tainted by obscenity, not marred by coarseness of language, nor obscured by remote allusion, the quantity in existence is not great. It is thought that this volume contains a very large proportion of the best pieces that have appeared. An unexpected feature of the book is, that there is not a line in it by a female hand. The alleged foibles of the Fair have given occasion to libraries of comic verse; yet, with diligent search, no humorous poems by women have been found which are of merit sufficient to give them claim to a place in a collection like this. That lively wit and graceful gayety, that quick perception of the absurd, which ladies are continually displaying in their conversation and correspondence, never, it seems, suggest the successful epigram, or inspire happy satirical verse. The reader will not be annoyed by an impertinent superfluity of notes. At the end of the volume may be found a list of the sources from which its contents have been taken. For the convenience of those who live remote from biographical dictionaries, a few dates and other particulars have been added to the mention of each name. For valuable contributions to this portion of the volume, and for much well-directed work upon other parts of it, the reader is indebted to Mr. T. BUTLER GUNN, of this city. There is, certainly, nothing more delightful than the fun of a man of genius. Humor, as Mr. Thackeray observes, is charming, and poetry is charming, but the blending of the two in the same composition is irresistible. There is much nonsense in this book, and some folly, and a little ill-nature; but there is more wisdom than either. They who possess it may ngratulate themselves upon having the largest collection ever made of the sportive effusions of genius. Ι Ν D Ε Χ. MISCELLANEOUS. SUBJECT. AUTHOR To my Empty Purse Chaucer Peter Pindar. Burns Southey Lamb Byron Moore Sydney Smith Barham To Fanny 66 33 34 36 . 37 38 39 40 41 44 45 . . The Poplar Spring . Hood Ode on a Distant Prospect of Clapham Acad emy Praed Thackeray. Punch Bryant. 46 50 52 54 56 57 58 . Willis 60 62 63 64 64 66 Take thy Old Cloak about thee. Percy Reliques . . 75 77 80 Prior. 85 Williams (Sir C. H.) 87 Peter Pindar 89 90 91 93 95 Gray. 97 Couper 99 Wake . 102 Coleridge. 104 Southey 105 Scott (Sir W.) 115 Moore. 124 Barham 125 129 136 146 156 164 W. Aytoun 181 Thackeray 184 191 Lantern 194 G. P. Morris 196 66 . . . . HUBJEOT. The King of Spain and the Horse. The Soldier and the Virgin Mary A King of France and the Fair Lady. The Love of the World Reproved, or Hypoc- 66 A Scene on the Austrian Frontier. The Feast of Vegetables and the Flow of Wa- The Railway Traveler's Farewell to his Fam. ily. Selling off at the Opera-house . . . . . 66 |
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