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Scinde itself, and the territories on

banks of the Letters from the Virgin Islands; illus great river, but with the Punjab and all parts of trating Life and Manners in the West In

Central Asia, where our cotton manufactures and metals are in great demand. These countries, Lieut. Postans tells us, promise, even in their present neglected state, a certain trade; "but are capable, in process of time, were the demands only made, of producing to an unlimited extent many of those staple commodities which form the great return trade in our Indian commerce."

The local knowledge and observations of this active and intelligent officer are valuable upon this subject, and he expresses his "firm conviction, as the result of experience, and having given the matter due attention, that our mercantile relations with the countries bordering the Indus are capable of extensive increase; that the command of that important river is not to be considered lightly, but as worthy of our most strenuous exertions, being a field amply calculated to repay our commercial enterprise; and that, in the navigation of the Indus by steam, on an extensive scale, will be found the only means to remove those impediments hitherto existing to trade with the countries on and beyond it."

Portraits of the Reverend John Williams and the Reverend Robert Moffat. Designed and printed in Oil-colors by the Patentee, George Baxter. Two striking oil-colored portraits of eminent missionaries, and apparently characteristic likenesses of remarkable men. Mr. WILLIAMS's published works, and his sad fate-slain by the natives of Erromanga-have extended his celebrity beyond the circle of Missionary Societies. Mr. MOFFAT, less known to the public at large, has a countenance so animated and expressive, that his portrait, with its background of Hottentots assembled in Parliament, denoting the scene of his missionary labors, is the more attractive of the two.

These prints, if we may call them so-for they have the appearance of highly-finished watercolor-drawings, though they are produced by the operation of printing in oil-colors-are very extraordinary and successful specimens of Mr. BAXTER'S patent process; and so completely do they resemble original productions of the pencil, that it requires a close scrutiny to detect the evidences of their being engravings printed with oil-color. The flesh-tints of both are stippled; but the other portions appear to be done in one case in mezzotint and the other in aquatint: the dress and background of Mr. MOFFAT'S portrait are in aquatint, and the effect is more clear and lively than that of

Mr. WILLIAMS's, which is comparatively dull and heavy. Spectator.

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Selections from the Dramas of Goethe and Schiller. Translated, with Introductory Remarks. By Anna Swanwick. Brief Thoughts on the Things of God and the Soul; in words of one syllable. By Edward Dalton.

"Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of John Lord Teignmouth. By his Son, Lord Teignmouth.

The Jubilee of the World; an Essay on Christian Missions to the Heathen. By the Rev. John Macfarlane.

Anti-Duel; or a Plan for the Abrogation of Duelling, which has been tried and found successful. By John Dunlop.

Cyclopædia of Commerce, Mercantile Law, Finance, and Commercial Geography. By W. Waterston.

Rambles in the Isle of Wight. By John Gwilliam.

GERMANY.

Talmud Babylonicum, cum scholiis, etc., I. Tractatus Macot, cum scholiis hermeneuticis, etc., auctore Dr. H. S. Hirschfeld, Rabbino. 8vo. Berol.

Erinnernugen aus dem aussern Leben von Ernst Moritz Arndt. Leipzig. Memoiren des Karl Heinrich, Ritters von Lang. Brunswick.

Handwörterbuch der Griechischen Sprache, begründet von Franz Passow, neu bearbeitet von Dr. V. C. F. Rost und F. Palm, 1r. Bd. 1st. Abs. (A-A). Leipzig.

Commentarius in libros Novi Testamenti historicos; von C. T. Kuinoel. Vol. II. Evangelia Marci et Lucæ. Edit. iv.

Leipzig.

Vorlesungen über Wesen und Geschichte der Reformation. Von Dr. K. R. Hagenbach. Leipzig.

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THE

ECLECTIC MUSEUM

OF

FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

AUGUST, 1843.

LORD STRAFFORD.

From the British Critic.

Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia, Vol. II. Eminent British Statesmen. By John Foster, Esq. London: Longman and Co.

INTRODUCTORY NOTE:

principles they are supposed to have something to say for themselves, and that, with peculiar significancy, they being dead yet speak. The deaths of such men are great facts, which, amid the shadows and uncertainties of history, posterity lay hold of, recognize, and feel, beacons in her troubled We cannot withhold from our readers an arti- and stormy atmosphere which fix the eye. cle so interesting as the following, although Look to the end, says the moralist; the there are some sentiments in it we do not ad- historian says the same; and as the orator mire. As might be expected, there are a few severe hits at the Puritans; but their descend placed the essence of his art in action, ants well know how to bear such things with-action, action, just so between a nation and out offence. The reader will find many eloquent passages, and much graphic description, especially in the latter portion of the article. We feel ourselves, however, compelled to divide it, as it occupies nearly ninety pages of the British Critic. Those who prefer to read it unbroken, need only postpone it until the issue of the next number.-ED.

her great man—the end, the end, the martyr consummation, concentrating the energies of a life in one grand blow, is the appeal which staggers and overcomes her, which vibrates through her frame for ages. Facts like these are the arms and engines of history, her two-handed swords and battle-axes, her sledge-hammers and batterWe have no fear of opening, in the pre-ing-rams, that beat down prejudices, crush sent article, on what our readers will consider a stale or threadbare subject. It is with pleasure we observe, that if ever the decies repetita placebit has applied to any portion of history, it does to the times of the great Rebellion, and antecedent to them. may be, that that was the last break up of the old system in Church and State; of the hierarchical pretensions in the one, of the feudal and chivalrous in the other. It may be again, that times of danger and commotion are most favorable for great and noble manifestations of human character. It may be, that when men die for their VOL. II. No. IV. 28

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subtleties, level the pasteboard argument into a high road for her truths. These and these only can meet the inextinguishable appetite in human nature for the distinct, the definite and positive, in truth or error as it may be; that aching void which clamors for supply, and which the teacher, political or religious, must somehow fill, or must give way. No cause can prevail, no principle conquer without them; a system that has not these must crumble and die. Happy and glorious that highborn regal line, who from the foundation of the world have one and one been singled out

for this especial office, who in evil and continued fight with the aristocracy, no stormy days, when the flood was coming feudal baron, prince of the empire, or lord in, have filled the frightful gap up with them- of the isles, had ever more of the genuine selves, and given to justice and truth the aristocrat. The feudal relation of the lord testimony of their being. More, far more to the tenant of the soil was just to his than recompensed are they for what the taste; nor was he without pride in the rehand of violence and the tongue of calumny gal part of his pedigree, and the corner of inflicted during their brief sojourn, if ena- his escutcheon, which bore the three lions. bled to bequeath to the cause for which The compliment might have been returnthey fought the splendid patronage of a ed:-nec imbellem feroces progenerant aquila name; if history adopts them for her own; columbam, often a deceptive proverb, was if around their footsteps linger the fascina- not balked in his case; and a heathen tions of poetry, and upon their brow sits poet might have drawn, in old epic style, honor crowned sole monarch of the univer- crusading Richard in the Elysian fields, and sal earth. the seer directing his eye through the vista of ages to the unborn shade of the last of the Plantagenets. Difficult it might have been to persuade the royal fighter that parliaments were as awkward bodies as armies of Saracens, and orders of council as hard weapons as two-handed swords. But doubtless convinced of this, the shade of Cœur de Leon would have stalked the prouder over the plains of Asphodel, as his eye caught the vision of the second "Lion" (so nicknamed) of the Plantagenet stock.

We need go no further for reasons why the names of Laud, Charles, and Strafford, still maintain that interest in the public mind, which even their appearance in the picture-gallery and the shop-window shows them to possess. It is a fact in the trade, we believe, that the demand for engravings of Charles has almost drained the stocks of the dealers in the metropolis and other places; and the artist at the elder university has recently supplied casts of the three heads for lack of older memorials. We are Of his youthful days we know little. He disposed to connect these and many other early attained proficiency in the fashionsymptoms with the general longing which able accomplishments of the day, and on has begun to be felt for a deeper ethics the ample Wentworth manors imbibed that and religion than what the last century taste for field sports, especially hawking supplied us; and not aspiring to the re- and fishing, which he always retained. To search of those generous travellers who the last he was a keen sportsman; and have lately threaded with such skill the thought himself too happy if from the toil forest gloom of medieval antiquity, shall and cares of his Irish administration, he content ourselves with a nearer and more could only escape for a week or two at cognate age over which, notwithstanding a time to Cosha, his "park of parks," in a tremendous revolution, the shadow of Wicklow county, and hawk or fish for former things still brooded-an age in hours ankle deep in mud and wet. His which Shakspeare wrote and Strafford act- correspondence with Laud, at some of ed; and without further preface shall beg these seasons, contains an amusing mixto renew the reader's acquaintance with one, in spite of alloy and extravagance, a genuine great man, a statesman and a hero of whom we may be proud.

Thomas Wentworth was born in London, April, 1594, of an ancient and knightly family, that had been seated at WentworthWodehouse, in the county of York, ever since the Conquest. The paternal line had gradually absorbed into it many of the first families of the north. Wentworth represented, as the eldest son, the ancient blood of the Wodehouses, Houghtons, Fitzwilliams, Gascoignes, and alliances with the noble houses of Clifford, De Spencer, Darcy, Quincy, Ferrars, Beaumont, Grantmesnil, Peveril, and finally, through Margaret, grandmother of Henry VII., mounted up to the Lancasters and Plantagenets. Though his whole political career was one

ture of political, ecclesiastical, and sporting intelligence. Presents of dried fish, of the Lord-deputy's catching, went up for the Lent table at Croydon, but the announcement of the intended generosity mingles with a lament over the "decay of hawks and martins in Ireland," which deficiency he consoles himself he shall be able to supply by establishing woods for their especial protection. Nevertheless there is an imperfection attending on human schemes, sporting as well as other; if the martins are encourged, the "pheas ants must look well to themselves:" meantime the archbishop shall have all the martin skins that can be procured either for love or money. Land keeps up the pleasantry-is duly grateful for the fish, but entreats him to send no more hung beef from the Yorkshire larder; the last having been posi

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