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In the Press, and shortly will be published, new editions of the Rev. H. Blunt's (of Chelsea) Lectures on the History of Jacob and Peter; each in One Volume, 12mo.
Early in January will be published, Remains of the late Alexander Fisher, Minister of the United Associate Congregation in Dumfermline. With a Memoir and Portrait. One Vol. 8vo.
In the Press, a second edition, in 2 Vols. 8vo., of Essays on the Principles of Morality, and on the Private and Political Rights and Obligations of Mankind. By Jonathan Dymond.
In the Press, the Etymological Spelling-Book; being an Introduction to the Spelling, Pronunciation, and Derivation of the English Language: containing, besides several other important Improvements, above Three Thousand Words deduced from their Greek and Latin Roots. Adapted for the Use of Classical and Ladies' Schools, and also of Adults and Foreigners. By Henry Butter, Author of " Gradations in Reading and Spelling."
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The First Number of a new Topographical Dictionary of Great Britain and Ireland, by Mr. J. Gorton, Editor of the "General Biographical Dictionary," &c., will appear in January. To each Number will be annexed a Quarto Map, engraved on Steel, by Mr. Sydney
In the Press, a View of the Scripture Revelations concerning a Future State. Laid before his Parishioners, by a Country Pastor.
Preparing for publication, The Executor's Account-Book; or, a Safe and Easy Method of keeping Executorship Accounts. With an adequate number of Ruled Pages, so arranged as to be adapted to the circumstances of any Estate; and copious Instructions, conveyed through the medium of a fictitious Will, the Accounts under which are accurately Arranged and Posted. By John H. Brady, late of the Legacy Duty Office, Somerset House; Author of " Plain Instructions to Executors and Administrators," &c.
In the Press, Evening Amusements; or, the Beauties of the Heavens Displayed; for the Year 1830.
Time's Telescope. We are requested by the Editor of the first Sixteen Volumes of this Work, to acquaint the Subscribers, that the Copyright having passed into other hands, he is in no way connected with the forthcoming Volume for 1830.
The following Works are preparing for immediate publication :— 1. Satan. A Poem, in Three Books. By the Author of "The Omnipresence of the Deity."
2. The Treasury of Knowledge. In Two Parts. By S. Maunder. 3. The Civil and Ecclesiastical History of England, from the Invasion of the Romans to the Passing of the Catholic Relief Bill, in 1829. By C. St. George. In 2 Thick Volumes, Demy 12mo.
4. 1829. A Poem. By Edward W. Coxe, Author of "The Opening of the Sixth Seal." In 1 Volume, small 8vo.
5. Poems, by the Author of " Posthumous Papers." In 1 Volume, small 8vo.
6. A School Edition of the Omnipresence of the Deity; in which that Poem only is printed.
ART. XI. WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED.
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The Man of Sin. A Sermon, preached at the Independent Chapel at Tattenhall, Cheshire, October 7, 1829, at the Annual Meeting of the Tattenhall Branch Missionary Society, and the Half-yearly Meeting of the Cheshire Union. By James Turner. Published at the request of the Ministers and other Friends present. 8vo. 1s.
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Man's Enmity to God; and Mercy for the Chief of Sinners. Two Discourses. By the late Stephen Charnock. 32mo. 2s. The Scripture Reader's Guide to the Devotional Use of the Holy Scriptures. By Caroline Fry. Second Edition. 2s. 6d. half-bound.
Delineations of the North-Western Division of the County of Somerset; including the Parishes, Manors, Towns, Villages, Churches, Antiquities, Gentlemen's Seats, &c.
With a Descriptive Account of the Antediluvian Bone Caverns in the Mendip Hills; and a Geological Sketch of the District. By John Rutter. Illustrated with Six Engravings on Copper, Six on Stone, upwards of Thirty on Wood, and a Map coloured Geologically. 15s.
Mr. Rutter has also just published a Series of Views, consisting of Twenty Additional Illustrations of the Ecclesiastical and Domestic Architecture of the NorthWestern Division of Somersetshire. 7s. 6d.
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ACASTER'S Church in danger from herself, 465; interesting character of this discus- sion, ib.; mode of treating the subject, 466; declension of the Church of Eng- land, ib.; the power of ordination in the Church left free and unfettered to the bishops, 468; duty of the bishops, in the examination of candidates for the minis- try, 469; their deviation from the inten- tion of the Church and the State, ib; guilt of those who undertake the ministerial of- fice with undevout habits and temper, 471; character of the English clergy at the time of the appearance of the Wesleys and Whitfield, ib.; the question between the evangelical and orthodox parties in the Church, 472; residence of the clergy, 473, 476; reflections upon the non-resi- dence and neglect of the clergy, 474; in- terpretation of the law relative to the irregularity of t of the Church, ergy, ib.; services clesiastical dignities, 477; the dispensing the purchase of ec- power of the archbishop of Canterbury, ib.; pluralists, 479; consequences of plural- ities, 481; perversion of episcopal visit- ations, 482; grounds of remonstrance urged by the author, 484; object and de- sign of this article, ib.; ultra dissenters, 485; necessity for a reform in the Church, 486; causes of the weak influence of public opinion upon the urch of Eng- land, 487; consequences of corrupt ap- pointments in the Church, 488; conse- quences of the jealousies and hostilities of the members of the Church, 489; dis- senters to blame for the negligence and secularity of the bishops and clergy, 492; the necessary qualifications for a bishop, 493; consequences which would result from a suppression of sectarianism, 494;
duty of dissenters at the present crisis,
Afghans, history of, 431; their descent from king Saul, ib.
Africa, North, the land of mystery and ro- mance, 3; correspondence on the Ethio- pian Sea, and the ancient Atlantide Island, 1; Ibn Batouta's travels in, 10. Age, the, a poem, 161; character of the work, with extracts, 163.
Aids to development, 142; character of this work, 144.
Alfred's (king) Anglo Saxon version of Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiæ, character of, 399; his additions to the treatise, ib.
will, with a translation and notes,
402. Almanac, the lady's, a tasteful annual, 557. America, its recent discovery, 365; its re- action upon Europe, 369; its remark- able character, ib.; its population, 370; its commerce, 372; cause of republic- anism, 375; necessarily pacific, 377; Sabbath in, 390; resemblance between the English and American institutions, 392; condition of women in, 395. American Indians, their origin, 116; coin- cidences between their customs and those of the Jews, 119; diversities among them, 125; languages of, 126. Americans as they are, character of this work, 389; Sabbath in America, 390. Americans, notions of the, by a travelling bachelor, 365; religion in America, 379; character of this work, 389; condition of women in America, 395. Amulet, the, extracts from, 450. Andes, the, 108.
Angling, delights of, 433. Anglo-Saxon dialects, 401.
Annuals, the, 436; engravings of, 550. Annuals, the juvenile, 460. Aristocracy of England, 374. Avalanche, description of one, 346.
Babel, an appellation given to an extensive territory, 498.
Babylon, extent of, 496; see Mignan. Bailey's exposition of the parables of our Lord, character of this work, 221, 227; the prodigal son, ib.; arrangement of the parables, 226; the parable of the wedding garment, 227.
Belfour's travels of Macarius, patriarch of Antioch, 419, 428; storm on the sea of Marmora, 429; image worship at Con- stantinople, 429.
Benefices, sometimes purchased by dissent- ers for the purpose of conferring them on good men, 154; a wrong system which requires or admits of such inter- position, ib.; consequences of it, 156. Berne, recent persecutions in, 299; state of religious parties there, 802. Biography, classes of, 149, 169. Biography, Scripture, character of, 541. Bird's original psalmody, 362. Blunt's lectures on the history of Jacob, character of this work, 541; character of Jacob, ib.; his vow, 544; spiritual lesson taught by Jacob's pillar, ib.
lectures on the history of Peter, character of the work, 541; Peter's con- fession of faith, 545; the temper in which the Christian should wait the coming of his Lord, 546; Peter's recovery, 548. Boethius, the celebrated Roman, 398. Bond's memoir of Fisk, 169; character of, 170.
Botany; see Hooker and Curtis. Brand's journal of a voyage to Peru, 93; contrast between the ladies of Lima and those of Buenos Ayres, 106; religious worship at Buenos Ayres, ib.; religious ceremonies at Lima, 107; descent of the Cordillera of the Andes, 110; pas- sage of a drove of mules across the La- dera de las Vacas, 111.
Brown's biographical sketches and authen-
tic anecdotes of dogs, character of the work, 259; tales of canine freakishness, 260; Sir W. Scoll's bull-dog terrier, 261.
Canton of Vaud, persecutions in, 299. Cardale's translation of king Alfred's
Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius, 398; character of this work, 400; Anglo- Saxon dialects, 401. Chaldea; see Mignan.
Christian gentleman, portraiture of a, 248. Christianity, divine origin of; see Shep- pard.
Christianity, revival of, in France, Switzer-
land, the Netherlands, Germany, &c., 299. Chronological guide, a judicious work, 270. Church, the established, benefits of, 380; security of, 383; see Acaster. Cocoa-nut, the double, 403. Comets, form distinct classes of bodies, more numerous and important in the economy of the system than planets, 287; their substances and composition, 288; their tails, 289; the history of opinion in connection with cometary phenomena, 290; perturbations occa- sioned by planetary attraction, 294; supposed consequences which would re- sult from the near approach of a comet to the earth, 296.
Cræsus, remarks on his consulting the
oracles, 35; sacrifices offered upon the
Crombie's discourses on the character and offices of Christ, illustrated by a com- parison with the typical characters of the Old Testament, 243; character of this work, 246, 247; tests by which the an- cient types and shadows are to be tried, ib.; Joseph and Christ, 247.
Curtis's botanical magazine, 403; the double cocoa-nut, ib.
Development of the mental and moral
Dobson's advantages and deficiencies of the Protestant reformation, 66; the stand made at its outset, for the authority and sufficiency of the Sacred Writings, 67; the change it effected in the mode of con- templating religion, and the new light in which it placed the great subject of our acceptance with God, ib.; the emi- nent degree which it contributed to the subversion of the scholastic theology, 68; the deficiencies of the reformation, in the continuance of the general form and con- stitution of the Church, and the leading principles of ecclesiastical doctrine and polity; and in the retaining in the ritual of the Church much of the meretricious appendages of Popish superstition, ib. ; character of Mr. Dobson's work, ib. ; struggle of the reformers to maintain the perfection of the Scriptures, 69; doc- trines of Popery at the period of the Re- formation, 70; appeal to Protestant Dis- senters to exemplify the spiritual nature Doddridge's, Dr. P., correspondence and of Christ's kingdom, 71. diary, 410; Mr. Humphreys's account of the design of the publication, 411; its impropriety, 413; extracts from his early letters, 415; his character as a writer, 418.
Donkin's, Sir Rufane, dissertation on the
Niger, 1; see Niger. Dorn's history of the Afghans, translated from the Persian, 419.
Education, mistakes in, 142; the de- velopment of the faculties, its object, 144; duties of Christians in reference to
this subject, 269. Electric phenomena, inquiry into, 132; affinity of electric and chemical agency, 133; some modification of electricity probably at the root of many changes and effects consequent upon aërial influ- ence, 134; spectral illusions, 140. Ellis's Polynesian researches, character of this work, 512; analogy between the language of the aborigines of Madagascar and the Malays, and the Polynesians, 513; resemblance between the Polynesians and the American tribes, 514; South Sea Islands peopled from the East, 515; every hypothesis as to the origin of the Polynesians encumbered with difficulties, 516; alliance between some of the Poly- nesian traditions and the Hindoo cosmo- gony, 517; singular predictions pre- served by the islanders, 518. Emmanuel, an annual, its name objection- able, 554; extracts from, 555. England, its moral and political influence, 366; its constitution, 374. Engravings in the annuals, 550. Ethiopian sea, the, Sir Sidney Smith's no- tion of its situation, 2; Isaiah's refer- ence to it, ib.
Euphrates, the course of, at Babylon, 497.
Fayette, La, en Amérique, 388; ladies of New York, 397.
Fenelon's devout meditations, 557. Fenelon, remarks upon some parts of his Telemachus, 39.
Fisk, Rev. Pliny, memoirs of, 169; his description of Jerusalem, 171; extract from a letter on the support of mission- aries, 172; letter written a few days be- fore his death, 173.
Flaxman's lectures on sculpture, 333; character of this work, 334, 342; sketch of Flaxman's career, ib.; criticism on Wells cathedral, 337; colouring inap- plicable to statuary, 339; the effect of sculpture essentially distinct from that of painting, 341; history of Grecian art, 342.
Forget me not, the, extracts from, 439. Forster's illustration of the atmospheric origin of epidemic disorders of health, 132; connexion of health and disease with the state of the air, 133; planetary
influence upon nervous or mental ma- lady, 134; general periodicity of nature, 136; distinction between contagious and infectious diseases, 137; influence of comets on the human body, 138; epi- demics aependent on atmospherical causes, 139; spectral illusions, 140. Friendship's offering, extracts from, 445.
Genesis, the book of, in English-He- brew, 90.
Geographical discovery, progress of, 93. Gesenius's Hebrew lexicon, 40; character of this work, 41, 45; advantages and disadvantages of the alphabetical arrange- ment, ib.; definition of the word 78; misconceptions of Gesenius, 43. Giorgione, a famous Venetian painter, 237. Grenville's, lord, Oxford and Locke, 181; his view of Locke's expulsion from Ox- ford, 193; his eulogy on Locke, 194; his conduct towards dissenters, ib. Grimshawe's memoir of Rev. Legh Rich- mond, 148; classes of biographical me- moir, 149; character of this work, ib. ; account of Mr. Richmond's last illness and death, 150; his nomination to the rectory of Turvey through the medium of dissenters, 153; benefices purchased by dissenters, for the purpose of con- ferring them upon good men, 154. Haigh's sketches of Buenos Ayres and
Chile, 93; character of, 108; snow storm on the summit of the Cumbre, 109. Hall's, Capt. B., travels in North America, 365; benefits of the English Established Church, 380; method of preserving friendly relations between England and America, 385; discussions with the Ame- ricans, 387; character of Captain Hall's work, 388.
Hall's, Judge, letters from the West, cha- racter of the work, 391.
Hall's, Mrs. S. C., sketches of Irish cha-
racter, 72; village of Bannow, ib.; effect of civilization in reuniting distinct tribes and nations, 73; specimen of Anglo-Irish, ib.; the Bannow postman, 81; charac- ter of Mrs. Hall's sketches, 83. Harrison's tales of a physician, 72; cha
racter of this work, 84; the Jew, ib. Head's rough notes, 93; character of them, 108; journey to the silver mines of San Pedro Nolasco, 113. Heber, bishop, some account of his life, a catch-penny publication, 262. Henry's letters to a friend, intended to re- lieve the difficulties of an anxious in- quirer, under serious impressions on the subjects of conversion and salvation, 174; Dr. J. P. Smith's character of
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