CURRENT LITERATURE.
Things New and 01t1 Meditations in Verse on Solemn Subjects
(F. Algar.)—The old things we see, but not the new. Even the groat dogma announced in the note, that "it is clear from the Word of God that not only is slavery in itself a lawful institution, but that it is or- dained to exist to the end of time," has been forestalled. Something perhaps may be said for the novelty of the assertion that the gipsies are "pirates on the main," water being a thing to which they are little addicted in any form. Nor do we recollect that any former poet has ventured to crush anybody's voice, as is effected in the couplet- " Remorse is in our bosoms hushed, And all the voice of conscience crushed."
Of course the poet fancies that the gipsies came from Egypt. A silly book on Scriptural themes is an unpleasant thing.
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