All this is very poetical--is very different from the _Iliad_, and is perfectly measured to the scale of a war, moved, not by confederated Greece for the overthrow of an Asiatic empire, but by the tribes of the coast for beating back the crews of a few straggling ships from planting a colony, who have nothing on their side but their valour, their fame, and their fates. Analyze this war; make out for yourself, distinctly, the story, of which in a poem one always too easily loses the sequence, delight and emotion making one less observant; then understand the poetical workings out, in their places and after their bearings; and you will satisfy yourself, that although the cleaving of heads, and the transpiercing of trunks, and the hewing off of limbs, are processes that must always keep up a certain general resemblance to themselves, you have not a campaign imitated from the Iliad; but an original one--proper to person and place. _Edinburgh: Printed by Ballantyne and Hughes, Paul's Work._ Footnotes: [1] Raphael was born in 1483, Michael Angelo in 1474. [2] [Greek: "Me man aspoudei ge kai akleios apoloimen Alla mega rhexas ti kai essomenoisi pythesthai."] _Iliad_, XXII. 304. [3] We were about to make some remarks on the alleged production of _animated globules in albumen by electricity_; but we find that, in a note to the third edition, the author virtually relinquishes this ground. We had made enquiries amongst scientific men; but no such experiment had been received or accredited amongst them.