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The versification is, besides, eontinually
shifted, according to the caprice or conve-
nience of the perplexed Frenchman ; and
!several rhymes occur whieh the strict genius
of French verse would condemn. One, which
is atnwious, and which would not be tolerated
in any language. we will mention : he makes
citix rhyme with—what?—why. with cites,
with the Very same orthography. Again,
the original is often wistranslated : some-
times a whole thought is omitted; some
times many thoughts are positively interpo-
lated ; sometimes the greatest jargon is intro-
duced merely for rhyme : and. where }Wiwi'
tails.•even Latin is tilllllUlolled to the rescue.
Surely tiny goes for nothing, and worse thou
nothing, in all this. Our &bulled (p. 24) has
the couplet :
"Thr ph,ou hovausik of uino despised,
Asol the cocks utatchlemt valour prized."
We look to the opposing page and we find that
simple passage thus strangely rendered :-
- Tomato ,Inc Ile 'filet's', unitive mat wow.,
!logistician oh Ads et oh hoe
saloto la %slant do cog."
M. de Chattehtill knew not how to get a rhyme
for mot without all this trashy Latin. hoe. ste.
At page 8:1 oeeurs a couplet for which there
is not OM' corresponding word in Gay, Mid the
last words of which are again Latin, and uttorly
meaningless in the passage ; medi eat ini—to
rhyme with s'ottymenta.
A sparrow Slip: to an owl kp. 136):
'• I grunt you view at Athena owed.
And on Nlinetra'A helm acre placed."
In an abominable rendering on the opposite
page the sparrow asks the owl whether they
were ever so many Demosthones's ? Not be-
elitise the sparrow wants uu answer, or bemuse
this incongruous mixture of the passerine with
the human. isditical, and oratories' Ammeter
is any improvement on the simplicity and pro-
priety of hay. but because Demosthenes will
rhyme with A thMeq. We could multiply such
instances.
The work is dedicated to the present Duke
of Wellington. the translator's former pupil, hi
a letter in which the writer quotes tho words
lords of the human kind," as au exession
"of that graceful rival of Moore, tree poet
111'Carthy," on the subject of great authors. Wt'
mention this for the reader's wonting ; lest, in-
advertently, he should attribute the phrase to
Oliver Goldsmith, or cite it as occurring in
The nit in reference to the English people.

Frn,umr'+► Magazine. No. ':N•.. London : Parker
and Son.
Pawl'''. Mafia:hie for the current month open* with
an a►ticle of n►ore than ordinary mark anti interest.
•• 31ancliester, by a Manchester Man," contain* au
inquiry—written in a spirit of earnest yet genial phi-
losophy—into one of our great modern enigma*, the
eontlition of those industrial hives where wealth and
humanity are piled in masses which alternately
sparkle and putrefy ; where miraculous machines are
iuventell, miraculous Anilines realise►l, and miraculous
Leagues contrived; and whence the emintry at large
receives ,euuetiu►es honey, anti sometimes a sting.
'l'i►e paper is on a striking subject, and strikingly
written. The articles which follow are well up to the
mark.

/Wets. Hy Dennis. Loud4nt: lAmgmun and Co.
DiscAtabtxo pretension, and therefor► avoiding of-
relive, the author 11114 tilled hi• slight volume with
not %widowing harmonies. The far-off echo of
Tenn)son and other of our breveted bards
may be traced through his strains; but Mr. Dennis,
if we mistake not, has powers which, duly improved,
will entitle hint to Ilisetotim eloquent music of his
own inspiration. Asa nod trial, and if a first trial,
the 'swum before us promise well for the 66 shall be,
hereafter."

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Nates to the Text of Shia...peat,. J. I'.
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Plum to Remodel the ;toy rosient qf ImPa. Smith, Elder, mud co

THE ELEcTItIvITY (II THE HUMAN BMW. secortling
to the New York Tribune, is Ito active and abundant
that anybody may light ga% with the tip or his huger :
" We are all peripatetic Iw•ifer•lllatehea if we 51141 but know It.
I.et a liee,miti In their eihoe4 or 'dipper* walklirlokly 'lvor 6 "moan'
ramet, wrijNimp his feet thereon; or *tend upon a chair with it*
109/.4 in four tniublera to insulate it, and be there rubbed lip and
down lab the body a few thaw with a if by another perm's• awl
The
will light Isla gas by aliuply toughing linger to the tube.
The writer Wit lighted it in tin% way, and awn it dune by chit.
dren not hails dozen years old."

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