with all the passion and sentiment of romance.Britannia.

[The Harpers have just issued a cheap edition of the above work. The London press are unanimous and warm in their praise of it.]

internal evidence of the fragments alluded to and of the present brochure is sufficient to establish their authorship. Both in matter and in form they are indubitably Coleridgean.--Athenæum.

[A very elegant reprint of the above work has been issued by Lea & Blanchard, of Philadelphia. It will be found to justify all that is said of it here.ED. ECLEC. MAG.]

A Glance at Revolutionized Italy, &c. By CHARLES
MACFARLANE. 2 vols. Smith, Elder and Co.

Our author is a good hot Tory, and no mistake.
He does not even coquet with the altered name of
Conservatism. He is plain spoken, undisguised,

the other side would endeavor to make us believe were as extinct as the Dodo or Solitaire. We do

A Book for a Corner; or, Selections in Prose and Verse from Authors the best suited to that mode of enjoyment: with Comments on each, and a general Introduction. By LEIGH HUNT. 2 vols. We confess to a degree of partiality for the poet and critic whose declining years are thus occupied in reproducing for others the literary luxuries which have given a charm to his own studious life, and have preserved his feelings fresh and young through all the cares amid which the heart's music too often be-out and out the genuine character, which writers on comes "like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh." The selections here presented are not from great, but from choice authors. The Shakspeares and Miltons are, we are told, serious studies-exercising mastery over minds the most elevated; but in a "Book for a Corner" companionship should be the rule-and therefore passages in the middle style of literary composition have been preferred by Mr. Hunt. Shenstone and Gray are the types of the class among poets,-De Foe, Pultock, Radcliffe, Inchbald, and Amory, among romancers,-Steele, Addison, Barbauld, Marco Polo, and Mungo Park, among essayists and travel-writers. The series opens with the "Letter to a New-born Child,” by Catherine Talbot, and closes with Gray's "Elegy" the intermediate citations being ideally related to the intermediate periods of life from birth to death. In this manner an order of arrangement is pleasantly suggested, while variety in subject and sentiment is judiciously secured. The value of the selections is greatly increased by Mr. Hunt's preliminary comments, as well as by the general introduction to the work.-Athenæum.

Hints towards the Formation of a more Comprehensive Theory of Life. By S. T. COLERIDGE. Edited by SETH B. WATSON, M.D.

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This book is one of the finest of the late Mr. Coleridge's philosophical essays. We should, however, have been better pleased if the editor had revealed the source whence he obtained it. He is wholly silent on the subject,-save that he makes his " knowledgments to Sir John Stoddart, L.L.D., to the Rev. James Gillman, Incumbent of Trinity, Lambeth, and to Henry Lee, Esq., Assistant Surgeon to King's College Hospital, for their great kindness in regard to this publication." More than one example of the argument here elaborated have already appeared.

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In November and December, 1835, were published in Fraser's Magazine, two fragments-one "On Life," and another ou the Science and System of Logic:" the former stated to be merely an excursus in, and the latter an introduction to, A Discourse upon Logic." These were printed under the name of Mr. Coleridge; but they have never been gathered into his acknowledged works by his literary executors They were then alleged to be portions of "the Sybilline Leaves" scattered abroad by their author, and retained in the affectionate hands of some who were proud to be esteemed his pupils. Many of the treatises so frequently referred to by Mr. Coleridge, and yet not discoverable among his papers, were suspected to be in this condition. The

not like a man the worse for being strong in his principles and opinions; and the only reason we ever have for alluding to such facts is, that be he Whig, Tory, Liberal, Radical, Chartist, Socialist, or Communist, it is expedient to hold the circumstance in view whilst weighing the statements and arguments of the party, and making certain allowances for coloring and effects, which do not provoke any censure, but ought not to be lost sight of in the endeavor to reach the truth. By much experience, great travel, years of residence among the people, a mind sedulously cultivated, and a thorough intimacy with the languages and literature required for his task, Mr. MacFarlane was highly fitted to undertake it.-Literary Gazette.

The Use of the Senses, &c. By CATHERINE LAKE.

A fervent and enthusiastic performance, in prose and verse, in which external objects are spiritualized in the style adopted by very devout religious writers, who infuse a large proportion of scriptural texts and pious ejaculations into their compositions. The love of God, and dependence upon his Son, are here, in this manner, zealously inculcated.—Literary

Gazette.

RECENT BRITISH PUBLICATIONS.
Adventures of Cromwell Doolan, or Life in the
Army, by the author of Life in the Backwoods.
My Uncle the Curate, by the author of the Bach-
elor of the Albany.

Life of Maximilian Robespierre, by G. H. Lewes.
Fairy Tales from all Nations, by Anthony R.
Montalba.

Dudley Chadbourne, a Woman's History.
Recollections of an Old Soldier, being Memoirs of
Col. F. S. Gidy, by Mrs. Ward.

History of Scotland, by Robert Chambers.
Experiences of a Gaol Chaplain.

Hortensius, or the Advocate, by William Forsyth,
Esq.

Curzon's Visits to the Monasteries in the Levant. Nine Sermons, preached at Harrow School, by Rev. Dr. Vaughan, editor of the British Quarterly

Review.

Owen Tudor, by the author of Whitefriars.
Rockingham, or the Younger Brother.
Essay on the Influence of Authority in Matters of
Opinion, by G. C. Lewis, Esq.

Adventures in the Lybian Deserts, by Boyle St.
John, Esq.

Sermons of Adolphe Monod, translated by Hickey.