11 FEBRUARY 1865, Page 22

The Quarterly Review. January, 1865. (John Murray.)—The editor seems to

have been afraid of being thought to puff Lord Derby'a translation of the Iliad, for after a page or two of general praise, which really cannot be denied to it, the notice becomes.critical, and less favour- ably so than that of the Edinburgh. Neither writer has- made much of the subject. An interesting account of Servia leans to the old Foreign* Office notion of supporting the integrity of the Turkish Empire, and in a rant about "The United States as an Example" we seem to detect the' fine Roman hand of the noble member for Stamford. There is, however, one first-rate paper on Blake the artist. The rest are not remarkable. Even "Epigrams " are ponderously treated, and remind one of the plums in a "heavy" cake.