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"Nor is this all. While he calms with power the wind and the tempest here, he leaves us not in doubt about the scenes of an hereafter. He points our eyes to a celestial country, of joy and plenty, of liberty and light. All its treasures are open to our possession; all its blessings extended to our enjoyment. We are invited, encouraged, intreated, urged to enter into this everlasting Canaan, that we may eat the fruit thereof, and the goodness thereof;" and that when all the dangers of our probationary journey are finished and gone, when the waters of salvation" are clean passed over," we may be refreshed with the dews of heavenly favour, and rest amidst the tranquillity of the eternal Sabbath." P. 327.

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With the following sentiments respecting liberality, or the religious apathy of modern times we were much pleased.

"If by liberality be meant a general spirit of philanthropy, a charitable compassion for the failings of humanity, a backwardness to impute unworthy motives, modesty of behaviour, lenient judgment, and an indulgent toleration-the principle is heavenly; it is the morning star of the Gospel; it is the pure effluence of the fountain of mercies. But if, on the other hand, it be intended by this term to insinuate that all religions are alike, that doctrines are non-essential; that present sincerity is, under every opportu nity, to compensate for corrigible errors: that a chain of spiritual union is to subsist between opinions diametrically and physically opposite; that creeds are of little or no importance, provided the life be correct, or in other words, that works without faith are safe and acceptable against this, in whatever shape it appear, the Christian minister, in word and in deed-with moderation, but with firmness, is bound unequivocally to protest." P. 209.

We can safely pronounce these sermons to be hortatory and as Christian discourses, untainted by any fanatical cant. Should Mr. Scobell publish again we should recommend rather more attention to method, and rather less exuberance of expression. These, however, are errors which we have no doubt but that his own good judgment will correct.

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ART. XI. A Dictionary of all Religions, &c. By Thomas Williams. 16mq. 336 pp. 7s. 6d. Williams and Son. WE are sorry that we cannot compliment Mr. Williams either upon the principles or upon the execution of the work before us. Let us take for the example his account of the Church of England.

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"ENGLISH CHURCH. The Church of England is Episcopalian, and boasts a regular succession of Bishops from the time of the Apostles,

Apostles, conveyed to them through the Church of Rome. The Churches of England and Ireland were united by the Union of 1801, and form a grand national establishment; but with a free toleration of Dissenters in their principles and worship, without admitting them to any of its emoluments, and excluding them from many offices in the state."

Now we should be happy to know what information any stranger to the doctrines and discipline of our Church could derive from such a description. Mr. Williams in truth has given us a very meagre and confined performance, and inferior to one or two others, whose principles indeed are no better than his own. The best part of the volume is the print preceding the title-page, which is taken from the celebrated picture of the meeting of the Reformers with the Bible before them, and the Pope, the Cardinals, the Monks, and the Devil, attempting to blow out the

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ART. XII. Poems and Imitations, by Daniel Cabanel, Esq. of Lincoln's Inn. Svo. pp. 192. 10s. Bickerstaff. 1814, THE two first poems in this volume have been published before, and have received, as we think they deserve, a favourable notice. The poetry of the Tocsin in particular is entitled to commendation. The thoughts are elegant, and the general flow of the lines harmonious. Of these and the subsequent poems we can now, in our turn, speak in terms of praise: the transla tions from the Italian are pretty, and the lines written at different places through which the author has passed in his travels are geherally pleasing. We shall cite, in confirmation of our opinion the two last stanzas from an Address to Hope.

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"Indulgent Power thy aid impart !
With chasten'd raptures fill my heart-
Thy soothing Heralds send !
Teach me the ways of Love and Peace,
Bid sublunary sorrows cease,

And Earth's delusions end!

And on the confines of the Grave-
When Heaven resumes the life it gave,
And claims my forfeit breath;
Be Faith thy Seraph Sister nigh!
With thee to waft me to the sky-

And charm the shaft of Death!" P. 113.

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ART. XHI. Advice on the Study and the Practice of the Law, addressed to Atiornies' Clerks. By W. Wright. 8vo. 180 pp. Taylor and Hessey. 1815.

THIS volume is addressed to a class of men, who of all others, are most in need of au adviser and a guide. There are few situations more perilous to the young man than a clerkship to an attorney, whether in town or in the country. So very little labour is necessary to acquaint him with the routine of his ordinary business, and so very little ingenuity required to attain and to exercise the little low and dirty artifices which characterise too many of his profession, that he may pass through the time of his articles in idleness and profligacy, and at the conclusion of that period, set up for himself with as good pretensions as most of his neighbours. Even to those, who pursue with more steadiness their professional studies, much, very much is wanted to open and enlarge their mind, to give it right and honourable views, and to elevate it above the meanness and roguery which is so incidental to their calling. We are, therefore, happy in finding a volume which may safely be recommended to every clerk at an attorney's desk, as a clear, concise, and useful guide to those studies and pursuits which will make him the better attorney and the better man. It will open to his mind various sources of information, from which, during the period of his clerkship, he may derive the most important advantages; and it will teach him the most apt and judicious method of pursuing them.

One deficiency alone we are sorry to remark, which in another edition we trust will be supplied. We find no exhortation to the young man, either to hold fast the faith, or fulfil the duties of our holy religion. No man will prove the worse lawyer for being a Christian; and we are mistaken indeed, if he will not prove much the better. Let a short chapter upon this important point be added, and the volume shall have our best wishes.

ART. XIV. An easy Introduction to the Mathematics. By Charles Butler, Oxford. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 11s. 6d. Longman. TO those, who may be desirous of entering upon mathematical studies by themselves, without the assistance which a private tutor or a lecture-room can afford, these volumes will be found a useful and satisfactory publication. Mr. Butler possesses to a very considerable degree the art of explanation, and of rendering the first steps of science accessible to young and ardent minds. The work is divided into ten departments. The first treats of

all the Rules of Common Arithmetic at considerable length, and in a very perfect manner. The second contains the Theory and Practice of Logarithms, with the History of their Invention. The third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh are dedicated to Algebra in all its various branches, to a considerable depth. The eighth part treats of Geometry, being an Introduction to the Elements of Euclid, with various Corollaries, selected from Clavius, Barrow, Savil, Ludlam, Playfair, &c. and many useful propositions illustrating the text, as the student proceeds. The ninth part contains the Theory and Practice of Trigonometry; and the tenth gives us a short account of Conic Sections.

Mr. Butler appears to have bestowed much pains and labour upon the work, and we trust that he will be rewarded by that extended circulation, to which by its general merit it is so justly entitled.

ART. XV. A Practical Treatise on finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea. By T. Myers, A.M. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. 8vo. 500 pp. 16s. Robinson.

1815.

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THIS excellent treatise is translated from the French of M. de Rossel, and cannot fail of becoming a work of general utility to all those who are desirous of becoming practically acquainted with nautical astronomy. To this treatise Mr. Myers has subjoined a very useful Table of the Right Ascensions and Declination of the principal fixed stars which are used in finding the Longitude at Sea; and another of the logarithms of numbers and their complements to an extent sufficient for general practice. We find a Table also of Logarithinic Sines and Cosines, Tangents and Cotangents, with their differences corresponding to every ten seconds. To these is added the new method of clearing the distance, lately published by Dr. Brinckley, Professor of Astronomy in Dublin, and a Table of Natural and Versed Sines. We consider this as a very laborious and useful work, and we hope that it will meet among nautical men the encouragement which it really deserves.

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ART. XVI. The Universal British Merchant, &c. &c. W. Keegan, Master of Manor-house Academy. 16mo. 400 pp. Law and Whittaker.

1815.

THIS is a translation from a French work by the same author, entitled Le Négociant Universel, which possessed, in its way,

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considerable merit. It contains two hundred letters, as specimens of commercial correspondence between Great Britain and the principal trading cities of Europe, &c. and shewing in a familiar and practical manner the mode of effecting insurances, drawing bills, remitting cash, &c. and laying open the whole system of mercantile business. To those who are intended for the compting-house we should recommend this little volume as an early present, vor do we know of any publication better calculated to initiate them into the business of their fu, ture destination, or to give them a more clear and practical view of all mercantile transactions.

ART. XVII. Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London. &c. &c. 2 vols. 12mo. 15s. Gale and Co.

1815.

THESE letters were first printed in 1754, having then been written near twenty years. The interest excited in the literary world by the novel of Waverley has probably caused their republication at this period. They contain an admirable account of the Highlanders, and their manners, about the year 1726, being written, as it appears, by a military man, who was quartered near Inverness. To those who may be desirous of acquainting themselves with the manners and habits of a race, who have now almost faded off the face of the earth, these two vo◄. lumes cannot but prove highly attractive. They are clearly not an account kneaded and made up for publication, but the genuine letters of an acute and intelligent man, who was making a pil. grimage through a region, almost as much unknown to his countrymen as the desarts of Arabia.

The following description of the wretched state of an Highland town in ancient days, will present a picture of misery, with which few of our readers are acquainted.

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"A Highland town, as before mentioned, is composed of a few huts for dwellings, with barns and stables, and both the latter are of a more diminutive size than the former, all irregularly placed, some one way, some another, and at any distance look like so many heaps of dirt; these are built in glens and straths, which are the corn-countries, near rivers and rivulets, and also on the sides of lakes where there is some arable land for the support of the inha, bitants.

"But I am now to speak of the manner in which the lower order of Highlanders live; and shall begin with the spring of the year. “This is a bad season with them; for then their provision of

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