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LITERARY CHRONICLE

FOR THE YEAR 1825;

CONTAINING

A REVIEW OF ALL NEW PUBLICATIONS

OF VALUE AND INTEREST;

ORIGINAL POETRY, ESSAYS, AND ANECDOTES;

AND FORMING

An Analysis and General Repository

OF

LITERATURE,

PHILOSOPHY, SCIENCE, ARTS, HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, THE DRAMA,
MORALS, MANNERS, AND AMUSEMENTS.

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INDEX FOR THE YEAR 1825.

Academy, Royal, Exhibition of the, 300, Companies, new, 90, 563

317

Accomplishments, female. 838
Adersbach, the rocks of, 25
Advertisements, singular, 657
Attica, travels in, 280

Alexander, Emperor, anecdotes of, 831
America, the southern states of, 40
- scenery of, 329

Anatomical Invention, singular, 223
Andes, the, 119

ANECDOTES, BON MOTS, &c. in
every Number

Annual Biography, its piracies, 87
Any Day Book, the, 139

Apthecaries' bill, on the, 268

Ardennes, aecount of the, 162

Ate, Joan of, 673

Connecticut, blue laws of, 145
Conscience, the power of, 772
Cookery of our ancestors, 170
Cordilleras, the, 119

Corn Monopoly, evils of, 761
Corporation Print, 718

Cossacks, anecdotes of the, 194
Costume, theatrical hints on, 253
Country town, the, 75

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Beauties and Authors, 635
Creation, picture of the, 766

-, Martin's picture of the, 762
Crohoore of the Billhook, a tale, 244
Crusaders, armoury, &c, 474
Cuba, account of, 326
Day by the Danube, 161

Death, on the punishment of, 595

ASMODEUS, the Rambles of, 59, 76, 124, Dead, burning of the, 840

218, 254, 283, 333, 380, 460, 780

-, Queries anent, 205

a card from, 557

Assurance, Essay on, 235

- Life, rates of, 836

Astrology. Sinith's defence of, 754
Aurora Borealis, singular, 2

Anthors, entertaining and interesting, 268
August, the fatal 10th of, 837
Babylou, the walls of, 276

Ha loon, ascent, 574

Binian Tree, extraordinary, 17
Bastile, taking of the, 211

Barbers, on the decline of, 177
Bartholomew Fair, a song, 690

- defended, 503

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Decameron, Illustrations of the, 842
Deguty, M., account of, 44
Deity, on the personification
Denon, Baron, memoir of, 300
Dentists, a hint to, 43

Deserter, the, 587, 604

Diorama, the, 220

Doe, Johu, a tale, 278

Dollar, new academy at, 686

of the, 796

DRAMA, notice of, in every Number

-, degraded state of the, 187
-, Immorality of the, 375

Dramatic Entertainments defended, 364
Dress, on the philosophy of, 764
Druids, magic circle of the, 793
Dublin, the bay of, 204

-, recollections of, 730, 748
Earthquake in Persia, 63

BEE, the, see the last leaf in every Num- Eddystone Light-House, print of, 637

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Brande. Mr., lectures of, 104

Bravo, General, anecdote of, 781

Brazil, account of, 97

be's Church, St. Window in, 829

b tish Artists, Society of, 206, 220, 255
Betous, the ancient, 417

Betton, Mr, memoir of, 636

ace's Original MSS. 698

Bermete, account of the, 771
-, customs of the, 834
Priests, 834

Bali, a practical, 33

Bubbles for 1825, 775

Torning Well, account of a, 189

Burns, the birth of, 91

Byron, Lord, his letters to his mother, 28

and Southey, ib

, Greek medal of, 45
anecdotes of, 163, 326, 377
last days of, 280, 310

-, Ode on the death of, 738
and Campbell, 206

Calendar, the French, 751
Castrophe, the, 124

Catholic Chapel, Moorfields, 109
miracles, 154, 167

Charles I., letters of, 690

-X, coronation of, 363
Chatsworth described, 116
Chimney Sweeps' Album, 79

- Sweepers and Albums, 140
Churchyard, the, 27

Cement's Danes, St., notice of, 89
Cloaks and Great Coats, on, 58
Cocarane, Lord, anecdotes of, 435, 491
Captain JD, memoirs of, 685
Combats, ancient and modern, 198
Common Councilman, adventures of a, 74
Compendium Stove, the, 79

Edington, Bishop, memoir of, 660
Edinburgh, High School, 799
Education, remarks on, 291, 822, 838
of the people, on the, 654
Egyptians, arts of the, 276
Emigration to South America, 646
Englishman in France, the, 177
England in 1824, Politics of, 835
Epitaphs, curious, 127
Esquimaux, the, 49
Eternal Fire, the, 1

Excursion, a country, 633
Fairs, observations on, 618

Fall of Algiers, origin of the opera of, 78
Fanaticism, extraordinary, 657
Faraday, Mr., lectures of, 58

FINE ARTS, see the respective subjects
Fleet Street, improvements in, 12
Foote, Miss, and her admirers, 10
Fragment, a, 682

Franklin Institute, the, 764
Freemasonry, on, 131

Fuseli, Henry, memoir of, 284
Gallery, British, the, 45, 541
Gentlemen, Society for Idle, 331
Gentility, the mania for, 138
Genius, Mr. Pennie on, 108
George IV., anecdote of, 762
Georgia, South, account of, 763
German Literature, 362
Gibraltar, description of, 506
Giles, St., Church of, 573
Gordale Scar described, 71
Glastonbury Abbey, 678
Graham, the aeronaut, ode to, 129
Grants, royal, curious, 690
Greece, picture of, 785
Grograins, the, 692
Hairdressers, gentilities, &e. of, 217
Hand-in-hand Gentility Club, 523
Hamlet, observations où, 681
Havana described, 325

Hayclif Mine, phenomena of, 115
Heart, the broken, 252
Heath's Views of London, 108
Hindoo Scenery and Customs, 769
Hippocratic Oath, 175
Humourist's Will, a, 12

Ice palace at St. Petersburgh, 195
Improvements, new, remarks on, 255, 462
India, mode of life in, 345

Indians, Amorican, 136, 309, 329, 339, 339,
Indian Princes, manners of the, 83
Infernal Machine, the, 85

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Jews, restoration of the, 735, 764
Kakabikka, falls of, 172

Kent Indiaman, on the loss of the, 585
Ketch, Jack, origin of, 792

Kneller, Sir Godfrey, letters of, 353, 377
Knox, John, monument to, 605
Lacepede, Count de, 781
Laird of Inches, the, 710
Lancashire Customs, 679

Lee Penny, the, 429

Levant Company, the, 369
Leyden, the relief of, 674

Lieutenant, the, 57

Linquiti, Chevalier, memoir of, 766
Lisbon, customs at, 39

LITERATURE and SCIENCE in every

number.

Literary Gazette, its origin, 188

- Fund, the, 317

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–, St, proposed alterations around,
667
Peninsular War, anecdotes of the, 52
Pennie, Mr., memoir of, 795
Pennsylvania Hospital, 60

Petersburgh, St., amusements at, 274
police at, 274

Pictures, the two, 757
Pilgrimage, the, 348
Pisa, amusements at. 535
Pius Vil, character of, 722
Plague at Marseilles, 263

POETRY, original, in every number.
Pompeii, excavations at, 623

Pope's Letters, 351, 375

Popery, character of, 393

Portuguese Habits, 14

Press, the, 139, 155

Parsons in South America, 171

Pyroligneous Acid, on, 158

Queensberry Family, anecdotes of the, 425

Query, geographical, 12

Rail Roads, 776

Rangoon, mission to, 834

Ravenhill, Mr., memoir of, 621

Regent Street, new chapel in, 430
Reviewers, the mighty, 617

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Lovers, ill fated, 57

Louis XV., anecdotes of, 337
XVI., coronation of, 346
trial and death of, 552

-, anecdotes of, 817,836

Lyra, infant, the, 442
Mammoth Skeleton, 639
Manners, difference in, 713

Man of the Moon, the new, 127
Margate, view of, 637
Marketing, instructions for, 534
Martin, Mr. and his ridiculers, 508
Mechanics' Institution, London, 591
Memory, improvement of the, 539, 553
Mendelsohn, memoir of, 196
Metropolis, improvements in the, 606
Mexican Mines, riches, 307
Mexico, panorama of, 829

Miaulis to his Crew, a Greek song, 70
Middleton Dale, account of, 115
Miller, Joe, Redivivus, 179
Minas Geraes, account of, 243
Mirabeau, anecdotes of, 338
Mission to the Burman Empire, 833
to Cochin China, 839
Monday, St., in town, 414
Monk, General, letter of, 20
Monkeys, anecdotes of, 151
Memoirs of, 777
Mont Cenis, a sketch, 33
Monte Video, account of, 571
Months, the mirror of the, 801
Mummery for grown Gentlemen, 574
Museum, British. hints for improving,841
defence of, 827

Negro Crimes and Punishments, 620
Netherlands, canals in the, 350
Newby, John, on stage morality, 91
NIL-ADMIRARI, the, 76, 349, 429, 557,
589,604, 684, 700, 733, 749

remonstrance to the au-

thor of, 717
Normandy, antiquities of, 749

Nurse Craft and Nursery Literature, 169

552, 565

Rhodamaldi and Geraldine, 92
Richter. J. P. F., memoir of, 781
Rio de Janeiro, account of, 97, 244
Roche Abbey described, 71

Rochester Cathedral, discoveries at, 94
Rout, the, 796

Royal Institution, 821

Rufus, William, character of, 457

Russell Institution, the, 814

Russia, travelling in, 293

Sacrilege, French law against, 170

Salem and its Museum, 620

Salisbury Crags, 601

Sailors, characteristic anecdotes of, 37
Sauctuary, history of the, 807

Savonarola, the fanatic, 265

Scott, Sir Walter, conversation with, 501

Sebastian's, St., storming of, 787

Self-love the best Love, 376

Sergeant's Rings, origin of, 168
Settle, the artist, 71

Sex, on the treatment of the, 51
Shakers, account of the, 394
Shakspeare Forgeries, the, 110
's Chair, 140

Sheridan, R. B., anecdotes of, 641, 609,
696, 715, 725

Sherwin, the engraver, 55
Shipping, history of, 631
Shoe, the little, a tale, 149
Sidmouth Street, church in, 78
Skellig Rocks, the, 747

Slave Trade, evils of the, 577, 594, 613,

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Street Music, on, 315

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Preaching in New York, 540
Suspension Bridges, on, 469
Surgeons, college of, 676
Sweet Fifteen, a poem,
Talma, portrait of, 78
Tanner, John, account of, 340
Taylor, James, memoir of. 685
Tecumseh, the death of, 381
Telescopes, how to use, 711
Thames Tunnel, 156

Theatre, morality of the, 121

Theatres, Watering Places, &c., 494
Tilloch, Dr., memo r of, 141

Too much Money, a Christmas song, 29
Toorkamans, account of the, 517
Town, ramble from, 26

Trees, remarkable, 180

Tribunals, secret, in Germany, 632
Tuscany, festivals of, 53

Ta More, description of the, 705

University Studies and Learning, 811
Vapours, noxious, 111

Water, plans for supplying, 524

-- Colours, exhibition, 285

Waterspout, nature of a, 103

Welsh, manners of the, 134

Collet's Garland of Wild Flowers, 154
Collier's Port's Pilgrimage, 427
Common Events, 193

Complete Governess, 822, 838
Conway's Tales of the Ardennes, 161
Cook's Voyages, 41

Costello's Songs of a Stranger, 360
Coussergues' Sacre des Rois de France,
281

Coventry's Inquiry on Junius, 502
Crabb's Historical Dictionary, 41
Crusaders, Tales of the, 401, 420
Curtis's British Entomology, 121
Dalby's Death of Aguirre, 709

Davis's Library of a Bibliomaniac, 133
Dibdin's, T. F., Library Companion, 133
C. Comic Tales, 35

Don Esteban, 258

Doubleday's Babington, 472
Downe's Prize Poems, 86

Driver's Arabs, 437

Drummond's Origines, 275

Journal of an Exile, 263

Joyce's Chemical Mineralogy, 312
Juan Secundus, 44-1

Judson's Mission to the Birman Empire,

633

Juvenile Sketch Book, 441

Keating's Expedition to St. Peter's River,
307 329, 338. 341

Keelivine's Tales and Sketches, 550
Kelly's Reminiscences, 714, 742, 761
Kempe's History of St. Martin-le Grand,
807, 820

Kennedy's Instructions to Mothers, 57
Kitchiner on Telescopes, 710
Knight's Private Journal, 438
Laughing Philosopher, the, 212
Laurel de Apollo, Él, 137

Lanzi's Histoire de la Peinture, 44
Lawson's Lost Spirit, 629
Leigh's New Road Book, 473
Letters from the Irish Highlands, 2, 18
on Entomology, 774

Dupin's Commercial Power of Britain, Letter to Sir Charles Long, 523, 512

468

Duty of Early Rising, 681
Economist of Time, 427

Edgeworth's Heury and Lucy, 423

Wesley, Samuel, his reply to the Harmo- Egan's Anecdotes, 394

nicon, 377

West's Gallery, 285

Whirlpool described, 103

Whitehaven, Paul Jones's attack of, 609
Wills, on, 443

Wilson, Harriette, 155

Witchcraft in Scotland, 21

Young, Mr. John, notice of, 174

REVIEW OF BOOKS.
Abduction, the, 199

Adams's Complete Servant, 534
Advice on playing the Piano, 137
Album, the, 37, 267

Allais, Tablettes Ilistoriques, 20
Ambition, 435

Amulet, the, 730

Ancient Geography, 811
Anecdotes of Lord Byron, 327
Annual Biography, 87

Register for 1824, 835
Antommarchi's Last Days of Napoleon,

233

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Emerson's Picture of Greece, 810
English Life, 7

English in Italy, the, 692, 707
Evans ou Geographical Terms, 162
Every Day Occurrences, 233

Examination of M'Culloch on the High-
lands, 518

Facetio Cantabrigensis, 413
Fairy Favours, 277

Legends of Ireland, 140
Faustus, 483

Ferdinand Franck, 803
Fingerpost, the, 100

Finlayson on the Dry Rot, 616

's Mission to China, 836
Fivas's Beauties of French Writers, 375
Fleming's Destroying Augel, 234
Fletcher, Rev. A., Trial of, 21
Forget-Me-Not, the, 705
Forrest's Tour along the Ganges. 17. 83
Forsyth's Antiquary's Portfolio, 689, 712
Forty Years in the World, 454, 467
Forbroke's Encyclopædia of Antiqui-
ties, 6

Fouché's Memoirs, 65, 84, 131
Fraser's Khorissan, 516
Friendship's Offering, 740
Gaieties and Gravities, 177

Gascoige's Path to Naval Fame, 818
Gazul's Plays, 727

Geulis, Memoirs of Madam de, 531
Gibney on the Vapour Bath, 539
Good Nurse, the, 8

Gourgand's Napoleon and the Grand
Army, 520, 533
Grandmother's Guests, 296
Gray's Travels in Africa, 547
Groser's Lectures on Popery, 392
Gutteridge's Tables of Measures, 137
Gwilt ou Civil Architecture, 717
Hall on the Latin Language, 713
Handbibliothek der Deutschen Literatur,
362

Hansard's Typographia, 753, 789
Harding's Stenography, 234
Hardy's Tour in the Pyrennees, 593, 612
Hartstonge's Eve of All Hallows, 371
Harris's Natural History of the Bible, 698
Hawker's Instructions to Sportsmen, 530
Hawkins's Memoirs, &c, 55

Hausset, Madame du, Memoirs of, 337
Heath's Views of London, 108
Herban, a poem, 730
Hermit in Italy, 33, 53
Hewlett's Cottage Comforts, 746
Highest Castle and Lowest Cave, 714
Highways and Byways, 100
Hillary's Sketch of Ireland, 114
Hints to Church wardeus, 374
Hints to Travellers, 91

Hofland's Moderation, 570

Holdich on Agriculture, 795

Holford on the Penitentiary, 459

- Mr. Canning, 427

Letter Writer, Elegant, 632

Leper of Aoste, 137

Levant Company, Account of the, 369
Lexicou, the Little, 362
Linguist, the, 016

Literary Souvenir, the, 756

Lines on the Storm at Portland, 186
London's Encyclopædia of Agriculture,

824

Lyall's Travels in Russia, 104, 298
Lyon's Voyage to Repulse Bay, 49
M Donough's Gratitude, 548
Mackenzie's Appeal, 69
Magic Ring, the, 737
Mahony's Hours of Song, 680
Maid of the Greek Isle, 599
Malcolm's Buccaneer, 5
Marauders, the, 441

Martin's Milton, 237, 398, 541, 686
Massenberg, 536

Mathison's Visit to Brazil, 433, 453
Maund's Botanic Garden, 330
Mechanic's Almanack, 778
Memoirs of Monkeys, 777
Memoirs of the Affairs of Europe, 201
Middleton's Sermons, 73
Miller's St. Baldred of the Bass, 20
Milton on Christian Doctrine, 465, 484
Mina, Life of, 39

--s, the Two, 213
Mirror of the Mouths, 801

Moore's Life of Sheridan, 641, 662, 696,725
Morison's Advice, 280

Morris on Landscape Gardening, 603
Moss's Manual of Classical Bibliography,

546

Mosse's Father's Love, 680
Mounteney's Brazil, 243
My Children's Diary, 523
Myrianthea, the, 237

Neale's Views of Blenheim, 393

Reade's Broken Heart, 614
Realities not a Novel, 602
Revel's Winter Pastimes, 40
Reynolds's Arithmetic, 280
Rhodes's Penke Scenery, 115-
Richardson's Sonnets, 102

Rio de la Plata, account of, 545, 571
Robinson's Desigus for Villas, 637
Roche's French Melodies, 72
Rolls's Legends of the North, 629
Roscoe's Italian Novelists, 113, 152, 181
Rouillon's Polyclete, 653
Samuels's Life of Mendelsohn, 196
Sayings and Doings, 81
Scott's Winter Tales, 57
Scrapiana Poetica, 441

Segar's Expedition to Russia, 602
- Memoirs, 247, 261

215

Napoleon in Russia, 105, 183, 203,

Session of Parliament, 661, 584

Sherburne's Life of Paul Jones, 609, 627
Sherwood's Juliana Oakley, 186
Slave Colonies of Britain, 661

-

Trade, works on the, 577, 594, 613
Smiles and Tears, 51

Smith's Catechism, 281
Smithers's Liverpool, 257
Songs of the Greeks, 70
South Sea Bubble, 101

Southey's Tale of Paraguay, 497
Spanish Catechisms, 234
Spirit of Public Journals, 775
Sporting Almanack, 779

Stanhope's Greece in 1823-4, 163
Statistical Illustrations, 601

Stanzas on Lord Byron, 373

Stirling's Journal, 616

Stuart's Dictionary of Architecture, 29
Subaltern, the, 787

Surenne's Grammar, 714

Sylvan Sketches, 180

Tales by the O'Hara Family, 244, 273
Tales of Old Mr. Jefferson, 327
Tales of To-Day, 657

Tales of the Wild and Wonderful, 723
Taylor's Selections from Humboldt, 306
Tennant's John Baliol, 707
Teonge's Diary, 165, 185

Thiers's History of the French Revoln
lution, 513, 537, 552, 564

Thierry's History of the Norman Con
quest, 417, 439, 457

Thomas Fitzgerald, 268

Thoughts and Recollections, 201
Three Brothers, the, 248

Time's Telescope, 794

To-Day in Ireland, 355

Topham's Evidences of Religion, 186
Tour of a Foreigner, 481, 500
Torre's Amy Robsart, 691

Travels of my Night-Cap, 305
Treadgold on Steam Navigation, 569
on Rail-Roads, 579

Tremaine, 230

Nichols's Progresses of James I., 410, 500, Trimmer's Natural History, 50G

566, 809, 824

Nobles Plenary Inspiration, 9
November Nights, 791

Observations on Historical Painting, 285
Odd Moments, 104

Odes and Addresses to Great Meu, 129
Oliver's Star in the East, 131
Opie's Illustrations of Lying, 86
Oxberry's Dramatic Biography, 370
Oxford Quarterly Magazine, 197
Pamphleteer, the, 770
Pandurang Hari, 769

Parry's Last Days of Byron, 289, 309
Paris, history of, 209, 226, 250
Peep at the Esquimaux, 441

at the Pilgrims, 294
Pennie's Scenes in Palestine, 228
Pepys's Memoirs, 580

Perceval's History of Italy, 241, 265
Phantasmagoria, 673

Philomathic Journal, 693

Picard's Novice, 357

Picture of Sheffield, 36

Pictures and the Betrothing, 507
Pike's Guide, 653

Holman's Travels through Russia, 273, Pocket Annual Register, 268

293, 313

Holyrood House, 600

Holy War, the, a poem, 631
Howison's Foreign Scenes, 324, 315

Chambers's Traditions of Edinburgh, 424 Husband Hunting, 492

Cheap Corn best for Farmers, 773

Christmas Tales, 771

Churchill on the Scriptures, 602

Clark on the Teeth, 354

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Hulbert's Museum Europrum, 678
Stranger's Friend, 72

Hyde's Alphonzus, 519
Industry, a Tale, 730

Jardine on Philosophical Education, 212
Joues's History of Wales, 134

Poetic Garland, the, 811
Pope on Shipping, 630
Pope's Merchants' Guide, 741

Works, supplement to, 353, 374

Porchester's Moor, 583
Power's Poems, 56

Proctor's Journey, 470
Prophetic Almanack, 777
Provincial Magazine, 41

Public Education, plans for, 598, 615
Public versus the Land Owner, 760

Troubadour, the, 486

Truth and Fashion, 427

Twenty-Ninth of May, 341, 361
Uncle Timothy, 681

Uniacke's Letter to the Lord Chancellor
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A list of the articles the work contains will, we are sure, at once convince the reader that

While we have been thus attentive to the critical department of the work, we have not neglected the miscellaneous features of it. Our volume for the last year will be plainer and cheaper edition should be pub- the editor has gone to sources with which

found particularly rich in original correspondence, especailly in essays, sketches of society and manners, and a sort of running

commentary on the vices and follies of the age, Under the head of Fine Arts, will be found a critical notice of the exhibitions, new churches, and public buildings in the metropolis, written by a gentleman whose intimate acquaintance with the subjects is only equalled by the freedom and strict impartiality of his remarks.

It will scarcely have escaped observation, that since The Literary Chronicle was commenced, numerous rivals or competitors have started-and that too under favourable auspices, and have failed. But although we chant no hymn of joy or triumph on their fall, yet it must be allowed, that in standing against such opposition, it is clearly proved that The Literary Chronicle is successfully established.

lished, for those who wish to consult the
work for the useful and interesting informa-

tion it contains, rather than for the tasteful
and ornamental manner in which it is got

up..

stated in the title: it is to give the best ex-
The object of the work is pretty clearly
tracts from such books of voyages and tra-
vels as have been published during the year,
and yet have not appeared in English: a
similar volume of those which have appeared
panion, if the claims of copyright did not in-
in England would be a very desirable com-

terfere with its execution.

the English public is by no means well acquainted. We have first about forty-five pages translated from Boie's Tour in Nor

way; next comes a description of an Aurora Borealis; an excellent article on the changes in the climate of the Alps; the manners and customs of the Russians and Tartars; a dehemia; Von Richter's Pilgrimage in the scription of the rocks near Adersback, in BoEast; Webb's account of the Plains of Troy; Dr. Taucher on the Salt Lake of Inderskoi; Eichfield on the Eternal Fire at Baku; an

admirable article on Russian Discoveries; a description of the Oasis of Siwah; the best dwell on the uses of a knowledge of geogra- now burning; and Baron Minutoli's Travels It would be a mere waste of time for us to account we have yet seen of the volcanoes phy, or to point out the various discoveries in Egypt, which, we believe, are in the Engthat yet remain to be made in that science*lish press. To these articles we must add an Thanks, however, to the enterprise of indivi- admirable introduction, containing a general duals and the liberality of a few governments, view of the most important geographical reevery year produces some new and interest- searches and discoveries during the last ten ing information respecting countries and peo

It will be seen that we commence our Se- ple. our knowledge of which is imperfect years, and a well-written memoir of that in

venth Volume with a new type, which ena-
bles us to give considerable additional mat- herself: she has almost yearly one or more
and unsatisfactory. England has done much
ter, without any additional charge. Our victims sacrificed in penetrating the interior
literary arrangements have also been ex-
tended, and we are determined to spare no
of Africa; her sons alike brave the horrors
exertions to render The Literary Chronicle of an arctic winter and the torrid zone. Eng-
all that its best friends can wish it. With land, however, does not stand alone, and
the expression of our sincere thanks to our
valuable contributors and readers, we con-
elude with wishing that we may all long live
thus to greet and be greeted.

*See Nos. 23, 235, and 237, of the Literary Chronicle, in which there are some original articles by M. Malte Brun on the subject.

telligent traveller, Humboldt. The selections, we doubt not, embrace the most strik

ing parts of each work, and are very interest ing. We have little room for extract, but first quote the account of the eternal fire:--

This fire is in the peninsula of Apscheron, twenty versts from Baku, and is justly called one of the wonders of southern Russia. I have visited this spot: it is a burning desert, from the surface of which subterrane

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