With all her wrongs Her life on his love is set. Ah, doubt no more! She never can wed another. Till life be o'er She loves-she will love him yet! The following stanzas are in a somewhat similar tone, but are more noticeable for their terse energy of expression : Yes! lower to the level Of those who laud thee now! Go, join the joyous revel And pledge the heartless vow! That lights that lofty brow! Yet, when the laugh is lightest When wildest flies the jest- Each gay and jovial guest A ghost shall glide amid the flowers- And thou shalt shrink in sadness And hate the banquet's glare, And pine 'mid passion's madness, For true love's purer air, And feel thou'dst give their wildest glee Yet deem not this my prayer, love! I-1 alone would mourn the flowers the air of being more skilfully constructed than they really are. On the other hand, we look in vain throughout her works for an offence against the finer taste, or against decorum-for a low thought or a platitude. A happy refinement-an instinct of the pure and delicate-is one of her most noticeable excellences. She may be properly tion, whether in the conception of a theme or in commended, too, for originality of poetic inventhe manner of treating it. Consequences of this trait, are her point and piquancy. Fancy and näiveté appear in all she writes. Regarding the loftier merits, I am forced to speak of her in more measured terms. She has occasional passages of true imagination-but scarcely the glowing, vigorous, and sustained ideality of Mrs. Maria Brooks-or even, in general, the less ethereal elevation of Mrs. Welby. In that indescribable something, however, which, for want of a more definite term, we are accustomed to call "grace"that charm so magical, because at once so shadowy and so potent-that Will o' the Wisp which, in its supreme development, may be said to involve nearly all that is valuable in poetry-she has, unquestionably, no rival among her country women. Of pure prose-of prose proper—she has, perhaps, never written a line in her life. Her usual Magazine papers are a class by themselves. She begins with a resolute effort at being sedatethat is to say, sufficiently prosaic and matter-offact for the purpose of a legend or an essay; but, after a few sentences, we behold uprising the leaven of the Muse; then, with a flourish and some vain attempts at repression, a scrap of verse renders itself manifest; then comes a little poem outright; then another and another and another, with impertinent patches of prose in between-until at length the mask is thrown fairly off and far away, and the whole articlesings. Upon the whole, I have spoken of Mrs. Osgood so much in detail, less on account of what she has actually done than on account of what I perceive in her the ability to do. In not presenting to the public at one view all that she has written in verse, Mrs. Osgood has incurred the risk of losing that credit to which she is entitled on the score of versatility-of vaIn character, she is ardent and sensitive; a riety in invention and expression. There is worshipper of beauty; universally admired, rescarcely a form of poetical composition in which spected, and beloved. In person, she is about she has not made experiment; and there is none the medium height and slender; complexion in which she has not very happily succeeded. usually pale; hair black and glossy; eyes a clear, Her defects are chiefly negative and by no means luminous grey, large, and with great capacity for numerous. Her versification is sometimes exceed-expression. In no respect can she be called ingly good, but more frequently feeble through "beautiful;" but the question "is it possible she the use of harsh consonants, and such words as is not so?" is very frequently asked, and by none “thou'dst" for "thou wouldst," with other unue- more frequently than by those who most inticessary contractions, inversions, and obsolete mately know her. expressions. Her imagery is often mixed ;-in deed it is rarely otherwise. The epigrammatism Note. Some passages of the above article have appearof her conclusions gives to her poems, as wholes, ed in some of our Magazines-in “Marginalia," &c. Come now, your weary steps beguile, Hence we return. One wondrous spot Irreverent men! No longer call Breaks through the gloom a grander thing- June 26th, 1849. NOTICES OF NEW WORKS. ADDRESS delivered at the Dedication of the HOLLY-WOOD CEMETERY, on Monday the 25th June, 1849. By OLIVER P. BALDWIN, Esq., of Richmond, Virginia. Published at the request of the Board of Directors. Richmond. Macfarlane & Fergusson, Printers. 1849. The quiet beauty of rural cemeteries has always appeared to us in touching contrast with the rectangular walks and mournful cypresses of the city grave-yards. There is something, to us we confess, inexpressibly soothing in the greeu turf enamelled with blossoms, the song of birds in the interlacing branches of the trees above and the play of light and shade upon the mounds beneath, as the sun in his setting shines lovingly through the crevices of foliage. Around us is diffused a "dim religious light" more subduing than any ever shed through painted window on cathedral aisle, and we are apt to think, after lingering, for a time, among such sacred haunts, that death itself wears a less terrible aspect than before. We would represent him, at such an hour, not as the horrific skeleton with the scythe, but rather as he is imaged in the ancient genii, a fair winged boy, his weeping eyes covered with his left arm, and trailing a torch reversed in his right hand. In Holbein's Dance of Death, of all the modes in which the Destroyer is made to approach, there is none perhaps so striking as that, where he enters a group of little children seated around the fireside of a cottage, and taking one of them by the hand, leads it out of the door. "Quiet and unresisting," says the author of Hyperion, "goes the little child, and in its countenance no grief, but wonder only; while the other children are weeping and stretching forth their hands in vain towards their departing brother. It is a beautiful design, in all save the skeleton. An angel had been better, with folded wings and torch inverted." geantries of the world. Such images of death as these are in harmony with the feelings inspired by rural burying-grounds. We would, therefore, have our depositories of the dead made attractive places of resort for the living, that while they derive from the frequent contemplation of the grave, affecting monitions of the shortness of life, they may come to consider the last call as one to a more peaceful state of existence. We would not attract them by gaudy parterres or the vulNo exhibition of public taste of late years has been so gar pretension of monumental fripperies, but by the softening influences of the place upon the feelings and the heart, gratifying to the sensibilities, as the decoration of the bu-inducing to a more sober walk among the pomps and parial grounds of our country. To linger around the spot where we have deposited the remains of our dearly-loved, to deck it with the flowers of early spring, to carve upon the stone which sets it apart some simple expression of our affectionate remembrance, seems an office in unison with the best feelings of humanity. It has been too long the custom to bury the dead within the narrow limits of crowded grave-yards, amid the noise and glare of cities, where the mourning relatives cannot visit undisturbed the tomb of the departed, and where it often happens that the sanctuary of one sleeper is invaded to provide for the last resting. place of another. Far more seemly is it to select some rural retreat, upon whose breezy hill-tops and verdant declivities the mute but significant marbles may gleam out from the shade of primeval forest-trees, surrounded by the rose and the violet, affecting evidences of filial or parental love. The new Cemetery of Holly-Wood near Richmond is a spot of rare beauty, in the gentle undulations of its hills and the soft murmurs of its brooks and rustling foliage. A high mound at the farthest extremity commands a view of the city, at the distance of a mile and a half, the spires and cupolas of its churches and public buildings standing in relief against the sky. At the base of this mound flows the James over the rocks of its obstructed bed, singing a perpetual requiem to the departed who rest upon its banks. In this Cemetery will soon be deposited the forms of the young and the old-beauty bursting into womanhood, manly strength just entered upon the active duties of life, age with the silvery locks and the decrepid limbs. Here let affection rear the simple tablets of fond remembrance and plant the flower that shall typify its unavailing regrets. We know there are those who argue that when the in. Let no "flattering false insculptions" be graven upon the forming spirit has left its tenement of clay, it is a matter of tombs that shall here be erected, to record of some lost httle moment what becomes of the inanimate mass. brother "not what he was, but what he should have been." do not envy the disciples of so cold and cheerless a phi-But let all be done "decently and in order," so that to the losophy. Speculate upon the topic as they may, there comes at length a negative to the repulsive sentiment from the inward consciousness of each of them. We feel that it is not so; we recognise the desire that we should repose, after the great change that awaits us, "in some sheltered Book." as the Address before us so beautifully expresses it, "where the voices of those we love, hastening from the broad sunlight of the world, may oft be heard in sighs and prayers, and like the nightingale, singing her sweet song in darkness, pour out the plaintive notes of affection and sorrow, amidst the consecrated shadows of the tomb." We thousands who in after years shall thread the avenues and paths of Holly-Wood, it shall seem the resting-place of a Christian people, and the dust that moulders in its bosom be regarded by them, in the language of the German poet, Klopstock, as "seed sown by God to be ripened for the harvest." The Address of Mr. Baldwin, delivered at the dedication of Holly-Wood Cemetery, was a most eloquent and affecting effort. Its author is one of the most graceful and accomplished writers with whom we are acquainted, and would soon reach the highest literary distinction, were his studies devoted to that walk of life rather than to the strife | this, as the best school-edition of Tacitus which has come and excitement of politics. We should like to lay before under our observation. our readers some extracts which we had marked out for quotation in the present Address, but we have not room for them. The pamphlet is very handsomely printed by our own publishers, Macfarlane & Fergusson. A FIRST BOOK IN GREEK, Containing a full view of the forms of Words with Vocabularies and copious exerci ses. On the method of constant imitation and repetition. By John McClintock, D. D., Professor of Lasguages, and George R. Crooks, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Languages, Dickinson College. Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff street. 1848. THE HISTORIES OF CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS. With Notes for Colleges. By W. S. Tyler, Professor of Lan. guages in Amherst College. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 200 Broadway. Philadelphia: Geo. S. Apple-sical scholars, it certainly will not be for want of books ton: 168 Chesnut street. 1849. We very recently noticed an edition of the Germania and Agricola by Mr. Tyler, and now we have one of the "Histories of Tacitus" from the same hand. From our examination of the latter publication, we are convinced that Mr. T. is improving, as an editor, not only by experience, but by great care and evidently enthusiastic industry. He is certainly a man of no ordinary talents, and his essay on the characteristics of Tacitus would be an ornament to any of our best reviews. Appearing as it does in a school-book, it will of course meet the eye of few literary men whose attention is not specially turned to the classics, but we trust will inspire students, who use this edition, with that enthusiasm, tempered by sound judgment and good taste, which marks the editor himself. We should be pleased, however, to see this admirable, although somewhat eulogistic criticism of Tacitus, published as a separate article. If the students at our schools do not become good clas prepared to afford them facilities. It has been well said that we are "overwhelmed" with them; we have before us a dubia coena, from which it requires no little consideration to choose the best of so many tempting viands. The plan of teaching languages, adopted in this volume, seems now to be preferred by common consent to every other. According to this scheme, we learn other langusges, as we do our own, with the additional advantage of having an intelligent friend perfectly acquainted with the language that we are acquiring constantly at our elbow, talking and writing correctly himself, pointing out all the rules and idioms as he proceeds, selecting examples to illustrate new usages, and finally requiring us to make sentences, involving the same principles and idioms, until they are indelibly stamped on the memory. The method in fine is an admirable combination of the practical and scientific, by which teacher and pupil are both kept incessantly at work, not however too difficult for the latter, who is conscious of easy progress at every moment. The two gentlemen who have prepared this book seem to understand this system becoming so deservedly popular, and to have carried out very successfully. The translation of Döderlein's essay on the diction of Tacitus, in which that German commentator illustrates his author's peculiarities of language by many examples from the original, gives us a clearer conception of those peculiarities, than any thing which we have before seen, and must One excellent peculiarity in their book, is that a knowlead all who read it to a more intelligent and habitual ob-ledge of quantity and accents is imparted from the very servation of the remarkable expedients, by which Tacitus first in connexion with each lesson. This is applying the endeavored to combine his three favorite and not easily re- same general principle to pronunciation, and we have no conciled objects-excessive brevity, rapidity and brilliant, doubt of its being the only method, by which good habits of dignified impressiveness. pronunciation can be immediately acquired and bad ones effectually prevented. These two essays swell the bulk of the volume a little, but, in our opinion, are fully worth the price of the book. Mr. T. seems anxious to profit by all criticisms, and, from the glance which we have been enabled to give his notes, has evidently presented the scholastic public with an edition which leaves little to be desired in the way of explanation. He says that the notes "have been made somewhat more grammatical," and that "their value has been increased by more copious references to the excellent grammar of Zumpt, in addition to that of Andrews and Stoddard. It is chiefly by way of such references, that the general principles of grammar have been illustrated. Sometimes, however, a concise statement of the principle referred to has been added." Now we would prefer to have this method reversed, and the "concise statement" precede the reference, which may be, and often is, to a book, not within reach of the student. He will certainly read the "concise statement," when uninterrupted by references and quotations, and may afterwards look at a book referred to, if it be accessible; but, when he encounters a long note bristling with strange names and symbols, he will often pass it over in indolent disgust. References are principally valuable to teachers, who indeed usually make notes valuable or worthless to their pupils by An application of prosodial rules to poetry, after mispronunciation has from habit become incurable, is like attempting to convert a clown into a gentleman, by arraying him once a week in his Sunday finery. We approve very highly of summing up, as is done in this book, of the rules which are at first scattered; but we cannot say as much for the written questions. The editors promise a second book shortly, and, if they go on as they have commenced, they will be entitled to the thanks of all classical teachers in the United States, unless perhaps those who may be rival publishers. LOYOLA AND JESUITISM IN ITS RUDIMENTS. By Isnat This is in many respects a remarkable work. Indeed from so philosophic a writer as Isaac Taylor, we could not expect one of a different character. His manner of treating the attractive subject he had selected differs very esses tially from all the recent publications with reference to the order of Jesus. Perhaps the article, written a few years age for the Edinburgh Review, which was at first attributed to Macaulay, but afterwards known to be the production of SteThis mistake, as we think it, is however common to phen, has been more universally read than any other treatse most, if not all the commentators, and might be easily cor- on Jesuitism. Mr. Taylor's book is in remarkable contrast rected in a new edition. We do not hesitate to recommend with the antithetical sentences and highly-colored pictures their mode of examination. of the Reviewer. His style is the highest degree spiritual | success was very great is shewn in the reforms which were and meditative, rich with the eloquence of a loftier inspira- brought about by the Venetian stage,-how gambling was tion and pure in the exercise of a more refined simplicity. checked,-how the rage for pic-nics was in some degree mitThe present volume will be cordially welcomed by a large igated, (by the way, we are sadly in want of a new Goldoni class of readers, to whom Isaac Taylor's books afford con- to satirize our own "Smanie per la Villegiatura,")—how the stant solace and delight. cavalier servente was brought into disrepute. In none of the It has reached us through Messrs. Nash & Woodhouse. comedies here given do we recognize the brilliant fence of wit THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE BEAUTIFUL, BY VICTOR SIN. New York. Daniel Bigby-1849. that distinguishes the dramatic compositions of Sheridan, nor can any of them sustain a comparison, for interest of diaCou-logue, with the plays of Moliére. It would require indeed a consummate hand to come up to these masters of the art, but he who falls short of them sinks into the least tolerable So many frivolous and immoral works have been given to the American public in the form of translations, that we are slow to commend such works to their favour. Two striking exceptions claim our notice, however, in the pubications of Mr. Bigby of New York. Cousin is chiefly known to English readers by his Philosophy of History. The volume named above is conceived in the same vein of Comprehensive and subtle analysis. Without the elegant rhetoric of Burke, it unfolds the subject more definitely, and abounds in vigor and clearness of statement and feliity of illustration. It is well translated by Mr. Daniel of Cheshunt College. and very neatly printed. The same publisher has given us a translation of "The Village Docor,” a most pathetic, unexceptionable and interesting little story by Madame D'Arbouville. LADY ALICE OR THE NEW UNA. A Novel. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1849. If we were to attempt the discussion of the problem which this book unfolds, considered in the abstract, an ssay would be requisite, and on a subject scarcely approriate to our secular pages. Its scope is like that of seve al works of fiction that recently have become popular, uch as "Hawkstone," "Father Clement," and one, the tle of which we forget, by Mr. Brownson. It is, indeed, new and interesting feature in this class of writings to evelope theological, ethical and religious questions; and vithout expressing any opinion as to the doctrine enforced a the present work, we advise all interested in the exisent controversy between the advocates of what are called igh and low Church principles, to read "Lady Alice." In literary point of view it is a peculiar work, inasmuch as, we are not misinformed, it is an American production, rst published in England. The author is said to be Mr. luntington, a brother of the artist of that name, and the ivid descriptions of Italian scenery and manners, with which it is interspersed, confirm the report, as Mr. H. assed many years in Italy. TALIAN COMEDIES. Select Comedies; Translated from the Italian of Goldoni, Giraud, and Nota. New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1849. In this volume the English reader is introduced to a new id most interesting range of dramatic literature. The alian Comedy of the last century, so effective in its relts on society, has been fully discussed by Sismondi in s Literature of Europe, but we are not aware that any nglish version of the plays even of Goldoni, the most faous dramatist of his country, has before appeared. The esent volume, indeed, gives us but two comedies of Golni, and these, by no means, the most striking of his pro ictions. of all forms of mediocrity. In tragedy or in sentimental plays where the accessory of verse is admissible, positive failure may be escaped by the musical flow of the language or the finish of single passages, as in the Bianca Visconti and Tortesa of Mr. Willis, which, though not successful as dramatic compositions, are so studded with gems of imaginative beauty as to be worthy of long preservation. But in prose comedy, there is wanting the help of versification, and if the dialogue flags, the play is very certain to be damned. We say, then, considering the entire lack of piquancy in frequent passages of these plays, that it would seem remarkable to an English reader that they occupied so high a rank in the literature of their age. It cannot be denied, however, that these comedies furnish very agreeable reading, and are remarkable for the ingenuity of their plots and the naturalness of their incidents. The book is for sale by A. Morris. & Brothers, Publishers, 82 Cliff Street. 1849. The title of this publication took us completely by surprise, as we had never imagined that Southey could have kept any other Common-Place Book than "The Doctor," that queerest of all omnia gathera, where the whole tribe of authors, ancient and modern, from the Homeride down to Maria Del Occidente, are jumbled together like the statues of "Homer and Plutarch and Nicodamus" in the groves of Castle Blarney. This posthumous "CommonPlace Book" is by no means so entertaining as "The Doc. tor," but it is nevertheless a very acceptable addition to the library, presenting a vast deal of curious research into old and forgotten authors. We commend it to the attention of the public, although we confess that for summer reading we should much prefer to follow the adventures of Daniel Dove, or to doze over the pages that tell us "How happily the days Of Thalaba went by." The very excellent paper and fair typography of the prefound at the book store of A. Morris. sent work do great credit to the Messrs. Harper. It may be KALOOLAH, or Journeyings to the Djebel Kumri: An Autobiography of Jonathan Romer. Edited by W. S. Mayo, M. D. New York: George P. Putnam, 155 Broadway. London: David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, 1849. The only fault we can find with Kaloolah is one which we venture to say nobody else but ourselves will ever express,-it is too long. We arrive at this conclusion not by reason of any impatience or fatigue experienced in reading One who reads Italian comedy for the first time in these it-for it is easy labor to cut its leaves-but by estimating ges, after making large allowance for the unavoidable it, as Macaulay once suggested of a dull biography, by fects of translation, will be at some loss to account for avordupois; there seems to be too much of lively and grae success, which attended its representations. That this phic narrative, too much of ink and paper for the purchase |