LITERARY CHRONICLE FOR THE YEAR 1825; CONTAINING A REVIEW OF ALL NEW PUBLICATIONS OF VALUE AND INTEREST; ORIGINAL POETRY, ESSAYS, AND ANECDOTES; AND FORMING An Analysis and General Repository OF LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, ARTS, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, THE DRAMA, LONDON: PUBLISHED BY DAVIDSON, SURREY STREET, ONE DOOR FROM THE STRAND. SOLD ALSO BY SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL, STATIONERS' HALL COURT; RAY, CREED LANE; RICHARDSON, AND CO., GLASGOW; AND BY ALL OTHER BOOKSELLERS AND NEWSVenders. It is a peculiar characteristic of this Work, that every Volume is complete in itself. INDEX FOR THE YEAR 1825. Academy, Royal, Exhibition of the, 300, Companies, new, 90, 563 317 Accomplishments, female. 838 Alexander, Emperor, anecdotes of, 831 Anatomical Invention, singular, 223 ANECDOTES, BON MOTS, &c. in Annual Biography, its piracies, 87 Apthecaries' bill, on the, 268 Ardennes, aecount of the, 162 Ate, Joan of, 673 Connecticut, blue laws of, 145 Corn Monopoly, evils of, 761 Cossacks, anecdotes of the, 194 Beauties and Authors, 635 -, Martin's picture of the, 762 Death, on the punishment of, 595 ASMODEUS, the Rambles of, 59, 76, 124, Dead, burning of the, 840 218, 254, 283, 333, 380, 460, 780 -, Queries anent, 205 a card from, 557 Assurance, Essay on, 235 - Life, rates of, 836 Astrology. Sinith's defence of, 754 Anthors, entertaining and interesting, 268 Ha loon, ascent, 574 Binian Tree, extraordinary, 17 Barbers, on the decline of, 177 - defended, 503 Decameron, Illustrations of the, 842 Deserter, the, 587, 604 Diorama, the, 220 Doe, Johu, a tale, 278 Dollar, new academy at, 686 of the, 796 DRAMA, notice of, in every Number -, degraded state of the, 187 Dramatic Entertainments defended, 364 -, recollections of, 730, 748 BEE, the, see the last leaf in every Num- Eddystone Light-House, print of, 637 Brande. Mr., lectures of, 104 Bravo, General, anecdote of, 781 Brazil, account of, 97 be's Church, St. Window in, 829 b tish Artists, Society of, 206, 220, 255 Betton, Mr, memoir of, 636 ace's Original MSS. 698 Bermete, account of the, 771 Bali, a practical, 33 Bubbles for 1825, 775 Torning Well, account of a, 189 Burns, the birth of, 91 Byron, Lord, his letters to his mother, 28 and Southey, ib , Greek medal of, 45 -, Ode on the death of, 738 Calendar, the French, 751 Catholic Chapel, Moorfields, 109 Charles I., letters of, 690 -X, coronation of, 363 - Sweepers and Albums, 140 Cement's Danes, St., notice of, 89 Edington, Bishop, memoir of, 660 Excursion, a country, 633 Fall of Algiers, origin of the opera of, 78 FINE ARTS, see the respective subjects Franklin Institute, the, 764 Fuseli, Henry, memoir of, 284 Hayclif Mine, phenomena of, 115 Ice palace at St. Petersburgh, 195 Indians, Amorican, 136, 309, 329, 339, 339, Jews, restoration of the, 735, 764 Kent Indiaman, on the loss of the, 585 Kneller, Sir Godfrey, letters of, 353, 377 Lee Penny, the, 429 Levant Company, the, 369 Lieutenant, the, 57 Linquiti, Chevalier, memoir of, 766 LITERATURE and SCIENCE in every number. Literary Gazette, its origin, 188 - Fund, the, 317 –, St, proposed alterations around, Petersburgh, St., amusements at, 274 Pictures, the two, 757 POETRY, original, in every number. Pope's Letters, 351, 375 Popery, character of, 393 Portuguese Habits, 14 Press, the, 139, 155 Parsons in South America, 171 Pyroligneous Acid, on, 158 Queensberry Family, anecdotes of the, 425 Query, geographical, 12 Rail Roads, 776 Rangoon, mission to, 834 Ravenhill, Mr., memoir of, 621 Regent Street, new chapel in, 430 Lovers, ill fated, 57 Louis XV., anecdotes of, 337 -, anecdotes of, 817,836 Lyra, infant, the, 442 Man of the Moon, the new, 127 Miaulis to his Crew, a Greek song, 70 Negro Crimes and Punishments, 620 remonstrance to the au- thor of, 717 Nurse Craft and Nursery Literature, 169 552, 565 Rhodamaldi and Geraldine, 92 Rochester Cathedral, discoveries at, 94 Royal Institution, 821 Rufus, William, character of, 457 Russell Institution, the, 814 Russia, travelling in, 293 Sacrilege, French law against, 170 Salem and its Museum, 620 Salisbury Crags, 601 Sailors, characteristic anecdotes of, 37 Savonarola, the fanatic, 265 Scott, Sir Walter, conversation with, 501 Sebastian's, St., storming of, 787 Self-love the best Love, 376 Sergeant's Rings, origin of, 168 Sex, on the treatment of the, 51 Sheridan, R. B., anecdotes of, 641, 609, Sherwin, the engraver, 55 Slave Trade, evils of the, 577, 594, 613, Street Music, on, 315 330 Preaching in New York, 540 Theatre, morality of the, 121 Theatres, Watering Places, &c., 494 Too much Money, a Christmas song, 29 Trees, remarkable, 180 Tribunals, secret, in Germany, 632 Ta More, description of the, 705 University Studies and Learning, 811 Water, plans for supplying, 524 -- Colours, exhibition, 285 Waterspout, nature of a, 103 Welsh, manners of the, 134 Collet's Garland of Wild Flowers, 154 Complete Governess, 822, 838 Costello's Songs of a Stranger, 360 Coventry's Inquiry on Junius, 502 Davis's Library of a Bibliomaniac, 133 Don Esteban, 258 Doubleday's Babington, 472 Driver's Arabs, 437 Drummond's Origines, 275 Journal of an Exile, 263 Joyce's Chemical Mineralogy, 312 Judson's Mission to the Birman Empire, 633 Juvenile Sketch Book, 441 Keating's Expedition to St. Peter's River, Keelivine's Tales and Sketches, 550 Kennedy's Instructions to Mothers, 57 Lanzi's Histoire de la Peinture, 44 Dupin's Commercial Power of Britain, Letter to Sir Charles Long, 523, 512 468 Duty of Early Rising, 681 Edgeworth's Heury and Lucy, 423 Wesley, Samuel, his reply to the Harmo- Egan's Anecdotes, 394 nicon, 377 West's Gallery, 285 Whirlpool described, 103 Whitehaven, Paul Jones's attack of, 609 Wilson, Harriette, 155 Witchcraft in Scotland, 21 Young, Mr. John, notice of, 174 REVIEW OF BOOKS. Adams's Complete Servant, 534 Allais, Tablettes Ilistoriques, 20 Amulet, the, 730 Ancient Geography, 811 Register for 1824, 835 233 Emerson's Picture of Greece, 810 English in Italy, the, 692, 707 Examination of M'Culloch on the High- Facetio Cantabrigensis, 413 Legends of Ireland, 140 Ferdinand Franck, 803 Finlayson on the Dry Rot, 616 's Mission to China, 836 Fouché's Memoirs, 65, 84, 131 Gascoige's Path to Naval Fame, 818 Geulis, Memoirs of Madam de, 531 Gourgand's Napoleon and the Grand Hansard's Typographia, 753, 789 Hausset, Madame du, Memoirs of, 337 Hofland's Moderation, 570 Holdich on Agriculture, 795 Holford on the Penitentiary, 459 - Mr. Canning, 427 Letter Writer, Elegant, 632 Leper of Aoste, 137 Levant Company, Account of the, 369 Literary Souvenir, the, 756 Lines on the Storm at Portland, 186 824 Lyall's Travels in Russia, 104, 298 Martin's Milton, 237, 398, 541, 686 Mathison's Visit to Brazil, 433, 453 --s, the Two, 213 Moore's Life of Sheridan, 641, 662, 696,725 Morris on Landscape Gardening, 603 546 Mosse's Father's Love, 680 Neale's Views of Blenheim, 393 Reade's Broken Heart, 614 Rio de la Plata, account of, 545, 571 Segar's Expedition to Russia, 602 215 Napoleon in Russia, 105, 183, 203, Session of Parliament, 661, 584 Sherburne's Life of Paul Jones, 609, 627 - Trade, works on the, 577, 594, 613 Smith's Catechism, 281 Southey's Tale of Paraguay, 497 Stanhope's Greece in 1823-4, 163 Stanzas on Lord Byron, 373 Stirling's Journal, 616 Stuart's Dictionary of Architecture, 29 Surenne's Grammar, 714 Sylvan Sketches, 180 Tales by the O'Hara Family, 244, 273 Tales of the Wild and Wonderful, 723 Thiers's History of the French Revoln Thierry's History of the Norman Con Thomas Fitzgerald, 268 Thoughts and Recollections, 201 Time's Telescope, 794 To-Day in Ireland, 355 Topham's Evidences of Religion, 186 Travels of my Night-Cap, 305 Tremaine, 230 Nichols's Progresses of James I., 410, 500, Trimmer's Natural History, 50G 566, 809, 824 Nobles Plenary Inspiration, 9 Observations on Historical Painting, 285 Odes and Addresses to Great Meu, 129 Parry's Last Days of Byron, 289, 309 at the Pilgrims, 294 Perceval's History of Italy, 241, 265 Philomathic Journal, 693 Picard's Novice, 357 Picture of Sheffield, 36 Pictures and the Betrothing, 507 Holman's Travels through Russia, 273, Pocket Annual Register, 268 293, 313 Holyrood House, 600 Holy War, the, a poem, 631 Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, 424 Husband Hunting, 492 Cheap Corn best for Farmers, 773 Christmas Tales, 771 Churchill on the Scriptures, 602 Clark on the Teeth, 354 Hulbert's Museum Europrum, 678 Hyde's Alphonzus, 519 Jardine on Philosophical Education, 212 Poetic Garland, the, 811 Works, supplement to, 353, 374 Porchester's Moor, 583 Proctor's Journey, 470 Public Education, plans for, 598, 615 Troubadour, the, 486 Truth and Fashion, 427 Twenty-Ninth of May, 341, 361 Uniacke's Letter to the Lord Chancellor CHRONICLE THE LITERARY CHRONICLE Forming an Analysis and General Repository of Literature, Philosophy, Science, Arts, History, Biography, This Paper is published early every Saturday Morning, Price 6d. ; or 10d. if sent into the Country, Post Free, on the Day of Publication. Country and Foreign Readers may be supplied with the unstamped édition in Monthly and Quarterly Parts. LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1825. No. 294. minu NAME ADDRESS. Ix commencing a new year and a new vo- REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. Price 6d. there are many intelligent and indefatigable travellers on the continent, whose labours are not sufficiently known to us, merely from the hazard of translation; we do not mean the hazard of a sale, but that two or more booksellers may have pounced on the same work, and bring it out at the same time. This circumstance has, indeed, so much influence in the field of European literature, that we wonshutting out the mere English reader from der some sort of association has not been formed among the London booksellers for translations alone. It is well observed by the editor of the selves, if not in the strict language, at least vince us that the editor thinks it no inappro-work before us, that of the valuable works in the spirit of the Great Charter, that we would not buy, sell, or delay justice;' and the result has been the obtaining for The Literary Chronicle, a constantly-increasing circulation, and a character for critical integrity. priate offering on such occasions, and in this spective languages, only the smaller portion published by foreign travellers, in their reever becomes known to an English reader. Indeed, there are some which it would not pay to translate entirely, and yet contain much information worth knowing; then there are others which only appear in the conti Of our labours during the last year we leave the public to judge. The index will show that we have not been deficient in in- brage. But, although the Cabinet of Foreign nental periodicals. Now a work that shall dustry, as, in the course of the volume, critical and analytical reviews have been given of nearly 350 new works; and, had we been satisfied to decide on a mere sight of books, the number might have been doubled. Voyages and Travels is well calculated, both give us the spirit of foreign voyages and traan important desideratum in literature, but, vels, as the Cabinet does, not only supplies if well done (and the first volume is an admirable specimen), cannot fail of being extremely popular. A list of the articles the work contains will, we are sure, at once convince the reader that While we have been thus attentive to the critical department of the work, we have not neglected the miscellaneous features of it. Our volume for the last year will be plainer and cheaper edition should be pub- the editor has gone to sources with which found particularly rich in original correspondence, especailly in essays, sketches of society and manners, and a sort of running commentary on the vices and follies of the age, Under the head of Fine Arts, will be found a critical notice of the exhibitions, new churches, and public buildings in the metropolis, written by a gentleman whose intimate acquaintance with the subjects is only equalled by the freedom and strict impartiality of his remarks. It will scarcely have escaped observation, that since The Literary Chronicle was commenced, numerous rivals or competitors have started-and that too under favourable auspices, and have failed. But although we chant no hymn of joy or triumph on their fall, yet it must be allowed, that in standing against such opposition, it is clearly proved that The Literary Chronicle is successfully established. lished, for those who wish to consult the tion it contains, rather than for the tasteful up.. stated in the title: it is to give the best ex- terfere with its execution. the English public is by no means well acquainted. We have first about forty-five pages translated from Boie's Tour in Nor way; next comes a description of an Aurora Borealis; an excellent article on the changes in the climate of the Alps; the manners and customs of the Russians and Tartars; a dehemia; Von Richter's Pilgrimage in the scription of the rocks near Adersback, in BoEast; Webb's account of the Plains of Troy; Dr. Taucher on the Salt Lake of Inderskoi; Eichfield on the Eternal Fire at Baku; an admirable article on Russian Discoveries; a description of the Oasis of Siwah; the best dwell on the uses of a knowledge of geogra- now burning; and Baron Minutoli's Travels It would be a mere waste of time for us to account we have yet seen of the volcanoes phy, or to point out the various discoveries in Egypt, which, we believe, are in the Engthat yet remain to be made in that science*lish press. To these articles we must add an Thanks, however, to the enterprise of indivi- admirable introduction, containing a general duals and the liberality of a few governments, view of the most important geographical reevery year produces some new and interest- searches and discoveries during the last ten ing information respecting countries and peo It will be seen that we commence our Se- ple. our knowledge of which is imperfect years, and a well-written memoir of that in venth Volume with a new type, which ena- *See Nos. 23, 235, and 237, of the Literary Chronicle, in which there are some original articles by M. Malte Brun on the subject. telligent traveller, Humboldt. The selections, we doubt not, embrace the most strik ing parts of each work, and are very interest ing. We have little room for extract, but first quote the account of the eternal fire:-- This fire is in the peninsula of Apscheron, twenty versts from Baku, and is justly called one of the wonders of southern Russia. I have visited this spot: it is a burning desert, from the surface of which subterrane 1 |