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No. l E,1241,e (1, f, /4 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1828. /r" er

ROYAL ACADEMY, SOMERSET-HOUSE.
THE EXHIBITION of the ROYAL
ACADEMY is NOW OPEN.

PANORAMA OF GENOA.
Now Open, in the large Circle, Leicester-square,
A VIEW of the CITY and BAY o
GENOA.

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PATHOLOGICAL and PRACTICAL
RESEARCHES on DISEASES of the DRAIN
and the SPINAL CORD.

This View is of a most imposing description ; the City
• stretches in a beautiful curve round the margin of the
water. Lod, climbing the heights, displays palace above
ir.lace, terrace above terrace, intermixed with gardens,
orange-groves, and vineyards, encompassed by an amphi-
theatre of hills, crowned by dark forts and towers; in
front hundreds of vessels lie at anchor in the extensive
bay; so that the eye embraces at the same moment every
_ feature of the beautiful scene.
RIO JANEIRO is now Exhibiting.

CAST IRON LAMP POSTS.
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Streets adjacent, hereby give Notice, that they intend
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AN Tenders to be sealed up, and addressed to me, at the
office of the Trustees, by Twelve o'clock, on MotinAY,,the
2d day of June next..—bated the 6th day of May, 1828.
JOHN BOODLE, Clerk to the Trustees.

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Pri HE HISTORY OF ROME. By B. G.
NIEBUHR, Translated by JULIUS C. HARE,
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pared at his manufactory, 5, TOOLED'-STREET,
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Gentlemen in want of the above utost useful articles this
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SKETCHES of MODERN GREECE.
By a young English Volunteer in the Greek service.
London: Hurst, Chance and Co., 65, St. Paul's
Church-yard.

SHOOTING AND RESIDENCE TO LET IVY THE
HIGHLANDS.
THE MANSION HOUSE of GLEN-
GARRY, with the Right and Privilege of SHOOT-
ING over the whole Estate, consisting of shout 1.50,000
Acres, is to be LET for such a term 'of years as may be
agreed on. 'I he house is commodious and comfortably
furnished. The Offices are in good order, and afford
abundance of stabling ; and by an early application, the
tenant may be accommodated with any quantity of grass
and pasturage he may he disposed to take.
The Game is abundant and in great variety; Grouse,
Black Game, Ptarmigan, Red Deer, Roe, &c. The Red
Deer were particularly attended t.o by the late Proprietor.
There are several large Lakes, and Rivers on the Estate
which afford excellent angling.
It is proposed to let the whole together, but if more
agreeable, it will be divided into two lots.
1. The Mansion and Shooting, &c. on the North of
the Caledonian Canal.
2.. The range to the South of the Canal, comp' ehending
souse of the finest Grouse Shooting on the Estate. There•,
is on this lot a tolerable two story slated house at Kin-
lochlochy, which might be rendered comfortable at little
expence.

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Institution, having appointed THURSDAY, the Bth of
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NIVERSARY, the Frier:de and Supporters of the Charity
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take the Chair.
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LITERATURE.

SALATHIEL. LONDON, 1828.

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fv ♦ JARICE
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Mr. Croly is a writer of very versatile and su-
perior powers. After having exercised his faculties
in almost every department of literature, after hav-
ing penned poems, plays, criticisms, politics, ser-
mons, &c. he has now ventured abroad into the re-
gions of romance, among those sequestered paths
which Godwin and Maturin have trodden with such
success before him. To this species of composition
he has brought, it must be confessed, many first-
rate requisites. He has a rich and easily excited
fancy, familiar with the East, and formed on its
choicest models; an extraordinary command of lan-
guage, full of a certain bold sweeping carelessness—
like the poetry of Dryden—and deeply imbued with
Hibernicisnis as regards both metaphor and senti-
ment ; and above all a scornful contempt for the coin-
' mop places, i. e. the Minerva incidents of romance.
But he wants feeling: that pure, healthy, simple
feeling, which redeems a thousand faults, and invests
even absurdity with grace. His style, whether in
prose or verse, is declamatory and passionless; it
''" plays round the head, but never reaches the
heart." He is altogether destitute of that Pytha-
gorean process by which Shakspeare and Scott con-
trive, as it were, to transmigrate and go out of
• themselves in order to inform some favourite cha-
racter with their own peculiar sensibilities. "Si
vis me Here, dolendum est primum ipsi tibi" is,
despite its age, a very excellent adage, and one which
Mr. Croly would do well to study. At present
he declaims when he should feel, is ornate when he
should be simple, and describes when he should be
terse and dramatic. These defects apply with pecu-
liar force to the tale before us, which turns on the
well-known story of the Wandering Jew, who, for
his insulting mockery to our Saviour, when moving
towards Mount Calvary, was condemned to immor-
tality on earth. He is here represented as a man of
family and honour, a Prince of the tribe of
Napthali, of warm passions, and consummate
talents—an enthusiast in his love of country.
a practised warrior, an affectionate husband, a de-
voted father, with but one fault—an unconquerable
fixedness, or rather stubbornness, of purpose. At
the very first page of the first volume, the awful
commands of our Saviour, " Tarry thou till I come,"
are represented as having just fallen on and crushed
him, as it were, to earth; an excess of sensibility
unaccountable, surely, in a man who firmly believed
that such command proceeded from an impostor.—
The fact is, Mr. Croly has begun his tale too
early, and consequently rendered it throughout
inconsistent : he should have taken it up at that pe-
riod when the Jew, having outlived friends, family,
fortune, and exceeded the usual limits of existence,
had begun to feel the truth of the divine sentence of
immortality : his affliction would then have been na-
tural, at present it is unintelligible. Another de-
fect in his narrative is its perpetual attempt at ex-
citement ; from beginning to end we find the hero im-
mersed in one widegulph of tribulation : there is no re-
pose, no halting place, all is hurry, bustle, and ad-
venture. It is, however, but fair to add, that the tale
abounds in passages of surpassing splendour ; gor-
geous descriptions which no living writer can sur-
pass, scarcely even equal, may be found in almost
every page, thrown out with a lavish profuseness'
that betokens almost inexhaustible fancy. But, as
we said before, the tale wants feeling, it wants a
-human interest, which not-eve;r Ir. Croly's magni-;:
ticent and in some respects awful description of the
Siege, of Jerusalem, can excite.
The following passage, with which we close this
hasty notice, will give no faint idea of our author's
power of imagination.
In that hour came one of those solemn signs that marked
the downfall of Jerusalem.

The tempest, that had blown at intervals with tremend-
ous violence, died away at once; and a surge of light
ascended from the horizon, and rolled up rapidly to the
zenith. The phenomenon instantly fixed every eye. There
was an indefinable sense in the general mind that a sign of
power and Providence was about to be given. The battle
ceased ; the outcries were followed by utter silence ; the
armed ranks stood still, in the very act of rushing on each
other : all faces were turned on the heavens.

The light rose pale and quivering, like the meteors of u
summer evening. But in the zenith it spread and swelled
into a splendour, that distinguished it irresistibly from tln
wonders of earth or air. It swiftly eclipsed every star.
The moon vanished before it ; the canopy of the sky seem-
ed to be dissolved, for a view into a bright and infinite re-
gion beyond, fit for the career of those mighty beings to
whom man is but a feather on the gale.
As we gazed, this boundless field was transformed into
a field of battle ; multitudes poured across it in the fiercest
convulsions of combat ; horsemen charged, and died under
their horses' feet ; armour and standards were trampled in
blood; column and line burst through each other. At
length the battle stooped towards the earth ; and, with
hearts beating with indescribable feelings, we recognized
in the fight the banners of the tribes. It was Jew and
Roman struggling for life ; the very countenances of the
combatants became visible, and each man below saw a
representative of himself and his fortunes above. The fate
of Jewish war was there written by the hand of Heaven ;
the fate of the individual was there predicted in the indivi-
dual triumph or fall. What thought of man can conceive
the intense interest with which he watched every blow,
every movement, every wound of those images of our-
selves.

The light illumined the whole horizon below. The le-
gions were seen drawn out in front of the camps ready for
action ; every helmet and spear-point glittering in the ra-
diance; every face turned up, gazing in awe and terror on
the sky. The tents spreading over the hills; the thou-
sands and tens of thousands of auxiliaries and captives ; the
little groups of the peasantry roused from sleep by the up-
roar of the night, and gathered upon the knolls and emi-
nences of their fields ; all were bathed in a flood of preter-
natural lustre.

But the wondrous battle approached its close. The
visionary Romans shook ; column and cohort gave way,
and the banners of the tribes waved in victory over the
field. Then first, human voices dared to be heard. From
the city and the plain burst forth one mighty shout of
triumph.

But our presumption was to be soon checked. A peal
of thunder that made the very ground tremble under our
feet, rolled from the four quarters of the heaven. The con-
quering host shook, broke, and fled in utter confusion over
the sapphire field. It was pursued; but by no semblance
of the Roman. An awful enemy was on its steps. Flashes
of forked fire, like myriads of lances, darted after it ; cloud
•n cloud deepened duwn, as the smoke of a mighty furnace ;
globes of light shot blasting and burning along its track.
Then, amid the doubled roar of thunder, rushed forth the
chivalry of Heaven ; shapes of transcendent beauty, yet with
looks of wrath that withered the human eye; armed'
sons of immortality descending on the wing by millions ;
mingled with shapes and instruments of ruin, of which
the mind has no conception. The circle of the heaven mez
tilled with the chariots and horses of fire. Flight was in
vain : the tveap:2ns were seen to drop from the Jesvi!li
host : their warriors sank upon the splendid field. Still
the immortal armies poured on, trampling and blasting,
until the last of the routed was consumed.

The angry pomp then paused. Countless wing' wele
spread, and the angelic multitudes, having done the work of
vengeance, rnshed upward with the sound of ocean in the
storm. The roar of trumpets and thunders was heard,
until the splendour was lost in the heights of the empyrean.

on the completion
as also that nob
'I HE POETICAL ALBUM.—Lowpos, 1828.
Mr. Watts has catered successfully for the public
taste in this unassuming little miscellany ; which
combines diligence and research, with much tact
and discrimination. We are pleased to find,
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amongst the collection, those affecting stanzas by
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both which are here—for the first time we believe'
redeemed from the perishable records of a News-