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The tone of the present Number, like that of
the four or five preceding ones,• is temperate 'and
equable ; there is no fiery outbreaking of party spirit
—no ebullition of sarcasm—no exuberant wit or rail-
lery—a gentle air of thought and argument pervades
each article, so gentle indeed, in one or two instances,
as almost to produce the drowsy effects of a narcotic.
The first Review, entitled the " Poetical Works
of Dryden," though correct afi a whole in its esti-
mate of his talents, is. painfully, and we think *un-
successfully, laboured. The introductory ,natter is
irrelevant, it is a long -generalized dissertation upon
poetry and criticism, and stands aloof from the rest
the article, with which it has not the remotest
connexion. The 'analysis of Dryden's mind is in
far better taste; the Reviewer here condescends to
particularities, arid gives is ,a faithful idea not only
of the character of the poet's intellect, but that also
of the age in which he flourished. The following
is a good specimen of the Reviewer's critical quali-
fications.

" All his natural, and all his acquired powers, fitted him
to found a g,ei critical school for poetry. Indeed_
he carried his reforms too far for his age. After his death
our literature retrograded ; and a century was necessary to
bring it back to the point at which he left it. The general
soundness and healthfulness of his mental constitution, his
information of vast superficies, though of small volutne, his
wit scarcely inferior to that of the most distinguished fol-
lowers of Donne, his eloquence, grave, deliberetc, and com-
manding, could not save him from disgraceful ftilure as a
rival of Shakspeare, but raised him far above the level of
Boileau. His command of language was immense. With
him died the secret cf the old poetical diction of Eugland
—the art of producing rich effects by familiar words. In
the following century, it was as completely lost as the
Gothic method of
,painting glass, and was but poorly sup-
plied by the laborious and tesselated imitations of Mason
and Gray. On the either hand, he curs the first writer
under whose skilful management the scientific vocabulary
fell into natural and pleasing verse.. In this department
he succeeded as completelyas his contemporary Gibbee,.
cats
flowers from heart ot oak. The simple...
Cation in the same manner, while it gave the firitmodel ot
that neatness and precision which the following generation
esteemed so highly, exhibited, at the same time, the last
examples of nobleness, freedom, variety of pause and
cadence. His tragedies in rhyme, however worthless in
themselves, had at least served the purpose of nonsense-
verses ; they had taught him all the arts of melody which
the heroic couplet admits. For bombast, his prevailing
vice, his new subjects gave little opportunity ; his better
taste gradually discarded it.
"He possessed, as we have said, in a pre-eminent de-
gree, the power of reasoning in verse ; and this pawer was
now peculiarly useful to him. His logic is by no means
uniformly sound. On points of criticism, he always rea-
sons
sos
ingeßniuotustliL ;th and, when disposed
theological and political
he uadertook to treat in verse, were precisely those which
he understood least. His arguments, therefore, are often
d
b questionse lieitest
which
cor-
rectly.
to
worthless. But the manner in which they are stated, is
beyond all praise. The style is transparent. The topics
follow each other in the happiest order. The objections
are drawn up such a manner, that the whole fire of the
reply may be brought to bear on them. The circumlocu-
tions which are substituted for technical phrases, are clear,
neat, and exact. The illustrations at once adorn and elu-
cidate the reasoning. The sparkling epigrams of Cowley,
and the simple garrulity of the burlesque poets of Italy,
are alternately employed, in the happiest manner, to give
f.ffeet to what is obvious, or clearness to what is obscure."
_ _

" Dietetics" is an analysis of the merits of soma
late popular treatises on Diet, and possesses a fund
of good sense and sound argument. Its object is
to prove that all books on this subject, if not
wholly, are at least in part superfluous, and that the
best guides in the mode of treating the constitution
are the internal feelings of the individual himself.—
" Pestalozzi : Diffusion of Knowledge," is penned in
an animated, generous, and comprehensive spirit.
It falls in with the views of the age, and warmly re-
commends, upon Mr. Brougham's principle, the cir-
culation of cheap and wholesome miscellanies.—
" The Songs of Scotland" is chiefly to be noticed
for its very able defence of poetry against the level-
ing and barbarous charges of the Utilitarians. This
is a'class, we are sorry to say, fast rising into notice
in' England ; they profess to deal only pith the use-
ful, discarding all the more polished graces of' the
intellect as so much worthless lumber; and cling to
the driest and the tritest matters of fact, from what
' they term their ardent love of truth. They
are, in fact, the Puritans of literature, and richly
merit the reprehension they here meet with from the
Reviewer. " State of Parties)" is a remarkably
brief and well-behaved article, though without any
particular point about it: it has of course a
to be scarcely
Whiggish
different from the earlier political
tirades of this once animated periodical. The grut
capesrtce;pbtiubtlee—ve
defect of the present number—a defect Nhich lies on
the surface, and is, therefore, easily to be inarthis is so qualified, as
detected—
is the utter absence of all novelty and freshness, ‘vhe-
, ther of wit, style, or argument. The opinions on
emigration—on poetry--on party—though detailed
at some length HI
the present Review, are nothing
more than new and ingenious readings of old
hackneyed matter. The work should undergo the
fate of },son, and have a spirit of rejuvenescence
poured into its decayed frame. At present it is far
advanced in weakness and decrepitude.

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