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time the waters of the well are supposed to possess | distinct, his Scotch accent was disagreeably harsh. 139 more miraculous powers than at any other period. These rites are performed in the morning in the afternoon a fair is held, at which all the old Cornish exercises of wrestling, quoiting, and single stick, are kept up with much spirit.-Ibid.

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As a lawyer he was not considered of the first order. On the passing of the Reform Bill, Mr. Spankie contested the representation of Finsbury, on which occasion he was returned with the Right. Hon. R. Grant. Mr. Spankie wrote one of the very best pamphlets in favor of Parliamentary Reform, and occasionally voted with the opposition. On the disentered the House of Commons as a Reformer, but solution in 1835, he declared himself favorable to a Conservative Government, and was ejected by the present member, T. S. Duncombe, Esq. The deceased married a daughter of Mr. Manning, a London merchant, by whom he has left a large family. Mr. Spankie possessed strong natural abilities, and in any situation of life must have distinguished himself. When a parliamentary reporter, he possessed the greatest influence with his associates, and displayed a strong leaning towards Conservatism.Globe.

POPULATION OF ANCIENT ROME.-Dr. Loudon of Paris, in his late work on population, of which we propose giving a more extended notice, asserts that ancient Rome, in her greatest splendor, contained 8,000,000 souls. M. de la Maille, and the modern French academicians generally, will scarcely admit that there ever were more than from 400,000 to 500,000, inhabitants within the walls of the Eternal City. O her antiquaries are equally contradictory. Gibbon and Hume supposed the numbers to have been 1,000,000. Mr. Jacob, in his history of the precious metals, has calculated them at 1,200,000; so did Brottier, the celebrated commentator on Tacitus. The late Professor Nibby, in his Roma Antiqua, conjectured that the citizens, strangers, and slaves, with their children, must have reached last received bring the melancholy news, of the DEATH OF DR. CHANNING.-The Boston papers 2,000,000. Chateaubriand reckons 3,000,000. Jus- death of Dr. Channing. He expired at Bennington, tus Linaius and Mengotti computed them at 4,000, Vermont, on the evening of Sunday, the 2d of 000. Iasac Vossius allowed the possibility of 8,000, October. His disease was, it is stated, typhus fever. 000, perhaps, said he, 14,000,000. There are stili He was in the 62d year of his age. He had long more extravagant calculations on this obscure point been in a feeble state of health, which had compelof archaeology. Rolefinchus and several other wri-led him to relinquish active pastoral duties. The ters have actually declared their belief that in the following sketch of his life and character appears time of the early emperors there were conglomerated on the seven hills, and on the banks of the Tiber, in the New York Evening Post: around the seven hills, upwards of 27,000,000 of human beings. Amidst this discrepancy of opinions, it is probable that the notion of 8,000,000 of souls in ancient Rome, as maintained by Dr. Loudon, is that which is the most correct, being founded on 15 different statistical facts drawn from the ancient authors, each leading to the same conclusion. In the year 1377, when Gregory XI. was pontiff, the city of Rome contained no more than 17,000 people! At present the entire numbers do not exceed 160, 000. How mutable are human events! Albion, the Botany Bay of Rome, is now the mistress of the world. The Palatine-hill is partly occupied by an English College, and a large portion of it is owned by an Englishman, Mr. C. Mills.-Ibid.

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MR. SERGEANT SPANKIE.-This eminent lawyer, who has for some days past been suffering greatly, expired on Wednesday morning, between six and seven o'clock, at his town residence in Russellsquare, Bloomsbury. Mr. Spankie was long known as one of the leading barristers in the Court of Common Pleas. He commenced his career on the Morning Chronicle (then the property of Mr. Perry) nearly half a century since, and was considered one of the best parliamentary reporters of his day. He was for some years the editor of the Morning Chronicle. He resigned that situation on being called to the bar in 1808. Having strong interest a! the India house (through his marriage), he was appointed Attorney-General of Bengal, and repaired io India, where he practised with the greatest success, and was rapidly making a fortune, when he was seized with an affection of the liver, and compelled to return to England. Having recovered his health at home he was appointed standing-counsel to the East India Company, a situation of a very lucrative nature. He was a powerful and clever speaker, but, though his elocution was clear and

Island. His grandfather was William Ellery, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence. Dr. Channing was born at Newport, Rhode His father was an eminent merchant of Newport, of the firm of Gibbs and Channing His grandfather retained the powers of his mind to extreme old age, being accustomed to read one or more chapters which he continued until he was upwards of ninety years of age. He once remarked that, if old men every morning in his Greek Testament—a practice would exercise their minds more, they would retain their intellectual faculties as long as they did their physical powers. Dr. Channing inherited the vigorous intellect of this revered relative.

formed, but Dr. Channing himself, though for many Of the doctor's father we are not particularly inyears an invalid, was, in early life, quite vigorous, Though small in stature, and possessing a light frame, he had muscular strength, and in college was considered an athletic young man. He was also one of the leading spirits in his class his collegiate course his friends expected that he During a part of would, on taking his degree, pursue the study of istry by the Hollis professor of divinity in Harvard medicine; but his attention was turned to the minCollege, where Dr. Channing graduated mencement, when he took the degree of A. B., he had a distinguished part, and was then looked upon by competent judges as one of the most promising young men of the day. Soon after he went to Virginia, where he resided some time, we believe, as a teacher. neglect of his health, to have undermined his conHere he was supposed, by exposure or stitution. He never fully recovered the robust state of health which he had previously enjoyed.

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congregation in Federal-street, Boston. "he lines
In 1803 Mr. Channing was ordained over the
between the Orthodox and Unitarian denominations
were not, at that day, so distinctly drawn as they are
not in general use.
at the present time. In fact, the term Unitarian was
a serious-minded young preacher of irreproachable
Mr. Channing was considered
morals. with a cultivated mind, refined taste, unique
eloquence, and leaning to evangelical views in th
ology. The Rev. Dr. Mason, of this city, and other
stanch divines of orthodox sentiments, in different
parts of the country, used to preach in Mr. Chan-

ning's pulpit. Circumstances occasioned a more | cause of peace, and by his tongue and pen did all he marked division of theological men, not many years could to avert the calamities of war. In fine, howafter, and Mr. Channing's preaching and theologi-ever much men might dislike his theological opincal writings assumed a more decided character. His ions, no one who knew him could fail to prize his celebrated sermon at Baltimore at the ordination of purity of character, his inflexible integrity, his lofty the Rev. Jared Sparks (the historian) made this purposes, his literary taste, his eloquence, and his division more complete. Mr. Channing's con-able discussions. His death is a great loss, not only gregation increased-his people erected a more to his family but to the city where he resided, to the spacious edifice on the site of the old church-and a country which gave him birth, to the cause of letters colleague, the Rev. Mr. Gannett, was associated and freedom throughout the world. with him in the charge of the congregation.

Dr. Channing's published sermons during the war WILLIAM HONE.The author of the " Every Day of 1812 brought him into general notice throughout Book,' the Year Book,' the Table Book,' all exthe country. Subsequently his review of the writ- | cellent works, genial in character, and as extensive. ings of Milton, the character of Napoleon Bona-ly read as any in our modern literature, died on parte, and other able performances, established his Sunday last, at Grove Place, Tottenham. reputation among the eminent scholars and belles lettres writers of the country and the world. The taunt of the Edinburgh Review, at an early period, that Dr Channing "touched lofty keys, but with no very great force," was not echoed by the numerous readers and admirers of his writings. Dr. Channing's publications on the subject of American slav-struction as he could pick up at a dame school, ery have attracted no little attention throughout this country and Europe. He belonged to no anti-slavery society-be even doubted the wisdom of these associations-but he was an uncompomising enemy to slavery, and thought, spoke, and wrote accord ingly. One of the latest, if not the last, public performances of Dr. Channing was on the 1st of August, the anniversary of emancipation in the British West Indies, when he delivered a discourse in Berk-tive duties of his life. Though he had enough, and shire County, Massachusetts. A report of it was published, and attracted the admiration even of those who do not espouse the cause in behalf of which Dr. Channing directed so much labor and sympathy.

Mr. Hone was born at Bath, on the 3rd of June, 1780, but his parents removed soon afier to London and his father was employed for many years as a writing clerk in an attorney's office, into which his son was introduced at a very early age; his whole previous education having been limited to such inThough a mere boy at the time, Mr. Hone, we have heard, took an active interest in the proceedings of the London Corresponding Society, and in conse quence his father sought for, and obtained a situaion for him in the country. Mr. Hone married early, and opened a little circulating library, where he sold prints and stationery; his wife attending to the business, while he himself followed the more acmore than enough, to do to provide for the wants of an increasing family, Mr. Hone, always zealous in what he considered the public good, was instrumental in bringing under the consideration of govern Dr. Channing was a man of great independence of tent the subject of Savings Banks, which have since mind. He was never swayed by popular applause been so extensively and beneficially introduced all to do an act which his principles condemned. He over Europe. In 1807 he commenced bookseller in paid no respect to men on account of their wealth or the Strand, and took a prominent part in what he office. He honored moral worth wherever he found called the "O. P. Row." He wrote many of the it. His sermons on the paternal character of God, squibs, the only pleasant recollections we have of on the loveliness of the example of Jesus Christ, on that very silly affair. Soon after he became bankthe evidences of Christianity, and on political and rupt, and from that hour to the day of his death, his moral integrity, are admirable. He spoke out, in life was one of unsuccessful struggle. But Mr. intelligible terms, on conjugal infidelity and licen- Hone was not a man to be beaten down by private tiousness. In the pulpit his gravity and solemnity misfortune, and at this very time he took part in exceeded that of most preachers, and many who getting up the grand procession which was to acboast of more correct theological principles might company Sir Francis Burdett on his liberation from have taken useful lessons from him, not only in the the Tower. Enthusiastic and sincere himself, he pulpit, but in all his social circles. In all circum- was proportionately disappointed and mortified stances his feelings were under great self-command. | when the Baronet, after sanctioning, or at least perOn one occasion, at a dinner party, where a distin-mitting, those public manifestations of rejoicing, guished orthodox clergyman overstepped the bound- slunk away by water, and left his friends to return aries of propriety, Dr. Channing remarked to a per- with their flags and banners and decorated carriage, son near him, "A strange man that." On another but without the golden calf. An anecdote relating occasion, when the andience were greatly affected to this processional affair, will show the temper by the eloquence of a distinguished preacher, a pro- of many parties at the time. Lady Augusta fessional brother, whose feelings were easily exci- Murray, with her sister, son and daughter, like ted, expressed astonishment that Dr. Channing ap- thousands of humble people, all anxiety to see the peared to be so little moved. “My tears," said Dr. show, and testify their sympathy, were at Mr. Channing," are not so near my eyes as yours are." Hone's house. They had the drawing-room to Dr. Channing had great contempt for ephemeral themselves, and their presence might not be genepopularity, for office-hunting, for the airs often as-rally known; "for you know," she said. "I must sumed by upstart aristocrats, for the tricks and compliances of politicians. What was worthy of esteem and veneration in men, whether they were rich or poor, white or colored, he reverenced, and could look down upon arrogance, folly, and the unprincipled, with pity and virtuous indignation. His elocution, as has been intimated, was peculiar; his eloquence unlike that of any other man. His preachings and his writings were corroborated by a life of high moral character.

Dr. Channing was the poor man's friend and advocate. He prized the principles of our government, but was chiefly anxious that the people should be righteous rather than prosperous. He loved the

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be careful lest I pay for my patriotism with my pension." From this period Mr. Hone devoted his leisure to literature, and wrote for many of the magazines and newspapers. In public life he took an active part in the inquiries, then forced on the public by the exertions of individuals, into the abuses in lunatic asylums. It was about 1815 that he became generally known as a publisher of political sketches and satires; these were illustrated by George Cruikshank, then in the freshness of youth, and they first brought the artist into fame. In 1818 Mr. Hone was prosecuted for a profane libel, as it was called, though, in truth, a mere satire on the ministers and government of the day. He was, after the

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fashion of the lawyers, charged with three several publications, or three several offences. At the first trial, Mr. Justice Abbott presided; and an anecdote was current at the time, that the Judge on his way home called on Lord Ellenborough to announce Hone's acquittal. “How did you charge?" inquired Lord Ellenborough; “Constitutionally," said Abbott. Lord Ellenborough paused for a moment, and then added, "I will go to him myself to-morrow." He did so. But Mr. Hone, who conducted his own defence with extraordinary energy, and ability, again triumphed. The putting him a third time on his trial, was a proof how temper could master reason; he was a third time acquitted; and the public now so generally sympathized with him, that the sum of three thousand pounds was, we believe, raised for him by subscription. many ways of obtaining a livelihood for his large After this, Mr. Hone tried family, but was not successful; and when illness was added to his misfortunes, he suffered, we fear, many privations. Even the property which resulted from the extensive sale of his Every Day Book' and Year Book,' served only to provide for the necessities of the hour; and the Year Book' was completed, if we mistake not, at so much a sheet.

GRACE DARLING.-In an account of the death of Grace Darling, in the Durham Advertiser, it is stated that she had been removed from Longstone Lighthouse, on the recommendation of her medical attendant to Bamborough, where she remained for a short time under the care of Mr. Fender, surgeon. Finding herself no better, she desired to be removed to Wooler, for change of air. Her wish was complied with, but, alas! she found no relief, and, at the request of her father, she met him at Alnwick, with a view to proceed to Newcastle for further medical advice. The Duchess of Northumberland having heard of the arrival of the heroine of Longstone at Alnwick, immediately procured for her a comfortable lodging in an airy part of the town, supplied her with every thing requisite, and sent her Grace's own medical attendant to give her the ben efit of his advice; all, however, was of no avail, and it was deemed advisable to remove her once more to Bamborough, where she arrived only ten days before her dissolution. For some time previous to her death she was perfectly aware that her latter end was approaching, but this gave her no uneasiness. She had been nurtured in the fear and love of God and dependence on the merits of her Redeemer, and her hope of mercy increased as her bodily strength diminished. She was never heard to utter a complaint during her illness, but exhibited the utmost Christian resignation throughout. Shortly before her death she expressed a wish to see as many of her relations as the peculiar nature of their employments would admit of, and, with surprising fortitude and self-command, she delivered to each of them some token of remembrance. This done, she calmly awaited the approach of death, and finally resigned her spirit into the hands of Him who gave it, without a murmur. The celebrity which this amiable female had acquired effected no change in her conduct or demeanor. She was from her earliest years of a meek, kind, and gentle disposition, and so she continued to the last moment of her existence. Having been once asked how she could think of continuing to reside upon a barren rock after having become so celebrated, and why she did not come on shore and enjoy the gayeties of life, she replied, "Had you seen the awful wreck of the Forfarshire, the melancholy sight would have been more than sufficient to have driven the pleasures of this world out of your mind for life." The funeral took place at Bamborough on Monday last, and was very numerously attended.

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ningham cannot be recorded here without feeiings ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.-The death of Allan Cunof deeper intelest than are usually consequent on such announcements. yet another literary man called away from a remarkable circle, already seriously narrowed by Whether we regard him as Time-as a type of the poetical spirit developing itself under circumstances which increasing cultivation will make more and more rare-or as one who, some years since, lent an efficient hand in aid of our own labors,-his death awakens in us thoughts and reflections which cannot be fully developed at the moment. It comes touchingly home to us.

was born at Blackwood, in Dumfrieshire, late in Allan Cunningham, the fourth son of his parents, the last century. Though his family was in hum longed to the peasant class, in the common acceptable circumstances, it can hardly be said to have betion of the word: for a biographical memoir, published some years since, tells us that one of the poet's ancestors, by taking the side of Montrose, lost for the family their patrimony in Ayrshire. Such a tradition, however, is, in some sort, an inheritance, spirit. Then, again, his father was the possessor of to one endowed with Allan Cunningham's poetical a few good books, and the treasurer of those antique "a man," to quote the poet's own words, "fond of legends, which abound on the banks of the Solway; collecting all that was characteristic of his country, and possessing a warm heart, lively fancy, benevolent humor, and pleasant happy wit." masters Allan was less lucky. The two men under whose care he was successively placed, were sturdy In his schooland precise Cameronians. He was taken from school when eleven years old, and apprenticed to a mason. Little calculated as such a position might seem, to allow much leisure for cultivation, it is certain that from an early age Allan must have been a diligent and miscellaneous reader; while to foster his tastes for song and tradition, there were "Ro'kings" and trystes of Nithsdale, at which neither the labor nor the mirth was thought complete, without some ditty being sung, or some story recited by one of those vagrants,-the prototypes of Scott's Edie Ochiltree-who rambled from homestead to homestead maintaining themselves after the fashion of the tale-tellers of the East. The traces of these early studies and early habits were never effaced from his works. While his prose and poetry displayed a variety of fancy, which one poorer in allusion could not have maintained, they never lost, to the last, the echo and the savor of a joyous, pastoral district. There is all the freshness and geniality of an open air-life in every line Allan Cunningham wrote, without a trace of that monotony which accompanies the lucubrations of those who, well read in the pages of nature, are familiar with few other books besides.

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ham's name began first to be seen in print; one of It was about the year 1810 that Allan Cunninghis earliest appearances being as a contributor to Cromek's 'Remains of Nithsdale and Galloway Song. Most of the old fragments, which there bear his name, were recast,-not a few were fabricated by him. Some of his ballads in this collection are exquisitely tender, touching and beautiful. We have not forgotten the Lord's Marie,' or 'It's Hame,' or that wild and picturesque dream, 'The Mermaid of Galloway.' In the year 1810, too, according to the memoir already cited, our poet came to seek his fortune in London. This advanced progressively, thanks to his own prudence and industry. By turns he tried most of the means of which a literary man can avail himself: reported for a newspaper, and wrote for the periodicals, being one among the variously-gifted and brilliant company who gave life to the London Magazine More substantial labors, such as 'Sir Marmaduke Maxwell,'

he would not change or renew his outward clothing or shave his beard until justice should be done him. The revolution of 1830 seemed, however, to have released him from his vow, for shortly afterwards he doffed his rags, shaved his beard, and enlarged his walks to the Boulevards. On Tuesday, at two called the man with a long beard, was struck with apoplexy as he entered the gate of the house, No. 221, in the Rue St. Honoré. He was carried to the Hotel de Lyons, Rue Pierre Lescot, where he had resided the last seventeen years. Medical men were immediately called in, but all their endeavors to restore animation proved unavailable. Duclos had been indisposed during the last eight days, and was advised to enter a hospital. His pride was shocked at such an idea: I must walk to the end,' was his reply. He kept his word, for it was in repairing from his hotel to the Palais Royal, to take his usual walk, that he fell dead. Duclos moved formerly in the most fashionable circles of Bordeaux, but, after exhausting all his resources, came to try his fortune in Paris. M. de Peyronnet and other Royalists, his friends, offered him various situations which he declined accepting, because they did not come up to his expectations. He resolved to lead in Paris the same life he had led in Bordeaux; but he was unable to keep it up any time, and, falling all at once into extremes, he became the cynic which Paris beheld during the last twenty years. He was sixty-eight years of age.”—Bri

a drama, the novels' Paul Jones,' and 'Sir Michael Scott,' with the 'Songs of Scotland, attested in succession his literary industry. Meanwhile his other craft was not forgotten. He obtained a situation in the studio of Sir Francis Chantrey, and this he continued worthily to occupy till his own death. It was, probably, by this advantageous circum-o'clock in the afternoon, Chodrin Duclos, who was stance, that Allan Cunningham's attention was first drawn to Art. His British Painters, Sculptors, and Architects' will long be a popular work; since, though its writer falls short of that calm and farsighted knowledge which is every year increasingly demanded of the English critic, the spirit of poetry is every where present in it. One of the memoirs -The Life of Blake'-is a contribution to our national biography, which will live, as being, after its kind, little less exquisite than Johnson's famous apology for Richard Savage. Besides this work, Mr. Cunningham published, during the last fifteen years, a series of illustrations to Major's Gallery of Pictures The Maid of Elvar,' a poem; The Life of Burns;' and 'Lord Roldan,' a romance. was generally understood, that he had made considerable progress in an extended edition of Johnson's Lives of the Poets: and he put the finishing touches to his 'Memoirs of Sir David Wilkie' but two days before his own decease. This was caused by a paralytic seizure: for some previous months, however, his health had been very infirm; and the shock of his loss will be mitigated to his attached family by the remembrance that he passed away from among them peacefully, free from all pain, and, as the first record of his death tells us, kind of solemn stillness."

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The office held by the late Solomon Herschel, D. D., (Chief Rabbi of the Eastern Synagogue), has become extinct by that gentleman's death; the committee for regulating the ecclesiastical affairs of the Jewish boly having passed a resolution, about two years since, that the office should be abolished at the death of its then occupant. The salary of the late Rabbi is stated to have been 1,000 per annum; and a considerable addition to his income was derived yearly from presents of various descriptions from the more wealthy members of his nation. Morning Chronicle.

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DR. ALEXANDER ALLEN -The daily papers announce the death of Dr. Allen, after a few weeks' illness, on Sunday last, Nov. 6th, at Hackney, in the twenty-ninth year of his age. This intelligence will be read with regret by all who are interested in the advancement of classical learning. The works of Dr. Allen. of which the number is really extraordinary, considering his age, evince more than usual stores of learning, united with The work by which Dr. sagacity and acuteness Allen is best known to scholars- An Etymological Analysis of Latin Verbs'-was published when he was only two-and-twenty, and contains. as was REV. E. J. DANIEL.-The death of Mr. Daniel remarked in this journal at the time of publication, took place at Adelia, on the coast of Lycia, 30th (Athen. No. 450), the most complete developement last September. With Mr. Fellowes and Mr. Ha- of the principles of the Latin language that has milton, he was one of the most ardent explorers of yet appeared in an English form. This work not Asia Minor; and his admirable drawings of re-only excited the attention and obtained the apmarkable places are spoken of with enthusiastic praise by his surviving fellow-laborers. His private virtues, literary acquirements, and amiable manners, are also remembered with sincere sorrow for his loss.-Lit. Gaz.

THE PARIS SOLITARY.-We lately gave, from the lively pen of Jules Janin, a sketch of Chodrin Duclos The following less attractive, but more authentic, account of this singular person, from the Commerce, has only lately met our eye:-" Every person who has been in Paris during the last twenty five years will recollect a man of powerful stature, wearing a long beard, who throughout the day promenaded the gallery of the Palais Royal. The subjoined account of his death will be read with some interest, when it shall be recollected that the unfortunate man had figured not only in good society, but in some of the leading political events of the restoration. He distinguished himself at that period at Bordeaux as an ultra-Royalist, fought several duels, and, if I remember rightly, in some instances had the misfortune to leave his opponents dead on the ground. Being disappointed in his expectations from his party, particularly by that which he deemed the unkindness of his friend and countryman, Count de Peyronnet, he vowed that

proval of our most distinguished scholars, but was also noticed in a flattering manner by several German philologists; and it was from the University of Leipzig that he received, in consequence, the honorary degree of Dr. of Philosophy.

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Dr. Allen was born at Hackney, September 23d, 1814, and was the son of Mr. John Allen, who is know to theological students by his translation of 'Calvin's Institutes,' and his History of Modern Judaism.' He received his early education in his father's school, at Hackney, and completed his studies at University College, London where he signalized himself by his great proficiency in the learned languages. But Dr. Allen's studies were by no means confined to the classical languages. Few men were better acquainted with the formation and early history of our own language. He had collected materials for an extensive work upon this subject, and had for two or three years preceding his death been actively engaged in the study of the Anglo-Saxon, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and several of the Teutonic languages. But we fear that he had not reduced any of his works to a form fit for publication; and this loss is not one of the smallest that the literary world has to deplore in his death.-Athenæum.

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well as the facts inseparable from the subjects handled, are so satisfactorily and briefly disclosed and arranged. The production is a model of its kind in every particular and sense.-Monthly Review.

3. The Anatomy of Sleep; or the Art of procuring sound and refreshing Slumber at will. By Edward Binns, M. D. Churchill, 1842.

Dr. Binns has produced a very curious work, which, apart from its specific object, abounds with amusing matter, comprehending the phenomena of dreams, mesmerism, somnambulism, catalepsy, ecstasy (of which Lord Shrewsbury has published such remarkable examples in Italy), hallucinations, trances, etc. The author's theory is, that sleep is a faculty, the organ of which is situated in the spinal cord, between the cervicular and lumbar vertebræ, in the ganglia formed from the nerves given off by this portion of the spinal column. The mode of procuring sleep at will he prescribes as follows: "Let the patient turn on his right side, place his head comfortably on the pillow, so that it exactly

This interesting and elaborate production must find a ready acceptance with a very numerous class of readers: it undertakes to unfold the workings of Christianity, civilization, and commerce, in those countless Isles that constitute the watery world called Oceanica, and the mind of the writer appears to have been amply stored and abundantly active for the laborious task.-Paying less regard to the origin of the various Polynesian tribes, and the common source, if there be one, of their languages, the author has proceeded more directly to useful knowledge. Here the gradual development of the policy which Europeans have adopted, in their attempts to civilize and conciliate the Polynesians, is shown, and the results afford lessons of perma-occupies the angle a line drawn from the head to nent value to the statesman and philanthropist the shoulder would form, and then, slightly closing Amongst the difficult questions which present them- his lips, take rather a full inspiration, breathing as selves in the discharge of his labors, the author has much as he can through the nostrils. The lungs touched upon that of the Missionaries, their conduct, are then to be left to their own action, respiration their successes, their failures,—and it is not possible not being accelerated or retarded. The attention that more indifferent justice could have been renmust now be fixed upon the action in which the dered to any cause submitted for adjudication. As patient is engaged. He must depict to himself that for ourselves, we look on missionaries generally he sces the breath passing from his nostrils in a with admiration and respect and deprecate the continuous stream, and the very instant that he wholesale condemnation of these exemplary men, brings his mind to conceive this, apart from all because a few instances of presumption, supercil. other ideas, consciousness and memory depart; iousness, and political intrigue may be shown. We imagination slumbers; fancy becomes dormant; well remember a West Indian missionary, who was thought subdued; the sentient faculties lose their a disgrace not merely to his philanthropic profes- susceptibility; the vital or ganglionic system assion but to the human race, and rejoiced at learn-sumes the sovereignty, and he no longer wakes, ing that the magistracy of the settlement exercised but sleeps." summary justice upon him for his offences. Surely such an instance cannot for a moment weigh against the accumulation of benefits and blessings which Christian missionaries have conferred upon every part of the globe. It is not, however, to be concluded that" Polynesia" is devoted solely, or too much, to an account of missionary labors; it 1. Hand-book of Latin Etymology, by Ludwig Dötreats both minutely and extensively of politics and commerce; but so much are we indebted to these same maligned missionaries for our historical infor. Professor Döderlin has already exhibited his mation of the Pacific Archipelago, that the defence theory of the forming of Latin words, "in a copious of their amiable exertions necessarily presents it-treatise; and in the present little manual he offers

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"An Inquiry into the Civil, Moral, and Religious Institutions of the Inhabitants, the Rise and Deeline of the Athenian power, and the Topography and Chorography of Ancient Attica and Athens, with a Map and Plan." This is an indespensable book for the student, not less than to the classical tourist. Its minuteness and accuracy are extraordinary; presenting to us a notable example of German learning, enthusiasm, industry, and care; at the same time that the whole inquiry has been regulated by a philosophical spirit, and so as to elicit and produce philosophical views and perceptions. The clearest idea of what is intended and professed to be given over the wide and diversified field mentioned, is conveyed by this book. We know of no other work, in which the principles as

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derlein. Leipzig, 1841.

to the public an elaborate Latin Etymology in ac. cordance with the fundamental principles developed in the larger work, and in the method tenaciously adhered to by him. Althongh in a compendious form it embraces pretty much the entire linguical stores of the Latin idiom, and seeks either to trace back the several words to their roots, or, where this seems impossible, at least to compare them with their cognates, both native and foreign, in or der, as the author modestly says, to do his part of the preparatory work for a proper root-lexicon, whose composition shall be reserved for other hands at some future day. As in his theoretic treatise, so also here, the author has mostly introduced the Greek, and in juxtaposition often placed the German, both the old dialect (according to Grimm and Graff, sometimes also Adelung), and the new, and made use of them to illustrate the derivation of the Latin. Whilst this Etymology contains numerous accurate derivations, striking compositions and spirited comparisons, which often throw a new light over a whole series of words, it also presents, as was to be expected, many etymologies, in res

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