ART XVII. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. In the press, and speedily will be published, in 2 vols. 8vo., with a Map, &c. Researches in South Africa. By the Rev. John Philip, D.D. Superintendant of the Missions of the London Missionary Society in South Africa, &c. This work will contain an Account of the past and present condition of the Native Tribes within or adjoining the limits of the Cape Colony, comprising authentic details of the various attempts made to enslave or exterminate them; the success of the Missionaries in reclaiming them from barbarous and immoral habits, to a state of civilization; the opposition they have had to contend with, and the intolerable oppressions to which both the Missionaries and the Natives are still subjected. The Personal Observations of the Author during his various journeys and travels into the interior of the Country, will also, it is hoped, add to the interest of a work, of which one of the leading objects will be, to demonstrate the inseparable connection between Christianity and civilization. In the press, Christian Experience; or, a Guide to the Perplexed. By Robert Philip. In the press, The Barn and the Steeple. For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the timber shall answer it.' Hab. ii. 11. In the press, and will speedily be published, The Americans as they are. Exemplified in a Tour through the Valley of the Mississippi; embracing Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, Louisiana, &c. By the Author of Austria as it is.' A Second Edition, greatly enlarged and improved, of Hamilton's East India Gazetteer, will appear in April, in 2 vols. 8vo. With Maps. Mr. Allan Cunningham is preparing the first of a series of volumes, to be entitled, The Anniversary; or, Poetry and Prose for 1829. The work will be illustrated, under the superintendance of Mr. Sharpe, with Engravings from the most celebrated pictures of the British school. In the press, and to be published the first of April, in 1 vol. 12mo. with Plates and Map, Private Journal of a Voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and a residence in the Sandwich Islands during the years 1822, 1823, 1824, and 1825. By C. S. Stewart, late American Missionary at the Sandwich Is lands. With an Introduction, and Occasional Notes. By the Rev. W. Ellis. The Rev. George Payne, of Edinburgh, has in the press, Elements of Mental and Moral Science; designed to exhibit the original susceptibilities of the mind, and the rule by which the rectitude of any of its states or feelings should be judged. Westley and Davis have announced a New Annual for 1829, to be entitled "The Evergreen; or, Christmas and New Year's Gift and Birth Day Present for 1829:' intended for Youth of both Sexes under the Age of Twelve Years. The Juvenile Forget-me-not for 1829, is already announced; to appear in November. The Author of the Evangelical Rambler is preparing a series of papers, which will appear periodically under the title of "The Evangelical Spectator." The Rev. W. Garthwaite, of Wattisfield, intends to publish by subscription, a volume of Sermons, designed for Family or Village Reading. 7s. 6d. In the press, The Impious Feast. A Poem, in Ten Books. By Robert Landor, M. A. Author of the Count Arezzi, a Tragedy. 8vo. In the press, Conversations, chiefly on the Religious Sentiments expressed in Madame de Staël's Germany. By Mary Ann Kelty, Author of Religious Thoughts. 12mo. In the press, The Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Romans; with an Introduction, Paraphrase, and Notes. By C. H. Terrot, A. M. late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. In the press, A Brief Enquiry into the Prospects of the Christian Church, in connection with the Second Advent of our Lord Jesus Christ. By the Hon. and Rev. Gerard Noel, Curate of Richmond, Surrey. In the press, Sermons. By the Rev. James Procter, A. M. Fellow of Peter's College, Cambridge, late Curate of Bentley, Hants, and Assistant Minister of Farnham, Surrey. In the press, Hints designed to promote a profitable attendance on an Evangelical Ministry. By the Rev. Wm. Davis, of Hastings. The Rev. James Churchill has in the press, an Essay entitled, "The Way of Salvation and Christian Edification." ART. XVIII. LIST OF WORKS RECENTLY PUBLISHED. EDUCATION. Virgil's Eneid, Book I. with an Interlinear Translation, on Mr. Locke's plan, and the Original Text, in which the quantity of the doubtful vowels is denoted. 2s. 6d. Parsing Lessons to Virgil. Book I. 2s. 6d. Cæsar's Invasion of Britain from the Commentaries, with an Interlinear Translation, &c. 2s. 6d. A short Latin Grammar. 2s. 6d. Homer's Iliad, Book I. with an Interlinear Translation; and the Original Text, in which the quantity of the doubtful vowels is denoted. 2s. 6d. The Odes of Anacreon, with an Interlinear Translation, &c. 2s. 6d. First Steps to the Latin Classics; comprising simple sentences, progressively arranged, directions for construing, and a literal interlinear Translation. With an Introductory Essay on the Study of the Latin Language, and an Appendix of Exercises. By James Hinton, A.M. and George Cox. 12mo. 2s. boards. Greek Gradus; or, A Greek, Latin, and English Prosodial Lexicon; containing the Interpretation, in Latin and English, of all words which occur in the Greek Poets, from the earliest period to the time of Ptolemy Philadelphus, and also exhibiting the Quantities of each Syllable; thus combining the advantages of a Lexicon of the Greek Poets and a Greek Gradus: for the use of schools and colleges. By the Rev. J. Brasse, B.D. late Fellow of Trin. Coll. Cambridge. 8vo. 11. 4s. Second Latin Exercises, adapted to every Grammar, and intended as an Introduction to Valpy's Elegantia Latina.' 12mo. 2s. 6d. bound. CLASSICAL LITERATURE. Notes on Herodotus, historical and critical. Translated from the French of P. H. Larcher. 2 vols. 8vo. 17. 10s. Aristophanis Comœdiæ cum Scholiis et Varietate Lectionis. Recensuit Immanuel Bekkerus, Professor Berolinensis. Accedunt Versio Latina Deperditarum Comodiarum Fragmenta, Index locupletissimus, Notæque Brunckii, Reisigii, Beckii, Dindorfii, Schutzii, Bentleii, Dobreii, Porsoni, Elmsleii, Hermanni, Fischeri, Hemsterhusii, Kuinoeli, Hopfneri, Conzii, Wolfii, &c. &c. 5 vols. 8vo. 3. 15s. The Notes form 3 vols. out of the 5, and may be had separate, 21. 5s. A few copies are struck off on large paper, 57.15s.6d. for the 5 vols. The Plutus, Nubes, Aves, and Ranæ, being the four plays of Aristophanes which are usually read first, and the fittest to put into the schoolboy's hands, are each published with the Greek Scholia and Annotations, separately. ORIENTAL LITERATURE. Select Specimens of the Theatre of the Hindus, translated from the Original Sanscrit; together with an Account of the Dramatic System of the Hindus, Notices of their different Dramas, &c. By H. H. Wilson, Esq. Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, &c. 3 vols. 8vo. 17. 10s. The Nature of the First Resurrection, and the Character and Privilege of those that shall partake of it: a Sermon. By a Spiritual Watchman. 1s. 6d. Four Discourses on the Sacrifice, Priesthood, Atonement, and Redemption of Christ. By J. Pye Smith, D. D. Author of the Scripture Testimony to the Messiah. 8vo. 8s. The First Volume of "The Works of the English and Scottish Reformers." Edited by the Rev. Thomas Russell, A.M. 8vo. 10s. 6d.-50 Copies will be printed on a royal paper, price 17. 1s. Religion in India. By the Rev. S. Laidler and J. W. Massie, recently from India. 8vo. 9s. The Balance of Criminality; or, Mental Error compared with Immoral Conduct. Addressed to Young Doubters. By Rev. Isaac Taylor of Ongar. 12mo. 3s. 6d. Part II. of the Rev. John Morrison's Exposition of the Book of Psalms. 8vo. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR APRIL, 1828. Art. I. Narrative of a Journey through the Upper Provinces of India, from Calcutta to Bombay, 1824-1825, (with Notes upon Ceylon,) an Account of a Journey to Madras and the Southern Provinces, 1826, and Letters written in India. By the late Right Rev. Reginald Heber, D.D. Lord Bishop of Calcutta. In 2 vols. 4to. pp. xlviii. 1148. [Plates.] Price 4l. 14s. 6d. London. 1828, MANY circumstances combine to render these volumes in teresting in no ordinary degree. The country which they describe, of which one has heard so much and knows so little, the sacred office and highly respected character of the Author, his premature and lamented decease, his admirable qualifications as a traveller, of which, as the companion of the late Dr. E. D. Clarke, the public had ample evidence in the Notes to his Travels,-altogether concur to raise to a very high pitch the anticipations with which the reader sits down to the perusal of this posthumous Journal. Nor will those expectations be disappointed. The Narrative is written in a fascinating style of epistolary familiarity, without ever becoming frivolously minute or tedious. It is a journal, in which the impressions and observations suggested by the scenes and occurrences of the day, were recorded while yet fresh and distinct; the only method, as the experienced traveller is well aware, that can secure accuracy of detail. • Had it pleased God to spare the Bishop's life, it was', we are told, his 'intention, after re-visiting the same countries, to publish, corrected by further experience, an account of his travels from the notes, in which light only he considered the work now ' offered to the world.' Highly as we should have valued the Bishop's matured opinions on many subjects, we cannot regret on any other account than the melancholy cause, that we have in the present publication a vivid transcript of his first impressions on traversing the sphere of his jurisdiction, mingled VOL. XXIX. N.S. DD with traits of personal character and expressions of private feeling which considerably enhance the interest, if they do not add to the substantial value of the publication. Speaking of an English Traveller whom he met with at Lucknow, the Bishop remarks: 'Mr. Hyde is a great traveller, and the only Englishman whom I have heard of, except Lord Valentia, who has visited India from motives exclusively of science and curiosity since the country has been in our possession. All others, however science might engross their attention, have, like Leyden and Sir William Jones, had some official and ostensible object; whereas this gentleman is merely making a tour.' It is a singular circumstance, although easily accounted for, that there exists in fact scarcely a volume of English Travels in India. For the information that we possess respecting the interior of the country, we have hitherto been indebted almost exclusively to foreign travellers, to the military servants of the Company, and to Missionaries. The embassies of Mildenhall, Hawkins, and Roe, served only to stimulate curiosity by giving rise to vague and exaggerated ideas relative to the pomp and power of the monarchs of Ind. Of the older travellers, Bernier is by far the most intelligent and trust-worthy: Major Rennell styles him the most instructive of all East Indian travellers. He spent twelve years in the country, during eight of which he acted as physician to the Emperor Aurungzebe. He, therefore, saw the court of the Great Mogul in the zenith of its magnificence. He accompanied a nobleman in the imperial suite, on the temporary removal of the court to Cashmere; and he was an eye-witness of many of the principal transactions which distinguished the first ten years of the reign of the great Allumghire. His work is valuable, however, chiefly on account of the light which it throws upon the political state of the country at that period, and upon the manners and customs of the people under the dominion of their Moslem conquerors. It belongs to history, rather than to topogra phy; for, with the exception of the Letters comprising the narrative of his excursion to Cashmere, there is little inform * A new Translation of Bernier's Travels (by Irving Brock) has lately appeared in 2 vols. 8vo. (Price 18s. Pickering. 1826.) The work is edited in a very respectable manner, and will in this shape be generally acceptable. It ought, however, to have been comprised within a single volume; and the deficiency of either table of contents or index is a serious blemish in the publication. Another Translation, by John Stewart, has recently appeared at Calcutta, in 1 vol. ation of a geographical kind. It detracts too from the value of his work, that a considerable portion of it was drawn up from recollection after he had left the country. Thevenot (the younger) spent about fifteen months in the Deccan, during which time he collected a great deal of information respecting the almost unknown country, with the assistance chiefly, it is supposed, of the Capuchins of Surat. He saw but little of the country himself. Tavernier journeyed, according to his own account, through most of the provinces of the empire, and in more directions than any other traveller. He has given a number of routes, and his work contains a mass of curious and sometimes valuable materials*. But it was chiefly dictated from memory, in part from imagination; its statements often rest on mere hearsay authority, and the veracity of this Traveller is in some instances questionable. Carré, Dellon, De la Haye, and Fryer, all visited the peninsula between 1660 and 1680; but their opportunities of observation were extremely limited, and they are cited chiefly for the information they furnish as to the political state of the country at that period. De Graaf visited Patna in 1679, where the Dutch then had a factory; and Manderslo, about the year 1640, travelled from the capital of Gujerat to Agra, and afterwards to Bejapore in the Deccan. The latter consequently saw more of India than any traveller of the seventeenth century, except Tavernier; and his narrative, edited by Olearius, bears a high character for intelligence and fidelity. The geography and history of India were both, however, in a most crude and imperfect state, when, towards the close of the eighteenth century, Major Rennell gave to the public his invaluable "Memoir of a Map of Hindostan." Considering', he says in the preface, 'the vast extent of India, and how little • its interior parts have been visited by Europeans till the latter • part of the last (seventeenth) century, it ought rather to surprise us, that so much geographical matter should be collected during so short a period. Indeed we must not go much further back than thirty-five years' (from 1788) for the matter 'that forms the basis of the map+.' The additional materials consisted chiefly of the local information obtained by the marches of the British armies during the war with Hyder Ali and Tippoo Sultaun; of astronomical observations and hydrographic sur . * There is one subject to which he devoted more attention than any other traveller, namely, the diamond-mines of Golcondah and Orissa, of which the fullest account will be found in his Travels. In the time of D'Anville, the Brahmapootra was unknown as one of the principal rivers in India. |