8 JANUARY 1831, page 12

Poetry, Which Used To Appear In Bulky Quartos, Has Now

degenerated into the thin pamphlet: the verses look ashamed of themselves : they are like primroses in a frost, in an ungenial atmosphere, and showin , but few signs of a......

Major Leith Hay's Narrative Of' The Peninsular War Is The

Journal of a Soldier, far more intent upon great military movemente than either insulated achievements or individual observation. In the post of Aid-de-camp to General LEITH—an......

We Rather Praised The Sectarian, When It Appeared; And We

now avail ourselves of a second edition of the Dominic's Legacy, a work by the same author, though of a \ cry different kind, to perform an act of justice to the latter......

The Gentleman In Black Is No Clergyman : It Is

the individual who is represented as going about seeking whom he may devour, and against whom we are hebdomadally put on our guard from the pulpit. In former times, he was......

Harriet (11rs. Or Miss?) Martineau's Traditions Of...

very superior peribrmance, and one we ought in,t to discuss in a few lines. It is the production of a mind thoroughly imbued in New Testament lore ; and though apparently the......

The Quarterly .timrnal Qf Education Is More Like The Report

of a society or institution, than a journal of discussion or a guide in matters of instruction. It reports a great deal that is going on, and which is very little worth while......

'on The Same Principles, We Prefer A Reading-book...

the entire work of one author, which we would have thorongly learned ; but if a reading-book, consisting of extracts from many - works, were to be chosen, we should certainly......