visible. Before us we traced the windings of the St. Lawrence, and saw them studded with islands, and narrowing into more intense beauty, until they were lost amidst the recesses of accumulated hills and forests. The sun was setting serenely on a land of peace,-a land which was calling the children of misery to her bosom, and offering them the laughing joys of ease and plenty. We were in the midst of the most magnificent of nature's works,-these appearing still more magnificent from our having seen nothing but ocean and sky for many preceding weeks. We had just entered the gates of a new world, and it was impossible to view the glorious sunset which illumed its skies, without mingled emotions of awe, gratitude, and exultation. Sunset in the East Indies is as deficient in grandeur, gloriousness, and impressive magnificence, as is the country in which it takes place. The horizon is usually cloudless, and the sun, even when about to disappear, emits a glare and heat nearly as concentrated and scorching as he does at noonday. He is not encircled with orient colours and fanciful forms, nor tempered by kindly vapours, but descends in all the unadorned and unattractive simplicity that characterizes the face of nature in the eastern tropics. But where, after all, shall we find sunsets equal to British ones? where such serenely beautiful horizons-such rich and varied dyes— such mellowness of light-such objects to be irradiated by it, and evenings so happily adapted for contemplating them? The mixture of fierceness and gloom in a West India sunset call to mind the coarseness of the people there, and the implacable deadliness of the climate. The milder glories of one in the Southern Atlantic can be enjoyed at sea only where every thing else is unpleasing. The effect of a similar scene in America is injured by the want of objects of antiquity, and of the lofty associations connected with them; and, in India, the tropical glare attending the departure of day, forces us to imprison ourselves while it is taking place, and to remember that we are in exile. A British sunset alone excites no regretful ideas; its placid beauty is heightened by that of the scenery which it embellishes, while the quiet imagery of its horizon, and the softness of the succeeding twilight, are characteristic of the undisturbed peace and domestic happiness that have their dwelling-place in that land upon which the shadows of night always steal softly and unobtrusively. Vol. I. pp. 32-37. The contents of the second volume are, Life in India; Foreign Adventure; the Cantonment of Seroor; the Delinquent. Of Life in India, Mr. Howison draws a very dark and gloomy picture; and he is aware that it will convey a very unfavourable impression of the country. But we are by no means disposed to suspect that the description is overcharged. He visited Bombay, he tells us, under the impresssion that it was the seat of wealth, splendour, fashion, and extravagance, but a stroll upon its esplanade dissipated the illusion. I believe,' he says, there are few English watering-places of the third class that could not produce a better evening turn-out than this Scotch factory. Every thing had an appearance of dinginess, age, and economy, that seemed miserably out of place beneath the ardent clime and radiant skies of Asia. One week's residence in India usually serves to dispel all the delusive anticipations of a life of splendour and voluptuousness which occupy the minds of the young men and women who embark for its shores. After giving the journal of a day, the Author makes the following very sensible and useful remarks: It will appear, from this sketch of a day's existence in the East, that life there, in most instances, consists chiefly of a succession of struggles against personal inconveniences and bodily uneasiness, and that those energies which people in temperate climates employ in augmenting their sources of positive enjoyment, are expended in diminishing the causes of positive suffering. The means which in India are adopted to alleviate the heat are of comparatively little avail. They affect the imaginations of those for whose benefit they are resorted to, more than they do the thermometers that hang in their houses. The influence of the climate can be successfully resisted only by withdrawing the attention from it. When the mind is idle, the body is delicate. Constant employment renders one almost insensible to the heat, and invigorates the frame infinitely more than the combined operation of fans, punkahs, and tatties, ever can do. But this plan cannot be pursued without considerable exertion; for that overwhelming languor and indolence which seem to be interwoven with existence in the East, and which prove hostile to any sort of activity, however agreeable in itself, must first be overcome and put to flight. Repeated efforts will not fail to effect this; and when a man has once got into regular habits of employment, he will suffer comparatively little exhaustion from the heat, and will enjoy much better health and spirits than he would otherwise do. This is the only system that can render life tolerable in India; and one must adopt it in the early part of his career there, otherwise it will become impracticable. He who passively yields up soul and body to the enervating dominion of the climate, will gradually acquire a torpidity of mind, such as will render him incapable of any higher enjoyment than what arises from exemption from actual suffering." Under the head of foreign adventure,' will be found some affecting biographical sketches, and much useful advice and caution to young emigrants and fortune-hunters. The West Indies and the Southern States of America form at present the grand theatres for adventurers, to whom temperate climates are not at all favourable, the waste of human life in them not being sufficiently rapid to render a constant influx of strangers necessary. The European population of Jamaica undergoes a total change every seven years, and that of New Orleans and of Sierra Leone is renewed twice in the same period. Two-thirds of the foreigners who come to reside in Havana, die within six months after their arrival : and in some of the Dutch East India islands the mortality is still greater. It is from the deadliness of tropical climates that the ferocity of character which distinguishes European society in the West Indies and in the Southern States of America takes its origin. When men see their associates perishing around them, and know that they themselves may become death's next victims, they lose all tender feelings, and study self-preservation only. Life seems too short and uncertain to be wasted in the indulgence of human affections. Every one is aware of his danger, and scrambles to secure the means of flying from it. It is like a retreat after a battle, in which soldiers do not scruple to trample down their friends and companions in order to facilitate their own escape. So, in tropical climates, adventurers are obtuse to all circumstances unconnected with gain; and even rejoice to see their fellow creatures precipitated into the whirlpool of destruction, when they happen to impede their progress through the avenues that lead to profit, preferment, and prosperity. Revolting and unnatural as this state of feeling appears to a stranger, on his first visit to a tropical country, it ought to be contemplated with forbearance, as being excusable and unavoidable. No man ever resides under a bad climate, except for the purpose of acquiring the means of eventually living in a good one; and, therefore, the adventurer who comes to the West Indies has no object in view but gain. His avowed business is to struggle against competition, bad fortune, disease, and death; and any refinements of feeling would be fatal to his personal comfort and injurious to his interests. To avoid cheating his fellow-creatures, and to respect the common rights of humanity, is all that can reasonably be required of him; for his situation is too desperate a one to admit of his having any concern for the welfare, happiness, or safety of others; and any professions to the contrary might justly be regarded as the offspring of hypocrisy, instead of the fruits of benevolence and disinterestedness.' Vol. II. pp. 130-142. The Delinquent is a horrible tale very powerfully told; but we have no room for further extracts or remarks. Upon the whole, we have not been better pleased for a long time with two volumes of light reading, than with these travelling re· creations.' ART. X. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. In the press, the Works of James Arminius, D.D., formerly Professor of Divinity in the University of Leyden. Translated from the Latin by James Nichols, Author of "Calvinism and Arminianism Compared in their Principles and Tendency."-Volume the First. Mr. Belcher of Folkestone, has in the press, a 12mo. volume, entitled, Poetical Sketches of Biblical Subjects; comprising a Selection of Passages from the best Poets, illustrative of the Sacred Volume. It is intended as a companion to his" Narratives," lately published. In the press, a Translation into English Verse of the French Hymns of the Rev. Cæsar Malan. In the press, a new edition, in 2 vols. 12mo., of Dr. Bogue's Discourses on the Millennium. In the press, The Life of John Chamberlain, late a Missionary of distinguished eminence in India. By Mr. Yates, of Calcutta. Republished in England, and edited at the desire and under the immediate patronage of the Committee of the Baptist Missionary Society, by F. A. Cox, A.M. Hackney. Part I. of Dr. Alexander Jamieson's New Practical Dictionary of Mechanical Science, will appear in June, embellished with engravings. In a few days will be published, The New Shepherd's Calendar, a new volume of Poenis. By John Clare. Also, Aids to Reflections, in a Series of Prudential, Moral, and Spiritual Aphorisms, extracted from the Works of Archbishop Leighton: with notes and interpolated Remarks, by S. T. Coleridge, Esq. post 8vo. In the press, the Songs of Scotland, ancient and modern: with an introduc tion and notes, historical and critical, and characters of the lyric poets. By Allan Cunningham, 4 vols. In the press, Essays and Sketches of Character. By the late Richard Ayton, Esq.; with a memoir of his life, and portrait. Mr. Mitchell is preparing a Dictionary of Ancient and Modern Greek, to unite the two languages, distinguishing the words purely ancient and the modern terms. Also, a Compendium of the Modern words, to be used as a Supplement to all existing Greek Lexicons. In the press, in one vol. 8vo. A Manual of the Elements of Natural History, by Professor Blumenbach, of Berlin. Translated from the tenth German edition. Mrs. Henry Rolls, Authoress of Sacred Sketches, Moscow, &c. &c. will soon publish, Legends of the North, or the Feudal Christmas. A Poem. Mr. Woolnoth will complete his. Series of Views of our Ancient Castles in the course of the summer. No. XXIV., concluding the work, will contain a descriptive catalogue of all the castles in England and Wales. The Rev. B. Jeanes, of Charmouth, is preparing for publication, A General Pronouncing Vocabulary, or Guide to a correct Pronunciation of Proper Names, ancient and modern. 1 vol. 8vo. A new edition of the Rev. John Bird Sumper's Essay on the Records of the Creation, revised and corrected by the Author, will shortly be published. The Rev. J. T. James, Author of Travels in Russia and Poland, bas in the press, The Scepticism of 'To-Day; or the common sense of religion considered. ART. XI. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. GENERAL INDEX. VOL. XXIII. NEW SERIES. Adams on the state of the Mexican of by Boyd, and by Simmons, 31, et Alfieri, M. Sismondi's remarks on his dra- Amusements, fashionable, the bane of Apocalypse, Dr. Tilloch's dissertations et seq. Art, British galleries of, 276, et seq. army, ib.; Indian conquests of Darius, Assassinations, frequency of, at Havana, Barker, Dr., and Dr. Cheyne's, account Bentham, Jeremy, portrait of, 153. Bible, new family, and improved ver Bibliotheca Biblia, by Mr. Orme, 528, Blomfield's, Dr., letter to Charles Butler, b |