In handling these topics the preacher has evinced much knowledge of his subject, accurate observation on life, and that peculiar warmth and unction which is the characteristic excellence of sermons. The merit of this discourse, however, is not confined to the discussion of the subject suggested by the text. The writer has with much force and ingenuity unfolded the objects, and recommended the interests, of that new academical Institution, whose formation occasioned its delivery. He has refuted the objections to such institutions in a very able manner; and set the advantages to be reaped from them in such a light, as we should hope cannot fail of producing conviction. As a specimen of his manner, we present our readers with the following extract, which we by no means select as the best, but merely as a fair sample. After enumerating some of the benefits to be reaped by studious youth's residing some years at a well conducted theological seminary, he adds, Above all, is it not an advantage of incalculable value, to have an interest in the friendship and the care of a man of God, who unites in his own character, the wisdom of the preceptor, the dignity of the governor, and the affection of the father.-A man of large and liberal mind, whose piety is of the highest and purest order, whose judgement is matured by long experience, whose manners are conciliating, whose, "own example strengthens all his laws;" who will correct their mistakes with candour, who will stimulate their zeal by his own indefatigable industry, and encourage them, in every case of difficulty, freely to open their hearts to him? Such a man will be like Samuel in the school of the prophets. May I not even say, he will resemble the Lord Jesus in the midst of his twelve disciples, who were prepared under his own eye and care, to go out and evangelize the world? His labours will be arduous, indeed, but, we trust, they will be successful. His pupils will imbibe his sentiments, his spirit, and his manners. His very looks, and tones, and gestures will be copied, often insensibly, and without design. His work will be like that of engraving on copper-plates, from a few of which thousands of valuable impressions may be taken. Or, to use a sacred metaphor, he will sow good seed in good ground, which will bring forth thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold,' pp. 31, 32. Art. XIII. Instructive Tales. By Mrs. Trimmer. Collected from the Family Magazine. 12mo. pp. 290. price 4s. bds. Hatchard, Riving ton. 1810. WE WE heartily recommend these familiar tales, as an appropriate and useful addition to the cottage library. Art. XIV. Feeling, or Sketches from Life; a Desultory Poem, with other Pieces. By a Lady. 8vo. pp. 162. price 5s. Edinburgh, Manners and Co. Longman and Co. 1810. F this lady's power of doing good were equal to her desire, we should. have had a very agreeable task to perform in reading and recommending this volume. As it is not her lot to command admiration, she must be contented with esteem. Art. XV. The Consolations of the Gospel under afflictive and bereaving Providences ; a Sermon, on occasion of the much lamented Death of Mr. William Clapham: delivered in White Chapel, Leeds, Oct. 14, 1810, and published at the Request of several of the Hearers. By William Eccles. pp. 32. Price 1s. Burditt. THIS is an affectionate tribute to the memory of an esteemed friend, which does credit both to the feelings and the talents of its author. Mr. E. has chosen for his text 1 Thess. iv. 13, 14. For I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, &c. ; from which he considers, what cause of sorrow the present event affords, and what rich consolation is to be obtained from the hope of the Gospel concerning it The latter of these divisions is made the principal subject of discussion, under which are introduced a series of remarks well adapted to reconcile and comfort the minds of the afflicted survivors. The whole is distinguished by good sense, evangelical sentiment, and a considerable degree of pathos. Several interesting particulars are mentioned relative to the life, character, and last illness of this excellent man; some of which, did our limits permit, we should be happy to present to our readers. Art. XVI. Fables in Verse, by the Rev. Henry Rowe, LL.B. Rector of Kingshall, in Suffolk. 8vo. pp. 314. price 15s. J. J. Stockdale, 1810. IF this volume were not written by a clergyman and dedicated to a peer, we should pronounce it to consist of the vilest doggrel, adorned with the vilest cuts. Art. XVII. The Excellency of the Gospel; an Ordination Sermon, preached at Union-street Chapel, North Shields, Aug. 23, 1809, published at the Request of the Church. By John Arundel, Whitby. pp. 33. Baynes. 1810. Ί HE discourse before us is plain and serious; it contains many useful thoughts not unhappily adapted to the occasion, and the whole tendency is excellent. Though the sentiment contained in the following passage, which is the very first in the discourse, is beyond dispute, we do not exactly perceive the logical connexion of the argument. is a being of infinite glory. In his own perfect nature he possesses a glory • God that cannot be described, yea which cannot be perceived by creatures. This glory, therefore, Jehovah had before any revelation was given to man ;' &c. Art. XVIII. English Grammar taught by Examples, rather than by rules of Syntax, &c. 12mo. pp. 88. price 2s. bound. Darton and Co. 1810. ANY one who is too busy or too dull to master the ordinary grammars, may try his chance with this very inadequate substitute; though we should almost recommend him, as a still wiser course, to give up altogether. the study Art. XIX. A Door opening iuto Everlasting Life; or, an Essay tending to advance Gospel Holiness, and to establish the hearts of true believers against their many doubts and fears. In five short treatises. By the Rev. Andrew Gray, late Vicar of Mottram, near Stockport, Cheshire. With a recommendation by the Rev. Mr. Olerenshaw, Minister of Mel. lor, Derbyshire. 12mo. pp. 260. Price 4s. Williams. 1810. WE do not perceive that the republication of this work was at all necessa ry though its principles and tendency are, for the most part, unexceptionable. It does not appear,' says the present editor, to have been printed more than once, which was in the year 1706, and perhaps was never much circulated beyond the bounds of the author's parish.' It is now published principally for the use of the same neighbourhood, and more especially of the adjoining large and populous chapelry of Mellor,' of which Mr. O. is, we doubt not, a worthy minister. Art. XX. The Duties of the Clerical Profession. Selected from various authors and elucidated with notes. 12mo. pp. 170. Price 3s. 6d. Rom1810, sey, Jackson; Crosby and Co. THE contents of this pamphlet are, in general, very excellent; and most of the writers quoted, are of the highest authority. Its plan, however, is not likely to procure it a circulation proportioned to its value. Art. XXI. The moral or intellectual last Will and Testament of John Stewart the Traveller, the only man of nature that ever appeared in the world. 18mo. pp. 415! 1810. ། A PIECE of incoherent raving. The discipline of a keeper might possibly do the unhappy writer some service, but he is too far gone, by a great deal, for the critics. We will oblige him, however, by transcribing his last paragraph. Having divulged and published these important truths, I am now resigned to the pig-arsenic, or Italian powder, of the French foreign police; confident that such an act of unparalleled atrocity would, like Prometheus' torch, sanctify and animate my counsels, and rouse Englishmen to the sacred contest of reason, truth, and nature, against revolutionay terror, tending to desolate, to bestialize, and to extinguish the human species; and if the Tyrant should think me beneath his notice, and not perforate my lungs, as I most sacredly believe he did the great minister Pitt's (for none but a most inveterate dram-drinker dies of perforated lungs), whom he honors with the title of enemy, alone to be dreaded (if it is true that the viper Fouche burnt records disgraceful to humanity, what must his private orders be, to justify the mest horrid suspicions of his bestial nature?)--I shall spend the remainder of my life to develope the laws of intellectual power; of which, I think, I have discovered a most consummate system.' ART. XXII. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. * Gentlemen and Publishers who have works in the press, will oblige the Conductors of the ECLECTIC REVIEW, by sending information (post paid,) of the subject, extent, and probable price of such works; which they may depend upon being communicated to the public, if consistent with its plan, Bishop Porteus' Works, complete, with his Life, by the Rev. R. Hodgson, in six octavo volumes, will appear in a few weeks. The Life will also be sold separately. By In the course of the present month will be published, elegantly printed in 4 vols. 8vo. the Gleaner; being a series of periodical essays, selected and arranged from papers not included in the last edition of the British Essayists; with an Introduction and Notes. Nathan Drake, M. D. author of Literary Hours, and of Essays on Periodical Literature. The Gleaner will contain the best Essays of the best Periodical Papers which, exclusive of those printed in the British Essayists, have been published in this country to the year 1797. They will be accompanied by Tables of Contents, Indexes, and Translations of the mottos. There will be a few large paper copies. A Life of Sir Michael Foster, knt. by the late Michael Dodson, Esq. originally written for the new edition of the Biographia Britannica, will shortly be published. Mr. Robert Kerr is engaged on a General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, arranged in systematic order, and illustrated by maps and charts. It is expected to make eighteen volumes in octavo, and to be published in thirty-six parts, the first of which will appear on the first of January next. In the course of the present month will be published in 8vo. price 12s. extra boards, a new and corrected edition of The Pilgrim's Progress; in which the language of that admirable work is somewhat improved, several of its obscurities elucidated, and many of its redundancies done away. By the Rev. Joshua Gilpin, Vicar of Wrockwardine, Salop. A few copies will be printed on royal paper, and hot-pressed, price 18s. At the same time will be published, the fourth edition of A Monument of Parental Affection to a dear and only son, by the same author. Dr. Gregory, of the Royal Military Academy, has recently printed "Geometrical Elements of Isoperimetry, and of the maxima and minima of surfaces and solids," which make part of a miscellaneous volume that will be published early next year. Mr. John Bellamy proposes to publish by subscription, in two octavo volumes, the Fall of Deism, wherein the objections of the Deists against the Old and New Testaments, during the last sixteen hundred years, are answered, by a strict adherence, to the literal sense of the Hebrew language. The Rev. G. B. Mitchell, has nearly ready for publication, Family Sermons for every Sunday in the year, selected from the works of Archbishop Secker. The Bishop of London is printing a work on the subject of Calvinism, which will comprehend his last three charges, with considerable additions and numerous quotations from the works of Calvin and of the ancient fathers. In the press, The Second Exodus, or Reflections on the Prophecies of the Last Times, in 2 vols. By the Rev. William Ettric, M. A. late Fellow of University College, Oxford. Early in December, will be pub lished, in demy 4to. with 25 vignette engravings and maps, price 21. 15s. and elegantly printed on fine royal paper, 41. 8s. The Holy Bible; containing the Old and New Testaments, according to the authorized Versions; with Notes by several learned and pious reformers, those on the New Testament being by Theodore Beza, as printed by royal authority at the time of the reformation. To which are added, by the present Editor, Dissertations on the several Portions of the Holy Scriptures, additional Notes, &c. Consistently with the terins of the prospectus, this work will be completed in 44 Numbers, at 1s. 6d. or in eleven parts at 5s. each; but, haying extended many sheets beyond the original computation, it will be afterwards necessarily advanced in price. This advance will take place on the 1st of January, 1811, when the price will be 31. demy, and 41. 16s. royal. Speedily will appear in 3 vols. 8vo. dedicated (with his Majesty's most gracious permission) to the King, The Elements of the Science of War; containing the modern established and approved principles of the theory and practice of the military science. By William Muller, Lieutenant of the King's German Engineers, &c. Mr. Wm. Richards will shortly publish a History of Lynn, civil, commercial, political, and military, in an octavo volume. Mr. Coxe's Literary Life and Select Works of Richard Stillingfleet, will shortly appear, in three octavo volumes, with portraits and other engravings. Mr. Barron Field, student of the Inner Temple, has in the press, in an octavo volume, a Series of Analytical Questions from Blackstone's Commentaries, to which the student is to frame his own answers, by reading that work. Mr. Myers, of the Royal Military Academy, will shortly complete au Introduction to Historical, Physical, and Political Geography; accompanied with maps, and adapted to the higher classes of pupils, under both public and private tuition. Mr. Joseph Murphy, of Leeds, has in the press, a History of the Human Teeth, with a Treatise on their diseases from infancy to age, adapted for general information. Mr. Smart is preparing for the press a Guide to Parsing, in which Mr. Murray's arrangement will be followed. Mr. Gregory Wood has in the press, in an octavo volume, an Account of the Isle of Man, comprising its history, antiquities, and present state. The Right Hon. George Rose has in the press an enlarged edition of a Brief Examination into the Increase of Commerce and the Revenue, brought down to the present time. Mr. Johnes' second edition of Monstrelet's Chroniele will soon appear in twelve octavo volumes, with a quarto volume of plates. The new edition of Addison's Works, with notes, &c. by the late Bishop Hurd, in six octavo volumes, is nearly ready for publication. Mr. Henry Card will speedily publish a second edition of Literary Recreations, with additions, Mr. Barlow of the Royal Military Academy, has ready for the press, an Elementary Investigation of the powers and properties of numbers, with their application to the indeterminate and diophantine analysis. Messrs. Leigh and Sotheby will submit the following libraries, &c. for public sale, during the present autumu and ensuing spring. I. The ent re and valuable library of the late Rev. William Bird, formerly second Master of the Charterhouse, Rector of Little Wigborow, and since of Little Hillingsbury, Essex. 2. The entire li.rary of the late William Platel, Esq. of Peterborough: also his entire and interesting collection of Arabic, Persian, Bengalee, and other manuscripts, forming part of the library of the late Emperor Shah Aulum. whole in fine preservation. The 3. The duplicates of a nobleman's library. 4. The entire and very valuable library of the late Hon. and Rev. Henry Je rome De Salis, D. D. Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Rector of St. Antholins, London; Vicar of Winge, Bucks; one of his Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary, F. R. S. and S. A. 5. The entire and matchless Cabinet of the Coins of England, Scotland, and Ireland, from the conquest to the present time; likewise the Anglo-Gallic Coins, all the Coronation Medals, and many of the Works of Thomas Simon, collected by Barre Charles Roberts, Esq. Student of Christ Church, lately deceased. Catalogues of this superb and extensive collection are now preparing, and due notice will be given of the days of sale, which will be early in February next, unless previously disposed of by private contract for the sum of four thousand guineas. 6. The select and very interesting library of Barre Roberts, Esq. lately deceased. 7. The entire law library and miscellaneous books of Henry Aspinwall, Esq. of New-square, Lincoln's Inn, lately deceased. |