Another edition of ROGERS'S Poems ! If these frequent re-
prints be the result of a demand for the volumes, it is a favourable sign of the popular taste for poetry. The effusions of a naturally delicate and sensitive mind, refined by intellectual culture and expanded by travel, receive their heightening touches of beauty from elegant verse : the classic allusions, romantic legends, and homely scenes, are blended with so much tenderness of feeling, dashed by a tinge of melancholy, that the coldness which belongs to artificial poetry is not felt, and the heart responds to the touch of the scholar's lyre. We are glad to find that the larger and more splendid edition has not superseded our old favourite, the modest duodecimo, with its simple cameo-like wood-cuts, of which this is a reprint. These classic fancies partake of the grace of RAFFAELLE awl the luxuriance of GIORGI ONE, and breathe the sweetness and gentleness of STOTII ARIL'S affectionate nature. The urchin genii, acting men's parts, are a set of charming cox- combs; and the meek-eyed nymphs are of angelic race.
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