Miss Mitford's Rienzi will of course be remembered in reading that of Bulwer. There is however but one point of coincidence--a love-intrigue between a relative of the hero and one of the party of the nobles. This, it will be recollected, forms the basis of the plot of Miss {198} M. In the Rienzi of Bulwer, it is an Episode not affecting in any manner either the story itself, or the destinies of the Tribune. It is by no means our intention to give an analysis of the volume before us. Every person who reads at all will read Rienzi, and indeed the book is already in the hands of many millions of people. Any thing, therefore, like our usual custom of a digest of the narrative would be superfluous. The principal characters who figure in the novel are Rienzi himself--his brother, whose slaughter by a noble at the commencement of the story, is the immediate cause of Rienzi's change of temper and consequent exaltation--Adrian di Castello, a young noble of the family of Colonna but attached to the cause of the people--Martino di Porto the chief of the house of the Orsini--Stephen Colonna, the chief of the house of the Colonna--Walter de Montreal, a gentleman of Provence, a knight of St. John, and one of the formidable freebooters who at the head of large "Companies" invaded states and pillaged towns at the period of Rienzi's Revolution--Pandulfo di Guido a student, whom, under the appellation of Pandolficcio di Guido, Gibbon styles "the most virtuous citizen of Rome"--Cecco del Vecchio a smith--Giles D'Albornoz of the royal race of Arragon--Petrarch the poet, and the friend of Rienzi--Angelo Villani--Irene, the sister of the Tribune and betrothed to Adrian di Castello--Nina, Rienzi's wife--and Adeline, the mistress of Walter de Montreal.