Rooms's elegant poem, nay, has grown from a thin duode-
cimo to a portly quarto, in massive binding of sober green and gold. This is reversing the usual order. Welcome to this splen- did luxury of literature in its new shape—looking like the poet's. album : the chaste descriptions of scenery are realized by TURNER in his purest style, and the touching legendary tales illustrated by STOTHARD with a grace and sweetness that accord well with the narrative. The charm of this delicious quarto, indeed, lies in the unity of feeling subsisting between the poet and the painters : both the poetical and pictorial imaginings seem as though they were emanations of' one mind. STOTHARD'S tasteful groups of meek- eyed mortals, where the ideal forms of RAPHAEL are tricked out in the elegant style of WATTEAU, and the little spots of loveli- ness that TURNER has steeped in the sunny brightness of the warm South, give colour and life to the visions of fancy. The plates are the same as those in the octavo edition that appeared a few years back; the present republication in a larger size having been suggested, probably, by a remnant of proof impressions. The best wine crowns the close of the feast.
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