vii, 682 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 25 cm
All of the essays except the first were originally contributed to the North American review.
Charles Brockden Brown, the American novelist -- Asylum for the blind -- Irving's Conquest of Granada -- Cervantes -- Sir Walter Scott --Chateaubriand's English literature -- Bancroft's United States -- Madame Calderon's Life in Mexico -- Molière -- Italian narrative poetry -- Poetry and romance of the Italians -- Scottish song -- Da Ponte's observations --Ticknor's History of Spanish literature