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"Unless thou set these viziers both

"From love's dominion free,—

"That I unrivall'd may possess

"The lady I adore,—

"That outward smile and inward curse,

I may not witness more."

The sage magician knew the king

He strictly must obey;

The sage magician knew his head
Must for his failure pay.

This learn'd enchanter did to voice
And feature give good heed,
He knew the master lines that to
The master passions lead.

He on the fav'rites fix'd his eye

With penetrating look;

He read their passions, tempers, thoughts,

As in a printed book.

Then rubb'd his brow and mused o'er

The king's severe command;

He calls-a lovely maid appears,

None fairer in the land.

He to the vizier Selim turns;

"Be this thy fav'rite fair, "Nor blush to own how flexible "Thy easy paasions are.

“Go nymph, employ thy power to charm, "Thou❜lt aim a happier dart;"

He turn'd upon the other then

And stabb'd him to the heart.

"I dar'd not trifle, mighty prince, "Thine anger to endure;

"This vizier lov'd, and all the world

"Contain'd no other cure."

Ω.

DOMESTIC LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Lately published at Andover, Mass. in one large and handsomely printed octavo of about 600 pages, Archbishop Newcome's Greek Harmony of the Gospels, reprinted from the text of Griesbach, with select various readings. The superintendance of this edition appears to have been undertaken as a sort of academic exercise by the Junior Class of the Andover Theological Seminary. The Greek character is remarkably neat and clear, and every care appears to have been taken in the revision of the press; but in other respects the edition has no farther claims to originality than the union of the improved text of Griesbach to Newcome's system of harmonizing. Newcome's excellent notes are added to the volume.

An original work by Dr. J. Morgan, of Richmond, Va. has been announced, under the title of Medical Philosophy, in which an attempt is made to develop the laws of animal life, and intellectual and moral agency, together with the nature and cure of diseases.

Buckminster's Sermons. In our number for September, 1814, we noticed the first edition of this volume. Though its circulation has hitherto been confined chiefly to Massachusetts, yet so favourable has been its reception, that a second edition has been found necessary in less than six months. The editors have added to this edition Mr. Buckminster's elegant oration on the dangers and duties of men of letters, delivered some years ago before the BK Society, and originally published in the Boston Anthology.

William Sampson, Esq. of New York, has ready for the press and will shortly publish, a report of the Steamboat Cause as lately argued before the Legislature of New Jersey, containing the whole body of testimony relating to the history and invention of Steamboats, many anecdotes of the life of the late Mr. Fulton, together with the argu ments of Messrs. Emmett, Aaron Ogden, Hopkinson and Southard, in this case. It will be printed in one vol. 8vo. of about 500 pages.

Horatio G. Spafford, of Albany, has issued proposals for a new monthly publication to be called the American Magazine. It will contain besides the usual miscellany, a department devoted to agriculture and to the mechanic arts, together with an Historical Register accompanied with state papers and other public documents. It is to be printed in monthly numbers of 36 octavo pages each, with occasional Engravings.

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FOREIGN LITERATURE AND THE ARTS.

The Burgeois Gallery of Dulwich. This elegant building which has been just completed, is described as presenting the most unique object of any structure in Great Britain. It serves at once as a mausoleum of the late Sir Francis Burgeois, a name well known even on this side of the Atlantic to every lover of the arts, and of his friends Mr. and Mrs. Des Ensans; and as a Picture Gallery of the finest specimens of the various schools of the art.

Sir Francis left by his last will 10,000/. sterling, to build and secure to the public the exhibition of this Gallery, which consists of three hundred and seventy one pictures, valued at 50,000%. sterling; with a direction that a Mausoleum should be erected for himself, and his two friends, connected with this Gallery.

The Gallery contains specimens of Leonardi Da Vinci, Raphael, Corregio, Del Sarto, Titian, Carlo Dulci, The Carraccis, Guido, Rubens, Rembrandt, Poussin, Wouvermanns, and many others, the greatest names in the art. The Mausoleum is fitted up like a chapel or oratory, and is a master-piece of strong effect. It is lighted from the roof through a lanthern of orange coloured glass, which producing the gloom of candle light, creates a solemnity that is highly impressive. The bodies are deposited in Sarcophagi, placed in recesses; that of the founder, behind an elegant altar piece.

Recently published in London, the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, from their commencement in 1665, to the year 1800, abridged, with Notes and Biographical Illustrations, by Drs. Hutton, Shaw and Pearson. In 18 volumes, 4to.

The difficulty of procuring a complete set of the Transactions of the Royal Society, which comprise a treasure of facts and discoveries in every branch of demonstrative and experimental knowledge, has for a long time caused a reprint of that valuable work to be eagerly desired. It has been several times projected, but as often abandoned on account of the great expense of the undertaking. At last it was determined to publish an Abridgment of the work, upon a plan which should render it a substitute for the Original, as complete as moderate limits and a reasonable price would allow.

This is a work which we cannot hope to see very soon republished in this country. As there are scarcely any complete copies of the Philosophical Transactions to be found here, we recommend this Abridgment as a work proper to be added to our public and College Libraries.

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Voyage round the World, in the years 1803, 4, 5, and 6, by order of his imperial majesty Alexander the First, on board the ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the command of Captain A. Y. Von Krusenstern. Translated from the orginal German, by Richard Belgrave Hopper, Esq. 4to. pp. 750.

Voyages and Travels in various parts of the World, during the years 1803, 4, 5, 6, and 7. By G. H. Von Langsdorf, Aulic Counsellor to his majesty the Emperor of Russia, &c. 4to. pp. 370.

[From the Eclectic Review.]

BOTH the works before us are dedicated to the Emperor Alexander, with a laudable brevity, and with less of oriental incense than might have been expected. Krusenstern's volume is the basis of whatever is, or can be, published on the subject of the voyage of which it is the regular narration, with all the useful nautical minutiæ, and, perhaps, a number that might have been spared; at least, that will appear superfluous in this country, VOL. V. New Series.

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after such a number of published voyages have rendered the ordinary circumstances of the navigation of every sea familiar. But certainly they give an advantageous display of skill, and proof of extreme and unremitting attention, in the seamanship and the scientific duties of the expedition. Langsdorf very properly declines a regular and minute report of progress, and, with little of any thing resembling method, enlarges, in description and observation, on those physical and moral appearances which nature had so kindly reserved, in various parts of her sea and land, for his amusement.

The translator of Krusenstern makes no claims for him on the ground of authorship.

"The motto which Captain K. has prefixed to his book,' Les Marins ecrivent mal, mais avec assez de candeur,' is certainly exemplified in his own instance. The characteristic features of the work is that of accuracy, rather than elegance of description. An uncouth style, and a cold precision of expression, must ever preclude the author from ranking with some of our circumnavigators, who, in their descriptions and narratives, have displayed a warmth of colouring, a taste and feeling, worthy of the wonderful talents which insured the successful exemption of new and adventurous voyages. The translator felt, however, that any improvement which might bring it nearer to other works of a similar nature, could only be effected by a considerable alteration in the style, and the infusion of some little warmth and sentiment into those descriptive parts which would admit of it without injury to the sense, or a departure from the truth. But such a step would have been to assume a license which he conceived he was by no means warranted to take; and as his aim was to produce a correct, and not an amended, copy, he had no alternative but to follow the original with that precision which he conceives to be absolutely necessary in translating a work of this nature, and on which, indeed, its value so mainly depends,"

The captain prefixes an introduction to explain the origin and intention of the undertaking. He takes a brief retrospect of the trade of Russia during the last century, and regrets its having been so much in the management of foreigners, "who, having acquired wealth at the expense of our country, quit the empire in order to expend it in their own." The remedy for this, is to animate the natives to patriotic zeal and enterprise, and he adds, apparently with the most perfect complacency in the excellent constitution of his country, "this energy, this patriotism, they can only be inspired with, in a country which, like Russia, depends on the will of a single person, by its ruler." He relates the rise and progress of the Russian-American Company, formed of merchants trading in the sea between the north-east regions of Asia, and the north-west of America. The factories

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