... GRAFENSTEIN, AND MR JERDAN'S CRITICISM. TO THE ED1TOR OF THE EXAMINER. SIR,-In consequence of having read in one of Your late numbers a critique on tile newly published poem of Grnfenlstein, I was led by curl- osity to see what the Editor of' the Literary Gazette, whom you ?? honoured with your notice, had wriiten upon the sane subject. Thoncth I should pause before I gave my suffrage to Mr ...

... Servian Popnlor Poetryr. TreanslhCd 17/ JOHN BowseNo. ALTHOIosII, inl the first instance, the poetry of a population so corn- paratively obscure as that of Servia mighut be presumed to promise little of a nature to interest the cultivated reader of more fortunately situated countries, a little farther consideration of circumstances, will tend to show that much which is characteristic may ...

... KINOG'S TirEaTux@. Tai Festtale of SPONTINX was duly consigned to her burial-place a fortnight ago, and has not since returned; so that we conclude her career has closed, and we cannot say we wish for a resuscitation. ler absence has been supplied by something much more pleasing in .La Schiava in Bagdad, which we translate The Slave in Bagdad, and not, as one of the newspapers did, The ...

... THE LITERARY EXAMINER, Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary. By the Rev. Charles Gleig, Chaplain of Chelsea College. Parker. THERE is some amusement, some infonnation, to be gathered from these three bulky volumes; yet taking into account the reputation of the writer, we are bound to confess that, as a whole, they have disap. pointed us. The author might have told all he has delivered in fewer words, ...

... Memoirs of a Prisoner of State in the Fortress of Spielberg: by Alexander Andryane, fellow-ca'- tive of Count Confalonieri: with an Appendix by Maroncelli, the companion of Silvio Pellico. Translated by Fortunato Prandi. Complete in two volumes. Saunders and Otley. The first part of this work (which we noticed on its publication two years ago) closed with the arrival of M. Andryane at the ...

... SIR EDWARD BULWER S NEW PLAY. The Sea Captain, or the Birthright, has more of the characier of a romantic play than we have noted in any previous dramatic effort of the writer, and, read or viewed with the help of that al- lowance which is properly claimed for the machinery of action and movement by the romantic stage, its cfaect is unquestionably great and powerful. Its versification is ...

... DRURY LANE. Weber's Oberon was revived on Monday night. It was curious to see an English opera, long fallen into disuse on the stage for which it was originally composed, reproduced in a German form. Fair justice was done to the music. Haitzinger fell short of the better days of Braham; but from Madame Heinefetter we had a manifest improve- ment, in purity and in strengrth, upon Miss Paton; ...

... The Negroland of the Arabs Examined and Ex- plained; or an Inquiry into the Early History and Geography of Central Africa. By William Desborough Cooley. Arrowsmith. We cannot recollect to have read, upon any subject, a more ingenious, learned, or conclusive argument, than this which is now before us. it has for its object to establish, upon a firm and intelligible basis, the early geography of ...

... DRURY LANE. As a musical performance, we have noticed Acis and Galatea. It remains to speak of other effects in it-as mu ch matters of art and intellectual plea- sure as even the music of Handel. They begin with. the overture, whose first bar discloses the drop-scene painted by Stanfield. On the right and left are subjects from Annibal Caracci, and in the centre a magnificent copy of one of ...

... Mernorials of th1e Great Civil WYa2 in England: from 1646 to 165?. Edited from original letters in the Bodleian Library. By Henry Cary, M.A. Colburn. Original letters of this great time of England, will be always welcome. These M e have read with pleasure, though they have not added much to our knowledge of the matters they refer to. To the term Original, too, we must makie some considerable ...

... I Taglioni has re-appeared at her Majesty's Theatre, to give what help she can to the fag-end of a season of uniform ill luck and many disap- pointments. She is more thin, and more faiscinat- ing, than ever. Mademoiselle Rachel is lingering on through her five nights more; another night more being added, though the specification was quite unnecessary, for the benefit of M. Laporte. We had ...

... CONCERTS OF ANCIENT MUSIC. Seventh Concert, Wednesday, May 19. PART I. Introduction and Chorus, , Ye sons of Israel (Joshua) . . . . . . . Handel. Anthlci, Hear my prayer . . K. ent. Song, M iss Bruce Wyatt, Pious orgies (Ju- das Maccableus) .Hade]. Concerto (A minor) . D. . . .Martini. The Hymn of Eve, Miss Dolby, How cheer- Iu I . Dr Arne. Recit. and Aria, Mdlle Loewe, Aufstarkem ...