tunity of watching their conduct, respecting the actions they celebrate, as we have of scrutinizing the narrations of bards our contemporaries. Did those historianpoets adhere strictly to truth in their lays? or, did they not occasionally turn aside to pay a compliment to a patron, or a lady? to congratulate, if not to flatter? Military glory and commemorative verse are closely congenial. There are circumstances in every well-fought field which command exertions of the mind in description, as they urged the utmost bodily powers and prowess of the heroes engaged in the conflict. They interest also so many thousand persons in a nation, that they are almost certain of popularity; and if their stamina be truth, they may flatter themselves with entering into the enjoyments of succeeding generations. To this distinction Mr. Walker aspires: "I have been induced," says he, "to adopt the simple style of the Old English Ballad, in hopes that my work will in that dress find its place in the farmhouse and the cottage." Our read ers may judge of the bard's pretensions from the following specimens. After noticing many illustrious names, From glens and mountains blue; From the Isle of green they flew, In the fields of Waterloo. These were the champions stout of heart, To whelm the upstart Buonaparte Several anecdotes are alluded to:some new, some well known. Now all was noise and wild uproar; Now man to man engage: The rivers ran with human gore, Right brisk the Highland-piper play'd Amidst such clash and din, The warlike bagpipe strike the ear, And urge the lads to win. Huzzaing on for Scotland's fame, Came up the gallant Greys; Tho' thin'd their ranks, they forward cheer'd, Supported by the Bays. The Scottish Greys, in glorious style, Twice charg'd the columns deep; The Serjeant thro' the thigh; The sword cut thro' the chin and teeth, Bold he advanc'd, and swift gave fire- Its wings, that dripp'd with human gore, Now, as Napoleon anxious stood, To watch what might betide, He from his lofty tower of wood These glittering troops espied. "And who are these?" he said to Soult, With visage wan and pale. Twas half-past seven, and still the day But tho' the French with desperate heat, This was the moment Ziethen's corps Three times their right wing he cut thro', "See, see, that simultaneous charge. " See, there comes Wellington. "The lines give way! th' Imperials fly! "I am the foremost man." So when a recreant school-boy leads The first the mischief he to plot; So fled Napoleon-swift to save He cared not for the human race, injured by bad education, and the frivoli- We do not approve of describing Fashion as masculine: the fair sex have always been supposed to exercise the be witchery of this power; and to them belongs the presiding dictation :- -Fashion must be a Goddess. INTERESTING LITERARY INTELLIGENCE, Canton, China, There is now printing, under the patronage of the Hon. the East India Company, and at their sole expence, a Dictionary of the Chinese Language, by the Rev. R. Morrison. The work is to consist of three parts. The first, Chinese and English, arranged accord Caroline Lismore; or, The Errors of Fashion. A Tale. By A. C. Mant. 12mo. price 3s. 6d. Southampton, Skelton. Law and Co. London, 1815. Of how many tales can it be said, that Reviewers think them too short? Yet, unless the conception of the story and its characters be finished, such is the fact, without a compliment. This tale is well begun; but the authoress has not dis-ing to the Chinese Radicals. The second, played her chief character at full length. The errors of fashion are too deeply seated in the mind to be exposed as errors, much less to be cured, in the short space of a few days' or weeks' visit in the country. The progress of this cure, the varied means employed to effect it, the result, in the formation of a lovely character, of a virtuous, pious, determined, and stedfast mind, which is necessary to support a female of elegant manners and splendid connections, should have been shewn: for, much we fear, that although Caroline Lismore, after having been a spoiled child, and deeply Chinese and English, arranged alphabeti- LITERARY REGISTER. Authors, Editors, and Publishers, are particularly requested to forward to the Literary Panorama Office, post paid, the titles, prices, and other particulars of works in hand, or published, for insertion in this department of the work. WORKS ANNOUNCED FOR PUBLICATION. ARCHITECTURAL ANTIQUITIES. Hundred and Ten Engravings, with Descriptions and Explanations in French and English. It will be published in Twenty lings each. The Numbers will appear in rapid Numbers, extra large Folio, price Five Shilsuccession. The Engravings are by Messrs. Middiman, Cardon, Audinet, Comte, Mitan, Newton, Cooke, Taylor, Smith, Armstrong, Dudley, Morris, Wise, Rode, Poole, Pollard, Paas, &c. As an The unprecedented opportunities and advantages possessed and industriously improved by Baron Denon during the occupa tion of Egypt by the French, have conferred on his designs and descriptions an unparal lelled but well merited celebrity. artist, and a traveller, his fame is unrivalled on the Continent, and this work has fully established his superiority. The brilliancy of his style, the animation of his descriptions, the justness of his observations, the fidelity of his details, supported and completed by the exquisite productions of his pencil, unite to confer an unprecedented Preparing for publication, a History and Description of Canterbury Cathedral, illus trated by twenty highly-finished engravings, from drawings by T. Hastings, member of the royal Liverpool Academy: the whole to be executed in a uniform style by W. Woolnoth.-Conditions-his work will be elegantly printed in royal quarto, and published in four parts, price 12s. 6d. each, to be delivered in the order of subscription. Each part to contain five plates, and a due proportion of letter-press. The whole to be completed within one year from the publi-interest on his work :—while the important cation of the first part. A few copies will be printed on imperial paper with proofs of the plates, price 11. each part; and a limited number will contain proofs on India paper, price 11. 10s. each part. The first part will be published in January. BIOGRAPHY. Mr. Chambers is proceeding in arranging a mass of materials for a Biographical Dictionary of Living Artists, which is intended be published as a companion to the Dictionary of Living Authors. Immediate communications from artists will be received by the publisher, Mr. Colburn. Dr. Busby is preparing for publication, a new edition of Musical Biography, compris ing memoirs of all the eminent composers and writers of the present day. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of M. L. Ramsey, of Charleston, printed from the American edition, edited by Dr. D. Ramsey, will soon appear. FINE ARTS. In a few days will be published, in extra large folio, containing seven plates, The First Number of EGYPT, a Series of Engravings exhibiting the Scenery, Antiquities, Architecture, Hieroglyphics, Costume, Inhabitants, Animals, &c. of that country, with accompanying Descriptions and Explena tions, selected from the celebrated Work, detailing the Expedition of the French, by Vivant Denon, Officiér de la Legion d'ilonmeur, Chevalier des Ordres de Salute Anne de Russie, et de la Couronne de Baviére, Membre de P Institut, Directeur Général des Musées, de la Monnoye des Médailles, dc, &c. This Work will comprise One! trusts confided to his skill and talents, the honorable distinctions which have been conferred on him, and the elevated rank to which he has arisen, evince that high estimation in which he is held, both as a member of society, and as an artist; an estimation owing in no interior degree to the approbation universally bestowed on his Description of Egypt. The accounts which former travellers had given relative to Egypt, have been received with extensive interest, although circumstances limited within narrow bounds their means of acquiring information relative to the country, its peculiarities, its customs, and its inhabitants. Their details excited curiosity, rather than satisfied it. Visited by the most illustrious sages of antiquity, the source whence Greece derived laws, arts, and sciences, yet the exterior only of its edifices was visible, and the darkness of mystery always enveloped its shrines of superstition. Successively the subject of revolutions, political or religious, its monatuents remained almost unknown; and excepting a few sketches taken by stealth, and under every disadvantage, they continued the subject of mere description. An event so extraordinary as the invasion of this country by a powerful army, accompanied by a subsidiary troop of artists, and learned nien, now enables the public to possess faithful representations and correct descriptions of those objects of ancient art which equally interest the architect and the scholar, the artist and the patron. Dr. E. D. Clarke, whose Travels are now in a course of publication, having passed through the same districts as Baron Denon, refers perpetually to the plates contained in this work, as illustrative of his volumes. This series of engravings, therefore, will form a valuable and important supplement to the works of that learned traveller. Mr. Charles Taylor will publish in a few days, the First Number of a Familiar Treatise on Perspective; in four essaysEssay I. on the Theory of Vision, and the Principles of Perspective, as therewith connected. -Essay II. Elements of the Practice of Perspective, Definitions and Explanation of Terms.-Essay III. The Perspective of Shadows.-Essay IV. On Keeping, or Aerial Perspective The principles developed in this Treatise, will be illustrated by fifty-one engravings; accompanied by correct descriptions and familiar explanations. These Essays will be completed in six numbers, published monthly, price 3s. each. The design of this familiar Treatise on Perspective, is to lay aside as much as possible, those scientific technicalities which generally impede, rather than facilitate the student's progress. But while every endeavour is made to simplify the science, yet the accuracy of the principles is most studiously maintained, The science of Perspective is considered and treated on as consisting of two distinct parts: the first is that of Lines' and Forms of objects, as they appear to the eye, and of course, as they must be represented to resemble their originals in nature; this is properly termed Linear Perspective. The second is, that of gradation in strength, or tone of colour and tint, as affected by distance; or by natural causes constantly in operation: this is Aerial Perspective. To these are added in this Treatise, a third class, namely, the Perspective of Shadows, which obey the same general laws, and are reduced by art to fixed and regular principles. of the Invasion of France, will shortly be published, including a faithful and circumstantial account of the Battle of Waterloo, by an officer in the French army. JURISPRUDENCE. Nearly ready for publication, in 12mo. and 8vo. a Compendious Law Dictionary, containing both an explanation of the terms and the law itself; adapted to the use of the country gentleman, the merchant, and the professional man; by T. Potts, Gent.; a new edition, including the new stamp act, and other acts to the close of the last session of parliament. MEDICINE AND CHIRURGERY. Mr. Carpue's work on the Nasal Operation, with plates, will soon appear. Mr. T. J. Armiger, of the Royal College of Surgeons, has in the press, Rudiments of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Body, designed for the use of young students. MISCELLANIES. Time's Telescope, for 1816, being a complete Guide to the Almanack, will appear early in November. To be published early in November, a Key to the Almanack, explaining the Fasts, Festivals, Saints' Days, and other holidays in the Calendar; with the Astronomical and Chronological Terms, &c. &c. arranged alphabetically, for easy reference; by J. Bannantine, price 2s. 6d. Soon will be published, Dr. Thomas Fuller's Introduction to Prudence, or Directions, Counsels, and Cautions, tending to the prudent management of affairs in common life. Mr. Bernard Mitchell, of Dublin, has nearly ready for publication, the Universal Penman, or the Beauties and Utility of Writing truly exemplified. A Series of Fifteen Years Correspondence of the late David Hume, Esq. has lately been discovered, and is preparing for publication. The letters are addressed to the Countess of Boufflers, and the marchioness de Barbantine, two of the most distinguishladies in France, between the years 1760 and 1776. The great number of engravings in progressive series, which illustrate this work, enables the learner to proceed by gradual steps, from the easiest and most simple examples, to the complete developement of the science; all mathematical terms and expressions are avoided as far as consistented with correct explanation, and such rules of geometry as are indispensible to this science, are familiarly explained in the commencement of the treatise. HISTORY. Speedily will be published, in 8vo. a Genealogical Account of the Royal House of Stuart, Kings of Scotland, North Britain, from the year 1043, by T. W. K. Waterhouse, Esq. The whole faithfully compiled from ancient charters, and other of ficial documents and authentic authors. Mr. Hone will shortly publish an Elaborate Investigation into the Case of Elizabeth Fenning. Mr. Charles Sylvester of Derby, has in, the press, an Account of some Improvements in Domestic Economy, adopted at the Derbyshire General Infirmary, in a 4to. volume, illustrated by ten plates. Mrs. Taylor, of Ongar, will soon publish the Present of a Mistress to a Young Servant, consisting of friendly advice and real A new edition of Beauchantp's Narrative | histories. NATURAL HISTORY. The ninth volume of Dr. Shaw's General Zoology, being a continuation of the Birds, will appear in the course of a month. NOVELS AND ROMANCES. The first volume of Miss Burney's Tales of Fancy, containing the Shipwreck, will appear in a few days. The work will probably. extend to four volumes, the second of which may be expected about Christmas. PHILOLOGY. Mr. Alex. Nicoll, of Balliol College, Oxford, will soon publish, a Critical Dictionary of the Greek Language, translated from the German of Schneider into English, with additions and improvements. Mr. W. P. Scargill is preparing for pub lication, an Etymological Dictionary of such English words as are derived from the Greek and Latin Languages. Mr. L. J. A. Mac Henry, has in the press, and nearly ready for publication, a second edition of his improved English Spanish Grammar. late Dr. Scott, rector of Simonbourn, will soon appear. The Rev. Brooke Bridges Stevens, will soon publish a Sermon preached at Great Coggeshall, Essex, in the behalf of the National Schools. Family Bible. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The public are respectfully informed, that a new edition on large paper, of the first part, will be published early in November, and will be continued every alternate month. Part XI. will be published at the same time. Part X. was published in September. Preparing for publication, Des. Erasmi Rot. Concio De Pvero Iesv olim Pronvnciata a Pvero in Schola Iohannis Coleti Londini Institvta in qva Praesidebat Imago Pveri Iesv docentis Specie. Editio Nova. Londini Typis I. et I. B. Nichols, et S. Bentley. --The text will be taken from the latest Frobenian editions, (viz. that annexed to Erasmi Enchiridion Militis Christiani, Bas. 1540, 8vo. and that in Erasmi Opera Omnia, Bas. 1540, folio,) which was adopted by Le Clerc, in Erasmi Opera Omnia, Lugd. Bat. 1704, folio. These editions have been col Shortly will be published, Rudiments of the Hebrew Language, with exercises ex-lated with two others of earlier date (anemplifying the rules, and a Key to the Book of Psalms; containing the true pronunciation, different significations, and grammatical analysis of every word: by Joseph Samuel C.F. Frey, author of a Hebrew Grammar, of a Hebrew-English-Latin Dictionary, and editor of Vander Hooght's Hebrew Bible. POETRY. Mr. James Harnett, will soon publish Waterloo, a poem, in which the principal incidents of that glorious battle are described. THEOLOGY. Speedily will be published, the Leading Heads of Twenty-seven Sermons, preached by Dr. Philip Doddridge, at Northampton, in the year 1749, and never before printed. 8vo. 5s. in boards. These Discourses were delivered nearly seventy years ago, and taken in short-hand by a female friend of the Doctor's, while on a visit at his house; and at whose decease, a short time since, they were presented to, and transcribed by, the Rev. T. Hawkins, of Warley, near Halifax, Yorkshire. The Rev. T. Pruen, of Albourn, Wilts, has in the press, an Illustration of the Liturgy and Service of the United Church of England and Ireland; with an introductory sketch of the History of the British Church. An edition of the Sermons of Martin Luther, with a full length portrait of that great man, from the large German print, is expected in the course of the month. A volume of Practical Sermons, by the nexed to the Enchiridion Militis Christiani, Bas. apud Froben. 1519, 8vo. and Colon. apud Cervicorn. 1519, 4to): and the principal variations will be noticed at the foot of the page. The marginal notes of the early editions will be retained. The edition now preparing will be uniform in size with the large paper copies of "Preces, Catechismus, et Hymni, in usum Scholae Paulinae, MDCCCXIV;" and one hundred copies only will be printed for sale. The Reverend J. Scott, M.A. of Hull, will shortly publish an Inquiry into the Effect of Baptism, according to the sense of Holy Scripture and the Church of England, in answer to the Rev. R. Mant's two Tracts on Regeneration and Conversion, circulated with the last annual packet of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The doctrine of the Tracts is, that Regeneration uniformly accompanies Baptism rightly administered, and that no other than Baptismal Regeneration is possible in this world. the Answer, the language of the Church will be particularly considered. TOPOGRAPHY. Ia William Monck Mason, Esq. is engaged in preparing for press, the History of Dublin and its Environs, forming part of a work to be entitled Hibernia. "The uncertain duration of human life," says the author, "makes it requisite, that in an undertaking of so great extent, and so difficult of execution, such divisional arrangement should be made, as would leave |