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THE EIGHTH VOLUME.

A.
Agriculture of the Israelites, Ap-
pendix to the, 312.
America,—Review of Dwight's
Travels in New-England and
New-York, 61; Review of
Faux's Memorable Days in,
ib.; American Literature and
Intelligence, 250.
Anecdote-Indian Wit and Gene-
rosity, 249.

Arabic-Review of an Easy Me-
thod of acquiring the Reading
of it with vowel points, by an
experienced Teacher, 126.
B.

Barnett, Mr., shewn to have no
right to complain of the conduct
of Mr. Reed, in making him the
hero of "No Fiction," 231, 5;
his gross misconduct subse-
quently to the publication of
that work, 232; Mr. Reed's
kindness towards him on that
occasion, 235; nature of the
charges against him in "No
Fiction," 236.

Biblical Literature,-A Disserta-
tion on its importance. By
Charles Hodge, A.M. Teacher
of the Original Languages of
Scripture in the Theological
Seminary of the Presbyterian
Church, at Princeton, New-
Jersey, 176.

Borrentslein, M.-Review of his
New and Easy Method of ac-
quiring the Reading of Hebrew,
Syriac, and Arabic, with the
vowel points, 126.
Buckland, Alfred Cecil-Review

of his Letters on the importance,
duty, and advantages of Early
Rising, 209; his death, 210.
Bury, Miss Jane, Memoir of her
Life, 251; her childhood, ib.;

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her juvenile days, 252; her
conduct at school, 253; her con-
duct as an instructor, ib.; course
of reading, ib.; musical talents,
254; letters to her relatives, ib.
255; self-cultivation, 256; ex-
tracts from her journal, 257, 8,
9, 260, 1, 7, 8, 9, 270, 1, 6; re-
flections on her entering her
21st year, 260; comparison of
theatrical amusements, cards,
drawing, and music, 261; her
piety, 266, 8, 9, 270, 1, 2; her
attention to the Sabbath, 271;
diligence as a Sunday-school
teacher, 275; regard to the
scriptures, ib.; activity in sup-
port of religious institutions,
276; last illness, ib.; death,
279; observations suggested by
her character, ib.

C.

Calendar of the Jews, 312.
Catalogue of the Works of the
Rev. Dr. Edward Williams, of
Rotherham, 59.

Characteristics in the Manner of

Rochefoucault's Maxims-Re-
view of, 189; their vulgarity,
189, 90; absurdity and para-
dox, 190, 2, 3, 6; mischievous
tendency, 191, 3; immorality,
191; excessive generality, 191,
3; lengthiness, 192; trifling and
inatility, 193; libellous cha-
raeter of the female sex, 194;
impiety and anti-christian ten
dency, 195; selection of their
best maxims, 196; their refuta-
tion of the selfish system of
Rochefoucault commended, 197;
their supposed author, ib.
Clarke, Dr. Adam,—The assertion
in his Commentary on the Bible,
that human reason can both
apprehend and comprehend the

doctrines of revelation, contro-
verted, 472.

Coates, Rev. Mr., his conduct as
Librarian of Dr. Williams's
Library in Red Cross-street,
applauded, 148.

Collyer, Rev. Dr. William Bengo',
History of Ethics, Lecture I. 4;
Lecture II. 433.

Conder, Josiah, his Star in the

East reviewed, 497; and highly
commended, ib., 498.
Cottonian Library; its history, 49;
its present state, 54; catalogues
published of its contents, 55.
D.

Death of Mungo Park, a poem,
508.
Defamation; its

Punishment

amongst the Jews, 173; the
ancient Egyptians, 174; Per-
sians, 175; Lydians, 176; by
the code of Menu, 281; by the
code of Gentoo laws, 287;
amongst the Chinese, 289.
Durant, William Friend, 'On the
Standard of Taste,' an Essay
intended to compete for a prize
given by the University of Glas-
gow, Part I. 131; Part II. 292;
Part III 403.

Dwight, Rev. Dr. Timothy-Re-
view of his Travels in New-
England and New-York, 61;
his complaints of the accounts
of America given by English
writers, 62; general description
of New-England, 63; account
of the canker-worm there, 65;
its quadrupeds,and their weight,
in comparison with those of
Europe, 66; its ornithology,
68; account of the rattlesnake,
69; insects of New-England, 70;|
its climates and seasons, ib.;
character of its inhabitants, 71;
his refutation of the attacks of
the Edinburgh Reviewers upon
American writers, 75; women of
New-England, 78; strict obser-
vance of the Sabbath there, 80;
difference between the Congre-
gationalists there and in Eng-
land, 81; constitution of Con-
necticut, 86; its criminal code,

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88; legislation, 89; state of re-
ligion there, 93; account of
Newhaven, 94; singular mode
of settling a disputed title to
lands, 95; constitution of Mas-
sachusetts, 97; account of
Boston, ib.; of the regicides
Whalley and Goffe, 99; of a
supposed prevalency of witch-
craft at Danvers, 101; of a sin-
gular deluge from Saddle
Mountain, 102; constitution of
Maine, 103; ravages of grass-
hoppers at Bennington, Ver-
mont, 104; notice of Colonel
Ethen Allen, an American deis-
tical writer, 105; legislature and
government of Vermont, ib.;
constitution of New Hampshire,
106; cruel outrage of the In-
dians at Dover, 107; inns of
New-England, 108; Dartmouth
college, 109; roads of New
Hampshire, ib.; destructive
fires in the woods, 110; consti-
tution of Rhode Island, and un-
favourable character of its in-
habitants, ib.; constitution and
legislation of New-York, 112;
account of the Shakers, 116;
Long Island, 119: state prison
of New-York, 120; account of
the city of New-York and its
inhabitants, ib.; Colombia col-
lege, 123; towns of New-York,
ib.; goitres of the western
states, 123; general character
of the work, 124; its faults, ib.
125; Americanisms of its au-
thor, 125; his prejudices, 66, 9,
73, 6, 109; his candour, 90;
illiberality, 92, 103, 114.

E.

Early Rising-Review of Letters
on its importance, duty, and
advantage, 209; of a Tract,
recommending it, by Rev. Jacob
Snelgar, 218; benefit experi-
enced from these works by
the reviewer, 210, 11; good ef-
fects of the habit upon ner-
Vous persons, 212; its im-
portance to parents and heads
of families, 213; urged upon
studious men, from the melan-

choly effects of nocturnal stu-
dies, 214; from the example of
several celebrated scholars, 217;
examples of early rising record-
ed in the Scriptures, ib.; the
duty urged upon Christians,
218; mode of acquiring the ha-
bit, 219.

Essays on the Results of Art, as
connected with the happiness
of the human race in general,
20; Museum Hours, No. I. 43;
'On the Standard of Taste,' an
essay intended to compete for
a prize given by the University
of Glasgow, by the late William
Friend Durant, Part I. 131;
Part II. 292; Part III. 403;
on certain Regulations in Dr.
Williams's Library, 148; Uni-
tarianism and Trinitarianism
compared in their tendency to
convert Turks, Pagans, Jews,
and Infidels, to Christianity,
154; Horæ Juridicæ, No. I, on
the Origin and Principles of the
Law of Libel, and the Punish-
ment of Defamation amongst the
Jews, Egyptians, ancient Per-
sians and Lydians, 167 ; No. II.
on the Punishment of Defama-
tion amongst the Hindoos and
› Chinese, 281; a Dissertation on
the importance of Biblical Lite-
rature, by Charles Hodge, A.M.
teacher of the Original Lan-
guages in the Theological Se-
minary of the Presbyterian
Church, at Princeton, New-Jer-
sey, 176; Calendar of the Jews,
an Appendix to an Essay on
the Agriculture of the Israelites,
312; Thoughts on the Slaying
of the Witnesses, 444.
Ethics-Lectures on their History,
by the Rev. William Bengo'
Collyer, D.D. &c. &c. 4, 433.

F.

Faux, W.-Review of his Memo-
rable Days in America, 61; his
account of a Sabbath at Boston,
.98; his work commended, 126.
G.

Gaming-the mischievous Effects

of, a charge delivered to the

Grand Jury of the county of
Berks, in Pennsylvania, by the
Hon. Jacob Rush, 36.

H.

Hazlitt, William, his character
and conduct as a writer, 198;
the characteristics in the man-
ner of Rochefoucault attributed
to him, ib.
Hebrew-Review of a New Me-
thod of acquiring the Reading
of it with the vowel points, by
an experienced teacher, 126.
Henry, Matthew, at Hackney—
Review of, 471.
Hewlett, Esther, her William
Barlow,' a tale, reviewed, 507;
commended, ib.

Hodge, Charles, Teacher of the
Original Languages of the Scrip-
ture in the Theological Semina-
ry of the Presbyterian Church,
at Princeton, New-Jersey,-a
Dissertation on the importance
of Biblical Literature, 176.
Hora Juridica, No. I.-on the
Origin and Principles of the
Law of Libel, and the Punish-
ment of Defamation amongst
the Jews, Egyptians, ancient
Persians, and Lydians, 167;
No. II. on the punishment of
Defamation amongst the Hin-
doos and Chinese, 281.
Huntley, Lydia,-The Susceptible
Mind, 130; Life, ib.; Gratitude,
lines written on planting slips
of geranium and constancy over
the grave of a venerable friend,
247.

I.

Jews, their Calendar, 312.
Il Pastore Incantato, a drama,

Pompeii, and other Poems, by
a Student of the Temple, re-
viewed, 486; the author's suc-
cessful study of the older poets,
487, 8, 9, 491; the principal
poem commended as a beautiful
imitation of Milton's Comus,
487, 5, 493; its defects, 493;
the poem of Pompeii highly
praised, ib.; beautiful minor
pieces, 494, 5; striking personi-
fication of death, 495; commen-

dation of the talents of the au-
thor, 498.

L.
Lectures on the History of Ethics,

by the Rev. William Bengo'
Collyer, D.D.LLD., 4, 433.
Letters on the Importance, Duty,
and Advantages, of Early Ris-
ing, reviewed, 209; recom-
mended from the benefit ex-
perienced by the reviewer, 210,
219; the ill effects of lying in
bed, 211, 213; good effects of
early rising on nervous persons,
212; its importance to parents
and heads of families, 213; ill
effects of a contrary habit on
studious men, 214; examples of
early rising in great men, 216;
examples from Scripture, 217;
mode of attaining the habit,
219.

Libel, on the Origin of Princi-
ples of the Law of, 167; de-
rivation of the word, 171.

M.

Matthew Henry at Hackney, to
which is added, Strictures on
the Unitarian Writings of the
Rev. Lant Carpenter, LLD.
reviewed, 471; commended, ib.;
the insufficiency of reason in
matters of revelation, 472; dis-
tinction between human and
eternal reason, 473; Dr. Adam
Clarke's notions upon the sub-
ject controverted, ib.; account
of the sermon supposed to be
delivered by Matthew Henry,
479; remarks in it on the Saxon
Voluspa, 480; testimonies of the
Hebrew prophets in support of
the divinity of the Messiah,
482; critical examination of the
Unitarian Version of the New
Testament, 484; virulence of
the author of this tract cen-
sured, 484, 486.
Maugham, (Robert,) Review of
his Outlines of Character, 199,
his work highly approved,
199; specimens of his style,
200, 207; his favourable opinion
of Phrenology, controverted,
201; his remarks on the de-

clension of eloquence at the
Bar, quoted with approbation,
207; his opinion on the book-
making character of the age,
supported, 208; correction of
his notions of the system of
reviewing, ib.; faults in his
style, ib.

Memoir of Sir Thomas Stamford
Raffles, 1; Miss Jane Bury, of
Stockport, 251.

Modern Traveller, Review of the,

Part I. 219; Parts III.-VI.503;
the work highly commended,219,
221, 2, 3, 5, 503,4,6; account of
Jerusalem, 221; of Djezzar Pa-
sha, 223; authorities consulted
on its account of Palestine, 225;
of Syria and Asia-Minor, 504;
references to its most interest-
ing parts, 504; the editor's
judicious remarks on the pre-
sent state of Syria and Asia-
Minor, 50.

Museum Hours, No. I. 43; Read-
ing Rooms of the British Mu-
seum, ib.; their regulations,
44; attendants and students
there, 46; history of the Cot-
tonian library, 49; catalogues
published of this collection, 55.

N

New England, Review of the Rev.
Dr. Dwight's Travels in, 63;
general description of its states,
ib.; character of its inhabitants,
71; of its first settlers, 72; its
women, 79; strict observance
of the Sabbath there, 80; its
civil and religious institutions,
81; inns and inn-keepers, 108.
New York,-Review of the Rev.
Dr. Dwight's Travels there,
112; its constitution and legis-
lation, ib.; its liberal patronage
of learning, 115; its state pri-
son, 121; inns, 122; goitres of
its western states, 123.

P.
Park, Mungo, Poem on his Death,

508.

Phrenology, Objections to the
system, 202; its unwarranted
assumption that the organs of
intellect reside in the brain,

ib.; fatal consequences of its
truth, 204; its illiberality, 205;
its barring the door to all change
of character, 206.
Poetry-Affliction, 128; Earthly
and Heavenly Hopes, 129; the
Advice of Nushirewan to his
Son Hormuz, from the Persian
of Sadi, 130; the Susceptible
Mind, from "Moral Pieces in
Prose and Verse, by Lydia
Huntley," of Hartford, Connec-
ticut, ib.; Life, from the same,
ib.; Gratitude, lines written on
planting slips of Geranium and
Constancy near the Grave of
a venerable Friend, from the
same, 247; the Smile that we
love in our own dear Home,
245; Lines written in Wales,
246; the Death of Mungo Park,
by J. H. Wiffen, Esq. 908; Can-
tilena, from the Spanish of Vil-
legas, by the same, 515; What
is Life? 516.

R.

Raffles, Sir Thomas Stamford,
Memoir of his Life, 1; his ap-
pointment to Prince of Wales's
Island, ib.; to the Lieutenant
Governorship of Java, ib. ; pub-
lication of his history of Java,
2; appointment to the Lieuten-
ant-Governorship of Bencoolen,
ib.; his administration at Su-
matra, 3.

Reed, Andrew-Review of his
Letter to the Editor of the
British Review, occasioned by
the notice of " No Fiction," and
"Martha," in that work, 226;
his answer to the charge of
imposing upon the public as a
narrative founded on facts, a col-
lection of fictions, distortions,
and exaggerations, ib.; suffici-
ency of that refutation, 228;
his answer to the charge of in-
juring Mr. Barnett, the hero of
"No Fiction," ib.; inadequacy
of his reply upon this head,
229; what he ought to have
done before he published the
book, 230; the injury inflicted
upon Mr. Barnett, shewn to

have been trifling, if any, 231;
subsequent misconduct of that
gentleman, 232; kindness of
Mr. Reed towards him after
the publication of "No Fiction,"
232, 5; injury to the character
of Mr. Barnett by the publi-
cation of the work, with people
not religious, 236; the charge
of vanity in eulogizing himself
and family, not without foun-
dation, 238; quotation of his
masterly defence of fiction as a
mode of inculcating moral and
religious truth, ib.

Review of Dr. Dwight's Travels
in New England, 61; Faux's
Memorable Days in America,
ib.; a New Method of acquir-
ing the Reading of Hebrew
with vowel points, by an ex-
perienced Teacher, 126; an
Easy Method of acquiring the
Reading of Syriac with the
vowel points, by the same, ib.;
an Easy Method of acquiring
the Reading of Arabic with
the vowel points, by the same,
ib.; Characteristics, in the
Manner of Rochefoucault, 189;
Outlines of Character, 199;
Letters on the Importance,
Duty, and Advantages, of Early
Rising, 209; Early Rising re-
commended, a Tract, by the
Rev. Jacob Snelgar, 218; Mo-
dern Traveller, Part I.219; Parts
III. to VI. 503; a Letter to the
Editor of the British Review,
by Andrew Reed, 226; an Au-
thentic Copy of the Minutes of
Evidence on the Trial of John
Smith, a Missionary, in Deme-
rara, 322; the Missionary So-
ciety's Report of the Proceed-
ings against the late Rev. John
Smith, of Demerara, ib.; Jeru-
salem Delivered, translated
from the Italian of Tasso, by
J. H. Wiffen, 449; Il Pastore
Incantato, a Drama, Pompeii,
and other Poems, by a Student
of the Temple, 486; the Star in
the East, with other Poems, by
Josiah Conder, 497; William

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