ATED TO HIS FRIEND, J. G. OSBOURN, ESQ._

P. DOLCE.

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SECOND VERSE.

Think not that I love thee,
Alluring coquette,
The vows you have broken
I too can forget;
The love that I gave thee,
Thou ne'er could'st repay,
So affection for thee
Has passed away.]

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

_The Life of Oliver Cromwell. By J. T. Headley. New
York: Baker & Scribner. 1 vol. 12mo_.

This volume is elegantly printed, and contains the most characteristic
portrait of Cromwell we have seen. In regard to thought and
composition it is Mr. Headley's best book. Without being deficient in
the energy and pictorial power which have given such popularity to his
other productions, it indicates an advance in respect to artistic
arrangement of matter and correctness of composition. It is needless
to say that the author has not elaborated it into a finished work, or
done full justice to his talents in its general treatment. We do not
agree with Mr. Headley in his notion of Cromwell, and think that his
marked prepossession for his hero has unconsciously led him to alter
the natural relations of the facts and principles with which he deals;
but still we feel bound to give him credit for an extensive study of
his subject, and for bringing together numerous interesting details
which can be found in no other single biography of Cromwell. Among his
authorities and guides we are sorry to see that he has not included
Hallam. The portion of the latter's Constitutional History of England
devoted to the reign of Charles I., the Commonwealth and the
Protectorate, deserves, at least, the respectful attention of every
writer on those subjects. Indeed we think Hallam so much an authority
that a deviation from him on a question of fact or principle should be
accompanied by arguments contesting his statements. Of all the
historians of the period we conceive him to be almost the only one who
loses the partisan in the judge. The questions mooted in the
controversy between Charles and his Parliament are still hotly
contested, and are so calculated to inflame the passions, that almost
every historian of the time turns advocate. Mr. Headley's passionate
sensibility should have been a little cooled by "fraternizing" with
Mr. Hallam's judicial understanding.

The leading merit of Mr. Headley's volume is his description of
Cromwell's battles; Marston Moor, Prest