OR Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Politics, &c. NO. XLVII. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. MEMOIRS relating to EUROPEAN and ASIATIC TURKEY; Edited from Manuscript Journals, by ROBERT WALPOLE, M. A. Quarto, pp. 607. SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1817. PRICE 1s. this work, his profound erudition, his ing the information which he seeks. To "The observations of those whose papers communicated either in the form of journals are now published for the first time, are and letters, or detached Essays. There are advantages attending each of these separate modes; in the former, the remarks of the traveller are given as they presented themselves to his mind on the spot, without any unnecessary amplification or expansion; and subsequent reading and enquiry is able to in adopting the latter method, the writer by bestow more attention on the subject, than is consistent with the form of a mere narrative or journal." One of the advantages of the Literary Gazette is the facility it possesses of anticipating all other publications devoted to literature, in the notice of new and im-visit various provinces of the Turkish empire portant publications. Within a few days is of a very different nature from that which of the appearance of such works, com- is collected in travelling through parts of mon diligence and attention enable it to civilized Europe. In the former case, we disseminate throughout the kingdom, a whose habits, institutions, religion, policy, not only become acquainted with a people knowledge of their nature, style, and con- and usages, are entirely opposite to those tents. It is obvious, indeed, that the which we find in Christian Europe; but Essays immediately produced on these from researches connected with the geograoccasions, must have many of the im- phy and natural history of these countries, The editor proceeds, in this preface, perfections of haste and want of digestion we are able to explain many passages of the to acknowledge his obligations to the upon their heads; but we look confi- sacred writers, as well as of other ancient individuals to whom he is indebted for authors; the customs also and modes of life dently to public indulgence for blemishes which still prevail in Syria and Egypt afford the original and valuable communications unavoidable under the circumstances of occasionally excellent illustrations of the Holy which appear in his volume. These are the case, and humbly confessing our sins Scriptures; and coins, vases, inscriptions, chiefly, "An Account of a Journey through in the first instance, endeavour to make throw light on the state of the arts among the district of Maina, in the Morea," by amends by more careful and deliberate the Greeks, on different parts of their history, Mr. Moritt, and remarks on the Troad, inquiry, when the subjects are of merit enough to induce us to return to them in language. after periods. Such is the present;-a work more full of various and interesting information has not been offered to the perusal of the scholar, and man of letters in our remembrance. It is not easy to express the pleasure we have already received from it. The constant association with our earliest and and on the palæography and dialects of their by the same. The MSS. of the late attention to the various subjects which matter respecting both these subjects, But no person is qualified to pay equal Dr. Sibthorp supply much important present themselves to his notice, in a journey Parnassus and the neighbouring district, through European and Asiatic Turkey; and the natural history of Greece and Cyany antiquities with the geography, natural prus, medicinal and economical uses of history, statistics, and antiquities of these the plants of Greece, Attica, &c. &c.; countries is often obtained with great diffi- Journey from Parium to the Troad, asculty, even by those who are best prepared cent of Ida, ruins of Assos, Mount Athos, to direct their attention to such pursuits. Monastic Institutions on the Holy Moun"A selection, therefore, from the journals purest ideas; the re-opening of chambers of different travellers, may be the means of tain, Monastic Libraries, &c. by Dr. in the mind which have long been shut, bringing together in a single volume a Hunt; Letters from the late Professor but yet contain some of the treasures of greater variety of information than we can Carlyle, during his residence in Turkey; antiquity, as if hidden there till a spell expect to find in the work of any individual. Plants collected in Cyprus, and Rebrought them again to light and use; the (6 Although, the publications of our Coun-marks on the modern inhabitants of revival of all we have read and imagined trymen, as well as of others who have re- Egypt, by Dr. Hume; Journal of a of illustrious Greece, the cradle of the cently visited the Levant, have added many Voyage up the Nile to Nubia, by Capt. divine Arts and of diviner liberty; the valuable materials to those which we before Light; on the Olives and Vines and possessed, relating to different parts of the contrast with her modern condition and Turkish empire, yet the field of enquiry is Corn of Zante, by Mr. Hawkins, who modern times; the contemplation of her so wide, that much remains still to engage also treats of the Topography of Athens, architectural glories crumbling into dust, the notice and attention of future travellers. of the Vale of Tempe, of the Syrinx of of her matchless statues mutilated and Our knowledge of these countries is neces- Strabo, and other topics of equal intedefaced, of her heroic fields darkly to be sarily acquired by slow degrees; various cir- rest; Journal through Boeotia and Phocis, explored in unknown lands, of her cities cumstances occasionally interrupt the re- ascent to the Corycian cave, Rhamnus; traced in ruined heaps, of her multitudes searches of those who explore them; some Ruins of Temple of Nemesis, &c. by lost in desolateness, of her free spirit sunkable and efficient system of government are provinces in consequence of the want of an Mr. Raikes; Remarks on the Military in slavery, and of her moral grandeur exposed to the incursions of robbers and Architecture of the Greeks, by the late declined into barbarism, is almost too wandering tribes; through these the tra- Col. Squire,-the plain of Marathon, overwhelming to our faculties, and we veller is obliged to pass in haste; at other the continent of Greece, and the Isthmus rather quail under a stupefying admiration times, sickness, arising from the heat of the of Corinth are also illustrated by the same of the whole, than feel competent to climate or the season of the year, impedes examine and appreciate the several his progress. The want of ready communi- Pen; the antiquities of Egypt, the pyrapartscation with the inhabitants, together with the mids and their inscriptions, are ably ignorance and jealousy so frequently dis-treated by the late Mr. Davison; the Of Mr. Walpole's ability to execute played by them, are obstacles to his acquir-Earl of Aberdeen, enriches the volume guish himself, took part either with the German Orpheus or the Italian Amphion, and appeared in public under the auspices of one or the other of those great men. into the airs of this Opera. They seem in-or men mad enough to turn them os the second act: "Mon Père de votre famille, She was twice encored with the most enthu siastic admiration. Salieri arrived from Vienna with the Opera of The Danaides; he was received by Gluck with all that cordiality which is to be found among artists as well as men of literary genius. The secret of this composition was well kept. The composer of Iphigenia undertook to bring out Salieri's work under his own name, and to support it by the power of his partizans, and the glory of his reputation. The Queen, Marie-Antoinette, who protected the arts with so much grace and cultivated them so successfully, signified her wish to hear the music of The Danaides, and several week would be insufficient to describe it pieces from the score were accordingly per- bids fair to delight the Parisians, and to renminutely. It is a picture of horror which formed in her apartments. It is no inconsiderable praise to say, that that Princess, der the Opera a favourite throughout the whose musical knowledge excited the astonishment of professors, conceived the Opera to be worthy the genius of Gluck. The subject of The Danaides is too well known to render any analysis requisite. The crime and punishment of the fifty daughters of the King of Argus have already furnished Naverre with the subject of a Ballet, and the heroic devotedness of Hypermnestra consti tuted the first triumph of Lemierre. This Opera presents a remarkable variety of situ ations and sudden transitions from scenes of horror to pictures of the most extravagant joy. There is a continual opposition of festivals and atrocious conspiracies, of poignards aud garlands of flowers:-The Danaides may he a monstrosity, but it certainly is not tedious Opera. a winter. But in a gentler sense of the word, there is news enough; and Europe is st occupation, agitated with the discovery this moment full of the most interesting of vigorous remedies for its past tumults, The scenery and decorations of this Opera and expanding with noble hopes for the are inconceivably splendid. The scene of happiness of posterity. We shall give a the infernal regions is beyond all praise; we seem to recognise in it the imagination of rapid glance at its kingdoms in succes Dante and Milton, accommodated to the fa- sion. bles of Paganism. We may say with Pre- In England, the last judgment bas ville, that he who conceived such a picture been done upon the spirit of insurrec must have been possessed with the very devil. tion. Meetings have been held for the establishment of fever hospitals. The reports of the Saving Banks have been most propitious, and these admirable institutions promise to introduce the ele ments of economy and industry among the most corrupted and hopeless classes of the people. Vaccination has made There seems to be a fatality attending additional progress. The Society for Italian musicians who compose operas in abolishing the cleansing of chimneys by Paris; like French poets who write verses boys, has nearly completed its object. when abroad, they lose all the inspiration Meetings of the district Bible Associations and taste by which they can be animated have been held. Such are some of the only in the country which gave them birth. labours of the English mind during a sinSignor Pucitta, who is said to have obtained gle week, and they have the distinction the most flattering success at the theatres of of English benevolence. There has been Italy, has produced in Paris mere cold and insipid compositions. The new opera will nothing similar to them on earth. add nothing to the reputation of its composer; and it is merely for the sake of mentioning something, that we say the brasecond, are the best pieces in the opera. vura in the first act, and the terzetto in the THEATRE ROYAL ITALIEN. Campagna, an opera-buffa in two acts. turbed and unmarked. The rumour of Our public relations have been undissome diminution of the allied force in France has been renewed. A proclamaembarking in the service either of Spain tion has prohibited Englishmen from or its Colonies during their contest. Stocks were so high as 83. The meeting of Parliament was fixed for January 27th. been virtually abolished; the newspapers In France, the liberty of the press has having been given up to the superintendence of the Minister of Police for proposed for recruiting the army! M. three years. A conscription has been De Caze still engrosses the power of the The music of this Opera was the subject of serious disputes: and, as is frequently the case in party affairs, some regarded as barbarous volved on Madame Catalani. It becomes The honors of the Evening as usual deand void of expression, what others declared every day more and more difficult to praise to be worthy of the greatest masters. La this lady. She so frequently affords us an Harpe in his correspondence, mentions it opportunity of complimenting her, that the with a degree of contempt which is rendered set phrases of eulogium become tiresome by very ridiculous by the invariable success it repetition. We cannot find terms to express has since obtained. The contest was so the grace with which she sang an air with violent, that even the name of Gluck did not variations by Rode. The exquisite perforprevail until after the thirteenth representa-mance of that celebrated artist on the violin tion: the score of Salieri was than estimated can alone enable those who did not hear as it deserved, and his friend transferred to Madame Catalani, to form a notion of the him the glory to which he was justly en- brilliancy and correctness of her execution. titled. A certain air of peculiarity pervades This air excited general enthusiasm, and is the music of this Opera, it abounds in forci- we think likely to establish the success of ministry. ble expression particularly in the recitatives, the new Opera. Some persons were indisand the concerted pieces are learned and creet enough to encore it, and Madame Cata-times, poverty and tranquillity. The rich in effect. The choruses are extremely lani was so extremely complaisant as to In Spain there seems to be, as in old various; they by turns present specimens of comply with their wish; at the conclusion people have got back their Inquisition, the terrible and the graceful in composition. she was rewarded by a round of applause We cannot pronounce any opinion con- which lasted nearly ten minutes. cerning the merit of the airs which were allotted to the dancing in the original score. Salieri himself appointed MM. Paer and Spontini to compose new ones. These two composers have judiciously preserved the peculiar characteristics of Salieri's music. DIGEST OF POLITICS AND We have come at last to the fortunate The Bacchanalian dance at the termination time when there is no news. of the fourth act is one of the most fanciful of battles has, happily for the world, The day pieces in its kind that we recollect to have passed away; and, but for an heard. casional ambuscade at the foot of the oc and the Government the only thing for which they thought it worth while to negociate, the Slave Trade for five years. For this brutal and wicked desire, they will be visited as sure as there is a God in Heaven; and it may be well for Spain and Portugal too, the only nations that beings, if their punishment is not deeper have persevered in the traffic of human than the loss of their colonial possessions. A fleet from Algiers, with the plague Madame Branchu performed the part of to consider of the arrangement, the di-[non centurias tantum, sed myriades College, Oxford; to say nothing of some gestion, and circumstance of the work,- etiam vocabulorum. Yet is Stephens's, considerable contributions from numerto consult the opinions of learned men, incomplete as it is, and incomplete as all ous distinguished scholars of our own -to issue out notices of the progress Lexicons must be, the most perfect Lex-nation. that was making,—and, above all, to can-icon of the Greek language that exists. We had almost omitted to remark, vass for the subscription, which they had It was well denominated by its author a that it is uniformly the practice of the to do throughout every part of the em- "Thesaurus Linguæ Græcæ;" its in- Editors to prefix an asterisk to such pire, and which was not effected under tent being evidently to form an entire words as are omitted in the old edition three years, and even then at an enorm-store-house of Grecian literature, so that, of Stephens; and this not merely in the ous expense. They who unthinkingly in point of fact, the accounts that are instances under discussion, but in the accuse the Editors of dilatoriness and there given of the different Greek words adduced quotations as well. The advanprocrastination, are requested to call to may be considered in the light of as tage of this is obvious to every observer. mind that Stephens, who had embarked many distinct essays. Hence is seen at In the Index to the Two First Numbers all he had on the undertaking, was ru- a glance its decided superiority over a alone, TWO THOUSAND words are thus ined by the self-same work, which they Lexicon commonly so called. Great, marked: and by casting the eye over the are now reprinting; and that, on this however, as is its merit (and prodigious Index to the Third Number, it appears plea alone (granting that it had been pos-it is for one man, and at that early pe- to contain nearly as many new words. sible for the preparations to have been riod of literature too), it is nevertheless, With respect to the copy of Constanmade at a moment's warning), it would in the nature of such an undertaking, tine's Lexicon, mentioned in p. 7. of Mahave been imprudent,-nay, even mad- liable to censure on the score of its occa-terials for the improvement of Stephens' ness itself,-to have sent to press so much sional incorrectness. But its chief fault Greek Thesaurus, we have some obscure as a single sheet, until the Editors should (we repeat) is its defectiveness,-its omis-recollection of having once learned that be ocularly convinced that the subscrip- sion of numberless words; some thou- it is deposited in the Bodleian Library at tion would warrant the undertaking,sands of which have been collected and Oxford. If this hint shall be the means should feel safe and sure that the work noted down by scholars subsequent to of its being discovered, we shall feel ourcould not miscarry. The unexpected the days of STEPHENS. These errors selves amply rewarded for being at the opening of the continent too was another and omissions it will be the business of pains to give it.' very advisable source of delay; as they the Editors to rectify; and from the spe- A curious fact has lately come to our then felt themselves in possession of the cimen of materials that they have pub knowledge, which we have from undeniameans of consulting foreign scholars as lished, we have no doubt that they will ble authority; that, during the residence well as our own. From these they have, acquit themselves creditably. To enter of Buonaparte at Elba, a Paris bookseller as was likely to be, derived a multitude into the minutia of these omissions, procured a list of about thirty subof resources. To have omitted this new-would be quite out of the sphere of a scribers to the new edition. On the reblown opportunity, would have been publication like THE LITERARY GA- turn, however, of the Ex-Emperor, the to have forfeited their characters as men ZETTE. We shall therefore content our- whole of these, with the exception of of judgment. In the eyes of the rational selves with referring our readers to the three or four, made bold to excuse and the learned they would have disqua- list of materials published by the Edi- themselves. We need not remind our lified themselves at one blow for what tors about two years ago, for gratuitous readers, that Buonaparte made no scruthey were professing to perform. distribution amongst the Subscribers. ple to seize, and appropriate to his own The state of the case thus fairly con- We shall only observe, that, besides the use, the funds that had been established sidered, no proposition in Euclid can be additions which will be supplied from at Leipsig, we believe, for the express plainer than, that the Editors, instead Lexicographers and other scholars that purpose of printing a new edition of Steof being dilatory, have, on the contrary, have flourished since the time of Ste-phens's Greek Thesaurus. So much for evinced extraordinary expedition. They phens,-to the amount of many thousands the Arch-Patron of Literature! have actually published FOUR NUMBERS of words, and besides what can be sup- If it be alledged that the editors are ALREADY,--and propose (according to plied by the learning and research of the young men, let it be answered, that, after circumstances, as they may regulate) Editors themselves, they have to rely on all, youth is the season for vigorous and publishing Five or Six Annually. This the papers and prompt assistance of effective exertion; and that, if they are is quite as fast, and even faster than we Professors SCHAEFER, BOISSONADE, young, they have at least had the good could wish them to proceed, SCHWEIGHAUSER, CORAY, and KALL sense to place themselves and their work (of Copenhagen); and the MS. addi-under old and experienced direction. tions to Scapula's Epitome of Stephens, They have, for their director and their by RUHNKEN, VALCKNAER, BRUNCK, guide, the first and most accomplished land, France, Germany, Russia, and and D'ORVILLE, and to Hederic's Lex- scholar in the kingdom. Denmark. The subscribers will be glad icon by GILBERT WAKEFIELD, and It is to be regretted, that the number to learn, that most of the materials are in DR. ROUTH, President of Magdalen of copies printed is confined to the numthe possession of the present Editors. ber of subscribers; for, to a scholar who That our readers may form something like is not a subscriber, the chance of gaining an idea of the deficiencies that will be possession of a copy will soon be very It is worthy of remark, that a new edition of Stephens's Greek Thesaurus had long been secretly in preparation, in Eng sup They who are in the habit of referring to Stephens's Thesaurus, must plied, and of the infinite advantage which the have observed that there is in it a very new and forthcoming edition will have over its great deficiency of words, that (to use prototype, we shall merely assert (which the language of a noted scholar) it wants we can do with a perfect conviction of the truth of what we say), in one great word and in one sulting that portion of the papers of the cele-round sum, as it were,-that the second edition brated Bast, which relates to Greek Lexico- will be better than the first by above TWENTY graphy. THOUSAND WORDS. 'The running-title in the Verheykian Catalogue, Leyden, 1785, No. 336, is, "R. Constantini Lexicon. Gr. et Lat. 1592. olim fuit Is. Vossii, qui a capite ad calcem Adnotatt. suas adscripsit, quibus et aliorum acces. serunt." limited. We believe there are a few Shakspeare in Stratford: the second takes now, to heare of a Courtier which hath but vacancies yet; and cannot help strongly a wider scope, and treats of Shakspeare, his own language. And to saie how many advising such as may see this notice, and in maturity, in London, where he is gentlewomen and ladies there are, that bedo not yet subscribe, not to pass by this calculated to have arrived about the year Latine toongs, are thereto no lesse skilfull opportunity of drawing into their family, 1586, being then twenty-two years of in the Spanish, Italian, and French, or in side sound knowledge of the Greeke and at a price comparatively trifling, (when it age. is recollected that the price of the old nearly as we can, our author's arrange-I am persuaded, that as the noblemen and We shall follow in our remarks, as some one of them, it resteth not in me: sith edition had got up to 751.), what might ment and the onward current of his sub- gentlemen do surmount in this behalfe, so serve as an invaluable heir-loom to their ject's career. posterity's posterity.' these come verie little or nothing at all beotherwise is wanting!" hind them for their parts; which industrie God continue, and accomplish that which The List of Subscribers will be printed in the work, and the names of the possessors be distinguished, in their respective copies, by red characters; while the names of all the rest will, of course, be printed in black ink. Thus, in future generations, it will be told by the subscription-list, that this was A.'s copy, that B.'s, and so on. Each thus be made, if we may use the exprescopy will sion, a family-piece. period when our immortal Bard added ceeding to give a slight sketch, may be * This taste, however, was far from perof an enlightened people. vading, as it does in our days, the bulk was almost confined to the metropolis and to persons of rank; and in the Literature country, to read and write were still rare thank Heaven, saw mental cultivation accomplishments. The next century, We learn that some persons, who do diffused throughout the kingdom and not appear to have read the Advertise- confined to ecclesiastics and scholars by pro- era we may fairly anticipate the time, Literature, which had for centuries been every class of society, and at the present ment to No. III. have put an entire mis- fession, was, at the commencement of Eliza- when not to be able to read and write construction on the publication of The beth's reign, thrown open to the higher will be considered, even in the lowest, Glossaries; as if it were something quite given by the Queen herself; and the nobi-to do either was esteemed in the middle classes of general society. The example was as great a phenomenon as the capacity άπρordióνvσov and foreign from the un-ity, the superior orders of the gentry, and ranks two hundred years ago. dertaking, when the fact is, that STE- even their wives and daughters, became PHENS himself made the Glossaries an enthusiasts in the cause of letters. The integral part of his great work. The novelty which attended these studies, the were upon the stage, and celebrated coSeveral of Shakspeare's countrymen Glossaries are a principal feature in the eager desire to possess what had been so long medians, when he arrived in London ; Thesaurus itself, and were first published and jealously concealed, and the curiosity to and it is probable that an acquaintance by Stephens in his Appendix. They are and Roman world, which mystery and imaexplore and rifle the treasures of the Greek not, as has been represented, mere sup-gination had swelled into the marvellous, introduced him at once to the town as a with Heminge and the two Burbadges plementary matter from the pen of the contributed to excite an absolute passion performer, as well as his brother EdEditors, but the genuine offspring of for books. The court, the ducal castle, and mond, who was a player at the Globe, H. STEPHENS himself, as enlarged by the baronial hall, were suddenly converted and dying in 1607, was buried in St. SaLabbe,-printed by the Editors agreea- into academies, and could boast of splendid viour's Church, Borough, as appears bly with their contract with the public; libraries, as well as of splendid tapestries. from the records of that parish, 31 Deand without which the work would, of In the first of these, according to Ascham, cember, same year. Dr. Drake concourse, be broken and imperfect. Nei- Grecke every day than some Prebendarie of tends, on good grounds, that William might be seen the Queen reading ther will the size of the book be increased this church doth read Latin in a whole Shakspeare was an able and meritorious by this; the Glossaries having been taken week," and while she was translating Iso-actor; but, as we would rather trace into the account when the prospectus was crates or Seneca, it may be easily conceived him in his more splendid and enduring first issued. that her maids of honour found it convenient course, we leave this portion of the work to praise and to adopt the disposition of her daughter of a duchess was taught not only time. In the second, observes Warton, the to distil strong waters, but to construe Greek; to pursue his literary track. and in the third, every young lady who as though the first edition was not publishAbout 1587, the poem of Venus and Adonis appears to have been written, pired to be fashionable, was compelled, in ed till 1593; two or three years after the imitation of the greater world, to exhibit si-author had commenced dramatic poet. milar marks of erudition. There is so much curious matter con- and Dames, and Misses, it may readily the friend of Essex, and the munificent With so many blue-stocking Countesses Lucrece, to the Earl of Southampton, It was dedicated, as well as the Rape of centrated in these volumes that we offer be believed, that the male sex devoted patron of our bard. His first drama, no excuse for returning to them. first Part, which alone we were able to cordingly we find it stated on contem-which is alluded to in the prologue to The themselves to learned pursuits; and ac- Dr. Drake holds to be Pericles, a play notice in our Review, No XLIV., is li-porary authority. (Harrison's descrip- The Hogge has lost his Pearle, (respecttion of England.) The vacancies yet open have been occa singular commendation of both sorts and rary Gazette of the 29th ult.) and the "This further is not to be omitted, to the a correspondent signed E. D. in the Liteing which there is a curious notice from sioned by the decease of some of the subscribers. sexes of our Courtiers here in England, that date of which is assigned to 1590. Dr. The price to such as are not yet on the list has, there are verie few of them, which have not D. proceeds thence to show that the folas was likely, been raised already; and the the use and skill of sundrie speaches, beside Editors (see the Advertisement to No. III.) an excellent veine of writing beforetime not lowing is the probable order and chro mean, it should seem, shortly to raise it again. regarded.-Trulie it is a rare thing with us nology of the genuine dramas. On the whole, we have no hesitation in pronouncing it as our opinion that the work will be, as it ought to be, a noble one, and that by itself it would suffice to perpetuate the names of its Editors. Dr. N. DRAKE'S "SHAKSPEARE and HIS TIMES." mited to the life and pursuits of young more After OR Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Politics, &c. NO. XLVII. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. MEMOIRS relating to EUROPEAN and ASIATIC TURKEY; Edited from Manuscript Journals, by ROBERT WALPOLE, M.A. Quarto, pp. 607. One of the advantages of the Literary Gazette is the facility it possesses of anticipating all other publications devoted to literature, in the notice of new and important publications. Within a few days of the appearance of such works, common diligence and attention enable it to disseminate throughout the kingdom, a knowledge of their nature, style, and contents. It is obvious, indeed, that the Essays immediately produced on these occasions, must have many of the imperfections of haste and want of digestion upon their heads; but we look confidently to public indulgence for blemishes unavoidable under the circumstances of the case, and humbly confessing our sins in the first instance, endeavour to make amends by more careful and deliberate inquiry, when the subjects are of merit enough to induce us to return to them in after periods. Such is the present;-a work more full of various and interesting information has not been offered to the perusal of the scholar, and man of letters in our remembrance. It is not easy to express the pleasure we have already received from it. The constant association with our earliest and SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1817. PRICE 1s. "The observations of those whose papers communicated either in the form of journals are now published for the first time, are and letters, or detached Essays. There are advantages attending each of these separate modes; in the former, the remarks of the traveller are given as they presented themselves to his mind on the spot, without any unnecessary amplification or expansion; and subsequent reading and enquiry is able to in adopting the latter method, the writer by bestow more attention on the subject, than is consistent with the form of a mere narrative or journal." this work, his profound erudition, his ing the information which he seeks. To "A selection, therefore, from the journals of different travellers, may be the means of Monastic Institutions on the Holy Mounpurest ideas; the re-opening of chambers tain, Monastic Libraries, &c. by Dr. in the mind which have long been shut, Hunt; Letters from the late Professor but yet contain some of the treasures of Carlyle, during his residence in Turkey; antiquity, as if hidden there till a spell Plants collected in Cyprus, and Rebrought them again to light and use; the Although, the publications of our Coun- marks on the modern inhabitants of revival of all we have read and imagined trymen, as well as of others who have re- Egypt, by Dr. Hume; Journal of a of illustrious Greece, the cradle of the cently visited the Levant, have added many Voyage up the Nile to Nubia, by Capt. divine Arts and of diviner liberty; the valuable materials to those which we before Light; on the Olives and Vines and contrast with her modern condition and Turkish empire, yet the field of enquiry is possessed, relating to different parts of the Corn of Zante, by Mr. Hawkins, who modern times; the contemplation of her so wide, that much remains still to engage also treats of the Topography of Athens, architectural glories crumbling into dust, the notice and attention of future travellers. of the Vale of Tempe, of the Syrinx of of her matchless statues mutilated and Our knowledge of these countries is neces- Strabo, and other topics of equal intedefaced, of her heroic fields darkly to be sarily acquired by slow degrees; various cir- rest; Journal through Boeotia and Phocis, explored in unknown lands, of her cities cumstances occasionally interrupt the re-ascent to the Corycian cave, Rhamnus; traced in ruined heaps, of her multitudes searches of those who explore them; some Ruins of Temple of Nemesis, &c. by lost in desolateness, of her free spirit sunkable and efficient system of government are provinces in consequence of the want of an Mr. Raikes; Remarks on the Military in slavery, and of her moral grandeur exposed to the incursions of robbers and Architecture of the Greeks, by the late declined into barbarism, is almost too wandering tribes; through these the tra- Col. Squire, the plain of Marathon, overwhelming to our faculties, and we veller is obliged to pass in haste; at other the continent of Greece, and the Isthmus rather quail under a stupefying admiration times, sickness, arising from the heat of the of Corinth are also illustrated by the sanie of the whole, than feel competent to climate or the season of the year, impedes examine and appreciate the several progress. The want of ready communi- Pen; the antiquities of Egypt, the pyracation with the inhabitants, together with the mids and their inscriptions, are ably ignorance and jealousy so frequently dis-treated by the late Mr. Davison; the Of Mr. Walpole's ability to execute played by them, are obstacles to his acquir-Earl of Aberdeen, enriches the volume parts his |