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Play-house Musings, by S. T. Coleridge, can hardly be considered a caricature-it is too like and contains not a line of the extravaganza as compared with his writings. We rather think if Mr. Coleridge would adopt it, however destitute of merit, it would grace his compositions. Architectural Atoms, by Dr. Busby, the learned translator of Lucretius, who has sufficiently excited the laugh against himself by his monologue, and all its attendant circumstances; but Architectural Atoms is well worth a perusal and contains much to laugh at and admire.it is highly bombastically, and much more poetic than the poor doctor's favorite line,

When energizing objects men pursue, &c.

The Theatre, by the Rev. George Crabbe, is very clever. We are among those who admire this gentleman's lines, which certainly are smooth and flowing, and frequently breathe the masterly eloquence of nature; but we have felt continually displeased with that minute delineation of uninteresting trifles which encumbers his works.

We can recommend this little volume as an amusing trifle, which cannot fail to please those who are well read in the writings of our modern bards-it is written with real ability, and a true taste for poetry.P.

ECCE HOMO; OR PAINE REDIVIVUS. SIR, WHEN the publication, by D. I. Eaton, of the first part of the Age of Reason, was visited by the Attorney General with a severity disproportionate to the magnitude of his offence, or the criminality of the book, you were among the first to descant on the cruelty and im- 4

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