| English Landscape—Constable, | 257 |
| Mahmood the Ghaznavide. By B. Simmons, | 266 |
| Marston; or, the Memoirs of a Statesman. Part XIX., | 272 |
| Waterton's Second Series of Essays, | 289 |
| Warren's Law Studies, | 300 |
| Margaret of Valois, | 312 |
| The Baron von Stein, | 328 |
| The Historical Romance, | 341 |
| A Few Words for Bettina, | 357 |
| North's Specimens of the British Critics. No. Viii.—Supplement to Mac-Flecnoe and the Dunciad, | 366 |
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The appearance of the second edition of Leslie's Life of Constableinvites attention to this truly English and original artist. We have readthis volume with much interest. It is a graceful homage paid by a greatliving painter to the memory of one who is no more: a kindly, and, as webelieve, an honest testimony to the moral and professional worth of onewhose works stand out with a striking and distinct character in theEnglish school of landscape-painting, and which, we are confident, willretain the place which they have slowly gained in public estimation, aslong as a feeling of pictorial truth, in its more elevated sense, and asdistinct from a mere literal imitation of details, shall continue toendure. Mr Leslie has accomplished his task with skill as well as goodsense; for, keeping the labours of the editor entirely in the background,he has made Constable his own biographer—the work consisting almostentirely of extracts from his notes, journals, and correspondence, linkedtogether by the slenderest thread of narrative. Story indeed, it may besaid, there was none to tell; for, among the proverbially une