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Art. VI. 1. Selections from the Works of the Latin Poets. With English Notes. Vol. I. Horace. 12mo. pp. 220. London. 1824. 2. Latin Versification simplified, and rendered easy to the young Student, in a graduated Series of Exercises. By John Carey, L.L D. 12mo. pp. 74. Price 2s. London 1825. 3. Key to Ditto.

12mo. pp. 68. Price 2s. 6d. London. 1825.

WE E have placed these useful little works together, as they are alike intended for elementary instruction, and, on the whole, merit our decided commendation, both as it respects: design and execution. The volume which commences the 'Selections,' consists of an expurgated series of transcripts from the works of Horace; the choice is judiciously made, the English notes are elucidatory of interesting points, and much care has been taken in the illustration of the lyric metres. If the ensuing volumes be executed as carefully as the specimen before us appears to be, on such a perusal as would satisfy ourselves in its adoption, they will be highly acceptable as auxiliaries in the business of education.

Dr. Carey's metrical tract bears the same character of knowledge and practical application which distinguishes his other valuable works on Latin prosody. A due attention to theory, while following up its details, will carry a pupil to a respectable point of progress in scanning. After all, however, it strikes us that there is a deficiency in our modes of prosodical instruction, which can only be supplied by the modified use of a musical notation. We have time without cadence, and whatever uncertainty may prevail respecting the classical adaptation of the latter, without some application of its principles, the former can never be adequately attained.

Art. VII. The Husbandman's Calling, shewing the Excellencies, Temptations, Graces, and Duties of the Christian Husbandman. By Richard Steele, A.M. With an Account of the Author, by the Rev. John Brown, Whitburn. 12mo. Price 3s. 6d. Edinb. 1825.

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HE Author of this treatise was, if we mistake not, the father of the celebrated Sir Richard Steele, although Mr. Brown does not seem to be aware of the circumstance. Well would it have been for that accomplished man, had he trod in the steps of his venerable parent. Mr. Steele's "Tradesman's Calling" has been often reprinted. His other works equally deserve to be better known. Few of the Nonconformist divines, of whom there has been of late so happy a resurrec'tion,' stand higher with judicious readers. We cordially recommend the present re-publication.

ART. VIII. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION.

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comparatively small number, and these are explained in so simple a manner as to be readily understood by the most inexperienced learner. The arrangement of the generic characters in parallel columns is such as to admit of determining, on a cursory inspection, the resemblances and differences of the several families of plants.

On the 22d of November, will be published, Time's Telescope, for 1826; or, a Complete Guide to the Almanack, and the Astronomer's, Botanist's, and Naturalist's Guide for the Year, interspersed with a variety of Original Pieces by eminent living poets, with prefatory poems by Messis. W:ffen and Howitt, and the Delta of Blackwood's Magazine. An Introduction will be prefixed, on the Physical Powers, the Intellectual Facuities, and the Moral Perceptions of Man, by Dr. Myers, and the volume will be embellished with a highly finished engraving, by Hawkesworth, after a picinre of Correggio, and some Original Music, by Mr. Samuel Westley

A New Medical and Surgical Dictionary, including the collateral branches of Philosophy and Natural History, as connected with Materia Medica, is in the press, from the pen of Mr Forsyth, Author of the New London Medical Pocket Book, &c. Every advantage has equally been taken of the many recent improvements and discoveries in Medicine and Surgery, &c., by the introduction of various interesting facts, observations and words, not to be met with in any similar work now extant.

In the press, Waterloo, or the British Minstrel : a poem, in five cantos. By J. H Bradfield.

Preparing for the press, Facts and Fancies, or Mental Diversions. By the Author of " Solace of an Invalid."

A new work, entitled, The Compre

hensive Bible, adapted for Pulpit, Study, and Family Use, in one volume, 4to., is now in the course of publication. By W. Bagster. The Notes are numerous and valuable, never Polemical or Doctrinal, but wholly Philological or Explanatory. The illustration of the Doctrines of the Bible is resigned to the Parallel Passages, leaving the Scripture to explain itself on all doctrinal points, and for this important purpose all the Parallel Passages are embodied, from Dr. Blayney, (whose references are adopted by Bp. Mant and Dr. D'Oyley,) Canne, Brown, Bp. Wilson, Dr. A, Clarke, Scott, and those in Bagster's Polyglott; all of which, having been first arranged and adapted for ready reference, by the indefatigable Editor of this " Comprehensive Edition" of the Sacred Writings, are printed in two columns in the centre of the page. Three varieties are printing-small, large, and largest paper, The whole will be completed in about Seven Parts, and the entire price of the first size will not exceed 11. 10s.

Proposals have been issued for publishing, by subscription, under the sanction of the Directors of the London Missionary Society, The Narrative of a Tour, by a Party of the Missionaries in the Sandwich Islands, around Hawaii, the principal of those Islands. By the Rev. W. Ellis, Missionary from the Society and Sandwich Islands. The work will form one octavo volume, embellished with a map and other engravings.

Preparing for publication, Pastoral Memorials; being a Selection from the Manuscripts of the late Rev. John Ryland, D.D. of Bristol; with a Memoir of the Author, and a fac-simile of his hand-writing. In one large volume, 8vo. Price to Subscribers, 14s.

In the press, Characters Contrasted; or, Character Modified by Education. By the Author of the "Mirven Family." In one vol. 12mo.

On the first of November, will be published, the Rev. Robert Hall's Sermon on the Death of Dr. Ryland.

Just ready, Memoirs of the late Rev. S. Morell, of Norwich. By the Rev. J. Binney, of Newport. In one vol. 12mo. The English-Gaelic and Gaelic-English Dictionary, which was nearly ready for publication, when destroyed at Mr. Moyes's fire, in Greville-street, last year,

is again printed, and will be published early in November. To it is appended, a Grammar of the Gaelic Language; the whole forming one large 4to. volume, containing nearly 1100 closely printed pages. This may be said to be the first Dictionary of the Gaelic ever published, all former attempts deserving no higher title than that of a Vocabulary. A great

portion of the impression, which is very limited, is subscribed for. It is dedi cated, by permission, to the King.

Early in November, will be published, the First Part of a New Work, uniform in size to the Percy Anecdotes, with portraits, price 2s. 6d., under the title of Laconics; or, the Best Words of the Best Authors, with the authorities given.

ART. IX. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.

EDUCATION.

Just published, The Principal Roots of the Latin Language, simplified by a Display of their Incorporation into the English Tongue, with copious Notes; forming part of Mr. Hall's Intellectual System of Education (as explained in a public Lecture delivered at Willis's Rooms, on Saturday, the 8th of May, 1824), whereby an Adult, previously unacquainted in the slightest degree with Latin, was enabled, in the short space of only Seven Days, to acquire so considerable a knowledge of the Latin Lauguage, as to translate, parse, and scan, the whole of the First Book of Virgil's Eneid. Royal 8vo. 8s. 6d.; or, 10s. bd.

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Essay on the Nature and Structure of the Chinese Language; with suggestions on its more extensive study. By Thomas Myers, Trin. Col. Camb. 1s.

Sacred Harmonies; composed and arranged for three and four voices, with an accompaniment for the piano-forte or organ. By T. Edwards. 12s.

Lyra Sacra: Select Extracts from the Cathedral Music of the Church of England. Adapted for one, two, three, and four voices; with an accompaniment for the organ or piano forte. By the Rev. Jos. Jowett, M.A. Rector of Solk Willoughby. Part II. 7s. 6d.

A Vindication of the Proceedings of the Edinburgh Bible Society relative to the Apocrypha, against the aspersions of the Eclectic Review. 6d.

Remarks on the Controversy respecting the Apocrypha. Reprinted from the

Eclectic Review. 6d.

Dr. Grey's Memoria Technica; or, Method of Artificial Memory applied to, and exemplified in the Sciences of History and Chronology; together with a New Appendix and Index Verborum. Revised, abridged, and adapted to general use, by John Henry Todd. Foolscap 8vo. 4s. 6d.

THEOLOGY.

Aids to Reflection in the Formation of a Manly Character, on the several grounds of Prudence, Morality, and Religion; illustrated by select passages from our Elder Divines, especially from Archbishop Leighton. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq. Post 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Reformation and the Papal System; or, Remarks on Two Letters upon those Subjects, in the Book of the Roman Catholic Church. 8vo. 1s. 6d. sd.

A Discourse on the Moral Influence of Trade, being one of a Course of Lectures on Moral Influence. By Jacob Kirkman Foster, of Rochdale. 8vo. 8d.

A Review of Nonconformity: a discourse delivered at the ordination of the Rev. J. Kennedy, at Bury, Lancashire. By John Ely, Rochdale. 1s.

TOPOGRAPHY.

Narrative of a Journey into Khorasan ; including some Account of the Countries to the north-east of Persia; with Remarks upon the National Character, Government, and Resources of that Kingdom. By James B. Frazer, Author of a Tour in the Himala Mountains, &c. In one vol. 4to. with a new Map by Arrowsmith. 31. 3s.

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ECLECTIC REVIEW,

FOR DECEMBER, 1825.

Art. I. Travels in the Central Portions of the Mississippi Valley, comprising Observations on its Mineral Geography, Internal Resources, and Aboriginal Population. Performed under the Sanction of the U. S. Government. By Henry R. Schoolcraft. New York. 1825.

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HE munificent encouragements with which the British Government has fostered the growing ardour of modern discovery, will be best estimated when placed in contrast with the reluctant and parsimonious patronage of other States. There is not a region of the earth that has not been trodden by bands of English explorers; not a sea that has not been vexed by our dauntless navigators. The ancient limits of nature seem to have given way before the restless and unwearied spirit of enterprise. The Arctic ice has but feebly arrested our progress. India, the heart of Central Africa, the numerous islands that inlay the Pacific, South America, and the remote frontiers of the United States themselves, all bear equal testimony to the ardent zeal of our scientific adventurers, and the expansive and liberal policy which stimulates and rewards their labours.

Economy in nations, as well as in individuals, is a distributive virtue; nor does it deserve a place among the virtues, but as it regulates and apportions its means with a clear and distinct reference to each of the various objects with which it is conversant. Parsimony, on the other hand, is not always the magnum vectigal, the unfailing exchequer, by which states or private persons are enriched. By withholding the means, or doling them out with too sparing a measure, it stints the growth of every great and meritorious purpose, and checks and deadens the most useful energies of mankind. We have often been led to compare the penurious and stinted aids afforded by the American Government to the few scientific expeditions which VOL. XXIV. N.S.

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have been set on foot in the United States, with the enlarged and enlightened principles which have almost uniformly di rected its policy. On one occasion, indeed, Congress seem to have been seized with an unaccountable fit of generosity, for they actually voted a sum of money for an expedition to the Rocky Mountains. Yet, all the objects of that expedition were nearly defeated by the narrow-minded regulation which, to abridge expense, circumscribed the time allotted to it within the space of eight months, refused an additional supply at the moment when it was indispensably requisite, and after every impediment had been removed, and every difficulty surmounted!

Notwithstanding, however, these and other discouragements, several interesting publications, the fruit of laborious researches, have from time to time appeared from the American press, relating to American geography and the inexhaustible subjects of the natural history of that great continent. The western territories of the United States, have, in particular, received considerable illustration within the last four years, from the labours of several enlightened travellers; and among those who have penetrated into those uncivilized regions, Mr. Schoolcraft, the author of the volume before us, is not the least distinguished. His View of the lead-mines of the Missouri, was the first book that communicated any distinct or adequate information concerning the mineral wealth of the country, and it has the merit of completing the details which Stoddard, Shultz, and Beckenbridge had left imperfect. The journey which is the subject of our present article, was performed (to use the Anglo-American idiom) under the sanction of Congress, having had for its object, the purchase, from the Ottowa, Chippewa, and Pottowattomie tribes of Indians, of all the land lying between the northern boundary line of Indiana, and the main branch of the grand river of lake Michigan ;a highly fertile tract, capable of supporting an immense agricultural population. It is worthy of remark, that the peninsula of Michigan, of which this territory constitutes the southwestern part, has heretofore been deemed unworthy of the notice, and inauspicious to the industry of the emigrant; chiefly, we believe, from its not possessing the facilities of internal navigation its largest rivers being the Saganan (Anse da Saguinam of Charlevoix) and the grand river of Michigan. Yet, in the number of its smaller streams, it offers abundant compensation for the want of large rivers, and in every other respect holds out the most inviting prospects to settlers.

The greater part of the newly explored lands,' according to Mr.

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