ation on which he builds. The deep mysteries of the Divine porposes are wisely left in the obscurity in which the Scriptures have placed them, and are not made the topics of popular inculcation, or controversial discussion. What ever view the Dean may have had of the probable import of the language of Scripture and of our church on these hidden depths; in his public instruction, he follows throughout the example both of Scripture and of the church, in not mingling his speculations on such incomprehensible points with the matters more directly and essentially connected with man's salvation.

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This wise and discreet conduct ap pears to have arisen from a vivid and penetrating conception of the importance of eternity and the value of the souls of men. We earnestly propose to the imitation of the clergy the affectionate and affectingly solemn manner of these discourses. The whole soul of the preacher is obviously occupied with one idea the unspeakably awful nature of the work in which he is engaged. He is addressing immortal, but sinful and perishing, creatures, in the presence of their Saviour and Judge, and on the margin of the grave, which, if he cannot rouze them to consideration, will prove the threshhold of that place of torment, where the worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, and from which there is no redemption.

In this lies the secret, as we suspect, of his having fixed so remarkably the attention of his hearers. We listen, because he is in earnest, and speaks to us with affectionate seriousness. The attention cannot flag under such appeals. Let ministers who are anxious to reach the hearts of their hearers, be persuaded to imitate this peculiarity in the sermons of the Dean of Carlisle. A cold discussion never can arouse the consciences of men. Formal criticisms, finely-adjusted periods, mere decorations of style, are lost on the mass of mankind. But let a deeply-seated affection

express itself, and the heart of man is gained, and it responds to every appeal which is made to it.

To guard this warmth from disorder, the preacher of the Gospel should further follow the example of our author in thoroughly understanding the subject of which he treats. It is impossible not to admire, in the volumes we have been reviewing, the luminous manner in which every topic is illustrated. The author completely understood his subject; he grasped it with a firm hand, and then he explained it and enforced it on his audience. And every minister who would succeed must do the same. No one can hope to preserve the attention of others by confused and obscure statements of questions only half comprehended: he must himself study the truths which he wishes to teach to others.

Their adaptation to the particular state of his congregation is a further excellency in these discourses, which must have contributed to the great end of exciting attention. Almost every variety of character likely to be found in such an assemblage is delineated, painted we had almost said, to the life. A. diligent study of the Scriptures, a careful observation of the characters of men, and a vigilant attention to the operations of their own minds can alone supply ministers with the materials of such faithful portraits. And though they may not hope to attain the same skill in this respect which distinguished the Dean of Carlisle; still the more intimately acquainted they become with the springs of human conduct, the more familiar they are with men's business and bosoms, and the more they are able to discriminate the varying shades of character and motives in classes of persons who may yet, in many respects, resemble each other, the more like. ly are they to reach the conscience and affect the heart. Men are naturally interested when they observe their own lineaments accurately pourtrayed; and being obliged

to recognize the likeness, they may be led, by the grace of the blessed Spirit, to follow the course of the instructor who has so skilfully and faithfully exhibited it to their view. The constant and intimate union of the doctrinal and practical parts of religion may again be properly mentioned as strongly recommend. ing the sermons before us, and as contributing greatly to the interest they are calculated to excite. And the union of which we speak is not a confused, or inconsistent, or obscure mixture, but that natural and harmonious connexion and dependence of which the Scriptures never lose sight. Merely doctrinal discourses, however orthodox, and, abstractedly considered, however valuable, fail to move the affections. It is doctrine brought home to the heart, exhibited in its just relations, pressed as it bears upon our own happiness, traced in its operation, and displayed in its influence and effects on our sanctification, comfort, peace, and salvation, which really attracts and wins the hearer. Mysterious truths, crudely enforced, revolt the prejudiced, mislead the inquirer, and injure the sincere and humble Christian; while the same doctrines scripturallyexhibited tend to soften, the obdurate, to guide the young and inexperienced, and to nourish and edify the more advanced Christian. They then stand in sermons as they stand in Scripture not theoretically deduced, or dogmatically marshalled as on the field of controversy, but clothed with the holy attributes, and surrounded by the influential motives, and leading on the spiritual affections, which give them so much both of their beauty and their force.

We mention only one more characteristic of the volumes before us, and that is the high standard of conduct which they propose to the true Christian.-The venerable author seems every where to entertain an elevated opinion of what the servant of Christ ought to be; of his holy vocation; of his infi

nite obligations; of the constant necessity of vigilance and prayer; of the arduous work he has to achieve; of the strict example he should propose to others; and of the tender and simple-hearted piety he should cultivate himself. He appears also to have a vivid apprehension of the numerous enemies that surround him; of the inward corruption which he has to subdue; and of the unspeakable peril of stopping short or turning back in his Christian course ;-while to the declining Christian who has become remiss and negligent, there is more said, and said pointedly, in these two volumes, than in moss others which we know. The rule of Christian practice is not lowered in compliment to the prevailing manners or fashion of the day; but the sincere believer is called steadily to place before him the scriptural model of fervent love to the Saviour, humble reliance on His grace, unremitted communion with Him by His Spirit, and ceaseless dedication to His service in “all holy conversation and godliness."

If we were asked in what light these sermons appear, as compared with those of the eminent brother of the Dean, we should perhaps say that they bear about the same relation to them as the Continuation of the Ecclesiastical History does to the preceding volumes. In the Dean's sermons, as in his portion of the History, there is more of powerful intellect and discriminating judgment; but less perhaps of that long exercised familiarity with the peculiar truths of Christianity which the habits of the elder brother, as the minister of a parish, insensibly communicated. In all great and essential truths, the two brothers agree. In originality and force of genius, in the able delineation of character, in his powers of argumentation and extent of knowledge, the Dean is undoubtedly superior. But in what may be called the experimental details of religion, in describing the exercises

of the mind under the influence of the doctrines of grace, Joseph Milner may be considered as having the advantage. We should think the Dean's sermons better adapted for persons of intellect and education, as yet comparatively unacquainted with religious truths; and Joseph Milner's, for the great mass of persons already familiar with the doctrines of Scripture. The former takes the worldly man by the hand, addresses him with affection and earnestness, detects his fatal errors, and presses upon him the supreme importance of the Gospel of salvation. The latter speaks to hearers already accustomed to the language and the claims of truth, and commends that truth to their further attention and practice. They both fail in the orderly discussion of their subjects, and in attention to those most common rules of composition which are without doubt very subservient

to utility. They both excel in simplicity, force, originality, and faithfulness. It is to be remembered, however, that the sermons of Joseph Milner were edited with great care, and during the life of his brother, and therefore with as little disadvantage as was possible. We need not again state the opposite circumstances which have attended the volumes of the venerable Dean. We will rather conclude with exciting our readers to bless God for both these eminent divines afforded in these latter days to his church, and with humbly imploring Him that a succession of such men may be raised up to espouse the cause for which they laboured, and to transmit to the latest posterity those great scriptural doctrines of the Reformation which their whole lives and writings, and more especially their joint labours in the Ecclesiastical History, tended so successfully to revive.

GREAT BRITAIN. PREPARING for publication;-Memoirs of Mr. Pitt, by the Bishop of Winchester; The last Nine Years of the Reign of George II. by Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, from the MSS. found sealed after his death, to be opened by the first Earl of Waldegrave who should become of age after the year 1800;-J. L. Burkhardt's Travels in Syria and Mount Sinai;-The late Professor Dalzell's Lectures on Greek Literature, by J. Dalzell ;-Voyage to the Polar Sea, by Captain Parry;-A History of the Quakers, by R. Southey; An Account of New South Shetland, by Captain Rogers.

In the press:-The Vision of Judg. ment, a Poem, by R. Southey;-Life of Archbishop Bancroft, by Dr. D'Oyley; -Metrical Legends of Exalted Characters, by Joanna Baillie;-The Works and Life of Professor Playfair;-The

State of Science in France, by Dr. Granville;-Travels in Northern Africa, by Lieut. Lyon;-A Digest of the Various Readings of Hebrew MSS., and of the ancient Versions of the Old Testament, forming a Codex Criticus of the He brew Bible, with a Preliminary Essay, by the Rev. George Hamilton, A. M., Rector of Killermogh, in the Diocese of Ossory;-Mr. Dudley's work on the System of the Bible Society, which has been delayed by the severe and long con. tinued illness of the author. It embraces a succinct review of the effects of the system, both direct and collateral; and the length to which it has, necessarily, extended renders an advance of price to Non-subscribers unavoidable;-Remarkable Providences; by Joseph Taylor, Author of the Instructive Pocket Companion, &c.;-The Articles of the Church of England, illustrated by Extracts from the Homilies, Nowell's

Catechism, Jewell's Apology, and the Liturgy, and confirmed by Passages of Scripture; by the Rev. W. Wilson.

Oxford. The members of Jesus College, Oxford, have offered the following Prizes :-For the best Essay in the Welch language, on "the Advantages likely to accrue to the Principality from a cational Biography," 201-.For the best Translation into the Welch Language of the first of the Sermons on the Sacrament, by the Rev. John Jones, M. A. of Jesus College, Archdeacon of Merioneth, Bampton Lecturer for the present year, 10 -For the best six Englynion on the words of Taliesin, "Cymru fu, Cymru fydd," 21.-To the best Welsh Reader in Jesus College Chapel, 61.-To the second best Welch Reader, 41.

Cambridge.-Sir William Browne's Medals. The subjects for the present year are: For the Greek Ode, axavs TripBogens. For the Latin Ode, Maria Scotorum Regina. For the Epigram, Έπαιζεν άμα σπουδαζων.--Porson Prize: The passage for the present year is from Shakespear's Othello, Act I. Scene III, Othello's Apology, beginning with "And till she comes, as truly as to heaven;"

And ending with

brary by M. Mai, the principal librarian. In a Greek palimpseste manuscript (a' manuscript in which the first writing' has been effaced to make the parch ment serve a second time) containing the Harangues of the orator Aristides, the learned librarian has discovered a part of the Extracts of Constantine Por. phyrogenetus, belonging to the Chapters of Sentences, Harangnes, Succession of Kings, Inventors of Things, and Sententious Answers. As the Byzantine Prince had made extracts from a' multitude of historical and political works which have been long lost to the world, this discovery is considered to promise an ample harvest of gleanings. M. Mai announces, that he has discovered parts of the lost books of Polybius, Diodorus Siculus, and Dion Cassius, and fragments of Aristotle, of Ephorus, of Timens, of Hyperides, and of Demetrius Phalereus. There are also some fragments of the Byzantine writers, such as Eunapius, Menander of By. zantium, Prisens, and Petrus Protec-' tor, historic authors of a very interesting period, Among the fragments of Polybius, there is one of the thirtyninth book, in which he announces that the 40th and last was to treat of Chronology. In another palimpseste M. Mai

it."

FRANCE.

Royal Athenæum of Paris.-The programme of the Royal Athenæum of Pariz, for 1820, assumes that the Society is now in the thirty-sixth year of its establishment, under the successive names of Museum, Lyceum, and Athenæum. It has weathered all the storms of the Revolution, having never sus pended its labours. From its sittings have issued a number of celebrated works, such as the Course of Literature of La Harpe, the System of Chemical Knowledge of Foureroy, the History of Italian Literature, by Ginguiné, &c. besides daily Lectures on different branches of the Sciencos. Under the name of Museum, Pilatre de Rosier was its principal support; but in 1785, after his death, Monsieur (now Louis XVIII.) assisted by characters of rank and talents, enlarged its plan, appropriated till then only to the Sciences. It then assumed the name of Lyceum.

ITALY.

Some new discoveries of great interest have been made in the Vatican Li

to the time of Cicero, with many other Greek and Latin authors.

INDIA.

Major Latter, commanding in the hilly country east of Nepaul, states, that the unicorn, so long considered as a fabulous animal, actually exists at this moment in the interior of Thibet, where it is well known to the inhabitants. "This," he remarks, “ is a very curious fact, and it may be necessary to mention how the circumstance became known to me. In a Thibetian manu script, containing the names of different animals, which I procured the other day from the hills, the unicorn is classed under the head of those whose hoofs are divided: it is called the one-horned tso'po. Upon inquiring what kind of animal it was, to our astonishment the person who brought me the manuscript described exactly the unicorn of the ancients; saying that it was a native of the interior of Thibet, about the size of a tattoo, (a horse from twelve to thirteen hands high), fierce, and extremely wild; seldom, if ever, caught alive, but fre quently shot; and that the flesh was

used for food." "The person," Major: Latter adds, "who gave me this information,has repeatedly seen these animals, and eaten the flesh of them. They go together in herds, like our wild buffaloes, and are very frequently to be met with on the borders of the great desert, about a month's journey from Lassa, in that part of the country inhabited by the wandering Tartars." This communication is accompanied by a drawing made by the messenger from recollection: it bears some resemblance to a horse, but has cloven hoofs, a long curv

ed horn growing out of the forehead, and a boar-shaped tail, like that of the "fera monoceros," described by Pliny. NEW HOLLAND.

In 1818, a printing press was set up in Hobart's-town, Van Dieman's Land, New Holland. The first book from this press is the history of a fugitive exile, named Michael Howe, who at the head of twenty-eight other runaways, disturbed the tranquillity of the colony for six years. We shall be glad to hear that works of a more improving kind are in demand.

THEOLOGY.

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Tracts on the Divinity of Christ, and on the Repeal of the Statute against Blasphemy; by the Bishop of St. David's.

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The Village Preacher; partly original, partly selected; by a Clergyman. Vol. I.

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Meditations on the Scriptures, chiefly addressed to young persons; by the Rev. Richd. Waland, A. M. 2 vols. 12mo. 8s.

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Letters to a Young Clergyman; by Stephenson Macgill, D. D. 12mo. 6s. Picturesque Piety; or Scripture Truths, illustrated by 48 Engravings; by the Rev. Isaac Taylor of Ongar. 2 vols. 6s.

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Sacred Edict; containing Sixteen Maxims of the Emperor Kang-He, amplified by his Son, the Emperor Yoong-Ching, with a Paraphrase on the whole by a Mandarin. Translated from the Chinese original, and illustrated with Notes; by the Rev. Wm. Milne. 8vo. 7s. 6d.

The Changeable Magnetic Properties of Iron Bodies, and their Effects on Ships' Compasses; by P. Lecourt. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

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