5 MAY 1832, page 17

The Maid Of Eltar

Is a narrative poem, of much simplicity both as to matter and style. The subject and the characters are such as the poets of Scotland have made us familiar with,—stout English......

Washington Irving's Alhambra.

IT was a mistake in WASHINGTON IRVING to call his composi- tions sketches—they are finished pictures: in the paintings of his countryman LESLIE, there is not a nicer attention......