The Sun.
London, England, 1834-04-15 00:00:00

LITERATURE

EUSTACE CONWAY. 3 Vols.

This novel should hive .been comprised in
two volumes. There :aaterials enough
for three,' the cons,2quent-e of which is, that the
author is obliged to have recourse to- tedious
dialogues which encumber the progress, and en-
feeble the interest, of the narrative. Yet the
work has many redeeming traits. The charac-
ters are for the most part broadly and distinctly
marked, especially those of the hero, Eustace
Conway and Rumbold—the last of which is not
without some pretensions to originality. In
' one scene, in particular, in which he figures, as
taking the lead in the abduction of a pretty
Quakeress, Caroline Du.ncan, the deeper and
more depraved parts of his character were de-
veloped with singular skill and boldness. We
like the author's male, better than his female,
personages.- These last are too much a-kin to
each other : there is no stamp of individuality
about them—neither " mark nor likelihood."
We close our hasty notice with the remark, that
the author of the volumes before us is clearly a
well-read man, and one acquainted with the
exact state of the politics and literature, and
philosophical theories of the day. His work
would have been far more readable had he
pruned the luxuriance of his dialogues ; they
want both pith and condensation.

ROMANCE OF HISTORY. London, 1834.

The present number forms the second volume
of France, whose romantic annals have been
illustrated by Mr. Leitch Rit,hie, and already
noticed in The Sun. The work is got up in
remarkably handsome style, and is embellished
with a variety of spirited wood-cuts, of which
it is enough to say that they are by Landseer.

FAMILY CLASSICAL LIBRARY—No. 52.
London, 1834.

The present volume, which is the concluding
one of Livy's History, concludes also the
Family Classical Library. In taking. leave of
this miscellany we may say that w• have watched
its progress with some interest, and are delighted
to perceive that our prognostications as to its
success have been fully borne out. The trans-
lations of the different Greek and Latin poets and
historians were all the best that could be se-
lected, and such as had long maintained a
high character in the world of letters. De
volumes also were got up with remarkilille
elegance and neatness, and at a price which
brought them within the reach of all claSses of
readers. In consequence of the success of the
speculation, Mr. Valpy now proposes to pub-
lish a re-issue of the volumes, which, we doubt
not, will be the means of bringing them into
very general circulation. We have the high
authority of Dr. Parr, that a diligent study of
the classics of Greece and Rome, is an indis-
pensable part of the education of an English
gentleman. These excellent translations will
be the means of facilitating that study.

WRIGHT'S SCHOOL ORATOR.
London, 1834.

As this work has already gone through four
editions (the present is the fifth), we have little
need to enter into any lengthy notice of it ;
suffice it, therefore, to say, that the present
edition has been materially revised, and the ele-
mentary exercises on elocution rendered as
terse, as simple, and as complete as possible.