THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. MDCCCXXXIII. JULY-DECEMBER. THIRD SERIES. VOL. X. Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λέγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Ἐπισ CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1. LONDON: JACKSON AND WALFORD, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, 1833. CONTENTS. PAGE AIKIN'S (Lucy) Memoirs of the Court of King Charles the First Anderson's Practical Exposition of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans Caspar Hauser Buck's Theological Dictionary, edited by Dr. Henderson Burnet's Lives, Characters, and Address to Posterity, edited by the Bishop of Li- Calmet's Dictionary of the Holy Bible, by the late Charles Taylor Carlile's Letters on the Divine Origin and Authority of the Holy Scriptures Carmichael's, Mrs., Domestic Manners and Social Condition of the White, Co- Fletcher's Funeral Sermon on the Death of the Rev. W. Thorp Franklin's, Dr. Benjamin, Familiar Letters and Miscellaneous Papers Gordon's Fragment of the Journal of a Tour through Persia in 1820 M'Crie's, Dr., Extracts from Statements of the Difference between the Profession of the Church of Scotland, and that contained in the New Testimony adopted 69 M'Ilvaine's, Dr., Bishop of Ohio, Lectures on the Evidences of Christianity, in Owen's, Capt., Narrative of Voyages to explore the Shores of Africa, Arabia, Pebrer's Taxation, Revenue, Expenditure, Power, Statistics, and Debt of the 118.277 118. 277 181. 480 22 Ragg's Incarnation, and other Poems 239 Readings in Poetry; a Selection from the best English Poets, &c. 1 Redford's Church of England Indefensible by Holy Scripture 70 Reform Ministry, The, and the Reformed Parliament 303 Rennie's Alphabet of Botany 272 Report of the Proceedings of a Voyage to the Northern Ports of China 326 Searle's Companion for the Season of Maternal Solicitude. 357 Sheppard's Christian Self-Dedication and Departure: a Discourse on the Death 442 Smith's Researches of the Rev. E. Smith and Rev. H. G. O. Dwight, in Armenia 369 Thoughts on the Mixed Character of Government Institutions in Ireland Trollope's, T. A., Part I. of an Encyclopædia Ecclesiastica 145 Vindex's Letter on Dissenters and Church Reform 70 Wardlaw's Civil Establishments of Christianity tried by their only Authoritative THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1833. Art. I. 1. Lectures on Poetry and General Literature. Delivered at the Royal Institution in 1830 and 1831. By James Montgomery, Author of "The World before the Flood," "The Pelican Island," &c., &c. 12mo. pp. x., 394. London, 1833. 2. Readings in Poetry: a Selection from the best English Poets, from Spenser to the present Times; and Specimens of several American Poets of deserved Reputation. To which is prefixed, a brief Survey of the History of English Poetry. 12mo. pp. 419. London, 1833. 'WHEN I am a man! is the poetry of childhood. When I was a child, is the poetry of age.' The truth and beauty of this fine observation of Mr. Montgomery's will be felt by every reader. But it is not merely true: there is a world of truth in it. It describes at once, and as only a poet could have done, what poetry is, and what are its aim and office. Poetry is the perspective of the moral scene. Those realities of mortal life which, by near contact, strongly affect the senses,' it removes to that due distance which clothes them with picturesque and ideal beauty. And its moral purpose is, to make the past and the future preponderate over the present, and, by this means, to refine and elevate the sentiments, to counteract the sordid passions, and to render the man a more intellectual, if not a more virtuous being. The aspirations of youth, such as poetry enkindles, if illusive, are salutary and generous illusions; while the recollections of the man, carried back to childhood, the radiance of poetry illumining the distant perspective, have often wakened regrets akin to virtue, and recalled the instructions and principles of life's 'better days.' But there is the poetry of history as well as of human life. Nations have their past and their future, their treasured recol VOL. X.-N.S. B |