ΤΟ ART. I. 1, 2. Reports from the Select Committee on the Poor Laws. July, 1817. March, 1818. 3. Considerations on the Poor Laws. By John Davison, 4. Observations on the Impolicy, Abuses, and False Inter- pretation of the Poor Laws; and on the Reports of the II. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and Great Loo Choo Islands; with an Appendix containing Charts and various Hydrographical and Scientific Notices, by Basil Hall, Esq. Captain R.N. F.R.S. L.& E. And a Vocabulary of the Loo Choo Language, by H. I. Clifford, Esq. Lieutenant R. N. 308 III. Foliage; or, Poems Original and Translated. By Leigh IV. Narrative of an Expedition to explore the River Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the Direction of Capt. J. H. Tuckey, R. N.;- to which is added the Journal of Professor Smith, some General Observations on the Country and its Inhabi- tants; with an Appendix containing the Natural His- tory of that Part of the Kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. Published by permission of the VI. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Native Infantry, from its first formation in 1757 to 1796, when the present Regulations took place: together with a Detail of the Services on which the se- veral Battalions have been employed during that period. By the late Capt. Williams, of the Invalid Establish- VII. An Essay on the Principles and Construction of Military Bridges, and the Passage of Rivers in Military Opera- VIII. Naufrage de la Frégate La Méduse, faisant partie de l'Expédition du Sénégal, en 1816. Par J. B. Savigny, Ex-chirurgien de la Marine, et Alexandre Corréard, Ingénieur-Géographe; tous deux Naufragés du Radeau 168 X. An Argument for construing largely the Right of an Appellee of Murder to insist on Trial by Battle; and also for abolishing Appeals. By E. A. Kendall, Esq. XI. Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay, in his Majesty's Ship Rosamond, containing some Account of the North-eastern Coast of America, and of the Tribes inhabiting that remote Region. By Lieut. Chappell, XII. Panorama d'Angleterre, ou Ephémérides Anglaises Poli- tiques et Littéraries. Publiées par M. Charles Malo, ΤΟ ART. I. 1, 2. Reports from the Select Committee on the Poor Laws. July, 1817. March, 1818. 3. Considerations on the Poor Laws. By John Davison, 4. Observations on the Impolicy, Abuses, and False Inter- pretation of the Poor Laws; and on the Reports of the II. Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and Great Loo Choo Islands; with an Appendix containing Charts and various Hydrographical and Scientific Notices, by Basil Hall, Esq. Captain R.N. F.R.S. L.& E. And a Vocabulary of the Loo Choo Language, by H. I. Clifford, Esq. Lieutenant R. N. 308 III. Foliage; or, Poems Original and Translated. By Leigh IV. Narrative of an Expedition to explore the River Zaire, usually called the Congo, in South Africa, in 1816, under the Direction of Capt. J. H. Tuckey, R. N.;- to which is added the Journal of Professor Smith, some General Observations on the Country and its Inhabi- tants; with an Appendix containing the Natural His- tory of that Part of the Kingdom of Congo through which the Zaire flows. Published by permission of the VI. An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Native Infantry, from its first formation in 1757 to 1796, when the present Regulations took place: together with a Detail of the Services on which the se- veral Battalions have been employed during that period. By the late Capt. Williams, of the Invalid Establish- VII. An Essay on the Principles and Construction of Military Bridges, and the Passage of Rivers in Military Opera- VIII. A Memoir on the Geography of the North-Eastern Part of IX. Characters of Shakespear's Plays. By William Hazlitt. 431 458 - 466 XI. Brudstykker af en Dagbok holden i Grönland i Aarene 1770-1778 af Hans Egede Saabye, fordum ordineret Missionær i Claushavns og Christianshaabs distrikter nu Sognepræst til Udbye i Fyens stift. XII. Investigation of the Cause of Easter, 1818, being appointed XIII. The Secret and True History of the Church of Scotland, Note, on Colonel Wilks's Explanation.' Quarterly List of New Publications. Index · 480 496 - 502 THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1817. ART. I. Some Account of the Lives and Writings of Lope Felix de Vega Carpio, and Guillen de Castro. By Henry Richard Lord Holland. 2 vols. London. 1817. O name among the Spanish poets is so generally known out of its own country as that of Lope de Vega, but it is only the name; and perhaps no author whose reputation is so widely extended has been so little read. The good fortune, however, of this phoenix of Spain' has not wholly forsaken him, and he has been as happy now in a biographer, as he was during his life in obtaining the patronage of the great, and the favour of the public. This celebrated man was born at Madrid on the 25th of November, 1562: both his parents were persons of good family in that city, and the father, according to the son's testimony, was deserving of praise as a poet : it may, indeed, frequently be noticed, that an aptitude for metre is hereditary, like that for drawing, or the more analogous art of music. At five years of age young Lope is said to have composed verses, and exchanged them with his school-fellows for prints and sweetmeats :-school-boys in Spain must be very different from those in other parts of the world, if such wares were saleable among them. It is said also, that at this early age he could read Latin; and that at eleven he was master of the Latin idiom, with rhetoric, eloquence, and poetry :—but however complete his classical education may have been thought, the Latin verses which he ventured to publish in after-life would not have passed muster in the fourth form at Westminster. He was taught also to dance, to sing, and to fence. When he was about fourteen he ran away from school, being actuated, according to his friend and eulogist, Montalvan, by a restless desire of seeing the worldanother biographer, with more propriety, hints at this as one of the vagaries and scrapes of his youth. One of his school-fellows accompanied him in his elopement; they bought a mule at Segovia, and got as far as Astorga before they perceived that the state of their finances made it prudent for them to return home. This measure, which in itself was not very palatable, was accelerated by an unpleasant adventure at Segovia on their way back. Having offered some trinkets for sale, the tradesman to whom they applied took them before a magistrate upon a suspicion that they had stolen them, and the magistrate, with a moderation which, from the VOL. XVIII. NO. XXXV. A praise |