The Sun.
London, England, 1828-03-03 00:00:00

MONTHLY REVIEW.

The chief fault in the present series of this pe
riodical is its great flow of verbiage. Too many of
the Reviews are written by the same hand, hence
a uniformity of style and sentiment unwelcome, if
not injurious, to a miscellany, the very essence of
which is, or should be, variety. We do not, how-
ever, find fault with the information and research
displayed in the " Monthly Review ;" this is inva-
riably respectable, and not seldom of a high rate. la
the present number there is no great field for such
exbibition.

The articles are, in general, though somewhat
languid and diffuse, of a light, rambling, miscella-
neous character. The best perhaps in the whole, is
decidedly" Lord Byron and his Cotemporaries," in
which we-are glad to find the Reviewer takes the
same grdund of objection as we haVe' done whenever
the subject has been brought before us. He con-
demns Leigh Hunt in toto. " The Selection from
Lord Collingwood's Correspondence," is entertain-
ing, but rather too late in the day ; the subject has
been before the public for months, and a full harvezt
of anecdote has already been reaped. The Reviewer;
therefore, is only a gleaner. As a specimen, how--
ever, of the manner in which the article is written,
we quote the following summary of Lord Coning-
wood's character; it is pertinent, spirited, and Judi.-
cious

" Far be it from us to detract a particle from that welt-
earned supremacy of Nelson's fame, which, so long as tit!,
world endures, will identify his memory with the proudest
naval glories of our country. The tower of strength
which existed in his name, proved its own sufficiency ; and
the confidence which he felt in himself, and knew bow t 4
inspire in others, was triumphantly justifiitt,hMt.
Success in grand enterprises is, in itself, the bett 7:4,4rnesr
of heroism, and the inspiration of fortune, 3 t'cer all, is an
indispensable quality of greatness in military affairs. Op-
portunities alone can make or mar the efforts of genius ;
and the world's verdict has, with truth, pronounced Col-
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lingwood the inferior in arms of so illustrious a vontempo--
rary.- Yet though that verdict may be just to his memory;
in every quality, save a felicitous temerity, which, if he
possessed, he had never found the opening to display, his
character may well sustain a comparison—no invidious
one—with the conqueror of Aboukir and Copenhagen. In
seamanship, and all the points of nautical science and espe-
rience, he was at least the equal of Nelson ; in personal
heroism neither could be exceeded ; in political ability,
gacity, and prudence, these letters prove Collingwarsi to
have been much the master. With more advantages of
education or habitual study, he was, even out of his pro-
fession, a person of no ordinary mental accomplishments ;„
and in all the manly and simple graces of private life he
shines with far superior lustre. Happily exempt from the
weaknesses which obscured the true glory of his brother
hero, he realizes those conceptions of stern moral, beauty,
with which the imaginings of romance have delighted to
encircle the preux chevalier, alike sans pour and sans re-
proche ; and, with this, all the softer, homebred virtue-. of
the modern English husband, father, friend, and gen_
tleman."
The "Reminiscences of Henry Angelo" is plea-
si;nt and discursive, but wants energy ; its selective;
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