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is much more afraid, however, of overloading their memories, than their sto machs. Reading, she says, will spoil the girls' eyes, stooping to write will ruin their chests, and working will

make them round shouldered. If the

boys run, they will have fevers; if they jump, they will sprain their ancles; if they play at ericket, a blow may kill them; if they swim, they will be drowned, the shallowness of the stream is no argument of safety."

Lady Aston's history is most interesting, and were we to point out the part of this work which has afforded us the greatest pleasure, we should certainly place our finger upon the sixteenth chapter, where a most important conversation is detailed, between Lady Aston and Mr Stanley. The views of religion which Mr S. here takes occasion to illustrate, accord so exactly with our own, and are, we are persuaded, so just in themselves, that we gladly avail ourselves of this opportunity of recommending them to the serious consideration of every reader.

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The episode which contains the account of Mr and Mrs Carleton is, without exception, one of the most touching pieces of description with which we have ever met, and is fraught with important instruction. Here behold a bright display of the efficacy of vital religion, in preserving the mind where it reigns, in a state of tranquillity and composure amidst circumstances of the deepest distress. Here we behold a striking in stance of its self-recommending power. We " see how awful goodness is," and how a shining example of it can sometimes drive daggers into the soul even of the most profligate. Mrs Carleton's whole character must at once approve itself to the judgement and feelings of every thinking

mind.

The little stories of Fanny Stokes, the lame gardener, and dame Alice, are very engaging, and are related with great simplicity and ease. But is it

not rather an unhappy circumstance> in the last of these, that Colebs should be made to overhear Lucilla, while reading the forty-first psalm ?

Thus much as to the characters. We have already expressed our opinion of the leading principles which

are inculcated in these volumes.There are but a few to which we do not cordially assent, and these do not relate to matters of religion. Indeed we think, that the author's views of Christianity are not only scriptural in themselves, but defended in a highly scriptural manner: and although we consider the conversations, in general, just didactic enough, and sometimes even tedious, yet we wish we could observe the same good temper upon all occasions displayed in the same good cause.

We are afraid, however, that the following sentence may have an equivocal and dubious tendency.

what was their real interest! if they "Oh! if women knew in general could guess with what a charm even the appearance of modesty invests its possessor, they would dress decorously from mere self-love, if not from principle. The designing would assume Modesty as an artifice, the coquet would adopt it as an allurement, the pure as her appropriate attraction, and the voluptuous as the most infallible art of seduction.

We have also already expressed our general opinion of the style in which this work is composed, and shall only further remark, that we are sorry to see such a book so greatly defaced by a very careless punctuation. In some instances, it is quite intolerable! and even in point of grammar, a sixth edi tion has not corrected some of the mistakes, of which there were not a few in the first impressions. We can hardly conceive how the following gross example has so long survived: "He found Sir John and I sitting in the library." &c.

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Scottish Literary Intelligence.

A SECOND edition of Discourses by the Rev. Robert Morehead, will be published in a few days.

An embellished Edition of Mr

Scott's Poems of the "Lay of the Last Minstrel," and "Marmion," was recently announced in the London Magazines and other periodical publications, from which it was inadvertently copied into this Magazine. We now understand, however, that the plan embraces only plates illustrative of the poems.

A new edition of Dr Finlayson's Sermons is in the press.

Dr Millar, Lecturer on Natural History and Chemistry, and Editor of the 4th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, will publish, in three or four weeks, A new edition of Williams's Natural History of the Mineral King

dom. This work is divided into

three parts, containing, I. The Natural History of the Strata of Coal, and of the concomitant strata: II: The His

tory of Mineral Veins; and, III. An account of the prevailing strata, and of some of the principal phenomena upon the surface of the globe.-The Apbraces a comprehensive view of the pendix, to be given by the Editor, emnature and properties of the materials of which the surface of the globe is composed, and of their mode of distri bution and relative position;-particularly of the history of coal and metallic substances. It embraces also a brief account of the disturbances occasioned by Earthquakes and Volcanoes, with a slight sketch of some of the

A Narrative of the Campaign of theories which have been proposed to

the British army in Spain commanded by his Excellency Lieutenant General Sir John Moore. By James Moore, Esq. 4to.

A Dissertation on the numbers of mankind, in ancient and modern times. By Robert Wallace, D.D. Second Edition. Revised and corrected, 8vo. 9s.

account for the formation and distribution of mineral substances. From the great reputation which the origi

nal work of Williams has obtained both in this country and on the continent, and the nature of the pursuits in which Dr Millar has long been engaged, we presume the present edition will be a valuable treatise, not only

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to the student of geology, but also to the practical miner.

Very shortly will be published, A Moral Tale, entitled, The Monk and the Vine-Dresser, or the Emigrants of Bellesme by a Lady.

The Rev. John Lee, M.D. minister of Peebles, has in the press, sermon which he preached in St Andrew's Church, on Sunday the 21st May 1809, at the request of the Managers of the Public Dispensary and Vaccine Institution of this place. The text is taken from Gen. xxi. 16. "Let me not see the death of the child." Dr Lee (whose medical acumen is perhaps equal to his well-known pulpit eloquence) took occasion, in the conclusion of his discourse, forcibly to vindicate the efficacy of vaccine innoculation as a preventive of small-pox. The sermon is published under the direction of the Managers of the Charity; with the double view of removing prejudices against vaccination, and of aiding their funds; and we doubt not that its circulation will be very extensive.

In the course of this month, Mr Joseph Crisp, of Holborn, will publish, for the use of female seminaries, Lessons in Geography, with an Introduction to for the exercise of the memory, and as the use of Globes, calculated solely an introduction to larger works.

The Rev. Edward Valpy, author of Elegantiæ Latinæ, is preparing a new edition of that scarce and very useful work, Robertson's Phrase Book, with it is intended to modernise the obsolete alterations and improvements; in which English phrases, and to introduce, besides known and common idioms, every word which may be susceptible of variation and elegance.

Mr James Norris Brewer, will, in a few days, publish the first number of, Descriptions Historical and Architectural, of splendid Palaces, and celebrated Buildings, English and Foreign, with Biographical notices of their Founders or Builders, and other eminent persons. This work, printed in quarto, will be comprised in six monthly parts, and embellished with highly-finished engravings, by Storer, Porter, and other emi

nent artists.

Mr Williamson, of the Inner Temple, has a Treatise for publication entitled, A Companion and Guide to the Laws of England; comprising the most useful and interesting heads of the law;

Literary Intelligence, ENGLISH and viz. the whole law relating to parish

IN

FOREIGN.

N a short time will be published, An Essay on Theatres, and on the Propriety of Vaulting them with Brick and Stone. Illustrated with a plan and section for a new Theatre. The object of this essay, is to revive the knowledge exemplified by the Free and Accepted Masons, in the construction of the vaults of the ancient cathedral; and to show that a theatre, built upon similar principles, would be of considerable benefit to the proprietor; both in reducing the expense of the erection, and rate of insurance; and at the same time secure the audience against the dreadful hazards, to which they are liable, from the present mode in which these edifices are built.

The second edition of a Treatise on Malting, by Mr Reynoldson, late of Newark, now of Bromley, Middlesex, will appear in a few days.

matters, bills of exchange, and promissory notes, wills, executors, landlord and tenant, trade, nuisance, master and servant, jurors, carriers, bankruptcy, apprentices, gaming, &c. &c. to which is added, A summary of the Laws, of London.

An Irish gentleman of rank, who lately spent three years in London, is preparing for publication, A Series of Letters to his father in Ireland, containing the secret history of the British Court and Metropolis; and said to illustrate, with singular ability, the state of modern manners and society.

Mr W. Ward, lecturer on Experimental Chemistry, has in the press, A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy, which will speedily make its appearance, in one volume, illustrated with plates,

The Rev. Joseph Wilson is preparing for the press, An Introduction to Butler's Analogy, in a series of Letters to a Student at the University.

The

The Rev. George Whittaker, master of the grammar school in Southampton, will in a few days publish a work designed for the use of junior boys in classical schools; entitled, Exempla Propria, or English Sentences, translated into the Latin Language.

A Translation of Laborde's View of Spain, composing a descriptive itinerary, or topographical delineation of each province, and a general statistical ac

count of the country, will shortly appear.

Mr Andersen, author of a Tour in Zealand, is preparing for publication, A Dane's Excursion in Britain; to consist of two or three small octavo volumes.

The Rev. Dr Washbourn, of Wellinborough, is revising and correcting Bishop Řeynolds on Ecclesiastes, which will appear in the course of three months.

Poetry.

ODE

FOR HIS MAJESTY'S BIRTH-DAY 1809. By Henry James Pye, Esq. Poet Laureat. WHILE Europe, with dejected eye, Beholds around her rural reign, Whilom of peace the fair domain, The Scene of desolation lie,

Or if with trembling hope she cast
Her look on hours of glory past;
And burn again with virtuous flame
Her ancient honours to reclaim,
And brace the corslet on her breast,
And grasp the spear and wave the

crest,

Yet lies her course through war's ensanguin'd flood;

Yet must she win her way through carnage and thro' blood.

Ah! happier Britain! o'er thy plain
Still smiling peace and freedom reign.
And while thy sons, with pitying eye,
Behold the fields of ruin round them

lie; The storms that shake each neighbour realm with fear,

Like distant thunder die upon the ear;
They bless the halcyon hours that
gave,

To rule a people free and brave,
A patriot Monarch all their own,
Their swords his bulwark, and their
hearts his throne.

And while to this auspicious day
The Muse devotes her tributary lay,
A nation's vows in choral Pæans join,
And consecrate to fame a " verse as mean
as mine."

Yet not to selfish thoughts confin'd
Are the warm feelings of the virtuous

mind:

The royal Patriot, while he views

Peace o'er his realms her bliss diffuse,

Mourns for the sorrows that afflict mankind.

Go forth, my sons, he cries, my Britons
go,

And rescue Europe from her ruthless foe.
Behold, in arms, Austria's imperial Lord;
Behold Iberia draw the avenging sword;
O let with theirs your mingling ensigns
fly,

In the great cause of injur'd Liberty! Go forth, my sons, and to the world declare,

When suffering Freedom calls, Britannia's arms are there.

ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM WRight.

[Mr Wright, the subject of the following Stanzas, left his father's house on the morning of the 6th of June, and three days after, he was found dead on the moor near Luckenkitt-Loch, a wild sequestered scene near the source of Clouden water,

Galloway, eight or nine miles from his

home. He seemed to have laid himself down to rest, and through fatigue had fallen asleep, and a chill damp evening coming on, he had never awakened. The grass where he lay was not in the least discomposed, nor did there appear to have been any struggle in dying.

In the early period of his life Mr Wright was a most accomplish'd scholar, and an inmate in the house of the late celebrated Dr Blacklock, who loved him with the affection of a father. The Doctor being blind, he was selected to read to him poetry and other works of taste, for which, from the soft and manly tone of his voice, Mr Wright was peculiarly adapted. By the late Earl of Selkirk he was engaged tutor at St Mary's isle, where, in the bloom of youth, and in the midst of a promising literary career, he was affected with mental

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But who are those that march along the heath,

Directed by the wild bird's plaintive cry? They find thee stretch'd pale on the bed of death,

Thy farewell gaze fix'd on thy native sky. Now every love-lorn swain shall heave the sigh,

And on thy grave, at solemn evening hour, Beauty's soft hand shall plant, with stream. ing-eye,

Sweet emblem of her love, the daisy flower.

Alas, no more, dear wanderer of the wild, Shall my lone footsteps meet thee on the

moor;

Nor thy lorn look, with aspect beaming mild,

Like the pale moon, seen through the midnight shower.

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SAY, when Remembrance wakes again
The beauty of the classic plain,
Where once in early youth we stray'd,
Shall not the converse of the glade,
Arise, my friend, to fancy's view,
And thought of other days renew?
When down the vale we rov'd along,
The warbler's gratulating song
Would seem to meet the op'ning year,
The promis'd blossoming to chear;
Has not the eye of friendship seen,
When buds expand and corn is green,
With brighter joy the sun-beams play,
The linnet pour a warmer lay,
The tow'ring lark delight to sing,
And hail the symphony of spring?
So shall the friend of nature join,
And feel the unison divine:
But, when the pledge of future praise,
The poet's kindling thought shall raise,
When, as he hails the gen'ral plan,
And all his love descends on man,
The spring of friendship shall appear,
How shall he pour the fervent pray'r,
The op'ning thought to wisdom dear,
The earnest wish, the tender care,
And twine the wreath of future fame
Around the silent cherish'd name.
Then, let me ever turn to thee,
And feel the glowing sympathy,
Say, Shall I follow thy career,
And swell with hope or think with fear,
When list'ning dubious to the gale,
That fills with joy the spreading sail,

To

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