105. Easy Variations for piano-forte, with flute, or violin accompaniment, ad libitum, to Six Themes.

106. A Sonata for piano-forte.

109. A Sonata for piano-forte.

110. A Sonata for piano-forte.

111. Grand Sonata for piano-forte.

118. A Quintett for two violins, two tenors, and violoncello. 120. Thirty-three Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli.

Subsequently to the production of these works, Beethoven completed a new Grand Mass.*

*This Catalogue, which is necessarily imperfect, from having been published some years before the death of Beethoven, is taken from the Harmonicon.

PROFESSOR JARDINE.

GEORGE JARDINE, A.M. F.R.S. Edinb. Professor of Logic and Rhetoric in the university of Glasgow, died there on the 28th of January 1827, in the 85th year of his age. The useful labours of this learned and enlightened individual during the period of his unusually protracted official career, have received the following merited eulogy, which, in the absence of more full and precise biographical information, we proceed to lay before our readers:

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"Of the many eminent men who have adorned the universities of Scotland, few have enjoyed so large a share of public respect and confidence. Endowed with a vigorous and active mind, with great soundness of judgment-possessing a deep sense of the importance of his office, and an ardent desire to promote the improvement of his students, he devoted himself to his public duties with a zeal, an activity, and a faithfulness, which have never been surpassed, and but rarely equalled. Directed by that discernment of what was most useful, and best suited to the circumstances of his pupils, for which through life he was distinguished, he, soon after his appointment in 1774, introduced those changes in the mode of public teaching, which rendered his class so long the model of academical instruction. taining what was most important in ancient logic, and communicating a due knowledge of its peculiarities, he dismissed from his course of lectures all its unprofitable subtleties, directing the attention of the youth to such views of the human mind, its powers and operations, as might lead to their proper exercise, and furnish the best means of their improvement. But aware that truths might be heard without attention, or without awakening the powers of the understanding, and that the formation of intellectual and moral habits is the first object of education, he devised a practical system of examinations and exercises, which he gradually improved to an extent that has seldom been witnessed. By a discriminating selection of topics, he directed his students to the subjects most deserving their consideration, while he awakened their curiosity, sustained their attention, and exercised in due proportion every faculty of their minds. The youth were thus kept continually alive to the objects of study; and subjects naturally dry and uninteresting were, from the manner in which they

were illustrated, rendered attractive, and prosecuted with avidity and enthusiasm. Hence the logic class of the university, though a class of labour, was always looked forward to with a feeling of elevated expectation, and the period of its attendance is generally recollected by the student, as among the happiest years of his academical course. "Few classes have ever displayed such order and such attention to business, with so little exercise of severity. Strict in discipline, but perfectly impartial, wise, and affectionate, in all that he required, his students submitted with cheerfulness to his directions, and loved while they revered their instructor. Their welfare habitually occupied his thoughts; and to improve the means of education was the ruling passion of his life. Warmly attached to the interests of those entrusted to his charge, he embraced every opportunity of imparting to them the admonitions of a father, of cherishing religious principle, by reminding them of their higher duties, and guarding them against the dangers to which they were exposed. In the same spirit, he attended with them on the public services of religion, directed them to exercises suited to the evenings of the Sabbath, and enforced the sacred instructions which on that day they had received.

"Such a teacher, so conducting himself for the unusually long period of fifty years, could not fail to be the instrument of extensive usefulness, and to be remembered by his pupils with gratitude and reverence. Accordingly, his benevolent mind was gratified by seeing very many of them rising to eminence, retaining for him the respect and affection of their early days, and gratefully ascribing to the benefit of his instructions that distinction to which they had attained in the various departments of society.

"The private life of this venerable man was distinguished by active and well-directed benevolence; with great judgment, prudence, and perseverance in all his undertakings. Affectionately tender in his family-susceptible of the strongest attachment-compassionate to the unfortunate-and ever exerting himself to promote the welfare of those around him, few men have possessed more warmly or more extensively the affections of their friends. Even to the last his mind retained a great portion of its usual elasticity and vigour. The academical society which he had so long adorned, preserved to the end a firm hold of his regard; and ever zealous for the welfare and honour of the university of Glasgow, it occupied a great portion of his thought even in the latest days of his life.

"Within its walls, his character will ever be remembered with grateful reverence, and his name will descend to posterity as the name of one who, by his labours, has raised its reputation, and acquired a lasting title to the gratitude of his country."

An ample and discriminating testimony to the merit of Professor Jardine, as a public instructor, is also furnished by the author of a paper on the university of Glasgow, published in a periodical

* Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine for February 1827.

work, more than twenty years ago. After noticing the profession, or public examination of the academic youth in Latin and Greek, the writer says

"Having passed through this ordeal, the student enters into the logic, or first of the philosophy classes. The zeal, perseverance, and ability of Professor Jardine have long annexed a high degree of reputation to this department; and the lively emulation and animated industry which his judicious management creates among the students, have probably been the means of begetting in many a youthful mind that ardent love of philosophical pursuit, which impresses so noble a distinction on the after character of the man. Two hours are each day devoted to the business of this class; the first occupied by the lecture of the professor, to which the private as well as the public students are admitted; the second exclusively confined to the examinations, and the recitation of the essays composed by the public students. In his course of lectures, Professor Jardine has very judiciously refrained from entering with minuteness into the principles of the Aristotelian logic. The attention of the student is chiefly directed to a general view of the philosophy of the human mind; to a consideration of the origin and progress of language, and of the several varieties of grammar, style, and composition; and to a review of the different opinions with regard to the nature and modification of taste. To assist his progress in these studies, and to communicate the habits of writing with facility and elegance of style, a series of essays is prescribed on subjects immediately connected with the business of the course. These essays are read in the class, and publicly cominented on by the professor: occasionally the exercise prescribed to one student is a critique upon the performance of another; a practice which, though disadvantageous on some accounts, is certainly, upon the whole, beneficial, from the powerful stimulus which it gives to the respective energies of the youthful writer and reviewer."

CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF PROFESSOR JARDINE.

1. Outlines of Philosophical Education, illustrated by the Method of Teaching the Logic or First Class of Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Glasg. 1818, 8vo.

2. Account of John Roebuck, M.D., F.R.S.E., in the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 1796, vol. iv.

THOMAS HOLLOWAY, ENGRAVER.

THOMAS HOLLOWAY was born in Broad street, in the city of London, in 1748. He was the eldest son of his parents, who were in easy circumstances, enabling them to give their children a useful though not a costly education. His father, who was a man of great vivacity of disposition, inclining perhaps to versatility, died at the early age of thirty-five. Both his parents were dissenters, and strongly affected by religious feelings; Mrs Holloway, in particular, is represented as having been powerfully influenced by them, especially on her death-bed, the scene of which, we are told, "was distinguished by an ardour of rapture that few experience; especially as her dying moments, never forgotten by any of her children, were more particularly impressed on the memory of the subject of this memoir."

He was not only familiarised with the principles and duties of religion by the force of domestic example, but he also acquired, at an early period of life, habits of industrious application to study, which must have greatly contributed to his future proficiency as an artist. He was accustomed to rise at almost unseasonable hours, both in winter and summer, to practise reading and recitation with his brother; and the art of expressing himself gracefully and correctly, and of reading elegantly, which he thus attained, he never afterwards lost. The prepossessions of his parents relative to religious matters led to his introduction, when young, to Whitefield, Wesley, Romaine, Rowland Hill, Robinson of Cambridge, and other persons of the clerical order in the established church and among the dissenters, who were frequent and welcome visitors of his family. Pursuing for himself his enquiries into the Scriptures, in order to establish his sentiments on points of doctrine and modes of worship, of which he had heard discussed and seen practised a great variety, with equal sincerity and edification, he became, after the most laborious and conscientious examination of apparently contending

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* Memoir of the late Mr Thomas Holloway, by one of his Executors. pp. 6, 7.