LITERARY POSTSCRIPT.
WE recommend strongly to the attention of all persons in- terested in the West India question, two pamphlets just published by SAUNDERS and OTLEY. They are by Mr. ANTONY DAVIS, a member of the Legislative Assembly of Jamaica. As might be ex- pected, they are the warm effusions of a partisan; but it is right that both sides should be well seen. The publication of them will do good. Their titles are, Copy of a Letter addressed to a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Jamaica, and The West Indies, comprising a Detail of Facts in Opposition to Theory.
Mr. R. MONTGOMERY'S Messiah is just put into our hands: we shall be glad to find improvement, and that the author, at Oxford, has learned to handle ideas instead of words. The poem shall have the attention it merits.
The Doomed, a tale, in three volumes, is another version of the Wandering Jew, or the Undying One. In this work, that weary spirit is at length, we believe, set at rest. We are glad of it. Next week we will make a more particular report of his woes and wanderings.
The Democrat and the Hugonot are two clever and spirited tales of the dragonading age of Louis the Fourteenth in France. We shall probably be able shortly to give the attention and apace due to this work : ill the mean time, we recommend it to the notice of the possessors of circulating libraries and their customers.
The Lives of Vasco Nunez de Balboa and Francisco, are from the Spanish of Don MANUEL JOSEF QUINTANA, and translated by Mrs. HODSON, author of Wallace, &c. The book is a worthy translation of the lives of two of the famous (or infamous) Spanish conquerors of the New World. The subject is grand, the incidents are romantic, and the characters well brought out. The merits of QuIvrArra. as a biographer are pleasantly laid down in the last number of the Foreign Quarterly Review.
We perceive that we have omitted to notice the first volume of British India, a publication of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library. This is an injustice which shall be repaired. This work is written and compiled by no fewer than eight able individuals, each master of his own subject.
Of the MAGAZINES on our Table, we have only had time to ex- amine three. Blackwood is charming, after its own peculiar fashion. The United Service is more rich than usual in excellent matter. The Naturalist's Magazine is always a great favourite of ours : we picked out several little points of information from it for our
Things and Thoughts," and next week shall discover more. Tait ooks lively in politics, and more agreeable in literature than here- tofore: we shall return to him. To Blackwood we cannot help again alluding, in gratitude more especially for no fewer than three papers by WILSON; with whom a ate-d-ti.te, whether for un or poetry, is always a high enjoyment.
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