The British Review, and London Critical Journal (Volume 11) - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1818. Excerpt: ... THE BRITISH REVIEW, AND LONDON CRITICAL JOURNAL. FEBRUARY, 1818. Art. I.--THE LATE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE. 1. A Cypress Wreath, for the Tomb of her late Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales: containing original Tributes to her Memory, by J. Gwilliam, and others: with a Selection of the best Pieces that have appeared on the Subject: to which is prefixed, a Biographical Memoir of her Royal Highness, by J. Coote. 12mo. pp.208. Sherwood and Co. London, 1817. 2. A Biographical Memoir of the public and private Life of the much lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and SaxeCobourg: illustrated with Recollections, Anecdotes, and Traits of Character, including incidental Observations upon Persons and Events connected with the Subject of the Memoir; accompanied by explanatory and authentic Documents in an Appendix. 8vo. pp. 352. Booth. London, 1817. S. A Sermon delivered in tlie Tron Church, Glasgow, on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1817, the Day of the Funeral of her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D. Minister of the Tron Church, Glasgow. 8vo. Second Edition. Whyte. Edinburgh, 1817. 4. A Poem on the Death of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte of Wales and Saxe-Cobourg. By the Rev. R. Kennedy, A.M. late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and now Minister of St. Paul's Chapel, Birmingham. 8vo. pp. 38. Hatchard. London, 1817. There are three descriptions of writers to whose pens the melancholy loss which the nation has lately sustained has princi VOJU XI. NO. XXI, B pally given employment--the biographer, the preacher, and the poet. Ve have looked, in general, with no great success among the published specimens in each of these departments for something to satisfy our own minds. Some, indeed, of the sermons which...