idiomatic language are appreciated, there can be no doubt that the name of Sheridan will maintain its place. His reputation as an orator may be said to rest substantially on his two speeches against Mr. Warren Hastings; and it unfortunately happens, as we have already hinted, that both of these are miserably reported in the parliamentary debates. When he delivered those far-famed philippics he was a new man in St. Stephens'-the extent of his genius and the truth of his character were yet to be developed; and we must be permitted to doubt whether, if he had spoken the same words a few years later, the world would ever have heard so much about the matter. Whenever Sheridan attempts any serious passion in his dramas he fails deplorably and his life was a jest;-is it possible that he could ever command, or at least sustain, that genuine enthusiasm without which declamation may flourish-but oratory cannot be? In his maturer career of public life he avoided any attempts of this kind, contented to let his natural wit and shrewdness take their own way, and make him perhaps the most pleasing, though not by many steps the most powerful speaker that has, within our own recollection, addressed the most fastidious audience in the world. We should have had much pleasure in quoting largely from the judicious and interesting comments on Sheridan's speeches and dramas with which Mr. Moore has favoured us. And if we have dwelt more at length upon less agreeable matters, Mr. Moore may be assured that we have done so, not out of any desire to press severely upon him, but because we felt it to be our duty to take the earliest opportunity of correcting errors of fact, which, if they be not pointed out on their first appearance, are too apt to take root in public opinion, and after a few years pass for sober truth and legitimate history. Dr. Watkins's Memoir of the Politician appears to us to be the better work of the two, as decidedly as Mr. Moore's is of the Author. But an adequate, or even a tolerably faithful life of Sheridan in the whole scope and combination of his characteris still, and may probably long continue to be, a desideratum. NOTE. We take this opportunity of expressing our regret, that in a note to Article IV. of our Sixty-Fourth Number, we confounded Mr. Lindsey, formerly of Essex Street, the well-known apostle of Unitarianism, with a minister of very different character, Dr. James Lindsay, of Monkwell Street chapel. We were led into this error by a misspelling of the name in the pamphlet from which we were quoting. ERRATUM.-Page 503, line eleventh, for lands read lords. NEW ANTIQUITIES, ARCHITECTURE, AND THE FINE ARTS. DISQUISITIONS upon the Painted Greek Vases, and their probable connexion with the Shows of the Eleusinian and other Mysteries. By James Christie. 4to. 21. 2s. 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