THE Eclectic Review. MDCCCXXVI. JANUARY-JUNE. NEW SERIES. VOL. XXV. Φιλοσοφιαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδέ την Πλατωνικήν, η την Επικουρείον CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, SOLD ALSO BY JOHN ANDERSON, JUNIOR, AND CHALMERS AND COLLINS, GLASGOW ✰ AND R. Μ. ΤΙMMS, DUBLIN. PAGE. Authentic Report of the Debate in the House of Commons, June 23, 1825 97 Barton's, Bernard, Devotional Verses Baillie's, Marianne, Lisbon in the Years 1821, 22, and 23 Missionary's Memorial Bassett's Molech; or, the Approach of the Deluge: a Sacred Drama Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece 91 '70 236 560 564 193 193 Blomfield's Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Chester, in 273 Bond's Concise View of Ancient Geography 546 Bridges's, Sir Egerton, Recollections of Foreign Travel, on Life, Literature, 339 Burder's Psalms and Hymns, principally for Public Worship; selected from Chalmers's, Dr. Few Thoughts on the Abolition of Colonial Slavery Denham's and Clapperton's Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. With an Introduc- Doubleday's Babington: a Tragedy 162 477 564 Ellis's Narrative of a Tour through Hawaii or Owhyhee Emerson's and Pecchio's Picture of Greece in 1825 Evans's Revision and Explanation of Geographical and Hydrographical Is this Religion? Or, A Page from the Book of the World Joannis Miltoni Angli de Doctrina Christiana Libri duo posthumi, &c. Judson's Mrs. Account of the American Baptist Mission to the Burman Lloyd's Alexander I. Emperor of Russia; or a Short Sketch of his Life, &c. 385 Milton's Treatise on Christian Doctrine, translated by C. R. Sumner, M.A. 1,114 Mission to Siam, and Hué, the Capital of Cochin China, in the Years 1821-2, Montgomery's Christian Psalmist, &c. Montulé's Voyage en Angleterre et en Russie Morgan's Emigrant's Note Book and Guide 482 18 142 244 88 Nicol's Essay on the Nature and Design of Scripture Sacrifices, &c. 392 Nicholson's Practice of Drawing and Painting Landscape from Nature, in 333 Nineteenth Report of the Directors of the African Institution 97 222 Opinions of an Old Gentleman on several Moral and Religious Subjects Stewart's, Lieut. Col., Considerations on the Policy of the Government of India, more especially in Reference to the Invasion of Burmah THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JANUARY, 1826. Art. I. 1. Joannis Miltoni Angli de Doctrina Christiana Libri duo posthumi, quos ex Schedis Manuscriptis deprompsit, et Typis Mandari primus curavit Carolus Ricardus Sumner, A.M. Bibliotheca Regis Præfectus. 4to. 21. 10s. Cantabrigiæ, 1825. 2. A Treatise on Christian Doctrine, compiled from the Holy Scriptures alone: By John Milton. Translated from the Original, by Charles R. Sumner, M.A. Librarian and Historiographer to His Majesty, and Prebendary of Canterbury. 4to. pp. xxxviii. 716. Price 21. 10s. London, 1825. WE E have been anxious not to pronounce a hasty opinion respecting a work, the announcement of which excited so intense an interest, and the contents of which, naturally enough, have given universal disappointment. We are free to confess, that, in common with the public at large, we entertained expectations which now seem to ourselves unreasonable, inasmuch as they were not warranted by what was previously known of the sentiments and literary character of the illustrious Author. It is the prerogative of those master minds with whom he ranks, to awaken an enthusiasm that invests its object with ideal qualities, surrounding it, as it were, with a halo of sacred and awful associations, and enshrining it in the most consecrated recesses of the fancy among the types of all that is great and glorious. Viewed in this mysterious light, every noble quality is brought out into strong relief, every failing is thrown into shadow, and the voice which issues from their sepulchre has all the authority of an oracle. Who, when he names the Poet of Paradise Lost, thinks of the Author of the Tetrachordon or the Antagonist of Salmasius? The Milton of English literature, of English history, is the graceful and accomplished youth who, while gathering the flowers of classic fable beneath Italian skies, renounced all the seduclions of poetry at the call of patriotism, esteeming it dishonourable to be lingering abroad, while his fellow citizens VOL. XXV. N.S. B |