I. POETS OF YESTERDAY AND TO-DAY: 1. The Poetical Works of John Edmund Reade. 2 vols. London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. 2. Eva, and other Tales and Poems. By Sir Edward Lytton Bulwer, Bart. London: 3. The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. London: 4. The Poems and Ballads of Schiller, trans- lated by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh 5. The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir (Delta). Edited by Thomas Aird, 1. The Personal Adventures of "Our Own Correspondent" in Italy. By Michael Burke Honan. 2 vols. Chapman and Hall, London: 2. Hungary in 1851 With an Experience of the Austrian Police. By Charles Loring IV.-DOCTOR MAGINN. - 593 V.-ARTISTIC AND INDUSTRIAL EXHIBITIONS: 1. Official Catalogue of the National Exhibi- tion of the Arts, Manufactures, and Pro- ducts of Ireland; held in Cork, 1852. Cork: 2. Catalogue of the Royal Hibernian Academy, VI. THE BREHON LAW COMMISSION: Report of the Commissioners appointed by the - 659 ERRATUM. Page 540, line 15, for "father-in-law," read "uncle." I. UNTRANSLATED NOVELISTS.-ALPHONSE KARR. 1. Clovis Gosselin. Par Alphonse Karr. 2. Une Folle Histoire. Par Alphonse Karr. An account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland. By J. J. A. Worsaae, For F. S. A., London, a royal com. missioner for the preservation of the national monuments of Denmark; Author of Primæval THE IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW. No. V.-MARCH, 1852. ART. I.—THE STREETS OF DUBLIN. A Short Guide through Dublin, containing Practical Directions for the easy Perambulation of the City, and for the Inspection of its Public Buildings, Institutions, and Establishments; abridged from the Original Work. By Richard Starratt, Esq., A.M., T.C.D. Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1851. VARIOUS important works, published in the present century, have familiarized the world with the annals of Paris, London, and Edinburgh. Although the literary antiquaries of those cities have been actively employed in placing their local history, in an attractive form, before the public, no attempt has hitherto been made amongst us to emulate the labors of the authors of "Les Rues de Paris," or the "Handbook of London," by producing a work of similar character on the Irish metropolis. To render such a production of value and importance, a considerable amount of investigation should be combined with an accurate knowledge of the general history of the country, and an acquaintance with subjects relative to which information is most difficult to be acquired at the present day. Such are details of the various important events of which the metropolis of a nation necessarily becomes the scene, illustrations of the state of society at divers epochs, accounts of localities once the favored resort of the people of past generations, but now converted to far different uses; notices of places in the city distinguished by their connexion with eminent natives; together with many other matters of VOL. II.-NO. V. A |