usually are." In this, Tippeehee confined one of his daughters for several years, for falling in love with a person of inferior rank. "The space allotted to the lady would neither allow of her standing up, or stretching at her length: she had a trough in which her food was deposited." P. 13.

The natives of this part are from five feet eight inches to six feet in height, and well proportioned; their personal appearance and intellectual endowments of a superior order; their colour a dark chesnut and the light agreeable tinge of an English bru nette. P. 16. They dislike spirits. There is, says Mr. S. no great impropriety in the term, to talk of the "fair part of the creation of the Bay Islands." They are scarcely to be denominated brunettes, their features regular and pleasing, black hair, and penetrating eyes. So far so good. But "the tattooing of their lips, and the quantity of oil and red earth, with which they anoint their persons and hair," Mr. S. thinks, with some shew of reason, "would not be agreeable to the taste of a refined European."

This country is divided into two principalities, whose chieftains are almost constantly at war, and during these times they wear a likeness of their deity round their necks. We have heard of the moon's being made of green cheese, and of the man in the moon; the New Zealanders have combined these together, and, believing their protecting god to be a man in the moon, they represent him in a hideous form made of green talc. Of their religion, he says, "the less said the better." P. 32. But of their superstitious cleanliness, he mentions this singular instance."After cutting or combing their hair, they never make use of their hands to feed themselves, but are fed for one or more days after that operation by some one of their relatives." P. 23. It is curious to observe the similarity of customs between two countries which probably never had any communication with each other-the New Zealanders send their sick to a particular place to die-the Hindoos deposit their dying patients in the Ganges.

The chiefs of the Bay Islands walk barefoot, but those of the interior are of more consequence, and are carried in "“ a handbarrow." However, they are not so contemptible as they may be thought, for they are often attended by "thousands of dauntless warriors, armed with spears and battle-axes." They have also fleets of war canoes. Their onset is accompanied by gestures, shouts, and grimaces, which, says Mr. S. " to an European taci

titian," (what sort of gentleman that is we know not,) might appear extremely ridiculous; but he would not, probably, be much inclined to stay long to laugh at it!

Summary justice is taken by the husband on the adulterer. Awkeeterree, in such a case, sought the paramour, cut off his head, turned away his wife, and took another.

Whatever this people formerly were, they at present, it seems, only now and then eat a man. They confess this anthropopha gous appetite to prevail in times of scarcity, and when they are victors in war; then, however, they do not eat all they kill or take, but " are content with shewing their power to do so, by dividing the chief of the vanquished tribe among them." P. 35. It must be owned that this is rather a ticklish sort of people to deal with! Mr. S. ascribes their abstinence to the introduction of potatoes, which, he says, they prefer to "human flesh." P. 36. Their mode of expressing their joy at one's return is of a strange nature-they scratch and cut their faces with broken pieces of shell. The return of Moyhanger, a native brought by Mr. S. to this country, will, he fears, " produce a dreadful disfiguration of their countenances." Their salutation is similar to that practised in other parts of the South Sea-they put their noses together. Children are carried on the shoulders of the mother, and their hands being at liberty, they amuse themselves with the tasteful ornaments of the mother's head, which consist of sharks' teeth, &c. In infancy their ears are bored and dilated till three fingers can pass through the aperture. To this loop-hole they append not only baubles, but tools, &c. The process of tattooing is no jokedeath has sometimes been the consequence. The figure is drawn with a sharp point of a piece of bone, into which a vegetable fluid is inserted. The inflammation occasioned makes it necessary to proceed by degrees with this embellishment, and the honour of it makes it fit to seem rather pleased than otherwise with the operation!

Our beaux embroider their pantaloons in front, but they embroider "particularly the posterior part." The tattooing of the women, Mr. Savage calls little-" a small spiral figure on each side of the chin, a semicircular figure over each eye-brow, and two, or sometimes three, lines on each lip." Their lips are naturally thin, but they are tattooed for the beauty of thickness.

Our author makes the observation-" The taste of an European is not to be disputed" in such a manner as leads us to believe

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that he thinks "the white powder and unctuous substances" used by Europeans, to be by no means preferable to "the red earth and fish oil" with which the Zealanders plaster their hair. When they wish to " appear remarkably splendid," they rub themselves all over with this mixture.-Well may the poet say

"When unadorn'd, adorn'd the most."

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Europeans are perpetually complimenting themselves :— tives, in their traffic, says Mr. S. cheat" with all the dexterity of a Jewish or Christian dealer." He praises their mode of cooking. We have a saying, that Heaven sends victuals, but the devil sends cooks-how it is here we leave others to determine. "The dog," says he, as an article of food, is, I believe, always roasted, and is esteemed good eating." P. 61. This" is almost the only animal food to be obtained." They have no salt or other substance to excite them "to eat more than their natural appetite prompts them to do." P.61.

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In chapter x. he treats of " war and warlike instruments." They were at peace, however, while he was there, and he gathered his information from Moyhanger, who was a warrior, and had sworn eternal enmity to the tribe of Oorootookee. Purchasing some tools in the Strand for him, previously to his leaving England, he was much struck with the convenient form of a common bill-hook." I purchased three for him," adds Mr. S. " and brandishing one of them, in a sort of ecstasy, he exclaimed• Matta, matta, Oorootookee'—I will kill Oorootookee!", and he has no doubt that he'll keep his word.

In chapter xi. we find a vocabulary of the language, sufficient, Mr. S. thinks, to make the navigator understood, on common topics. The words abound in vowels, and some of them are, to our ears, very expressive-for instance, whistling, ugheeo, and breech, pah pah; but water they call whey, and noise, mum, mum, mum. P. 109.

The twelfth chapter relates to their music, which, with the shape of their instruments and their mode of dancing, partakes of much indecency. "General observations" of some importance then follow, and the work concludes with several curious particulars respecting Moyhanger, the native of New Zealand.

The style of the work is unadorned and the matter it contains worthy of attention. After our review we need not say that it is amusing.

Old Friends in a new Dress; or, familiar Fables, in Verse, adorned with Cuts, 6d. Darton, 1807.

THERE is no more compendious, forcible, and interesting mode of conveying moral instruction than through the medium of fable. The ingenious author of this versification of several of Esop's fables was aware that by printing them, as they usually appear, with the moral detached, the fable is read and the moral neglected, the cake is eat, and the task left undone; he has therefore prudently "endeavoured to interweave the moral with the subject," in which he has succeeded, and we gladly recommend his work to our young friends, both for their instruction and amusement. As a specimen we shall quote Fable vi.

THE FOX AND THE MASK.

"A fox around a toyman's shop

Was walking, as the story goes,

When at a mask he made a stop;

(But, how he came there, no one knows).

"The mask was beautiful and fair,

As nice a mask as e'er was made;

And for a lady meant to wear,

At the Pantheon masquerade.

"He turn'd it round with much surprise,
To find it prove so light and thin:
How strange!' at length, poor Reynard cries,
Here's nose, and eyes, and mouth, and chin,

"And cheeks, and lips, and all so pretty :
And yet one thing there still remains
To make it perfect; what a pity!.
So fine a head should have no brains!'

"Thus, to some boy or girl so pretty,
Who, to get learning, takes no pains,
May we exclaim, ah! what a pity!

So fine a head should have no brains."

George the Third, a Novel. 3 Vols. Carpenter. 1807.

THIS novel is of a very superior description to those published by Messrs. Lane, Phillips, &c. At the taste of the latter in

literature many have marvelled, but a little consideration would have removed the cause. Of Mr. Phillips one principle governs both the mental and sensual taste, consequently, being a man who prefers boiled turnips* to roast beef, he may, with much consistency, be allowed to hold any weak, insipid effusion of human dulness in greater estimation than that solid literature, which strengthens the stamina of the understanding,

The author of this work is a man of some talent and judg ment. He shines particularly in irony, of which we have a good specimen in "a few general directions" for the conduct of Oxonians. It is a happy imitation of Swift's directions to servants. We have no room to quote from novels, but one passage from these instructions, which relates to a crying evil, we shall not deny ourselves the pleasure of transcribing.

"With respect to the amusement of ridiculing the established religion, I must observe, that nothing can be more justifiable: Addison and Newton were of a different opinion: but who are Addison and Newton! or, why should you and I be expectod to think as they did? Besides, they were no judges of the subject in question; for, by all accounts, they were a couple of flats, without any taste for the innocent recreations morosely prohibited by Christianity; a system full of inconsistencies, by the bye: amongst the rest, I remember it says something of Omnipotence being both just and merciful, which philosophers know to be an absolute impossibility. This is a fine hint, which you may enlarge upon at your evening meetings, where you should remain to cultivate free inquiry and improve your reason, instead of going to chapel or lecture, where, depend upon it, you could learn nothing." P. 82-83.

He concludes his directions with this pleasant remark.

"They are all practicable, and have the advantage of being easiest to those whose capacities are most limited." P. 92.

There is much good sense, unaccompanied by novelty, dispersed in these volumes, the first of which is far the most entertaining. The whole would, perhaps, have appeared better in essays, since little interest is preserved through the want of artifice in the fable. The heads of the chapters, being continually in

*He is a Ritsonite, who abstains from animal food, and perhaps, like his great master, enforces the same doctrine with his cat, tying her up while the mice eat his cheese in safety. Mr. P. has been chosen sheriff!! The first, we believe, of the family of Nebuchadnezzar.