Young; the Dutchesses of Marlborough, Buckingham, and Queensbury; and several other persons of eminence in the fashionable, political, and literary circles of the reign of Queen Anne, and George I. George II. and George III.
4. An entirely New Series of Curiosities of Literature. By J. D'Israeli, Esq. 3 vols. 8vo. At the same time will be published, the Seventh Edition of the First Series.
5. The Connexion of Christianity with Human Happiness. By the Rev. William Harness. 2 vols. post 8vo.
6. A Latin Grammar. By I. J. G. Scheller. Translated from the German, with an appendix and notes, by George Walker, M.A. late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Head Master of the Grammar School, Leeds, 2 vols.
***This Grammar is particularly accurate and copious on the Syntax of the Latin language. Matthiæ, in his excellent Greek Grammar, confesses, that he has taken Scheller for his model, and that his object was to effect for the Greek language, what Scheller had effected for the Latin.
7. Memoir of the Operations of the Allied Armies under Prince Schwartzenberg and Marshal Blucher, during the latter end of 1813 and the year 1814. By a General Officer, Author of the Memoirs of the early Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. With numerous Maps, Plans, &c. 8vo.
Vestiges of Ancient Manners and Customs, discoverable in modern Italy and Sicily. By the Rev. John James Blunt, Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and late one of the Travelling Bachelors of that University. 8vo.
9. An Abridgement of Paradise Lost. By Mrs. Siddons. 8vo.
10. Narrative of the Expedition to Dongola and Sennaar, under the command of his Excellency Ismael Pacha, undertaken by order of his Highness Mehemmed Ali Pacha, Viceroy of Egypt. By an American in the Service of the Viceroy. 8vo.
11. Letters from the Caucasus and Georgia. With a Map and Views, 8vo. 12. A Journey to Two of the Oases of Upper Egypt. By Sir Archibald Edmonstone, Bart. With engravings. 8vo. 13. Notes during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis of Egypt, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem. By Sir Frederick Henniker, Bart. With plates. 8vo.
14. Six New Plates, coloured, illustrative of the Researches and Operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia. Folio.
15. The first Volume of a History of the late War in Spain and Portugal. By Robert Southey, Esq. 4to.
16. Original Letters, written during the Reigns of Henry VI. Edward IV. and V. Richard III. and Henry VII, By various Persons of Rank or Consequence. With Notes, historical and explanatory; and authenticated by engravings of Portraits, Autographs, Facsimilies, Paper Marks and Seals. By the late Sir John Fenn, Knt. M.A. F.R.S. Vol. V. 4to.
17. Essays on the Love, the Poetry, and the Character of Petrarch. Comprising numerous Translations by the Author's Friends. By Ugo Foscolo. 8vo.
18. Travels in the Hedjaz. By the late John Lewis Burckhardt. With Maps, 4to.
19. Odes of Pindar. Translated from the Greek, with notes, critical and explanatory. By Abraham Moore, Esq. 8vo.
Art. XII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.
The History of the Baptists. By Joseph Ivimey, Vol. III, 8vo. 12s.
Military Memoirs of the Great Civil War, being the Military Memoirs of John Gwynne; and an Account of the Earl of Glencairn's Expedition, as General of his Majesty's Forces in the Highlands of Scotland, in the Years 1653 and 1654. By a Person who was Eye and Ear Witness to every Transaction. With an Appendix. 4to. 11. 16s.
The History of Modern Wiltshire, Hundred of Mere. By Sir R. Colt Hoare, Bart. folio. 31. 13s. 6d. large paper, 61. 6s.
The Study of Medicine. By J.M. Good, M.D. F.R.S. &c. Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London. 4 vols. 8vo. 3. 4s.
A Treatise on Dislocations, and on Fractures of the Joints. By Sir Astley Cooper, Bart. F.R.S. Surgeon to the King, &c. &c. illustrated by thirty engravings, medium 4to. 11. 11s. 6d.
Researches respecting the Medical Powers of Chlorine, particularly in Diseases of the Liver; with an account of a new mode of applying this Agent, by which its influence on the System can be secured. By William Wallace, M.R.1.A. Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, &c. 8vo. 6s.
Au Inquiry into the Action of Mercury on the living Body. By Joseph Swan, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Surgeon to the Lincoln Hospital. 8vo. Is. 6d. sewed.
An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. By Thomas Hartwell Horne, M.A. Illustrated with numerous Maps and Facsimiles of Biblical MSS. Third Edition, corrected. In four large Vols. 31. 3s. ›
Supplementary Pages to the Second Edition of Mr. Horne's Introduction; so arranged as to be inserted in the Volumes to which they respectively belong. With a new 4to. engraving. 8vo. Ss. (a limited number only printed.)
Attachment to Life, a Sermon on occasion of the Death of the Rev. John Owen, M.A. Rector of Paglesham, &c. By Joseph Hughes, M.A. 8vo.
The Character and Happiness of them that die in the Lord. A Sermon on the same Occasion. By William Dealtry, 'B.D. F.R.S. &c. 8vo.
The Christian Family's Assistant, in Four Parts: 1. A discourse on Prayer. 2. Suitable forms of prayer for domestic worship. 3. Hymns adapted for family devotion. 4. Essays on domestic duties, &c. By H. L. Poppewell. 8vo. 10s. 6d.
Tracts and Essays, Moral and Theological, including a Defence of the Doctrine of the Divinity of Christ, and of the Doctrine of the Atonement; with Obituaries, &c. By the late William Hey, Esq. (of Leeds) F.R.S. &c. 8vo.
Twenty-four Sermons on Practical Subjects, translated from the Works of the most eminent French and Dutch Protestant Ministers in Holland. By J. Wernick, D.D. F.R.S. Amst. and Middelb. Chaplain to his Excellency the Ambassador of the Netherlands, and Minister of the Dutch Church in London. 8vo. 10s. 6d.
Abercromby, hon. Jas., Hope's letter to,
Abuse of the press, remarks on, 170. Academies, theological, importance of, 548.
Advice to the young mother, 90 et seq.; danger of domestic tampering with medi- cine, 90; exceptionable tendency of author's advice in this respect, 91 ; remarks on croup, ib.; measles, 92; exercise, ib.; domestic medicines, ib.; antimony, 93.
Aikin's court of James I., 97 et seq.; utility of works of this description, 97; advantages and disadvantages of the subject, 98; character of the reign of James, ib. ; his favoritism and dissimulation as king of Scot- land, 99; key to his conduct towards the catholics, ib. ; his inconsistency, 100; murder of the Earl of Murray, ib.; Gowry conspiracy, 101; proficiency of the king in the art of government at his accession to the throne of England, ib.; his portrait, 102; his first acts as king of England, 103; entertained by Oliver Cromwell, ib.; his conduct in summon- ing his first parliament, 104; violent and unconstitutional speech, ib.; Hampton court conference, 105; sir J. Harrington's description of the confer- ence, ib.; points insisted on by the Puritans, ib.; translation of the Bible suggested by their spokesman, ib.; design of James in the conference,
106; account of his first favourite, Philip Herbert, ib.; description of an entertainment given at Theobalds to the king of Denmark, ib.; origin of Ro- bert Carr's promotion, 108; portrait of Carr, ib.; remarks on the death of Prince Henry, 109; indecent con- duct of the court on that occasion, 110; character of the prince, 111; fall of Somerset, ib.; conduct and secret intentions of James towards him, 112; publication of the book of sports, ib. ; jealousy of Sunday manifested by the abettors of church authority, 113; irreverent and irreligious conduct of the king, ib.; murder of Raleigh, ib.; synod of Dort, 114; policy of James in that affair, ib. ; calvinistic charac- ter of the English church at this pe- riod, ib.; rise of Laud, 115; his baseness towards Abbot, ib. ; attach- ment of James to Abbot, ib. ; declin- ing power of the king, ib.; ascendancy and insolent conduct of Buckingham, 116; ominous caution given by James to his son and Buckingham, ib.; dis- graceful conduct of Prince Charles, 117; death of James, ib.; estimate of his character, ib. ; merits of the publication, 118, &c.
Allen, W., remarks of on the carnal and spiritual states of man, 426. America, remarks on, 465; see Eu- rope by an American, Howison, and Pradt.
Antinomianism, the crime of every age, 231; a source of schism, 331; the residuum of an evangelical creed, 498.
Armenians, present condition of, 343. Artemi, memoirs of, 343 et seq.; de- pressed condition of the Armenians, 343; birth and early hardships of Artemi, ib.; Armenian Friar Tuck, 344; venomous reptile at Erican, 345; legend of Artar the hermit, ib.; Arme- nian nuptials, 346: exorcism made sure, 347; account of the Jusites, ib. ; Turkish justice, 348; Artemi's pro- ficiency as a thief, 349; sack of Ti- flis, 350; Zar Heraklios, ib. : sequel of Artemi's adventures, ib.; trans- lator's postscript to the memoir, 351.
Balbec, description of, 315. Barton's letter to a junior member of the society of friends, 423 et seq.; Christmas carol,' 432; extracts from the letter, 438, 9; author's claims to the support of the body, 440; see Quaker orthodoxy.
Napoleon and other poems, 155 et seq.; author's explanation of the object of the poem, 155; objections to the statements of the peace society,' ib.; religious wars and private resist- ance indefensible, 157; reflections on the death of Napoleon, 158; address to the
sun, ib.; the pool of Bethesda, 161; satisfactory character of the author's religious sentiments, 163.
verses on the death of Shelley, 476 et seq.; literary character of P. B. Shelley, 476; reflections on his death, 477; absurd eulogy on Shelley by Arthur Brooke, 478. Beacon newspaper, infamous character of, 172.
Bible, on the unrestricted circulation of,
404, 5; history of the translation of, 321, 397, 403.
Biblical literature, illustrations of, 385 et seq.; see Hamilton, Horne, and Townley.
Blackwood's Magazine, infamous cha- racter of, 172.
Bonaparte, Grattan's speech on war with, 15; a Cyrus to the church, 137; description of in exile, 142; stanzas on the death of, 158; merits as a legislator, 253; conduct towards the Swiss, 281; character of, 341; see Barton, Pradt, and O'Meara. Book of Psalms in verse, 187; version of psalm xxiii. ib.
Boswell, sir A., remarks on the death of, 179.
Brand, rev. T., memoirs of, 283; his unwearied assiduity in catechising, ib. Burckhardt, character of, 195.
travels in Syria, 39 et seq. ; contents of the work and remaining MSS. 39; occasion of Mr. B.'s travels in Asia, 40; Mr. W. Bankes, ib.; service rendered by Burckhardt to sacred geography, 41; reason for supposing that the Jordan formerly discharged itself into the Red Sea, ib.; elucidation of the route of the Is- raelites through the wilderness, ib.; au- thor's equipment in setting out for the Haouran, 44; Ezra, population of, ib.; substantial architecture of the houses, 45; description of the Ledja, ib.; account of the Ismayly and An- zeyry sects, 47; description, popula- tion, &c. of Tripoli, 49; account of the Emir Beshir, ib. ; political con- dition of the anti-Libanus and ad- jacent region, 50; religion, customs, &c. of the Druses, ib. et seq.; Djerash, supposed to be Geraza, 52; popula- tion of the Haouran, 53; characteristic hospitality of the people, ib.; description of Tiberias, 54; account of the convent of Mount Sinai, 55; merits and cha- racteristic qualities of Mr. Burck- hardt, 59.
Burke, character of the eloquence of, .5, 249.
Butler's reminiscences, 239 et seq. ; li- terary character of the author, 239; character of Lord Mansfield, ib. ; con-. trasted with that drawn by Junius, 242; character of Lord Hardwicke, ib.; Lord Camden, 243; Lord Rosslyn, ib.; character of Sir W. Grant, ib. ; Lord Eldon, 244; character of Lord Chatham, ib.; anecdote of the same, 246; peculiarity and astonishing ef- fect of Lord Chatham's oratory, ib. ; eloquence of Whitfield of an analogous character, 247; requisites for oratory, ib.; singular parliamentary powers of Lord Londonderry, 248; Castlereagh and Chatham contrasted, ib.; Lord North, ib.; Fox, Pitt, and Burke, 249; Pitt and Fox both unacquainted with political economy, 250; character of Sheridan as an orator, 251; estimate of Grattan, ib.; Sir Philip Francis and Junius, 252; extraordinary cha- racter of Mr. Fearn, ib.; eulogy on the Code Civil of Napoleon, 253; com- parative merits of French and Eng-
Aish poetry, ib.; French and English fine writers, 254; panegyric on Bos- suet, 255; Robert Hall compared with Bossuet, 256; pulpit eloquence dis- countenanced and counteracted in the Protestant Establishment, ib.; pulpit orators of other denominations, 257; author's suggestion of a work on the grand Manichean conspiracy, 258; all orthodox Christians equally liable to the charge of Manichean notions respecting the Devil, ib. ; re- mark of Leibnitz, ib.; intolerance inseparable from the Romish creed, 259.
Byron, lord, not possessed of the dra-
matic faculty, 275, 408.
Cabrera's research into the history of
the Americans, 523; see Rio. Canada, sketches of, 352 et seq.; see Howison.
Carey's Dryden's Virgil, 475, 6; cha- racter of Dryden's performance, ib.; history of the text, ib. Carey's Greek terminations, 52. Carson's rules for construction, 186;
usual defects of elementary works, 186; merits of the author's rules, ib.
Catechetical instruction, advantages of, 283.
Chaplin's edition of Brand's memoirs, 283; see Brand.
Chatham, lord, character of, 244. Chillingworth, noble resolution 494.
Church of Scotland, secularised charac- ter of, 368.
Church-membership, duties of, 329; see James.
Clarke, Dr. E. D., his hypothesis re- specting mount Zion disproved, 298.
-'s, W. B., river Derwent, 377 et seq.; stir among the rivers, 377; cx- tracts, 378.
Congregational union, see Union. Conversion, difficulty of ascertaining the precise time of, 487. Coptic church, state of the, 443. Coral islands, description of, 36. Crantz's history of Greenland, 118 et seq.; origin of the mission, 124, note; eulogy on the work, 137; merits of the present edition, ib. Cunningham's, Allan, sir Marmaduke Maxwell, 259 et seq.; character and argument of the poem, 260; soliloquy of Halbert Comyne, 261; scene from the drama, 262; popular superstitions, 263; scene, 265; scene, and song of rioom,'
267; character of author's talents, 277; hints on the advisableness of a regard to moral delicacy, 277; song, my heart is in Scotland,' 278; song,
a weary bodie's blythe,' ib. Cunningham's, J. W., Sermons, 225 et seq.; character of the author, 225; cast and merits of the volume, 226; author's views in the publication, 226; remarks on expository preaching, 228; address to the subjects of decay in religion, 229; apology for not preaching faith only, 230; evangelical preaching necessarily practical, 231; antinomian- ism the crime of every age, ib.; what may be attained to without Divine influ- ence, 233; the Spirit's influence necessary to bring truth to bear on the conduct, ib. ; what moral qualities can have no existence except by Divine influence, 235; the besetting sin, 236; exhortation to fol- low peace with men of all opinions and characters, 237.
Dealtry's sermon on the death of Owen,
564, et seq.; death-beds an uncertain test of character, 567; see Owen. Desert of Sinai, course of the Israelites through, 41.
of Suez, description of, 290. Deserts, effect of inhabiting, 201. Dissenters, modern, history of, 541, el seq.
Domestic medicine, danger of tamper- ing with, 90, 2. Dort. synod of, 114.
Douglas's hints on missions, 118 et seq.; remarks on the missionary spirit of the present day, 119; overwhelming magnitude of the sphere of exertion, ib.; efficiency of the means and re- sources within our power, 120; the ages of Christian purity, ages of Chris- tian exertion, 121; cause of the decay of the missionary spirit in reformed churches, 122; society for the propaga- tion of the Gospel, 123; importance of the missionary spirit to the well- being of churches, 123; revival of the spirit in England, ib.; London Missionary Society, ib. ; first Moravian missionaries, 124, note; formation of the church missionary society, 124; importance of native assistance, 126; anticipated effects of general education and missionary colleges, ib. ; claims of India, 127; its peculiar relation to other countries of the East, 128; ultra- Ganges nations, ib.; prevalence of Mahommedanism among the Malay tribes, 129; state of Christianity among
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