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Memoirs of the Great Duke of Marlborough, chiefly com piled from the papers and correspondence preserved at Bleinheim; by the Rev. Archdeacon Core.

An octavo edition of Archdeacon Core's Memoirs of the Kings of Spain of the House of Bourbon, in six volumes.

The Messiah, a poem, in twenty-eight books, by Mr. Cottle.

A Series of Illustrations for Mr. Walter Scott's new Poem, the Lord of the Isles, from the designs of Richard Westall, esq. The Poem will appear about Christmas.

The Rev. S. Butler's and the Rev. F. Hodgson's translation of Charlemagne, an Epic Poem, by Lucien Bonaparte.

. Travels in the South of Turkey during the latter part of 1812, and the Spring of 1813, by Dr. Holland, the coadjutor of Sir G. Mackenzie in the account of Iceland.

Poems, including Lyrical Ballads, and Miscellaneous Pieces, with additions, by William Wordsworth, in two volumes octavo.

A Series of Engravings of Cutaneous Diseases, described in the practical Synopsis of the Classification of Dr. Willan, published by Dr. Bateman.

A Translation of the Archduke Charles of Austria's Memoir of the Campaign of 1796.

An Abridgement of Scott's Christian Life.

Historical Sketches of Russia, with particular reference to the House of Romanoff, the reigning family, by the Rev. W. Anderson.

Suicide, a poem, by the author of the Triumphs of Religion. Practical Hints to Young Wices, Mothers and Mistresses of Families, by Mrs. Taylor, of Ongar, author of Maternal Solicitude.

A Visit to Paris, in 1814, by Mr. John Scott, editor of the Champion; in one octavo volume.

The second volume of the Travels of Professor Lichstentein in Southern Africa.

Shakspeare's Himself again; or the Language of the Poet asserted, being an examination of the reading and interpretations of the later editors, by Andrew Becket, esq. in two octavo volumes.

A Grammar of the Arabic Language, accompanied by a praxis of the first three chapters of Genesis, by Mr. Usko, Vector of Orsett, Essex.

THE

BRITISH CRITIC,

FOR DECEMBER, 1814.

ART. I. The Works of Gray, with Memoirs of his Life and Writings by W. Mason; to which are subjoined Extracts Philological, Poetical, and Critical, from the Author's original MSS. selected and arranged by Thomas James Mathias. 2 Vols. 4to. 71. 7s. Porter. 1814.

OUR labours for the year would have been closed in a manner neither honourable to ourselves nor satisfactory to the public, had we omitted to give an account of the most splendid production, which has issued from the British press in the course of the last twelvemonth. Splendid indeed are the volumes with which Mr. Mathias has presented the literary world, whether we consider the beauty and magnificence of their typography, or the rich stores of profound and varied wisdom which they unfold.

It is with a surprize bordering upon indignation that we have heard this publication censured in a very high assembly with the contemptuous terms of severity and reproach. The needless magnificence of the volumes, and the inutility of the new matter which they were represented to 'contain, formed, if we remember right, the prominent objects of attack. That they are adorned with a brilliancy which does credit to the art of printing we readily allow; but that the splendour' in which they are clothed is unworthy of them, or that the expensive form in which they now appear, is either useless or extravagant, we resolutely deny. That brilliant specimens of the typography reflect honour upon the age and country in which they are produced, no one, we trust, will be inclined to dispute; the question then will arise, upon what literary work should they be expended, and whose labours should they illustrate and adorn. Our answer would be, those works doubtless, which the common consent of mankind has pronounced worthy of such a monument; those works, which by their dignity and value add solidity to splendour, and reflect back the lustre which they thus receive. The most Q q magnificent

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