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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. V.—A lament for Luis de Camoens —with a specimen of superfluous fiction. " Camoens, the solitary pride of Portugal, deprived of the necessaries of life, perished in a hospital at Lisbon. This fact has been accidentally preserved in an entry in a copy of the first edition of the Lusiad, in the possession of Lord .Holland"—I. D'IsHAELi.1 I could wish to transport myself to the banks of the Derwent-water, and obtain permission to turn over the leaves of a certain Bibliotheca Lusitana Manuscripta ;2 or to some less romantic site on the Tyne (where, however, the muses haunt) and hold converse with the zealous biographer of Camoens.3 Deprived of such assistance, I may lament the fate of the Lusitanian bard—but cannot promise much illustration of it. D'Israeli is pleased to style Camoens the solitary pride of Portugal.—This is a smart compendium of the literary history of that nation; but not likely to supersede the four gigantic folios of Father Diogo Barbosa Machado.4 1 C. L., i. 42. 2 R. Southey, Hist. of Brazil, 1810-19. 4to; iii. v. 3 I leave this effusion in its primitive state; but have since been favored by John Adamson, Esq. M.R.S.L., etc., the biographer of Camoens, with a Bibliotheca Lusitana, New- castle-on-Tyne, 1836. Sm. 8vo. pp. iv.+116. It describes an ample collection of the best books on Portuguese literature—and is a choice specimen of bibliography. Bibliotheca Lusitana, Lisboa, 1741-59. !'Israeli then states that Camoens, deprived of the necessaries of life, perished in a hospital at Lisbon. — I consider this as superfluous fiction. Camoens, who was called the Prince of the Poets of his time—Camoens, whose Lusiadas had obtained the approbation of Sebastian—Camoens, whose epic was in its cast so national, so calculated to extend the fame of Lusitan...