The Eclectic Review Volume 15 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 'We now know what is really Norman; and a little attention to the buildings in the north of German)', may terminate the long-debated questions, relative to Saxon architecture and the origin of the stone- roofed chapels in the sister isle.' The subject is seductive; but we can pursue the Author in his tour no further. The volumes, which are well got up in every respect, have their value much enhanced by what is now too rare in modern publications, a good index. Art. XI. Orient Harping: a Desultory Poem, in two Parts. By John Lawson, Missionary at Calcutta. 12mo. pp. 228. London. 1820. E affected and unmeaning title prefixed to this volume, will, we fear, operate rather to the prejudice of its sale. A slight inspection of its contents, however, will not fail to disarm the reader at once of every unkindly feeling towards its estima ble Author. The series of poems of which, properly speaking, the work consist!, are stated to have been written at different periods, during much affliction, and in the intervals snatched from severer occupations. It was the original intention of the Writer, merely to furnish his relations in the country he has left, with a few descriptions of Eastern scenery; but the subject increased under his hand, till the idea suggested itself of connecting together the detached sketches by a general argument. It is sufficiently obvious that this was an after-thought; and the titles of the poems, though in some cases rather vague, will give a better idea of the general contents of the volume, than the ' ar- gument' prefixed to each of the two parts into which it is divided. These are as follow: the prelude; the vision; night; Ja- gaunatha; Ganga promised; descent of Ganga; longing for heaven; immortality; hell; sabbath morn; sin; sabbath reflecti...