land, tenure, and the condition of the peasantry and the internal police of our eastern dominions; intended chiefly as a manual of instruction of duties for the junior Servants of the Company. By Alexander Fraser Tytler, late Assistant Judge of the 24 Pergunnahs, Bengal Establishment. 2 vol. 8vo. 18s. boards. TOPOGRAPHY. The Traveller's New Guide through Ireland: containing a new and accurate description of the roads, with particulars of all the noblemen and gentlemen's seats, churches, monastic buildings, antiquities, and natural curiosities. Also, the present state of agriculture, manufactures, and commerce, with a complete List of all Fairs throughout the Kingdom. Illustrated by a new and accurate Map of Ireland, plan of Killarney, views of the Giant's Causeway, delineations of the principal Post Roads, with other Plates. 8vo. 11. 1s. boards. VOYAGES AND TRAVELS. A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar up the Mediterranean to Malta and Sicily, in 1810 and 1811; including a descriptive Tour of Sicily and the Lipari Islands, and an Excursion in Portugal. By Lieut-Gen. G. Cockburn. With 33 coloured Plates and Maps. 2 vols. 8vo. 21. 12s. 6d. bds; large paper, 31. 15s. Travels in Russia, Poland, the Baltic, &c. By Robert Johnsone, A.M. 4to. 31. 3s. or large paper 51.5s. boards. Travels through Poland, Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, and the Tyrol, in the Years 1807 and 1808. By Baron d'Uklanski. 12mo. 5s. 6d. boards. CONTENTS OF NO. VII. ART. I. Specimens of the Classic Poets in a Chronolo- H. 1. Sarsfield, or the Wanderings of Youth. By John 667 2. Howard, a Novel. By the Same,... 670 A Voyage to Cadiz and Gibraltar, up the Mediterranean to Sicily and Malta, in 1810 and 1811. By Lieut. Gen. Cockburn, ... 678 IV. The Flowers of Wit, or a choice collection of Bou 685 V. Some Remarks on the Unitarian Method of inter- 706 711 X. An Essay on Immortality. By the Author of a 718 719 XIII. The New Conspiracy against the Jesuits detected ii XIV. A Month at Brussels, a Satirical Novel, by the Author of a "Month in Town," &c. . 733 XV. An Account of the Ceremonies which took place at Dumfries on the 5th of June 1815, at the laying the foundation stone of the Mausoleum to be erected over the remains of Robert Burns, ... .... 727 743 XVI. Carpe Diem; or the True Policy of Europe at the present juncture with regard to France, XVII. An Historical Sketch of the French Revolution, with original Anecdotes. By Robert Thompson, 745 XVIII. THE REVIEWERS, .. 748 XIX. PUBLIC AFFAIRS. The altered state of France.France no longer the best school for lessons either in war or in politeness-the French may again excel in liteture, the arts, and mechanical philosophy--will not a Bourbon government revive the ancient spirit of conquest and of enmity to England? Jacobins suppressed, not subdued the restraints on them must be continued. Spain, India, Ireland, and Turkey, 751 XX. Monthly Register of Arts, Sciences, and Literature, 757 We request the reader's attention to the article on the Reviewers. Writers really have not, for many years, enjoyed the benefit of an impartial administration of literary justice. They are brought before juries obviously not select, and under the direction of judges who are both the makers and the interpreters of the law. Judges of other descriptions sit in open court, and are subject to the controul of both the royal and the public opinion; but reviewers are not always visible and accessible, nor do they consider the quamdiu se bene gesserint as the condition on which their offices are held. No wonder then if the just claims of authors are sometimes withheld, their grievances sometimes even augmented. THE Augustan Review. NO. VII. FOR NOVEMBER, 1815. ART. I. Specimens of the Classic Poets, in a Chronological Series from Homer to Tryphiodorus, translated into English verse, and illustrated with biographical and critical notices. By CHARLES ABRAHAM ELTON, author of a Translation of Hesiod. 3 vols. 8vo. London; Baldwin, 1814. It is seldom that any sentiment has been universally and firmly established among mankind, without something like a foundation in truth. In nothing is this general consent more perceptible, than in the judgment passed on the poets of antiquity; not only critics, but historians and philosophers, of whatever nation, having agreed in the assumed fact of a gradual decay of genius and taste, and coincided as to the particular times and authors illustrative of this decay. It must be confessed, that little credit for sagacity and acuteness can be obtained through such critical canons as, "That Virgil is a model of pure majesty; that Lucan is full of tumid extravagance, and that Statius is obscure, tedious, and inflated." Ingenious men, therefore, have always been found, who catch at distinction by startling and audacious paradoxes: who find Virgil insipid: Lucan sublime : and Statius dignified. These, or any opinions, may be defended by plausible arguments: and there is in all new assertions, a specious air of superior discernment, which easily gains converts. In this state of hesitation and surprize, we may safely rest on the acknowledged authority of the best critics; such as Addison, Johnson, Home, and Blair: and we may console ourselves for the imputation of what the author now under our notice terms "classic prejudice," by the concurrence of minds thus exercised in reflexion, and matured in taste. NO. VII. Aug. Rev. VOL. I. 2 X |