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CONTENTS OF No. CII.

ART. I. The Law of Population: a Treatise in Six Books, in
Disproof of the Superfecundity of Human Beings,
and developing the real Principle of their Increase.
By Michael Thomas Sadler, M.P.

II. The Life of Richard Bentley, D.D. Master of Trinity
College, and Regius Professor of Divinity in the
University of Cambridge: with an account of his
Writings, and Anecdotes of many distinguished Cha-
racters during the period in which he flourished. By
James Henry Monk, D.D. Dean of Peterborough,

Page.

297

III. The History of Rome, by B. G. Niebuhr. Translated
by Julius Charles Hare, M.A., and Connop Thirl-
wall, M.A. Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, 358

IV. Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Stam-
ford Raffles, F.R.S., particularly in the Government
of Java in 1811-16; and of Bencoolen and its De-
pendencies, 1817-24. With Details of the Commerce
and Resources of the Eastern Archipelago; and
Selections from his Correspondence. By his Widow, 396

V. Recherches sur le Commerce de la Hollande,

. 418

VI. Women as they Are; or, the Manners of the Day, 444

VII. The First Book of the Iliad; the Parting of Hector

and Andromache; and the Shield of Achilles; Spe-
cimens of a New Version of Homer. By William
Sotheby,

463

ART. VIII. Abstract of the Bill for Establishing Courts of Local Jurisdiction. Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 21st June, 1830,

Page.

478

IX. Memoirs, Correspondence, and Private Papers of Tho-
mas Jefferson, late President of the United States;
now first published from the Original Manuscripts.
Edited by Thomas Jefferson Randolph, . . 496

X. Library of Useful Knowledge. Farmer's Series. Trea-
tise Seventh. The Farm,

526

XI. Researches into the Origin and Affinity of the Principal
Languages of Asia and Europe. By Lieutenant-
Colonel Vans Kennedy, of the Bombay Military
Establishment,

XII. The Country without a Government; or, Plain Ques-
tions upon the Unhappy State of the Present Admi-
nistration,

529

. 564

Notice respecting Mr Brougham's Speech in the House of Commons, on the 13th July, on Colonial Slavery,

Correction of Article on Providential and Prophetical Histories,

Quarterly List of New Publications,

Index,

583

585

586

593

THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW.

JULY, 1830.

No. CII.

ART. I.-The Law of Population: a Treatise in Six Books, in
Disproof of the Superfecundity of Human Beings, and develop-
ing the real Principle of their increase. By MICHAEL THOMAS
SADLER, M.P. 2 vols. 8vo. London: 1830.

VE did not expect a good book from Mr Sadler; and it is
well that we did not; for he has given us a very bad one.
The matter of his treatise is extraordinary; the manner more
extraordinary still. His arrangement is confused, his repeti-
tions endless, his style every thing which it ought not to be.
Instead of saying what he has to say with the perspicuity, the
precision, and the simplicity in which consists the eloquence pro-
per to scientific writing, he indulges without measure in vague,
bombastic declamation, made up of those fine things which
boys of fifteen admire, and which every body, who is not des-
tined to be a boy all his life, weeds vigorously out of his com-
positions after five-and-twenty. That portion of his two thick
volumes which is not made up of statistical tables, consists prin-
cipally of ejaculations, apostrophes, metaphors, similes,-all the
worst of their respective kinds. His thoughts are dressed up in
this shabby finery with so much profusion and so little discri-
mination, that they remind us of a company of wretched stroll-
ing players, who have huddled on suits of ragged and faded
tinsel, taken from a common wardrobe, and fitting neither their
persons nor their parts; and who then exhibit themselves to the
laughing and pitying spectators, in a state of strutting, ranting,
painted, gilded beggary. Oh, rare Daniels!' Political eco-
nomist, go and do thou likewise!' Hear, ye political econo-
'mists and anti-populationists! Population, if not proscribed
' and worried down by the Cerberean dogs of this wretched and