The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science . e inaccessi-ble to the general reader. Difficult pas-sages are elicited in notes, and a runningcommentary unites the extracts into an in-telligible whole. The passages from Botta,Foscolo, Verri, Bini, &c., are selectedwith rare taste and judgment, and arenot only beautiful examples of style,but possess intrinsic interest. Indeed,although intended as a reader to initiatestudents of the language, it is an attractivevolume for the adepts in Italian to revivetheir most pleasant associations with thatmusical tongue. We
The American review : a Whig journal of politics, literature, art, and science . e inaccessi-ble to the general reader. Difficult pas-sages are elicited in notes, and a runningcommentary unites the extracts into an in-telligible whole. The passages from Botta,Foscolo, Verri, Bini, &c., are selectedwith rare taste and judgment, and arenot only beautiful examples of style,but possess intrinsic interest. Indeed,although intended as a reader to initiatestudents of the language, it is an attractivevolume for the adepts in Italian to revivetheir most pleasant associations with thatmusical tongue. We wish, by the way,that more attention were paid among us toa language and literature, from which somuch of the fine fancy and mellownessand richness of style, of our own earlyEnglish writers was drawn. We say ourown, for we hold that the literature ofEngland, previous to the reign of CharlesII., belongs as much to us as to^the moderninhabitants of Great Britain, who speakbut the same inherited language, and arebut the descendants of the same stern,imaginative B .ji/jf/iij, /-itJi/i^ THE AMERICA! REVIEW Contents for Jebrtiarg. Military Conduct of the War, 109 The Happy Pair. From the German of Goethe, . . 122 The Castle by the Shore. From the German of Uhland, . 122 Festus. Part II. By H. N. Hudson, 123 General Winfield Scott, ....... 148 The Sea and the Shipwrecked. By Earlden, . . 157 The Hack-Horse Wot Wouldnt Go, ..... 159 Music in New York. By G. W. Peck, ...... 163 Short Chapters on Rare and Exotic Metres.—Chapter III. Classical Lyric Metres, ...... 174 The Maid of Lehigh, ....,•.. 176 Letters on the Iroquois. By Skenandoah, . . 177 The Meeting of Siegfried and Chriemhilt, .... 190 The Life Opinions of Philip Yorick, Esq., . • 191 England and the United States. By J. De Peyster Ogden, , 201 Essays of W. A. Jones, ....... 207 Foreign Miscellany, ........ 209 Critical Notices, . . . . . 213 NEW YORK: GEORGE H. COLTON, 118 NASSAU STREE
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