easure. In the first place, it is written in
a most execrable style,--all affectation, and verbal wriggling
and twisting for the sake of originality. The veriest sophomore
ought to be "rusticated" for such conceited phrases as
"beautiful budburstiness of bosom,"--"her twin eyes shone forth
liquidly lustrous"--and innumerable expressions in the same
namby-pamby dialect. But dellacruscan folly is but a trifle
compared with the immoral tendency of the descriptions of the
_gahzeeyah_, or dancing girls of Egypt, and the luscious
comments on their polluted ways and manners. We thought the
Harpers had done publishing this indecent trash."

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D. M. Moir, the "Delta" of _Blackwood's Magazine_, has just published in
Edinburgh, _Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half
Century_, in six Lectures, delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical
Institution.

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The Rev. Satan Montgomery, otherwise called _Robert_ Montgomery, is not
dead, as some have supposed, but is still making sermons and
verses--probably sermons and verses of equally bad quality; and we see
with some alarm that the Rivingtons advertise, as in preparation, a
complete edition of his _Poetical Works_ [we never saw any works by him
that were poetical] in one octavo volume, similar in size and appearance
to the octavo editions of Southey, Wordsworth, &c., &c., and including
the whole of the author's poems--_Satan_, _Woman_, _Hell_, and all the
rest,--in a revised form, with some original minor pieces, and a general
preface. We don't suppose he will take our counsel, yet we will venture
it, that he make use of Macaulay's reviewal of his poems, instead of any
"general preface" of his own.

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Documentary History of New-York.--The forthcoming (third) volume of this
State contribution to our historical literature will well sustain the
reputation of its predecessors and of its zealous editor. Dr.
O'CALLAGHAN is an enthusiast in his zeal for lighting up "the dark ages
of our history," as Verplanck called the Dutch period; and he has done
as much as any man living to rescue the fast perishing memorials of the
founders of the Empire State. It is fortunate for the State that his
industry and patient research are secured for the proper arrangement of
the Archives--too long neglected and subject to lo