poem. There is one passage in particular which, when the melancholy fate of the author is re membered, furnishes one of those remarkable coincidences which, upon some minds, make so powerful and undue an impression. "As much skill as need to pray, In thanks or hope for their dark lot have they, still Among Christ's flock a perilous infidel→→→ A wolf for the meek lambs: if you can't swim, › Beware of Providence." The Cross and the Crescent; a Metrical Romance; by the Rev. J. Beresford. 8vo. 14s. The Loves of the Colours; a Poem. 8vo. 4s. 6d. Poems and other Writings. By the late Edward Ruston, of Liverpool. vol. Svo. 6s. The Sea-Songs of Charles Dibdin, with a Memoir of his Life and Writings. By W. Kitchener, M. D. 8vo. Il. 12s. Conrad and other Poems. By R. A. Templeman, LL.D. 8vo. 5s. The Principles of Rhythm, both in Speech and Music, &c. By the Rev. R. Rae, A.B. The Brides of Florence, a Play in five acts; with Historical Notes and Poems. By Randolph Fitz-Eustace. 8vo. 10s. 6d. Theodore, or the Gamester's Progress: a Poetic Tale, The American Mariners, or the Atlantic Voyage: a Moral Poem, &c. 12mo. 8s. THEOLOGY. Liturgical Considerations; or an Apology for the Daily Service of the Church contained in the Book of Common Prayer. By the Rev. W. Shephard. 12mo. 5s. A Sermon on the Religious Observance of Good Friday. By the Rev. W. Bond. 8vo. 1s. A Narrative of the Conversion and Death of Count Struenzee. By Dr. Munter. 8vo. 8s. The Difficulties of Infidelity. By the Rev. G. S. Faber, B.D. 1 vol. 8vo. 7s. VOYAGES, TRAVELS, &c. The Wonders of Elora, or the Narrative of a Journey to the Temples and Dwellings excavated out of a Mountain of Granite, and extending upwards of a mile and a quarter, at Elora, in the East Indies, by the route of Poona, AumedNuggur, and Toka, returning by Dowlutabad and Aurungabad; with some general observations on the people and country. By John B. Seeley, Captain in the Bombay Native Infantry, &c. 8vo. 16s. Although we have so many descriptions of India, we did not, before the appearance of the present volume, possess any detailed and accessi ble accounts of the singular antiquities of Elora." These stupendous temples, the origin of which is unknown, are hewn out of the solid rock; and, whether we regard the magnificence of their die mensions, the labour which must have been required in the construction of them, or their remote antiquity, may be fairly said to vie with the Egyptian pyramids. The following passage will give some idea of these wonderful structures. "Conceive the burst of surprise at suddenly coming upon a stupendous temple, within a large open court, hewn out of the solid rock, with all its parts perfect and beautiful, standing proudly alone upon its native bed, and detached from the neighbouring mountain by a spacious area all round, nearly 250 feet deep, and 150 feet broad: this unrivalled fane, rearing its rocky head to a height of nearly 100 feet-its length about 145 feet, by 62 broad-having well-formed doorways, windows, staircases to its upper floor, containing fine large rooms of a smooth and polished surface, regularly divided by rows of pillars: the whole bulk of this immense block of isolated excavation being upwards of 500 feet in circumference; and, extraordinary as it may appear, having beyond its areas three handsome figure galleries, or virandas, supported by regular pillars, with compartments hewn out of the boundary scarp, containing 42 curious gigantic figures of the Hindoo mythology -the whole three galleries in continuity, en, closing the areas, and occupying the almost incredible space of nearly 420 feet of excavated rock; being, upon the average, about thirteen feet two inches broad all round, and in height fourteen feet and a half; while, positively, above these again are excavated fine large rooms, Within the court, and opposite these galleries, or viran-. das, stands Keylas the Proud, wonderfully towering in hoary majesty—a mighty fabric of rock, surpassed by no relic of antiquity in the known world." Captain Seeley's work contains, in addition to his copious descriptions of the Temples of Elora, a narrative of his journey thither, and of his resi dence at Aurungabad, and Aumed-Nuggur, as well as much information upon Indian affairs in general. In his observations upon Oriental politics, he is not, however, very successful. He argues at considerable length against the propriety of recognizing a free press in India; and informs us, that Mr. Adam, the late governorgeneral, and his coadjutors, deserve the warmest praise for the restrictive measures adopted by them! It has always appeared to us to be a very bitter satire upon our government in India to assert that any real danger is to be apprehended to it from the existence of a free press. If the system be a good one, it will necessarily derive support and stability from free discussion; if it be a bad one, the sooner it arrives at its termination, the greater will be the benefit both to England and India. Would a free press, asks Capt. s. render the immense population of India a jot happier, more enlightened, or more virtuous? He thinks not, but he does not favour us with the grounds of his opinion. He tells us, indeed, that "India is incapable of appreciating freedom, or the blessings of Christianity; and that our present system of government in India, contrasted with that of the native powers, is a real blessing." The latter position may be granted; but does it prove that the diffusion of knowledge and intelligence, which must inevitably follow the introduction of a free press, would have the effect of restoring the barbarism and tyranny which formerly disgraced the Native governments. Capt. S. refers to the American Revolution, but be forgets the true lesson which that revolution has taught. We hope that the time is not far distant, when the real nature of our colonial policy will be better understood. Journal of a Residence in Ashantee. By Joseph Dupuis, Esq. late his Britannic Majesty's Envoy and Consul for that Kingdom. Comprising Notes and Researches relative to the Gold Coast, and FOREIGN PUBLICATIONS. Mémoires Politiques du General Doppet. 1 vol. 8vo. (Political Memoirs of General Doppet.) Doppet, a native of Savoy, was a physician of some eminence, but during the warlike fever of the Revolution he exchanged the lancet for the lance, and became a general about the time when Toulon was taken by the English. Napoleon has consecrated his name by a few lines. His memoirs, without being very interesting, are yet deserving of notice, as furnishing some additional traits of the physiognomy of that period. 8 Mémoires Historiques de la Reaction Royaliste dans le Midi, et sur les Assassinats commis pour le Cause du Roi en 1793, par le Citoyen Freron, Representant du Peuple. (Historical Memoirs of the Royalist Reaction in the South, and of the Assassinations committed for supporting the Cause of the King in 1793.) This representative of the people was the son of Freron, the journalist, upon whom Voltaire poured out such unceasing and bitter sarcasm. These memoirs afford some curious information upon the organized system of massacre and assassination which existed in the South of France. De la Monarchie Fraçaise au 1 Janvier, 1824, Par M. le Comte de Montlosier. vol. 8vo. (On the French Monarchy to the first of January, 1824. By M. le Comte de Montlosier.) This is decidedly the best royalist pamphlet that has appeared at Paris for a considerable time. The author is a man of talent and penetration; and, for a foreigner who may be curious as to the internal politics of France, his book is one of the best to consult: He clearly sees where the difficulty lies, "Les gens du tiers etat qui ont plus d'esprit et d'argent que les nobles." The Jesuits may take upon themselves to model the rising generation in France; but what is to be done with the men who have been educated in the central schools during the Republic from 1792 to 1800, and those who have been brought up in the semi-liberal Lyceums of Napoleon, from 1800 to 1814? M. de Montlosier displays no little acuteness in the treatment of these knotty points; added to which he is almost as amusing as the vivacious Abbé de Pradt. Douze cent trente trois verités sur les Theatres de Paris. 1 vol. 8vo. (Twelve Hundred and Thirty-three Truisms on the Theatres of Paris, &c..) This book will prove an acceptable acquisition to a foreigner who wishes, in frequenting the theatres of Paris, to have a peep behind the curtain. The work is modelled upon the celebrated "Petit Almanach des Grands Hommes" by Rivarol, which had so much success before the Revolution. A portrait of each actor and actress is given in a few lines, with characteristic anecdotes and some idea of the matériel of the theatres. These brief, but often satisfactory notices, amount to 1233 paragraphs; many of which prove the authors to have been no strangers to the greenroom. From some of them it appears that the share in the receipts of the theatre, which come to a successful author of "Vaudevilles,” amounts to 1700 francs a-month in Paris alone. On the first night of the representation of a new piece, two hundred "chevaliers du Ilustre,” or hired applauders, are sent into the pit to support the piece, and shout down, and, if necessary, beat down any opposition. M. Berthon, a composer of very mediocre talents, has gained for several years back 27,000 francs a-year by his operas. Madile. Mars gave presents to the amount of 6000 francs to the celebrated Geoffroy," who was the lion of journalists from 1800 to 181). This was money well laid out, for Geoffroy really opened the eyes of the public to the merits of this inimitable actress, who has gained no less than 600,000 francs, a most enormous sum for France. With the aid of this book, a stranger will find his enjoyment of the Parisian theatres doubled. 1 will enable him to understand the allusions; jests, and apostrophes of the Parterre, - which sometimes offer the most comic part of the enter tainment. Vingt quatre heures d'une Femme sensible; par Madame la Princesse de S1 vol. 8vo. (Twenty-four Hours of a Woman of Feeling; by Madame the Princess of S.) Madame Constance Pipelet, the wife of a surgeon, was celebrated some twenty years ago as a poetess-possessed of considerable wit, an ele vated soul, and some talent for writing; she became an object of great attraction under the Consulate, from 1800 to 1804; and finished by marrying the Prince de Salm, a German. Stimulated by the success of "Ourika," a sentimental tale, by the Duchess de Duras, the Princess de Salm has drawn from her portfolio and published a little romance with the above attractive title. It was written, it appears, several years ago. It is an account of the mental struggle and anguish, the alternate hope and despair of a very ardentminded woman; who, from the delay of a letter and some ambiguous appearances, is led to sup. pose that the man whom she most passionately loved, and with whom she was on the point of forming an union, had sacrificed her to another. This agony of a day is traced with a pen of fire, the interest flags not for a moment, and the reader is kept in a delicious fever of sentimental excitation for two hours, about the time necessary to read the romance. The success of this interesting brochure has been prodigious. It it in the bands of every femme sensible, from the princess to the porteress, in Paris. It has altogether extinguished "Ourika." Eveline, Roman, 1 vol. 12mo. Invitation à des Personnes pieuses pour former des Societés Bibliques des Femmes. (Eveline, a Romance. An invitation to the Pious to form Biblical Female Societies.) These two publications are by the Duchess de Broglie. This lady is remarkable for two things; first, for being the daughter of the celebrated Madame de Stael; and, secondly, for having said one day in her own drawing-room to a young poet-" Monsieur, quand on a le malheur de n'avoir pas de naissance, il est fort bien d'acquerir du talent." This maxim appeared a particularly strange one, as coming from the daughter of Mad. de Stael. However this may be, a well-understood self-love should have deterred the daughter of the writer of "Corinne" and "Delphine" from ever entering the lists of literary enterprise; but the example of the Duchess de Duras, whose name, as the author of " Ourika," has been posting on the four winds of Heaven, about Paris at least, for the last two months, was too irresistible. Indeed, such has been the ferment caused by the success of this fair Duchess's black chef-d'œuvre, in the noble brains of the high and titled dames in Paris, that they are threatened with scores of romances by fair and aristocratic hands. Ladvocat, the fashionable bookseller, promises six of this privileged caste for the month of December next. The outline of the Duchess de Broglie's little romance is as follows. Eveline, the heroine, is the only child of a rich and noble Irish family, which has sought a refuge in France. She is rich and beautiful; and her parents wish to marry her to a French nobleman. Eveline has, however, traced out for herself a humbler road to happi- Tableau Slave du Ve Siecle. Par Madame la Princesse Woulkousky. (A Sclavonic Picture of the Fifteenth Century. By the Princess Woulkousky.) This is another effort of vanity in the shape of a romance, superinduced by the success of "Ourika." What a waste of paper, pens, ink, time, and fine eyes, has not the Duchess de Duras to answer for! The prudery of the Parisian ladies has been not a little shocked by the strange costume of the heroine of this romance. Indeed it is not a little embarrassing to describe the dress, or rather the want of dress, of the fair Sclavonian. Though Madame Woulkousky piques herself upon the historical accuracy of her pic. ture, yet we cannot but help thinking it rather strange that the Sclavonian ladies, who were not residing exactly near the equator, should even in the fifth century have been totally independent of milliners, and gone about their ordinary occupations in the simple costume which Eve wore before she had the fatal tete a tete with the ser pent. The Romance, though altogether extra. vagant, has been read with curiosity. Parisians say they have found in it the confirmation of a remark once made by Napoleon, who said, "Ouvrez le jabot bien plissé d'un Russe, et vous trouvez le poil de l'ours." (Open the well-plaited frill of a Russian's shirt, and you will find underneath the shaggy skin of a bear.) This production of the Princess Woulkousky has attracted notice on the same principle as the works of Count Orloff have done. The thing is neither rich nor rare, but only extraordinary as being the production of a Russian, The Princess has fortified her test with numerous citations? She endeavours ato from Karamsin's History. prove, by sixty-two notes, that the cannibalic manners of her characters really flourished in the fifth century. The LITERARY REPORT. We have much pleasure in hearing that the Literary World is likely to be in a great measure compensated for the loss of Lord Byron's Memoirs, by the production of some Private Correspondence, which we are informed will appear early in July, with Notes and Observations, by one of his earliest and most confidential friends. Mr. DUPUIS' Account of the Ashantecs, will appear in a few days. The Rev. T. ARNOLD, M.A. late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, has been for many years employed in writing a History of Rome, from the earliest Times to the Death of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. The first volume, from the rise of the Roman State to the formation of the Second Triumvirate, A. U. C. 710, B. C. 44, will soon be published. An Account of the Royal Hospital and Collegiate Church of St. Katharine, near the Tower of London, by J. B. NICHOLS, F.S.A. F.L.S. will shortly appear. The Second Part of the Modern History of Wilts, containing the Hundred of Heytesbury, by Sir R. C. HOARE, Bart. is about to be published. A Life of Rafaelle D'Urbino is preparing for the press, drawn from the most authentic sources, together with an enumeration of his most celebrated Works in different Collections, and Remarks upon his powers as an Artist. In one vol. 8vo. Typographia, or the Printer's Instructor, by J. JOHNSON, Printer, is preparing for publication, in 2 vols. 18mo. Illustrated with numerous Engravings on Wood. Dedicated by permission to the Roxburghe Club. Mr. J. P. WOOD has nearly ready for publication, in one vol. 12mo. A Life of Law of Lauriston, projector of the Mississippi scheme: containing a detailed Account of the Nature, Rise, and Progress, of this extraordinary Joint Stock Company, with many curious Anecdotes of the Rage for Speculating in its Funds, and the disastrous Consequences of its Failure. Mr. LAMBERT, Vice-President of the Linnæan Society, has been a long time engaged on the Second Volume of his splendid Work,-a Description of the Genus Pinus, which is expected to appear in the course of the month. Mr. SWAINSON has in the press a small work on the Zoology of Mexico, containing descriptions of the animals collected there by Mr. Bullock, and intended as an Appendix to the Travels of the latter in that country. A series of lithographic prints of Scenery in Egypt and Nubia, from drawings by Bossi, a Roman artist, are about to appear in Numbers, executed by Messis. HARDING and WESTALL. Mr. BASIL MONTAGUE, we hear, intends to publish a complete and correct edition of Lord Bacon's Works. The Rev. Dr. EVANS, of Islington, has on the eve of publication, a small volume entitled Richmond and its Vicinity, with a Glance at Twickenham, StrawberryHill, and Hampton Court. The Remains of Robert Bloomfield, consisting of unedited pieces in Prose and Verse, will be published in a few days, for the exclusive benefit of his family. A Tale is in progress from the pen of Mr. REGINALD MORRICE, to be entitled "Owen Glendower." It is founded partly on the popular traditions of Wales, and partly on authentic history, The Author avows it to be his wish, in this announcement, to interest the attention of the great Northern Genius to the rich stores of Welsh romantic History; in which case he would be content to withdraw his own unpretending composition. In the Press-Bibliotheca Biblica, a Select list of Books on Sacred Literature; with notices Biographical, Critical, and Bibliographical, intended as a Guide to the consultation of the most useful Writers on Biblical Subjects. In one vol. 8vo. By WILLIAM ORME, Author of the Life of John Owen, D.D. Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, adapted for Families and Young Persons, by the Omission of objectionable Passages. By THOMAS BOWDLER, Esq. F.R.S., &c. Editor of the Family Shakspeare, &c. &c. The Czar; an Historical Tragedy. By JOSEPH CRADOCK, Esq. M.A. F.S.A. An Enquiry into the Duties and Perplexities of Medical Men, as Witnesses in Courts of Justice; with Cautions and Directions for their guidance. By J. G. Smith, M.D. Memoirs of the Rose; comprising Botanical, Poetical, and Miscellaneous Recollections of that celebrated Flower, in a series of Letters to a Lady. In one vol. 18mo. Patmos and other Poems. By JAMES EDMESTON, Author of Sacred Lyrics, in one volume. Published for the benefit of benevolent Institutions connected with the Churches and Congregations of the Rev. H. F. Burder, and of the Rev. H A. Cox, of Hackney. QUR sensations of solar heat have afforded us so little evidence of the fact, that we can scarcely induce ourselves to believe that the sun had already passed the æstival or summer point of the ecliptic, before we had occasion to part with our winter doublet; yet so it was, although, in despite of cold uncheery nights and gloomy days, the face of nature never assumed a more promising appearance. The season of hay-harvest has arrived, and, generally speaking, the crop is most abundant, in a few instances, the blacknonsuch variety is somewhat deficient in bulk, but the defect is amply compensated by the heaviest and best crop of clover-hay we have almost ever beheld: nor is this an exception to the crops in general. Wheats are surprisingly luxuriant, nay even upon light and inferior soils the appearance of the plant would almost warrant the conclusion that the result cannot be otherwise than satisfactory-thus much is at least certain, that more is to be apprehended from their getting too stout and unable to support themselves till the grain is fathomed, upon the deep loams and land in high cultivation, than that the grain upon the thin and less superior soils should prove deficient. Peas, beans, tares, and all the succulent and leguminous tribe are no less promising; and even the barleys, which but a short time since exhibited such a doleful appearance, have recovered beyond measure, and for the most part afford reasonable grounds for believing that there will be no material deficiency in their general produce. Nevertheless our sanguine anticipations may yet, be overturned-the harvest will undoubtedly be late in the season, and numerous casualties may yet intervene to subvert the most rational conjectures. The summer-tilths have been well prepared for the reception of turnip and other seeds, and a breadth of land almost equal to double the extent of former years is planted with mangel wurzel— such is the growing estimation which this plant has acquired as a spring food for cattle. Lean stock has commanded high prices at all the spring fairs, and horses, both of the nag and cart kind, have been eagerly sought for at a material advance in value. Wool too is looking upwards, but all other descriptions of farming produce are nearly stationary. |