284 OBITUARY. On the accession of her Majesty there was some public talk of an attempt to legitimatize the son and daughter of the late duke, but the political obstacles were deemed insurmountable. Meanwhile his Royal Highness had espoused (according to the form which had already been declared illegal) the Lady Cecilia Underwood. As some compensation for the former proceeding, the duke's influence with his royal niece obtained for the Lady Cecilia the title of Duchess of Inverness, and in the royal circle she was recognized as his wife. At the dinner given to her Majesty at Guildhall, the Duchess sat at the Queen's table. Altogether the death of the illustrious duke will be sincerely lamented; yet it was in the course of nature at seventy years of age. There are now but two survivors of the sons of George the Third. Of those royal princes none has exhibited in private life to a greater degree than the Duke of Sussex qualities that tended to conciliate the personal regard even of those who deprecated his political opinions.-Britannia. REV. FRANCIS WRANGHAM, M. A.-Dec. 27. At his residence in Chester, aged 73, the Rev. Francis Wrangham, M. A., F. S. A., late Archdeacon of the East Riding of York, Chaplain to the Archbishop of York, Canon of York and Chester, and Rector of Hunmanby, Yorkshire, and of Dodleston, Cheshire. Mr. Wrangham was a member of the Roxburghe and Bannatyne clubs; and, as honorary adjunct, of several philosophical and literary societies. We now proceed to give a list of his numerous publications. He is said to have published anonymously, in 1792, an anti-radical parody on part of a comedy of Aristophanes, with critical notes, entitled, Reform, a farce, 8vo. In 1794, he sent to the press, The Restoration of the Jews, a Seaton prize poem, 4to. In 1795. The Destruction of Babylon, a poem, 4to. And a volume of Poems, 8vo. In 1798, Rome is Fallen, a Visitation Sermon preached at Scarborough, 4to. In 1800, The Holy Land, a Seaton prize poem, 4to. In 1801, Practical Sermons, founded on Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul. Another set, having for their basis, Baxter's Saint's Everlasting Rest, appeared for the first time in 1816; when a selection of his various fugitive pieces was published in three vols. 8vo. In 1802, Leslie's Short and Easy Method with the Deists, and the Truth of Christianity demonstrated, with Four additional Marks, 8vo. In 1803, The Raising of Jairus's Daughter, a In 1808, A Dissertation on the best means of And in the same year, The Restoration of Learn- In 1809, The corrected edition of Langhorne's In 1809, A Sermon preached at Scarboro, at the In 1812, Joseph made known to his Brethren, a In 1813, The Death of Saul and Jonathan, a In 1814, Two Assize Sermons, 4to. In 1816, The British Plutarch, in six vols. 8vo. In 1820, Dr. Zouch's Works collected, with a In 1822. A second Charge, delivered to the Clergy In 1824, Sertum Cantabrigiense; or the Cam- In 1828, Bp. Walton's Prolegomena to the Polyglot Bible, with copious annotations, in 2 vols. 8vo. under the sanction of the University of Cambridge; which, with her accustomed munificence, defrayed The Plead, or Evidence of Christianity, forming the expense of the publication. In 1829, a Letter to the clergy of the Archdeathe twenty-sixth volume of Constable's Miscellany. man Catholic claims; of which Mr. Wrangham conry of the East Riding of Yorkshire, on the Rohad, for upward of thirty years, been the firm but temperate advocate. He occasionally employed his leisure by printing (for private circulation exclusively) Centuria MiraWicked, a Sermon founded upon Baxter, and The bilis, and The Saving Bank, 4to. The Doom of the Death of the Rt. Hon. Lady Anne Hudson, 8vo. Virtuous Woman, a Funeral Discourse on the and a few copies of a Catalogue of the English por tion of his voluminous library; which, with characters of the subjects, authors, or editions, forms 642 pages, 8vo. (See Marton's Catalogue of Pri vately Printed Books, p. 235.) Psychæ, or Songs of Butterflies, by T. H. Bayly, Esq., attempted in Latin rhymes to the same airs, with a few additional trifles, 1828. (Privately lations have from time to time appeared in our printed.) And several of his elegant poetical trans. own pages. In 1842, Mr. Wrangham presented to Trinity phlets, consisting of between 9 and 10,000 publicaCollege, Cambridge, his valuable collection of pamtions, bound in about 1000 volumes. As a literary man he was in an especial degree the laudatus a laudatis-as_one whose scholarship received the homage of Parr, and whose poetry the still rarer eulogy of Byron. As a theological writer, his com and mild benevolence; while the gentleness and positions were characterized by a sound orthodoxy timidity of his nature in some measure disqualified him from bringing forward so earnestly and promi nently, as is now generally done, those particular er through life, and to which he clung as his only truths of the Gospel in which he was a firm believ ground of confidence in his later years of calm decay. Mr. Wrangham was twice married. His first wife was Agnes, fifth daughter of Col. Ralph Creyke, of Marton, in Yorkshire, by whom he had only one daughter, late the wife of the Rev. Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Archdeacon of the East Riding of York, and son of the justly revered senator and philanthropist of that name. His second wife, who survives to deplore his loss, was Dorothea, daughter and co-heiress of the Rev. Digby Cayley, of Thormanby, in the county of York.-Gentlemen's Magazine. BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. Great Britain. Inglis's Solitary Walks through Many Lands.- THE late lamented author of "Walks through Many Lands," was not one of those who travel from Dan to Beersheba, proclaiming that all is barrenness-on the contrary, there is no prospect, however sterile, but he invests, in some measure, with the line of his own poetical imagination :— "Nothing is lost on him who sees, With an eye that feeling gives, For him there's a story in every breeze, And a picture in every wave. they, who gazing on its loveliness, find it impossible for thought to rest there, receiving from it but an impulse which sends them into the wide fields of rich imagination, there to luxuriate, are altoThe author of these "Floral Fancies" possesses this discursiveness of mind. Every flower seems to have suggested a fable. The world is full of parallels, had man but the wit to trace them out. They are in fact but evidences of similar origin from the same Almighty mind, and exist as much morally as physically. The various characters of man may to a certain degree be traced in the various flowers which bedeck his path, and surely he need not disdain to read the lesson written by the Divine hand. For ourselves, we love the graceful teach No adventure, however perplexing, that has powering, and see not why these beautiful denizens of to ruffle his equanimity, or render him unjust or querulous in his judgments of his fellow men. our fields and gardens, so richly robed and garni tured, may not preach as holy a sermon as any mitred prelate. Our author then has drawn a moral from every flower, inculcating either a lesson against some vice or folly, or recommending the practice of some grace or moral good. Pretty fictions are wɔven into the matters of fact connected with the nume The present edition of his Wanderings, comes to us with a melancholy interest, since the ear is now deaf, alike to our praise or our blame. Yet we rejoice to welcome it in its present cheap form, which must render it accessible to a numerous class of readers, to whom economy is an object. The period is now past for entering into any length-rous floral families brought before our notice, all ened criticism on the devious journeyings of Mr. In-being made emblematical of some correspondent glis; but when the press groans with works of coarse humor, and some even of questionable morality, we conceive the public owe a debt of gratitude to the spirited publishers of the "Popular Library of Modern Authors," of which this forms a portion, and trust they may receive sufficient encouragement to warrant its continuance. A. C. H. Westminster Review. Practical Mercantile Correspondence; a Collection of Modern Letters of Business, with Notes Critical and Explanatory, an Analytical Index, and an Appendix, containing pro forma Invoices, Account-Sales, Bills of Lading, and Bills of Exchange. Also an explanation of the German Chain Rule, as applicable to the Calculation of Exchanges. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. By William Anderson. vice or virtue: these morals are all apposite and form a very acceptable present to the young, and we offer the suggestion accordingly. We must add a few words on the illustrations, and pretty-though it strikes us that the poor which are numerous and fanciful in the extreme, flowers must have suffered some torture to have been made to assume such strange fantastic shapes. A grave old rose with a matronly face nursing a young baby of a rosebud, must needs make even a critic smile; but we are not disposed to consider a little amusing extravagance as a fault, in a work which on the whole has pleased us much.-Metropolitan. We consider this little work as one of a most valuable kind, and the most valuable of its kind. The young noviciate in commerce will find it an able help, and a powerful auxiliary, smoothing down his difficulties, and making his way plain; whilst the foreigners who enter our merchants' counting-houses, either as volunteers, giving their services as a compensation for being placed where Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. John Williams, they may gain an insight into our inodes of busi- Missionary to Polynesia. By Ebenezer Prout, ness, or the remunerated clerk, a body which colof Halstead. 8vo. Snow, Paternoster Row. lectively amount to many thousands, would find This Memoir of the celebrated modern misthis volume the most important help in all those sionary is interesting as a mere record of the life of embarrassments which their want of familiarity an energetic man passed in romantic and novel with the idioms of our language necessarily occa- scenes, independently of any serious religious insion. The present contains invoices, account- terest attached to it. The peculiar class of relisales, and correspondence with Australia, whichgionists to which Mr. Williams belonged are too is a new feature. There ought not to be either clerk or counting-house without this little volume. Metropolitan. Floral Fancies and Morals from Flowers. Embellished with Seventy Illustrations by the Author. There is something pleasing to us in the fancifulness of these Fables. We like well to trace the operations of the mind starting from some given point, and wandering in fresh tracts of imagination, even though it be without chart or compass; but when these explorations have an end in view, unquestionably they receive an added value and importance. They who can look upon a flower, and see nothing beyond fair form and sweet coloring, possess no mental locomotive power; whilst apt to endeavor to strain human nature to a higher pitch in religious matters than it can maintain. Undoubtedly, a truly pious man makes religion the moving principle of all his actions; but it is also undoubtedly the fact, that no man, who has not become a fanatic or ascetic, is entirely free from that mental impetus that is a part of our nature, and which, when well regulated, is an incentive to many noble actions. The tone, therefore, of the book we cannot approve of, because, by making a system of religious impulses, it seems to generate a state that must occasionally be mere pretence. Leaving this consideration out of the question, we have been much delighted with the work. Mr. Williams was a very excellent man, with a 286 SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. GREAT BRITAIN. great deal of talent and energy in his composition. | SELECT LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS. visited, give almost an air of romance to his biog. raphy. The book needs no recommendation to ensure it purchasers, appealing as it does to a religious class, and to every one interested in new discoveries in Geography, or the still higher matter-the development of human character. France. Monthly Magazine. De l'Aristocratie Anglaise, de la Democratie Américaine et de la libéralité des Instituions Francaise par Charles Farey. Second Edition. Paris. 1843. The author tells us, that this book has been much eulogized; that the first edition was soon exhausted; and that a noble British peer wrote a reply, controverting the author's claims for the superiority of French institutions over those of Great Britain; all which reasons combined, have led to the publication of the present edition. It is not our intention to come to the rescue of the noble lord, whoever he may be, for indeed we learn for the first We time, and only through M. Farey's book, of the controversy to which the author alludes. have no objection, not the least, that M. Farey should succeed in persuading his countrymen of the excellence of their institutions; nay, we should heartily lend him our assistance; but it must be on the condition that he will not misrepresent the state of English society. M. Farey thinks that the Feudal system still weighs heavily upon England, and that the middle classes are without political influence. His proofs are drawn from certain A System of Logic, Ratiocination and Induction; being a connected view of the Principles of Evidence, and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. ByJohn Stuart Mill. Moral and Intellectual Education. By Madame Bureau Riofrey. Elements of Universal History, on a new systematic plan, from the earliest times to the treaty of Vienna; for the use of schools and private students. By H. White, B. A., Trinity College, Cambridge. Criminal Jurisprudence, considered in relation to Cerebral Organization. By M. B. Sampson. The Columbiad: A Poem. By A. T. Ritchie. Ward's Library of Standard Divinity: The Great Propitiation. By Joseph TruD. D. man, GERMANY. Griechische Heroen Geschichten: von B. G. Niebuhr an seinen Sohn erzählt. Hamburg. Theologischer Commentar zum Alten. Testament: von Dr. M. Baumgarten. Einleitung; Genesis; Exodus. Kiel. Predigten über Hauptstücke des Christlichen Glaubens und Lebens: von Dr. A. Tholuck. Bnd. III. Hamburg. Die neutestamentliche Rhetorick, ein Seitenstück zur Grammatik des neutestamentl. Sprachidioms: von C. G. Wilke. Dresden. Geschichte der Pädagogik vom Wiederaufblühen klassischer Studienbis auf unsere Zeit: von Karl von Raumer. Stuttgart. Vermischte Schriften von Karl Gutzkow. Leipzig. ceremonials, such for instance as that attending the coronation, upon which his reasoning is as just, as if he drew his notions of British laws from the judges' horsehair wigs. He denies in fact, the whole spirit of modern improvement, because a resemblance still exists to what is past; the boy has not become a man, because the boy still speaks with a human tongue, and sees through human eyes. He, in fact, makes the mistake which most Frenchmen do, who think that no political good can be effected, except through violent revolution; and he expects the coming of the crisis, La Polynésie et les iles Marquises; voywhich is to put an end to Feudality in England. Will it be credited in England, that this author, who vaunts the popularity of his book in France, ages et marine accompagnés d'un Voyage en advances as a grave proof of the existence of the Abyssinie et d' un coup d'œil sur la canaliFeudal system in England, that the Queen's min-sation de l'isthmie de Panama; par M. Louis isters, when called upon to attend at Windsor, Reybaud. Paris. feel honor in putting on servants' livery coats, with livery buttons? We translate it literally from page 35. "Those who would feel surprised to see free England in the 19th century thus adhere to feudal customs, will be still more surprised when they learn, that the Queen's ministers, called to Wind sor at the Queen's accouchment, put on the uniform master's name." And a little further down, page 36, he asks, if after such instances "England has a right to be boasting of her habeas corpus." It may be confessed, however, that the habeas corpus is not dear at a button, n'en déplaise à Monsieur Farey. FRANCE. L'Orient ancien et moderne, pour servir à l'explication des Saintes Ecritures; par Tome II. Paris. S. Preisswerk, professeur à Bâle. Traduit de l' Allemand. Histoire de la Chimie depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à notre époque; comprenant un analyse détaillée des manuscrits alchimiques de la bibliothèque royale de Paris; l'histoire de la pharmacologie, de la metallurgie, et en général des sciences et des arts qui se rattachent à la chimie, etc.: par le docteur Ferd. Hoefer. Paris. 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