THE Eclectic Review, VOL. VI. PART II. FROM JULY, TO DECEMBER, 1810, INCLUSIVE. , Φιλοσοφιαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικη», η την Επικουρειο CLEM. ALEX. Strom, Lib. l. LONDON: Printed for LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOS- TER-ROW. 871 BIOGRAPHY. MATHEMATICS. 961, 1083 Baily's Doctrine of Life Annuities and Essay on the Life and Character of Petrarch 757 Bridge's Lectures on Trigonometry 1096 Connaissance des Tems pour 1810 1043 689, 779 865 1052 Inman's Introduction to Algebra 1123 MEDICINE. Bullock's Geography Epitomized 657 Clutterbuck's Inquiry into the Nature and Seat of Fever 1007 English Grammar Taught by Exam- A short Treatise on the Passions, by Greig's World Displayed 664 897 852 Edgeworth's Tales of Fashionable Life 879 1052 Leisure Hour Improved 948 856 Maury's Essay on the Eloquence of Letters of a late eminent Prelate to 735 1112 1043 The Artist, a collection of Essays 900 Reports of the Committee and Direc- Hassel's Speculum, or Art of Draw- tors of the African Institution 641, 721 ing in Water Colours 854 Ridgway's edition of Dr. Watts's Songs 762 for Children Russel's Letters, Essays, and Poems 759 Steel's Elements of Punctuation 1050 Humboldt's Essay on the Kingdom of Stewart's Last Will and Testament 1140 Styles's Strictures on two Critiques in 1057 Narrative of four years residence at Tongataboo Ticken's Statistical Synopsis of the 661 Wilkes's Historical Sketches of the NATURAL PHILOSOPHY Philosophical Transactions for 1810, Advice on the Study of the Law 858 Companion and Guide to the Laws of The Ramayuna of Valmeeki, trans- Ta Tsing Leu Lee, or Penal Code of lated by Carey and Marshman 828 China 942, 1025 POETRY. Windham's Speech on Lord Erskine's Bill 975 Aikin's Epistles on Women . 1003 Associate Minstrels 750 LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS, WITH SIZE Baker's Translation of Gessner's Idylls 628 664 668, 764, 861, 957, 1059, 1143 Campbell's Gertrude of Wyoming and other Poeins 718 LITERARY INFORMATION, Caledonian Comet 951 667, 763, 860, 956, 1058, 1141 Cottle's Fall of Cambria 1073 Morning and Evening Prayers 956 New Defence of the Holy Roman Church 854 Pierce's Treatise on Growth in Grace 1041 Spiritual Gleanings 1045 Ward's Address to young people 664 Watson's Evidences of a Future State 652 Elton's Tales of Romance and other Poems Lady, 796 Hatt's Hermit, with other Poums 1052 Hay's Rural Enthusiast 666 Heroical Epistle from Death to Di. 1138 Mosely 657 Hymons for Infant Minds 937 Influences of Sensibility 92+ Jennings's Poems 952 Kemble's Odes, Lyrical Ballads, &c. 951 Lawson's Maniac, with other Poems 1137 Legend of Mary Queen of Scots 1051 Mixture, or too True a "Tale 655 Montgomery's West Indies and other 1139 Poems 844 Pratt's Lower World 1045 Rowden's Pleasures of Friendship 659 Rowe's Fables in Verse 1139 Scott's Lady of the Lake 578 Shoberl s Translation of Gessner's Death 246 of Abel 946 Sotheby's Constance de Castile 904 Tartt's Odes Sonnets and other Poems 951 Wallace, or the Fight of Falkirk 1103 Webb's Haverhill, and other Poeins 1050 Williams's Sacred Allegories 856 POLITICS. Sermons. 1139 Beresford's Sermon on Cruelty to the brute Creation 756 Browne's Bampton Sermons 888 Clayton's Sermon--the Traveller's Directory 761 Colenso’s Sermon at Uny Lelant 858 De Courcy's Sermons 1130 Discourses at the ordination of the Rev. T. Raffles 855 Discourses on the Deity and Filiation of Jesus Christ 956 Eccles's Sermon at Leeds on the Death of Mr. Clapham 1139 Fawcett's Sermon at Bradford 857 Fuller's Sermon-Jesus the true Messiah 660 Graham's Visitation Sermon at York 666 Hall's Sermon on the Advantages of Knowledge to the Lower Classes 63 1 Hill's Sermon on the Death of Mr. Fisher 757 Hunt's Sermon on the Death of Mr. Ives 664 Hutchings's Association Sermon at Hackney 859 Jackson's Sermon at Stockwell 859 Knowles's Short and Plain Discourses 918 Macculloch's Sermons on interesting Subjects 800 Middleton's Visitation Sermon at Grantham--Cbrist divided 947 Newman's Sermon at Stepney 1135 Owen's Sernion on the Death of Mrs. Prowse 658 Patrick's Sermon at Hull 665 Scott's Sermon-the Jews a blessing to the Nations 1048 Smith's Strmon—ihe Apostolic Ministry 758 Warner's Visitation Sermon at Bath 1049 Wellwood's Sermon at Edinburgh 1136 Winter's Serinon-Consolations on the Death of Christian Friends 949 Letter from John Bull to his Brother 1051 Letter to Mr. Perceval on the Augmentation of Poor Livings 795 Political Catechism 162 Reform without Innovation 663 Roscoe's Observations on Earl Grey's Address 1047 The Spirit of the Moment 1052 THEOLOGY. Atkins's History of the Israelites 859 Berans's View of the Doctrine of the Friends 665 Burney's Edition of Bp. Pearson's Exposition of the Creed 851 Christian's Consolation 854 Duties of the Clerical Profession 1140 Fuller on Sandemanianisın 1731 Crant's Sacred Hours 858 Gray's live short Treatises 1140 Holloway's Remarks on the Signs of the Times 662 Marsh's Lectores on Theological learning 713 TRAVELS. Clarke's Travels in Russia, Tartary, and 673, 923, 1011 THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, For JULY 1810. Art. I. The Lady of the Lake, a Poem. By Walter Scott, Esq. 4to, pp. 290. cxxx. Price 21. 2s. bds. Longman and Co. Miller. 1810. MR. Scott is the very Midas of literature. Not indeed that the selling a poem at two guineas, affords by any means so strong a presumption in favour of the length of a man's ears, as the buying of it. But the aurific potency of his touch is unquestionable. He no sooner sips of Hippocrene, than it becomes Pactolus. For every single stanza of this poem, if report say true, he has received nearly the whole purchase money of Paradise Lost! We sincerely congratulate him on the ample remuneration,--part of which he is well intitled to by bis talents, part he has fairly earned by his industry, and part he owes to his good fortune, How it has happened that this very ingenious and accom: plished writer, whose warmest admirer, we suppose, never associated him with the first rate poets of our language, has yet attained a greater share of popularity, perhaps, than any individual among them all ever lived to possess, is worth making some attempt to ascertain. In the first place, he has introduced a new species of poetry. Every department (except the lye ric) had been so ably filled, that in order to be very popular it was indispensable to create a new one. This kind of merit had just before given a high degree of temporary vague to more than one description of poetry, which had little else to recommend it. To have invented a new and an excellent species, would have required talents the most extraordinary and transcendant. But to the praise of originality, in the strictest sense, Mr. Scott had no claim. The subjects, the spirit, and the manner of bis compositions, were adopted from the relics of Border antiquity. The taste of the public had already been pleased, and its appetite whetted, with the precious remnants collected and published by Dr. Percy, and more recently by the Minstrelsy of the Border. A judicious imitation of these antiques, was, on many accounts, very likely to suc. Vol. VI. |
