2 APRIL 1831, Page 18

The Pious Minstrel is an elegant and extremely well-selected collection

of poems of a devotional tendency. It is the best and completest miscellany of the kind we know. A very pleasing col- lection of serious poetry was published in Edinburgh not long ago, but it contains more about love of woman than love of God, and yet was serious enough withal. This little work is pure as well as pious, and is calculated for very extensive circulation in the religious world. It is beautifully bound in shagreen morocco. We would advise the editor, in a future edition, to look a little more closely after the names of his anonynzi. There is a very pretty passage from HURDIS'S Village Curate, which is unpardonably put among the unknown authors.