The Sun.
London, England, 1833-07-15 00:00:00

THE METROPOLITAN.

The traces of considerable labour and dili-
gence are evident in this periodical. The con-
tributions, however, are few in number, and not
sufficiently varied. The two most likely to be
popular are " Peter Simple," and " Clavering's
Auto-biography." The brief, critical notices at
the end of the number, have been drawn up with
much skill and judgment.

RHYMES AND RHAPSODIES. LONDON,

1833.

Mr. J. Williams, to whom we are indebted
for this volume of poems, has considerable
powers of versification. We like him the better
that there is no affectation in his style. Shelley
and Mrs. Hemans have evidently not been read
by him in vain. The sonnets are the.best por-
tion of his volume.

DELA WARE. 3 VOL 3.

This is an interesting work, powerfully writ-
ten in some parts, and replete with various and
stirring incidents. The author is a little too
ambitious of anatomizing character, without the
high order of talent requisite to do so effec-
tually ; still this is a defeat on the right side,
and which we are scarcely disposed to quarrel
with. We. have no space for extracts, though
we had marked one or two for quotation.

HISTORY of the MIDDLE and WORKING

CLASSES.

LONDON, 1833.

This able, practical work deserves a more ex-
tended notice than we can just now afford to
bestow on it. It contains, inter alia, a popular
exposition of the economical and political prin-
ciples which have influenced the past and pre-
sent condition of the industrious orders, together
with an appendix, displaying strong marks of re-
search and pains-taking.

CHRONOLOGY OF HISTORY.
LONDON, 1833.

This work, which forms the 44th volume of
" Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopmdia," is one
which displays marks, in every page, of un-
wearied research and assiduity. It is the pro-
duction of the scholar and antiquarian, Sir
Harris Nicholas, and must have tasked his pa-
tience to the utmost. It comprises, inter alia,
explanations and tables for calculating the diffe-
rent eras and dates which are to be found in the
historians of the middle ages ; a full explanation
of the old and new style ; chronological and
alphabetical lists of the various Councils of the
Pontificate ; together with tables of the Saxon
and Scottish Kings, and of contemporary So-
vereigns. From this it will be seen, that Mr.
Nicholas has succeeded in producing a work
which is absolutely indispensable to all scholars
—more especially to all readers of history.

NARRATIVE OFA VOYAGE TO PATH.
GONIA, LONDON, 1833.

The author of this desultory, gossiping little
work, is, we suspect, a young man. We judge
so, from his repeated, and in some few instances
rather boastful allusions, to the delicate subject
of female frailty, as it exhibits itself among the
Spanish American women. He has, doubtless,
warrant for what he says on this head, but he
insists on it with too much pertinacity, as if it
were the only subject worthy the attention of a
traveller. His sketches of the Patagonians, and
of the scenery of Terra del Fuego, are the most
novel, and therefore the most interesting por-
tions of his volume. One of his anecdotes we
must give. It is a gem in its way. At Pata-
gonia he met, it seems, with a young Patago-
nian savage who could only speak three words
of English and these words were " D-n
your eyes !" Pretty evident proof this of the
march of English civilization !