OF ART. I. [The Whale Fisheries.] Account of the Arctic Regions, with a history and description of the Page. and collected ; &c. By Charles Phillips, Esq. 23. ART. III. [Old Plays.] 1. The Playe called the Foure P. P., a newe and a very merie interlude, of a Palmer, a Pardoner, a Poticary, and a Ped- 2. A right pithy, pleasant, and merie Comedy, entytuled Gammer Gurton's Nedle; &c. 1575. 3. A Woman Kilde with Kindnesse ; &c, 4. Andromana, or the Merchant's.wife; &c. 5. The Duchesse of Mally, a Tragedy: &c. strictures on the life and writings of Pope. ART. VIII. Answer to the Queries of D. F. in our third 2. Geological Primer in Verse; &c. 3. Court News, or the Peers of King Coal, &c. ART. II. Anastasius; or Memoirs of a Greek, written in the 18th century. (From the Edinb. Rev.) ART. III. On Dancing. (From the New Monthly Mag.) ART. V. Sunday. (From the same.) ART. VI. [National Education.] 1. Foster on Popular Ignorance (From the Edinburgh Review.) 2. Observations..on Mr. Brougham's Educa- 3. Letter to H. Brougham, M. P. &c. by S. 4. Defence of the British and Foreign School Society, against the remarks (in the preceding article) of the Edinburgh Review. 5. Plain Thoughts on Mr. B.'s Education Bill. 6. An Appeal to the Legislature and the pub- lic, more especially to Dissenters, against Mr. ART. I.-An Account of the Arctic Regions, description of the northern whale fishery. Jun. F. R. S. E. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 1207. with a history and By W. SCORESBY, Edinburgh, 1820. The appearance of these volumes has certainly been well timed. Since the restoration of peace to Europe, the attention of her scientific world has been strongly attracted towards the long forgotten questions of a north-west passage, and the probability of reaching the Arctic Pole. All national attempts at discovery, in those high northern latitudes, are entitled to the most unqualified thanks from the lovers of knowledge, for they are obviously undertaken without any expectation of benefiting commerce, could there exist hopes of complete success. The chimerical idea of shortening the passage to India, by making a thoroughfare of the polar basin, has long since been abandoned, and it is questionable whether the whaling vessels do not already penetrate farther through the ice than prudence will at all times justify. It is a pleasant spectacle to see the spirits of the men who direct the energies of great nations, infusing themselves in this manner into the public measures they control, and it is some consolation to know that, in this age of selfish policy, when all the barriers that were raised against political wrongs, in days that are gone by, have fallen before the arm of the strongest, the very men who might be supposed to feel themselves beyond the reach of public opinion, are anxious to distinguish the period of their power by measures that may add something to the credit of their minds, as well as to that of their policy. It is to this great corrective, which has grown VOL. III. 1 |