might have said generally, that the checked the licentiousness of the stage, ancient drama had been represented which he termed the period of proflias injurious to morality, and offensive gacy, the third portion was from thence to the best and wisest men in all to the present time, which he denomitimes, but that such representations nated the period of correctness. He were founded in mistake and preju- concluded with noticing the reforma. dice. Yet, that the drama having tion of the theatre from the beginning been attacked with vehemence, and of the last century, and added, that, particularly in this country (as he since that time, though our dramatic should notice hereafter), it seemed a authors may not generally possess the fitter proceeding to collect the most genius of the first period, or the wit of material objections, and exhibit them the second, yet they have been careful at large, that his hearers, when they to avoid the vices which sullied them perceived their foundations and ex- both, and that they have seldom dared tent, might build their own conclu- to insult the public with representations injurious to morality, or subversive of decency. sions. In the second lecture Mr. C. stated, that the modern drama was not copied In Mr. Crowe's third lecture he from the ancient, but was in its ori- treated of the fable, or plot, of tragin as imperfect and rude as that; gedy; and after stating what Aristotle and that, as the Grecian originated had said upon that part of the drama, from the hymns sung to Bacchus, so, he exemplified the rules of this great probably, the English took its rise critic, by giving an account of the from the itinerant minstrels. He Edipus Tyrannus of Sophocles, to next gave a short account of that or- which Aristotle so often refers, as a der of men, and their manners; and plot of singular excellence; and he then shewed upon what occasion the then shewed in what particular repractice of exhibiting public shews spects that plot excelled, and in what for the amusement of the people it would appear defective to an Engpassed from them to the monks. He lish audience. In the remaining part gave the character of the miracle- of the lecture, he shewed the differplays, or mysteries, which now began ence between our early dramatic auto be in fashion; and having noticed thors and the Greek, in the formation the assertion of some authors, that of their plots, by instances from Beele they were not, till near the year 1500, and Marlow. more than dumb-shows, he quoted the Harleian MSS. to prove, that more circumstantial account of the Mr. C.'s fourth lecture contained a when the Chester mysteries were ex- difference between the Greek dramahibited in 1327, an application was tic fable, and that of our early Engmade to the pope for licence to pre- lish writers. He observed, that the sent them in English; a sufficient latter formed their plots without payevidence that some language was ing regard to the unities of action, used. Mr. C. then spoke of the mo- time, or place; but that they wanted ralities, and afterwards proceeded to skill to make a good use of the licence the more regular dramas of the Eng- which they took so freely. That they lish theatre; marking, at the same often sought to render their plots tratime, the æra when the two former gical by a sanguinary catastrophe, and kinds made their first appearance, other scenes of bodily suffering, which and when they grew out of fashion, sometimes led them to the exhibition The English drama, he observed, had of what was indecorous, and savage, not been cultivated with much suc- and horrid. Of this he gave examples cess till the latter end of queen Eli- in the Virgin Martyr of Massinger, zabeth's reign. The period from that and other earlier tragedies, Tiberius time to the present he considered as Nero, and the Bloody Banquet. He divisible into three portions: the first, adverted to the ancient practice in to the death of Charles I. which he this respect; and shewed, from Euricalled the period of genius; the se- pides and Sophocles, that shocking cond, from the restoration to the end objects were frequently introduced of that century, when the censures upon the Athenian stage. He farther of Jeremy Collier and other writers proved, that a similar practice ob tained in the Italian theatre, at the the charge of neglecting the uniforrevival of letters; giving as an in- mity of character in the instances of stance a celebrated tragedy of J. Bat. Caliban, and Demia in the Adelphi. Giraldi, intitled Orbecche. The lec- He noticed the practice of some auture concluded with the analysis of thors to set off their characters by a other modern plots, taken from the contrast, or a counterpart; and cenItalian and the English drama. sured an instance of the latter kind, Mr. Crowe's fifth lecture contained in the alteration of the Tempest by an account of tragic characters and Dryden and Davenant. He touched manners. He shewed which were upon the question, Whether it be alproper for representation on the stage, lowable to heighten characters, or and which not; and he explained the whether they should be drawn acgrounds on which such a distinction cording to the truth of nature? and rested. He stated the rules which he concluded with a commendation have been laid down for the delinea- of assinger's ability in expressing tion of dramatic characters; and de- manners, of which he produced sefended Shakspeare and Terence against veral examples. VARIETIES, LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL; to which will be prefixed a copious life of the author, and some original prefatory strictures on the work by Mr. Mudford. A Reply to Mr. Malthus's Principles and Remarks on the Condition of the Poor, from the pen of a gentleman of eminent abilities, will shortly appear. This publication will also contain some strictures on Mr. Whitbread's proposed plan of education. AVERY interesting work is in on the Mind will shortly be published, the press, entitled, Causes and Consequences of the French EmpeTor's conduct towards the Jews; including the final decisions of the Grand Sanhedrim, &c. &c.; a sketch of the Jewish history since their dispersion; their recent improvements in the sciences and polite literature; and the sentiments of their Rabbins fairly stated, and compared with some eminent Christian writers upon their restoration, the rebuilding of the Temple, Millenium, &c. with considerations upon the question, whether there be any thing in the prophetic records that seems to point particularly to England. Mr. Wrangham's Buchanan Sermon, "On translating the Scriptures into the Oriental Languages," which he preached before the University of Cambridge last May, will shortly make its appearance, accompanied with notes and illustrations. A new edition of Mr. Parkes's Chemical Catechism is in the press, and will be published in the beginning of August. It will be greatly improved by the addition of several new notes, and an account of all the new chemical discoveries. The vocabulary of chemical terms will be much improved, and the aj pendix will be enriched with a considerable number of new and interesting experiments. A new edition of Helvetius' Essays The Rev. George Stephenson, M.A. vicar of Kelloe, Durham, and Fellow of Magdalen-college, Oxford, will speedily publish, in one volume 8vo. anHistorical andCriticalView of some of the leading Doctrines of the Church of Rome, in a series of discourses preached at Bishop Wearmouth in 1806, being a compilation from Archbishop Secker and others, interwoven with the sentiments and remarks of the preacher, and containing a Reply to Mr. Des Mahis' book, entitled, "The Truth of the Catholic Religion proved from the Holy Scriptures." Mr. C. Wilkinson has nearly ready for publication, a general Historical and Topographical Description of Mount Caucasus, which will be com prised in two volumes duodecimo. Mr. Henry Smithers will shortly publish a poem in three cantos, entitled Antection, which will form one volume in royal 8vo. Mr. Howard, of Plymouth, pro poses to publish a Greek and English able opportunities of examining and Vocabulary on a new and improved describing. The work will be acplan. The subjects will be all scien- companied by some prints which will tifically arranged, and those con- illustrate the narrative. nected with natural history will be agreeably to the classification of Linnæus, accompanied by short notes, elucidatory of their properties and characters. A work, under the title of the Present State of the British Constitution, will shortly appear. It is intended to embrace a variety of topics connected with the political events and discussions of the present times. The Rev. Mr. Baynes, of Leeds, has a volume of Naval Sermons nearly ready for publication. Mr. William Tighe has in the press a poem, to be entitled "The Plants," which will be printed in one volume octavo. A volume of poems, from the pen of Mr. Penwarne, is nearly ready for publication. Dr. Anderson has in the press, in one volume 8vo. Views of the past and present state of the people of Spain and Italy. A new edition of Bossuet's Universal History, by the Translator of Pascal's Thoughts, will shortly be published in an 8vo. volume, with a portrait by Audinet. Dr. Playfair, the learned Principal of St. Andrew's, has recently sent to press a work on ancient and modern Geography, which is calculated to extend to six volumes in 4to. to appear in succession as the are printed. The first volume will contain a history of geography, an account of the physical conformation of the earth, with other matters introductory to the general subject of the work, a general description of Europe, followed by succinct and copious descriptions of ancient and modern Spain and Portugal, ancient and modern France, and the Netherlands and United Provinces. The whole will be illustrated by a copious series of well-engraved maps. Dr. Cheyne has in the press a Dissertation on Hydrocephalus acutus, or Dropsy in the Brain, illustrated with a series of clinical cases and dissections. Dr. Wm. Hales, formerly Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Dublin, proposes to publish, in two quarto volumes, a learned work, under the title of " An Analysis of Ancient Chronology, sacred and profane." Mr. G. Rowland, senior surgeon to the Infirmary and Lying in Charity Dr. Lloyd, Regius Professor of Heat Chelsea, has in the press a State- brew in the University of Cambridge, ment of the Result of Excision of the has undertaken to superintend the Breast, in a great number of cases of edition of Eminent Writers on the schirrhus and cancer, in which a new Scriptures of the Prophets, which will remedy is introduced of considerable be enriched with much valuable addiefficacy in palliating that complaint. tional matter from writers whose works A work from the pen of the late are little known in thi country. The Abraham Parsons, esq. formerly Bri- books intended to be included in this tish consul and marine factor at edition are Lowth on Isaiah; GreScanderoon, is now in the press; gory's translation of Lowth on the it comprises a description of Scande- sacred poetry of the Hebrews, with roon, and the adjacent country, in- valuable additions from Michaelis, cluding Aleppo, Antioch, and several &c.; Blayney on Jeremiah; Newother parts of Syria; an account of a come on Ezekiel; Withley on Daniel, Journey from Scanderoon to Bag- and Newcome on the Minor Prophets. dad, Bussora, Bushier, and a Voyage It is intended to publish this edition thence down the Persian Gulph to in monthly parts. FINE ARTS. Bombay, and back again by the Red Sea to Egypt, with a narrative of a Journey from Suez to Alexandria. During the period of the last ExhiThe whole is enriched with interest- bition at the British Institution in ing accounts of the countries and Pall-Mall, the Marquis of Stafford towns through which Mr. Parsons tra- purchased fifteen pictures, among velled, and which he had the favour- which is " the Flower Piece," by Hew lett, for which he paid 400 guineas. in the course of 1906, had 158 perThe Carl of Carlisle, distinguished by formances: among the pieces reprehis taste and judgment in the fire arts, purchased several pictures, and also the beautiful model of "Venus sitting," by Nellekens. America. Dr. Tongue has ately published an account of the country on the south shore of Lake Erie; including a brief description of the climate, soil, productions, commerce, and manufactures of that district. sented were nine tranations, and Dr. Anderson, Physician General and President of the Medical Board at Madras, has made public some highly interesting facts respecting the progress of Vaccination in India. He declares that no serious alarm has been caused by the small-pox in that An official account of the Voyage great extent of country which is now of Discovery up the river Missouri, subject to Great Britain in India, undertaken by order of the American since the introduction of vaccine inoGovernment, by Captains Lewis and culation, nor has the vaccine matter, Clarke, is in great forwardness, and al hough transferred from one human will shortly make its appearance. subject to another for four or five Dr. Hosack, Professor of Botany and the Materia Medica in Columbia College, and F.L.S. of London, has recently printed a catalogue of plants contained in the botanical garden at Elgin, near New York. The Society of Concord, in the late Dutch colony of Surinam, has lately published a volume of Memoirs on Agriculture. Mr. Ramsay, author of the History of the American Revolution, has nearly ready for publication a Life of General Washington. Dr. B. S. Barton, Professor of the Materia Medica in the University of Pennsylvania, is about to publish Elements of Zoology, or Outlines of the Natural History of Animals. Denmark. The instructions drawn up by the Vaccine Society of Denmark have been translated into the Icelandic language, by M. Thorarsen. It is hoped, by means of these instructions, the effects of the small-pox will be alleviated, which often made dreadful ravages in that country. Copies of the work have been distributed in Iceland, with appropriate engravings annexed. years, produced any other disease. Of Mr. Christie, Superintendant-General of Hospitals in Ceylon, reports that the number of vaccinated patients in that island, delivered in to him since the introduction of the cowpeck, in August 1802, amounted on the 30th of June, 1806, to 47,523. A volume of Poems by the late Mr. He calculated that not more than one Fumars, Professor of French Belles half of the inhabitants escaped natural Lettres in the University of Copen- sinali-pox, and that of the half who hagen, is about to be published in hat city. The Professor died in November last. He was known by some ex cellent fables, written much in the manner of La Fontaine. The Theatre-Royal at Copenhagen, had that disease, one third died, small-pox being almost every year epidemical at Columbo and many other parts of the island. France. The Medical Society of Emulation in Paris, has received as one of its nuscript mentioned by M. Engell, in Foreign correspondents M. Bondi his History of Moldavia, printed at Zamorani, rabbi and physician of Halle in 1804. Ferrara in Italy, member of the M. J. C. Scheidner has lately pubGrand Sanhedrim. M. Zamorani has lished a second edition, revised and recently published a poem, in He- augmented, of his critical Greek and brew, Latin, and Italian, to celebrate German Vocabulary, intended to fathe opening of that assembly. cilitate the knowledge of the Greek authors. A course of Persian, by M. Langles; of Arabic, by M. Silvestre de Lacy; and of Turkish, by M. Joubert, is given in the School of Oricntal Living Languages at Paris. Holland. M. Wyttenbach is preparing for the press new editions of the Phodo of Plata, and of Cicero de Natura Deorum. M. Palisot de Beauvois, known by his Travels in Africa and America, The Curators of the University of and the Floras which he published in Leyden have directed M. Kleist, Proconsequence, and by his cryptoga- fessor of History and Antiquities, to mous plants, has been elected to fill deliver a Course of Lectures on the the place of the late M. Adanson, in Statistics of that country, and have the botanical class of the Institute. added to his former titles that of ProM. Cassas has presented the Pari- fessor of Statistics of the kingdom of sians a new kind of exhibition, con- Holland. sisting of models in plaster of the most celebrated ancient edifices, of In all the great towns of the kingdifferent kinds of architecture. These dom of Naples, printing-presses have models are in number 74, and are been ordered to be established, and arranged under the divisions of Egyp- the bishops have been invited to see tian, Indian, Persian, Grecian, Etrus- that they are in activity throughout can, Cyclopean, Celtic, and Roman every province. Architecture. M. Vauquelin, Professor of Chemistry in the Museum of Natural History at Paris, has analised various specimens of ore from the famous silver mine of Guadal Canal, in Estremadura, and discovered in them platina, united with silver, copper, iron, antimony, arsenic, lead, and sulphur, sometimes amounting to one tenth of the mass. Germany. Italy. Russia. has published an Ecclesiastical HisThe Russian Metropolitan Platóu tory of Russia, in the form of annals, written in a dialect called the SemiSclavonian. some very curious letters concerning M. Bergman has lately published the Moravian colony settled at Sa repta. M. Redowski, who had been nominated Botanist to the projected Embassy from the Court of Russia to The first number of a collection of China is engaged in a very extensive poisonous plants, engraved on stone, Botanical Tour at the emperor's exthe appearance of the prints being pense, through the most remote northequal to that of well-executed wood eastern districts of Asia, including cuts, has been recently published at the islands between that continent and Ratisbon. This number contains ten Japan to the southward, and the plates, and the generic and specific coast of North America to the eastcharacters of the following plants are ward. He will be accompanied by a pointed out, viz. aconitum napellus, mathematician, who is to make astroanemone pratensis, caltha palustris, nomical observations. delphinium staphysagria, helleborus fœtidus, helleborus niger, ranunculus flammula, ficaria acris et scelerata. M. Schraell, a respectable bookseller at Vienna, has just published in that city a Uistory of Wallachia, in modern Greek, translated from a ma Spain. The Court of Madrid has prohibited, according to ancient edicts, the introduction of journals in the Spanish language, printed in foreign countries, amongst which are enumerated those at Bayonne and Paris. |