Lays and ballads from English history, etc . oncetaken into the mind, feed it for ever. Sweet ftory, furely the MR. LUMLEV, 40, GOIVER STREET. 23 moft graceful ficftion of modern times.—Southey. Undineis ravifhing. The fufferingof the heroine is a real one, thoughit be the fuffering of a fantaftic being.— Sir W. Scott. Verycharming ; it difplays delicacy blended with great power, aheart-born truthfulnefs, and a divine fpirit; beauty andpoetry in every page, life and love in its alternating phafesof ardent defire, and ofexquifite forrow. Moft exquifite ; thecharacter of the Heroine before me re
Lays and ballads from English history, etc . oncetaken into the mind, feed it for ever. Sweet ftory, furely the MR. LUMLEV, 40, GOIVER STREET. 23 moft graceful ficftion of modern times.—Southey. Undineis ravifhing. The fufferingof the heroine is a real one, thoughit be the fuffering of a fantaftic being.— Sir W. Scott. Verycharming ; it difplays delicacy blended with great power, aheart-born truthfulnefs, and a divine fpirit; beauty andpoetry in every page, life and love in its alternating phafesof ardent defire, and ofexquifite forrow. Moft exquifite ; thecharacter of the Heroine before me receives a Soul is mar-velloufly beautiful. So fays Coleridge: and his admirationof Undine was unbounded. It was one and fmgle in projec-tion, and it had prefented to his mind what Scott had neverdone—an abfolutely new idea. The fentiment of the ftory isas pure and unbroken as the fountains so often introduced,which in the midft of perpetual change and action are alwaysthe fame. The whole atmofphere of the piece is vapory Illustration to Undine. 24 MR. LUMLEY, 40, GOWER STREET. FOUQUE. WORKS,6 Vols,£*. 4s. FOUQUE, Baron, Complete Works, In-imitable Tales, and Romances: the beft Trans-lations, with the beft Illuft rations, now Col-lected, and offered together in 6 vols, cloth,gilt leaves, for £1 4s. Among the beft fpecimens of their clafs which the Germanlanguage poffeffes, and they form one of the moft intereftingfedtions in the recent Hiftory of Literature. Fouque is notas familiar as he deferves to be with the general Engliftireader. He is the great mafter of the myfterious PoeticalRomance of the Chivalrous Ages. The only Romance Writerwho knows how to mingle fublime allegories with ftrange pic-turefque adventures. He may be faid to have invented thisfpecies of writing. He has had hundreds of Imitators, but heftands alone without one rival. One of the moft original epic and lyric Romancifts Germanyhas ever produced. His works are original in defign andbea
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