12 MARCH 1836, Page 19

4. Songs of Granada and the Alhambra, with other Poents,t4

Lydia B. Smith. The greater part of the contents of both 'Ile* volumes have already appeared, chiefly. in Annuals; of whose poetry they offer very favourable specimens. The merits ins smoothness of versification, and prettiness, perhaps elegance, of sentiment ; their defects, dilution, and uniformity, or rather homogeneity—whate:er be the theme or the thought, it is always handlei in the same way, as if verses were to be made like doses per i rescription.