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Art. XXVII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED,

: AGRICULTURE AND RURAL ECONOMY. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Bedford, drawn up by order of the Board of Agriculture and Internal Improvement. By Thomas Batchelor, farmer, 8vo. 14s.

The Plonghwright's Assistant; deing a New Practical Treatise on the Plough, and en various other important Implements made use of in Agricultare. With S.xteen large Engravings. By Andrew Gray, Author of the Experienced Millwright, royal Svo, 16..

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An Essay on the Earlier Part of the Life of Swift. By the Rev. John Barnett, D. D. Rud Vice-Provost of Trinity Colledge, Dubin. To which are subjoined, Pieces ascribed to Swift; Two of his Original Letters; and Extracts from his Remarks on Barnet's History. Svo. 5s.

Memoirs of Robert Carey, Earl of Mon-'. mouth, written by himself. Published from an original MS. in the custody of the Earl of Cork and Orrery; to which is added, Fragmenta Regalia, being a History of Queen Elizabeth's Favourites, by Sir Robert Naunton, with explanatory Annotations., Handsomely printed by Ballantyne. Svo. 10s. 6d.

EDUCATION.

Mrs. Leicester's School; or, the History of several Young Ladies, related by themselves. Ss. bds.

The Junior Class Book; or Reading Lessons for every day in the Year, selected from the most approved Authors, for the use of Schools. By William Frederic Mylius, Master of the Academy in Red-LionSquare, London, 12mo, 4s.

JURISPRUDENCE.

Principles of Conveyancing; being a Digest of the Laws of England, respecting real Property. By William Cruise, Esq. 6 Vols royal 8vo. 51. 2s. 0.

A Treatise on the Law of Tithes, Compiled in part from the Notes of Richard Wooddeson, D. C. L. By Samuel Toller, Esq. royal 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Practice of the High Court of Chancerv. By Joseph Harrison, Esq. Newly arranged, with the addition of the modern Cases. By John Newland, Esq. 2 Vols 8vo. 18s.

The Attorney-General versus Brown, Parry and Others. The whole of the Proceedings in this Important Cause, from its commencement, in November 1807, to its final Decision; containing Copies of the various Memorials to the Board of Excise; the Opinions of an eminent Counsel, taken prior to his Elevation to the Bench; a copy of a Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer; and other interesting particulars. Also a Statement of the Origin, Rise, and Progress and the Benefits which have resulted to the of the Concern; its Magnitude and Extent, Public in general. By W. R. H. Brown. The Arguments of Counsel taken in shorthand by Mr. Farquharson, are given at full length. 8vo. 3s. 6d,

MEDICINE

A Treatise on Scrophula. By James Russell, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Edinburgh. 8vo. 6s.

An Expostulatory Letter to Dr. Moshley, on his Review of the Report of the London College of Physicians on Vaccination. By M. T. C. M. B. F. L. S. 8vo. 1s. 6d.

Cases of Diabetes, Consumption, &c. with Observations on the History and Treatment of Disease in general. By Robert Watt, Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow 8vo. Ss.

MISCELLANEOUS.

The History of the University of Edinhurgh, from 1580 to 1646. By Thomas Crawford, A. M. Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics in the College of Edinburgh in 1646. To which is prefixed, the Charter granted to the College by James the Sixth of Scotland, in 1582. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

The Economy of the Human Mind, by Eleanora Fernandez, 12mo. 38.

Presume not beyond Measure, a SerioComic Letter of Advice to the Editors of all the Public Papers, 1s. 6d.

The Transactions of the Linnæan Society of London, Vol. IX. 21. 2s.'.

A Letter to the Right Rev, the Lord Bishop of London, containing a Statement of the disgraceful and immoral scenes which are every evening exhibited in the public streets by crowds of half-naked and unfortumate Prostitutes. 1s.

Major Hogan's Appeal to the Public, and Farewell to the Army. 2s. 6d.

A Letter to Mr. Hogan, on his extraor dinary Appeal. 1s.

A Short English Answer to a lơng Irish Story, being a Reply to Mr. Hogan's Pamphlet. 2s. 6d.

Chesterfield Travestied; or a School for Modern Manners, with Caricature Engravings. 4s. plain, 6s. coloured.

The Candid Appeal to the British Public of John Buffa, M. D. late Physician to the Aring Depot, Isle of Wight. 2s. 6d.

NATURAL HISTORY.

The Natural History of British Insects. By E. Donovan, F. L. S. Vol. 13, royal 8vo. 11. 11s. bds. with 36 coloured Figures. Also may be had, the preceding part of this Work, uniformly printed and embellished, in 12 Volumes, Price in Boards, 181. 19s. Also the Natural History of British Birds, in 5 Volumes, price 91.; of British Shells, in 5 Volumes, price 71. 15s. and of British Fishes, in 5 Volumes, price 101. 10s.

POETRY.

Portugal Laurels; or, the Convention; a Satirical Poem. 2s. 6d.

The Battle of Maida, an Epic Poem. By Lieut. Colonel Richard Scott, of the Hon. East India Company's Bengal Establishmeut, small 8vo. 4.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

Proceedings of the Grand Juries, Magistrates, and other Noblemen and Gentlemen of the County of Gloucester, on designing and executing a General Reform in the Construction and Regulation of the Prisons for the said County. By Sir G. O. Paul, Bart. 8vo. 6s. boards.

POLITICS.

Defence of the Convention in Portugal. By Edward Jones, Esq. 2s. 6d.

Ardent's Spirit of the Times; translated from the German, by the Rev. P. W. being the Work for the Publication of which the unfortunate Palm, of Erlangen, was sacriticed by Napoleon, the Destroyer; containing Historical and Political Sketches,

with Prognostics, relative to Spain and Portugal, Russia, Turkey, Austria, France and Bonaparte. Svo. 4s,

THEOLOGY.

The Anniversary Sermon of the Royal Humane Society, preached on the 19th of June, at the Parish Church of St. Margeret's Westminster. By the Rev. W. W. Dakins, LL. B. F. A. S. 1s. 6d.

A Sermon preached before the Ancient and Honourable Society of Free and Accepted Masons of England, in the Parish Church of St. Mary Islington, on Monday, June 27. By the Rev. Edward Batry, M. D. Rector of St. Mary's, Wallingford, Berks, and Grand Chaplain to the fraternity. 2s.

Discourses on the Miracles and Parables of our blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. By the Rev. William Dodd, LL. D. Lecturer of West-Ham, in Essex, and of St. Olaves, Hart-street, London. Second edition. 4 vols. 8vo. 11. 10s.

A Vindication of the Nature and Effect of Evangelical Preaching; in a Letter to a Barr.ster. Occasioned by the first part of his Hints to the Public and the Legislature. With a Postscript, containing Strictures on his second part. By John Styles,

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The Lessons of the Church of England, taken from the Old Testament, appointed to be read in the Morning Service, throughout the Year. With short Notes. Printed on a large Letter, 8vo. 4s.

The Lessons for the Evening Service are printing in the same form, accompanied with Notes.

The Object and the Conclusion of the Christian Minister's Mortal Life: A Sermon, preached at the new Meeting-house in Birmingham, September 25th, 1885, on Occasion of the Death of the Rev. John Edwards. By John Kentish. Svo. Is. 6d.

Two Sermons, on Christian Zeal, and on the Progress of the Gospel, preached at Palgrave, Suffolk. By Charles Lloyd, 8vo. 1s. 6d.

A Sermon occasioned by the Death of the Rev. Theophilus Lindsey, A. M.. preached at the Chapel in Essex-street, Strand, November 13, 1808. To which is added a brief Biographical Memoir. By Thomas Belsham, Minister of the Chapel, 8vo. 23.

CORRESPONDENCE.

We are sorry that the unexpected but unavoidable extent of several articles in the present number compels us to defer, till the next month, the insertion of our promiscd eritique on Baily's Doctrine of Annuities; as well as to omit those of The Fathers of the English Church, Vol. II., Gass's Journal of the Travels of a Corps of Discovery from the Sources of the Missouri to the Pacific Ocean, Jamieson's Dictionary of the Scottish Language, and Styles's Vindication of Evangelical Preaching; all of which will probably appear in the Number for February.

Several highly esteemed Friends are requested to accept our thanks for their ob liging * commendations and valuable assistance.

The Novel "submitted to the Criticism of the Eclectic Review" has not any claims, that we are aware of, to be excepted from the general rule, which precludes our noticing publications of that kind. The copy intended for our use will be returned, on application at the place where it was left.

The Reviewer of Lempriere's Universal Biography, (Ecl. Rev. IV. p. 1047) wishes it to be mentioned here, that, he did not in his account of that book notice Dr. L.'s revival of the calumny respecting the illustrious Howard's harsh and cruel treatment of his Son, because he could not then turn to the book in which that calumny was refuted. He now refers all who have any doubts on the subject to vol. iv. pp. 339, 340, of the Monthly Magazine, where it is proved on the authority of Mr. J. Wood of Shrewsbury, and Dr. R. Darwin, that Mr. Howard and his son uniformly manifested for each other an extraordinary degree of affection; that the son constantly spoke with gratitude of his father's kind treatment of him, affirming that "his father always allowed him to live as he chose ;" and that once, when a lady was lamenting, in young Howard's presence, the expence of his father's "extravagal though amiable eccentricities," and recommended that when he came of age, if any of the property was settled, he would not join to cut off the entail, - he exclaimed with great indignation to Dr. Darwin, on quitting the room-“ Sec; this who calls herself the friend of my father, wishes me to embarrass him! What good could I possibly do with money, which will bear any comparison with the good he has done?" Without referring to other authorities, it is evident that these statements are utterly irreconcilable with the charge of morose unrelenting severity, which has been so shamefully brought against this admirable philanthropist.

Errata in Vol. IV.

p. 963. 1. 6, from bottom, for son read grandson.

p. 1077. 1. 36, for terms read turns.

1116. 1. 24, for their religion read the irreligion.

1117. 1. 11, for moral read oral,

1119. 1. 20, for living read lying.

1127. 1. 14, for external read extended.

1129. 1. 8, dele systematic.

The price of Clarke's Edition of Harmer's Observations, should have been stated 21. s

(p. 1104.)

THE

ECLECTIC REVIEW,

For FEBRUARY, 1809.

Art. I. A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery, under the Command of Captain Lewis and Captain Clarke, of the Army of the United States; from the Mouth of the River Missouri, through the Interior Parts of North America, to the Pacific Ocean; during the Years 1804, 1805, and 1806. Containing an authentic Relation of the most interesting Transactions during the Expedition; a Description of the Country; and an Account of its Inhabitants, Soil, Climate, Curiosities, and Vegetable and Animal Productions. By Patrick Gass, one of the Persons employed in the Expedition. 8vo. pp. 381. Price 9s. Pittsburgh, printed; London, reprinted for Budd. 1808.

VERY few projects within our recollection have excited in more interesting kind of curiosity, by their first announcement, or the news of their completion, than that of which this volume records the execution. Our imagination had often wandered across the unexplored wilderness of the immense western regions of the North American continent, beholding all the romantic, and beautiful, and tremendous, and savage scenes, over which nature had maintained the sole empire for so many ages, admitting only a few gloomy tribes of the wildest human beings to witness her uncontrouled operations. And we were delighted at the information, that a band of adventurers had been sent to traverse the unknown region, in order to bring descriptions which would convert our vague fantastic visions into pictures of reality.

There is something exceedingly striking in the first view of such an enterprise. The more retired tracts of the vast country which the travellers are going to enter, are nearly as unknown, excepting merely as to the elements of which they necessarily consist, as the interior of the globe. From the unexplored scene being so vast, a certain mysterious solemnity seems to rest upon it; deepened by the reflection that, while thousands of years have been passing away, and while all the events recorded in nearly the whole history of the human race have arisen and gone by, the region they were going to behold has refused access to all civilized men, aud has been involved in a kind of sacred darkness, into which Vol. V.

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the men before us are the first that have dared to carry a light. They are advancing to penetrate into woods, and caverns, and vallies, which no man that could disclose their secrets by means of the pen or the pencil ever saw; and the gloominess of the aspects of those scenes strikes our imagination as frowning on the intrusion. A river, the very strength of which would indicate a course of some thousands of miles, meets them at the beginning of their enterprise, foretelling them what labours they have to endure, and what immense spaces they have to pass, especially when they consider, that the country near the sources of this great river is in truth but the commencement of that still more unknown territory, which it is peculiarly their appointment to explore. Without giving any excess of licence to fancy, we may anticipate for this band of men an incessant severity of labour, and a numberless train of dangers. The knowledge that there are companies of savages scattered here and there, while it augments the romantic gloom of the vast wilderness, seems to suggest omens that not one of these adventurers may ever again see the spot from which they are now setting out. Our minds easily represent their track as haunted and watched by those most cruel of wild beasts, till they come to some dreary recess, where they can be instantly destroyed. We are willing, however, to imagine them escaping this fate, conquering_all other dangers, and reaching at length the shores of the Pacific Ocean; and we sympathise in their enthusiastic exultation in having attained their object, after the progress and strenuous exertions of a whole year, of which each day's movements might be regarded as a distinct enterprise. But we sink from this exultation into despondency, when we recollect that now they have to return. When, however, they are at length returned, through a repetition and conquest of the same obstacles, toils, and dangers, they appear to us an elevated class of heroes, who will bear, as long as they live, a strong peculiarity, and a certain sacredness of character, as being the men who have seen and accomplished what none ever saw and accomplished before.

Now such a train of fancy was a very fine preparation for entering on the narrative of Mr. Patrick Gass, who relates, with the most invincible sobriety of spirit, the entire course of the identical enterprise with which, both in the execution and narration, we had dreamed that so many romantic, poetic, and enthusiastic sentiments would be associated. No man shall exceed Mr. Patrick in the faculty of keeping close to the direct business of the story, and carrying it right on, without ever digressing into a paragraph of reflection, or admiration, or wonder, or extended description, or triumph, or

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