“Critical commentary,” says a critic of the previous edition, “on the merits of _The Anti-Jacobin_, would be superfluous. Its satire is distinguished for the terse language of its poignant personality, which was often excessively stinging, but seldom offensively coarse. Its best contributors, CANNING and FRERE, were not mere pamphleteers in verse, like the writers for _The Rolliad_. They had poetical inspiration and a sprightly joyousness springing from a genial play of the mental faculties. They were ‘Conservatives’ not only in their politics but in their loyal adherence to the ordinances and traditions of classical English literature. False sentiment, tumid diction, mawkish cant, were chastised by them with exemplary efficacy. On the fourth edition of the complete work (1799, 2 Vols. 8vo, containing both prose and poetry), they placed the epigraph, _Sparsosque recolligit ignes_; and in the very last paper (No. 36), the motto on discontinuance was exquisitely happy:— “‘We shall miss thee; But yet thou shalt have freedom. So to the elements Be free; and fare thou well!’ “And these lines, taken from _The Tempest_ (probably by CANNING), have been prophetic of the popularity of their witty verse, still quoted and admired by all lovers of the genius that is airily elegant and strong.” CHARLES EDMONDS. WATER ORTON, BIRMINGHAM. ADDITIONS TO THE PRESENT EDITION. Numerous new Biographical and other Notes. Additions and Corrections to the List of presumed AUTHORS of “THE POETRY”. Selections from the PROSE portion of the work, written by the RT. HON. G. CANNING and his coadjutors. Account of the various EDITIONS of _The Anti-Jacobin_, and its successors. Enlarged articles on the opposition NEWSPAPERS abused by _The Anti-Jacobin_ writers. The curious ABUSIVE AND SATIRICAL INDEX to _The Anti-Jacobin_; and specimens of a similar Index to _The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine_. Selections from _The Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine_—the successor to _The Anti-Jacobin_—showing that though written by a different body of Authors, both works were animated by the same spirit. EDITIONS OF THE ANTI-JACOBIN; AND ITS SUCCESSORS. THE ANTI-JACOBIN, or WEEKLY EXAMINER. Sparsosque recolligit ignes. From Nov. 20, 1797, to July 9, 1798. 4to. London. Nos. 1 to 36; with a Prospectus (complete). —— The Same. Second and third editions, in 4to. —— The Same. Fourth edition, revised and corrected. 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1799.