Letters on the Analogia Linguæ Græcæ, &c., which first appeared in the Gentleman's Magazine for 1832; reprinted, with a Preface, 1843. Continuous History of St. Paul, with Dr. Paley's Hora Paulina subjoined. often enlivened with a jest the most incomprehensi- | used. The notes were carefully revised, and reble choruses in Æschylus, and the most abstruse ceived considerable additions from the Editor. The passages in Tacitus and Thucydides-he preserved first volume of the same work was edited by the that placid air of dignified authority which is the Rev. Thomas Kidd, Master of Wymondham best antidote against contemptuous familiarity. school, and the third by Professor Dunbar. Those pupils in whom he observed a combination of genius, and talent, and industry, he cherished as the apple of his eye, laboring with them in school and out of school, in season and out of seasonmost readily responding to all their inquiries, and even voluntarily suggesting them, when shame or diffidence, or some other cause, too trifling to deserve a distinct name, kept the young novice silent. In his earlier days he made them the constant companions of his walks during his leisure hours, thus winning their youthful affection by the constant affection he evinced towards them; and many of them now living can bear testimony to the value of the viva voce lectures which they received and of the viva voce examinations which they underwent, as they threaded their way together ("cantantes ut eamus," as he used to say) through the delightful woods and walks of Easby. This is not the place nor the time to enter further into the details of a Mr. Tate had several sons, of whom the eldest, the Rev. James Tate, M. A., succeeded his father in the mastership of Richmond school, and was in 1838 presented by the Queen to the vicarage of Easby near Richmond. He has since resigned both those preferments, and is now Rector of Marske and Perpetual Curate of Downholme, both in Yorkshire. The Rev. Francis Tate is Vicar of Charing, Kent, from his father's patronage as Canon of St. Paul's; and the Rev. Thomas Tate was formerly Curate of St. John's Stanwick, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.-Gents. Mag. it has been observed that the nature and nurture of the mother appeared to account for the circumstance We know not how this may be in the case of our more directly and powerfully than any other cause. able contemporaries; but if the principle hold true anywhere in the world, we are sure it holds true in Scotland. It is not now an occasion to speak of the manner in which the brothers Chambers have destiny, and distinguished themselves in the literastepped out of the probable boundaries of their born ture of their country. It has been highly honorable to them; and we think we cannot be mistaken in the belief that their writings have made them very, very many friends, who will join us in condoling with them on their heavy loss.-Lit. Gaz. MRS. CHAMBERS.-In the Edinburgh obituary of system which communicated and recommended this week we read, with a feeling of sympathy, the knowledge at every stage-which turned so many death of Mrs. Chambers, the mother of the two of the alumni of Richmond School into scholars, popular periodical writers and publishers, whose fellows, and tutors in the University of Cambridge, and which has raised some, and in due time may esteem. In most instances where men have emergname and productions are so universally held in raise others, into worthy ornaments of all the learned from their sphere of life into a higher eminence, ed professions of their country. Suffice it to say, that the principle of fear was one which he sedulously banished from his plan of education, and that his constant object was to establish the principle of honest and honorable emulation in its stead. Early in life, he had solved to his own satisfaction the problem, which Roger Ascham propounded nearly 300 years ago to the schoolmasters of his day, and had decided that the schoolhouse ought to be, not a house of bondage and of terror, but a house of play and of pleasure. As in the model school of Quinctilian, so in that of Mr. Tate, "profuit alicujus objurgata desidia, profuit laudata industria; excitabatur laude æmulatio; turpe ducebatur cedere pari, pulchrum superare majores." Any preceptor acting upon such principles, and dispensing, as he did, vast stores of erudition out of his capacious mind, with a prodigality disdaining all fear of exhaustion, Germany has sustained a heavy loss, in the deand with a felicity of illustration and a distinctness partment of Medical Science, Fy the death, at of language rendering all mistake of his meaning|| Leipsic, at the advanced age of seventy, of Doctor quite impossible-is certain to be esteemed, regard- HEINROTH. Heinroth was a pupil of the celebrated ed, loved,-nay, these are cold words, and we will Pinel; whose views and those of Esquirol, as to therefore add, is certain to be venerated and idolized the substitution of moral treatment for physical coby his scholars, especially if, like Mr. Tate, he iden-ercion, in the cure of madness, he was the first to tifies himself with their interests and exerts every introduce into Germany, both in his own practice, energy of his soul to promote their welfare." and by his publication and annotation of the works of those two eminent physicians. On his return from France, the Saxon government created a chair for the teaching of this class of medical science, expressly for him; and appointed the new profes sor, head physician to the St. George's Hospital for the insane-the functions of both which offices he Mr. Tate was not an extensive author, but after mature and deliberate consideration, he published some of the results of his critical experience which were highly esteemed. He was the editor of two excellent editions of Horace, which he entitled "Horatius Restitutus," and he also published Greek Tragic and Comic Metres, &c., with treatises on the Sapphic stanza and the Elegiac distich. Four editions. Richmond Rules for the Ovidian distich. The Glasgow Greek Grammar. Sixth editton. Dalzel's Collectanea Græca Majora, Vol. II., complectens Excerpta ex Variis Poetis. Editio septima. 1830. The text of this edition was much improved, particularly in the Edipus Tyrannus, which is given entire from the last recension of the late Dr. Elmsley. In the selections from Sappho and Callimachus, the text of Bishop Blomfield was discharged till his death. He was the author of many works of reputation, connected with his own speciality, besides some popular novels and romances, published under the pseudonym of Treumund Wallentreter-and member of most of the learned bodies in Europe, including the Royal Society of London.-Athenæum. The members of the Royal Society will hear with regret of the sudden death of Mr. ROBERTON, the assistant-secretary. It appears, by the evidence given at the inquest, that on Monday evening the wife of the porter took letters to Mr. Roberton, who | in their political and religious customs and obserwas then in apparent good health, said he was go- vances;-and in addition to these powerful coning out, but should return in about an hour. The trasts, is the fact, that North America possesses - next morning his servant, when she went to call no Architectural stone ruins,-while in the Mexican him, found his door fastened. She at first presum- portion of the Continent, many Cities and Temples ed that he had gone out, and locked the door, as have been found. was his custom; but as he did not make his appearance, a blacksmith was sent for, and upon the door being opened he was found lying upon the sofa in a reclining position, quite dead; and Dr. Bostock has given it as his opinion that he had been dead about seventeen hours. Mr. Roberton was a most obliging and amiable man, and an indefatigable officer of the Society.-Ibid. GENERAL ROMAN SOLTYK.-Death has lately made sad havoc in the exiled ranks of the sons of Poland. Last week's post from Paris brought the news of the somewhit sudden demise of General Roman Soltyk. Like most of his countrymen, Soltyk was a soldier, politician, and writer. He commenced his military career under Bonaparte, who liked him so much that he attached him to his staff during the memorable campaign in Poland. In the war of independence, in 1830, Soltyk rose to the = rank of general of artillery. As Nuncio to the Diet, he boldly brought on the motion to the effect that the Emperor of Russia had forfeited the throne of Poland through his flagrant violation of the constitution the proposition was carried by acclamation. In exile, he followed the noble example of his father, who, driven from prison to prison, harassed by a succession of unparalleled persecutions, preserved to the last his fortitude and serenity, and died, at the age of ninety, in the service of his country. General Soltyk came to this country several times on important missions, and endeared himself to a large circle of friends and admirers. His writings are mostly in the French language. He has left an esteemed History of the War of Polish Independence, a Memoir of his Service under Bonaparte, and of the Campaign in 1809, a Biogra=phy of Prince Joseph Poniatoski, besides a host of pamphlets on political and military subjects.-Court Journal. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Great Britain. 1.—The History of Ancient America anterior to the time of Columbus; proving the identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites; and the introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by the Apostle St. Thomas. By GEO. JONES, M. R. S. I., F. S. V. The Tyrian Æra. We extract a species of summary of our author's arguments, not as the most favorable specimen of his style, which is rich and flowing, but because it will the better enable our readers to comprehend his theory. "To establish that the Aborigines of South and Central (i. e. Mexican) America, were from the Last of the Tyrian family in Asia, the following arguments and evidences have been produced: viz. The separation of the Aborigines of the Western Hemisphere into two distinct races, or people; and that division justified by absolute contrasts in their moral and physical condition and manners, "The great and injurious error of naming the Aborigines- INDIANS'-was pointed out, as well as the Author, and the cause of the misnomer, and its effects. The title of the first Epoch was then given, and the arrangement of the several propositions for establishing its truth. "An elaborate argument was next founded upon the important and interesting question,- Are the Fine Arts of sufficient authority, to be received in evidence, for establishing historical records or events?' Having produced an answer, con amore, -and especially illustrated the answer, by the resuscitation of the Ruins of Rome, we proceeded in the belief that the argument was conclusive and in the affirmative. "The fact was then established of the discovery of the ancient Ruins in Southern or Central America,-viz. at Mitla, Cholula, Uxmal, Palenque, Quirigua, Ocosingo, Tecpan-Guatimala, Gueguetinango, Quiche, Copan, Chi-chen, Zayi, Kabah, Espita, Ticel, and Labnah,—and these severally upon the high authority of the justly renowned Humboldt,-the Spanish Commissioners Del Rio and Waldeck,-Dupaix and Galindo,- and last, not least, the enterprising American Traveller, Stephens, and his artist-associate, Catherwood. and to which list may now be added the name of Norman. Stephens has investigated other Ruins in Yucatan. but they are precisely analogous to that of Uxmal, Reference was then made to the Mexican Paintings preserved in the Vatican, Bologna, and Madrid, and republished in the folio Volumes by Lord Kingsborough. "Extracts followed from the descriptions of the Ruins of Copan, Palenque, Uxmal, with such commentaries as were required, for illustration of the Architecture and Sculpture, or for detecting errors. "A critical analysis was then presented of the conclusions arrived at by Stephens, in reference to the Architecture, and of the Nations rejected by him as the builders. His errors were shown by his own contradictions; and the basis of his argument being founded upon those errors, the conclusions, as a necessity, fell to the ground; for it was shown that the only Nation or People that could claim to be Architects, and having means to reach the Continent, were not so much as mentioned by him, and consequently not investigated. If he had favorite conclusion, which he was determined to done so, it would instantly have interfered with a arrive at; if not by artistical and scientific reasoning, at least by one of the noblest traits in the human character, viz. Love of Country. This was so pardonable in a book merely of Incidents of Travel,' that while it could not deprive honest criticism of exposing the sophistry, it at once, from pure sympathy in the sentiment, withheld the shaft of condemnation. "We then proceeded to prove, upon the direct rules of Art, that the pyramidal ruins forming bases for receiving-and with the peculiar superstructures on them, that they were only traceable as EgyptoTyrian Architecture-that the Sculpture aided this conclusion, and finally established the Nation to be Tyrian, from recording the celebrated worship of Saturn, the victim-craving Moloch of Canaan's descendants. "A no less strong than interesting proof, we submit, was brought to the consideration of the SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS reader, in the general identity between Solomon's Temple of Jerusalem, built by Tyrians, and the Temples of Palenque and Copan.”—Metropolitan. France. GREAT BRITAIN. Contributions to the Edinburgh Review. By Lord Jeffrey. The Prism of Imagination. By the Bar Des Jésuites, par MM Michelet et Quinet. Paris, oness de Calabrella. 1843. Michelet the Historian, and Quinet the eloquent lecturer upon the literature of the South, have suspended their ordinary labors to ring an alarm upon the revival of the Jesuits in France. Let us glance at the cause of their provocation. For some time past the clergy have complained of the exclusive control exercised by the University over the education of the rising generation, the heads of which they accuse of corrupting the minds of youth by the dissemination of infidel principles. This charge pushed through all the consequences (and they are readily conceivable), is, as our readers will acknowledge, very grave, and such as the government itself, the direct patron and supporter of the University, could not allow to remain unanswered. M. Villemain, the minister of public instruction, himself a professor formerly, was the earliest to take the field in the first instance verbally in his place in the Chamber of Peers, and then as the author of an elaborate report, officially prepared upon the state of education in France, in which he not only demonstrated the immense spread of educa- | tion through the care of the University, but asserted its strict attention to the provision of religious instruction. M. Villemain's defence of the University rendered him perhaps the most popular of the present ministers: his vindication, complete as it was considered to be, limiting itself to the strict line of defence. Had it been more, it might have detracted from its own completeness as well as from the temperate dignity of a high government officer. But the University professors were not trammelled by considerations of etiquette and position; and they, attacked directly as corrupt teachers, have not felt bound to forego the exquisite pleasure of retaliation. Infidels as they were accused of being, they knew that there was a name more hateful still, the name of Jesuit, and this they have loudly shouted through the length and breadth of the land. Jesuitism is an evil to be apprehended equally by ruler and people. Look only at the history of its banishments, from Venice in 1606, from Bohemia in 1618, from Naples in 1622, and from the Low Countries in the same year; from India in the year following, from Russia in 1676, from Portugal in 1752, from Spain in 1767, from France in 1764, and at last from Rome herself in 1773! With such history before us, can it be possible that this society, in thirteen years after the fall and in the country of its last royal victim, threatens to nestle within the barbarous Gothic walls of the most civilized of continental nations? M. Michelet says yes. He declares, upon credible authority, that there are twice the number of Jesuits now that there were at the moment of the revolution of July. The number then was 423, it is now 960. The Jesuits then confined to some houses, are now in every diocese. Be the apprehension exaggerated, however, or be it well founded, it has drawn forth some brilliant evidence of the spirit ready to meet any attempt upon the freedom of thought, enough to warn the most hardy of the order against persistance in so vast an enterprise.-For. Quar. Review. A Manual of Medical Jurisprudence. By A. S. Taylor. George Selwyn and his Contemporaries. By J. H. Jesse. Flügel's German Dictionary abridged. By Feiling & Oxenford. The Baptisms of Scripture unfolded. By Sarah Bull. The Parsi Religion Unfolded, Reflected, etc. By J. Wilson, D. D. Bishop Heber's Journal in India. Part I. The Hellenistic Greek Testament. The Gospel according to St. Matthew, translated from the Greek. By Sir John Cheke. With Introduction, by J. Goodwin. The Heavens Illustrated, with 25 colored engravings. Chanting Simplified, by Rev. T. G. Ackland, D. D. Tables of Chemical Analysis, by Simeon Shaw, LL. D. The Legal Almanac Remembrancer and Diary. A Plea for the Liberties of the Scotch Universities. By J. I. Blackie. Thoughts on Moral and Spiritual Culture. By R. C. Waterston. GERMANY. C. Ottfr. Müllers Archæolog. Mittheilungen aus Griechanland. Nach dessen hinterass. Papieren herausg. Von A Scholl. I. Athens Antiken-Sammlung. 1 Heft, mit 6 Tafeln. Frank. a M. Handbuch der bibl. Alterthumskunde. Von J. F. Allioli. Landshut. Von Gebrauch des pronomen reflexivum sui, sibi, se, etc. Von G. F. Löschke. Bautzen. 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