CONTENTS OF NO. CLXII.

ART. I. 1. Narrative of Events connected with the publication

of the Tracts for the Times,' with Reflections on

existing Tendencies to Romanism, and on the pre-

sent Duties and Prospects of Members of the

Church. By the Rev. William Palmer, M.A.

2. The Holy Eucharist a Comfort to the Penitent.

A Sermon preached before the University, in the

Cathedral Church of Christ, in Oxford, on the

Fourth Sunday after Easter. By the Rev. E. B.

Pusey, D.D., Regius Professor of Hebrew.

3. Dr Pusey and the University of Oxford: A Let-

ter to the Vice-Chancellor of the University of

Oxford. By the Rev. J. Garbett, M.A.

4. Some Remarks on the Sermon of the Rev. Dr

Pusey, lately preached and published at Oxford.

By Samuel Lee, D.D. Regius Professor of He-

brew in the University of Cambridge.

5. An Essay on the Miracles Recorded in the Eccle-

siastical History of the Early Ages. By John

Henry Newman, B.D.

6. Chronica Jocelini de Brakelonda, de rebus gestis

Samsonis, Abbatis Monasterii Sancti Edmundi.

Nunc primum typis mandata, curante Johanne

Gage Rokewode. (Monastic and Social Life in

the Twelfth Century, as exemplified in the Chro-

nicles of Jocelin of Brakelond. Translated, with

Notes, and an Introduction.) By J. E. Tomlins,

Esq.

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ART. I. 7. The Lives of the English Saints.-1. The Life

of St Stephen, Abbot, Founder of the Cistercian

Order.-2. The Family of St Richard the Saxon.

-3. St Augustine of Canterbury.

8. Ancient Christianity, and the Doctrines of the

Oxford Tracts for the Times.' (Supplement,

Part 9.)

9. The Ideal of a Christian Church, considered in

comparison with existing Practice; containing a

Defence of certain Articles in the British Critic,'

in Reply to Remarks in Mr Palmer's Narrative.

By the Rev. W. G. Ward, M.A., Fellow of Baliol

College, Oxford.

10. A Charge to the Clergy of Dublin and Glande-

lagh, delivered in June 1843. By Richard Whately,

D.D., Archbishop of Dublin. To which is append-

ed a Petition to the House of Lords, praying for

a Church Government,

309

II. The Life, Voyages, and Exploits of Admiral Sir

Francis Drake, Knight. By John Barrow, Esq., 376

III. Erpétologie Générale, ou Histoire Naturelle complète

des Reptiles. Par A. M. C. Dumeril, Membre de

l'Institut, et G. Bibron, Aide Naturaliste au Mu-

séum d'Histoire Naturelle,

IV. On the Nature of Thunderstorms, and on the Means

of Protecting Buildings and Shipping against the

Destructive Effects of Lightning. By W. Snow

Harris, F.R.S.,

V. 1. Speeches delivered in the House of Commons by

the Right Hon. Sir Robert Peel, on the Renewal

of the Bank Charter.

2. Speech of Lord Monteagle in the House of Lords

on the Import Duties, 13th June 1844.

3. Speech of Viscount Howick on the Corn Laws,

25th June 1844.

4. Speech of Viscount Palmerston on the Slave Trade,

16th July 1844,

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444

474

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ART. VI. Coningsby; or, the New Generation. By B. D'Israeli,

M.P.

2. Historic Fancies. By the Hon. George Sydney

Smythe, M.P.

3. England's Trust, and other Poems. By Lord

John Manners, M.P.

VII. 1. Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chat-

ham.

2. Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, to

Sir Horace Mann,

Note,

Errata,

Index,

517

526

596

ib.

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EDINBURGH REVIEW,

JULY, 1844.

No. CLXI.

ART. I.-George Selwyn and his Contemporaries; with Memoirs and Notes. By JOHN HENEAGE JESSE. 4 vols. 8vo. London: 1843-4.

THERE is a charm in the bare title of this book. It is an open sesame to a world of pleasant things. As at the ringing of the manager's bell, the curtain rises, and discovers a brilliant tableau of wits, beauties, statesmen, and men of pleasure about town, attired in the quaint costume of our great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers; or, better still, we feel as if we had obtained the reverse of Bentham's wish-to live a part of his life at the end of the next hundred years-by being permitted to live a part of ours about the beginning of the last, with an advantage he never stipulated for, of spending it with the pleasantest people of the day.

Let us suppose that only twenty-four hours were granted us; how much might be done or seen within the time! We take the privilege of long intimacy to drop in upon Selwyn in Chesterfield Street, about half-past ten or eleven in the morning; we find him in his dressing-gown, playing with his dog Raton:at twelve we walk down arm-in-arm to White's, where Selwyn's arrival is hailed with a joyous laugh, and Topham Beauclerk

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