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An Apology For Lord Byron Is The Principal Among A

number of lesser poems—first flights of fancy—forming the volume to which it gives the title, by STEPHEN PRENT1S, A.M. The Apology —of which only the first part appears—is put......

The Sufferings Of Silvio Pellico In The Cause Of Freedom,

have given to his name a wider celebrity than the fame of his writings alone would have earned for him out of his native country. A tragic drama, which he wrote to beguile his......

The Object Of Goureddin, " An Eastern Tale," Is To Show

the miseries which would naturally beset us if we had a knowledge of the future. The hero, by means of magic tablets, the gift of a genius, can make himself acquainted with any......

The Chief Value And Novelty Of Mr. John Parker. Lawson's

Autobiography of Martin Luther, consists in its allowing the great Reformer to tell his own story, wherever he was so inclined. It is in fact a selection from the Works of......

Martineau's Rationale Of Religious Inquiry. This Is An...

striking publication ; although possessing more of keenness than soundness in its views and arguments, and being rather rhetorical than scriptural in its style. The author is......

Progress Of Publication.

GLASGOW has put forth a new periodical, called The Scotthh Monthly Magazine ; which has made a spirited and very pro- mising commencement. The papers of the First Number form a......

The Pilgrim And Other Poems, Is A School Production, Of

six- teen years and under; which has now first seen the light. Re- gardcd in this point of view, the poems may claim the highest praise such verses are ever likely to......

The Mysteries Of Providence And The Triumphs Of Grace, Is

a religious novel ; in which a story is made, though not very suc- cessfully, a vehicle for inculcating the advantage of following evangelical doctrines after the straitest......