10 DECEMBER 1831, Page 21

The Tenth Number of the "Standard Novels" contains the conclusion

of SCHILLER'S Ghost Seer, and the whole of BROWN'S Edgar Huntley. CHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN was an American imitator of GODWIN, and has been, for some accidental reason, greatly over-praised. Edgar Huntley is one of the least clever of his writings. The author has a tendency to the rhapsodical, unfor- tunately too common with the Yankee novelists : they seem to view acres of paper in the same cheap light as acres of unre- deemed forest.