ADVERTISEMENT. POETRY needs no preface: if it do not | Italian,-a young female with all the lovespeak for itself, no comment can render liness, vivid feeling and genius of her own it explicit. I have only, therefore, to impassioned land. She is supposed to state that The Improvisatrice is an at- relate her own history; with which are tempt to illustrate that species of inspira- intermixed the tales and episodes which tion common in Italy, where the mind is various circumstances call forth. warmed from earliest childhood by all that is beautiful in nature, and glorious in The character depicted is entirely art. Some of the minor poems have appeared in The Literary Gazette. L. E. L. 6 |