ECLECTIC REVIEW. MDCCCXXXI. JULY-DECEMBER. THIRD SERIES. VOL. VI. Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λίγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Ἐπι CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1. LONDON: HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. CONTENTS. ACKERMANN'S Juvenile Forget-me-not Aikin's, Dr., Select Works of the British Poets, from Jonson to Beattie Amulet, The Ballantyne's Examination of the Human Mind 453, 508, 550 123 Beverley's Letter to the Archbishop of York, on the Corrupt State of the Church of England Bible Society. Its Constitution impartially examined. By a Clerical Member 277 By the Rev. J. R. Wreford 81 373 277 Cellérier's Discourse on the Authenticity and Divine Origin of the Old Testament. 493 Character of the Bible Society as a Religious Institution. By Clericus 165 Circular addressed to the Members of the British and Foreign Bible Society, &c., &c. 165 1 Church Reform. By a Churchman Coleridge, S. T., on the Constitution of Church and State Continental Annual and Romantic Cabinet Corbyn on the Management and Diseases of Infants under the influence of the Climate of India Dewar, Dr. D., on the Nature, Reality, and Efficacy of the Atonement Douglas on the Prospects of Britain Edwards's Enquiry into the Freedom of the Will, with an Introductory Essay by the Author of the Natural History of Enthusiasm Ellis's Polynesian Researches Vindication of the South Sea Missions Everett's J., Edwin, a Tale of Saxon Times , Dr. J., Letter to the Hon. and Rev. Gerard T. Noel, on the Constitution of the Bible Society 81 Forget-me-not, The 508 Frazer's Life and Diary of the Rev. Ebenezer Erskine, A.M. 267 French and Skinner's New Translation of the Book of Psalms Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; with an Introductory Memoir by W. Youngman. 217 Gorham's Memoirs of John Martyn and Thomas Martyn, &c. 449 Greenfield's Translation of the New Testament from the Greek into Hebrew 319 Pillar of Divine Truth ib. Haldane's, R., Review of the Conduct of the Committee of the Bible Society History of France. By E. E. Crowe. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia Humourist, The Illustrations of the Annuals Insect Miscellanies-Library of Entertaining Knowledge Jenour's Translation of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, with Notes Jowett's Lyra Sacra Juridical Letters, in reference to the present crisis of Law Reform. By Eunomus Souvenir. Keepsake, The La Trobe on the Music of the Church Letter to the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel on the Bible Society. By Fiat 82 75 237 469 Lives of Eminent British Statesmen-Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia Lyell's Principles of Geology Mackintosh's, Sir J., Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy Memoirs of Count Lavalette, by himself Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds. Edited by James Rennie, A.M. Naval and Military Bible Society. Speeches delivered at the Anniversary, 1831. North American Review, No. LXXII. Observations addressed to the Trinitarian Friends and Members of the Bible Society. Reed's Discourse on Eminent Piety essential to Eminent Usefulness Religion in Greece; with Facts and Anecdotes Robertson's Works, with an Account of his Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart Roscoe's Landscape Annual 453 Seaward's, Sir E., Narrative of his Shipwreck. Edited by Miss Jane Porter. 274 Smith's, Dr. J. P., Discourse on the Personality and Divinity of the Holy Spirit 59 225 537 Temple of Melekartha, The 28 Tooke's Diversions of Purley. Edited by Richard Taylor, F.R.S., &c. Treatise on Silk Manufacture. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia on the Nature and Causes of Doubt Tyerman and Bennet's Journal of Voyages and Travels. Compiled by James Waddington on the Present Condition and Prospects of the Greek, or Oriental Wilson's, J., Appeal to Dissenters on submitting to the Obligation imposed by Law, for the Religious Celebration of Marriage 62 Winter's Wreath 453 THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1831. Art. I. 1. On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of Each; with Aids toward a right Judgement of the late Catholic Bill. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq., R.A., R.S.L. Small 8vo. pp. 227. Price 10s. 6d. London, 1830. 2. A Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of York, on the present Corrupt State of the Church of England. By R. M. Beverley, Esq. 8vo. Fifth Edition. pp. 42. Beverley, 1831. 3. Church Reform. By a Churchman. Second Edition, small 8vo. pp. 226. London, Murray, 1830. FEW writers of the present day are so capable of furnishing aids to reflection' as Mr. Coleridge; but, aids toward at right judgement' of any question, his mode of treating things is not the best adapted to supply. What the late Mr. Hall once remarked of Dr. Owen, may with still greater propriety be applied to the Author of "The Friend,"-that he 'dives deep and comes up muddy.'* He is, perhaps, the most comprehensive thinker of the age, but it is a comprehensiveness fatal to distinctness; and the vague, generalized survey of a subject, which he loves to take, reminds us of a bird's eye view of a tract of country, or of the appearance of the earth from a balloon. And, if we may pursue the simile, from the elevation to • Mr. Hall was peculiarly happy in repartee. York, (from whom we heard the anecdote,) was Dr. Mason, of New zealously expatiating on the merits of Dr. Owen as a writer :- You must at least allow,' he said to Mr. Hall, 'that Owen dives deep.' Yes, sir,' was the reply, dives deep,' &c. as given above. Mr. Hall was ever ready, however, to do justice to Owen as a divine: it was to his prolix and perplexed style only that he referred. VOL. VI.-N.S. B H |