The Sun.
London, England, 1834-06-02 00:00:00

FRA SER' S MAGAZINE.
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Leigh Hunt figures full-length in this month's
sllery of Literary Characters. It is an admirable
'likeness ; but there is a whimsical forlornness and
atitiety in the expression of the countenance, just
• 414. if the portrait had been sketched when the ori-
tlet..44l Was making a sudden halt round the corner
C. having been hotly pursued by a bailiff, whom
veir had thrown off the scent by an ingenious double.
e, de not mean to assert that the sketch was taken
but
r such disadvantageous circumstances ;
it
b
„te,allY it looks very like it, for the shirt-collar s
• Tliordered, the hat in the hand, the hair dishevelled,
.1114 th-" " tangles of Newra's hair," the figure rest-
' testrinst a door-post, and the eye denoting a
read se uneasy vigilance, as though Mr. Hunt was
to. be off again at a moment's notice. The
istrative memoir is waspish and ill-natured.

" Ireland and the Irish" is a spirited extravaganza,
after the most approved. ('Doherty fashion. " Fa-
ther Prout" continur; 1 :.; r!tr-ons in this num-

ber. The paper I:: tior.tnl.4. on.. though there is
rather too much partyl? of classi- lore about it.
The translation of Campbell's battle of " I lhen-
linden" into Latin Sapphics, is " free and easy," and
evidently a hasty production, or the author would
not render the term " battle-blade" by " rutilante
cultro." The substantive " culler," as may be seen
by the derivation, refers exclusively to an agricul-
tural implement, such as the coulter of a plough,
or a pruning knife. We do not remember one single
instance in which it has ever been used to signify a
sword-blade. It has certainly been applied to a
razor, with the exponent " tonsorius" prefixed ; but
there is a wide difference between a razor and a
sword, though both have been used to cut throats
with. There are also one or two trifling errors in
the hexameter and pentameter translation of Moore's
Irish Melody, " Let Erin remember the days of
old." For instance, in the lines—
" Quando tacet ventus Neaghe dum margine lentus
Piscator vadit, vesperce ut umbra cadit."
The last syllable in "quando" if we mistake not,
is long, as in the following line from Horace

" 01:rus, quando ego to aspiciam, quandoque licebit ?"

Whereas it is here made short. The " vesperw ut
umbra cadit," can scarcely be called good idiomatic
Latinity ;it is pure English. We do not point out
these venial slips in any carping or pedantic spirit ;
but simply because mechanical correctness is the
main requisite in Latin versification. We know of
no other recommendation that it possesses, unless
' indeed in the hands of such a consummate scholar
as the late Vincent Bourne, whose translation of
* Margaret's Ghost" is equal to any thing in
Tibullus. On the whole, however, " Father Prout"
shows himself a most amusing and learned old
Friar, and we hope may long continue his vivacious
prattle. " Haydon's Reform Banquet" is a mas-
terly dissection of this eccentric artist's published
illustration of his Reform picture. The reviewer
satirically observes that the painter has made Mr.
Bulwer look with his lavish abundance of whiskers
like " a middle-aged goat." " High-ways and
Low-ways" is a laudatory notice of Mr. Ainsworth's
ftookwood," an able romance, but executed in a
most perverse and exaggerated spirit. The flash
song which is quoted and praised so highly is purely
disgusting. We have no space for comment on the
other articles.