BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Great Britain. 1. Attica and Athens; an Inquiry into the Civil, Moral, and Religious Institutions of the Inhabitants, the Rise and Decline of the Athenian power, &c. &c. &c. Translated from the German of K. O. Müller, Grotefend, Gruber, and others. By John Ingram Lockhart, F. R. A. S. London: Groombridge. Frederick, may be partly judged of by the fact, that, during the comparatively brief period of its continuance, it cost the belligerent powers no less than lated that he himself lost 180,000 soldiers and 1500 853,000 men, dead. Among these, Frederick calcuofficers, killed in battle, or who died of their wounds, though the number of officers lost altogether, by the sword, by casualties, and by disease, amounted to 4000. The Russians lost, in four great battles, 120,000 men; the Austrians lost, in ten battles, 140,000 men; the allied English and Germans, 160,000; the Swedes, 25,000; the petty Princes of the Empire, 28.000. The details of this extraordinary contest we earnestly commend to the attention of our readers. They are related, in this work, with laudable succinciness, and form a mass of military facts and incidents that every soldier should have at his fingers' end. 3. The Cold Water System; an Essay exhibiting the real merits and most safe and effectual employment of this excellent System in Indigestion, Costiveness, Asthma, Cough, Consumption, Rheumatism, Gout, etc., with Cautionary Remarks addressed to people of extreme opinions, and some New Cases. By Thomas J. Graham, M. D., Graduate of the University of Glasgow, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London. Notwithstanding the many volumes which have been written by Englishmen upon Athens and Greece, we cannot doubt that the researches of those erudite and patient German scholars, who have more recently turned their attention to investigations connected with this the most interesting spot of earth to scholars of every nation, will be appreciated by classical readers in England. The work is illustrated by The fourth volume will be more full of attraction Müller's Map of Attica, and Plan of Ancient to the general reader than perhaps any other in the Athens.-Tait's Magazine. work; and no part of it will be read with more in2. On the Perspirator; an Effectual Domestic Re-tense interest and curiosity than that which relates medy for immediately checking Inflammatory Dis-to the intercourse of Frederick with the Literati of orders by equalizing Circulation and restoring is nothing in comedy or in satire so piquant and Europe, and especially with those of France. There Perspiration, by a single Application; and curing entertaining as many of the anecdotes relating to Chills, Colds, Coughs, Fevers, &c., invented by the Frederick's intercourse with Voltaire, showing that Author, with a Few Observations on Perspiration the greatest men have their littlenesses and weakand the Means of preventing its Suppression. By nesses, the wisest their follies.-United Service M. La Beaume, Medical Galvinist to the Queen, Magazine. &c. Second Edition, 12mo. Highley, Fleet St. M. La Beaume's celebrity as a Medical Galvinist entitles him to every confidence. He tells us in this little work that he has invented a simple apparatus by which that most necessary operation commonly called Perspiration may be immediately occasioned. The testimonies he gives as to the applicability and utility of his invention are such as must carry conviction to every mind, being from some of the first rate men in his own profession. If it were not known how slow men are to take a new remedy Dr. Graham, who is well known to the public by when first offered to them, it would be difficult to his previous valuable works on Medical Science, account for its not being as regularly adopted in here enters on the consideration of the Water Cure, any house as a tea-kettle or poker. Its application a subject which has recently excited much attention on the first symptoms of cold or fever would save both in England and on the continent. With the the lives of many individuals, and prevent numercaution which becomes the scientific investigator, ous diseases that by neglect terminate, if not fatal- Dr. Graham institutes the inquiry how far the system is entitled to consideration, and having, as he ly, most expensively and ruinously. Were it more fully known, the old cumbrous and inefficient mode considers, ascertained its real value, he proves, in of endeavoring to obtain sudorific relief by hot the work before us, its applicability, showing in water would be for ever banished. We say, there- what cases it may be available, and endeavoring, in fore, first buy the work, and then do as you like the several diseases named in the title-page, to point about purchasing the apparatus.-Monthly Maga-out its proper limits. To those who are really desirous of information on the subject, we have no doubt Dr. Graham's book will prove a valuable assistant; for whilst, as we have said, he endeavors to assign to this powerful remedy its proper limits, his conclusions appear in many cases to be decidedly favorable to it. The auxiliaries to its employment are in these pages ably pointed out, and we think all who are really interested in the subject would do well attentively to peruse this valuable essay.— Metropolitan Magazine. zine. 3. Frederick the Great and His Times. Edited by The third volume is exclusively devoted to that great feature in the life of Frederick which proved him to be the greatest military genius of the age, and which, the more it is considered and dwelt on, the more it will be felt to have fixed him on a pinnacle of military glory that no other great Captain had at that period reached, and which only one other among crowned heads has since soared above. We allude to the Seven Years' War,-a war in which, after conducting it single handed against almost the whole of Europe for that period, he closed with even more glory to himself than he had achieved during the whole of its progress,-a war, the astonishing results, no less than the astonishing difficulties of which to 1. Germany. German Poets of the present Time. By Augustus Nodnagel. Darmstadt. M. Nodnagel's book, if continued in the manner in which it is begun (for it is published in numbers) will be found even more useful in England than in his own country. He gives a biography of the German poets of the day, with specimens of their works: illustrated with copious notes, and a resumé of all the critiques upon them, pro and con, which have appeared in the various periodicals. Thus, with a very little trouble, is the reader put into the possession of a quantity of information, which, without such assistance, it would be impossible to obtain. The first number treats of Freiligrath and Eidendorff, | SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. and a notice of the most celebrated living poets is promised.-Foreign Quarterly Review. france. 1. Lessons on the Philosophy of Nature, delivered species modified by climate, food. etc.-Revue Crit. Under this title M. de Marquessac takes a rapid but well executed review of the conflict between Napoleon and the English. It is a brilliant tableau, in which he attempts to set forth clearly the march of English policy, and gives some curious details both of the events of that period and of men of high standing who distinguished themselves by the acceptance of their views and by their talents. With an impartiality which does him honor, he does justice to all, and no more withholds praise from the great qualities of Pitt and Fox, than blame from the faults of Napoleon. The book - is, in its spirit, essentially French, for its end is to prove, that it belongs to France to exercise a kind of dom. inion, at least intellectual, over all other nations. GREAT BRITAIN. The Scottish Peasant's Fireside: a series of Tales and Sketches, illustrating the character of Scotland. By Alexander Bethune. On the "Tracts for the Times." By Rev. J. Buchanan. Campaign of 1812 in Russia. Translated from the German of General Carl von Clausewitz. Observations on the principal Medical Institutions and Practice of France, Italy, and Germany; with notices of the Universities and Climates, and illustrative cases. By E. Lee, M. R. C. S. 2d edition. Life in Mexico, during a Residence of Two Years in that Country. By Madame C de la B—. With a Preface, by W. H. Prescott. Philosophical Works of John Locke; with a Preliminary Discourse and Notes. By J. A. St. John, Esq. Poetical Works of John Milton; with a Memoir of Critical Remarks on his Genius and Writings. By James Montgomery. GERMANY. Kirchliche Statistik oder Darstellung der gesammten christlichen kirche nachihrem gegenwartigen aussern und innern zustande von Julius Wiggers, Prof. in Rostock. Hamburg. Die Lehre des Pelagius, ein Beitrag zur Leipzig. FRANCE. Voyage pittoresque en Espagne, en Portugal, et sur la cote d'Afrique, de Tanger a Tetoutan. Par M. J. Taylor. Etudes sur le Timee de Platon, avec le texte et la traduction du Dialogue, par M. Henri Martin, Professeur littérature ancienne à la Faculté de Rennes. Le Mariage au point de vue chretien: ouvrage specialement addressé aux jeunes femmes du monde. Histoire de la Peinture au Moyen Age. Par Emrie David. Mirabeau et l'Assemblée constituante, appendice formant le t 'ème de l'Histoire du règne de Louis XVI. pendant la révolution française. Par J. Droz. ITALY. According to our author, the mission of Napoleon was to establish, by war, that preponderance, which is more and more recognized by other peoples. He sees Germany and Russia already French. England alone resists, and seems to wish to enwrap herself still more in her egoistical isolation. With Fabbiche le, e i Disegni di Andrea Pallahim there are but two rival powers-France, which he thinks destined to regenerate the world, and dio e le terme. Nuova edizione sulla vicen England, to which he allots the position of a re-tinese di Bertotti Scamozzi formita di note volted vassal.-Revue Critique. del Caval. Celest. Froppiani. INDEX TO VOLUME I., UNITED SERIES, A. Alison's History of Europe, Borrowing, Philosophy of,. FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1843. China-Opium War, Progress of, 1 125 512 202 354 252, 338 34 474 35 176 227 of Sciences; Paris, Population of 136-A O. Obituary: Allen, Dr. Alexander 142-Bou- Alexander Csoma de Koros, Author's Omnibus, 209 Areopagus, Scene at, 481 American Treaty, B. China and Christianity, Criminal Trials, American, Chatterton and his Works, . 38 139. Dickens's Notes, Daguerreotyping, Natural,. 419 Paris, Letters from D'Arblay, Madame Edgeworth, Miss, 162 327 407 229 345 403 Poetry: Amor Patriæ 402-Birth-days 125 R. Sévigné, Madame de, 179 S. 289 397 Switzerland, Residence in, Siberia, Conquest of, Switzerland, Tour in, Strutt's Calabria and Sicily, Secret Communication in Ancient Armies 501 M. Macaulay's Lays of Ancient Rome, Eclipse; French Scientific Congress; Fatty U. United States, Prospect of, W. 415 537 72 160 245 343 393 497 349 396 |