ftill more hafty production; yet its author (whofe name is faid to be Torrens *) appears to have talents, and fome knowledge of human life. Various fcenes of low life are delineated with spirit in Mr. Ryley's Itine rantt, and the whole has a strong appearance of being drawn from real events, which we conceive to be the cafe. The fhorter novels, called Tales, admit lefs of character and contrivance, but among the Tales of Fashionable Life, by Mifs Edgworth, are one or two which come, perhaps, as near as can well be imagined to the perfection of that minor branch. MISCELLANIES. We have refumed, after fome interval, our accounts of the Afiatic Refearches §, a work fo mifcellaneous that we are reduced to clafs it here. It is, however, only the more generally interefting from this character of variety. Major Stewart's Catalogue of the Library of Tippoo Sultan may be confidered as intimately connected with the Afiatic Researches ; of which, but for its extent, it might very properly have made a part. The works of Pope are alfo truly miscellaneous, and never have we feen them fo complete, or so very ably illuftrated, as in Mr. Bowles's late Edition. The Correspondence of Bp. Nicolfon**, we have not confidered as biographical, because it does not in fact convey much knowledge of the Bishop's Life; but it is a publication of much value, as containing the Letters of many very emi *Not Byron as we had heard reported. Nor a Lady, as was alfo faid. + No. IV. P. 410. No. I. p. 73. nent and learned men, and illuftrated by the editor in the most fatisfactory manner. Of Dr. Pegge's Anonymiana, we cannot fay fo much as we could wifh. That a book fo large, and fo extremely various, muft contain fome curious things is certain but, if the contents were judicioufly fifted, we should fay with the utanoit energy, πλέον ήμισυ παντος. ; What remain are smaller productions; Mr. Dibdin's literary amusement, entitled Bibliomania †, has at least more information in it, than the poem of the fame title by which it was occafioned. The annual volume by Mr. Blagdon, of felections, under the name of Flowers of Literature ‡, proceeds at least as well as it began, and contains, perhaps, as much as is worth preferving of many writers cited in it. The Annals of Sporting §, are an imitation, by no means unsuccessful, of Mr. Bunbury's Annals of Horfemanship, and are enlivened with etchings fufficiently expreffive of the whimsical ideas in the book. Hints to Freshmen at Cambridge, and Advice to a Young Reviewer ¶, printed at Oxford, are fmall Tracts, but written evidently by authors well qualified for greater things, and in their tendency altogether laudable. A few books fubfidiary to Education, will conclude our prefent lift. Of thefe Lindley Murray's reprinted Grammar **, is a book now calculated to pafs from the School to the Library. Dr. Carey's Latin Profodytt, enlarged and corrected with great care, is a book of much value and extenfive utility. Mr. Render's Sketches will be fought by thofe whe unite the study of the German with that of other mo dern languages; to whom it cffers a convenience of illuftration, which they could not, we believe, enjoy before. Having thus communicated our difcoveries of the wile and the dulce in recent Literature, we leave our Readers to take advantage of them, by procuring without delay fuch as will either affift their studies, or delight their taftes. |