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REVIEW. Boyd's Sermons.-Kitto's Essays.

afforded to repentance. The questionable part of the service (at least it has been made so) is the absolution. According to Mr. Low, in his elaborate treatise on the subject, it has no prospective operation. Mr. Wintle quotes Dean Tucker's words,

"The form of absolution in our order, for the Visitation of the Sick, is justly liable to censure; because it pretends to such a knowledge of the human heart, as cannot belong to any mortal man, without an express revelation from heaven." P. 102.

We apprehend, that it forgives sins so far as we have power to forgive them; i. e. we make a grant subject to approval.

Whatever a conscientious and pious man would have done to produce a proper effect upon the mind of the sick, is shown in this excellent little work. It states, that the object of the visiting minister is to produce repentance, that kind of it which worketh salvation, for without that the visit is of course nugatory. It is the only means of rendering the office instrumental to public good. Here Mr. Wintle's judicious basis entirely does away any unjustifiable use of the atonement, with regard to men of wicked life. Young Clergymen cannot do better than adopt the modes recommended by Mr. Wintle, in this useful manual.

102. The Catholick Faith, a Sermon translated from the Greek. To which is added, a brief Refutation of Popery, from the Writings of the Fathers. By Hugh Stuart Boyd, Esq. 8vo. pp. 70.

THERE is much felicitous illustration in the writings of the Fathers, particularly in regard to those abstruse mysteries which we give up as inexplicable, without reflecting that it may be possible to exhibit modes of being, without presuming to comprehend its essence or properties. Tertullian is very happy in such illustrations, and Basil is not less so in his representation of the Holy Trinity. There must have been a beginning, say many scepticks, to the existence of the Son, but St. Basil shows, that the sound Scripturist admits of no such necessity. He thus explains the matter:

"Since a son, by natural right, possesses whatever belongs unto his father; and since an only begotten hath in himself the whole, not possessing any thing which is participated by another, we learn from the very appellation of the son, that he is participant of the father's nature; not having been made

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by a decree, but having beamed forth from the paternal essence, indivisibly and eternally conjoined unto the father; his equal in excellency, his equal in power, the participator of his glory." P. 7.

As to the Holy Spirit, he says:

"The soul, which is purified from material dross, and disengaged from terrene affections; the soul, which can leave behind it all created natures; which, like a fish emerging from the depths of ocean, can rise above its native element, can breathe celestial air, and swim on the pure waves of incorporeal existence; that soul will perceive the Spirit where it perceives the Father and the Son. It will see, that the Spirit subsists in one common essence; that it is co-eternal, commensurate, and equipotent; possessing whatever they possess goodness, righteousness, sanctity, and life. Of these perfections, not one is acquired or adventitious; but, as to cast a heat is inseparable from light, so also to sanctify and to give life can never be separate from the Spirit." P. 9.

Concerning the Son, he says:

"I partook of the celestial image, and did not preserve it. He [the Son] participates of my lowly flesh, that he may not only restore the image, but make this flesh immortal." P. 17.

Stronger representations cannot be made, and we are inclined to think with Mr. Boyd, that there are passages in Chrysostom and Nazianzen, fully equal to Demosthenes, Isocrates, or Plato. In subtlety and acumen the Fathers are exceeded by no metaphysicians whatever; and it is plain, that the scholastic Divinity is not of pure Aristotelian origin, but an alloy of the Fathers cast in the mould of the Stagyrite. Mr.Boyd has many shrewd remarks upon the unwarrantable corruptions of Popery, but we have room only to recommend his pamphlet to Theologians.

103. Essays and Letters. By John Kitto. With a short Memoir of the Author. 12mo. pp. 210.

MR. KITTO is the son of a working stone mason at Plymouth; and followed his father's trade. A fall from the roof of a house occasioned, in the deplorable result of the accident, a total loss of hearing. He was thus obliged to take refuge in the workhouse, and was apprenticed to a shoemaker. Through his deafness, reading became his amusement, and he cultivated good natural powers by composition. Liberal feelings dictated a handsome subscription, and have brought his effusions into broad daylight. He has evidently read and di

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REVIEW-Lawson's Lost Spirit.-Cadijah.-The Bar. [Dec.

gested much. We should little think that an author of the humble pretensions of Mr. Kitto, should write an essay upon Sublimity, and yet he has done so, and male remarks not unworthy the attention of the most profound philosopher. The sublime it self is, in our judgment, nothing more than that sensation or idea, which produces awe and admiration; and one which authors divide and subdivide merely because they make a Thesis of it; for Nature certainly has but one mode of creating the sublime, and the feeling is in its essence quite simple. We agree however with Mr. Kitto in the following position.

"Association is the chief source of the pleasures experienced by the Moralist, the Philosopher, the Poet, and by every man of taste and feeling. And it is from the paucity of their associations, that so many are incapable of appreciating the emotions produced by the sublime and the beautiful." P. 169.

Now it is certain, that we take no interest in any thing with which we do not combine ideas.

The following is a happy and tasteful remark:

"I never saw the passion of Love so admirably described, even in books devoted solely to the subject, as in the laconic description of Jacob's love. And Jacob served seven years for Rachel; and they seemed to him but a few days for the love he

bore to her." P. 181.

We all know what Touchstone says of those with whom Time flies swift, and though we should not like seven year indentures of apprenticeship to the courting trade, yet lovers and odd misers will do odd things.

104. The Lost Spirit, a Poem. By John Lawson, Author of Orient Harping. 12mo. pp. 129.

THIS Poem, which is written in good Miltonian blank verse, contains energetick sentiment, and powerful figure; but though we agreee with the Editor, that the execution of the Poem is unquestionably of the first order, we do not think with him, that it exposes error in a striking manner, and inculcates in forcible language religious truth, and that it will afford " great pleasure to every well-principled mind." (Pref. iv. v.) In our judgment, there is no pleasure at all in thinking that a person is damned to all eternity; and that the wretched Ugolino, who was starved to death, should have the further

misery added, that his soul was, through his impatience under suffering, utterly lost, we by no means think a subject happily chosen. Ugolino, if he had become the "Lost Spirit" here described, no doubt was insane through suffering; and we know, that it is not a divine attribute, "to crush bruised reeds." Furthermore, it is the opinion of various deep Theologians, that the evil ascribed to Providence does not exist, at least that God is not and cannot be the author of evil at all. It is rather to be supposed, that apparent evil is connected with some law in the economy of the Universe, unknown to us, and in reference to that law is a good.

105. Cadijah, or, The Black Palace; a Tragedy in five Acts. By Mrs. Jamieson. 8vo. pp. 104. G. B. Whittaker.

"MAGNIS tamen excidit ausis." We dare not sacrifice truth to gallantry. If Ladies will attempt a flight beyond the strength of their pinions, they must be content with the sympathy we are disposed to yield to their failure.

The Authoress of Cadijah, it is evident, has talents sufficient to bear her not only harmless, but with credit, through some less aspiring path of Literature; but it belongs not to her to grasp the wand of Shakspeare-a wand that resisted the attempts of Byron. Our love of the sex forbids that we should discourage any well-founded would direct them rather to subjects efforts of Literary amibition. We more congenial with their nature, and more suited to their real pretensions.

Of Cadijah, the less we say the better. The language, where it would be most impassioned, seldom rises above mediocrity. The Epithalamium is far

below it.

106. The Bar, with Sketches of Eminent Judges, Barristers, &c. &c. a Poem, with Notes. 12mo. pp. 160. Hurst, Robinson, and Co.

IT is evident that this Poem has been written some years-much of it is inapplicable, and much of it prophetic. It has some pretensions, but they are very unequally sustained. Many lines are remarkably healthy and vigorous, while others are as tame, feeble, and prosaic. There are some infelicitous parodies, and others more happily executed. Upon the whole, it is a harmless and entertaining effusion, which it would be captious to censure, and tasteless to praise.

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LITERATURE AND SCIENCE.

Ready for Publication.

Mr. CRADOCK's Literary and Miscellaneous Memoirs, with the Appendix (dedicated, by permission, to his Majesty), are now completed; and a Second Volume is prepared for the press, consisting of "Zobeide, a Tragedy (5th edit.) to which is prefixed an English Couplet to the Author by Mons. de Voltaire; likewise The Czar, a Tragedy, (2d edit.) inscribed, by permission, to her late Imperial Majesty, Empress of all the Russias; and Four Essays, Moral and Religious, addressed to the rising gene

ration.

Testamenta Vetusta; being Illustrations from Wills, of Manners, Customs, &c. as well as of the Descents and Possessions of many distinguished Families, from the reign of Henry II. to the Accession of Queen Elizabeth. By NICHOLAS HARRIS NICOLAS, Esq. F.S.A. Barrister at Law.

Traditions and Recollections; domestic, clerical, and literary; in which are included Letters of Charles II. Cromwell, Fairfax, Edgecumbe, Macaulay, Wolcot, Opie, Whitaker, Gibbon, Buller, Courtenay, Moore, Downman, Drewe, Seward, Darwin, Cowper, Hayley, Hardinge, Sir Walter Scott, and other distinguished Characters. By the Rev. R. POLWHELE. In two volumes 8vo.

The Eighth Part of "The Progresses of King James the First."

A Picturesque and Topographical Account of Cheltenham, by the Rev. T. D. FOSBROKE; with Medical and other Contributions, by Mr, JOHN FOSBROKE, resident Surgeon at Cheltenham.

A Translation of the first Georgic of Virgil, with Notes and Explanations. By the

Rev. R. HOBLYN.

P. Virgilii Maronis Bucolica; containing an Ordo and interlineal Translation accompanying the Text; a Treatise on Latin Versification; and References to a Scanning Table, exhibiting, on musical principles, every variety of Hexameter Verse. With an explanatory Index. Intended as an Introduction to the reading of the Latin Poets. By P. A. NUTTALL, LL. D. Editor of Stirling's Juvenal interlineally translated.

An Enquiry into the Origin of the Laws and Political Institutions of Modern Europe, and in particular of those of England. By GEORGE SPENCE, Esq. of Lincoln'sInn.

Recent Discoveries in Africa, made in the years 1822, 1823, and 1824, extending across the Great Desert, to the tenth deof Northern latitude; and from Kouha gree in Bornou, to Sockatoo, the capital of the GENT. MAG. December, 1825.

Soudan empire. By MAJOR DIXON DEN-
HAM, of his Majesty's 17th reg. of Foot,
Capt. HUGH CLAPPERTON, of the Royal
Navy (the survivors of the expedition), and
the late Dr. OUDNEY.

Proceedings of the Expedition despatched by his Majesty's Government to explore the Northern Coast of Africa, in 1821 and 1822; comprehending an account of the Syrtis and Cyrenaica; of the ancient cities composing the Pentapolis, and other various existing remains. By Capt. F. W. BEECHEY, R. N. and H. W. BEECHEY, Esq.

The Mission from Bengal to Siam, and to Hue, the capital of Cochin China, never before visited by any European, in the years 1821-22. By GEO. FINLAISON, Esq. with an Introduction and Memoir of the Author, by Sir Stamford Raffles, F.R.S.

Travels of the Russian Mission through Mongolia to China, and Residence in Pekin in the years 1820, 1821. By GEORGE TIMKOWSKI.

A concise System of Commercial Arithmetic, adapted to modern practice. By JAMES MORRISON, Accountant.

The Union Shakspeare, being the 1st of an original Series of Plates illustrative of the Plays of Shakspeare. By the most eminent Painters and Engravers.

Domestic Preacher; or short Discourses from the MSS. of some eminent Ministers. Hints for Ministers and Churches. By the late Rev. ANDREW FULLER.

Memoirs of the late Miss Jane Taylor. By her brother Mr. ISAAC TAYLOR, jun.

Selections from the Works of Dr. John Owen. By the Rev. W. WILSON, D.D. Author of "Selections from Leighton's Works."

The Father's Guide in the Selection of a School for his Son; being a short Account of all the Schools in England, from which Scholars have a claim to Fellowships, Scholarships; Exhibitions, or other honours and emoluments in the two Universities. By a Member of the University of Cambridge.

An Essay on Craniology. By the Rev. R. W. HAMILTON, one of the Vice-Presidents of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society.

The Prospect and other Poems.

A Practical Treatise on Life Assurance. By FREDERICK BLAYNEY, author of "A Treatise on Life Annuities."

The Danciad. By THOS. WILSON, Teacher of Dancing.

A new historical Novel, entitled Henry the Fourth, being a specimen of Shakspeare's Plays.

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An Historical and Topographical Description of Great Yarmouth, in Norfolk, including the 16 parishes and hamlets of the Half-hundred of Lothingland, in Suffolk. By Mr. J. H. DRUERY.

The History and Antiquities of Ecton, in the County of Northampton. By JOHN COLE.

A Quarterly Journal, entitled Oes Lyfr Cymreig, the Welsh Chronicle, and Archæological and Bibliographical Journal, illustrative of the early history, antiquities, and bardism of Wales, and the Marches.

Vindicia Christianæ, a comparative Estimate of the Genius and Tendency of the Greek, the Hindu, the Mahometan, and the Christian Religious. By the Rev. JEROME ALLEY.

The Remains and Memoirs of the late Rev. Charles Wolfe, Author of the Poem on the Burial of Sir John Moore. By the Rev. J. A. RUSSELL, M.A.

The Skeleton of Universal Elocution; or, a Metrical Epitome of Oratorical Pronunciation, scientifically adapted to the natural melody of all Languages. By the Rev. ALEXANDER MACGOWAN.

A complete Collection of Memoirs relating to the History of Great Britain, with Notes and Illustrations. By a Literary Society.

Papers and Collections of Sir Robert Wilmot, bart. some time Secretary to the Lord Lieutenants of Ireland.

Voyages of Discovery, undertaken to complete the survey of the Western coast of New Holland, between the years 1817 and 1822. By PHILIP PARKER KING, R. N. Commander of the Expedition.

Travels in the Hedjaz. By the late JOHN LEWIS BURCKHARDT.

Anne Boleyn, a Dramatic Poem. By the Rev. H. H. MILMAN. Uniformly with the Fall of Jerusalem.

The second volume of Dr. Southey's History of the late War in Spain and Portugal.

The Life of Erasmus, with Historical Remarks on the State of Literature between the 10th and 16th centuries. By CHARLES BUTLER.

The Life of General Wolfe, from original documents, uniform with Mr. Southey's Life of Nelson.

Excerpta Oratorica, or Selections from the Greek Orators, adapted to the use of Schools and Universities.

The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri, with an Analytical Comment. By GABRIEL ROSSETTI.

Delineations of the Origin and Progress of various Changes of Structure which occur in Man and some of the inferior Animals. By JOHN BARON, M.D.

A Digest of the Evidence taken before the Select Committees of the two Houses

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of Parliament appointed to inquire into the State of Ireland.

Deism Refuted, or Plain Reasons for being a Christian. By the Rev. T. H. HORne, M. A.

OXFORD, Dec. 3.

The following subjects are proposed for the Chancellor's Prizes, for the ensuing year, viz.

For Latin Verse-" Montes Pyrenæi."

For an English Essay-"Is a rude, or a refined age, more favourable to the production of works of fiction?"

For a Latin Essay-"Quibus præcipuè de causis in artium liberalium studiis Romani Græcis vix pares, nedum superiores evaserint."

The first of the above subjects is intended for under graduates who have not exceeded four years from the time of their matriculation; and the other two for such members of the University as have exceeded four, but not completed seven years.

Sir Roger Newdigate's Prize.-For the best Composition in English verse, not containing either more or fewer than Fifty Lines, by any under graduate who has not exceeded four years from the time of his matriculation-Trajan's Pillar.

UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

Mr. Fellowes, of Ryegate, in Surrey, to whom the late learned Baron Maseres bequeathed his fortune, has presented the University of Edinburgh with a donation of 2004. to be employed in enlarging the physical cabinet connected with Professor Leslie's class; the sum of 50l. annually, for two prizes to the more advanced pupils; and for the present year an additional sum of 751. to be given as prizes for the two best essays on comets, to candidates who had studied at this University. The conditions to be annexed to these trials of proficiency are not yet settled. For the present session, it is proposed to admit as competitors for the two prizes, all those who join the Natural Philosophy Class this season, and have attended it before within a period of five years. The prizes are to be awarded in March next-201. with a gold medal of the value of 10l. for the best essay; 201. with a silver medal of the same size, for the next in merit. The 75l. previously mentioned, will be expended in prizes for the best essays upon the subject given, and for which all those who have studied at Edinburgh University within the last ten years will be invited to contend.

ROYAL SOCIETY.

On the 30th of November, the Royal Society had their Anniversary Dinner at the Crown and Anchor Tavern. Amongst the company present were the Bishop of Carlisle, Mr. Secretary Peel, Mr. Bell (the re

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tired Chancery Barrister), Sir Everard Home, who was accompanied by his son Captain Home, &c. W. Maddock, esq. (of Portland-place), Davies Gilbert, esq. M. P. the Society's Treasurer, Nath. Lee, esq. the Secretary, Dan. Moore, esq. of Lincoln's Inn, the Treasurer of the Society's Club, &c. Sir Humphrey Davy, the successor of the late Sir Joseph Banks, the President of the Society, took the Chair. On his right hand was the Bishop of Carlisle, and on his left sat Mr. Secretary Peel. The cloth having been removed, the Chairman proposed, "The King, the Patron of the Royal Society." In doing so, he said, it was unnecessary for him to enlarge on the claims which his Majesty had on their and the country's grateful acknowledgments. The King was not only the Patron of the Royal Society, he most liberally patronized the Arts and Sciences generally, and every thing that was calculated to promote the renown and the welfare of the nation. The toast was received with the most marked enthusiasm.

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mily:""The Society of Antiquaries ;”"The Royal Academy," were toasts that followed.

Mr. D. Gilbert, M.P. then proposed the health of the President of the Royal Society. He would not occupy the attention of the room with dwelling on the merits of their distinguished Chairman, especially as that individual was necessarily present; indeed it was not requisite, for his excellencies were well known to those assembled on the present occasion. His varied acquirements, and his useful discoveries, not only reflected great honour on himself, but had been highly valuable to his country. His zeal for the success of that Society they all knew, and it had been made still more manifest by their President's conduct and statements in the Society's Council held that morning. The toast was honoured in the most friendly and enthusiastic manner.

Sir H. Davy, in returning his acknowledgments, said, that he felt fully sensible of the value of the compliment that had just been conferred on him, as well as of the distinction of being the President of so ho nourable and useful a Society. That Society had hitherto been eminently valuable in promoting information, laudable inquiries, and useful discoveries: science owed much to it. The Society had heretofore stimulated to valuable research and discovery; and with such patronage, and after the communica tion of that evening, it could not fail to be still more eminent and useful. The spirit of inquiry was now abroad; the desire of improvement, and the anxiety for useful research and discoveries, now more than ever animated society. Science, within the last 100 years, had made rapid strides, so much so, that could the inhabitants of another planet have been a century ago dropped on the earth, then withdrawn, and now brought to revisit this sublunary scene, such person would hardly recognize it to be the same spot that he had before visited. The changes were not such as to require detail from him; though the rail-roads and canals of the country, the extensive application of the steam engine, the improvements in the mariner's compass, &c. proved the varied and wonderful changes; and they also showed, what was still more gratifying, that the great discoveries of science had been rendered subservient to the uses and prosperity of society. He concluded with assuring the company of his devotion to the interests of the Royal Society, and to the general advancement of science.

Mr. Peel said, "That it was very unusual for any one to presume to address a public company immediately after the toast which had just been given. But he thought the present was a fitter opportunity than any other that would occur for making the communication which he was about to make. His Majesty had authorized him, with expressions of the warmest interest in the welfare of the Royal Society, to make known his intention of founding two honorary Prizes-being medals of the value of fifty guineas each, to be annually awarded in such manner as should, after due consideration, seem best calculated to promote the ends for which the Royal Society had been founded. His Majesty was not satisfied that the only direct reward of successful competition which the Royal Society had to propose, should be the medal now conferred in consequence of the bequest of a private individual. He should abstain from saying any thing at present with respect to the particular discovery in science, or the particular species of investigation for which the proposed premiums should be offered; but when he referred to the noble objects for which the Royal Society had been instituted, as emphatically expressed in their charter, when he found that it was their business to record all such works of nature and of art as are within their reach,-in order that the present and future ages may set a mark upon errors that have been strengthened by long prescription,― may restore truths that have been neglected, and push those that are already known to The Bishop of Carlisle (on behalf of himmore various uses-he feared that the chief self and Sir Everard Home), begged to redifficulty in selecting proper objects of com- turn heartfelt acknowledgments for the hopetition would be on account of the number nour that had just been conferred. Zealous which would present themselves." as he was to promote the welfare of the So"The Duke of York, and the Royal Fa- ciety, he knew his own unworthiness for the

The health of the Vice-Presidents having been given,

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