Art. XIII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. Elements of Thought, adapted to the use of schools; and especially designed to aid the studies of young persons who wish to supply the defects of a common education. By Isaac Taylor, jun. 12mo. 4s. 6d. Tales and Dialogues in prose and verse. By Jefferys Taylor, Author of Esop in Rhyme, &c. With six engravings. 3s. An Inaugural Lecture delivered at the Common Hall of the University of Glasgow. By D. K. Sandford, Esq., A. B. Oxon. Professor of Greek in the Uni-. versity of Glasgow. 8vo. 2s. 6d. Essays on Intellectual and Moral Improvement, and the Social Virtues principally designed for youth. By J. Flockart, 3s. 6d. The Miscellaneous Tracts of the late William Withering, M. D. F. R, S, Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Lisbon, Author of the Botanical Arrangement of British Plants, &c. &c. To which is prefixed a Memoir of his Life, Character, and Writings, by W. Withering, Esq. F. L.S. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 7s. The Rules and Orders of the Court for Relief of insolvent Debtors, and regulations of the Office; also a list of the Officers; the London and Country Attorneys, with the agents of the latter, corrected to the present time; a table of the fees, &c. &c. and an Appendix containing a new and most useful Summary of the Insolvent Debtor's Act, (1, Geo. 4. c. 119.) with copious marginal notes, Occasional notes of cases, and an index. 8vo. 3s. An additional volume of the Elegant Extracts in Prose; containing esteemed ancient and modern Literature. By W. Ryan. 11. 1s. Memoirs of the Astronomical: Society of London. Vol. I. 4to. 11. 1s. The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan. 8vo. 12s. Evenings in Autumn: a series of Essays, Narrative and Miscellaneous. By Nathan Drake, M. D. Author of Literary Hours, &c. 2 vols. post 8vo. 11. 1s. A few days in Athens being the Translation of a Greek MS. discovered in Herculaneum: By Frances Wright. Author of Views of Society and Manners in America. post 8vo. 6s. The Works of John Home, Esq. Author of Douglas, a Tragedy, now first collected; with an account of his Life and Writings. By Henry Mackenzie, Esq. F. R. S. E. 3 vols. 8vo. 11. 11s. 6d. These volumes contain Douglas, a tragedy, and the other dramatic pieces of the author; the History of the Rebellion in Scotland, in the year 1745: in "the appendix to the Life will be found Letters from the Marquis of Bute, David -Hume, James M'Pherson, Dr. Adam Ferguson, Dr. Carlyle, and other eminent literati of the last age. ** An Edition of the Life of Mr. Home is printed for separate sale. 8vo.7s. POETRY. Sir Marmaduke Maxwell, a dramatic Poem; the Mermaid of Galloway; the Legend of Richard Faulder; and twenty Scotish. Songs. By Allan Cunningham. fcap. 8vo. 7s. The School Shakspeare; or, Plays and Scenes from Shakspeare. Illustrated for the use of schools, with glossarial notes, selected from the best annotations. By the Rev. J. R. Pitman, A. M. Alternate Evening Preacher at the Foundling and Magdalen Hospitals. 8vo. 18s. Ecclesiastical Sketches, in verse. Part I. from the Introduction of Christianity into Britain, to the Consummation of the Papal Dominion. Part II. To the close of the Troubles in the Reign of Charles I. Part III. From the Restoration to the present Times. By W. Wordsworth, Esq. 8vo. 6s. 6d. Memorials of a Tour on the Continent in 1820. By William Wordsworth, Esq. 8vo. 6s. 6d. Uriel; a poetical Address to Lord Byron; with notes containing strictures on the spirit of infidelity maintained in his works with other poems. Catiline, a Tragedy, in five acts; with other Poems. By the Rev. George Croly, A.M. Author of Paris in 1815, Angel of the World, &c. 8vo. 8s. 6d. POLITICAL. An Examination of the Plan laid before the Cortes of Spain for the recognition of South American Independence. By the Abbé de Pradt. 3s. A Letter to the Right Hon. Rob. Peel, M.P. &c. upon the subject of Banknote forgery. Clearly demonstrating that a Bank-note may be produced more difficult to be imitated than even the metallic currency. By John Robertson. Is. An Apology for the Freedom of the Press. By Robert Hall, A.M. Sixth edition. 3s. 6d. Thoughts on the Poor Laws, with a Plan for reducing the poor's rates, preparatory to their abolition. By S. Brookes. 8vo. 1s. 6d. A Reply to Mr. Hale's "Appeal to the public in defence of the Spitalfields Act." By the Author of "Observations on the Ruinous Tendency of the Spitalfields Act." 8vo. 1s. 6d. THEOLOGY. Lectures on the Reciprocal Obligations of Life; or a practical Exposition of domestic, ecclesiastical, patriotic, and mercantile duties. By John Morison, Minister of Trevor Chapel, Brompton. 12mo. 7s. Considerations on the subject of Calvinism; and a short Treatise on Regeneration; designed for the use of such as feel interested in the Inquiry, whether Calvinism be or be not the doctrine of the Bible and the Church of England. By William Bruce Knight, A.M. Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral, and Examining Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Llandaff. Copy 8vo. 6s. Sermons, chiefly delivered in the chapel of the East India College, Hertfordshire. By the Rev. Charles Webb Le Bas, A.M. Professor of Mathematics at the East India College, and late fellow of Trin. Coll. Cambridge. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The Imitation of Christ, in three Books. By Thomas à Kempis. Trans The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem; as connected with the Scriptural Prophecies. By the Rev. George Wilkins, A.M. Domestie Chaplain to the Earl of Kinnoull, Vicar of St. Mary in the Town, and of Lawdham in the County of Nottingham. 3d edition, 8vo. 108. 6d. A Treatise on the Sabbath; or, Illus trations of the nature, obligations, change, proper observance, and spiritual advantage of that holy day. Rev. John Glen, Minister of the Chapel By the in Portobello. 12mo. 58. A Catechism on the first principles of the Holy Scriptures, designed for young people. By David Russell, Minister of the Gospel, Dundee. 6d. Roses from the Garden of Sharon, being a collection of Scripture texts for every day in the year. 8d. or 75. per doz. The Works of the Rev. W. Paley,D.D. Archdeacon of Carlisle (being one of the Edinburgh Classics); containing Natural Theology-Evidences of Christianity Hore Pauline and Tracts and the Principles of Moral and Political Philosophy. With a life and portrait. 4 vols. 24mo. 18s. Institutions of Theology; or, a concise System of Divinity. With reference under each article to some of the principal authors who have treated of the subjects particularly and fully. By Alexander Ranken, D.D. one of the Ministers of Glasgow. 8vo. 14s. Unitarianism a Perversion of the Gos pel of Christ, a Sermon. By the Rev. The Young Communicant's Remem- TRAVELS AND TOPOGRAPHY. Travels in Syria and Mount Sibai, viz, 1.A Journey from Aleppo to DamarcusTM 2. A Tour in the District of Mount Libanus and Antilibanus-3. A Tour in the Hauran4 A Second Tour in the Hauran5. A Journey from Damascus, through Arabia Petræa and the Desert El Ty, to Cairo--6. A Tour in the Peninsula of Mount Sinai. By the late John Lewis Burckhardt. With a Map, 4to. 21. 8s. The Travels of Theodore Ducas, in various countries of Europe, at the Revival of Letters and Art. Part the FirstItaly. Edited by Charles Mills, Esq. Author of the History of the Crusades, and a History of Mahommedanism, 2 Vol. 8vo. H. 45. A Journey froth Merut, in India, to London, through Arabia, Persia, Armenia, Georgia, Russia, Austria, Switzerland, and France, during the Years 1819 and 1820. With a Map and Itinerary of the Route. By Lieut. Thomas Lumsden, of the Royal Horse Artillery. 8vo. 10s. 6d. A Dissertation on the Topography of the Plain of Troy; including an Examination of the Opinions of Demetrius, Chevalier, Dr. Clarke, and Major Rennell. By Charles Maclaren. 8vo. 9s. A ม THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JUNE, 1822. "Art. 1. 1. Lectures on Physiology, Zoology, and the Natural History of Man, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons. By W. Law rence, F. R. S. Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the College, &c. &c. 8vo. London, 1822. 2. General Indications, which relate to the Laws of Organic Life. By Daniel Pring, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, London. 8vo. pp. xvi. 352. London. 1819. A late very sagacious Philomath and Almanack-maker, whose astronomical knowledge of the heavens was unquestionable, strangely as he mistook their moral aspect, has been known to say, that he could never be brought to believe so great an absurdity as that one Being could uphold and govern all the worlds which he saw through his telescope. Young has said, " 'An undevout astronomer is mad.' But if so, Astronomy has had a large proportion of madmen among her votaries. Those who would have been idolaters in Chaldea, have in Europe only been something worse-atheists or infidels. And not Astronomy alone, but every department of Physical Science has exhibited the same perpetual struggle on the part of the wise men of this world, to exclude God from his own universe, either by the deification of matter, or by erecting it into a final cause. To annihilate, if possible, that vast, omnipresent, ever pressing idea of Deity, to bar it out from all the avenues of science, to hide from it, at least, behind the stupendous machinery of visible nature, has been the ceaseless effort of infidel mathematicians, infidel geologists, and infidel anatomists. And the greatest service which the utmost researches of science have rendered to the world, has been, to shew how utterly this is impracticable,-to illustrate at once the necessity and the truth of Divine Revelation; VOL. XVII. N. S. 20 necessary inasmuch as by no other means could human wisdom have found out God; true, because discoveries in science which could never have been calculated upon or conceived of by the authors of the sacred volume, have still furnished no one objection against its truth, which is incapable of a solution perfectly satisfactory to a devout inquirer. To an attempt of this flagitious nature, an attempt to convert Physiology into an engine of attack against Christianity, Mr. Lawrence's volume is indebted for all its notoriety. Had the Author honestly confined himself to his proper business as a lecturer, his name would probably never have been heard of out of the profession. Had he trusted to his abilities to conduct him to eminence by the more direct and honourable mode of scientific or literary attainments, he might have remained for life among the Too of able dissectors and phlebotomists. But, by proclaiming himself an infidel, he started at once into fame. There is no other way in which moderate talents can be made to go so far as in the service of scepticism; none in which the immediate return of distinction is so high in proportion to the intellectual capital. These French funds will yield from six to eight per cent. to the man of small means, while the same modicum of learning and ingenuity employed in the regular native channels, will procure for its possessor only lawful interest. We admit that this does not hold good universally. There are some circles in which a man would not be thought of much more highly on account of his discovering a contempt for religion. But Mr. Lawrence calculated well upon the character of his audience. He knew that, as the rival of Mr. Abernethy, he could escape from a disadvantageous comparison, only by becoming his antagonist, by leading off in a totally opposite direction. Could he but succeed in making Mr. Abernethy ridiculous, then, Mr. Lawrence might be respectable. He knew, too, that in the junior part of his audience, just let loose upon London at the expiration of their apprenticeship, there existed a strong predisposition to identify the sceptic with the philosopher; that many would be eager to attach themselves to the teacher who should hold out as a bonus to his scholars, an emancipation from the shackles of religious obligation. Those who have no love for religion, would gladly escape from its terrors. Besides which, there is something not a little flattering at once to the self-love and to the indolence of a half-read, half-thinking youth, in the idea of having a royal road opened to him, through the dissectingroom, to the whole circle of physical and metaphysical science. And how fascinating is even that professional enthusiasm which confessedly steps a little beyond the line of sobriety in |