Drops for the ladies there!" "Unloofe their lockets" "We can't"-" Their handkerchiefs!" "They've no pockets." "Silence below there! Let us hear the play" (Sailor in the galleries. "Ladies and gentlemen, one word, I pray (Scotchman in the pit. "Are you the manager ?" (Irishman). "No, Sir, I'm Munden.” Such are the manners of our age, nor lefs Doth Folly hold dominion over Dress. All things diforder'd are from fole to crown, The youthful ftripling is old Square-toes grown. With gills tight brac'd-his head feems out of joint, A crazy ruin, propp'd at every point, Though war through Europe, through the world, may cease, And plenty gild the olive branch of Peace; Though others quit the field, their labour done, By T. N. LONGMAN and O. REES. I. POETICAL WORKS. JOAN of ARC, an Epic Poem. By ROBERT SOUTHEY. In two volumes, printed on fine wove paper, hot-preffed, embellished with an elegant Portrait of the Maid of Orleans. The fecond edition. Price 12s. in boards. "It affords us pleasure to see that a poem, the uncommon merit of which was recognized by us at its firft appearance, (fee Monthly Review for April, 1796,) has fo far obtained the fanction of the public, as to produce a demand for a fecond edition. "We also are gratified in obferving that the author has fo much subdued the selfconfidence and impatience of youth, as to fubmit to the task of a very careful revifion of the whole, and to make ample facrifices of such parts as could not ftand the scrutiny of his maturer judgment.” Monthly Review, Jɔnuary 1799. 2. POEMS, including THE VISIONS OF THE MAID OF ORLFANS. By ROBERT SOUTHEY. Two Volumes. Price 11s. in boards. "Among the youthful poets of the prefent day, Mr. Southey bears no inconfiderable rank. He courted the Mufes at an early age; and they did not treat his advances with d'fdain. He is not one of thofe cool verfifiers who tamely pursue a spirit. lefs courfe; for he frequently difplays feeling, tafte, and genius." Critical Review, June 1799. 3. THALABA the DESTROYER, a Metrical Romance, with copious Notes. By ROBERT SOUTHEY. Elegantly printed in two volumes, foolfcap octavo. Price 148. in boards. 4. ANNUAL ANTHOLOGY, two vols. fmall octavo. Price 125. in boards. 5. LYRICAL BALLADS, with other POEMS. By W. WORDSWORTH. Neatly printed in two volumes, foolfcap octavo. Price 118. in boards. "So much genius and originality are difcovered in this publication, that we wish to fee another from the same hand, written on more elevated fubje&ts, and in a more cheerful difpofition." Monthly Review, June 1799. "The attempt made in this little volume is one that meets our cordial approbation, and it is an attempt by no means un fuccessful. The endeavour of the author is to recall our poetry from the fantastical excess of refinement to fimplicity and nature.The account of this defign, and its probable effects upon modern readers, is so very fenfibly given in the introduction, that we shall infert the passage at large. "We do not often find expreffios that we efteem too familiar, or deficient in dignity; on the contrary, we think that the author has fucceeded in attaining that judicious degree of fimplicity, which accommodates itself with ease, even to the fublime It is not by pomp of words, but by energy of thought, that fublimity is most fu cessfully atchieved and we infinitely prefer the fimplicity, even of the most unadorned tale in this volume, to all the meretricious frippery of the Darwinian taste." British Critic, Oct. 1799." "The "The author has thought for hinfelf; he has deeply ftudied human nature, in the book of human action; and he has adopted his language from the fame sources as his feelings. Aware that his poems are fo material'y different from thofe upon which general approbation is at present bestowed, he has now defended them in a pre. face of fome length; not with the foolish hope of reafoning his readers into the approbation of these particular poems, but as a neceffary juftification of the species of poetry to which they belong. It would be no mean, it would, indeed be a very lofty praif, to affect of a writer, that he is able to pour into other bofoms powerful feelings of a particular class, or belonging to a particular order of men. To this praite Mr. Wordsworth lays a well fupported claim. He declares himself the poet chiefly of low and rustic life (fome ipecimens of ability he has given in other lines, but this is evidently his excellence) and he pourtrays it, not under its difgufting forms, but in fitua ions affording, as he thinks, the best foil for the effential pastions of the heart, incorporated with an elementary and durable state of manners, and with the beautiful and permanent forms of nature. Each separate poem has, as its diftinct purpose, the developement of a feeling, which gives importance to the action and fituation, and not the action or fituation to the feeling." British Critic, Feb. 1801. "The reflections, which occur in a defcription of the old Cumberland Beggar,' are admirable, as are many others in this most fascinating publication. There is all the moral pith and nervous force of Cowper in this paragraph, without any femblance of imitation, and if Mr. Wordsworth should proceed to poetic flights of equal altitude, and fhould foar as long upon the wing, we doubt not that he will obtain a niche near the author of the Task, in the temple of "ave enduring fame'." Monthly Mirror, June 1801. 6. LYRICAL TALES. By Mrs. MARY ROBINSON. Handfomely printed in fmall 8vo. Price 5 s. 6 d. in boards. "The poetical talents of this Lady have obtained a degree of celebrity that will fuffer no diminution from this new collection of l'ales. The imagery and fentiments fcattered among thefe little poems will be found generally poetical and juft, and the verfification fpirited and harmonious, with fometimes a cast of ftructure that strongly reminds us of our antient poets." European Mag. Nov. 18co. "Her lyre is harmonious, and the has difplayed the power of touching the chords with pathos. As her life, though in fome periods gay and dazzling, was deeply tinctured with forrow, her mufe is of the fumbre caft. Of the twenty-two tales which compofe this volume, thofe intitled-All Alone-The Lafcar-The Widow's Home-The Shepherd's Dog-The Fugitive-The Hermit of Mont Blanc-The Negro Girl-The Deferted Cottage- Poor Marguerito-Edmond's Wedding-The Alien Boyand Golfre, are calculated to touch the foul with pity, and to fill the eye with tears.' Monthly Review, Sept. 1801. 7. The POETICAL WORKS of HECTOR MACNIEL, Eq. Including Scotland's Skaith, the Waes o' War, the Links o'Forth, &c. &c. In two vols. foolfcap 8vo. Price 14 s. in boards. Elegantly printed by Benfley, and embellished with ten beautiful engravings from Defigns by Stothard. 8. ALFRED, an Epic Poem. By JOSEPH COTTLE. In one large Quarto Volume. Price 11. 18. in boards. "We obferve, that Mr. Cottle has, with a laudable industry, availed himself of every relic of information which is left upon record refpecting the character and conduct of his hero. He has studied the Saxon hiftory with ftrict attention. Hence the incidents which he invents wear the air of probability, and in the con. ftruction of the general plan of his poem he has fcarcely deviated a ftep from the line of historic truth. Senfible of the difadvantage under which epic poems labour, in confequence of the annunciation of the catastrophe in the exordium, Mr. Cottle has skilfully contrived to keep the intereft of his readers awake by interweaving into his story the procefs and termination of his hero's domestic diftrefies. By the exhibition of the perilous adventures of Alfwitha, his amiable queen, and her In her infant fon, he happily preferves throughout great part of his work the pleasingly painful uncertainty of the drama. Mr. Cottle feems to dwell with peculiar delight upon the reprefentations of the gent'er paffions. Pe ftrives rather to melt the heart than to nerve the arm of heroifin. He has adopted, as his model, the Odyffey in preference to the Iliad. Though he treads through the fields of blood and flughter, be avoids entering into the detail of the horrible works of war. Homer ha depicted violent death in fuch a variety of frightful forms that the fubject is exhausted the course of our perufal of this werk we had marked many pages which appeared to us to difplay thofe fine touches which defignate the hand of a mafter. But we are arrived at the extremity of our limits; and, however pleafant it might be to quote and comment uron tuch paffages, we must here close our remarks, in full confidence that they have intrinfic merit enough to attract the notice of our readers of tafle and feeling." Crit. Rev. Feb. 1801. "It is not a little furprising, that whilst fome of our first-rate poets reforted to fabulous times for heroes, &c. Alfred fhould have efcaped their notice D'Ur. fey's hiftorical ballad of Alfred is the only piece of English verfe in which that monarch is celebrated, till Mr. Cottle hit upon one of the most faithful fubjects in our own, or perhaps in any other language; and it is but mere juftice to fay, that He has performed the pleafing talk with great ability, and in many inftances. with fuccefs. It would not be fair to try him by the rigid rules of epic poetry, which he bas, in our opinion, very justly rejected, on a theme that would bear him without them." Gent. Mag. Oct. 1800. 9. ICELANDIC POETRY; or, the EDDA of SAEMUND. Tranflated into English verfe, by S. COTTLE. Price 6 s. in boards. 10. POEMS, by S. T. COLERIDGE. To which are added, POEMS, by C. LAMB and C. LLOYD. The fecond edition. Price 65. in boards. 11. POEMS of ACHMED ARDEBEILI, a Perfian Exile, with Notes. By CHARLES FOX. 8vo. Price & s. in boards. 12. BALLADS and other POEMS; in imitation of the Ancient English Poets. By W. H. IRELAND. In one volume, foolfcap octavo. Price 5s. 60. boards. 13. HERMAN and DOROTHEA; a Poem in Nine Cantos. Translated from the German of GOETHE, Author of the Sorrows of Werter. By THOMAS H LCROFT.. In foolfcap octavo, embelhed with en elegant ngravings. Price 10s. 6d. in boards, or on large paper 155. "We ackn. wledge his claims to great abilities; and readily confefs that he has produced a fimple and interesting ftory, which many will read with delight; articularly those who prefer the unvarnished incidents of humble and domeftic life to the more elevated and gaudy fcenes, where the imagination is conftantly on the rack to produce characters and circumftances far above the reach of human manners, and existing only in the rapturous vifions of poetic fancy. The reader will precive, that there is no great opportunity for the exercife of a vigorous fancy; but if he will be fished with a plain unvarnished tale of humble and fimple life, he will be fure to find a confiderable portion of amusement British Critic, Dec. 1801. 14. The FARMER's BOY; a Rural Poem. By ROBERT BLOOMFIELD The fifth edition. Foolfcap octavo. Price 4s. in bpards.-Alfo an octavo edition. Price 5s. 6d. in boards. "In the author of this fweetly fimple and interesting poem, we are prefented with another ftriking illuftration of the remark, pocta nafcitur, non fit. 6 This favoured favoured child of genius and the muse, who, with no adfcititious advantages of birth, fortune, education, or connection, has produced a poem which may be read with delight, even after Thompson, and, in fome respects, may challenge a competition with the Seafons of that author." Monthly Mirror, March 1800. To defcribe the various occupations of a farmer's boy, in the four seasons of the year, is the main defign of the poem; and however humble thele employments may appear as objects of poetical attention, the very ingenious writer has contrived to embel ifh their rufticity and meannefs with a harmony of numbers, which could not be expected from an uncultivated mind; to foften the hashness of minute detail by blending apt and picturesque deferiptions; and to enliven the whole by itrokes of poetic imagery, and unaffected fentiment. The poem certainly discovers very, clearly the powers of natural and unaffected genius " Monthly Review, vol. 33. p. 57 "I have read the Farmer's Boy with a mixture of astonishment and delight. There is a pathetic fimplicity in his fentiments and actcriptions that does honour to his head and heart. "His copies from nature are truly original and faithful, and are touched with the hand of a matter. His verfification occafionally difp ays an energy and harmony which might decorate even the pages of a Darwin. "The general characteristics of his ftyle, however, are fweetness and cafe. In fhort, I have no he fitat on in declaring, that I think it, as a rural and defcriptive poem, fuperior to any production fince the days of Thompton. it wants no reference to its author's uneducated poverty to render its excellence the more taking; they are fuch as would confer durable fame on the first and most polished poet in the kingdom." Extract of a Letter from Dr. Drake to the Editor. PLAYS, Printed for T. N. LONGMAN and O. REES. 1. The POOR GENTLEMAN, a Comedy, by Mr COLMAN, 2s. 6d. 2. MOUNTAINEERS, a Play, by Ditto, 25. 3. SPEED THE PLOUGH, a Comedy, by Mr. MORTON, 28. 4. ZORINSKI, a Play, by Ditto, 25. 5. The WAY TO GET MARRIED, a Comedy, by Ditto, 2s. 6. The CURE FOR THE HEART ACHE, a Comedy, by Ditto, 2s. 7. SECRETS WORTH KNOWING, a Comedy, by Ditto, 2s. 8. 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