ry Birds, and to some they are
known by the name of Crown Birds.

REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS.

_The Poetical Works of Fitz-Greene Halleck. Now
first collected. Illustrated with Steel Engravings,
from drawings by American Artists. New York: D.
Appleton & Co. 1 vol. 8vo._

This volume is a perfect luxury to the eye, in its typography and
embellishments. The fact of an author's appearance in so rich a dress,
is itself an evidence of his popularity. We have here, for the first
time, a complete edition of the author's poems, tender and humorous,
serious and satirical, in a beautiful form. It contains Alnwick
Castle, Burns, Marco Bozzarris, Red Jacket, A Poet's Daughter,
Connecticut, Wyoming, and other pieces which have passed into the
memory of the nation, together with the delicious poem of Fanny, and
the celebrated Croaker Epistles. The illustrations are all by American
artists, and really embellish the volume. The portrait of Halleck is
exceedingly characteristic of the man, expressing that union of
intellect and fancy, sound sense, and poetic power, which his
productions are so calculated to suggest. His great popularity--a
popularity which has always made the supply of his poems inferior to
the demand--will doubtless send the present magnificent volume through
many editions.

The poems of Halleck are not only good in themselves, but they give an
impression of greater powers than they embody. They seem to indicate a
large, broad, vigorous mind, of which poetry has been the recreation
rather than the vocation. A brilliant mischievousness, in which the
serious and the ludicrous, the tender and the comic, the practical and
the ideal, are brought rapidly together, is the leading characteristic
of his muse. In almost every poem in his volume, serious, or
semi-serious, the object appears to be the production of striking
effects by violent contrasts. The poet himself rarely seems thoroughly
in earnest, though at the same time he never lacks heartiness. There
are two splendid exceptions to this remark--Burns, and Marco
Bozzarris--poems in which the delicacy and energy of the author's mind
find free expression. They show that if the poet commonly plays with
his subject, it is not from an incapacity to feel and conceive it
vividly, but from a beautiful willfulness of nature, which is
impatient of the control of one idea or emotion. Halleck's perceptions
of the ideal and practical appears