Great Duke of Florence is a drama of considerable power. The characters are good; the style is admirable, neither rising to bombast, nor descending to vulgarity; and though the plot is defective, the piece will always be read with great pleasure. - A New Way to pay Old Debts has been rendered familiar to the public by the late Mr. Kean, whose personation of Sir Giles Overreach was one of his most splendid efforts. "No play of Massinger," says Dr. Ireland, "is marked with more variety or seriousness of moral." This is true. The characters are admirably drawn; the incidents are striking; the versification vigorous and elegant. - The comedy of The City Madam has, we think, been more praised than it deserves to be. The moral is good; but the characters are too coarsely drawn: at least, if London had such men and women once, we may well rejoice that there is a change for the better. The incidents are sometimes unnatural, sometimes vicious; and there is a disgusting tone of profligacy in some of the scenes. To this drama Hogarth is supposed to be indebted for a few of his graphic descriptions. - The Guardian is far below the usual manner of this author. It seems to have been composed for popularity merely, or rather to please a vicious taste. The plot is wild, improbable; and the characters are not drawn with his usual discrimination. Yet it has scattered beauties of no ordinary value. - A Very Woman is one of the most agreeable dramas of Massinger. The Bashful Lover is inferior to it; yet there is great judgment in the delineation of its characters; and the incidents, though not very critically united, are striking. - The Parliament of Love is but a fragment: it is, however, a highly poetical one. It relates to the period when minstrels and poets, when lords and knights, courted the fair with all the ardour of chivalry. But the poetry will scarcely atone for the lack of incident, and the mutilated condition of the piece. It is a picture rather than a drama.

Massinger died in March, 1640. The event was