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CONTENTS

I.-1. Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference

to Natural Theology. By the Rev. William Whewell,

M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge.

2. On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical

Condition of Man, principally with reference to the

Supply of his Wants, and the Exercise of his Intellec-

tual Faculties. By John Kidd, M.D., Regius Professor

of Medicine in the University of Oxford.

3. The Hand, its Mechanism and Endowments, as evincing

Design. By Sir Charles Bell, K.G.H.

4. Of the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as ma-

nifested in the adaptation of External Nature to the

Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. By the

Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D., Professor of Divinity in

the University of Edinburgh

II.—The Infirmities of Genius Illustrated by referring the Ano-

malies of the Literary Character to the Habits and

Constitutional Peculiarities of Men of Genius. By R.

R. Madden, Esq., Author of Travels in Turkey'

III.-Lives of the most eminent British Painters, Sculptors, and

Architects. By Allan Cunningham

IV. Memoirs of the Administration of the Right Honourable

Henry Pelham-collected from the Family Papers and

other authentic Documents. By William Coxe, M.A.

F.R.S., F.S.A., Archdeacon of Wilts

88

I.-1. Histoire de la Décadence et de la Chute de l'Empire

Romain, traduite de l'Anglais d'Edouard Gibbon.

Nouvelle édition, entièrement revue et corrigée, pré-

cédée d'une Notice sur la Vie et le Caractère de Gib-

bon, et accompagnée de Notes critiques et historiques

relatives pour la plupart à l'Histoire de la Propagation.

du Christianisme. Par M. F. Guizot.

2. Etudes, ou Discours Historiques sur la Chute de l'Em-

pire Romain. Par M. de Chateaubriand

II. 1. Schlangenbad und seine Heiltugenden, von Dr. H.

Fenner von Fenneberg.

2. Wiesbaden und seine Heilquellen dargestellt.

3. Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau. By an Old

III.-I. Present State of the Poor-Law Question. By C.

2. Extracts from the Information received by His Ma-

jesty's Commissioners as to the Administration and

Operation of the Poor-Laws. Published by Authority.

3. Reply of the Commissioners for Inquiring into the

Poor-Laws to a Letter from the Chancellor of the

Exchequer on the Labour-Rate. Printed for the

House of Commons, June 19th, 1833

IV.-1. Journal of a West India Proprietor. By the late

Matthew G. Lewis.

2. Domestic Manners in the West Indies. By Mrs. Car-

V.—An Inquiry into the State of Slavery amongst the Ro-

mans, from the earliest Period till the Establishment

of the Lombards in Italy. By William Blair, Esq.

VI. Trevelyan, by the Author of A Marriage in High Life.' 413

VII.-1. A Letter to the Right Hon. Charles Grant, President

of the Board of Control, on the Present State of British

Intercourse with China. By C. Marjoribanks, Esq.,

M.P., late President of the Select Committee in China.

2. Papers relating to the Ship Amherst, in reference to

a Voyage recently undertaken to the North-east Coast

3. Papers relating to the Affairs of the East India Com-

4. Corrected Report of the Speeches of Sir George

Staunton on the China Trade in the House of Commons,

June 4 and 13, 1833.

5. Observations on the China Trade, and on the Im-

portance and Advantages of removing it from Canton

to some other part of the Coast of that Empire. By

Sir James Brabazon Urmston

VIII.-Life and Poetical Works of the Reverend George Crabbe,

in 8 vols. 12mo. Vol. I. containing the Life of Crabbe.

IX.-1. Church Reform.

2. The Church of England; or safe, liberal, and Christian

Principles of Reform in the Establishment; with the

beneficial Changes which may be made, consistently

with Reason and Religion, in the Ecclesiastical Affairs

of this Kingdom.

3. The Liturgy Revised; or the Necessity and Bene-

ficial Effects of an authorized Abridgment and careful

Revision of the various Services of the Established

4. The British Liturgy; an Attempt towards an Analysis,

Arrangement, and Compression of the Book of Com-

5. The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of

the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the

Church, newly arranged, with Alterations and Abbre-

6. A Petition to the House of Lords. By the Rev. C. N.

Wodehouse, Prebendary of Norwich. Mirror of Par-

liament, 5th August.

7. Evidence of the Necessity of Church Reform.

8. Reform without Re-construction, &c.; accompanied

with a Plan for the Compression of the Liturgy and

Ritual of the Church of England

X.-Note on Pamphlet entitled A Refutation of the Calum--

nies against the Lord Chancellor contained in the last

Number of the Quarterly Review'

THE

QUARTERLY REVIEW.

ART. I.-1. Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology. By the Rev. William Whewell, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, Cambridge. 8vo. pp. 381. London. 1833.

2. On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Physical Condition of Man, principally with reference to the Supply of his Wants, and the Exercise of his Intellectual Faculties. By John Kidd, M.D., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford. 8vo. pp. 375. London. 1833. 3. The Hand, its Mechanism and Endowments, as evincing Design. By Sir Charles Bell, K.G.H., F.R.S. L. and E. 8vo. pp. 288. London. 1833.

4. Of the Power, Wisdom, and Goodness of God, as manifested in the adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man. By the Rev. Thomas Chalmers, D.D., Professor of Divinity in the University of Edinburgh. In two volumes, 8vo. London. 1833.

IT

T is impossible to peruse the titles of these books, without feeling an emotion of gratitude towards the memory of the noble and reverend person to whose munificence we are indebted for their publication. The charitable institutions, which abound in this country, afford ample proof of the benevolent spirit that pervades the opulent orders of our community. But it has happened to few of its members to aim at so noble a design, as was provided for by the will of the late Earl of Bridgewater, (the last of his distinguished race,) when he dedicated a liberal portion of his wealth to the discussion of some of the most important questions, upon which the human faculties can be employed. If ever the possession of the gifts of fortune be enviable, it is when we see them administered for such a purpose as this. Enviable too must have been the reflections of him who thus secured, as far as he could do, the erection of one altar more to the attributes of the Omnipotent, hoping, perhaps, though we fear in vain, that it might endure to remote ages, bearing round its basement an humble but emphatic testimony to the ardour of his faith as a Christian, and to the truth of his perceptions as a philosopher.

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