BY THE SAME AUTHOR.
day are exposed with so humorous and masterly a hand, and the characters of those who, as Hadibras has it,
Of their own misery and want,'
are painted with so much wit and spirit, that he must be splenetic indeed whose muscles will not relax at the drollery of the exhibition."—Month. Rev.
"This is a very elegant little work. It is a Grecian fairy tale, which required considerable knowledge of erotic antiquity in the author, and no ordinary command of the lighter graces of versification,. All the charms of the story would be destroyed by any thing like an abstract of its brief but ingenious contents; and for the same reason, viz. the fear of diminishing the pleasure of the reader and the just attractiveness of the poem, we shall abstain from any quotation which would reveal the main incidents of Rhododaphne."—Month. Rev.
