WEAVER'S "Agrippa Posthumus and Other Paenis " are - usti. _ ered
into the world by some very extravsgatit praises by the au- Thor's.brother. Mr. WEAVER-IS- deadi,aad his .volume, like his own Agrippa, is postlininous. Mi. WEAVER was:a schoolmaster at-Finchley ; and, according to his brother, a genius. We do not Consider his brother a judge of genius, and are :sorry to find no evidence of that high order of intellectcalied genius 'in the play or the poems. Mr. WEAVER, the editor,- ought to:know that there -is a vanity even in praising a brother, and that it should 'be done. modestly. It is very possible that his brother was something of • what he describes, but it is presuming in him to' set. himself up -for the judge. We pardon the extravagance for the-sake of the na- tural feelings which dictated it ; but- we canndtPailmit the book into our library.
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