sentences:  It was well received, with Robert Southey in the "Quarterly Review" of April 1822 speaking warmly in its favour.The two volumes contain a biography of the poet, note on the "rimas" or smaller poems, a translation of an essay by Dom Joze Maria de Souza, an account of the translations and translators of the "Lusiad", an account of the editions of Camoens, and notes on his commentators and apologists.In 1836 Adamson printed a catalogue of his Portuguese library entitled "Bibliotheca Lusitana", in which the books are described with much bibliographical information.