2 JULY 1831, page 19

Mr. Payne Collier's Annals Of The Stage, From The Origin

of the Drama in England to the Restoration, forms three corpulent volumes, consisting altogether of fifteen hundred paves of small print, note and text, prose and verse. Mr.......

Tales Of Welsh Land And Welsherie,7under An Affected...

several agreeable stories, the scenes of which lie in Wales. The author is a practised writer, and his style is that of twenty years ago. We have of late been so racketed with......

The Memoirs Of Sebastian Cabot, With A Review Of Maritime

- Discovery, is a specimen of honest inquiry. It is quite frightful to think of the number of the inaccuracies it exposes : we shall cease to have confidence in books. By......

Mr. Wade, "the Author Of The Dwelling Of Fancy, Has

been long known to the public as a successful musical composer and lyric poet. He is a kind of drawing-room minstrel ; he is the author of the verses as well as the music of his......

...mr. Galt's Lives Of The Players Has Probably Cost Him

as Many hours as the work on the History of the Drama • by Mr. COLLIER has consumed months. It will probablyeirculate more extensively than :the other—it may be more- profitable......