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cated men, whose intelligence is before that of the lowest class of the people. If ignorant, they must be beaten: if well instructed, they must imbibe free principles, and thus become dissatisfied with tyranny. The result is, that we shall see the armies of many of the European despots ere long friends to the cause of freedom. The most aristocratic and despotic in every country are those most behind their fellow-countrymen in knowledge, and the ignorant only are their instruments: we imagine, therefore, that before a great while has elapsed we may see the soldiery in a new light, less the friends of slavery than of liberty.

The False Step: and The Sisters. 3 Vols.

Bull.

The first of these Tales is a powerful, well-written, heart-affecting narrative, and depicts a story calculated to harrow up feelings the most obtuse. It is what tales may not always be styled in the present day, a moral story of wrong, remorse, and the effects of guilty love even upon the innocent. We think, however, that the main point is carried too far to be natural. Mr. Langham, the father of several children who are arrived at maturity, finds himself, in the sequence of events, necessitated to detail to his son a secret of his family, which weighs painfully on his existence, involving the history of an erring mother and his own unmitigated anguish. After several well related scenes and various minor details, Jeannette, one of his daughters, marries a Captain Bathurst, who is acquainted with the history of his wife's mother, of which she has been kept in ignorance, and reveals it to her in consequence of a circumstance in her conduct which almost made the revelation necessary, when she immediately determines to see him no more. The situation in which her knowledge of her mother's guilt places her, is too strained and unnatural; but this is the chief fault in the tale, which, as a whole, is one of deep interest, powerful description, touching pathos, and inculcates a useful lesson. We scarcely need say, that notwithstanding the resolve of Jeannette, she became again reconciled to her husband; that her estrangement was the effect of a nervous disease; but that the hour of their re-union was near the last of her existence. The reader must refer to the book itself for the minor details, which are well worked up. The second Tale, "The Sisters," we have read with pleasure; it is a tale of merit and interest. These volumes do great credit to the abilities of their author.

The Affianced One. By the Author of Gertrude. 3 Vols. Bull. This is a novel not of every-day merit. It is written by a pen of judgment and discrimination. Those who wish, apart from mere amusement, to familiarize themselves with Italian manners, as they present themselves to the foreign observer, should read this work. There is much vivid description, somewhat of too great minuteness in detail, correct delineations of Italian city scenery, and an interesting story very creditably maintained, and calculated to fix the reader's attention, without flagging throughout the entire narrative. The author has, no doubt, been a witness of a great deal of what he describes with fidelity, and he knows how to display his knowledge to the best advantage. The attachment of Santa Croce and Lorenza should have terminated a little more honourably, or rather devotedly. We need not travel from England for an illustrious instance of fidelity, where personal beauty was destroyed, in a manner similar to that which leads to the last seclusion of Lorenza, and the marriage of the Prince Santa Croce with her sister. There is no slight power displayed by the author, and no small degree of judgment in managing his materials. We do not hesitate to pronounce this one of the best novels we have read for a long time. It is free from that slang which the concoctors of works of fiction, ycleped fashionable," so incessantly palm upon their readers, as the language of the upper classes. It stands in no need of puff or trickery to attract the public attention, for we are much deceived if it does not make its way upon its own solid merits. We can only regret that our notice of it, from the day of the month at which it reached us, is so hasty that we cannot find room to detail the plot. We are obliged to satisfy ourselves with recording our opinion of its merits, though but briefly, for our readers' information.

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Le Traducteur; or, Historical, Dramatic, and Miscellaneous Selections from the best French Writers. By P. F. MERLET. E. Wilson. This appears to be a useful work, adapted to facilitate the progress of the student in the French tongue. The explanatory notes are useful and satisfactory. The selection of nouns will tend to clear up some of the greatest difficulties in understanding the language; and as a whole, we can safely recommend this treatise to our readers. It is already in a second edition.

Dictionary of Quotations, from Various Authors, in Ancient and Modern Languages; with English Translations; and Illustrated by Remarks and Explanations. By HUGH MOORE, Esq. Whittaker and Co.

This is the most copious and useful of the works of its class yet published, and as a work of reference should be on every table. A verbal index is subjoined to aid in finding such quotations as the memory can only partially supply. The copiousness of the work may be judged of by the fact, that 4619 quotations are given in the body of the volume, and that there is a supplement with 311 more, in all only seventy short of 5000. Mr. Moore has laboriously re-translated those which he found in other works, a task by no means necessary in a work of mere compilation like the present. On the whole, this book is a most valuable addition to our works of reference, and confers high credit on the industry and research of Mr. Moore. The public is under deep obligations to those who thus abridge the labours of literature.

A Topographical History of the County of Leicester, &c. &c., being the first of a Series of the Counties of England and Wales, on the same plan. By the REV. J. CURTIS, Hextall, Ashby-de-la-Zouch. Sherwood and Co., and Simpkin and Co., London.

This is a useful work, the result of much diligence and laborious investigation into extant authorities of the olden time. A due attention has been paid to condensation, and every thing extraneous has been avoided, so that the whole is comprehended in 200 pages of neat and very close provincial printing. We cannot be expected to extract from a work of this nature, but we must pay our share of praise to Mr. Curtis for the way in which he has arranged the contents of his volume. To the owners of the soil in Leicestershire, of whatever class, this is a most valuable compilation, and no individual curious in topography, nor any public library, can deem a collection of works of the same nature complete without it. We are glad to see that all the English counties are to be completed on the same condensed plan, and we trust all of them will be as creditably executed as this by Mr. Curtis.

Plain Rules for Improving the Health of the Delicate, &c. &c. By WILLIAM HENDERSON, M.D. 1 Vol. 8vo. Dewar, Perth; Whittaker, London.

We find nothing new in this volume-nothing that is not to be met with in numerous recent publications, and in the works on indigestion constantly issuing from the press. We are the more inclined to put little store upon the merit of any medical work, where, finding nothing novel, we discover some pill, elixir, powder, or what not, winds up the work; the virtues of which turn out to be the burden of the song, but the composition of which is kept carefully concealed, and the genuineness of which is to be known to the buyer by the red label on the bottle. Physicians who have the good of the public at heart, and publish accordingly, generally give those prescriptions to which they are inclined to ascribe efficacy, at full length, pro bono publico. We shrewdly suspect this book was published for the medicine's sake, and not for the patient's; it is so much in the way of nostrum-venders' works in general.

Of the Vocation of our Age for Legislation and Jurisprudence; from the German of Frederick Charles Von Savigny. By ABRAHAM HAYWARD. Privately printed.

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This is a well translated work on jurisprudence, by an accomplished professor of the law. Of the merits of the original we are not able to form an opinion, politically speaking, but we are among those who do not subscribe to the wisdom of ancient criminal law of the civil law we do not pretend to speak; but it is fair to infer, that if one is to a certain degree barbarous, the other is so too. The Code Napoleon, both in Prussia and Italy, wherever it was introduced, had no enemies but among professional men. It was guaranteed to the Rhenish provinces; and all censures cast upon it resolve themselves into the question-"Shall we have a clear system of law, administered easily and rapidly, and based upon common sense, though objectionable in some parts, or an ancient system of so obscure a nature, that lawyers themselves cannot thread all its labyrinths, and that takes an age of time, enormous sums of money, and a life of anxiety and delay, to see once administered?" No one can hesitate about the reply. In the one case, too, the law is for the poor as well as the rich; in the other it is for the rich alone. We say this, because we observe the Code Napoleon is unsparingly censured in this work as revolutionary, and causing France to retrograde. This may be German feeling, but it is not that of all nations.

The Literary Souvenir. Edited by A. A. WATTS.

Longman and Co.

Mr. Watts, (whose Annual has barely reached us in time to notice it,) in his preface this year, is a little hard upon those who criticise works of the present class, and censures the flippant tone in which they are treated. We can only say that, perhaps with the exception of his own, and of Mr. Pringle's Friendship's Offering,' we find there is so great a similarity running through the Annuals, that for our souls we cannot define the difference between some half dozen of them. The same writers, the same quantities of prose and verse, the same subjects, the same tone and even flow of easy and agreeable writing, ever meet the attention. It is true, The Keepsake" is generally some degrees under mediocrity, and for ever destined to show the contrast between the beautiful in art and dulness in editorship. We do not mean to disparage the majority of the other Annuals, by imagining they can sink as low as that extraordinary publication in some of its avatars; though since its editor is judiciously placed on the shelf as to his productions it may have improved. How then can Mr. Watts censure the periodical press for its notices?-prove we can discriminate between twins as like as two brand-new sixpences, and we may succeed in the attempt.

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Mr. Watts's Souvenir is this year the best we have seen on the score of variety and correctness; and the compositions both in prose and verse are more fastidiously selected. He has introduced, too, the muse of satire in a caustic and wellwritten composition, entitled "The Conversazione," in which the lash, in several instances, is neither injudiciously nor unmeritedly applied. Several of the prose stories in this volume are excellent, and the verse very superior. "The Choice,' by Mrs. Watts, is a very sweet and charming piece, breathing the language and style of times gone by. Mr. Sheridan Knowles has contributed" The Death of Gler" and the Lettre de Cachet; the Editor Sketches of Modern Poets," and several very graceful and beautiful pieces. The "Review of Victims" is peculiarly good. We do not say it in disparagement of our other friends, but the "Literary Souvenir," for variety of subject, elegance, and choiceness of selection, stands foremost this year of the Annuals we have yet seen. The embellishments we have noticed in another part of our Number.

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The New Year's Gift, and Juvenile Souvenir. Edited by
Mrs. A. A. WATTS. Longman and Co.

In the embellishments of her volume this year, Mrs. Watts has outdone all competitors. In fact they are too good for children; and yet why should children not have the best? If the best part of our nature be not entitled to what is superlative, we do not know what portion of it is. There is a plainness and simplicity about the articles in this volume admirably fitted to their object. Mrs. Watts seems to feel precisely what is most adapted for children, and to publish nothing but what is easy of comprehension to juvenile capacities. Her volume is both a useful and elegant one.

The Euterpiad; a Musical Review and Tablet of the Fine Arts. 4to. G. W. Bleecker, New York, United States.

This is a work creditable to the American press, published fortnightly. It contains a good deal of interesting matter relative to the Fine Arts, both at home and abroad. It cannot fail to raise the opinion of all who peruse it, respecting the progress of the Fine Arts in America. The luxuries and elegancies of life in a new country, will necessarily be slow in progress; but we really see no reason, with such a specimen of the interest the more refined pleasures of the mind create in America, to suppose she is at all backward in their pursuit, when her situation is properly considered. We rather wonder at the progress she makes in the arts that embellish life, when we consider the mighty labours she is achieving, in raising herself to that point when, resting from her severer toils of colonization and agricultural improvement, she will have leisure to rival the old world in those luxurieswhich are observed to reach perfection only in the fulness of empires.

Homonymes Français, or the French Homonymous Words arranged in sentences on an entirely new plan. By DOMINIQUE ALBERT, LL. D.. and E. SMITH. Whittaker and Co.

This is a most useful and well-arranged little work, admirably adapted to aid the student's discrimination between words of similar sound, and their different meanings, in the French tongue. The plan is peculiarly good, and we recommend it to our readers as one of the best books of instruction in the niceties of language with which we are acquainted.

November, 1831.-VOL. II. NO. VII.

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The Preacher containing Sermons by Eminent Living Divines. Vol. II. 8vo. Griffiths.

This useful publication professes to give the sermons of eminent living divines at full length, taken from notes made by short-hand writers, who attend for that purpose. We have in the present volume, sermons preached by Robert Hall, Dr. Busfield, Rev. Mr. Scobell, Rev. Messrs. Irving, Clayton, Chalmers, Denham, the Bishop of Chester, &c. &c. This cannot fail, we think, to interest those of our readers who are unable to attend the preaching of these divines, or who may reside at a distance from their churches or chapels. It merits the public patronage, and we have little doubt will receive it.

Insect Miscellanies. The Library of Entertaining Knowledge. Knight. This is a continuation of the series of natural history, one volume of which we have before noticed. "Insect Architecture" and " Insect Transformations" have already appeared; and we know no works, within the same limit of space and price, more full of information and better adapted to impart a general knowledge of their subjects. The present volume treats of the sense of touch in insects; of their taste, smell, hearing, and vision; of their food and mode of taking it; the eating, lapping, sucking insects; their breeding, migration, government, wars, &c.; and lastly, the mode of collecting, preserving, and arranging them.

The Quarterly Journal of Education. Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. No. IV. C. Knight.

This useful work contains several very interesting papers. The first is an account of the state of education among the Waldenses. An account of the Gottingen library follows, and furnishes some useful hints to those who have the management of our public libraries. A paper on education in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, together with the Cambridge system of education, come next. The paper on the New England Free Schools contains much information. Eight reviews complete the Number, which, as a whole, is the best we have seen.

BERNAY'S German Anthology. Second Edition. 18mo.
BERNAY'S Prose Anthology. 18mo.

BERNAY'S Familiar German Exercises. 8vo.

BERNAY'S Key to his German Exercises. 8vo.

BERNAY'S German Grammar. Small 4to. Treuttel and Co. &c.

We have been induced to notice these works on German literature because they form the most complete collection for the learner of that language with which we are acquainted; and moreover have the advantage, by being the work of one pen, that they do not clash, but tend towards their object, without subjecting the student to contradictions in terms, or to opposite explanations, which infallibly puzzle. Mr. Bernay has been appointed German Professor to the King's College, Somerset House; and we know of no individual better qualified for the task. His mode of instruction, and his acquirements, are claims which in our opinion justly entitle him to high consideration in his profession.

Tales of the Revolutions, with a few others. By F. W. N. BAYLEY. 12mo. W. H. Dalton.

These tales are pleasingly told, but it is unfortunate that the author should have chosen to mingle fiction with events so recent as these revolutions, which we may almost be said to have witnessed, and which therefore we revolt from connecting with any thing fictitious. It seems necessary that a certain time should elapse after such events, so that our knowledge of them should become remote and indistinct before they are proper subjects for similar narratives. One hardly knows why this should be either, on any reasonable ground; but whatever is the cause, the result cannot be mistaken. Two tales founded on Polish events; a second on those of Belgium; two on the recent French revolution; the execution of Minotti, an incendiary; and two or three narratives, hardly connected with revolutions in their titles, complete the volume, which is one of poetry as well as prose. They bespeak their author to possess considerable talent.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

The Proverbs of Solomon; a New Translation, &c. By William French, D.D., and the Rev. George Skinner, M.A.

Bible Stories. Part I. By the Rev. S. Wood, B.A. 1s. 6d.

A Sacred History of the World from the Creation to the Deluge, &c. By Sharon Turner, F.A.S. 1 vol. 8vo.

POETRY.

The Shah Nameh, an Heroic Poem; containing the History of Persia from Kisomurs to Yesdejird, &c. by Abool Kasim Firdonsee. By Captain Turner Macon. 4 vols. 8vo. 10l. 10s.

Hardiman's Irish Minstrelsy. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 6s.

Ash's Poetical Works. 2 vols. 8vo. 1. 1s.

Glifilan's Scottish Songs. 12mo. 4s.

NOVELS, TALES, &c.

Italy's Romantic Annals. By Charles M'Farlane, Esq. 3 vols. 8vo. 1. 11s. 6d. The Eve of St. Agnes. By Mrs. Mason. 4 vols. 12mo. 1. 2s.

The Smuggler. By the Author of " Tales of the O'Hara Family." 3 vols. 8vo. The Bravo. By the Author of "The Spy, &c." 3 vols. 12mo. 1. 11s. 6d.

The Sister's Budget; a Collection of Original Tales, by various authors. 2 vols. 8vo.

Glen Mowbray. 3 vols. 8vo. 11. 8s.

MISCELLANEOUS.

Selections from the Edinburgh Review, &c. Edited by Maurice Cross, Esq.

4 vols.

The Traditions of Lancashire: Second Series. By J. Roby, Esq. M.R.S.L. 2 vols. 8vo.

The New Year's Gift for 1832. By Mrs. Alaric Watts. 8s.

Nimrod on Hunters, &c. 8vo. 15s.

Parker's Passengers: a Dialogue on a Tour in North Wales. Vol. I. 8vo. 7s. 6d. Valpy's Third Greek Delectus, or Analecta Græca Majora; with English Notes. 8vo. 14s. 6d.

Memes's Memoirs of the Empress Josephine. 6s.

Lardner's Cyclopædia, Vol. XXIII.-France, Vol. III. 6s.

Campaigns and Cruises in Venezuela. 3 vols. 12mo. 1. 1s.

Memoirs of the Late War. By the Earl of Munster, Captain Cook, &c. 2 vols. 8vo. 1l. 1s.

Leach's Translation of Gregory and Celsus. 18mo. 8s.

Historical Memoirs of the House of Bourbon. 2 vols. 10s.

The Amethyst, or Christian Annual, for 1832. 8s.

Brown's Sketches and Anecdotes of Quadrupeds. 18mo. 10s.

Snell's Guide to Operations on the Teeth. 8vo. 8s.

Dibdin's Sunday Library. Vol. V. 18mo. 5s.

Graphic Illustrations of Shakspeare and the British Drama. 8vo. 10s.

Four Dialogues of Plato; with English Notes, &c. Edited by G. Burges, M.A., Trin. Coll., Camb., for Valpy's School and College Classics. 12mo. 9s. 6d. bds. Plutarch's Lives, illustrated with Engravings. Vol. I. 4s. 6d. Being No. XXIII. of Valpy's Classical Library.

Divines of the Church of England. No. XVIII. 7s. 6d. Commencing Bishop Hall's Contemplations.

Livy, first Five Books, with English Notes. Edited by Dr. Hickie, for Valpy's School and College Classics.

Valpy's Classical Library, No. XXII.-Thucydides, Vol. III. 5s.

A System of Agriculture from the Encyclopædia Britannica. By James Cleghorn. Seventh Edition. 4to. 9s.

The Prospects of Britain. By James Douglas, Esq. of Cavers. 2s.

The Landscape Annual, or Tourist in Italy; with twenty-six engravings. 1. 1s. The Edinburgh Review. No. CVII. 6s.

Oliver and Boyd's Catechisms of Elementary Knowledge. 18mo,

The Union Monthly Magazine. No. I. 1s.

Master's History of the College of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, &c. By John Lamb. 4to. 11. 11s. 6d.

The Family Library, Vol. XXV.-The History of the Mutiny of the Bounty. By John Barrow, Esq. F.A.S. 5s.

The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London, for the Season 1830-1. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

The New Sporting Magazine. No. VI. 2s. 6d.

Roscoe's Novelist's Library, with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Vol. IV.-Peregrine Pickle, Vol. II. 5s.

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