up the passage, that I could not open the door; and I again ran back to my bed, and instinctively pulled over my face the thick coverlid, to protect it from the falling fragments.
Up to this moment, I had not the most distant conception of the cause of this commotion. The whole had passed in a few seconds, yet such was the effect of each circumstance, that they left on my mind as distinct an impression as if the succession of my ideas had been slow and regular. Still I could assign no reason for it, but that the house was going to fall, till an incident occurred which caused the truth at once to flash upon my mind. There stood, in the square opposite the Palazzo, a tall slender steeple of a Greek church, containing a ring of bells, which I had remarked in the day; these now began to jangle with a wild, unearthly sound, as if some powerful hand had seized the edifice below, and was swinging the bells by shaking the steeple. Then it was that I had the first distinct conception of my situation. I found that the earthquake we had talked so lightly of, was actually come; I felt that I was in the midst of one of those awful visitations which destroy thousands in a moment-where the superintending hand of God seems for a season to withdraw itself, and the frame of the earth is suffered to tumble into ruins by its own convulsions. O God! I cannot describe my sensations when I thus saw and felt around me the wreck of nature, and that with a deep and firm conviction on my mind that to me that moment was the end of the world. I had before looked death in the face in many ways, and had reason more than once to familiarize me to his appearance; but this was nothing like the ordinary thoughts or apprehensions of dying in the common way: the sensations were as different as an earthquake and a fever.'
The embellishments consist of a portrait of Donna Maria, exquisitely engraved by Graves from a painting by Sir Thomas Lawrence in the King's Collection;-The Duenna, from a painting by Newton in the King's Collection, finely engraved by Rolls;-Sir Roger de Coverley, from Leslie's painting in the Marquis of Lansdowne's collection by the same engraver-a delightful little plate;-the Forgotten Word,-a peasant girl at a cottage door, from Mulready;-Too Hot, a groupe of dogs from Landseer's fine painting in the collection of the late Lord Dover;-the Wandering Thought, very beautifully engraved by Rolls, from a painting by M'Clise ;-Feeding the Robin, a lanscape from Collins;-a Sea-Shore scene from a lovely painting by Bonnington; and three others. The volume does great credit to both the Editor and the Publishers; for no ordinary pains and outlay must have been bestowed upon it.
ART. VIII.—LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
In the course of December will be published, Bibliographical Catalogue of Works Privately Printed; including such as have emanated from the Roxburghe, Bannatyne, and Maitland Clubs, and the private Presses at Strawberry Hill, Auchinleck, Darlington, Lee Priory, Newcastle upon Tyne, and Broadway. By John Martin, F.L.S.
The Annual Biography and Obituary for 1834, will contain Memoirs of Lord Exmouth, Sir George Dallas, Bart., Sir John Malcolm, Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Dover, Sir Henry Blackwood, William Wilberforce, Esq., Sir E. J. Colpoys, Capt. Lyon, R. N., Rajah Rammohun Roy, Admiral Boys, John Heriot, Esq., Mrs. Hannah More, Sir Christopher Robinson, Rev, Rowland Hill, Edmund Kean, Esq., Sir Thomas Foley, Sir John A. Stevenson, Lord Gambier, Sir Banistre Tarleton, &c. &c.
A highly interesting Work will appear in the course of the month, entitled "The Baboo, or Life in India," conveying a more accurate insight into the Manners and Modes of Life among the Higher and Middle Ranks of Society in the East, than has yet been given to the English public.
Mrs. J. K. Stanford has a Work nearly ready for Publication, entitled "The Stoic; or Memoirs of Eurysthenes the Athenian."
The second No. of Social Evils and their Remedy, by the Rev. Charles B. Tayler, will appear on the 30th inst. under the quaint title of "The Lady and the Lady's Maid ;" and if the current report of its merits be true, the subject will attract deserved attention and do much good in every domestic circle.
The same talented writer has a little volume in the Press, for the young, called " The Child of the Church of England," which will be neatly illustrated, and ready for publication by Christmas, forming an excellent holiday present.
AFRICA, See Narrative of voyages to explore the shores of, and Kay's travels, &c. Aikin's (Lucy) memoirs of the court of King Charles the first, 461; no portion of our history so interesting to an Eng- lishman, 462; the first French revolu- tion, by certain writers confounded with our revolution in Charles's time, ib.; me- rits of the present volumes, 463; state of England at the king's accession, 464; Buckingham's bearing toward the house of commons, 465; it impeaches the duke, 465-67; Charles's menacing lan- guage, 467, 8; the petition of Rights, 448, 9; character of Buckingham, 469 -71; the house proceed to inquire into matters of religion, 471, 2; power of the queen, 473; after a disuse of eleven years, the king calls a parliament, 474- 76; and dissolves it, 476; the famous long parliament convened, 476, 7; the North American Review on its proceed- ings, 477, 8; character of Cromwell, 479.
Anatomical studies of the Bones and Mus- cles, from drawings by Flaxman, 42; Mr. Robertson's additions not judicious, ib.; nevertheless, the work is most able and useful, 43. Anderson's practical exposition of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans, 515; of a popu- lar and practical description, ib.; on expo- sitory discourses, 516; exposition of the 8th chapter, verses 28-30, 517-19; of verses 1-7, 519-22; in the viith chapter, the author adopts the view taken by our venerable translators,' 522.
Annuals, the, 446; the landscape, ib.;
Heath's picturesque, 448; the Oriental, 452; the landscape album, 455; Friend- ship's offering, 541; the Souvenir, 547;
the Forget-me-not, 548; the Amulet,
Armenia. See Chamich's history, and re- searches of the Rev. E. Smith, &c. Autobiography of John Galt, 343; not the autobiography of a mere literary man, 344; stanzas, 345; Mr. Galt's early days, 346; comes to London, 347; in- tends studying for the bar, 348; his re- flections on his going abroad, 349; his travels, 350; agent for the Canada Company, 351; the Majolo,' 352, 3; author's other works, 353.
Berzelius's analysis of inorganic bodies, 356; contents, 356, 7.
Bible monopoly; see report on king's printers' patent.
Brockedon's journals of excursions in the
Alps, 149; the author has traversed the Alps by more than thirty different routes, 150; the route of two excursions, 150; ascent of the Col de la Seigne, 151, 2; the Anzascans, 152-4; author's style extremely pleasing, 154; his journey over Mont Cervin, 154-56; cockney- isms on the summit of the Great St. Bernard, 156; interesting extracts, 156 -8.
Brown's church establishments defended, 69; author conducts the argument with great ability and good temper, 85. Buck's theological dictionary, a new edi- tion by Dr. Henderson, 145; 50,000 copies of the original work were sold in America, 146; the present editor has doubled the value of the work, ib.; his emendations, ib.; further improvements might be made, 148; at present it forms a most useful book, containing a mass of information, ib.
Burnet's lives, characters, and address to a
posterity, edited by Dr. Jebb, bishop of Limerick, 522; this edition embodies some valuable new matter, 523; its contents, ib.; letters from lord Rochester's mother, 524-26; Burnet's life of Sir M. Hale, 526; Mr. Knox on Baxter's appendix to the life, 527; Knox's statements at va- riance with historical fact, ib. ; his advice to the editor, 528; his praise of Dod- dridge, 529; praiseworthy object of the present publication, 530.
Calmet's dictionary of the Holy Bible, by the late Charles Taylor, 145; cheap and beautiful edition, 149; five quarto vo- lumes in one, ib.
Carlile's letters on the divine origin and authority of the Holy Scriptures, 203; design of the work, 204; religion is taught, in the Scriptures, by historical nar- rative, 205-7; contents of these vo- lumes, 207; many Christians not aware of the majestic evidence by which their faith is attested, 208; the Temptation of our Lord,' 299-11; the metaphysical knowledge of the sacred writers, 212; these volumes well adapted for their pur- pose, 213.
Carmichael's, Mrs., domestic manners and social condition of the white, coloured, and negro population of the West Indies, 397; her residence of five years is far from a guarantee for impartiality, ib.; her testimony on whipping the slaves, 398, 99; contrasted with Mr. White- ley's, 399-402; Mrs. Carmichael re- peatedly contradicts herself, 403; cross- examined, 403-15.
Casper Hauser, an account of an individual
kept imprisoned till the age of seventeen, 58; Casper's account of himself, 58-- 61; his first appearance, 61; peculia- rities of his mental, moral, and physical existence, 62; did not distinguish ani- mate from inanimate things, 63; extract, 63-65; his thirst for knowledge, 65; could distinguish metals by their feel, 66; pains taken to impart religion to him, 67; gratifying results, 68; spe- culations on the object of his incar- ceration, ib.; what we may learn from the history of this youth without child- hood,' 69.
Chamich's history of Armenia, translated by Avdall, 118; resemblance between the Armenian and Hungarian nations, ib.; also an affinity between the Zend lan- guage and the Armenian, 119; the an- cient history of Armenia, 120; Part I. of Chamich's history consists of obscure legends, 122; the story of the Assyrian
queen, Semiramis, 123, 4; perhaps bor- rowed from the Greek historians, 124; interesting particulars of the city of Van, and its monuments, &c., 124-26; M. Schulz's visit to Van, 126; do its monu- ments really belong to so remote a date? 127; the succession of the crown of Ar- menia, 128,9; Ahasuerus, and Tigranes, 130; the mountain in labour beheld by Ahasuerus, 131; Armenia falls into the hands of Alexander, 132; some general observations arising from these imperfect annals, ib.; in early times, were there any extensive consolidated empires? ib.; the only empires were confederacies of kingdoms under a king of kings, 133; Armenia was, probably, never comprised under one empire, ib.; its present culti- vation and literature exclusively Chris- tian, 134; some judicious observations extracted from Mr. Neumann's history of Vartan, 134-36; the third Part of Father Chamich's history, 277; origin of the Parthians involved in great obscurity, 278; the Arsacidan or Par- thian empire had no fixed capital, 281; author's narrative of the Arsacidan pe- riod clumsy and confused, 282; account of Abgar, 282, 3; wonders related con- cerning him, 284; treated by Lardner as the fiction of some Christian in the time of Eusebius, 285; the kindness shewn by the Russians to the Armenians, 301; Mr. Avdall's touching apostrophe to his mother country, 301-3. And see history of Vartan; and researches of the Rev. E. Smith, &c.
Chaplin's self-defence, an answer to 'war against the church,' 70.
China. See report of the proceedings of a voyage to.
Church establishments. See Wardlaw's civil establishments of Christianity. Coleridge's (Hartley) Poems, 140; how little interest do the lives of most poets add to their productions, ib.; the cause explained, ib.; sonnets, 141; what I have heard, 142; regeneration, 143; this volume refutes the notion that the son- net is a foreigner to our language, 144; extracts, ib.
Cowper. See Taylor's life of Cowper, and essays on the lives of Cowper, Newton,
Davies on ecclesiastical establishments, 70, Davis, Rev. R., brief memoir of, 354. Debt, national, 34.
Ellerby's memorials of Felix Neff, 50; au- thor's reasons for publishing, ib.; inte- resting passages in Neff's life, 51, 2;
the different sects in Switzerland and France, 53; Neff on dissent, 53, 4; the true church, 54, 5; prayer meetings, 56; a principal mean to, and a great evidence of, religious prosperity, ib.; Neff's paraphrase of Jer. xxxi., 57. Essays on the lives of Cowper, Newton, and Heber, 89; enough has been written to prove Cowper's malady did not pro- ceed from religion, ib.; these essays dis- play a hatred to evangelical doctrine, ib.; an instance of the writer's self-sufficien- cy, 90; his perversion of Cowper's his- tory, 91; Dr. Johnson on the subject, 92; Cowper's depression arose from checking an erysipelatous complaint of the face, 93; when he was sane, religion was his solace and support, 94; religion may, at an interval in the malady, ad- minister consolation even to insanity, 95; but it is a strange objection to Cow- per's religion, that it failed to support him when irrational, 96; eleven distinct errors alleged by the author of these essays to be involved in gloomy esti- mates of human nature, 105, 6; falla- cious consolation to be derived from his theory, 106; instance of wilful misrepre- sentation by the author, 107; if religion had any share in Cowper's madness, it was the want of it, 108; his letters to Mr. Newton, 109, 10; entertains an idea of his own irrationality, 112; Mrs. Unwin's infirmities bring on Cowper's last calamitous attack, ib.; the author of the essays on Cowper's death, 113; his statements display ignorance and preju- dice, ib.; despondency engenders false views of religion, 114; different exam- ples of despondency, 115; the circum- stances of a death-bed are no criterion of an individual's piety, or the truth of religion, 116: although it was permit- ted that Cowper should be visited by the delusions of distemper, he was in posses- sion of every other comfort, 117. And see Taylor's life of Cowper. Establishments, ecclesiastical; see Ward- law.
Evidence of Christianity; see Carlile and M'Ilvaine.
Ewing's nursing fathers and mothers of the children of the church, 70.
Fleming's critique on Dr. Wardlaw's ser- mon, 69; see Wardlaw.
Fletcher's funeral sermon on death of Rev. W. Thorp, 136; death has taken many great men lately, ib.; the coffin of a peasant is more impressive than the mightiest living genius, 137; particu-
lars of Mr. Thorp, 137-9; his last ill- ness, ib.
Franklin, Dr., familiar letters and miscel- laneous papers of, 261; letter to Miss Stevenson, 262, 3; to Miss Catherine Ray, 263-65; Franklin on the power of the crown, &c., 265–67; points of difference between the West India and the North American colonies, 268.
Gordon's fragment of the journal of a tour
through Persia in 1820, 530; author's inducement in writing, 531; his route, 532; anecdote, 533; curious English scale of Russian ranks, 534, 5; recep- tion given to religious tracts, &c., 536- 41.
Greswell's view of the early Parisian Greek press, 416; first entirely Greek book printed in Milan, 417; introduction of Greek capitals, 418; Gulielmus Budæus, 419-21; the Stephenses, 421, 2; the Sorbonne divines, 422; Henry Ste- phens, 423-26; Valpy's edition of Ste- phen's thesaurus Græcæ linguæ, 427,8; merit of Mr. Greswell's volumes, 429. Gyles's truth of Christianity, 204; the pro-
duction of a layman, 226; contents, 227; extract from Adam Smith, 227, 8.
Hamilton's sermons, 430; their peculiar style, ib.; contents of the volume, 431; mainly argumentative, 432; extracts, 432-36; author's powers of irony, 437 --39; further extracts, 442. Hampden's scholastic philosophy consider- ed in its relation to Christian theology, 43; creditable to the author, ib.; a re- form in theological science should begin at Oxford, 44; some of the author's statements questionable, 45, 6; the facts of scripture remain the same; not so, the theories raised on them, 46; church creeds and articles, 47; the spirit of scholasticism still lives amongst us, 48—
Harris's dictionary of the natural history of the Bible, 359; has received import- ant additions by the English editor, ib.; extract, 359-61.
History of Vartan, by Elisæus, bishop of the Amadunians, translated by C. F. Neumann, 118; some errors in the translator's notes, 278, 9; the Arme- nians, as a nation, were the first con- verts to the Christian faith, 285; when Christians became combatants, they, but not Christianity, conquered, 286; works by Elisæus, ib.; narrative of the Persian government, 287; persecutions of the Christians, 288, 9; arrogance of Theo-
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