nute attention paid to verbal criticism, and the correction of texts, which has been carried to such a pitch during the last century, as often to communicate the passion to the junior students, and to absorb that sterling profit, which is the consequence of an attention to the beauties and spirit of the classic authors. Sir Francis Bacon formerly observed, that those who left useful studies for useless scholastic speculations, were like the Olympic gamesters, who abstained from necessary labors, that they might be fit for such as were not so."

Mr. Kelsall thinks, that the library and the studies of each separate college at our Universities, should be devoted to some particular science, or department of literature; and that the members of the college should consist of those who feel a predilection for that pursuit. They would, however, be at liberty to acquire a fund of general knowledge by their attendance at the appropriate lectures. He considers that agriculture, commerce, and manufactures should constitute a part of the University tuition; that minute verbal criticism and abstract algebraic analysis engross an undue share of favor; and that the political sciences are of sufficient importance to deserve a separate establishment. He observes:

"Even at Moscow I found an institution for the express purpose of cultivating the political sciences, far superior to any thing of the kind in England. Youths destined for the diplomatic line, pass, or rather passed, the chief of their time in the study of history, and the modern languages of Europe, in a building called " Le College des Affaires Etrangeres," and I may add, that the beneficial effects resulting from it were obvious. Is it then in Scythia that we must look for improvements in education? At least that country may afford one useful hint; and, in this instance, the word “ΣKYOAÏ!” may be retorted with some justice to us." p. 36.

We have now given what we conceive to be a sufficient abstract of the argumentative part of this work. The topics of remark during the journey of Gnatho, Thraso, Philo, Dromio, &c. &c. are too multifarious for analysis. Among them are a parallel between the respective merits of Alexander of Macedon and Napoleon Buonaparte on the one part; and of Hannibal and Julius Cæsar on the other; besides an interesting account of Carthage.

Whatever sentiments may be entertained of the author's mental qualities, we are bound to say, that we consider a large portion of his ingenious work as being characterized more by ostentation, than practical benefit; that the addition of the second part and the plates might have been reserved for those who could purchase them separately; and that the whole rationale of the volume might, and ought to have been compressed into

an octavo.

NO. V.

Aug. Rev.

VOL. I.

2 I

ART. V. A Sermon preached in the Parish Church of Chiswick, Middlesex, on Sunday Morning, July 30, 1815, previous to a Collection for the Relief of the Sufferers in the late glorious Victory of Waterloo. By the Rev. T. F. BOWERBANK, A. M. Vicar. Whittingham and Arliss, pp. 24.

A Sermon delivered in the Parish Church of Richmond, in Surrey, on Sunday the 30th day of July, 1815, in behalf of the families of those who fell, or were disabled, in the Battle of Waterloo. By the Rev. EDWARD PATTESON, M. A. Rivington. pp. 30.

THE war which has at length nearly reached its termination, has often presented features so new as to have puzzled the sagacity of our gravest political physiognomists. It had its rise, as we all feelingly know, with the French revolution-a convulsion of moral nature so extraordinary, that not more than three or four men in this country, at the head of whom stood Burke and Pitt, were capable of fathoming its consequences; the direction of it called for the operation of a system of policy so grand and comprehensive, that scarcely half a dozen of our countrymen, of whom also Pitt and Burke were the chiefs, could conceive the possibility of long acting upon it; and the maintenance of it required the exertions of armies and fleetsand the application of pecuniary resources-all so vast, that could Pitt and Burke have been assured that their amount would one day become what we have experienced them to be, they would probably, magnanimous and undaunted as they were, have shrunk from the contest. The contest, however, is closing, and we are eminently successful-because our resolution has never failed, and because our cause is, and always was, every way just. The final result of the mighty struggles of great nations is the special care of Providence, not certainly a matter of mere chance, as the atheists and anarchists of Tom Paine's distracted times would have had us believe and whilst we are thankful for the success vouchsafed us, we rejoice to think that it is admirably calculated to sink the tone of impious pride, and " vindicate the ways of God with man." The accoutred hosts, and the many millions of money which the war required, have been promptly and seasonably found; and yet the nation is not depopulated, its credit is not deteriorated: nay, population increases, and England is allowed to be, at this moment, by far the richest country in Christendom-the only country that has enough and to spare. Add to this, the reputation of the British government for good faith, and for vital services rendered to all the nations

of Europe, is firmly established; while the British name in arms is at once unprecedented and unparalleled. Napoleon's last speech and dying words at Plymouth, are highly honorable to our government: "Your sovereign, by acting with consistency and vigor, has defeated my designs, and ruined my power." The excellent discourses before us stand in need of no comment as to their object. All the world has heard of the achievements of the 18th of June, and no Briton, at least, can be insensible to their importance, or ungrateful to those whose matchless skill and intrepidity effected them. The contrary, indeed, has been amply proved by the very large contributions made throughout the kingdom; and we rejoice exceedingly to find, that the clergy who spoke so well, did not speak in vain -the Rev. Mr. Fiddler of High Rooden excepted. The offering of his parishioners amounted to just one pound, one shilling, and one penny! so that he may with singular propriety exclaim, We have piped unto you, but ye have not danced. We have inserted the titles of two sermons, and although both contain matter worthy of high praise, we can now make an extract only from Mr. Bowerbank's. This gentleman has the good fortune to be in charge of a parish remarkable for its loyalty. The contribution there, however, is inferior to that of some of the adjoining villages, where they do not always hold themselves bound to honor the king. But their beneficence shows that they fear God, and, for the present, that is quite sufficient. Charity covereth a multitude of sins.

"The words of my text have been selected, to introduce to your notice the propriety of a contribution to the general fund, now forming throughout the kingdom, for the relief of the families of the brave men who have fallen, and of the wounded sufferers in the late glorious victory of Waterloo. The wise man directs us to "withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of our hand to do it!" He makes, you perceive, the cause of gratitude and justice the cause of real benevo lence; and, I am persuaded, it only rests with myself to prove the one I am now advocating to be such a cause, in order largely to participate of that bounty which you have never denied to objects who stood in need of it, and which has distinguished the inhabitants of this parish on so many occasions.

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Having our thoughts thus raised to God, who is the original source and spring of all the good attendant upon our country, we shall be led by the strongest motives to be just to the merits of those by whose exertions He has been pleased to bestow it. And never were exertions put to a severer trial; for splendid as may have been the previous triumphs of the British arms, I believe I am fully justified in asserting, that on no former occasion has victory been achieved under more trying circumstances, or led to more decisive and glorious results. It pleases God to make use of human agency in accomplishing the ordinary administrations of his providence; but though we have his assurance that his eye and "his mercy

are over all his works," that not even a sparrow "falleth on the ground without" his knowledge, yet he does not think proper visibly to interfere in warding off the natural consequences to which such agency may subject his instruments. It is, therefore, by his permission, that in full proportion to the magnitude has been the expense of the late sanguinary encounter; that whilst we rejoice in the hard-earned, and, we humbly trust, humanly speaking, merited honor of our beloved country-whilst we rejoice in the prospect which this great victory has unfolded of peace and rest to the civilized world-we must at the same time deeply feel for the individual sufferings with which it has been purchased-for the sufferings of the widow and the orphan-for the sufferings of him who, maimed and mutilated in the service of his country, looks, and has a right to look, to that country for her sympathy and gratitude. For had not British valour on that day supported a most unequal conflict, in such a manner as probably none but Britons could or would have supported it, very different might have been our present situation and prospectsvery different might have been the sacrifice required of us;-not, as now, the sacrifice of gratitude and beneficence-but a more galling sacrifice, to imperious necessity, of our dearest interests and comforts. But thanks be to God, and to the unparalleled exertions, under his blessing, of those heroes who fought and bled for us, the victory was ours!-a victory incalculable as to its importance and consequences, not to ourselves alone, but to every nation under heaven. The family of every brave man, who fell on that day of triumph, ought to be considered as a sacred deposit left by him to the care and protection of a deeply obliged and grateful country. The confidence of their being so considered, we may fondly hope, in some degree tended to mitigate the agonies of expiring nature, and speak peace and comfort to the husband and parent in that hour when they must needs be wanted-the hour of painful and lingering dissolution on a field of battle; when, forsaken and helpless, the idea of home and all its former happiness, the idea of home and all its future misery, must harrow up the soul.-Oh! let not our conduct disappoint this confidence-let not the day of benevolence be less signal in its triumph than the day of bravery; but let us, who have been spared 'the heat and burden' of the conflict, who are reaping, and trust long to reap the fruits of it, remember those that did bear them; and, whilst we endeavour to recompense by our liberal contributions on the present occasion the defenders of our happiness, we may rest assured that we are sowing the seed of future devotion to our interests, should it please God that similar exertions should ever again be required of us. It may not, indeed, be in our immediate power to" cause the widow's heart to sing for joy," but we may fulfil the dying wish of him whose last prayer was for her protection when he should be no more;--we may save her from the misery of destitution;-we may add to the comforts of his fatherless children, and of " him," perhaps an aged parent, "who has" now "none to help him ;"--we may be the friends of her who, previously deprived of her parents, has in the loss of an affectionate brother, their dear and sole representative, the guardian of her innocence and her youth, been bereft of father, mother, brother, all in one; we may, by our charity, be "C eyes to the blind, and fret to the lame;"-and, as surely as we do, and are so-so surely shall the prevailing "blessing of him who is ready to perish come upon us ;"-so surely shall the more valuable blessing of him, who is our Father and our God, approve and reward the " labour of love," of gratitude and of justice.

"If ever there was a country under heaven worth preserving, it is that

country which is preserved to us. Its preservation, indeed, has not been effected without a struggle;-every circuinstance connected with which has tended to draw closer the ties of our affection and regard. It has been a struggle, during the more than twenty years of its continuance, eventful beyond all former example or conception. Astonishment has long since been exhausted in the contemplation and recollection of the various incidents, the vicissitudes of fortune, the revolutions of empires, the distress, the horrors that accompanied it. But amid all the maze, this wonderful country fixed her eye steadily on one object, and having had the courage and virtue invariably to pursue, she has finally, by God's mercy, attained it. The war, in which at first she felt herself compelled to engage, was truly a war of principle, and she has no reason to feel ashamed of the avowal. She entered into it for the defence and preservation of all she considered dear to man against principles subversive of all order and legitimate government, the bane and curse of society; she entered into it because she would not submit to sacrifice her glorious constitution, the blessing and pride of ages, to the bewildered dreams of enthusiasm, or plunge into the misery and crimes of revolution to gratify the demands of a faction. And on what an eminence has her fortitude and perseverance placed her? Witnessing in succession the fall and subjection of almost every surrounding nation, the victims of an ill-judged and temporising policy, she alone, firm as the oak, the native emblem of her isle (prepared to fall, if fall she must), disdained to bend beneath the storm that assailed her, till by her conduct and example a degraded world has been roused to vengeance;-and how complete is her victory, when at the present moment she sees him (the child of that revolution, the terror, the disgrace, the execration of humanity), who has long been her deadliest foe, a suppliant at her ports for the protection of her prince and of our laws? "Not unto us, O Lord, not unto us, but unto thy name be the praise, for thy loving mercy, and for thy truth's sake." We desire, O Lord God, to testify our sense of gratitude to thee for being so continually nigh to us, and for the outstretching of thy arm in our defence, by administering in thy name to the sufferings of those who have so lately been the honored instruments of thy goodness towards us; and we implore thee, for Jesus Christ's sake, to accept and bless the offering!"

ART. VI. Lady Jane's Pocket, A Novel, in four volumes. By the author of Silvanella, or the Gipsy. London. Newman, 1815. £1. 2s.

THE quaint title of this book did not, we must acknowledge, prejudice our minds in favor of the contents. On opening it, we were however agreeably surprised to find ourselves insensibly drawn on to the final pages, by the attraction of an interesting story, conveying laudable sentiments, and told in unexceptionable language. The heroine, without being an insipid piece of impossible perfection, displays, when placed in very difficult