Besides all these, we have a miscellaneous batch of publications,
which, either from their nature or their acknowledged character, re- quire little more than a line of catalogue.
I. The Twentieth Volume of Sir Walter Scott's Prose MIAs. Its contents are a very pleasant number of criticisms ; but its most marked feature is that it forms the eightieth volume of an undertaking whose object is to present a uniform edition of the great author's works. If CORBETT be in Elysium, this fact will disturb his equani- mity. He will bear a part in a Dialogue of the Dead, of a less tempe- rate sort than those whit+ have hitherto been published for the edifica- tion of the living. Think of melting down his hundred volumes to, six, and publishing eighty of a Scotchman's uninutilated !
2. A new edition of the late WILLIAM HAZLITT'S Essays on the Principles of Human Action, republished by the author's son, with revi. sions from his father's marginal corrections, and an Essay on Abstract Ideas. A book that will be hailed with pleasure by all admirers of the acuteness and vigour of a most original mind.
3. A second edition of Lortimen's Letters to a Young Masten Mariner, which direct him upon all professional points, as to how he should behave himself, manage his cargo, and conduct his ship.
4. A second edition of the Reminiscences of an Old Traveller; of the utility of whose practical information we have already expressed a favourable opinion, when we welcomed the first.
5. Travelling Sketches in Rhyme, by Lady E. S. WORTLEY ; in which the fair writer embalms in verse some of the scenes beheld in a, foreign tour, or some of the thoughts they suggested.
6. The Second Volume of Prior's Poems; forming the Thirty-sixth Number of Mr. PICKERING'S Aldine Poets.
7. The Twenty-fourth Number of the Sacred Classics; which con- cludes JEREMY TAYLOR'S beautiful and poetical commentary on the Life of Christ ; a work which, apart from its moral and religious cha- racter, deserves to be studied as a model of a deep and flowing English, style, and as an extraordinary instance of great learning felicitously brought to illustrate one subject.
8. The Eighteenth Volume of Var.ev's England, which contains Mr. HUGHES' History of GEORGE the Third from 1795 to 1806; opening with the year of NAPOLEON'S first appearance on the public stage, and after carrying him and his compeers through the eventful, actions of that stirring period, closing with the battle of Jena, and the almost simultaneous deaths of NELSON, Per; and Fox.
9. Mr. COLBURN is so polite as to send us almost weekly a variety of numbers, which look so tempting, and are really so cheap, that we suppose he has a design even upon our pockets ; for he surely cannot expect us at this time of day to criticize Pelham and the Disowned, although they may each be purchased for five shillings, and paid for by five instalments. Neither is it likely that old Count ne Las CASES. can tempt us to reperuse his Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon.
10. This day twelvemonth bating one week, we announced, in terms of eulogy, Mr. MURRAY'S forthcoming edition of Boswell's Johnson : we have now to notice its completion. The Tenth Volume is before us ; containing a mass of curious anecdotes and remarks, singular extracts from the Doctor's works, which bear upon his life and opinions, a col- lection of miscellaneous letters, and an elaborate index. We tiust that we may congratulate the eminent bibliopole on the success of his speculation. It is more than probable that we ought ; for he has added two volumes to his first plan, and people are seldom anxious to spin out a losing undertaking.
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