poetical career as did the noble bard (of the same bringing up) whose second attempt lifted him at once to the height of fame, where his subsequent efforts so justly maintained him. May the young aspirant before us go and do likewise." In the mean time, the quantity of his present offering is rather against the fulfilment of our hope; since it indicates a lack of that "skill to blot" which is one of the poet's most indispensable qualities. The volume contains a five act comedy; three separate poems of considerable length andsomewhat too ambitious pretensions; and a series of brevities aptly entitled Lyra Rugbiensis: the whole forming a collection that indicates decided talent, and strong poetic feeling,-always taking into account the age of the writer. Self Culture. By W. E. Channing. This valuable address was delivered last year at Boston, by its eloquent writer, as an introduction to the Franklin Lectures, and is now republished here,-doubtless with a view to the interest which the subject of Education has recently excited among us, and must continue to excite for some time to come. The subject of self culture in detail, first as to its nature and results, and secondly as to the various means adapted to its practice. Without entering into the abstract question of Education, we may confidently say that this able address can scarcely be perused without advantage by any class of readers,-from the most gifted and cultivated, to those who most need its aid. Chronicle of the Law Officers of Ireland, &c. By C. J. Smyth, B.A.-The object of this work is useful, and it is fulfilled with care, industry, and ability. Indeed, we cannot but think that great credit is due to any individual who, like Mr. Constantine Smyth, takes the pains, at a vast expense of time and labour, to make researches on a subject which can scarcely be expected to repay that labour in any of the usual forms of profit, popularity, and public favour. The design of this work is purely professional, and (so to speak) antiquarian. It gives the name, date, reign, &c., of every great law officer of Ireland, from the accession of Henry III. up to the present time, together with a variety of collateral matter appropriate to the subject; also a brief but comprehensive and very useful Outline of the Legal History of Ireland. The volume is one which should find a place in every legal library of both countries. A Sketch of Native Education in India. By James Bryce, D.D.-This able volume, from the pen of the late Chaplain on the Bengal establishment of the East India Company, treats in a comprehensive manner a subject of vast and almost unlimited importance and public interest to all portions of the civilized world, but especially to England-a subject on which the future condition of India mainly depends; namely, Native Education. That much has already been done in this vital matter, the present volume fully testifies;-but it equally shows that infinitely more remains to be done, and that while it remains undone our Indian rule is not a tithe so safe as it might be, and infinitely less of a blessing and a boon than religion, as well as policy, demands that it should be. A Brief Survey of Physical and Fossil Geology. By F. J. Francis.-This useful little volume comprises two Lectures which have been delivered at several of the most respectable scientific institutions of the metropolis during the last year, and which are now published by the request of many of those who heard them. These Lectures do not profess to throw any new light on the deeply interesting science to which they are devoted; but they fully effect their purpose, of placing before the reader a compendious view of the present condition of the science, together with the steps which have led to that condition. In these Lectures Mr. Francis advocates, or rather he adopts, the most received theory of the day on the subject of the earth's constitution and formation-namely, that of Central Heat; but he is by no means a bigoted' believer in this doctrine, nor does he insist that it has, up to the present time, been placed on a foundation approaching to demonstration. The Lectures are carefully corrected, clearly written, and will prove a valuable addition to the existing elementary works on one of the most interesting and important of the physical sciences. The Yankee Miscellany. Nos. I. to IV. This is a humorous miscellany, of the magazine class, but not exactly taking the true magazine form, nor conforming to the magazine custom (in England at least), of using none but original matter. It is an American publication, and has all the characteristics of the literature of that nation, being neither fastidious in its materials, nor formal in its mode of using them. It is, however, amusing in its way-full of variety-includes many characteristic pictures of American life-and (its best quality) all its papers are shorteach Number, of about fifty pages, containing about thirty different articles. INDEX TO THE SECOND PART OF 1839. ACHENSEE, lake of, 532 Alarcos, Count, the Tragedy of, by the Algiers, Six Years' Residence in; by Mrs. Animal Kingdom, the, by the Rev. John "Appleby's the Man," by J. Poole, Esq., Bamberg, and its environs, 391 142 Bavaria, a Summer in, by the Hon. Edmund Phipps, Nos. III., IV., V., 81, 388, 526 Beautiful, a Story for the, 533 Bee, to a, by Major Calder Campbell, 80 66 Travels in New South Wales, by, Bevan, Major H., Thirty Years in India, by, Bingley, Rev. W., Excursions in North Blanche of Navarre, by R. P. James, re- Blanchard, Laman, Esq., the Guest that of, Desultory Boodle's Club, St. James's, 303; Brooks's, Broughton, Mrs., Six Years' Residence in August.-VOL. LVI. NO. CCXXIV. Clarke, Elizabeth, Execution of, charged | Grattan, Rt. Hon. Henry, 255 with being a Witch, and convicted, 508 Coxe, Archdeacon, his Life of John, Duke Cranmer, a novel, by a Member of the Rox- Dalkeith, Lady, private theatricals, re- Day to Oneself, a," by George Raymond, Deerbrook, a Novel, by Harriet Martineau, Dickson, Dr., The Unity of Disease, by, re- Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, Dogs, on, 60-King Charles's and Blenheim Domestic Scene, a, 231 Doolittle, Dr., the Great Doings of, 255 Duncan, J., Esq., the Dukes of Normanby 432 Durer, Albert, the house of, 390 East, the Spirit of the, by D. Urquhart, Esq., Edward the Confessor, King, 164 Edward IV., account of his queen and sons, Ellingham, the Lords of, by H. Spicer, re- English Stories of the Olden Time, by Maria Fayette, Marquis de la, anecdote of, 252 | Guest that won't Go, the, by Laman Blan- Guimard, Mademoiselle, 252 Hack, Maria, English Stories of the Olden Haughton, Sir Graves Chamner, Prodromus ; Hemans, Mrs., the works of, with a Memoir Henry VII., his chapel pertaining to West- Henry VIII., his fondness for sports and Hindoostani Melody, by Major Calder Holland House, 254 Hook, Theodore, Esq., a Fragment of Mo- Hopkins, Matthew, Gent., the Witch-finder, Illyria, Italy, and the Tyrol, Sketches of, by India, Thirty Years in, by Major H. Bevan, Ireland, Letters from, by John Carne, Esq., Rambles in the South of, by Lady Fitzroy, Capt., R.N., his description of the Italy, Sketches of, 234, 413-Dramatic Fiume, and neighbouring scenery, &c., 234 Forest Ranger, the Old, Boar-hunting, by, 207 works of, 248 Jackals, 64 James I., marriage of, 506 James, R. P., Blanche of Navarre by, re- Java, animals of the Island of, 60 Jerrold, Douglas, Esq., Shakspeare's Crab Journey of Life, the, from the Spanish of Alberto Lista, by E. L. Johnson, 201 Kemble, Mr. John P., tragedian, 73 Lamarguière, M., 15 Gleig, Rev. G. R., Sketches of Illyria, Italy," Lady May," by Zemia, 128 Grattan, Right Hon. Henry, Memoirs of Landgrave, the, and other Dramas, by Martineau, Harriet, Deerbrook, a Novel, Masques, of Ben Jonson, &c., 253 Matilda, Queen, 166 Maulevrier, Château of, 1 Maypole, ancient, in Westminster, 169; Metropolitan Pulpit, the; or, Sketches of Midas, Kane O'Hara performed in his mu- Montagu, Miss E. L., the Landgrave, and Morality of the Stomach, the, by μ, 379 Morier, James, Esq., 142 Norton, Hon. Mrs., The Rock of the Be- Notes on New Publications, 144, 287, 583 Muggendorf, village and vicinity of, 391 My Adventures during the late War, by D. O'Brien, D. H., Esq., R.N., My Adventures Napoleon, the Emperor, 20-Canova's in- Parliament, British, Constitution of the, Natural History, Recreations in, Nos. VIII., 60 167 Pastimes and Sports, 293, &c. Pennant's account of the wild cat, 505 Normandy, the Dukes of, from the time of Peter Priggins, College Scout and Bed- Phipps, Hon. Edmund. A Summer in Ba- varia, by, Nos. III., IV.,V., 81, 388, 526 73 Poplinière M. de la, financier, 252 Public Buildings, by Theodore Hook, Esq., 433 Publications, Notes on New, 144, 287 Queensberry, Duchess of, 254 Raymond, George, Esq., A Day to Oneself, Reade, J. E., Esq., Catiline, by, reviewed, Recreations in Natural History, Nos. VIII., Richard III., his conduct when Protector, 172 Richelieu, Cardinal, 250 297 'Scotland, Newes from,' quoted, 507 Sheridan, Rt. Hon. R. B., anecdote of, 79 Smugglers, Italian, description of, 243, 244 Sonnet, in an East-Indian Ball-room, by Spicer, H., the Lords of Ellingham, by, Steevens on Shakspeare, quoted, 295 Stir in the Household, a, by Theodore Hook, Stofflet, General, 2 Story for the Beautiful, a, 533 Strypes Stow's Survey, quoted, 293 Switzerland, Franconian, what denominated Talma, the tragedian, The Early Career of, 18 Temptation; or, a Wife's Perils, reviewed, 580 Théâtre Français, the, 15 Theatres, the London, 300 Theatricals, Private, by H. H., 248 Ure, Dr., his Dictionary of Arts, Manufac- Valesca, near Fiume, visit to, 241 Voltaire and Louis XV., anecdote of, 251- Wales, North, Pedestrian Tour through, by Excursions in, by Rev. W. Bingley, noticed, 430 We Meet in Crowds, by Mrs. C. Baron Westminster of Old, Nos. I., II., 161, 344 White-bait, A Dish of, by Edmund Carting- Widow Married, the, by Mrs. Trollope, Nos. Winkelman, Jean Joachim, monument of, Witches, persecution of old and infirm wo- Whittington, Sir Richard, Knight, 514 Wroughton, Mr., comedian, 74 Zemia, " Lady May," by, 128 |