CONTENTS OF NO. VIII. 1. Remarks on Literary Reports, by PHILIP H. 2. Plea for Authors and the Rights of Literary 1. Eulogy on Nathaniel Bowditch, LL. D., etc. 2. An Eulogy on the Life and Character of Nathan- iel Bowditch, etc. By DANIEL APPLETON WHITE. Historical Address delivered before the Philoma- JAMES B. LONGACRE, etc. Select Minor Poems, translated from the German of Goethe and Schiller. By JOHN S. DWIGHT. 1. Report of the Meetings of the British Associa- tion for the advancement of Science, etc. 2. Proceedings of several Gentlemen belonging to Boston, Salem, and the University of Cambridge, met November 1, 1838, to consult on the expediency IX. MODERN FRENCH ROMANCE. Histoire de la Grandeur et de la Decadence de X. NEW TRANSLATIONS OF THE BOOK OF JOB. 1. A New Translation of the Book of Job, etc. By 2. The Book of the Patriarch Job, translated from 1. Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, trans- mitting, in obedience to a resolution of the House of Representatives of the 29th of June last, information in relation to Steam Engines, etc. 2. Report of the Committee appointed by the Citi- 2. Report of the Massachusetts Lunatic Hospital. 3. Vermilye's Discourse on the death of Mr. Van 4. Dawes's Athenia of Damascus. 6. Mrs. Follen's Sketches of Married Life. 10. Bishop M'Ilvaine's Consecration Sermon. 11. Johnson on Missionary Fanaticism. 13. Russell's Principles of Statistical Inquiry. 15. Skinner's Religion of the Bible. 16. Life of Cardinal Cheverus. 17. Sparks's Life of Washington. 18. Staunton's Dictionary of the Church. 19. My Niece, or the Stranger's Grave. THE VER NEW YORK No. VII. JANUARY, 1839. ART. I.-The complete Poetical Works of WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, edited by HENRY REED, Professor of English Literature in the University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia : 1837. 1 vol. The Poetical Works of WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. London: 1837. 6 vols. THE era of English poetry, if dated from the birth of Chaucer, is a period of five hundred years. Resumed after a long silence during seven reigns of disputed legitimacy, from the time of the ill-fated Surrey to the present day there has been a continuous strain, often sounding in its noblest tone, and often sinking into a feeble and sickly key. If it were possible to behold at one view all the efforts of all the minds that have sought utterance in the measured words of our language-to summon, as it were, from the grave those who in the flesh had been inmates of the court, or the camp, or the garret, the poets of each age-the sinall names commemorated by Johnson, and the great names omitted by him-the most worthy of all times, down to the puniest versifier of our own day,-what a strange variety of intellect and heart would be presented!-a few of gigantic stature, many of the common mould, with dwarfs innumerable! Now to assign to each one of this throng his rightful rank would transcend the power of the boldest criticism, for no philosophy could |