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ART. XXIII. 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.

Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Valpy take this public opportunity of observing that they have waved the publication of their Hebrew Bible, lately advertised, for the present. Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Valpy, are induced to relinquish the undertaking, in consequence of the recent publication of a similar work by the Rev. Mr. Frey, which is intended to embrace the same advantages, two parts of which are already published, and have been noticed with approbation in the Oct. No. of our Review,

Mr. Wilson, of Magdalen college, Oxford, has a volume of Poems in the press. The principal poem is entitled the Isle of Palms; and there are many descriptive of the scenery among the English lakes,

Mr. Wm. Tucker will shortly publish, in an octavo volume, the Elements of the History of Revolutinary Europe, with a large engraved chart.

Thomas Myers, M. A. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, will shortly publish an Introduction to Historical, Physical, and Political Geography, in an octavo volume, illustrated by eighteen quarto maps.

Mr. Saint, of Norwich, is about to publish Letters on the Necessity of Reform in the Studies at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and on the Abuses in the public Military Institutions of the Country.

The Life of Prince Potemkin, fieldmarshal in the service of Russia, during the reign of Catherine II, compiled from authentic documents, is printing in an octavo volume.

Mr. Parkinson's third volume of the Organic remains of a former World, is ready for pnblication.

Mr. B. Travers' Inquiry concerning Injuries to the Canal of the Intestines, in an octavo volume, will shortly appear.

A correct and elegant edition in French of Madame de Stael's work. "De la Litterature Ancienne et Moderne," which has been: suppressed on the continent, will be published in a few days,

with Memoirs of the Author's Life prefixed. In two volumes, small octavo.

The late Mr. Smeaton's Reports, Estimates, and Treatises, on Canals, Navigable Rivers, Harbours, &c. with other Miscellaneous Papers, printed chiefly from his manuscripts, in three quarto volumes, are nearly ready for publication.

Edward Wakefield, esq. will shortly publish, in a quarto volume, the Present State of Ireland.

Shortly will be published, Northern Antiquities; or, Tracts, designed to illustrate the early History, Poetry, and Romance of the Nations of the North of Europe. In royal 4to, printed in the best Manner, by Ballantyne and Co. price 31. 3s. boards.

In the press, and speedily will be published, a new edition of Richardson's Essays on Shakespeare's Dramatic Charecters, enlarged and corrected.

Mr. T. Thomas, of Wareham, will shortly publish, the Analogies and Anomalies of the Hebrew Language considered, particularly in relation to the Languages of Greece and Rome.

Robert Southey, esq. has nearly ready for publication, Omniana, in a duodecimo volume; also a second edition, in two duodecimo volumes, of the Curse of Kehama,

The Spicure No. 1. will be published on the First day of January next and continued monthly.

The third volume of the second and enlarged edition of Aiton's Hortus Kewensis, is nearly ready for publication.

Mr. E, H. Barker, of Trinity College, Cambridge, will speedily publish, Cicero de Amicitia, et Senectute, from the text of Ernesti, with notes and remarks; and an Appendix, in which will be found some curious articles on the affinity of different languages to the Latin, including two Essays on the Origin and Extinction of the Latin tongue, communicated to the author by the Rev. R. Patrick, of Hull.

Mr. James Savage, will publish in

the first time, some unheard of, and scarcely accessible region, instead of describing a country, with the customs and manners of which most educated Englishmen are familiar. Of the other habit it is unnecessary to say any thing here, as we have more than once had occasion to mourn over it in our preceding strictures. We may, perhaps, be allowed to complain of another thing,-the very unconnected manner, we mean, in which Mr. Jacob's paragraphs succeed each other, one inevitable consequence of which is, that his readers are perpetually at fault for his track,—and sometimes find it a matter of no sinall difficulty to keep their attention from growing weary in the chace. Our author, moreover, has by no means succeeded so well as we could wish, in dovetailing his English interpolations ;-nor can we refrain from just hinting a doubt, whether he has not been seduced to publish his correspondence too ambitiously. At the same time we are very far from intending to undervalue his performance. It contains, as our readers must have already perceived from the foregoing extracts, many instructive and several amusing pasages; and, on the whole, takes a very respectable rank among the class of publications to which it belongs.

Art. IX. The Jews provoked to Jealousy, a Sermon, preached on Wednesday, June 5th, 1811, at the Church of the united Parishes of St. Antholin and John the Baptist, Watling-street. By the Rev. Charles Simeon, M.A. Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, 8vo. pp. 35. Price 1s. 6d. Black and Co. 1811.

Art. X. Apostolic Benevolence towards the Jews, recommended for Imitation, a Sermon, on Wednesday, June 5th, 1811, at the Jews Chapel Church-street, Spitalfields. By Edward Williams, D. D. 8vo. pp. 29. Price 1s. 6d. Black and Co. 1811.

THERE is no plan, for the relief of human misery, or the melioration

But if

of human character, devised by the wisdom or benevolence of good men, which has not appeared liable to considerable obstructions, and to which the indolent or the interested have not been able to give an air of impractibility. It would, indeed, be foolish and absurd not to reckon upon very serious difficulties, where the struggle is to be with the ignorance or corruption of man, with his secular interest, or exorbitant passions. the object is the conversion of the soul, and its final happiness, we should be stimulated to strenuous exertion by a little probability of success; a probability which we are to estimate by what zeal and diligence have effected in former times, and the measure of the divine influence we have reason to expect will attend our prayers and exertions, rather than by the difficulties, which the heartless and corrupt may oppose to our schemes. Certainly, where the objects of our benevolence are in the most necessitous and dangerous condition, there it should put forth the best sustained and most vigorous efforts.

To those who attempt to mend the hearts of men without regard to the divine interference, perhaps the Jews would appear the last persons on

whom it would be worth while to bestow their labour. But all things being possible with God, and it being so obvious, in Scripture, that there is mercy in reserve for that unhappy people, the Society for the Diffusion of Christianity among them, must appear to true Christians a reasonable and a charitable institution, and they must read with profit the able discourses before us in favour of it.

The first, Mr. Simeon founds on the prediction of Moses, Deut. xxxii. 21. In explaining this prediction, which is the first part of the sermon, Mr. Simeon represents the provocation which the Jews gave to God, s consisting in their frequent relapses into idolatry; but especially in their rejection of the Messiah, and the provocation that they received from God in the Babylonish captivity, and more particularly in the substitution of the Gentiles to be his church in their stead. From the fulfilment of this prediction, he says, we may learn-to adore God's mysterious providence, -to be afraid of provoking him,—and to concur with him in his kind intentions toward the Jews.

In the second, by Dr. Williams, the hearty, enlightened, active, disinterested, and persevering benevolence, which Paul discovered for the final salvation of his countrymen; notwithstanding the obstacles it met with -in the prejudices of their education-their zeal and jealousy for their own religion ignorance of the evangelical way of salvation, and aversion to it-religious pride and self-sufficiency-errors respecting the Messiah-supposed incompatibility between the religion of Moses and that of Christ-minds inured to unauthorized modes of seeking the favour of God, and enslaved by the fear of man; is proposed for our imitation. In following this example toward the Jews of the present day, it is incumbent upon us to be tolerant-sympathetic-attentive, especially to their spiritual welfare-devout-and zealous.

Both these sermons are appropriate, earnest, and evangelical. Mr. Simeon's is the more argumentative and eloquent-Dr. Williams's the more practical and benignant. We should add an extract from each of them, but we believe few of our readers will defraud themselves of the pleasure and advantage that the perusal of the whole will afford.

Art XI. Literary Recreations; or moral, historical, and religious essays; by Henry Card, A. M. Longman and Co. 1811.

THE dedication to this flimsy book is dated from Margate; and the sub

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sequent contents are just of that weak and vapid quality that a literary lounger at a watering place might be expected to compose when overtaken by the yawning fit. The author is, however, of a very different opinion. He takes it for granted that his judicious and much esteemed friends' have not been able to find more weighty causes for objection' than the original adoption of an inappropriate title. In order, too, the more effectually to accommodate the student who may be anxious to avail himself of the rich stores contained in this standard classic,-this invaluable work of reference, Mr. Card has been at the trouble of compiling a satisfactory index.

We regret our inability to coincide with this gentleman in his high estimate of his book. On the contrary, we really think him much mistaken, if he imagine that there is either difficulty or merit in throwing together a quantity of common place quotations and remarks;—and in this volume there is little more. We question, indeed, if there be a single

acquiring the Art of Swimming. By W. H. Mallison, 6d.

NAVI GATION.

Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, and the interjacent parts. By J. Hasburgh, F. R. S. Part 1. 4to. 21. 5s.

POETRY,

Poems. By Lieut. Charles Gray, of the Royal Marines, foolscap, 8vo. 6s. and post 8vo. 10s. 6d.

Poems and Letters. By the late W. J. Roberts, with some account of his Life, 8vo. 10s. 6d.

The Capital; a satirical and sentimental poem, dedicated to the Earl of Stanhope. 2s. 6d.

Carlton House Fête; or the Disappointed Bard, in a series of Elegies; to which is added, Curiosity in Rags, an Elegy. By P. Pindar, esq. 2s. 6d.

The Regent's Fête; or the Prince and his Country. By E. Fitzgerald, esq. 2s. 6d.

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

The Substance of a Speech delivered by Lord Viscount Castlereagh, in the House of Commons, on the second read. ing of Earl Stanhope's bill. 2s.

A brief Statement of the Origin and Advantages of the New Western Road. 1s.

Money, what it is, its Value, &c. in reference to Bank of England Notes, and any valuable circulating medium. By N. Cooke, esq. 1s.

The Speech of Mr. Johnstone on the third reading of the Bill, commonly called Lord Stanhope's Bill, July 19, 1811. 2s. 6d.

Substance of the Speech delivered in the House of Commons, by the Right Hon. G. Rose, May 1811, on the Report of the Bullion Committee. 3s. 6d.

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The Life and Death of the ever-blessed Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World. By Jeremy Taylor, D. D. 2 Vols. 11. 4s. a new edition.

The Connection between the Simplicity of the Gospel and the leading Principles of the Protestant cause: A Sermon preached July 10, 1811, at George's Meeting-house, Exeter, before the Society of Unitarian Christians established in the West of England, for promoting Christian Knowledge and the Practice of Virtue, by the distribution of books. By John Kentish, 8vo. 1s.

Four Sermons preached in London, May 8, 9, 10, 1811; at the Seventeenth General Meeting of the Missionary So. ciety. 3s.

A Selection of Psalms and several Hymns, for the Use of the Established Church, 2s.

An Exposition of such of the prophecies of Daniel as receive their accom plishment under the New Testament, by the late Rev. M. F. Roos, A. M. Translated from the German by E. Henderson, 8vo. 7s.

VOYAGES AND TRAVELS.

A Journal of a Tour in Iceland, in the Summer of 1809. By William Jackson Hooker, F. L. S. and Member of the Wernerian Society of Edinburgh. 10s2 6d.

NOTICE TO THE BINDER.

The Title Page and Contents of Vol. VII, Part II. and the General Index, will be found in the Number for January, 1812.

These from the deck with active leap to gain
The slippery bank, those struggling to maintain!
Even now the clamorous rout, the splashing oar,
The white sail flapping on the leeward shore,
All the rude sports that bustled o'er the isle,
Crowd in my thoughts, and force a tearful smile ;-
A tearful smile is all I can bestow

On objects once so dear, so bitter now!'

Art. XIV. The Nature and Perpetuity of the Influences of the Holy Spirit, a Sermon, delivered at a monthly Association of Congregational Ministers and Churches. By William Bengo Collyer, D.D. 8vo. pp. iv. 64. Price 28. Black, Parry, &c. 1811.

THIS sermon, founded on John xiv. 16, 17. is judicious and scriptural.

Abating the Introduction, which is excessively elaborate, and has little to do with the subject, the discourse is intitled to much commendation. The first part embraces a series of reasonings on the personality of the Spirit, which Dr. C. attempts to prove from the language of Scripture, the names and operations ascribed to the Spirit, and the religious homage addressed to him. In the second general division of the discourse, he illustrates the nature of the influences of the Holy Spirit, and refers to his extraordinary and ordinary operations; under the latter of which he specifies the formation of character, its preservation and perfection, the graces produced by them, their progress, and their permanence. In addition to this enumeration, he adverts to the character of the Spirit given by our Lord in the text as the Spirit of truth, who instructs, guides, in*uences, and comforts his people. In the last place, the Doctor considers the perpetuity of divine influence, which he asserts to be a necessary deduction from his previous principles, and confirmed by the explicit promise of the text, The discourse concludes with a striking remark on the resemblance between the sin against the Holy Ghost, and the crime of some modern professors who turn the doctrine of divine influence into ridicule.' We think, upon the whole, the Doctor's learned note might as well have been omitted.

Art. XV. An Enquiry into the supposed increase of the influence of the Crown, the present state of that influence, and the expediency of a Parliamentary Reform. By John Ranby, Esq. 8vo. pp. 72. Price 2s. 6d. Baldwin, 1811.

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N opposition to an assertion argued in the Speech of Lord Grey on the state of the nation, and in the Edinburgh Review, for April 1810, Mr. Ranby undertakes to prove that the influence of the crown has not increased. We are disposed to believe, however, that his well intentioned efforts will have no other tendency than to render the obnoxious doctrine still less controvertible; and indeed can scarcely imagine, how any sensible man should have undertaken to оссиру such weak and untenable ground, without in some measure perceiving the instability of his standing. From many passages in the Review and

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