Elements of Self-Knowledge.

Vide

Johnstone's reply to Smith,

109

Johnes' translation of Froissart's Chro-
nicles, 225.
Character of Frois-
sart as delineated by M. de St. Pa-
laye, ibid. His residence in England
between the years 1360 and 1366.
Obtains permission, while yet at-
tached to the service, of his royal pa-
troness, Philippa, queen of Edward,
to travel through various parts of
Europe, 227. In 1369, having lost his
patroness, he retired to the living
of Lestines, where the publicans ia
a short time received 500 francs of
his money, ibid. In 1384 he appears

in the new character of clerk of the
chapel to Guy, Count de Blois, at
whose instigation he continueshis un-
finished history, ibid. In 1388, he
again sets off on his travels is ac-
companied by a worthy knight named
Espaing du Lvon; his reception at
the court of Count Gaston de Foix,
223, et seq. The marriage of the
Countess of Boulogne with the Duke
of Betri, drew him to Avignon, where
a robbery was committed upon him,
which he celebrated in a poem, 230.
In 1395, after a twenty-seven years
absence, he appears once more in Eng-
land at the shrine of Thomas à Bec-
ket; his stay in England did not
exceed three or four months, but his
history is continued to the death of
Richard in 1399; the time of his
death uncertain, 231. Remarks on
some of Froissart's peculiar excellen
cies, 232. The spirit of chivalry
the most prominent feature of the
age in which he lived, 233. The

behaviour of King Edward after the
battle of Calais to his prisoners, a
striking example of courtesy towards
a vanquished enemy, in the contrast
afforded by his different address to
the traitor Charny, and the gallant

Kibeaumont, 234, et seq. Vain
gory considered as an indelible
blemish in a knight or squire, 235.
In his descriptions of batties, Frois-
sart shews the hand of a master, 236.
Extract of an affecting incident which
occurred after the battle of Auray,
237. An early instance of our na-
tional superiority in naval affairs over
our neighbours, 238. Froissart's ex-
cellence in descriptive scenery, 239.
Defects of Froissart's history; the
vast importance of the work to our
national historians, 241. Translated
by Lord Berners in the reign of
Henry VIII. merits and defects of
the present translation examined,
241 et seq.
329

Journey of life,
Juvenile Perceptor,

444

433

KNIGHT's Funeral Sermon,
Kotzebue's Travels, 83. The list of
those who are to be excluded from the
inestimable privilege of reading this
book, ibid. The instinctive passion
for variety to which Mr. K. is seri-
ously disposed to ascribe the pro-
pensity of man to visit remote coun-
tries, 85. The delights of a morn-
ing spent amidst the Apennines de-
cribed in a silly letter from Barberini;
a dreaming enthusiast and a great
lover of coffee, 86. A correct speci-
men of what the modern race ofweep-
ing travellers substitute for thought
and description, ibid. The mischievous
diligence with which the author
seizes on every occasion afforded by
the ignorance, the folly, or the super-
stition of mankind, to make religion
the object of insipid and blasphemous
drollery, 89. Contrast between the
streets of Naples and Paris, 89. Ac.
count of the professions of letter-wri-
ters and letter-readers at Naples;
criticism on the picture of Nathan
and David, 91. Kayserman the
painter and pig-seller, ibid.

Ac-

count of the chambers of the dead
in the church of the Capuchins,
ibid. The hardy courage and gener-
ous loyalty of the Tyrolese, 93, t

seq.

LAMBE on constitutional diseases, and

researches into the properties of
Water an ear

spring water, 293
subject of medical research; yet
there was no rule on which to ground
a philosophical notice of the causes
operated, till chemistry began to lay
open the wonders of nature, 294.
Scarcely noticed before the days of
Boyle, 295. Labours of Hoffmann,
Short, and Black examined, ibid.
Water proved by chemical experi
ments to be a true soivent of lead,
296. Opinions of Sir Geo. Baker, Drs.
Heberden and Percival on the sub-
ject, 297. Symptoms of disease there-
by producea, ibid. The more com-
mon and general affections which are
attributed to water contaminated by
lead, are pains of the stomach, 299.
Cases in which the symptoms were
uncommon, ibid. The occurrence
which first convinced the author that
common water is to be ranked among
the substances which have the most
direct and powerful influence on the
animal economy, 383 The hypo-
thesis adopted by Dr. Lambe, as giv-
ing an adequate explanation of the
generation of human diseases, 384.
On the scrophula, consumption,
cancer, and gout,
387
Lawrence's Bampion Lecture. Vide
Bampton.

Lectures on the Acts,

Lecture, Bampton. Vide Bampton.
Leonora by Edgworth,

431

215

445

Letters to a young lady. Vide West.
Letter on Pit's death,
Lewes, memoirs of. Vide Memoirs.
Lilienthalische Betrachtugen, 512. Four
new planets called from the names
of the discoverers, Herschell, Piazzi,
Olbers, and Harding, 513. From
the nebulæ attending two of these
planets it is evident that their atmos-
pheres must be considerably higher
and denser than that of our earth,

220

Luccock on the nature and property of
Wool,
Lucretius, translated by Good, 167.
Remarks on a few English translations
from the Latin poets, 168. On Dry-
den's Virgil, Francis's ard Bosca-
wen's Horace, Grainger's Tibullus,
Statius, Garth's Ovid, Rowe's Lu
can; Holiday's Dryden's, Creeche's,
Tate's, M.dan's, Owen's, Marsh's,
Rhodes's, Gord's Juvenal, 169.,
-Drummond's and Brewster's Per-
sius, 170. The preface of Good's
Lucretius examined, 171. The scanty
materials extant for composing,
life of Lucretius, ibid. The affecta-
4.on of reducing the real terminations

personal appellations to the verna
cular idiom of the language, to which
each individual may belong, 172.
Translation of a passage from Horace,
173. Discovery of a manuscript at
Pompeii, 174. Quotation from Lu-
cretius, 178, et seq.
Ditto. 417

et seq.
The affected closeness of
his translation, under the false idea of
terse, compression, occasionally leads
Mr. G. into arrant nonsense, 419.
Camoens not an unsuccessful imita-
tor among the moderns, 420. Quota-
tions,
428, et seq.
Luxmoore's manual of anatomy and
physiology,

99.

MACALLUM's Travels in Trinidad,

45. Governor Picton, 46. Colonel,
Fullarton, 47. The policy of raising
black corps questionable, ibid. The
over proportion of the black to the
white population in West India is-
lands, 48 The transportation of a
number of Highlanders recommended,
ibid. Objections to the plan, 49.
An account of a bituminous lake,
ibid. Horrors of West India slavery,
50. The fine for the murder of a
slave, eleven pounds four shillings,
51. Anecdote of the murder of a
negro by a militia man, ibid. Ano-
ther anecdote of the most barbarous
and wanton cruelty, 52. Mr. Macal-
lum's style examined, 54, et seq.
Machoochie's Naval Architecture,

Maton's general View of the Writinga
of Linnæus, by Pulteney, 55. Por,
trait of Pulteney, 57
Pulteney ap
prenticed to an apothecary; opeus
shop at Leicester; his occupation
not the most constant; his Calvinis,
tic brethren preferring the comforts
of prayers to those of bolusses, while
the higher bred episcopalians de-
spised altogether the stuff of a Pres-
byterian apothecary, 57. Takes his
diploma at Edinburgh; arrives in
London, 58. Is patronized by the
Earl of Bath, who died at the ex-
piration of a year, ibid. Retires to
Blandford in Dorsetshire; pub
Jishes the general View of the
Writings of Linnæus; dies by an
attack of inflammation of the lungs
in the seventy-second year of his age,
leaving an affluent fortune, 59 His
museum bequeathed to the Linneæn
Society, ibid. The birth of Linnæus
announced with minute particularity,
as having happened betweeen twelve
and one o'clock in the night dividing
the 12-22 and 13-22 of May, which
is described as a delightful season be-
tween the months of frondescence
and florescence, 62. Linnæus goes
to school; more learning whipped
into boys than was ever whipt out of
them, ibid. Linnæus narrowly es
capes being apprenticed to a shoe,
maker; goes to the University of
Lund, which he quits for Upsal; eats
when he can, and patches his shoes
with folded paper; becomes ac-
quainted with Celsius; obtains pu.
pils; goes to Lapland; on his return
to Stockholm presented by the aca
demy of science with ten pounds,
ibid. Delivers lectures to a numer
ous audience at seven shillings a
head; dislodged from this employ-
ment by Dr. Rosen, 63. Makes an
effort to obtain a rich wife; the lady
is willing, the mother is not; Lin-
naus goes to Holland, and takes his
doctor's d gree; from thence to
England and Paris; returns to Stock-
holm; his success with two patients
brings him into notice, 63 Medals
struck to immortalize his memory;
he is peusioned, enuobled, and crest-
ed a knight of the Polar Star, ibid.
Piques himself on his discovery of
the mystical powers of the number
five; congratulates himself on being
styled Princeps Botanicorum,
Martia, British,
Maxey's Trafalgar,

ib.

103

३३५

Lambe's Researches into the proper-
ties of spring waters, and treatise on
constitutional diseases,
300*
Luxmoore's Manual of anatomy and
physiology,
99
Willan on cutaneous diseases, 340
Whately's Cases of two extraordinary
polypi removed from the nose 335
on strictures of the ure-
thra,
442
Traité d'education physique des en-
fans,
Memois of Agrippina, 188. Contas
nothing to distinguish them from a
novel,
ibid. et seq.

559

of Charles Lee Lewes, con,
taining anecdotes, historical and bio-
graphical, of the English and Scottish
stages during a period of forty years,
203. The first appearance of Mrs,
Siddons at Dublin, whimsically cele-
brated in an Irish newspaper, 204.
Moses Kean's wooden leg. Dots to
i's and strokes to t's. Dundee Dip,
205

of General Thomas, by
Franklin, 255. General T. goes to
India in the year 1782, in the capa-
city of a sailor, and having deserted his
ship, wandered for some time over the
peninsula, until he was employed in
the service of the Begum Sumroo, and
afterwards in that of Appakandarow,
a Mahratta chieftain, from whom he
received as a subsidy for the forces
he commanded, some districts in the
neighbourhood of Delhi. Is compel-
led to take refuge within the British
frontiers in 1801, and soon after dies
on the road to Calcuta in 1852,
Extracts,
257 et passim

of the Literary atra Phitoso-
phical Society of Manchester, 161.
The effects of opium on the living
bodies of animals, 162. The ma-
chinery of the ancient epic poem, ib.
Alterations in the opinions now held
regarding the communication of a red
colour to the bones in the living ani,
mal bodies by the internal exhibition
of madder, ib. The use and abuse
of popular sports and exercises, 163.
An experimental inquiry into the pro-
portions of the several elastic fluids
constituting the atmosphere, 164.
Of the tendency of elastic fluids to
diffusion through each other, 165.
The absorption of elastic fluids by

Norrisian essay,

Northern Summer. Vide Carr.
NOVELS.

Postscript to Stewart's statement of
facts relative to the election of Pro-
fessor Leslie,
Prepondence Maritime et Commer-
ciale de Grande Bretagne, par M.
Menbrion, 449. The favourite as-
sumption of the author is, that the
prosperity of Great Britain is founded
on the ruin of other states, 450. The
reverse proved, 450, and 451. France
can never become a great trading
mation under Buonaparte, 452.
berty the tutelary divinity of com-
merce, 453. Conduct of Great Britain
towards neutral powers defended,

Present State of Europe,
Present War, origin of,

Li-

456

325

327

224

Protest against scenic exhibitions,
Prym's Greek Ode, 29. Construction
of the plan objectionable, ibid. Partsof
the execution less commendable than

Wood's ditto,
Young's ditto,

Smith's Remarks on the report of M.
Chaptal to the Consuls of France, 108
Southey's Madoc, 72. The introduc
tion parodied; the puff poetical, and
the puff medicinal; Thalaba used
by the author as a phylactery; meta-
physical and revolutionary poets;
poetry once depicted as a beautiful
female holding a musical instrument
in one hand, and while the other
sweeps the chords she seems listening
to the voice of inspiration, which
comes from heaven; the muse at the
close of the eighteenth century, a
subject for the humbler art of the
caricaturist, 74. The passage of Lu-
cian, from which the author's motto
is taken, vindicated; parts of Mr.

Bunting's Sermon,

324

Clout's Sermon on Nelson,

ibid.

Cooke's ditto,

432

Eyton's Sermon,

208

Hirschell's Sermon on Nelson, 433

434

434