103 6. Des principales Expressions qui servent à la Notation des Dates sur les Monumens de l'Ancienne Egypte d'après l'Inscription de Rosette. Par François Sal- volini VI.-Evidence of the Truth of the Christian Religion, derived from the literal fulfilment of Prophecy-particularly as illustrated by the History of the Jews, and by the Discoveries of recent Travellers. By Alexander VII. 1. An Essay, Religious and Political, on Ecclesiastical Finance, as regards the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. By the Rev. David O. Croly, Parish Priest 2. Autobiography of a Dissenting Minister. 3. Letters to a Dissenting Minister of the Congrega- tional Independent Denomination, containing Remarks on the Principles of that Sect, and the Author's Rea- sons for leaving it and conforming to the Church of 4. Ecclesiastical Establishments not inconsistent with Christianity, with a particular view to some of the leading objections of the modern Dissenters. By 5. Letter to the Right Hon. Earl Grey, containing a Vindication of the Established Church. By a Dis- 6. The Uses of a Standing Ministry and an Established Church. Two Sermons. By Charles James Blom- field, D.D., Bishop of London. 7. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of London at the Visitation in July, 1834. By Charles 8. A Charge delivered in the Autumn of 1834, at the I.—1. Marie, ou l'Esclavage aux Etats-Unis, Tableau de Mœurs Américaines, par Gustave de Beaumont, l'un des Auteurs de l'ouvrage intitulé Du Systême Péni- 2. The Stranger in America. By F. Lieber, Editor of 3. New England and her Institutions, by One of her JI.-Reise um die Erde ausgeführt auf dem koniglich Preus- sischen Seehandlungs-Schiffe Prinzess Louise, com- III.-A History of Architecture. By Thomas Hope, Esq. IV. Correspondence d'Orient, 1830, 1831. Par M. Michaud, de l'Académie Française, et M. Poujoulat - former changes of the Earth's Surface are referable to causes now in operation. By Charles Lyell, Esq., F.R.S., President of the Geological Society of London 406 VII.-The Georgian Era: Memoirs of the most Eminent Persons who have flourished in Great Britain from the ART. Page VIII. 1. An Address to the Churchwardens, Guardians, Over- seers of the Poor, and Rate-Payers of the Wingham Division of St. Augustine, in the County of Kent, on a Resolution adopted at a Meeting held at Wingham, on Thursday the 22nd of January. 2. Two-and-Twenty Reasons for refusing Assent to the Proposition for instituting large Unions of Parishes, and the erection of Central Workhouses, particularly in the neighbourhood of Seven Oaks, in the County 3. An Account of the Foundling Hospital in London, 2. A Letter to Isaac Tomkins, Gent., author of Thoughts upon the Aristocracy: from Mr. Peter Jenkins X.-The Influence of Democracy on Liberty, Property, and the Happiness of Society considered, by an American, THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. ART. I.-Wanderings in New South Wales, Batavia, Pedir Coast, Singapore, and China; being the Journal of a Naturalist during 1832, 1833, and 1834. By George Bennett, Esq., F.L.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, &c. London, 2 vols. 8vo. 1834. IF our readers are as weary of new novels as we confess our selves to be, they will thank us for pointing out a book of travels, which carries one rapidly and pleasantly over a wide diversity of sea and land; presents many objects of natural history, and traits of social peculiarity, well calculated to excite and gratify our curiosity; and is distinguished by a merit now exceedingly rare among writers of this once rough-spun class, namely, freedom from the slang and cant of sentiment. Mr. Bennett sometimes, no doubt, treats of serious subjects in too light a vein; but we acknowledge that, as his offences in this way are not numerous, we are willing to overlook them on account of the satisfaction which results from the absence of pseudo-poetical raptures about nothing. Most recent travellers seem to have been bit with the ambition of rivalling those overgrown babies, male and female, honourable and right honourable, who record the ecstacies of what they call their minds' in the gilded pages of the Annuals. We do not pretend to class Mr. Bennett, on the whole, with such authors as Captain Basil Hall and Sir Francis Head; but he has, in common with them, what must be felt as among their chief excellencies-a manly temperament, and a thorough scorn of puerile rhetoric. We are told little or nothing of Mr. Bennett's own condition or personal objects-and in this omission we acknowledge another wholesome deviation from the prevalent fashion. We infer, however, that he has been employed for some years as a surgeon in the merchant service; and are hopeful that his literary adventure may stimulate many of the well-educated gentlemen who in these piping days of peace are content with such employment, to improve the opportunities which their mode of life affords for the extension of natural science in almost all its departments. Humbly as their position may be thought of, we are of opinion that it is in their own power, by so doing, to elevate it very effectually in general estimation. The number of persons destined for this branch of the the medical profession, who can afford to cultivate and expand their minds by extensive travel at their own charges, is extremely limited. A few voyages in a merchant-ship afford a very good succedaneum, and may serve to fill up not only pleasantly, but in every sense of the word profitably, those years which hang the heaviest on the spirits, as well as the purse, of the young practitioner, whether in town or village. No professional man, it must be remembered, is so effectually fettered to the spot, after he has once settled himself in life, as he who labours in this honourable walk. The lawyer has his long vacation, and usually contrives, in these days of steam-boating, to refresh himself with an annual excursion, either to another of his Majesty's kingdoms, or to some interesting part of the Continent. But a week after he has been bawling himself hoarse in the noisome atmosphere of Westminster Hall, he may be detected in eating pâtés de chamois on the Simplon, or dancing reels in the Hebrides, or gliding in a carriole amidst the gloom of a Norwegian forest; nay, by skilful management, he may re-appear at Michaelmas with a budget of good stories from Moscow or Constantinople-or even bring back with him from Jerusalem a legitimate claim to the style and title of Hadgi. Even the parish clergyman may occasionally command a furlough, and enlarge and strengthen his attachment to his own country and calling by a few months' perambulation of less favoured regions. But the country doctor is a complete fixture; nay, it is considered as the most hazardous thing in the world, even for the first-rate physician or surgeon of London, to absent himself for a fortnight on end, even at the dullest season of the year, from the habitual scene of his exertions. We believe a Halford or a Brodie would no more dream of spending an August at Töplitz or Baden, than a Pemberton or a Follett of passing a winter at Washington or St. Petersburgh. In short, patients are apt to regard and resent it as a positive injury, when they are compelled, by the absence of a first confidant, to make their delicate discoveries to a second. On every account, then, the young Esculapian, if he has any ambition to survey mankind with extensive view,' ought to make carpe diem his motto. Mr. Bennett's title-page has this defect-that it does not prepare us for finding a considerable portion of his book occupied with observations made neither in New South Wales, nor Batavia, nor China, but on ship-board, while far enough from any land whatever. This part of the work is, however, about the most interesting; and no wonder-for here he has had time and opportunity to test his first-sight impressions by subsequent remark and experiment, much more largely than with respect to any of the announced scenes of his Wanderings.' The mass of facts which he |