"This is a much-vaunted book, by a young American, but one in which we take no pleasure. In the first place, it is written in a most execrable style,--all affectation, and verbal wriggling and twisting for the sake of originality. The veriest sophomore ought to be "rusticated" for such conceited phrases as "beautiful budburstiness of bosom,"--"her twin eyes shone forth liquidly lustrous"--and innumerable expressions in the same namby-pamby dialect. But dellacruscan folly is but a trifle compared with the immoral tendency of the descriptions of the _gahzeeyah_, or dancing girls of Egypt, and the luscious comments on their polluted ways and manners. We thought the Harpers had done publishing this indecent trash." * * * * * D. M. Moir, the "Delta" of _Blackwood's Magazine_, has just published in Edinburgh, _Sketches of the Poetical Literature of the Past Half Century_, in six Lectures, delivered at the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution. * * * * * The Rev. Satan Montgomery, otherwise called _Robert_ Montgomery, is not dead, as some have supposed, but is still making sermons and verses--probably sermons and verses of equally bad quality; and we see with some alarm that the Rivingtons advertise, as in preparation, a complete edition of his _Poetical Works_ [we never saw any works by him that were poetical] in one octavo volume, similar in size and appearance to the octavo editions of Southey, Wordsworth, &c., &c., and including the whole of the author's poems--_Satan_, _Woman_, _Hell_, and all the rest,--in a revised form, with some original minor pieces, and a general preface. We don't suppose he will take our counsel, yet we will venture it, that he make use of Macaulay's reviewal of his poems, instead of any "general preface" of his own. * * * * *