the Au thor: the following is from the SchoolBoy."

But see, where slowly down the Schoolward
road,

Still ling'ring, looking to his loved abode,
He winds with ANNA to th' accustomed Inn:
Dear SISTER ANNA,who could pleased begin
With him the SCHOOL-BOY's journey; to her
heart

So hard the task with Edward e'er to part.
Still, still he stays, again to wave the hand,
Again to mark his weeping MorнER stand,
And wave in turn-till fades the mutual
view,

As both still breathe the soft, unheard adieu.
Where at the busy Inn a noisy throng
Of youthful playmates EDWARD stands

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And long in each eye shall it combat the tear. Perhaps that same night, when, by death's [waste,

arms embraced,

Her soldier lay stiffened and prone on the
The wife might look out, and contemplate
the sky;
[a sigh,
Survey the mild moonbeam, and think, with
That it shone on his tent; while he wakeful
might lay,

Or be dreaming of her and his home faraway.
Then, turning to join the gay ring round the
fire,

She would smile with her children, and talk
of their sire:

Should she weep for his boldness, or tell of
his might,
[in fight;
Each stripling youth glowed to be with him
While with fervour more mild the soft daugh-
ter would burn,

As she pictured the joys of her father's re-
turn!

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What tears of affliction may languidly flow! What nights of despair, bringing mornings of woe!

Should poverty all but deny the raw shed, And pale want and disease ghastly glare round your bed;

others possessing merit;-but forbearance must have its limits. There is a great deal of information in the book; there are many good things in it, and very proper to be known by houseAnd the past rise in contrast, all keepers, as well as by Butchers; but, gay with the religious turn given to every incidelight, [fight?" Say, what will ye think of the "glorious dent, spoils the whole: it is a mark of Will ye too exult with the Conqueror? extremely bad taste, and being altogeNo! ther out of its place, will be laughed at,

For his laurels are cypress, his victory woe:will do abundantly more harm than And the trophies ambition so joyous would

rear,

Are the widow's lament, and the orphan's

lone tear.

The Author has missed a fair oppor*tunity of complimenting those Patriotic Institutions of his Country, which endeavour to alleviate the burden of the Soldier's Widow, and to wipe away the tear from the Orphan's eye.

Darton

The Experienced Butcher; shewing the. respectability and usefulness of his calling, the religious considerations arising from it, the laws relating to it, and various profitable suggestions for the rightly carrying it on: designed not only for the use of Butchers, but also for families and readers in general. Small 8vo. price 6s. and Co. London. 1816. To this strangely unfashionable title, which we have copied at length, the Author should have added, “ in prose and verse, with Psalms and Hymns, and Prayers, and texts of Scripture, and graces before and after meat, &c. &c. &c." Who would have expected to find among the Laws regulating the trade of a Butcher, a dissertation on the "Lamb slain from the foundation of the world?" on the type of Christ and Antichrist, and Songs of Praise to "the Lamb on Mount Calvary slain?" The work reminds us, of those variorum Memorandum Books, in which ancient Spinsters formerly recorded whatever came to hand, of all sorts of description, without choice, without taste, without understanding.

It has frequently been our practice to overlook some indifferent articles in a Miscellaneous Work, on account of

good, and expose even the solemnities of and the sneer of infidels. Christianity to the contempt of fools, Let every

thing be kept to its own place. We have never looked for Domestic Cookery, in a Treatise on the Covenant; nor for Vindications of the Thirty-nine Articles, in Mrs. Glasse, or Miss Murray. And yet, we would recommend some of these maxims, were they decidedly separated from their heterogeneous associates.

Beneficent Visits: with Facts, on the Effects of Simple Regimen, and Medicine, and Hints addressed to Visitors of the Sick, in general. By an Old Visitor. Price 6d. Baynes and Co. London. 1816.

We distinguish this little sixpennyworth, because we believe, it is founded on fact and experience. It is, if we mistake not, the offspring of benevolence and piety. We do not adopt all the Author's Sentiments, though we freely acknow ledge that simple vegetable medicines, may occasionally, be extremely useful. But, they are useful in proportion to their power; and in proportion to their power they are dangerous, if misapplied. While, therefore, we commend the prinple of doing all the good we can, we insist on the propriety of knowledge taking precedence of zeal.

If the repetition of the following observations should lead any ingenious mind to a discovery so desirable, as that referred to, what a blessing it would prove to thousands!

H———. His disease was evidently induced by paint; but a relation who sat by,

*This pernicious business preys on the frame in a most distressing manner. For the information of such as are pining in this de

exhibited the fearful symptoms of a rapid inward decay, and a short view convinced the visitor it was occasioned by habitual drinking, which had so inflamed and destroyed the tender organs, as almost to arise to suffocation, and even to cause an increasing wish for the deadly poison f.

We know, by observation, that ignorance is a great cause of the evils and distresses of mankind: ignorance of the very first duties of life. Our young females too often quit their proper sphere for one not belonging to them; and in the course of life they justify the well known pro

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This famous battle has given occasion to Poems far worse than this. The Poet has furnished some good lines, composed in a creditable style; but the fire of the hero, the transporting phraseology that leterious business and cannot leave it, the dispenses with time and place, and sets the juice of the common plantain should be freely taken, and cleanliness attended to. very thing it describes before the mind's Spirituous liquors should be carefully avoided eye, is not here; neither, indeed, have as deepening the wounds, and a vegetable we seen it in any of the Poetical effusions diet with fruits the principal food; but every lately submitted to the Public. man, especially if he has a family, should simple narratives of the Generals on watch the first opportunity of quitting this both sides, written while the whole was destructive employ. A discovery as a sub-fresh, feelingly fresh, give more correct stitute for white lead would be a great blessing. What a pity that some valuable sub-ideas of the contest, especially when acstitutes by ingenious men are not more en- companied by a good map of the field of couraged! What is the mere appearance battle, than all the amplifications and of a dead white apartment, when it is con- metaphors of the Muse-soi-disant innected with the awful reflection that the spired. We observe this, in behalf of very colouring of that favourite room has future generations, who will certainly tended to destroy the health and consequent possess, and study with avidity, superior comfort and happiness of a fellow creature documents, to any which have hitherto issued from the press.

and his family!

A prolific source of pauperism and profligacy arises from that bane of domestic, social, and national happiness-ardent spirits. The rapid increase of these pestiferous and pestilential haunts of wretchedness and sin-wine vaults, gin shops, and low public houses; and the consequent demoralization of society is so awfully on the increase as loudly and increasingly to call, with a voice of deadly groaning, on the Legislature instantly to crush this viper, fastening on and destroying the health and morals of the body politic. Children and the very infants at the breast are now instructed by monsters rather than parents to suck in the deadly poison, from a fatal idea that it prevents the sensation of hunger, while it encourages that idleness inseparable from dram-drinking.

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Mr. Britton has completed his History and Antiquities of Norwich Cathedral; being the second volume of his work devoted to those interesting national fabrics. This Some of the Magistrates of Surrey have volume contains twenty-five engravings, most taken up the consideration of this subject, of which are executed by J. and H. Le so fatal to our existence, happiness, and Keux, from drawings by J. A. Repton, arprosperity Let us hope this shocking sys-chitect, F. Mackenzie, and R. Cattermole. tem will romptly come under the consider. ation of Parliament, so that a duty equal to an interdiction shall be instantly enacted; pawn-brokers and lottery-offices will feel accordingly: and that the time may hasten on when all these reflections on the revenue shall be done away for ever,

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quary, and to the architect; they represent both general views of the church, externally and internally, plans of the whole, and of parts, and such sections aud elevations as serve to display the construction or anatomy of the edifice.-With the present volume also is published the first number of the same author's Illustrations of Winchester Cathedral, which will be comprised in five numbers, and will embrace thirty engravings, representing the general and particular architecture and sculpture of that truly interesting edifice. It is instructive to examine the varieties and dissimilarities of the churches of Salisbury, Norwich, and Winchester, as it will be seen that not any two views or prints resemble each other; that each church in the whole and in detail is unlike either Messrs S. Mitan and Cooke will soon of the others, and that the sculpture, monn-publish a series of Thirty-five Etchings, ments, and history of every one is peculiar which will give the spirit and character of to itself, and has scarcely any analogy to the original designs by Capt. Jones on the the other two; in the west fronts, naves, subject of the battle of Waterloo. aisles, transepts, choirs, towers, and chapels, each cathedral has its own exclusive charac-ly ter, style, and age.

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BIOGRAPHY.

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The Rev Robert Cox, of Bridgenorth, will soon publish, in an octavo volume, Narratives of the Lives of the most eminent Fathers of the first three centuries

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Poems in the press.
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A. Bertoloui, Esq. late comptroller-general of the customs at Ceylon, will soon pubThe Legend of St. Cuthbert, originally hish, in an octavo volume, a View of the published in 1625, is printing, with expla- Agricultural, Commercial, and Financial natory notes and illustrations, by J. B. Tay-Interests of Ceylon, with a map of the lor, Esq.

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