VII.-Lettres de Napoléon à Joséphine, pendant la première Campagne d'Italie, le Consulat et l'Empire; et Lettres de Joséphine à Napoléon et à sa Fille. VIII.-Life and Poems of the Rev. George Crabbe. By his IX.-1. Belgium and Western Germany in 1833. By Mrs. 2. Visit to Germany and the Low Countries. By Sir X.-Report from His Majesty's Commissioners for Inquiring I.-1. Japan, voorgesteld in Schetsen over de Zeden en Ge- bruiken van dat Rijk; byzonder over de Ingezetenen der Stad Nagasaky. Door G. F. Meijlan, Opperhoofd 2. Bijdrage tot de Kennis van het Japansche Rijk. Door IV. Travels into Bokhara; being the Account of a Journey from India to Caboul, Tartary, and Persia: also Nar- rative of a Voyage on the Indus, from the Sea to Lahore, &c. &c., in the years 1831, 32, and 33. By Lieutenant Alexander Burnes, F.R.S. ART. IX. 1. Speech of Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter, on occa- sion of a Petition from certain Members of the Senate of Cambridge, on Monday, April 21, 1834. 2. Thoughts on the Admission of Persons, without regard to their Religious Opinions, to certain Degrees in the Universities of England. By Thomas Turton, D.D., Regius Professor of Divinity in the University of Cambridge, and Dean of Peterborough. 3. The Danger of Abrogating the Religious Tests and Subscriptions which are at present required from persons proceeding to Degrees in the Universities, considered in a Letter to his Royal Highness the Duke of Gloucester. By George Pearson, B.D., Christian Advocate in the University of Cambridge, &c. 4. The Admission of Dissenters to graduate in the Uni- versity of Cambridge. A Letter to the Right Honour- able Viscount Althorp, M.P., by the Rev. Christopher Wordsworth, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Cam- 5. A Letter to the Rev. Thomas Turton, D.D., &c. By Connop Thirlwall, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College, Page THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-The Poetical Works of S. T. Coleridge. 3 vols. 12mo. London. 1834. WE E lately reviewed the life, and mean hereafter to review the works, of our departed Crabbe. Let us be indulged, in the mean time, in this opportunity of making a few remarks on the genius of the extraordinary man whose poems, now for the first time completely collected, are named at the head of this article. The larger part of this publication is, of course, of old date, and the author still lives; yet, besides the considerable amount of new matter in this edition, which might of itself, in the present dearth of anything eminently original in verse, justify our notice, we think the great, and yet somewhat hazy, celebrity of Coleridge, and the ill-understood character of his poetry, will be, in the opinion of a majority of our readers, more than an excuse for a few elucidatory remarks upon the subject. Idolized by many, and used without scruple by more, the poet of Christabel' and the Ancient Mariner' is but little truly known in that common literary world, which, without the prerogative of conferring fame hereafter, can most surely give or prevent popularity for the present. In that circle he commonly passes for a man of genius, who has written some very beautiful verses, but whose original powers, whatever they were, have been long since lost or confounded in the pursuit of metaphysic dreams. We ourselves venture to think very differently of Mr. Coleridge, both as a poet and a philosopher, although we are well enough aware that nothing which we can say will, as matters now stand, much advance his chance of becoming a fashionable author. Indeed, as we rather believe, we should earn small thanks from him for our happiest exertions in such a cause; for certainly, of all the men of letters whom it has been our fortune to know, we never met any one who was so utterly regardless of the reputation of the mere author as Mr. Coleridge-one so lavish and indiscriminate in the exhibition of his own intellectual wealth before any and every person, no matter who-one so reckless who might reap where he had most prodigally sown and watered. God knows,' -as we once heard him exclaim upon the subject of his unpublished system of philosophy, VOL. LII. NO, CIII. B sophy, God knows, I have no author's vanity about it. I should be absolutely glad if I could hear that the thing had been done before me.' It is somewhere told of Virgil, that he took more pleasure in the good verses of Varius and Horace than in his own. We would not answer for that; but the story has always occurred to us, when we have seen Mr. Coleridge criticising and amending the work of a contemporary author with much more zeal and hilarity than we ever perceived him to display about anything of his own. Perhaps our readers may have heard repeated a saying of Mr. Wordsworth, that many men of this age had done wonderful things, as Davy, Scott, Cuvier, &c.; but that Coleridge was the only wonderful man he ever knew. Something, of course, must be allowed in this as in all other such cases for the antithesis; but we believe the fact really to be, that the greater part of those who have occasionally visited Mr. Coleridge have left him with a feeling akin to the judgment indicated in the above remark. They admire the man more than his works, or they forget the works in the absorbing impression made by the living author. And no wonder. Those who remember him in his more vigorous days can bear witness to the peculiarity and transcendant power of his conversational eloquence. It was unlike anything that could be heard elsewhere; the kind was different, the degree was different, the manner was different. The boundless range of scientific knowledge, the brilliancy and exquisite nicety of illustration, the deep and ready reasoning, the strangeness and immensity of bookish lore--were not all; the dramatic story, the joke, the pun, the festivity, must be added-and with these the clerical-looking dress, the thick waving silver hair, the youthful-coloured cheek, the indefinable mouth and lips, the quick yet steady and penetrating greenish grey eye, the slow and continuous enunciation, and the everlasting music of his tones,-all went to make up the image and to constitute the living presence of the man. He is now no longer young, and bodily infirmities, we regret to know, have pressed heavily upon him. His natural force is indeed abated; but his eye is not dim, neither is his mind yet enfeebled. 'O youth!' he says in one of the most exquisitely finished of his later poems"O youth! for years so many and sweet, "Tis known that thou and I were one, |