the desired maturity. Not the fabled box of Pandora contained more evils to afflict the human race than our boasted laws. Hope nevertheless remained at the bottom of the box, and on this will we rely while standing on the verge of eternity, and trust that more wise and beneficent laws will shed their mild influence on our land; not reducing things to their original chaos, but producing the order and beauty which was apparently the great design of the Creator. If the love of God and man fill the hearts of our legislators, can they neglect that justice and mercy on which they are assured hang all the law and the prophets?

THE PHEACIAN COURT, AFTER HAVING SUFFERED SHIP

WRECK ON THEIR COAST. FROM HOMER'S ODYSSEY, BOOKS 6-13.

REVIEW.

Lectures on Poetry, by T. Campbell. Lecture

Third, on Greek Poetry.

[An article in the

New Monthly Magazine.]

IN these truly interesting lectures on the poetry and genius of the Greeks, Mr Campbell has noticed the objections of the captious and dogmatical to the Homeric poems with a spirit worthy of the subject. The character and peculiar beauties of these celebrated ancient productions are described with that glow of poetic enthusiasm, which can only be felt by a congenial mind and enable it to appreciate their unrivalled excellence.

The principal characters and events are vividly portrayed and powerfully recal to remembrance those beautiful images, which delighted our youthful imagination. Nevertheless, the class of readers who have given only a slight attention to these poems, or have viewed them as fabulous and romantic tales, will not,