PREFACE. THE Editor, in delivering to the Public the third volume of the Annual Review, begs to avail himself of the customary indulgence of making a few prefatory observations. He trusts that the literary merit of the present is not inferior to that of the two former volumes, and that as a work of rational entertainment it may obtain that approbation which has been so liberally bestowed on his past labours. Among the best friends of this undertaking, are to be ranked those who have favoured the Editor with their opinions on the errors which have here and there insinuated themselves into the two first volumes. Criticism is a noble art, and ought to be worthily exercised: the materials upon which it is employed, are those productions of human intellect which peculiarly distinguish highly cultivated societies; and when the powerful influence that is exercised by professional critics on the public taste is considered, no man whose mind is not callous to sentiments of equity and honour, can avoid being strongly impressed by the obligations which he thus voluntarily undertakes. We believe, in most instances where we have expressed our dissatisfaction, that the arguments and specimens which are adduced, will be found by adequate and impartial judges to justify the matter of our remarks; and if in any case the language in which they have been conveyed may be thought to have betrayed a blamable impatience of temper, we trust that the present volume, though expressing with freedom our sentiments on the books that have come under our notice, will be liable to no just objections on this head. 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