which is not only free from any infection of the prevailing bad taste, but is distinguished by many true and legitimate beauties. The author who is said to be a young man has furnished an attractive specimen of poetical powers, which we hope that he will not suffer to wither in neglect. but cultivate with that constant care without which permanent excellence is seldom attained. The poems of Miss Evance manifest sensibility,delicacy, and taste.-Mr. Cromek's Reliques of Robert Burns will undoubtedly gratify the numerous admirers of that enthusiastic son of song, though they will not make any addition to his stock of fame. We do not always approve the prevailing fashion of scraping together every line which even genius wrote. The object is often not so much to do honour to the departed author as to make money by the impress of his name. We are far trom saying that this is the motive with Mr. Cromek, but the practice is too common not to deserve pointed reprobation.
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In Amphlet's Ned Bently some of the characters are welldrawn, and the author, though he has lost sight of probability in many parts of his fiction, has preserved a strict and scrupulous delicacy in his love scenes.-Geraldine Fauconberg is a correct and taithful picture of genteel life, and of what genteel life ought to be. The characters are easy, natural, and well-drawn; the lights and shades are properly varied, and the whole picture displays good keeping. We can with a safe conscience, recommend to our young female friends the imitation of the amiable Geraldine. Her winning gentleness, her retiring elegance, her steady judgment, exhibit an excellent example. In her Ida of Athens,' Miss Owenson has delineated the character of her heroine with a just and glowing pencil; but we again request this ingenious lady in her future productions, to repress the luxuriance of her fancy and to guard against those vices of style which we have reluctantly noticed in her present performance. In a work entitled 'Colebs in search of a wife' we have noticed some trivial defects, but they are greatly out-numbered by the general merits of the performance. Some of the theological tenets are such as do not coincide with our own, but we cannot but highly commend any sincere attempt, such as this appears to be, to check the progress of fashionable dissipation and to promote the interest of virtue, and of piety.
The work entitled 'Juvenile Dramas' is a pleasing perform. The characters are delineated with delicacy and discri
mination; and exhibit that refinement of manners and sobriety of thought, on what may be termed family matters, which it is of essential importance to impress on the minds of youth of the sof er sex-Hamilton's Parliamentary Logic proves that the author was well acquainted with those qualifications which are requisite to constitute an accomplished and dexterous debater. In our account of this work we made an ample selection of the rules which it contains. Many of the observations are as acute as they are just. In his Institutes of Latin Grammar,' Mr. Grant has evinced much thought, judgment, and experience.
In this Appendix we have omitted the Digest of Politics' in order to devote the space which it occupied, to what more immediately constitutes the office of a literary Review.
Appeal to the British public,
Astronomy, Villemer's poem on,
Asylums, Halliday on the state of the
Irish lunatic,
Athens, Owenson's Ida of,
Attempt to elucidate the consequences of
a deviation from the orders in coun-
cil,
327
Bourgoing's modern state of Spain, 176.
Devotion exhibited by a muleteer
previous to mounting the coach-box,
178. Fatal operation of the privi
leges of the Mesta, 180. Royal
shooting, 181. Of the inquisition,
182. Influence of the Catholic su-
perstition on the minds of all classes
in Spain, 183. Spanish ladies, 185.
Bragur,
British Flora,
Bruce, Murray's account of the life and
writings of James, 68. Letter from
Mr. Bruce to his father on the death
of his wife, 70. Account of the na-
tives of Gerba, 71. The hardships,
difficulties, and dangers experienced
in travelling in those parts, 72 De-
scription of mount Libanus, 72. Cu-
rious specimen of the Eastern epis-
tolary style, 73. Particulars of the
domestic establishment of Abyssinian
royalty, 74. Two specimens of
Abyssinian annals, 77. Remarks on
the use of oriental literature, 79. Ac.
count of the nuptial ceremony in
Abyssinia,
80.
Buchan's account of the diseases inci-
dent to children,
Buffa's appeal to the British public, 214
Buonaparte, Smith's intercepted frag-
ment of instructions from,
Buonaparte's campaigns in Italy, 511.
The battle of Montenolte, 512.
Millesimo, 512. Misrepresenta-
tions in the French accounts of the
battle and capture of Dego, 513.
Battle of Ledi, 514. Execution of a
French soldier in Venice, 516. Con-
spiracy at Milan detected, 517., In-
surrection at Pavia, 518. Anecdote
of the treachery which made its way
into the army of Wurmser, 519. Ditto,
520. The battle of Rivoli.
Burns, Cromek's reliques of, 337
the comparative merits of the English
language, and that dialect of it which
is used in Scotland, 338. Various
extracts, 340, et seq. Origin of
Mary in heaven.
CALEDONIAN sketches, vide Carr.
Cambrian traveller's guide,
Cambria, Cottle's fall of,
217
94, and 169
Canada, view of the political situation
of Upper,
327
Carr's Caledonian sketches, 317. De.
scription of Edinburgh, 318. Of
Holyrood house, 320. Of Bridewell,
322. University of Edinburgh, 395.
Leith grammar-school, 395. Ex-
tensive use of whiskey among the
Scotch, 396. Edinburgh markets,
397. The Tolbooth, 397. The
Maiden, a Scottish instrument of de-
capitation, 398. A bag-pipe contest,
399. Scotch process of washing,
400. Food of the Scottish peasantry,
402. Instance of civility in the
lower orders, 402. Education of
ditto,403. The Caledonian canal,404
Causes of our late military and political
disasters,
98
Charter-house, historical account of the,
196. Abstract of the code of laws
promulgated by the founder, 198.
Curious declaration published by a
monk called Darley, about the time
of subscription,
289
Chatfield's view of Hindostan, vide
Hindostan.
Chronicle of the Cid, vide Southey.
Church-yard, and other poems,
Cid, Southey's Chronicle of the, vide
Southey.
Cleveland, Graves's history of, 378.
Character of the Cleveland farmers,
381. Roseberry Topping,383. Dis-
covery of a vein of alium in the neigh
bourhood of Guisborough, 384.
Kirkleatham hospital, 385. Shel
ton castle,
385
Claytons, Flower's statement of facts
relative to the conduct of the,
Cockburn's credibility of the Jewish
exodus,
Celebs in search of a wife,
Comber's inquiry into the state of na-
tional subsistence, 241 Effects of
the feudal system on agriculture, from
the conquest to the reign of Henry
VII. 242.
State of Poland and a
great part of Russia, an exact pic-
ture of what England is represented
to have been for several ages after
the conquest, 243. The encourage-
ment given to the commercial habits
of the people, by Henry VII. 245.
Manufacturing industry only support-
able and capable of being put in acti-
vity by an accumulation of floating
wealth existing independent of land,
246. The exportation of corn ma-
tured into a system under the Stew-
arts,
247
Considerations on rifled barrel guns,440
Commentary on the new Testament,
vide Testament.
Consumption, Woolcome's remarks on
the progressive increase of,
Cottin's Malvina,
Cottin's Theodore and Blanche, or the
Halliday on the state of the Irish lunatic
asylums,
Hamilton's parliamentary logick, 386
Hawkins's complete angler,
Hawker, Evans's letter to Dr
Hindostar, Chatfield's view of.
merce of the East in the earliest
periods, 351. Alexander's notion
respecting the commerce of the East,
352. Arrival of Vasques de Gama,
on the Malabar coast, in 1497. Por-
tuguese dispossessed of the r acquisi-
tions by the Dutch,354 First charter
of the English East India company,
355. The English acquire the ascen-
dancy in India in 1761. Messrs.
Fox and Pitt's East India bill, 357-
The insecurity of property, the im-
pediment to civilization, 358. The
first Menu of the Brahmins supposed
to be the same as the Adam of the
Jews, 359. Of the Vedras and Sas-
tras, 359. The Koran examined,
36. Morality of the gospel, 363.
The sect of the Wahabees, 364.
Different attempts made by the Euro
pean nations to propagate Christianity
in the East,
365
Hindus, enquiry into the causes which
oppose the conversion of the,
Hioan's thoughts on prophecy,
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