them, ib.; on the withholding of Divine grace from the inquirer, 175. Herodotus; see Taylor and Larcher. Hooker's botanical miscellany, 403; the mahogany tree, 406; anecdote of Lin- naus, 407; letter by professor Schultes, 407; rice-paper, 409.
Humphreys's correspondence and diary of Dr. Doddridge; see Doddridge. Huntingford's testimonies in proof of the separate existence of the soul in a state of self-consciousness between death and the resurrection, 273; methods of interpretation and criticism that have been resorted to, to get rid of the doc- trine of the separate state of the soul, 275; plan and character of the work; 277; rough draught for an exhibition of the Church universal, on an article of faith, in such manner as may authorita- tively determine controversy, 279; aver- sion of the Christian Churches in the present day from close study and inves tigation, 285.
Image worship at Constantinople, 429. Independents, the, the principles of reli- gious liberty not well understood by them, in the time of the Commonwealth, 199. India; see Tod, and Modern Traveller. Interpretation of Scripture, remarks on, 274, 277.
Iris, the, character of, 457; extract from, 458.
Irish character, sketches of; see Hall. Israel, the ten tribes of, supposed to have
peopled America, 116; see American Indians; the opinion that they never returned to their own country, unfound- ed, 118.
Jahangueir, the emperor, memoirs of, 419. Jews, memoir of the; see Pellatt. Job, book of, arranged and pointed after the Masoretic text, 45; variety in the arrangement of words in the authorized version, 46; parallelisms, 47. Journal of a Naturalist, character of the work, 435; an autumnal walk, ib. Judson, Mrs., memoirs of, 90. Juvenile Forget Me Not, (Ackerman's) extracts from, 460.
Keepsake, the, character of, 550. King's, lord, life of Locke, supplies an im- portant desideratum, 181; character of the work, 182; reflections on Locke's refusal of church preferment, 187; ar- bitrary measures of Charles II. on reli- gious matters, 192; see Locke.
Knight's discourses on the principal para- bles of our Lord, 221; character of, 228; Christ's promise to his disciples, to shew them plainly of the Father, ib.
Larcher's historical and critical remarks on the history of Herodotus, 32; cha- racter of his work, 33; correction of a mistranslation in Dalzel, 34; remarks on the story of Croesus consulting the oracles, 35; sacrifices offered upon the occasion, ib.; description of the heathen temples-illustration of the words isgòv and vas, 37; superstitious and infamous custom established among the Babylo- nians, ib.; uses of the word tyrant, 38 ; remarks on Fenelon's placing Ajax in the Elysian fields, 39. Latrobe's Alpenstock, or sketches of Swiss scenery and manners, character of, 343; scenery of the Niesen, ib.; description of an avalanche, 346; a landscape and cattle sketch, 347; the canton of Uri, and the Swiss peasantry, 348; pastor of an Ober- land village, 352; Italian villages, 353; optical deception in Swiss views, 354; a Sunday on the continent, 355. Linnæus, anecdote of, 407. Literary Gazette's review of Dr. Dod- dridge's correspondence and diary, 410. Literary Souvenir, extracts from, 442. Locke, John, biography of, 181; letter to his father, 183; letter to Mr. John Strachey on the ceremony in the Catholic church in Cleves, on Christmas day, 185; refused preferment in the church, 186; his ac- quaintance with Lord Ashley, 188; per- secution of the French Protestants, 189; on study, 190; deprivation of his student- ship at Oxford, 193; his essay on the understanding, 196; his letter on tolera- tion, 197; his treatises on government, 203; the last four years of his life, ib. Lyte's sermon on the true nature of the Church of Rome, and the duty of the clergy towards her, 362.
Macarius, patriarch of Antioch, travels of, 428; description of Constantinople, 430. Mahogany tree, the, account of, 405. Mahomet, life of, published by the Society for the diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 263; a miserable performance, 264; go- vernment in Arabia at the time of Ma- homet, 265; conceptions of the character of the Divinity, 266.
Matheson's advice to religious inquirers, analysis of, 175; character of this work, 176; the tendency of natural affection towards the unconverted to engender scepticism, 176.
Matheson's, Mrs., explanation of the prin- cipal parables of the New Testament, 221; character of, 230; parable of the wedding garment, 231. Maw's journal of a passage from the Paci-
fic to the Atlantic, 93; sketch of his journey, 94; character of the recent Peruvian war, 96; scenery in the Mon- tana, ib.; the Indian tribe of Yaguas, 101; Brazilian Indians, 102; abomin- able system pursued towards them, ib.; cannibalism among the South American Indians, 105.
Maxwell's notion that the Zaire or Congo
is the Niger, 14; Sir R. Donkin's re- marks on his hypothesis, 15. Mignan's travels in Chaldæa, &c., 496; extent of Babylon, ib.; the Birs Nem- roud, 497; Babel, an appellation given to an extensive territory, 498; ruins of El Hamir, ib.; the site of old Babylon, 500; places of sepulture at Babylon, 501; analogy between these and those at Persepolis, 502.
Millennium, the. See Morison. Milne's essay on comets, 286; a distinct class of bodies, 287.
Milton, his labours in the cause of freedom, 198.
Moase's practical suggestions and dis-
courses, character of, 269; education of children, ib.
Modern Traveller-India, 525; character
of this work, 529; difficulty of arrang.
ing the political geography of India, ib.; reflections on the ancient history and commerce of India, 530.
Morison's discourse on the Millennium,
357; prophetic number of the Apoca- lyptic beast, 359; the second advent of Christ not to precede the Millennium, 360.
Neologism, its source, 276. Nicholson's operative mechanic and British mechanist, character of, 320; the Strand or Waterloo bridge, 321. Niger, the, Sir R. Donkin's dissertation on its course and termination, 1; his fanci- ful notion of its course, ib.; many rivers of this name, 4; Ptolemy's description of it, 5; its source never visited, 6; Major Laing's description of its course, ib.; Mungo Park's account of it, 7; conjectures on Ptolemy's account, 8; Ibn Batouta's descriptions of it, 10; various hypotheses, 13; Sir R. Donkin's remarks on the Niger-Congo hypothesis, 14; his own hypothesis, 16; he sup- poses the Niger to discharge itself into the Mediterranean, ib.; remarks on this hy-
Painting, remarks on the Venetian school of, 233; few popular travellers acquainted with its principles, 234; the chemical composition of colours practically at- tended to by the Venetian painters, 235; oil painting introduced among them in the 15th century, 236; see Titian. Papal apostasy, the, nature and duration of; see Vaughan.
Parables, nature and use of, 221; mistakes on their interpretation, ib.; Lord Bacon on their true nature and design, 223; the use made of them by Jesus Christ, ib. ; their adaptation to the purposes of in- struction, 233.
Pascal, the spirit of, 557.
Patronage, church, remarks on, 155; con- sequence of it, 156.
Pellatt's brief memoir of the Jews, in rela- tion to their civil and municipal disabili- ties, 519; opposition made to the natu- ralization of the Jews, 520; condition of the Jews in the city of London, ib. ; character of English Jews, ib.; per- secution of the Jews in Germany, 524; their condition in France and the Ne- therlands, ib.; character of Mr. Pellatt's memoir, 525.
Peru, its boasted wealth an illusion, 115; see Brand and Maw.
Pestalozzi, his character, 143. Polynesia, 518; see Ellis.
Pooley's essay on the nature and use of parables, as employed by Jesus Christ, 220; on their interpretation, 222; their adaptation to the purposes of instruction, 233.
Portraiture of a Christian gentleman, cha- racter of the work, 248; Sir Philip Sid- ney and the Earl of Sussex, 250; prayer, ib. Price's memoirs of the emperor Jahangueir, written by himself, and translated from a Persian MS., 419; death of the emperor. 424; humane and peaceable character of his son, 426; anxieties and responsibilities of kings, 427; Bengalese Jugglers, 428. Prophecy, lectures on, by the ministers of
the congregational association, 88; the study of prophecy enforced, ib. Pugin's Gothic ornaments, drawn on stone by J. D. Harding, character of, 270.
Reformation, advantages and deficiencies of; see Dobson.
Rice-paper, a native mineral, 409. Richmond, Rev. Legh; see Grimshawe.
Sacrifices offered by Croesus upon con- sulting the Delphian oracle, 35. Salmonia, or Days of fly fishing, 432; writ- ten by Sir Humphrey Davy, ib.; delights of angling, 433; analysis of the work, 434.
Schultes, professor, his scientific visit to England, 407.
Sculpture; see Flaxman.
Sectarian, the, analysis of the work, 324; description of a missionary meeting, 325; character of the work, 328; Mr. Irving's character of the religious world, 330; panegyric on the Church of England, 331; true nature of schism, 332. Sheppard's divine origin of Christianity,
deduced from some of those evidences which are not founded on the authentici- ty of Scripture, 204; plan and character of the work, 206, 216; opposition made to Christianity, 207; its rapid and extensive progress, 208; antecedent probability that miracles were wrought to accompany the apostolic preaching, 209; proved from the statements and admissions of the opponents of Christianity, 210; reasons why the tri- umph of Christianity was not universal, 212; the heathen persecutions afford proof of the truth of Christianity, 214; the deep responsibility of those who admit the truth of the Christian system, 217; conjectures on the personal appearance of Jesus, 219.
Simond's tour in Italy, 48; remarks on Eustace, 49; varied impressions made on the mind by the scenes and circum- stances of Italy, ib.; contrast between Eustace and Simond, 50; monument erected by the people of Milan in memory of Borromeo, 51; approach to Venice on
the Lagune, 53; simple and patriarchal manners still extant in some parts of Italy, 55; description of the Val d'Arno, 57; Forsyth's description of the Campo Santa at Pisa, 58; female society at Pisa, 59; Valley of the Chiana, 60; Forsyth's delineation of St. Peter's, 61; Simond's criticism on it, 62; illumination of the interior at Easter, 64; modern Rome, 65. Simon's hope of Israel, presumptive evi- dence that the aborigines of the Western Hemisphere are descended from the ten missing tribes of Israel, 116.
Social life of England and France, view of, from the restoration of Charles II. to the French Revolution, 157; exaggeration and coarse colouring in this work on the state of society at the restoration, 158; difference of national character between France and England at this period, 160. South America, travels in, 93. South Sea Islands; see Ellis. Southey's All for Love, and the Pilgrim to Compostella, analysis and character of the former, 251; extracts from the latter, 256.
Spectral illusions, 140.
Spencer's, Rev. Thomas, sermons, charac- ter of, with extracts, 240. Switzerland; see Latrobe.
Taylor's translation of Herodotus, 23; ad- vantages derivable from reading the an- cient historians, 24; character of Hero- dotus, 25, 28, 32; analysis of his history, 26; coincidences between the Scripture history and the narrative of Herodotus, 27; Larcher's translation, 29; Beloe's translation, 30; comparative merits of the several translations, ib.; Mr. Taylor's translation of the story of Thermopylæ,
Timbuctoo, account of, 4.
Titian, notices of his life and works, 233; his intimacy with Giorgione, 237; his picture of the San Pietro Martire, 238; peculiarities of his manner, 239; Venice, its painters, 233, 236; see Painting. Tod's annals and antiquities of Rajast'-han, 525; character of the Rajpoots, 526; judicious conduct of Col. Tod, as agent to the Western Rajpoot states, 527; the gift of the Rakhi, 528; geography of Ra- jast'-han, 532; origin and derivation of the Rajpoot tribes, ib.; the state of Nie- wan, 533; storming and taking of Chee- tore, singular meeting between two rival Rajpoot chiefs, 573.
Toleration, early writers on, 199; Locke's letters on, 201.
Translation, necessary qualities of, 45. Typical theology, 244.
Tyrant, uses of the word, 38.
Vaughan's discourse on the nature and duration of the Papal apostasy, 357; rise of the Papal power, ib.
Walsh, Dr., his notices of the Canadian Indians, 122.
Waterloo Bridge, 321.
Wells Cathedral, Flaxman's criticism on, 337.
White's natural history of Selborne, 432.
Winter's wreath, the, extracts from, 454. Worsley's view of the American Indians,
shewing them to be the descendants of the ten tribes of Israel, 116; coincidences between the practices of the American Indians and those of the Jews, 119; unsatisfactory in proof of their Jewish origin, 123; see American Indians. Wyss's sermon on religious parties or separations, 298.
Zaire, the, or Congo, supposed by some to be the Niger, 14; Sir R. Donkin's opinion as to its source, ib.
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