The Sun.
London, England, 1835-06-05 00:00:00

COWPER' S S.—VoL:IV

Saunders and Otley, London, 1835. f
This volume is wholly taken up with the letters of
Cowper, some of which may vie in grace and ease
style, purity of thought, soundness of criticism, ay.% N
liveliness of fancy, with any in the language' a
are familiar—as who is not ?—with the Pope a-
Swift correspondence, as elaborately set forth in the
voluminous editions of these authors ; but it is CO''
formal, and artificial, compared with Cowper's. Pope
wrote not so much to his acquaintances, as to the pubA
lic, and Swift, taking the tone from his friend, adopted
precisely the same course ; hence, in reading their let'
ters, we do not see their minds in deshabillel,.bli
tricked out in a full dress suit. Cowper, on the on'
trary, expresses himself in his Correspondence, just 115
if he were gossipping familiarly with his friends at the
fire-side. He never pauses to round a sentence, or
point a joke, but takes the first word that offers►
and notes down his first fresh impressions on me°
and things. Some of his epistles to Mrs. Thock'
morton are models of arch-humour and simplicity'
Thus, in writing to her on the subject of his trails'
lation of the Iliad, he abruptly breaks off, to °I)-
serve, " My perriwig is arrived, and is the very per-
fection of all perriwigs, having only one fault, which.;
is, that my head will only go into the first half of ,
the other half, or the upper part of it, continuing still
unoccupied." Lively transitions of this sort, the 01,9
Cowper
amusing from their unexpectedness, abound in
Letters ; to many of which Mr. Grimshawe',ch
Editor, has affixed slight explanatory notices, wll,,
orn
tend greatly to enhance their interest. The -- • ,vB,
ments to the present volume consist of two vie
one, of St. Alban's, and the other of Bennet College,
Cambridge. The former has a quiet, sYlvajo well-
ground, redeemed from insipidity, by one or t"-
Abbq'
arranged groupes ; and backed by the old
which
which stands on an elevated slope, right ab°vel, view
some heavy thunder-clouds are stooping. "h-e
of Bennet College is as picturesque as coulu
pected, from the impracticable nature of the subject

FINE ARTS.
WANDERINGS THROUGH NORTH LOS
Part 111. C. Tilt. London : 1835. hi 9
The engraving of " Dolbadern Tower," '"rile
in
situated in the heart of the Snowdonian ni°"tarer
range, represents as impressive a landscape as we eke,
set eyes on. In front spreads out an expansive la
we.
on whose eastern shore some cattle arc standing iihniesk
deep in water ; while the remote back-ground, an
and frowning, is made up of rock, and moor in
mountain, with, in the intermediate distance, 3 rullt-be
tower, which is perched like an eagle's nest, nti
summit of a solitary crag. All "is hushed in srim
repose," to use Gray's fine expression ; the lake sieerch
without a wrinkle on its surface ; there is not s° nrch
as a breath of wind, as you see by the clouds, w
hang in heavy, steadfast masses, on the riounte,
summits. The scene is just such a one as an-est
tired of the world's follies, would select as his the
abode. " Bolingbroke's false homage to Riche(' 'by
Second" is engraved by Radcliffe, from a de'ig,n
ler the
Cattermole. There was no need, however,
00
artist to have engraved the word " false" at the bet!ent
of the picture ; for it is expressed with quite suffieler,
distinctness in the mock humility and latent s;ll,Pde.
ciliousness of Bolingbroke's countenance and att":001
o
The literary explanations attached to these eugrBv!ate.
by Mr. Roscoe, the Editor, are brief and apPrOPI3-
~ ;list

" The North American Quarterly Review, kjer's
published, contains the following remarks on Nit-. has
new romance, " The Last Days of Pompeii" :—" Bulweijoate
succeeded, we think, in his very difficult attempt to re-an
the in-
the city of the dead. We feel throwthroughout his book all
spirations of the poetic and sublimecgre
latibonicsb evidentl of ancient geul e.o,
lig
y Oge
and share in the scholar-like fervour
the author's mind. Still we are disabuse. dof all false inlPre
vieng'
sions, by a full and vivid picture of the littleness and the
of
the depravity and corruption, which existed at the heart °l.like
brilliant
era. We see the ancients, even in their owned 9,01
home, and surrounded by the results of genius, degrabright'mean-spirited. While we revel in company with the til
souled Glaucus, and the hh-minded, pure, andoriii.ip„ushe;:ntlteryyntai.;
lone, in the memory of their st, we see in the ," 4.ation
sketches, and the subordinate personages, a skilful
of the sad depreciation of man. The witchery
around us, the magic of association is upon us ; thee-'-- c-dt;
delighted, and
appreciatesth e heart
a owda
bewailsrmed e
theven
truth."-hile themeat -
CORONER'S INQUEST.—An inquest was held Yes;
tierday before Mr. Stirling, on view of the body of Trira
.ane, aged sixty-six, a tailor, who was found drowne
found
lad
ditch near Ilornsey-fields. The unfortunate man
with his face in the water, which was only
friends the.
fricn _ua
deep. On leaving home he had told
.. Temporary I
they would never see him again. Verdict—
sanity." was
inches