29 JANUARY 1831, Page 18

Mr. CORNISH has published a collection of his own National

Songs, which at least are exquisitely bound, and bear on their back the stamp of a very graceful gilt harp ; so that, if the interior is deficient in beauty, the exterior is not. The major part of these songs indicate great fertility, and the author is a tolerable master of versification : his words will go as well to music as those of many others. The ideas of a poetical kind do not abound, but there is spirit ; and some of the loyal songs, by the aid of a jolly chorus, sundry raps upon the table, and a few bottles ofWine, might possibly help a jovial party in getting pleasantly through the night.