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terati Parmegiani,' (Parma); which is described as a masterpiece of laborious care, and even as surpassing in minute accuracy, the work of the learned Father Ireneo Affo, of which it is a continuation. A new and beautiful edition of Winkelmann's works, is also, it appears, now publishing at Prato, with plates; and editions of Cicognara's and D'Agincourt's works on the Fine Arts, have lately appeared at the same place. But the latest novelties, is an edition among of The Life of Cellini,' published at Florence. It is said to be illustrated by some important notes, and that the last volume contains "his Journal and his Poems;" these, we presume, are additions, and if so, we shall certainly look into the work itself, and report upon it. Everything relating to this strange, mad genius, is interesting.

Returning northward, we learn that some hitherto inedited poems of the middle ages, in Turkish, on the history of Alexander the Great, &c., have been discovered by M. Frederic Wolf, in the library of St. Mark, at Venice. The whole constitute a Poetical Pantheon, embracing not merely the history of Alexander, but also that of the entire East, before and since Alexander;-before, to the period of the first Kings of Persia; and since, to the time of the writer; and painting the philosophy and theology of the true believers in a bold and brief style, that is not devoid of poetical colouring.

Now journeying to the farthest north, we hear that the researches made in Turkey, in the years 1829 and 1830, by command of the Emperor Nicholas, have been productive of some discoveries of great interest to science and art. M. Sayger, librarian to the Emperor, and M. Desarnod, painter to the Grand Duke Michael, have travelled over this classic ground, and have made discoveries of many remains of antiquity of a remote age, of which they have taken views that will now for the first time be presented to the public. The work is to consist of fifty plates, to be published in eight livraisons.

The Society for the promotion of Danish Literature has received as a prize essay, a work in five volumes quarto, accompanied by maps! The Society, in its proposals, issued in 1829, required "A systematic view of the opinions of the ancient inhabitants of the north, on that portion of the world known to them previous to the 13th century." The essay alluded to has not only received the prize, but is to be printed at the expense of the Society. The author is Mr. N. M. Peterson, who some years since obtained a similar prize for an excellent work on the history of Scandinavian Literature.

FINE ARTS

The Landscape Album: or Great Britain Illustrated in a Series of Sixty Views. By W. Westall, Esq. A.R.A., with descriptions of the Scenery, by Thomas Moule, Esq. London: C. Tilt.

THIS is the first of the Annuals, and, according to report, the forerunner of a splendid race.-That it will be inferior in its embellishments to many, there can be no doubt; but in the number of them, it bids fair to distance all competitors -it contains no less than sixty! It is, however, our duty to intimate to our readers, what Mr. Tilt has forgotten to do, either in the title-page or in the preface-that the whole of these en

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gravings appeared originally in the 'Great Britain Illustrated.'-To such persons, therefore, as have that work it offers no novelty; but for others, we must acknowledge, that we know not where they are likely to meet with any work so cheap and beautiful; it will recall a thousand pleasant recollections of summer scenes to de

light their winter fire-sides.

The Queen of the Belgians in her Wedding Dress. Engraved by W. Hopwood, from an original drawing by E. T. Parris.

EXCELLENT! Let the publisher proceed in this spirit, and we shall treasure up the fashions in the Court Magazine among works of art and why should we not, when such a man as the painter of the Bridemaid' consents to furnish drawings? And why, when Raphael gave designs for pottery and tapestry, should not a young English artist hold up to English beauty the glass of fashion? So be it, Mr. Parris, and we honour you for it-so be it, Mr. Bull, and may your liberality reap the harvest it deserves.

MUSIC

Sacred Music, selected and arranged from the Works of the most eminent composers, with several original compositions, adapted for Congregational and Private Use, with a separate accompaniment for the Organ or Piano-forte. By William Shore. Manchester.

THIS is a most valuable volume of sacred music. We, however, dislike the forming of standard compositions and the adapting of withstanding the discretion of the author, we dramatic music to suit other purposes; and, notthink they might have well been excluded. The variety and excellence of the contributions from no less than thirty composers, from Handel to Spohr, warrant our warm commendation.

Septetto Concertante, for Trumpet, Horn, Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, and Double-Bass, arranged as a Duet for two performers on the Piano-forte, by the author-Chev. Neukomm. WE heard this composition at the Philharmonic Concerts, for which it was expressly composed; and our opinion remains unaltered. We still consider the merit of the music to consist chiefly in affording the most favourable display of the powers of each of the seven instruments in the hands of Willman, Nicholson, Harper, &c. The arrangement is undoubtedly the best that could be made of the original, but wanting in defined and well-sustained melodies. This duet, we fear, will not equal the expectation of many who were delighted with its performance as a septet.

May Day; a characteristic Fantasia for the

Piano-forte. By M. Marielli.

THIS species of composition, when united to the descriptive, as in Beethoven's Pastorale, affords great scope for the display of genius and science of the latter, there is sufficient in the

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THEATRICALS

Must not occupy much room this week, and, therefore, we shall give the theatres a few words each, begging them to ascribe it to haste, if we divide unfairly. Theatres will open shortly, like oysters, by the dozen. We shall, however, begin with the one which is about to close.

ENGLISH OPERA-OLYMPIC THEATRE. THIS company finishes for the season this evening. The early part was not so prosperous as it deserved to be, but "Cupid" has found his way to the hearts of hundreds-the disorder is known to be catching, and was spreading rapidly, but unfortunately Mr. Arnold is obliged to close just as he is getting excellent houses.

DRURY LANE

Opens on this day week. We regret to observe, that the schoolmaster has done nothing during the recess for the bills of the house. His Majesty's English seems to be doomed to another season of suffering. Would anybody, who had not seen it, believe, that the bills have day after day announced, that the management engaged "the late Miss Mordaunt"? And yet such is the fact-we presume they expect she will make a dead hit. Why do they begin with 'The Soldier's Daughter'?-the most stupid, senseless, mawkish, wishy-washy, clap-trappy, trumpery play in our language! Well, we shall see-though we shan't see that, because we can neither sit nor stand 'The Soldier's Daughter.' Mr. Power, however, will, no doubt, give the audience a laugh after their yawn, and 'Midas' is always safe.

COVENT GARDEN

Will open on Monday week. We understand that, upon this occasion, a young gentleman will make his appearance as Shylock. He is a young gentleman, being yet under eighteen years of age. His appearance approaches that of Mr. Kean, and there is also a natural similarity about the two voices; the debutant, however, having greatly the advantage of his renowned predecessor, in point of power. It is, in truth, a most arduous undertaking for so young a man; but we have too anxious a desire to see the hideous gaps, which have been left in tragedy, filled up, not to be willing to afford him every encouragement; such will, no doubt, be the feeling of the Press generally; if it should appear that there really is good promise about him, it will be too hard to undervalue his talent, because nature has put it out of his power to help occasionally looking or speaking like the favourite to whom we have alluded.

Mr. Perkins, Mr. Forrester, and Mr. Mitchell, are engaged at this house. We shall take it as a favour if our readers will remember our

prediction in favour of this last-mentioned actor

the first time we saw him. He is now transferred to a stage on which he will at once proceed to fulfil it.

THE ADELPHI THEATRE

Will open on Monday week; their attractions are their own, and the management know too well what will suit the audiences, not to hit them somehow. A new piece will be produced on the first night.

OLYMPIC THEATRE.

Madame Vestris also enters the field on the same evening; and Mr. Liston will re-appear at these his well-known quarters in a new two-act piece-in which Mrs. Orger will make her first appearance at this theatre. Madame has done well and wisely to make so valuable an addition to her company. She has made others which we have not time to enumerate.

MISCELLANEA

We are truly Subscription for Millhouse. happy to announce, that Sir R. C. Ferguson has sent Five Pounds to Mr. Millhouse, with an order for a dozen copies of his Poem, as well as a strong expression of the interest he takes in the welfare of the poet, and of his intention to make him known as far as possible among his friends. We have also to acknowledge as received, Ten Shillings from T. S.

Mr. Ensom, the Engraver.-It was only by accident that we heard of the death of this

amiable and promising artist, who will probably be remembered by our readers for his very beautiful engravings in the different Annuals, especially his Master Lambton' and 'Lady Walscot.' He was a pupil of the late Mr. C. Warren's, and greatly esteemed by him. In 1821, he went to Paris to pursue his studies, and draw from the antique statues in the Louvre, and there he became acquainted with Bonington, who introduced him into the atelier of Le Baron Gros, under whose direction they studied together from the living model. It is believed, that his anxious and devoted application there first undermined his constitution. He returned to London in 1824, but, his health still declining, he found it necessary, for the benefit of country air, to retire to Wandsworth, where, however, he pursued his profession. As an artist, the public can form their own judgment of Mr. Ensom: but if any faith can be put in the report of friends, it would be difficult to overrate his virtues as a man. He possessed four or five drawings by his friend Bonington, and one of them has been described to us, by a competent judge, as among the most finished drawings of that gifted artist.

Goethe-Among the MSS. of Goethe, there are nearly 500 inedited letters, which passed between him and Schiller; they have been put into the hands of the government, as, according to the will of the deceased, they are not to be published before the year 1840 or 1850.

A School of Military Surgery has been newly formed at Constantinople, and the direction committed to a Frenchman, Dr. Sat Deygallières. The site is on the Bosphorus, and accommodation is provided for 200 pupils.

Dr. Morrison's Chinese Dictionary.-Those.of

our readers who watch the progress of oriental literature, will recollect the severe attacks made

by Mr. Klaproth on the 'Chinese Dictionary' of Dr. Morrison. Honourable testimony, however, has recently been borne to the value and accuracy of the Doctor's labours, by many most competent scholars, and by none more so than by a Mr. Gutzlaff, whose Travels in Siam recently appeared, and who spent five years in various parts of China, continually using the Doctor's Dictionary, and in constant correspondence with the natives, who could scarcely credit that a barbarian was the author of so accurate a work as Dr. Morrison's Dictionary was found to be.

Goethe.-The finest portrait of Goethe is pronounced, by the German critics, to be that just completed by Schwerdgeburth, engraver to the Grand-Duke of Weimar. It is said to be a most accurate and animated likeness, as well as a fine specimen of the capabilities of the German burin. The last volume of (Goethe's) Posthumous Works,' will, we hear, be the first in the order of publication, and will consist of Notes on Art and Antiquity, many of which are reported as being more than commonly valuable.

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Change in the Almanack.-A Columbian toastmaker intimates that this is the last fourth of July that the Nullifiers intend to have. They expect to have one of their own hereafter. It is supposed they will conclude to have it sometime in February,—American Paper.

Daniel Boon.-Kentucky is now one of the most flourishing states of the Union, though it was only in 1770 that the first noise of its discovery was bruited about even in America. It cannot fail to be interesting to our readers to read the particulars of the first exploring by Daniel Boon, as we find them recorded in a letter to the Editor of the Illinois Magazine. "I will inform you what he told me relative to his first discovery of Kentucky. He said, that himself, his brother Squire, and a servant boy, came from North Carolina, to take a fall hunt in Powell's Valley, having hunted there the year before. He was hunting along the side of the Cumberland Mountain, and discovered a gap or low place in the mountain, which he ascended to the top; from whence he thought he could see to the Ohio river. He thought, in his own mind, that it was the most beautiful country in the world. He returned to the camp, and informed his brother what he had seen; telling him that they must up and go across the mountain. They did so, and travelled on to Scagg's creek, where the deer were so plenty, that they soon loaded their seven horses with skins, and he started his brother and the servant boy back with them to North Carolina. He told his brother to bring back to him as many horses as he could get, and he would have their loads ready against he came. He stayed and hunted there, and never saw the face of man for eight months to a day. He declared that he never enjoyed himself better in his life; he had three dogs that kept his camp while he was hunting; and at night he would often lay by his fire and sing every song he could think of, while the dogs would sit round him, and give as much attention as if they understood every word he was saying.

as much noise and using as many different tones as they could. They fired, and he tilted his man over the log, but the others bore him off. They followed the Indians three quarters of a mile shouting and yelling; then came back, gathered their own horses, and those of the Indians, put on their packs, and the packs beaver fur, and drove them safe to his own house, in North Carolina.-The above is just as he told it to me himself."

Alexandrine Column, St. Petersburgh.-We have adverted to this gigantic monument on two former occasions; and we now learn, that Montferraud, the architect, is preparing a description of the column with illustrative plates. The summit will be surmounted with a bronze statue of Religion, holding a wreath in her hand; and the only inscription on the pediment, will be "To the Emperor Alexander-Russia the grateful."

New Reading.-A labourer reading our journal to his wife, instead of "the President was received with three huzzas," pronounced the last word "hussies." More shame for him," said the scandalized lady.-American Paper.

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Prevailing Clouds.-Cirrostratus, Comoid-cirrostratus, and Cymoid-cirrostratus.

Nights fair throughout the week; Mornings fair, except Saturday.

Mean temperature of the week, diminished 15° in three days.

Day decreased on Wednesday, 4h. 14 min.

NOVELTIES IN LITERATURE AND ARTS. Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1833. The engrav.

ings executed under the exclusive direction of Mr. Esq.; with Travelling Sketches on the Rhine, in Belgium, and in Holland, by Leitch Ritchie, Esq.

Charles Heath, from drawings by Clarkson Stanfield,

The Keepsake for 1833.

The Literary Souvenir for 1833, edited by Alaric A. Watts.

The New Year's Gift and Juvenile Souvenir for 1833, edited by Mrs. Alaric A. Watts.

Drawing-room Scrap-book for 1833, with poetical illustrations, by L. E. L.

The Emigrant's Tale, with other Poems, by J. Bird. Shortly, the Life of the late Dr. A. Clarke, written by himself, with a continuation to the time of his decease, by a member of his own family.

"At the end of eight months his brother and servant boy came to him, with fourteen horses. His brother informed him, that when he got into North Carolina with his peltry, the Indians had fallen upon the frontiers, and that he had to go, with others, against them. Boon had the packs nearly all ready, and in a day or two, they loaded the horses, and started for home. They travelled on that day, and until about ten o'clock the next day, when he saw four Indians, with four horses, loaded with beaver fur. They were crossing each other; and seeing, plainly, that they must meet, he cautioned his brother and the servant boy not to let the Indians have their guns out of their hands; for they would be sure to make the attempt to get them, under the pretence of wanting to examine them. The Indians endeavoured to get their guns, but they would not let them get possession of them. The Indians then went round Boon's horses, and drove them off with their own. Boon said he looked after them awhile, and then put off for home. They went on that day, and the next, until nine or ten o'clock; he then observed to his brother and the boy, that if they would stick to him, he would follow them to their towns but he would have his skins and horses back. They agreed to it, and pursued hard after them, and came in sight of them the fourth day. Now,' said Boon, we must trail them on, until they Country Curate, 18mo. 25.-Dove's Life of Andrew Mar

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The Indians at length halted, hoppled their horses, cooked and eat; Boon and his companions watching them all the while. He well knew, that, having eaten, they would all lie down to sleep, except one. They did so; and the one who was on guard, sat on a log, at the head of the others, and Boon and his boys had to creep on all fours a hundred yards, to get near enough to shoot. The colonel then told his brother, that he would take for his own mark, the one on the log-that he, the brother, must aim at the one on the right, and the boy at the one on the left; and that when he gave the signal, they must fire, and keep loading and shooting, making

Just published.-Kidd's Guide to Dover, 12mo. 1s. 6d. Beamish's History of the King's German Le gion, Vol. I. Svo. 20s.-Col. Napier's History of the Peninsular War, Vol. II. 8vo. 20s.-Newton on the Prophecies, 8vo. 13s.-Rev. J. Slade's Explanation of the Psalms, 12mo. 5.s.-Rev. John Hall's Expository Dis courses on the Gospels, 2 vols. 8vo. 21s.-A Christian Portrait, in the Memoirs of Eliza, 12mo. 5s.-Goodridge's Narrative of a Voyage to the South Seas, and Residence in Van Diemen's Land, 12mo. 5s. 6d.-De Porquet's French Dictionary, 5s.-Mosaical and Universal Geologies, by Higgins, 7s.-Zohrab the Hostage, 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d.-Herklots' Qanoon-e-Islam, Svo. 16s.-The Diadem, selection of poetry, roy. 32mo. 3.s. 6d. Anatomical Demonstrations of the Human Body, Part II. ss. Gd.-Christian Amusement, by a

vell, 12mo. 2s. 6d.-Ocean Gem, by W. M. Davies, 12mo. 4s. 64.-On Circulating Credit, and the Banking System of Britain, by a Scottish Banker, 8vo, 55.6d.— Lachlan's Narrative of the Conversion of Cook the mur derer, 18mo. 3s. 6d.-Edinburgh Atlas, folio, completed,

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ADVERTISEMENTS

GALLERY of PRACTICAL

SCIENCE, blending Instruction with Amusement, ADELAIDE-STREET, near St. Martin's Church, West Strand. Open daily from 10 to 6.-Admission, 18.

This Exhibition is available for great national purposes, as the Proprietors receive, for public inspection, Works of Practical Science, free from any charge; reserving only the exercise of their judgment, in determining that the productions are suitable to the objects of the Institution,-the chief aim of the Proprietors being to promote, to the utmost of their power, the adoption of whatever may be found to be comparatively superior or relatively perfect in the various articles confided to their care, without prejudice on the one hand, or partiality on the other. They contemplate the valuable co-operation and voluntary aid of the intellectual public towards the advancement of this National Gallery, established for the practical illustration of general science and for the reception of specimens of the rare productions of

nature.

NOW EXHIBITING.

PERKINS' newly-discovered System of generating Steam, exemplified by a STEAM GUN, discharging, with one fourth greater power than that of Gunpowder, a Volley of Seventy Balls, against a Target, in four seconds, every successive half hour during the day-elucidating the advantage of this description of Engine as an implement of war.

This mode of generating Steam is also applicable to the evaporation of fluids; its effect is exhibited by open Boilers in action, and will be found an essential improvement in the manufacture of the following articles: Spirits, Beer, Sugar, Salt, Indigo, Soda, Perfumery, and Confectionery; together with many others .depending on ebullition, with continuous circulation.

Steam-boat Models upon water, propelled by the paddle-wheel in common use, and by that of Perkins' late invention for Sea and Inland Navigation.

Holdsworth's newly invented Revolving Rudder.

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An Apparatus by Perkins, showing a brilliant combustion of the hardest steel, effected by its being brought in contact with a soft iron plate, revolving with an intense rapidity.

Specimens of Perkins' System of Printing with hardened Steel Plates and Rollers, and of the transfer of Engravings on Steel from one Plate and Roller to others, without limit as to number. A Magnet, by Saxton, of extraordinary power, producing a spark capable of igniting gunpowder.

An improved Apparatus, by A. M. Perkins, for Warming Rooms or Buildings.

Hawkins' unrivalled Collection of Antediluvian Fossil Organic Remains, highly interesting to the antiquarian and the geologist. An Apparatus, by Perkins, compressing, with a power of 30,000 pounds to the square inch, aëriform fluids, liquids, or solids. Exhibited every day at 2 and 4 o'clock.

Exemplification of Watson's Plan for preventing Ships foundering at Sea.

A very ingeniously-constructed working Sectional Model of a Steam Engine.

Model of the proposed London and Birmingham Railway, with Carriages thereon.

Models of Green's new Framing of Ships, Pering's Anchor, and Roberts' improved Gun Carriage and Fid for a Top-mast. A Selection of valuable Paintings by the Old Masters. The Eolophon, a new Musical Instrument of a peculiarly sweet quality of tone and great power. Performed on daily, at intervals, between half-past two and half past four o'clock.

The Royal Seraphine, a new Musical Instrument of very extraordinary powers. Mr. Cruise will perform on it, at intervals, between three and five o'clock.

Numerous other Models and Objects of interest and amusement are now exhibited, and additions to the Gallery are daily received.

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A POPULAR WEEKLY ENCYCLOPEDIA, Containing sixteen closely-printed pages of super-royal svo. with numerous Illustrations on Wood, by Mr. G. W. Bonner, price Twopence. On the 29th September will be published, HE BRITISH CYCLOPEDIA History, Geography, Politics, Biography, Natural History, and Biblical Criticism and Theology, on the basis of the celebrated German Conversations-Lexicon; with such Additions and Improvements as will adapt it to the wants of the British Public.

By CHARLES F. PARTINGTON, Esq. Professor of Mechanical Philosophy, Author of various Works on Natural and Experimental Philosophy, &c. &c.; assisted by other Authors of celebrity in the various branches of Science and Literature.

HEADS OF ARRANGEMENT. Division I.-ARTS and SCIENCES, which will include every subject connected with the Useful and Fine Arts:-the Pure and Mixed Sciences, Medicine, Manufactures, and Commerce. Division II.-LITERATURE, HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY, LAW, and POLITICS, will form a complete body of Universal History, Geography, and Literature.

Division 1.-NATURAL HISTORY will form a complete History of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral Kingdoms.

Division IV-BIOGRAPHY will form a complete Biographical Dictionary of every person of any degree of celebrity.

Division V.-BIBLICAL CRITICISM and THEOLOGY will comprise, in one volume, a complete body of Divinity.

The whole will be illustrated by numerous Wood Cats, by Mr. G. W. Bonner, and Engravings on Steel by eminent Artists, and published in WEEKLY NUMBERS, price TWOPENCE each, with a MONTHLY SUPPLEMENT, containing two appropriate Steel Plates. The Work will also be done up in MONTHLY PARTS.

fit The two Plates intended for the first Supplement are now ready, and will be delivered with the first Number.

London: William Orr, 14, Paternoster-row; James Chambers, Edinburgh; William Curry, jun. and Co. Dublin; Bancks and Co. Manchester; and Wrightson and Webb, Birmingham.

No. II. (to be continued monthly, price only Half-a-Crown; India Proofs, 58.) of

MAJOR'S CABINET NATIONAL GAL

LERY of PICTURES, will be published on the 29th instaut, with an enlarged Prospectus, containing Lists of the great Artists intended to be brought forward in the next six or eight Numbers; also the Names of the various Engravers. The present contains, Puck, or Robin Goodfellow,' by Sir Joshua Reynolds; and The Marriage Festival of Isaac and Rebecca,' by Claude Lorraine. With Descriptions, &c. by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.

To be had of all Book and Printsellers.

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ASYLUM LIFE OFFICE, 70, Cornhill,

The Directors of this Establishment call the attention of the 5000 favoured Members of the Equitable Society to the necessity of securing the advantages presented by their peculiar situation. -Those who live until January, 1640, will have further large additions to their Policies.-The representatives of those who die previously, would merely obtain a return for the current years of the Decennial period.-To facilitate the operations of the fortunate holders, the Asylum will grant Assurances for the amount of the supposed additions, charging only the rates according to age for a Seven Years' Policy, and engaging to receive the proportional part of the premium for the period between the last renewal and the 1st of January, 1840.

The Asylum Rates are lower than those of any other Office.
DIRECTORS.

The Honourable William Fraser, Chairman.
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The Equitable Policy Holders not included in the favoured number of 5000, may learn from the Asylum Prospectus the means of securing to themselves the advantages extended only to those who were assured by the Equitable Society before the

year 1817.

A PARAPHRASTIC TRANSLATION of WRITING PAPER JOHN LIMBIRD, 143,

with Notes,

By PHILIP NICHOLAS SHUTTLEWORTH, D.D. Warden of New College, Oxford; and Rector of Foxley, Wilts. Printed for J. G. and F. Rivington, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Waterloo-place, Pall Mall.

Of whom may be had, by the same Author,

Sermons on some of the Leading Principles of Christianity. 2nd edition, 8vo. 128.

THE HOLY BIBLE, CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED. This day is published, handsomely printed, in 4 large vols, svo. price 47, in boards, a new edition, with Marginal References, of THE OLD and NEW TESTAMENT, arranged in Historical and Chronological Order, in such Manner that the Books, Chapters, &c. &c. may be read as oue conuected History, in the very Words of the Authorized Translation. With copious Notes and Indexes.

By the Rev. GEORGE TOWNSEND, M.A. Prebendary of Durham, and Vicar of Northallerton. Printed for J. G. and F. Rivington, St. Paul's Churchyard, and Waterloo place, Pall Mall. tit The Old and New Testament may be purchased separately, price 24. each in boards.

CONDITION OF THE ANGLO-EASTERN EMPIRE IN 1832. This day is published, in one vol. 8vo. price 98. boards,

THE POLITICAL, FINANCIAL, and

EMPIRE, in 1832; an Analysis of its Home and Foreign Governments, and a Practical Examination of the Doctrines of Free Trade and Colonization, with reference to the Renewal or Modification of the Hou, East India Company's Charter.

By the Author of The Past and Present State of the Tea Trade of England and of the Continents of Europe and America, &c. London: Parbury, Allen, and Co. Leadenhall-street.

A FRENCH LITERARY PAPER.

On the 21st of September, 1832, was published the 9th Number of

LE CERCLE, Journal de la Littéra

ture et des Arts, Théâtres, Critique, Moeurs, Modes Fran

çaises, &c.

May also be had in monthly parts, of four numbers each, containing the review, with copious extracts, of upwards of nifty works, recently published on the continent, besides much other useful and entertaining matter.

A few copies of the back numbers may still be had, by early application to the publishers.

In consequence of the great patronage LE CERCLE has received since its first publication, the proprietors are induced to increase its size to forty-eight columns from the commencement of October next; and likewise to receive quarterly subscriptions, which will ensure its delivery in London carly on the day of publication.

Fenwick de Porquet and Cooper, 11, Tavistock-street, Coventgarden; to whom communications for the Editor, and works for review, are to be addressed. LE CERCLE may be had of Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh; Tims and Webb, Dublin; Wilmer and Smith, Liverpool; and all respectable Booksellers and News

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REVIEWS

people. Persia is no land of romance, but a sad reality. It much resembles, in its features, the Morea. It presents a succession of arid mountains and grey rocks, with patches here and there of short-lived verdure, that render the scene, if we except the borders of Armenia, the banks of the Caspian, and a few isolated tracts, only the more bleak and desolate; and their towns and cities consist of low mud houses, fenced about by jealous mud walls, and are seldom distinguished by mosques or minarets of magnificence, such as we meet with in other parts of the East.

Even in the environs of the cities, the formal poplar and still more formal cypress are almost the only trees; whilst man, from an uninterrupted continuance of misgovernment, has degenerated into two classes-the tyrant and the slave.

ago he was living and delighting his friends Zohrab the Hostage. By the Author of with his conversation, and the world with 'Hajji Baba.' 3 vols. London: Bentley. his works-and now he is silenced for ever, THE Persians have what they call a false and passed from among us. The manner of dawn, or twilight. They suppose that this his going is the saddest story that has ever phenomenon arises from the circumstance been told of a son of genius. He made him- of the sun passing through a certain aperture self responsible for immense debts which he in the mountains some time before it ascends did not, strictly speaking, contract; he re- above the horizon. 'Zohrab' may be comfused to become a bankrupt, considering, pared to this optical illusion. We must conlike the elder Osbaldistone of his own im-fess, that when we read the very flattering mortal pages, commercial honour as dear as review of this novel, so many weeks before any other honour, and set himself the co-the appearance of the work itself, a suspicion What materials does such an unhappy lossal task of paying every penny of one crossed our minds, that this unnatural dan- country afford for awakening any interest hundred and twenty thousand pounds. Indling into notice betrayed a ricketiness in the that comes home to the better feelings of six short years-are we writing truth or fic- offspring. To be serious: this holding out humanity?—But we anticipate. tion?-he paid sixty thousand pounds of that of false lights-this system of puffing-has However it may be the duty of the hismoney by his genius alone; but he crushed gone on increasing to an extent that is dis-torian to hold up to the execration of his his spirit in the gigantic struggle; or, in plain graceful to the publisher, and an insult to species, the Ishmaels, and Molu Mulochs, words, sacrificed himself in the attempt to the understandings of the public; and we and Christierns of past times, such characters restore his broken fortunes. By the terms hold, that if this contraband trading be not come not within the scope or province of of the arrangement which Sir Walter made thoroughly exposed, it must in the end be the novel-writer. Voltaire has been justly with his creditors, Abbotsford will be sold to ruinous to all sound literature and criticism. blamed for his treatment of Mahomet, and pay the residue of the debt. This must not There is no country about which so much might perhaps have been even more so, for be; the profane hammer of an auctioneer has been written, and, till the publication of selecting that subject for a tragedy; and if must not be heard in our temple of the Hajji Baba,' so little was really known, as our author considered he had no delicacy to muses. Shall we bring upon ourselves infamy Persia. We used once to depict it in all the observe, as regarded one who so lately filled that cannot die, and be made a mockery and glowing colours of oriental fable, as a land of the throne of Persia, we are not exactly rea wonder among nations for the sake of sixty diamonds and emeralds-as breathing with conciled to his blending history and fiction thousand pounds? Let the country which he the most aromatic gums and spices-as pos-in such a way, that we know not where one has enriched as much as he has adorned, sessing looms, whose fabrics were as un- begins and the other ends. Though we have fulfil the engagement of its illustrious son. rivalled as those of Tyre and Sidon of old. no respect for tyrants, justice requires their Britain owes him millions; we call upon her We had accustomed ourselves, from that de-crimes should not be exaggerated, much less to pay a small portion of the debt, and win light of our boyhood, the Arabian Nights,' crimes invented, to serve the purposes of a back Abbotsford--houses and lands-to the to revel in the splendour of its processions novelist; but even admitting the late Shah to children of the poet for ever and ever. This and courts-its enchanted palaces, inlaid have been the monster of iniquity depicted can give no offence to any one, and it with the finest marbles-its luxurious gardens in the pages before us, many may be of cannot but gratify millions. This ques--its baths and fountains-and to feast our opinion that little utility can arise, certainly tion lies between the country-the heirs of imaginations on the loves of the Rose and the no gratification or entertainment (the prinScott's fame, the sharers in his glory-and Nightingale, as told in the mystic and me- cipal end and aim of novels,)-from that his immediate creditors. We call, there-taphorical language of Hafiz. We are un- anatomical dissection in which Mr. Morier's fore, upon the country at large to bestir willing to have our early illusions questioned scalping-knife delights-from laying bare to itself; we call upon the titled of the land to or destroyed. It was for Mr. Morier to com- his readers the sickening wickedness of Aga head the subscription as they ought-and to plete this invidious task. Mahomed. do it immediately, lest humbler men commence it, and deprive them of the post of honour. For ourselves we lay down ten guineas, and hope to have to pay them before these sheets are dry-for we assuredly never laid out money more worthily. The Times newspaper, with its usual energy and proper warmth, is of our opinion, we observe: and we trust, that, before our Memoir makes its appearance next week, the subscription will be full and complete. We need not add, that the family of the poet know nothing of this: their feeling of independence is as

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It is true, that many intelligent travellers, from Chardin to Fraser, had traversed the widely-extended provinces of that empire, from the borders of Armenia to Asterabad, and taken us to Tehran, and Bokara, and Samarcand, and Shiraz, and the ruins of the ancient Persepolis; but their journies (witness the fate of Mr. Brown) were always accompanied with danger from Eels, and Turcomans, and other predatory hordes; and the stay of these visitors was too short to make us intimate with the customs and manners of that primitive and semi-barbarous

Such subjects have been very properly exiled from the stage; and our nerves are scarcely strong enough to bear the dreadful and appalling spectacles displayed in almost every page of these volumes. It may be, that our author has resided in that country till the relation of such horrors has ceased to shock his ears, till they have become familiar to his eyes, and conscious that his forte lies, like Chateaubriand's in the Natchez, in this sort of writing, is not aware of the impression it produces on us.

The name of this historico-novel should

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