_The Hampshire Cottage_ is next in order--a tale of the Peasantry; and the volumes conclude with _Blanche_, a tale of the Peerage. Both are admirable, and worthy of companionship with _Winifred, Countess of Nithsdale_. There can be no doubt that Lady Dacre is a writer of infinite genius, possessing great felicity of expression, a happy talent for working up a story, and, above all, a far more profound and philosophical knowledge of the hidden springs of the human heart, and a greater skill in availing herself of that knowledge, than _any of her female contemporaries_. This we say deliberately. We have not yet forgotten the _Recollections of a Chaperon_. No person, of even common sensibility, has ever perused the magic tale of _Ellen Wareham_ without feeling the very soul of passion and imagination aroused and stirred up within him, as at the sound of a trumpet. Let Lady Dacre but give up her talents and energies, and especially _her time_ to the exaltation of her literary fame, and we are sorely mistaken if, hereafter, she do not accomplish something which will not readily die. EDINBURGH REVIEW. _The Edinburgh Review, No. CXXIV, for July 1835. American Edition, Vol. II, No. 2. New York: Theodore Foster._ Article I in this number is a _critique_ upon "The History of the Revolution in England in 1688. Comprising a View of the Reign of James the Second, from his Accession to the Enterprise of the Prince of Orange. By the late Right Honorable Sir James Mackintosh; and completed to the Settlement of the Crown, by the Editor. To which is prefixed, a Notice of the Life, Writings, and Speeches of Sir James Mackintosh. 4to. London, 1834." The Reviewer commences by instituting a comparison between the work of Sir James, and Fox's History of James the Second. Both books are on the same subject--both were posthumously published, and neither had received the last corrections. The authors, likewise, belonged to the same political party, and had the same opinions concerning the merits and defects of the English Constitution, and concerning most of the prominent characters and events in English history. The palm is awarded to the work of Mackintosh. "Indeed"--says the critic--"the superiority of Mr. Fox to Sir James as an orator, is hardly more clear than the superiority of Sir James to Mr. Fox as an historian. Mr. Fox with a pen in his hand, and Sir James on his legs in the House of Commons were, we think, each out of his proper element. We could never read a page of Mr. Fox's writings--we could never listen for a quarter of an hour to the speaking of Sir James--without feeling that there was a constant effort, a tug up-hill. Mr. Fox wrote debates. Sir James Mackintosh spoke essays." The style of the fragment is highly complimented, and justly. Every body must agree with the Reviewer, that a History of England written throughout, in the manner of the History of the