Southern Review - 1830 Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: instruction with respect to the meaning of their terms, and to the farmer's boy for information on the nature of rent, we plead guilty to the charge ; but declar... more »e ourselves unconscious of having misrepresented the author in any one particular; and believe that our readers will acquit us of having done him injustice, when they have read but a very small portion of the volumes before us. T Art. III.—1. History of Charles the Great and Orlando, ascribed to Archbishop Turpin. Translated front the Latin in Span- heinCs Lives of Ecclesiastical Writers: together with the most celebrated ancient Spanish Ballads, relating to the Twelve Peers of France mentioned in Don Quixote; with English metrical versions. By Thomas Rood. In 2 vols. London. 2. Floresta de rarios Romances sacados de las Historias an- tiguas de los Docc Pares de Francta. For Da Juan Lopez DE ToRTAJADA. SINCE the beginning of that struggle which resulted in the deliverance of German literature from the bondage of French authority and a servile imitation of foreign models, a new order of researches, and almost a new theory of criticism have been proposed to scholars. It has been discovered that there is no genuine, living beauty of composition which springs not spontaneously, if we may so express it, out of the very soil of a country ; which is not connected with the history, animated by the spirit, and in perfect harmony with the character and opinions of its people. It has been found that all imitative or derivative literatures are in comparison of the truly primitive and national, tame, vapid and feeble—that Roman genius, for instance, did but dimly reflect the glories of the Attic muse, and that even in the chefs d'ceuvre of the Augustan age of France, replete as they are in other respects with the highest...« less