The hour's at hand!-a moment-and they fling With man's reluctant tear and struggling sigh; Pondering on Heaven's high will: there lay their King!- That morn the MIGHTY CITY silence kept Had smil'd, and bless'd her!-It was not to be!' We do not deny that all this may be perfectly secundum artem, but the statements in the newspapers, were to us incomparably more affecting. They have gained nothing from this poetical version into the paraphrastic language of sentiment. There is, besides, a great deal of false sentiment in the poem, which we should think it proper to expose, had we room to enter upon the delicate discussions to which they would lead. We must, however, notice, as extremely reprehensible, the profane misuse of Scriptural allusions, in which our clerical poet, in common with too many versifiers of the day, has, for mere effect's sake, indulged. We allude, more particularly to a passage at page 17, in reference to Jacob's wrestling with the angel, which is as unmeaning as it is irreligious. The application of such phrases as holy cause,' the delivered cross, the ark of man,' to the success of the last dreadful campaign on the continent, appears to us not less unbecoming in a clergyman, and adapted only to provoke reflections as to the bearings of that success on the religious interests of the nations of Europe, of a nature very opposite to his intention. They are the slang of the day, and have already become too common-place to answer the poet's purpose. ART. XI. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. ** Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending Information (post paid) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend upon being communicated to the Public, if consistent with its Plan. The third part of the Encyclopædia Metropolitana will appear early in the ensuing month, and will contain the continuation of Grammar, in the Pure the conclusion of HydrodySciences; namics, as including Hydrostatics and Hydraulics, in the Mixed and Applied Sciences; Sections of the early History of Egypt, Assyria, Greece, Carthage, and Rome; the Lyric and Tragic Poets of Greece, with a view of the Greek Tragedy; and the usual portion of the Miscellaneous Division, including the English Lexicon. J. Brown, Esq. has nearly ready to appear, in a quarto volume, a Life of John Howard, esq. the philanthropist. Prince Hoare. Esq. is preparing for the press, Memoirs of the late Granville Sharp, Esq. composed from his own MSS. and other authentic documents, which will form a quarto volume. 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