will now, for the first time, be brought to light. To this Mr. Bentham has added, in the form of tables, a view of the principal causes of complication and delay, and thence of vexation and expence, that have taken their rise under the technical or fee-gathering system of procedure, in which Judges have been observed to pay themselves in whole or in part, by fees. The Rev. T. F. Dibdin, is about to publish a new variorum edition of Sir Thomas More's Utopia. The text is from the first English edition of 1551; a book of considerable rarity, and scarcely known to Bibliographers and Lexicographers. Beneath the text, will be copious notes, and various readings from the Latin, French, and English Editions in cluding the whole of Dr. Warner's. The Utopia will be preceded by a Biographical and Literary Introduction; comprehending among other subjects a complete Catalogue Raisonné of the various editions of the Utopia h therto published. The work will be ornamented with some fac simile wood cuts. Mr. W. Bentham, principal Herald of Ireland, proposes to republish Lodge's Peerage of Ireland with some very valuable ad/ditions, founded on a variety of documents in his possession. Mr. Francis Baily has in the press, an Analytical Treatise on the doctrine of Interest and Annuities, which will contain several new and useful tables on the subject, together with their various applications to different questions in Finances Mr. Robert Buchanan is engaged on a work upon the subject of the teeth of Wheels. Mr. L. Cohen, has in the press, a splendid edition of a Controversial work entitled "Sacred Truths, addressed to the Children of Israel, residing in the British Empire and containing strictures on the "New Sanhedrin, and causes and consequences of the French Emperor's conduct towards the Jews, &c. written by W. Hamilton Reid," tending to shew that the Jews can gain nothing by altering their present belief, proving the local restoration to the land of promise, and demonstrating that Bonaparte is not the man, the promised Messiah." Speedily will be published, an Appeal to the Legislature and to the public; in answer to the hints of a Barrister, on the nature and effects of Evangelical Preaching, by an Evangelical Preacher. Proposals are issued for publishing, by subscription, a complete set of spelling and reading lessons adapted to Dr. Bell's plan of education; combining "most extraordinary Faculties of Instruction" with a considerable saving of the usua lexpence in books; particularly calculated for the use of Sunday schools, and other institutions for instructing the poorer classes of the community. Edited by an assistant at the Clerkenwell Parochial Sunday-School.These Lessons will consist of 44 Tables of Spelling, and 36 of Reading, divided into Classes and Companies.-Two or Three Sets will be sufficient even for the largest Institutions, and will last for many years, as the Scholars need not handle them. The Price to be One Guinea, for Three Sets--Half to be paid at the Time of subscribing (to cover the expence of paper), and the remainder on delivery of the lessons, which will be in about a Month after 100 Copies are subscribed for. With the lessons will be given a copy of the plan for using them, as adopted in the Clerkenwell Parochial Sunday School; together with complete sets of honorary Tickets for rewards, mon tors, &c. Proposals are circulated for printing, in one volume, 8vo. price 5s. an Essay on the Gospel dispensation, considered in connection with the moral government of God; shewing the whole of divine revelation to be a moral plan of exercising the natural powers of men, congenial with their character and present state, as intelligent accountable creatures and more particularly stating the true import of the gospel dispensation as addressed to sinners indefinitely; the proper grounds of their universal obligation to a due reception of it; and the rational consistency of conducting the christ an ministry on that plan. By the Rev. William Bennet, Author of Remarks on Dr. Williams's Hypothesis &c. On the first of May next will be published, a new Monthly Magazine, entirely devoted to the service of the Fine Arts, which will be called "Annals of Art, or the London Academical Journal." To contain usually a series of original Essays in the manner of "The Artist"-Collectanea * of every transaction worthy of recordTransactions of native and foreign societies connected with art-Works in hand, and other news of the world of art-Descriptions. of noble Collections-a candid Review of Publications on Art, Exhibitions, &c. Mr. Jay's Life of the Rev. Cornelius Winter, may be expected in a few days. Mr. Styles is engaged in writing an Apology for Evangelical Preaching; which will include Animadversions on the "Hints of a Barrister," an Article in the Edinburgh Review, and some other recent publications; and will be published in three Parts. ART. XXVII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. A Biographical Index to the House of Commons containing brief but correct notices of the lives, families, and party connections, senatorial character and conduct and other useful and satisfactory particulars relative to all the Members of the Commons House of Parliament. 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THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, For MAY, 1808. Art. I. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of George Buchanan. By David Irving, A. M. 8vo. pp. xxx. 318. Price 8s. Edinburgh, Bell and Co.; Longman and Co. 1807. THE celebrity of Buchanan among the admirers and cul tivators of Latin poetry, sufficiently warrants the expectation, that an account of his life will be received with no common interest. He was one of those men whose memories are cherished with a degree of fondness and admiration, that gives an air of importance to the minutest and most ordinary circumstances of their history. He outstripped his contemporaries in the favourite studies of the period in which he lived. When a knowledge of Roman literature was sought with the most persevering industry, and employed the brightest talents of the age, and when a happy imitation of the ancient compositions was deemed equal to original excellence, Buchanan was unanimously allowed, both in Latin poetry and prose, to bear away the palm of superiority. But the history of this celebrated man would be gratifying to public curiosity, even without the aid of literary fame to dignify its object, His life was a chequered and changeful scene. He passed through a variety of situations, resided in different countries, was exposed to many dangers, struggled with formidable difficulties, associated with every rank of men, and, excepting a short occasional interval, he still proceeded onward to a higher point of eminence in the scale of society, until we have the pleasing spectacle of a character originally indigent and obscure, forcing his way, by dint of genius and learning, to some of the highest honours and preferments which his country could bestow. In addition to these advantages, the present memoirs have derived others from the talents of the biographer; who has displayed a variety of learning, a soundness of criticism, and a chaste and elaborate elegance of composition, which might have imparted charms to a history much less interesting in itself, than that of Buchanan.. VOL. IV. Gg |