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1826.

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A REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS;

POETRY; CRITICISMS ON THE FINE ARTS, THE DRAMA, &c.;

BIOGRAPHY;

CORRESPONDENCE OF DISTINGUISHED PERSONS;

ANECDOTES, JEUX D'ESPRIT, &c.;

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY AND MANNERS;
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REVIEW.

ABASSAH, an Arabian Tale, 441

Acton's (E.) Poems, 808

Age, Spirit and Manners of the, 458

Agriculture, Loudon's Encyclopædia of, 84

Alexander I, Histoire d', 484, 551.-Almack's, a Novel, 769
Alien, Letter from, to Mr. Peel, 520

Alla Giornata, a Tale, 435.-Almanach des Dames, 152
Amulet, or Christian Remembrancer, 691

Anderson's (C.) Genius of the Domestic Constitution, 569
Anderson's (J.) Mission to Sumatra, 452, 471
Annual Biography and Obituary for 1826, 20
Anspach, Margravine of, her Memoirs, 8
Appenzeller's Gertrude de Wart, 68

Arctic Ocean, Tales of a Voyager in, 755
Arminius, Works of, edited by Nichols, 100

Armstrong's Dictionary, Gaelic and English, 1

France, Secret Memoirs of the Royal Family of, 353, 374 Nichols's (James) Works of Arminius, 100

Frank's (Eliz.) Life of Lindley Murray, 641
Fray Eugenio, ou l'Auto da Fé de 1680, 744
Frazer's Travels near the Caspian, 328
French Genders taught in Six Fables, 425

Nichols's (John) Progresses of James I., 565, 582
Nicolas's (N. H.) Testamenta Vetusta, 118, 200
Noé (Comte de) Memoirs of the English Expedition from
Bengal to Egypt, in 1800, 713

Norman (Rev. A.) on the Necessity of Revelation, 393
Norths, Lives of the, 386, 409, 486

November Nights, or Tales for Winter Evenings, 25
Odd Volume, 531.-O'Hara Family, Tales by the, 739
O'Hara, Honor, a Novel, by Miss A. M. Porter, 712
O'Keeffe's (J.) Recollections of his Life, 693

French, Italian, and Spanish, new Mode of acquiring, 330 Norgate's (E.) Defence of John Dunn Hunter, 616
French Literature, Retrospect of, 245
French Serjeant, Adventures of a, 455
Friendship's Offering, a Literary Album, 721,741
Gardener's Magazine, Loudon's, 89
Genlis (Madame de), Memoirs, 52
Geraldine Murray, a Tale, 617
German Romance, Specimens of, 355
Germany, Notes during a Ramble in, 675, 695, 728
Gillies's (R. P.) Selection of German Stories, 708
Governess, the Complete, 536.-Grafenstein, a Poem, 178
Graham (Sir J.) on Corn and Currency, 595

Atkinson's (J.) State of Agriculture in New S. Wales, 745 Greeks; a Voice from Greece, translated by G. Lee, 596

Baillie's (Mrs. Joanna) Martyr, a Drama, 260
Barber's (A. A.) Stories in Verse, 474

Grimm's German Popular Stories, 70
Grover's (H. M.) Anne Boleyn, 772

Barrow (J.) Letter to, on Hyperborean Discoveries, 745 Hall's (Mrs. A. C.) Obstinacy, a Tale, 219

Barton's (Bernard) Devotional Verses, 69

Beauvais (Gen.) Dictionnaire Historique, 585

Bees, Revolt of, 745

Bernier's Travels in the Mogul Empire, 439
Blaquiere's Greece and her Claims, 24

Blount's MSS., by the Author of Gilbert Earle, 217
Boaden's Memoirs of Mrs. Siddons, 787, 801

Boone's (Rev. T. C.) Book of Churches and Sects, 67
Border Tour, 248

Bowles's (W. L.) Lessons on Criticism to Mr. Roscoe, 162;
Little Villager's Verse-Book, 329

Boyne Water, a Tale, 311

Brambletye House, a Novel, 65

Bray's (Mrs. A. E.) Romance of De Foix, 179
Brown's (Rev. Robert) Poems on Sacred Subjects, 201
Buonaparte, Memoirs of Public and Private Life of, 569
Buonaparte's (C. L.) American Ornithology, 33, 54
Buonaparte's (Napoleon) Will and Testament, 330
Burke's (J.) Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage, &c. 552
Burnet's (J.) Hints on Light and Shade in Painting, 643
Burnet's Word to Mechanics' Institutes, 593, 612
Butler's (J. O.) Geography of the Globes, 73

Butt (G.) on the Management of a County Election, 362

Cabin Memorandums, rescued Fragments of, 505
Cabinet Lawyer, 649

Campbell's (J.) Judgment of Babylon, 441

Capper's Topographical Dictionary, 425

Carey's Schleusner's Lexicon, 393

Carne's Letters from the East, 134, 150

Carpenter's (W.) English and Hebrew Proverbs, 488
Carrington's (N. T.) Dartmoor, a Poem, 193
Cartwright (Major) Life and Correspondence of, 404
Casti's Tre Giuli, translated, 307

Charles and Eugenia, 457

Charnock's (Dr.) Remarks on Milton, 474
Chateaubriand's (Vicomte de) Aben Hamet, 424
Cheap Corn proved best for Farmers, 595
Cheltenham Mail Bag, 2d Series, 745
Chiverton, Sir John, a Romance, 422

Christianity, Conversations on the Evidences of, 244
Christmas Week, Tales for, 41

Christmas and the New Year, a Masque, 745

Clarac (Comte de) Musée de Sculpture, 791

Cockney Lands, Letters from, 410

Collett's Bagatelle, 132

Continental Adventures, a Novel, 369, 390

Conybeare's (J. J.) Anglo-Saxon Poetry, 497, 518, 535
Cradock's (J.) Memoirs, 37; Vol. II. 758, 755
Crapelet, Lettres de Henri VIII à Anne Boleyn, 789
Creutzer's Religions of Antiquity, 168
Cumberland's British Theatres, Vol. XIII., 617
Cunningham's Songs of Scotland, 2; Paul Jones, 773
Cuvier's Animal Kingdom, by Griffiths, Part IX., 513
Cyrenaica, explored by M. Pacho, 645

De Vavasour, a Tale of the Fourteenth Century, 289

263, 280, 312, 375, 391, 407; new Edition, 630, 648

Halliday's (Sir A.) Annals of the House of Hanover, 433
Hamilton's (R. W.) Essay on Craniology, 419
Hammer's new Arabian Nights' Entertainments, 129
Harris and Angel's Sculptured Metopes from Sicily, 753
Head's (Capt.) Notes on the Pampas, &c. 578, 597, 614
Hemans's (Mrs.) Forest Sanctuary, and other Poems, 275
Hemert's Dutch Salmagundi, 51

Henderson's (E.) Biblical Researches and Travels in
Russia, 548, 567, 581, 601

Herbert of Cherburg, Lord, Life of, 115
Hood's (T.) Whims and Oddities, 723
Holcraft's (R.) Tales from the German, 227
Hopkinson's (Rev. S. T. B.) Essays, 223
Horses, Hints to Purchasers of, 457
Howard's Beauties of Literature, 40
Howell (J.) on the War Galleys of the Ancients, 761
Howell and Stewart's Catalogue of Oriental Literature, 233
Humboldt et Bonpland, Voyage, Tom. III., 17, 103, 181
Hunt's (Mrs.) Little World of Knowledge, 410
Infantry Movements, Theory of the, 202
Ingram's Principles of Arithmetic, 474

Old Gentleman's Opinions on Moral, &c. Subjects, 201
Omen, the, a Tale, 116.-Opera Glass, 761

Packman's (Rev. J. C.) Sabbath, 201
Paris's (Dr.) Treatise on Diet, 467
Parminster's (Mrs.) Votive Wreath, 474

Parr (Dr.) Aphorisms, Opinions, and Reflections of, 550
Parry's (Capt.) Third Northern Voyage, 529
Passatempi Morali, 347

Passy, Visit to the Rectory of, 232
Pedestrian, Recollections of a, 515
Penseval's Labours of Idleness, 164

Perigord's Nouvel Almanach des Gourmands, 167
Philip (Dr.) on the Laws of the Vital Functions, 137
Picard (L. B.) Les Gens comme il faut, &c. 78
Picture of London, 152

Piquets, Duty of, by Lieut.-Col. Fitz-Clarence, 822
Planché's Lays and Legends of the Rhine, 805
Plutarch's Lives, translated by the Langhornes, 761
Poetical Trifles, 25.-Political Primer, 469-
Polwhele's (Rev. R.) Traditions and Recollections, 84
Poor Man's Friend, 520

Porter's (A. M.) Honor O'Hara, a Novel, 712
Porter's (J. and A. M.) Tales round a Winter Hearth, 292
Portuguese Manners and Costumes, Sketches of, 371
Potter, Vie de Scipion de Ricci, 137

Pronouncing Vocabulary, 474.-Prophetess, a Tale, 617
Proverbs, English and Hebrew, illustrated, 488
Punste's Pocket-Book, 73

Pyne's (W. H.) World in Miniature, 744

Rabbe's Memoirs of Alexander of Russia, 551

Is this Religion? by the Author of May You Like It, 104 Rabbe, Résumé de l'Histoire de Russie, 792
James's Naval History, 388

Janus, Edinburgh Literary Almanack, 18

Jenkins's Tables of Comparative Measures, &c. 553
Johnston's Elements of Arithmetic, 219
Jones's (Dr. J.) History of Wales, 631
Judith, Esther, and other Poems, 776

Keeper's Travels in Search of his Master, 357
Kirby and Spence's Entomology, 49, 71, 105, 120, 136
Kitchiner's (Dr.) Advice on the Making of Wills, 569
Klopstock's Messiah, First 7 Books of, translated, 216
Lacepède (Count de) Histoire Générale de l'Europe, 516
Lamartine's Last Canto of Childe Harold, 754
Lamballe, Princess, Memoirs of, 353, 374
Last of the Lairds, 725

Last Man, by the Author of Frankenstein, 102
Law of Libel and Slander, by Borthwick, 817
Lays and Legends of the Rhine, 805

Leake's (Col.) Outline of the Greek Revolution, 130
L. E. L., the Golden Violet and other Poems, 785
Lefanu's (Miss) Henry IV. of France, 362
Leigh's (Chandos) Epistles to a Friend in Town, 50
Leuchs de Conserver les Substances Alimentaires, 340
Lion (Albert), Mæcenatiana, 664.-Literary Gems, 152
Llorente's History of the Inquisition of Spain, 662
Lloyd's (H. E.) Alexander I. Emperor of Russia, 81
London Lions, 793.-Lorenz Stark, by Engel, 418
Loudon's (J. C.) Encyclopædia of Agriculture, 84; Gar-
dener's Magazine, 89

Louis XVIII., Comments on the Calumnies against, 664
Lusiad, Musgrave's Translation of the, 465

Mabire's (J. L.) Guide to French Conversation, 697
Macgowan's (Rev. J.) School-Books, 248

M'Henry's Synonymes of the Spanish Language, 649
Magazin, Nouveau, de la Jeunesse, 219

Radcliffe's (Mrs.) Gaston de Blondeville, 321, 346

Ranking (J.) on the Wars and Sports of the Mongols and
Romans, 481, 503

Rattray's (R. H.) Exile, a Poem, 761.-Rebel, a Tale, 122
Redbury Rook, Rambles of, 519

Register of Arts and Sciences, 281.-Rejected Articles, 441
Revolution Européenne, l'Enigme expliquée, 545
Reynolds (F.) his Life and Times, 305, 326, 344, 360
Rhyming Reminiscences, 57-Rifleman, Adventuresofa, 87
Roby's (J. and H. W.) History of Tamworth, 474
Rolle's (Percy) The Heart, and other Poems, 745
Romaic Lyric Poetry, Specimens of, 547

Roscoe's (T.) German Novelists, 405

Rose's Translation of the Orlando Furioso, Vol. IV., 145
Rosetti, Dante, 8.-Rogers's (H.) Poems, 425

Sabbath Muse, 40

St. John's (Arthur) Weft of the Wye, 569
Samouelle on Preserving Exotic Insects and Crustacea, 017
Sandoval, or the Spanish Freemason, 194
Santo Domingo's Roman Tablets, 737, 760
Say's American Entomology, 177

School for Scandal, Letter on, to Mr. Moore, 362
Schoolboy, Adventures of a, 474

Scrope's (G. P.) Considerations on Volcanoes, 438
Scudamore (Dr.) on the Stethoscope, 794
Segur's (Count) Memoirs and Recollections, 422
Shakspeare's Romances, 313

Sherwood's (Mrs.) Chronology of Ancient History, 313
Simmons (J. W.) on the Moral Character of Byron, 78
Simpson's (Dr.) Metrical Practice, 474
Singer's (S. W.) Edition of Shakspeare, 290
Sismondi's Crusades against the Albigenses, 680
Smith's Roads of England and Wales, 377
Snodgrass's Memoirs of the Burmese War, 804, 818
Soldier's Life in Ireland, Sketches of, 436

Denham and Clapperton's Travels in Africa, 200, 227, 246, Maitland's Narrative of Buonaparte's Surrender, 337, 358 Solitary Hours, a Collection of Poems, 371

Dioclesian's Edict, fixing a Maximum of Prices, 453
Dods's (Mrs. Margaret) Cook's Manual, 449
Douglas, William, or the Scottish Exiles, 339
Drummond's (H.) Propositions on the Currency, 595
Duff's (J. G.) History of the Mahrattas, 417
Duras (Duchesse de), Edouard, 40
Early Days, 281.-Eccentric Traveller, 313
Education, Domestic, Thoughts on, by a Mother, 743
Eldoniana, a Poem, 393-Elliott's (W.) Nun, 594
Ellis's (Hon. G. A.) Man with the Iron Mask, 308
Ellis's (W.) Account of the Sandwich Islands, 196, 230
Encyclopædia Metropolitana, Part XVI., 40
Ennuyée, Diary of an, 161, 183

Epps's (John) Grammatical Tree, 793
Eustace Fitzrichard, a Tale of the Barons' Wars, 54
Evans's (Jane) Parterre, and other Poems, 617
Fancy's Sketch, by Paul Pry the Younger, 202
Fairy Legends, &c. of the South of Ireland, 457
Faithful Servants, Epitaphs on, 152

Farmer and Corn Merchant's Pocket Companion, 553
Fashion, Progress of, 152

Female Schools, a Word in Favour of, 425

Finlayson's Mission to Cochin China, 22

Forget Me Not for 1827, 673

Fosbrooke's Tourist's Grammar, 73

Malcolm's (Sir J.) Political History of India, 577, 598
Manno's History of Sardinia, notice of, 202

Mason's Fear of Death, 425.-Mechanic's Magazine, 281
Mednianski's (Baron) Tour on the River Waag, 611
Memes's Memoirs of Canova, 148
Metopes, Sculptured, from Sicily, 753
Mind, Essay on, with other Poems, 436

Miers's (J.) Travels in Chile and La Plata, 499, 533
Military Adventures, 294

Miller's (W.) Biog. Sketches of British Characters, 401
Millhouse's (R.) Song of the Patriot, 562
Mills's (Miss E. W.) Sibyl's Leaves, 419
Milman's Anne Boleyn, a Drama, 225.-Mirror, 294
Mitford's Our Village, 678; Foscari, a Tragedy, 712
Mohicans, Last of the, 198

Montbarey (Prince de), Mémoires Autographes de, 385
Montlosier (M.), Defense de l'Ordre Social, 664
Moore's (G.) Minstrel's Tale and other Poeins, 793
Moore's Popular National Airs, 325

More Odd Moments, 563.-Morning Meditations, 201
Mortimer's (T.) Hypocrisy, &c. 793
Moxon's Prospect, and other Poems, 87
Mullion on M'Culloch's Political Economy, 745
Murray, Lindley, Memoirs of his Life and Writings, 641
Musgrave's (T. M.) Translation of the Lusiad, 465
Napoleon on Important Truths and Opinions, 520

Souvenir, Literary, 697, 705

Sportsmen, Young, Instructions to, 438
Stanley Tales, 454; Vol. II. Part II., 660

Steinbüchel sur les Médaillons Romains en Or, 713

Tablets, Roman, 737, 760

Tastu, (Madame A.) Poésies par, 712
Thomas's (J. P.) Thought-Book, 122
Thomson's (J.) Greek Bubble, 803

Thomson's (Mrs.) Court of Henry VIII., 273, 203
Time's Telescope for 1827, 744

Tor Hill, a Romance, 689, 710
Townsend's Parisian Costumes, 703

Transalpine Memoirs, by an English Catholic, 806, 820
Traveller, Modern, 373, 822

Trè Giuli, Casti's, translated, 307.-Truth, a Novel, 471
Turner's (S.) History of the Reign of Henry VIII., 657

Voyages and Travels of Discovery, Intelligence respect-
ing, 625, 644; Modern Foreign, Annual Cabinet of,
Vol. II., 146, 164

Waiblinger's Spelling and Reading Lessons, 474
Wanderer, Story of a, 742

Waterton's Wanderings in America, 4, 39, 56
Watts's (G.) Lessons of Faith and Practice, 425
Wedded Life, First and Last Years of, 744
West Indies, Six Months in, 97

Wilson, (Rev. R.) on the Divine Sovereignty, 617
Wilson's (Mrs. C. B.) Hours at Home, 292
Winchester Cathedral, Position of the Organ in, 564
Woodstock, 257, 277; Remarks and Illustrations, 295
Young Gentleman's Magazine, 25
Young Rifleman's Comrade, 790
Yorkshire Election, late, Historical Account of, 745

ORIGINAL CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr. Adamson on the Editions of the Lusiad, 520-Lord
Byron's Letter, disclaiming the Story of the Vampire,
281-Dublin News, 330-Mr. Lloyd on certain Errors in
Russian History, 570-Napoleon's Letter to Champagny,
on a Military Monument, 714-National Polity and
Finance, 633, 649, 665, 681, 697, 713, 729, 745, 761, 777
-Nuhamanna, Queen of the Sandwich Islands, her
Letter to Capt. Kotzebue, 569-Spain in 1825 depicted,
585, 602-Col. Stanhope's Letter on the Poor Greeks,
57 Remarks on the Loan, 74-Wine, 782, 717, 812, 828
-Letter from Paris, weekly.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.
Africa, Intelligence from, 169-African Expedition, 249,
330-Agricultural Reports, 41, 106, 169, 219, 297, 377,
425, 520, 586, 682, 699, 793-America, (U. S.) Learned
Societies in, 715-Artificial Anatomy, 202-Astronomi-
cal Papers, 74, 138, 202, 219, 282, 410, 474, 554, 618, 699,
762, 823-Atkins and Marriott's Improved Stoves, 25-
Progress of the Arts in France, 823
Balloons, 746-Bancroft's (Dr.) Account of the Arracacha,
137-Blood, Researches concerning, 265-Brewster's
Journal of Science, Notices from, 426, 441
Caoutchouc, its Utility, 314-Crocodile of the Nile, Mum-
my of, 152-Comet seen in the South Seas, 10, 41; in
Bohemia, 219; a Fifth seen this Year, 604, 634

Dragons and Monstrous Serpents of Antiquity, 489, 506,
521, 537

Egyptian Antiquities, 665-Europe in Miniature, a Geo-
graphical Game, 809

! French (M.) his Prize Chronometers, 714-French Voyage
of Discovery, 185-French Surgery, 570
Gardening Reports, 41, 91, 168, 233, 377 425, 520, 586,
699, 808-Glass, Painting on, the Art not lost, 554-
Gurney's Steam Engine, 522
Hiort's Patent Chimneys, 10,

King's Palace in St. James's Park, 553-Kite Carriage,
538-Kupffer, (M.) on the Variation of the Magnetic
Needle in Russia, 314

Medical Reports, 59, 249, 458. 697-Meridians, Suggestion
of La Place on, 169-Mory's Explosive Engine, 762
National Polity and Finance, 265 et seq. Nos. (See Origl
nal Correspondence)-Norman Antiquities, 619
Paper Clocks, 348-Pelvis, Differences of Structure in, 762
-Plants, Fewer Species in Cold than in Warm Coun-
tries, 587-Poisonous Drugs, Precautions against the
Sale of, in France, 570

Ramond (M.) on the Pic du Midi, 393
Science, Notices in, 426, 441, 571, 587-Scudamore on Ste-
thoscope, 794-Segala's Researches on the Blood, 245
-Silkworms, 26-Society of Arts, Distribution of Pri
zes, 348; Election of Officers, 778-Solar Spots, 219,
604, 634-Eclipse, 700-Steam Engines, Improvement in,
522 Perkins's High Pressure, 604
Tropical Plants and Fruits, 475

United States, Learned Societies in, 715

Volatile Oil, New, 730-Voyages of Discovery, 169, 184
Watt (James) Monument at Greenock, 570--Winchester
College Chapel, its Stained Glass Window, 554-Wines,
Table of, with their Strength and Qualities, 89
Zoological Society, 282

LITERARY AND LEARNED.
African Boy, Remarkable School Oration of a, 715-
Anniversary of the Literary Fund, 184, 282; at Greenwich,
363,394 Antiquaries' Society, Meeting of, 763-Aroynt,
Etymology of the Word, 92
Charles IX., his Seal, warranting the Massacre of Saint
Bartholomew, 539

Egyptian Hieroglyphics, 251, 537, 714

Fellowes (Dr.), Founder of a Prize in the University of
Edinburgh, 700-French Institute, 522
German and French Book Trade, 795
Hellespont, Disquisition on the, 169

Livy, reported Recovery of the Lost Books of, 650;
doubted, 763-London University, Meeting of Sub-
scribers, 700

Mai (M. Angelo), Latin MS. discovered by, 778-Malte-
Brun's Universal Geography, Vol. VI., 747; his Death,
812-Montmorency, Duke, and French Academy, 139
Moss's Manuel of Classical Bibliography, 153
Ouseley's (Sir W.) Anecdotes of Eastern Bibliography, 441
Pacho's Travels in Cyrenaica, 427

Randolph's Anticipation of a London University, 763-
Royal Society, Meeting of, 763-Royal Society of Lite-

rature, Proceedings of, 26, 41, 75, 283, 297, 411, 427,
762, 794-Rubens's Album, 394
Scottish Universities, Arrangement respecting, 571, 700
University Intelligence, weekly
Varia Lectiones, 634

Young (Dr.), Original Letters of, 266

FINE ARTS.

Abelard and Eloise, Model of their Tomb, 122-Allan's
John Knox and Queen Mary, by Burnet, 299-Archi-
tecture, Brooks's Specimens of, 475-Artists' Benevolent
Fund Anniversary, 251, 283

Bailey's Eve, purchased by his Fellow-citizens, 155-
Batty's (Capt.) Views on the Rhine, 204-Burmese
Empire; Views near Rangoon, 203; Map, 220-British
Artists' Society Exhibition, 234, 251-British Gallery
Exhibitions, 60, 76, 92, 108, 139, 154, 203, 233, 349
Collection from Carlton Palace, 379, 412, 809-Brooks's
Specimens of Architecture, 475-Bullock's (C.) Battle
of Poitiers, 122-Burmese Carriage, 108-Byron's (Lord)
House at Missolonghi, 824

Cellini's (Benvenuto) Twelve Cæsars, 234, 252-Cenotaph

to the Princess Charlotte, in outline, 461-Collins's
Young Shrimp Catchers, by Phelps, 475-Cooke's (W.B.)
Genis of Art, 10-Chalon's (J. B.) Passions of the
Horse, 636, 810-Charles X., Pictures representing his
Coronation, 764-Christie's, Picture Sale at, 234-
Clarke's Portable Diorama, 61-Cruikshank's Horticul-
tural Caricature, 92; Phrenological Illustrations, 524
Dance's (G. Extinguisher, 331-Daniell's (W.) Eddystone
Lighthouse, 61; Sketches in Southern Africa, 155;
Dismasted Indiaman, 220-Longship's Lighthouse, 220;
Cambria Brig, 810-David's Pictures, exhibited at Paris,
443-Day's Gallery of Pictures, 108, 748-Drawings
after the old Masters, 154-Dutch and Flemish Pictures,
Sales of, 315

Edinburgh Royal Institution, Annual Opening of, 122-
France, the Fine Arts encouraged in, 636-Freemasons'
Egypt, Pacha of, Flemish Pictures purchased for, 620
Hall, by whom erected, 523

.

Gardner's Map of the World, 634-Greeks defeating the
Turks, a Moving Panorama, 266-Grindlay's (Capt.)
Hanoverian and Saxon Scenery, 10 Heilbronn's Draw-
Illustrations of Western India, 331; Part II., 620
ings in Water-colours, 220-Hobday's Portrait of Dr.
Jenner, by Sharp and Skelton, 412-Hogan, the young
Sculptor, case of, 42-Huggins's Brig Jane and Cutter
Beaufoy, 795-Heaphy's Lord Combermere, by Turner,
824

Iphigenia, Sacrifice of, a Picture at Pompeii, 171
King's new Palace, 41

Jackson's Portrait of Miss Chester, engraved by Reynolds,
220-James's Views in Russia, Poland, Sweden, and Ger-
many, 412-Johnson's Typographical Specimen, 92-
Jackson's Portrait of Lady Agar Ellis, by Brett, 824
Langlois, Voyage Pittoresque en Espagne, 605, 652-Mort
de Botzaris, 652-Lethbridge's Port. of Mr. Vining, 155
-Lonsdale's (J.) Mr. Mathews, by Turner, 823
Lithographies: O'Donnel's Lake of Killarney, 92-James's
Views in Russia, 412-Mackeith's Beauties of the Rhine,
412, 443-Hayter's Madame Pasta as Medea, 461-
Saunders's Miss Love, by Haghe, 508-Westall's (W.)
London, from Greenwich Park, by Engelmann, 540-
Villeneuve's Pont du Diable, by the same, 540-West-
all's (W.) Waterloo Bridge, by the same, 605-Matsys'
Misers, by Fairland, 652-Penny's Portrait of Mr. Can-
ning, by Kennedy, 652-Scarborough, by Engelmann,
684-Talma, by the same, 700-Chatfield's Lequel des
Deux, by Hulmandel, 795-Minasi's George IV., 824;
M. Von Weber, 824

provements in, 60, 93

Lodge's Portraits, 26, 155, 266, 443, 684-London, Im-
Marsden's (R.) Picture of Christ and the Centurion, 299,
331-Martin's Belshazzar's Feast, 412-Meyrick's (Dr.)
Arrangement of the Armour in the Tower, 557
Mezzotintos: Phillip's Portrait of the Earl of Egremont,
by Reynolds, 61; M. General David Stewart, by Scrym-
geour, 61; Pinelli's Italian Banditti, 122; Lupton's Ports
of England, 266; Fradelle's Othello, 412; Earl of Leicester
and Amy Robsart, 461; Lonsdale's Emperor Nicholas,
by Say, 475; Watts's Rivals, by Barnard, 475; Danby's
Enchanted Island, by Gibbons, 524; Smith's F. Rey-
nolds, by Doo, 540; Thompson's Portrait of the King,
by C. Turner, 540; Stewardson's, of Mr. Canning, by
Ward, 540; Scenes from Charles II., by Lupton, after
Clint, 667; Martin's Paphian Bower, by Phillips, 810-
Lawrence's Lord Amherst, by Turner, 824

Moses's Views in Portsmouth Harbour, and Marine
Sketch Book, 443-Musical Infant Sisters, 108
Nash's Illustrations of the Pavilion, by Pugin, 508-
National Gallery, judiciously patronised by his Majesty,
234; Donations of Sir G. Beaumont, 234; New Build-
ing projected for, 763; its Architecture, 809-Northern
Society of Fine Arts, 299, 443, 540
Paton's (W.) Miniature Portrait of the Duke of York,
605-Pernot's Vues Pittoresques de l'Ecosse, 556-Pic-
ture Auctions, Letter relative to, 572-Pacilorama, 108
-Pompeii, antique Paintings disclosed in, 170; Visit of
their Neapolitan Majesties to, 748-Progress of Cant, 26
Raeburn's Sir Walter Scott, by Walker, 778; Portrait of
Raeburn, by the same, 779-Rangoon, Views taken
near, 203-Reeve's (R. G.) Views of Mexico, 540-Re-
gent's Park, question concerning the Wings to Chester
Terrace, 363--Robsons Picturesque Views of English
Cities, 764-Royal Academy Exhibition, 283, 298, 315,
331, 348, 363, 378, 394-Robertson's (Mrs.) Portrait of
Mrs. W. Stuart, by Brett, 824

Sayings and Doings of Artists, &c. 428, 459, 491, 507, 523,
539, 555, 571, 587, 604, 619, 635, 651, 666, 683, 715, 731,

747, 763-Scotland, Mr. Spalding's Bequest to the
Royal Institution of, 700

Sculptures: Baily's Eve purchased for the City of Bristol,
155; Busts in the Royal Academy Exhibition, 395
Sennefelder's new Process of Stereotype, 172-Skelton's
(J.) Illustrations of ancient Arms and Armour, 204-
Strutt's Sylva Britannica, 203

Tabley, Lord de, illness of, 810-Turner's (J. M. W.)
Ports of England, 266-Tytler's Panoramic View of
Liverpool, 220

Union Shakspeare, 42

Wageman's Portrait of W. Farren as Periwinkle, 220-
Walker's engraved Portraits of Sir W. Scott, Sir A.
Raeburn, Sir A. Hope, and Rev. A. Alison, 778, 779-
Water-colours Exhibition, 266, 283, 315, 411- West's
Lord Byron by Wedgewood, 764-William's (H. W.)
Select Views in Greece, 204, 510-West's Lord Byron,
by Turner, 824
Vogel's Portrait of Goethe, 220
York House, 41

In every Number. The pieces by L. E. L. will be found
ORIGINAL POETRY

in pp. 27, 43, 77, 108, 155, 187, 267, 315, 412, 492, 524,
Those by IOLE in 10, 43, 123, 187, 252, 364, 524, 541, 557,
637, 652

573, 588

MUSIC.

Concerts: Philharmonic, 141, 174, 221, 253, 285, 317;
Beriot the Violinist, 285-Mrs. Bland, recovery of, 349
Moscheles's, 235; Royal Academie, 235, 285; Cramer's
(J. B.) 317; Signor Maraconio, 317; Esteddvod, 317, 333;
414; Eubenstein, the Guimbardist, 317, 381-La Motte
Masters Schulz, 398; De Begnis's, 414; Madame Vigo's,
Fouqué's intended Tale of the Unmusical Musician, 366;
Melodists' Club, 205, 333, 765-New Instrument, Guim-
bardes, 317-New Publications, English and Foreign:
11, 27, 46, 94, 140, 174, 253, 269, 301, 333, 430, 462, 525,
606, 621, 765; Oratorios at Covent Garden, 77; Miss
Sonntag at Mayence, 606; at Frankfort, 621; Weber
(C. M.), Obituary, Notice of, 366; his Funeral, 398;
Wesley's Missionary Hymn of Reginald Heber, 559

BIOGRAPHY.

David, the French Painter, 123; Karamain, the Russian
Historian, 413; Mrs. Mattocks, 412; John Nichols,
F.S.A., 779; Dr. Noehden, 174; Mr. Owen, R.A., 44;
Mr. Pinkerton, 174; Talma, 684; Mrs. Jane Watts,
461, 476, 492

SKETCHES OF SOCIETY.
Astrology, 557; At Home, Not at Home, 220; Buona-
parte's Grave, 493; Buonaparte and Talma, 717; Choice
of Flora, from Herder, 94; Family Dinner at Vienna,
45; Irish Sketches, 235, 268, 332, 364; Louis XIV., 11;
Margravine of Anspach's Memoirs, 27; Mementos on a
Visit to Edinburgh, 124: Menage Parisien, 652; Miscel-
laneous, 589, 621, 637; Miseries of having a Fine Ear for
Music, 525; Morning Dawn, from Herder, 61; Mourn-
ing, 573; Murder-Mania, 606; Passing Events, 796;
Poetical Sketches, 173; Poet's Boudoir, 156; Presages,
574: Rangoon, 700; Travels in the Interior of the
Earth, 668; Paul Pry on his Travels, 187, 205, 233,
Sights of London: Poecilorama, 108- Musical Infant
267, 284, 299, 316, 331, 349, 380, 397, 413, 444, 476, 509
Sisters, 108-Mr. Day's Gallery of Pictures, 108-Im-
provements, 185-Model of St. Peter's, Rome, 301-An-
niversaries, 301-Sgricci the Improvisatore, 365-Coro-
nation of Charles X., 365-M. Chabert, the Baked Man,
365-Vauxhall, 381-Bullock's Panstereomachia, 38] —
Cornillot, the Aeronaut, 381-Masquerades, 765, 780, 825
-Chinese Females, 797

Traditions of Western Highlands, 764, 779, 796, 310, 824

Reports of the Representations and new Performers at the
several Theatres, weekly.

New Pieces: Wool Gathering, 29; Hunch-backed Brothers,
62; Malvina, 77; Norah, the Girl of Erin, 78; The
French Libertine, 110; Le Bal Champêtre, 126; John
Brown, 126; Teobaldo e Isolina, 141; Benyowski, 188;
Yates's Entertainment at the Adelphi, 221; La Nais-
sance de Venus, 236; Oberon, 236; Aladdin, 285; Three
Deep, 285; Woodstock, 333; Knights of the Cross, 350;
Guerilla Chief, 445; Death Fetch, 477; Thirteen to the
Dozen, 494; Lying made Easy, 494; Oracle, or Inter-.
rupted Sacrifice, 509; Poor Relations, 525; Befare
Breakfast, 574; Pong Wong, 591; Old Love and Young
Love, 653; The Pilot, 653; The Green Room, 470;
Luke the Labourer, 570; Peveril of the Peak, 685; Two
Houses of Grenada, 701; Returned Kiled, 701; The
Barber and his Brothers, 702; Foscari, 717; Trip to
Wales, 733; To Fry Shots, 733; Amphytrion, revival
of, 769; White Lies, 780; Lottery Ticket, 787; Man in
the Moon, 827; The Murdered Guest, 827; Mother
Shipton, 827

VARIETIES.

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both in prose and verse-each Number.

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Scythian, and the Sarmatian or Sclavonic. student of philology, when he completed his
Others have more completely considered and publication of the same sort. Mr. Armstrong's
verified this probable classification, which first is still more acceptable, because it is fuller,
drew a distinct line between these different better, more satisfactory, more illustrative, and
masses of population, and which the continental more comprehensive. All the examination that
historians still strangely confuse. It is sin-our leisure has allowed us to give, is favourable
gular, that few, if any, of our neighbours, to it. The author has prefixed a grammar,
either in France, Germany, or Russia, had which is very neatly and ably drawn up; he
any clear ideas of this natural and just dis- has added many analogies and aflinities from
crimination until lately, but continued to con- other languages, which evince considerable re-
found the Celtic and Scythian branches, both search, and has made it altogether more useful
of population and language. But the reason to the Gaelic student. The first part is Gaelic
mains of the Celtic branch in her varied re- We should be glad if some other gentleman
may have been, that Germany had lost all re-and English; the second, English and Gaelic.
gions, and France contained only one fragment would perform the same service to the Irish
of it in Bretagne, and that not of natural tongue as Dr. Owen Pugh has rendered to the
growth, but rather an artificial transplantation Welsh, and now Mr. Arinstrong, to the Gaelic.
from our own island.
We will only add a few extracts from his mo-

tory, partly from acute hypothetical reasoning, and from the natural westward progress of early migrations; the other argues from legends for which credulity itself is at a loss to discover a foundation.

It has happened fortunately for the history derate and sensible preface, which does credit of philology, and has enabled our philological both to his temper and to his judgment, and students to discern and to illustrate more satis- gives a favourable opinion both of his attainfactorily the true views on this subject, that ments and of his work. We do not, however, three important portions of our population, the pledge ourselves to all its opinions, as we do Welsh, the Highlanders, and the Irish, have not know where to find the parent Celtic to preserved in colloquial use, and as their native which it alludes. tongues, three leading and ancient varieties of "I do not propose to meddle, in this place, the great Celtic branch, besides a modification with the keenly contested point, whether the of the Welsh in Cornwall, while France has Gaelic of the Highlands be the parent of the only the other modification of it which was speech of Ireland; however, I may be permitted taken by Welsh and Cornish emigrants into to observe, that the Scotch Gaelic bears a closer Bretagne. Out of these three distinct vari-resemblance to the parent Celtic, and has eties of the great Celtic branch, we have fewer inflections than the Welsh, Manks, or written compositions of the Welsh that ascend Irish dialects. It has this circumstance, too, regularly upwards into the fifth century, and in common with the Hebrew and other oriental A Gaelic Dictionary, in Two Parts. I. Gaelic represent to us the actual speech of the abo- languages, that it wants the simple present and English-II. English and Gaelic. In riginal Britons who once inhabited England; tense; a peculiarity which strongly supports which the Words, in their different Accepta- and if we do not possess specimens of equal the opinion that the Gaelic of Scotland is the tions, are illustrated by Quotations from the antiquity and genuineness of the Highland and more ancient dialect. This question has been best Gaelic Writers, and their Affinities Irish varieties, we have, at least, some written long discussed with eagerness and ability. The traced. To which is prefixed a New Gaelic and traditional remains of them that are some one party draws its opinions partly from hisGrammar. By. R. A. Armstrong, A.M. centuries old; but both have long appeared in James Duncan. London, 1825. a written form in their poetry, and may now THE British Islands, among their other ad- be read in their vernacular translations of the vantages, have the philological distinction of Scriptures; and, therefore, we have to produce possessing two of the distinct branches of the to the world three main subdivisions of the most ancient languages of Europe. We call principal Celtic branch of language, which once "Throughout this work. I have followed the them branches, because as all the forms of spread from the Pyrenees to the Baltic, and from orthography of two writers, who are relied on speech in the world are recorded, in the most the Orkneys in the north to Constantinople in as guides by their countrymen. The one, Dr. early authority that touches upon the subject, the east, and to the Hebrides and the Irish Stewart, of Luss, the translator of the Holy to have emanated from one primitive stock, Sea in the west. Besides these philological Scriptures into Gaelic; the other, Dr. Smith, all the languages which are used by mankind treasures, although it be no longer a living of Campbelton, the author of a Gaelic metrical are but the ramifications of one common trunk, tongue, we have one of the most important version of the Psalms, and other creditable though they have been long separated from the and most authentic specimens of the ancient works. These writers spent much of their primeval parent, and have been planted in Scythian and German branch of language in time in settling the orthography of our lanregions very distant from their native locality, our venerable Anglo-Saxon, of which we may guage; and, as they have a just and acknowand have since become much diversified by ac-also affirm that we possess more authentic and ledged claim to be considered authorities, it is cident, art, natural growth, and occasional in- abundant remains than any other modern na- much to be desired that they should, hencetermixture. tion, excepting China, has preserved of any forth, be regarded in that light. Ancient Europe, in its western regions, be-language of equal antiquity. came peopled by three distinct classes of po. pulation, introducing, as their tribes spread over it, three great branches of language, as distinguished from each other as the colonising races that brought them. Our most recent antiquaries who have studied the subject acquiesce in the arrangement of Dr. Percy, who first clearly and justly classed them under three great divisions—the Celtic, the Germanic and

"I have bestowed pains on referring deIn proportion as we value these venerated rivative words to their primitives-in resolving relics of the ancient world, and of its anterior compound words to their component parts-in inhabitants, we rejoice to see any attempt made affixing to substantives their genitive singular to preserve and perpetuate them. We were, and gender-and to verbs their signification, therefore, pleased to hear a new Gaelic die- whether active or neuter. The quotations from tionary announced by Mr. Armstrong. The Gaelic writers are translated into English as Gaelic is the Celtic variety spoken in the High-literally as the idioms of these languages will lands of Scotland. Mr. Shaw made an im-allow." portant present to his countrymen, and to the It is, in our judgment, rather a matter of