ART. I. The Life of the Right Honourable John Philpot Cur- II. Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men. Collected from the Conversation of Mr Pope, and other eminent Persons of his time: By the Rev. Joseph Spence. Now first published from the Ori- III. Observations on the Injurious Consequences of the Restrictions upon Foreign Commerce. By a Mem- IV. 1. A General History of Music, from the Earliest Times to the Present: Comprising the Lives of Emi- nent Composers and Musical Writers. The whole accompanied with Notes and Observations, Critical 3. Remarks on the Present State of Musical Instruc- 4. The Thorough Bass Primer. By J. F. Burrowes V. The Rise and Progress of the City of Glasgow, com- prising an Account of its Public Buildings, Chari- ties, and other Concerns. By James Cleland VI. An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain re- specting the United States of America. Part First. Containing an Historical Outline of their Merits and Wrongs as Colonies, and Strictures on the Calumnies of British Writers. By Robert Walsh, Esq. VII. 1. Franz Bopp über das Conjugations System der San- skritsprache in vergleichung mit jenem der Grie- chischen, Lateinischen, Persischen et Germanischen sprache; nebst episoden des Ramayan et Mahabha- rat in genauen metrischen ubersetzungen aus dem original texte, et einigen abschnitten aus dem Vedás, 2, Nalus, Carmen Sanscriticum e Mahábhárato, edidit, ART. VIIL. A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, of their Geological Structure; with Remarks on p. 442 IX. A Guide to the Electors of Great Britain upon the X. 1. Plan d'Education pour les Enfans Pauvres, de 3. Nouveau Systême d'Education et d'Enseigne- 4. Progrès des Ecoles d'Enseignement Mutuel en 5. Compte rendu des Travaux de la Societé pour Quarterly List of New Publications Index 471 494 510 527 CONTENTS OF No. LXV. ART. I. Ivanhoe: A Romance. By the Author of « Waverley " II. 1. Reports from the Select Committee on Finance, 2. Resolutions on the Retrenchment of the Public Ex- III. Statistical Annals of the United States of America. p. 1 54 69 IV. A Critical Examination of the First Principles of Geo- V. 1. Safe Method for rendering Income arising from Per- 2. Summary Review of the Report and Evidence rela- 3. Essay on the Practicability of Modifying the Poor- 4. Considerations on the Poor-Laws. By John Davi- VI. Objections to Mr Brougham's Bill for inquiring into VII. A Treatise on Adulterations of Food, and Culinary 91 109 131 144 ART. IX. 1. Remarks on the Report of the Select Committee of By J. 2. Observations on the Circumstances which Influence 3. Observations on the Rise and Fall of the Manufac- p. 155 X. 1. Substance of the Speech of the Right Honourable 2. The Substance of the Speech of the Right Honour- XI. Euvres Completes de Demosthene et d'Eschine, en 187 226 246 THE EDINBURGH REVIEW, JANUARY, 1820. No LXV. ART. I. 1. Ivanhoe. A Romance. By the AUTHOR OF WA VERLEY,' &c. 3 vols. Edinburgh, Constable & Co. 2. The Novels and Tales of the Author of Waverley; comprising Waverley, Guy Mannering, Antiquary, Rob Roy, Tales of My Landlord, First, Second, and Third Series; New Edition, with a copious Glossary. Edinburgh, Constable & Co. 1820. SINCE INCE the time when Shakespeare wrote his thirty-eight plays in the brief space of his early manhood-besides acting in them, and drinking and living idly with the other actors-and then went carelessly to the country, and lived out his days, a little more idly, and apparently unconscious of having done any thing at all extraordinary-there has been no such prodigy of fertility as the anonymous author before us. In the period of little more than five years, he has founded a new school of invention; and established and endowed it with nearly thirty volumes of the most animated and original composition that have enriched English literature for a century-volumes that have cast sensibly into the shade all contemporary prose, and even all recent poetry-(except perhaps that inspired by the Geniusor the Demon, of Byron)-and, by their force of colouring and depth of feeling-by their variety, vivacity, magical facility, and living presentment of character, have rendered conceivable to this later age the miracles of the Mighty Dramatist. Shakespeare, to be sure, is more purely original; but it should not be forgotten, that, in his time, there was much less to borrow -and that he too has drawn freely and largely from the sources that were open to him; at least for his fable and graver sentiment; -for his wit and humour, as well as his poetry, are always his own. In our times, all the higher walks of literature have been so long and so often trodden, that it is scarcely possible to keep VOL. XXXII. No. 65. A |