as an antiquary, and the fact that the above was written as lately as 1843, we may estimate the probability of success in Junius-hunting. But Mr. Wade is quite confident that he has bagged the game; and perhaps he has. Dr. John Mason Good concluded his investigations in 1812, in utter despair, and fifteen years later, only a few weeks before his death, writes to Mr. Barker, respecting this perplexing question, "Many years ago, as you perhaps may be aware, I entered at full speed into this research, and beat the bush in every direction. At that time, however, the claims of Sir Philip Francis had not been advanced, at least not before the public. But had they been brought forward, the arguments by which it is obvious they may be met, and many of which you have yourself ably handled, would, I think, have succeeded in putting him as completely out of the list as all the other competitors appear to be put whose friends have undertaken to bring them forward. The question is nevertheless one of great interest as well on the score of national history as of lite rary curiosity. Yet, like many other desiderata, I am afraid it is likely to lie beyond the fathoming of any line and plummet that will be applied to it in our days."-Oct. 13, 1826. Charles Butler, one of the most acute of lawyers, and peculiarly well skilled in legal and literary controversy, and who had moreover examined this subject with the personal assistance of John Wilkes, the correspondent of Junius himself, writes to Barker, in 1828, "I am sorry I cannot communicate to you any information of importance on the subject in which you take so great an interest. I have only to add, that it appears to me involved in as great obscurity as ever." And now-to descend to smaller things-we are encouraged by the candour of these eminent individuals to emulate their frankness; and we will be magnanimous enough to own that our researches have placed us exactly in the position of Messrs. Good, Nicolas, Butler, and some thousands of others in "pursuit of knowledge under difficulties:"we are altogether ignorant of the authorship of the LETTERS OF JUNIUS. We have no claim to question the veracity of this mysterious personage, who declared, "I am the sole depository of my secret, and it shall die with me." We have already quoted a portion of the eloquent comments of Dr. Good upon Junius as a writer, but we are not willing to conclude this article without citing some further authorities on this point: "I quote JUNIUS in English, as I would Tacitus or Livy in Latin. I consider him as a legitimate English Classick."-Mathias's Pursuits of Literature. "Junius burst into notice with a blaze of impudence which has rarely glared upon the world before, and drew the rabble after him as a monster makes a show. When he had once provided for his safety by impenetrable secrecy, he had nothing to combat but truth and justice, enemies whom he knows to be feeble in the dark. Being then at liberty to indulge himself in all the immunities of invisibility, out of the reach of danger, he has been bold; out of the reach of shame, he has been confident. As a rhetorician, he has the art of persuading when he seconded desire; as a reasoner, he has convinced those who had no doubt before; as a moralist, he has taught that virtue may disgrace; and as a patriot, he has gratified the mean by insults on the high. . . . It is not by his liveliness of imagery, his pungency of periods, or his fertility of allusion, that he detains the cits of London and the boors of Middlesex. Of style and sentiment they take no cognizance."-DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON: On the Seizure of the Falkland Islands, 1771. The citation of this passage may remind the reader that an eminent modern critic has brought the names of John son and Junius into juxtaposition in his remarks upon the chronological history of English style: "Adam Smith was nearly the first who made deeper reasonings and more exact knowledge popular among us, and Johnson and Junius the first who again familiarized us with more glowing and sonorous diction, and made us feel the tameness and poorness of the serious style of Addison and Swift."-LORD JEFFREY: Contrib. to Edin. Review, Lon., 1853, 77. "How comes this Junius to have broke through the cobwebs of the law, and to range uncontrolled, unpunished, through the land? The myrmidons of the Court have been long, and are still, pursuing him in vain. They will not spend their time upon me, or you, or you. No: they disdain such vermin when the mighty boar of the forest, that has broken through all their toils, is before them. But what will all their efforts avail? No sooner has he wounded one than he lays another dead at his feet. For my part, when I saw his attack upon the king, I own my blood ran cold. . . . In short, after carrying away our Royal Eagle in his pounces and dashing him against a rock, he has laid you prostrate. Kings, Lords, and Commons are but the sport of his fury. Were he a member of this House, what might not be expected from his knowledge, his firmness and integrity! He would be easily known by his contempt of all danger, by his penetration, by his vigour. Nothing would escape his vigilance and activity. Bad ministers could conceal nothing from his sagacity; nor could promises nor threats induce him to conceal any thing from the public."-EDMUND BURKE: Speech in the House of Commons. 2. Annot. in MS. Alexand. LXX. Interp., 1660, fol. See Bibl. Polygl. Waltoni, vi. Junius, R. The Pastor's Advocate, Lon., 4to. Junius, R. The Drunkard's Character, Lon., 1638, 8vo. "Very acute and forcible passages and descriptions."-REV. H. J. Todd. Junius, R. Cure of Misprision, Lon., 1646, 8vo. Junkin, D. X., D.D., a Presbyterian divine. The Oath a Divine Ordinance, and an Element of the Social Constitution, N. York, 1845, 12mo. This work has been highly commended. Junkin, George, D.D., a Presbyterian divine, formerly President of Lafayette College, Easton, now President of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia, b. 1790, in Cumberland county, Penna., has pub. a Treatise on Justification, Phila., 1839, 12mo, Lectures on Prophecy, 1844, 8vo, a number of Sermons, Addresses, &c., and edited and contributed to several periodicals, 1826–53. Junkin, Margaret, daughter of the preceding, has gained some reputation by fugitive poems, specimens of which will be found in May's American Female Poets, 1854; and in Read's Female Poets of America, 6th ed., 1855. See also an article on the Female Poets of America, by Mrs. E. F. Ellet, in the North American Review, for April, 1849. Miss Junkin has pub., within the last few weeks, Silverwood, a Book of Memories, 1857. Jurin, James, M.D., 1684-1750, pub. a number of medical and mathemat. works, 1712-49, for a list of which see Watt's Bibl. Brit. See accounts of Jurin in Rees's Cyc.; Nichols's Lit. Anec.; Works of the Learned, 1737-39, 41. Justamond, John O., Surgeon R.A., d. 1786, pub. Surgical Tracts, Lon., 1789, 4to, several medical works, a trans. of The Private Life of Louis XV., 1781, 4 vols. 8vo, and a trans. of Abbé Raynal's Hist. of the Settlements and Trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies, 1776, 5 vols. 8vo; 1783, 8 vols. 8vo; 1784, 6 vols. 8vo; The last edits. contain the additions 1788, 8 vols. 8vo. 10 vols. 8vo, atlas in 4to. It is said that this work has and corrections of the Geneva ed. (in French) of 1780, been trans. into every European language. It is truly valuable, but far from unexceptionable in its moral tendency. One-third of it was written by Diderot. It was ordered to be burned by the Parliament of Paris, and a decree was issued for the arrest of Raynal, who managed to escape. "The work of Raynal treats of every thing that can be sought for connected with the East and West Indies; and if the student will pursue through the work all the great leading historical events, he will find them not only agreeable but useful."-PROF. SMYTH. "We do not scruple to pronounce the work in its English dress correct, elegant, and nervous."-Lon. Month. Rev. Justel. On an Engine, &c.; Phil. Trans., 1686. Justice, Alexander. 1. Laws of the Sea, &c., Lon., 1705, 4to. 2. Commerce, 1707, 4to. 3. Monies and Exchange, 1707, 4to. Justice, Elizabeth. A Voyage to Russia, Lon., 1739, '46, 8vo. Justice, James. 1. Scotch Gardener's Director. 2. British Gardener's Director, Edin., 1754, '67, 8vo. "An original work."-Lon. Quar. Rev. Juxon, William, 1582-1663, Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, 1598; Vicar of St. Giles's, Oxford, 1609; Rector of Somerton, 1614; President of his College, 1621; Vice-Chancellor, 1626-27; subsequently Dean of Worcester, and Preb. of Chichester; elected Bishop of Hereford, 1633, but in the same year, and before consecration, was removed to the bishopric of London; Lord High-Treasurer, 1635-41; Archbishop of Canterbury, 1660-63. This good man adhered faithfully to his royal master during his imprisonment previous to his barbarous murder, and accompanied him to the scaffold. 1. The Subject's Sorrow; or, Lamentations upon the death of Britain's Josiah, King Charles; a Serm., Lon., 1640, 4to. 2. Some Considerations upon the Act of Uniformity, &c., by a Servant of the God of Peace, 1662, 4to. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon.; Biog. Brit.; Le Neve's Lives of the Archbishops; Sir Philip Warwick's Memoirs; Laud's Life and Diary; Clarendon's Hist. of the Rebellion; Hume's Hist. of Eng.; Hallam's Constit. Hist. of Eng., 7th ed., Lon., 1854, ii. 39, 40, 187, n. There was great joy at Westminster when, in the chapel of King Henry VII., Bishop Juxon was elevated to the high office of Archbishop of Canterbury, and that staunch Churchman, old Anthony Wood, warms at the narration: Junius Secundus. 1. Individual Despotism dangerous to Public Liberty, Lon., 1849, 8vo. 2. Congrega-persons of honour, and gentry, gave God thanks for the mercies of tionalism as it is, and as it ought to be, 1850, 8vo. Junius Secundus. See KELSAL, CHARLES, No. 5. Junius, Patrick, Librarian to James I. 1. Versio et Notæ in Clementis Epist. ad Romanus, Oxf., 1633, 4to. "Where, besides a great confluence of orthodox clergy, many that day, as being touched at the sight of that good man, whom piety, learning, patience, charity, and all apostolical virtues."they esteemed a person of primitive sanctity, of great wisdom, Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oron., iv. 819. Jyl of Breyntford. Testament, in old verse, Lon., 4to. TESTIMONIALS,-ALLIBONE'S DICTIONARY OF AUTHORS. From Washington Irving, Esq. MESSRS. CHILDS & PETERSON: Sunnyside, Aug. 23, 1855. From Wm. H. Prescott, Esq. Boston, Aug. 14, 1855. Gentlemen:—I should sooner have replied to your note Gentlemen:-Accept my thanks for the specimen you requesting my opinion of Allibone's Dictionary of Literahave sent me of Mr. Allibone's Critical Dictionary of Eng-ture. I have rarely seen so large an amount of matter The work is conlish Literature. The undertaking does honour to that gen- condensed into so small a compass. tleman's enterprise; and the manner in which, from the ducted on what to me is an entirely novel principle, and specimen before me, (464 pages,) he appears to execute it, presents the reader not simply with the opinions of the does honour to his intelligence, perspicuity, wide and author, but with those of the best critics on every writer accurate research, impartiality, and good taste. When whose character he discusses. This is opening the best completed, the work cannot fail to be a valuable library sources of information, while the original contributions of companion and family book of reference. The beautiful the editor, which connect the extracts together, are of a manner in which the work is got up is highly creditable piquant kind that gives vivacity to the discussion. to American typography. Cambridge, Sept. 1, 1855. Gentlemen:-I have examined, with great satisfaction, the part of Mr. Allibone's Dictionary of English Literature which has already been published, (464 pages.) The plan appears to me an exceedingly good one: comprising, as it does, a notice of all the English and American authors down to the present time, with biographical incidents, an enumeration of their several publications, and frequent critical remarks. An undertaking so comprehensive in its design requires vast diligence and research. As far as the author has proceeded, he seems to have executed his task with ability, good judgment, and success. When completed, the work cannot fail to be of great utility to all readers who would acquire a knowledge of books, and a most valuable accession to every library. I am, gentlemen, very respectfully yours, From Hon. George Bancroft. New York, Nov. 17, 1855. MESSRS. CHILDS & PETERSON: The index of subjects will form a sort of catalogue raisonnée, that cannot fail to make the book as useful in a bibliographical as in a biographical view. If the rest of the work is as ably executed as that embraced under the first three letters of the alphabet-all I have seen-it cannot fail to be an important contribution to English literature. I remain, gentlemen, your ob't servant, W. H. PRESCOTT. From the Hon. Edward Everett. Boston, Sept. 20, 1855. Gentlemen:-I have received the volume you were good enough to send me, containing the first three letters of Mr. Allibone's "Critical Dictionary of English Literature, and British and American Authors, living and deceased." The plan of the work is extremely comprehensive, and requires laborious research in the collection of the materials, and great care and discrimination in putting them together. As far as I have been able to examine the specimen contained in the volume sent me, Mr. Allibone is performing his task with great fidelity and success. In giving, in the words of the authors, the judgments which he cites from approved sources, he has made a great improvement over former biographical dictionaries, which are, for the mosɩ part, unacknowledged compilations. Mr. Allibone's work appears to be, to a very unusual degree, the result of original investigation, and, if completed as begun, will, I am confident, be found a most useful work of reference, and an important addition to the literary apparatus of our language. I am, gentlemen, respectfully yours, EDWARD EVERETT. From Prof. Lieber, LL.D. } South Carolina College, Columbia, S. C., Sept. 5, 1855. Gentlemen :-In judging of this work, it is necessary to keep in mind that the resolute title, "A Critical Dictionary of English Literature," ushers in a work which the author and publishers found themselves obliged to restrict to one volume, containing, nevertheless, "thirty thousand biographies and literary notices." Having myself edited an Encyclopædia [Americana], I am better able to give an opinion upon some points than I should have been otherwise; and an examination of many of the larger articles under the letters A, B, and C, has convinced me that the author has brought to his task what may be called the Encyclopædic virtues, in a high degree—a painstaking love of detail and conscientious accuracy, and an unvarying desire of collecting; a self-forgetting disposition to give what others have done, and a certain taste and tact, which, in many cases, alone can draw the proper line of admission and omission. I make no doubt that this work will be a wel. come aid to all that handle books-scholars, general read ers, and booksellers. Your ob't servant, FRANCIS LIEBER. Trübner's Bibliotheca Glottica. THE LITERATURE OF AMERICAN ABORIGINAL LANGUAGES, by HERMANN E. LUDEWIG. With additions and corrections by Professor WM. W. TURNER. Edited by NICOLAS TRÜBNER. London, Trübner & Co., 60, Paternoster Row, 1858. 8vo, fly and general title, 2 leaves; Dr. Ludewig's preface, pp. v.-viii.; the Editor's preface, pp. ix.-xii.; Biographical Memoir of Dr. Ludewig, pp. xiii., xiv.; and INTRODUCTORY BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES, pp. xv.-xxiv., followed by a list of Contents. Then follow Dr. Ludewig's Bibliotheca Glottica, alphabetically arranged, with additions by the editor, pp. 1-209; Prof. Turner's additions, with those of the editor to the same, also alphabetically arranged, pp. 210-246; Index, pp. 247-256; and list of Errata, pp. 257, 258. One volume, handsomely bound in cloth, price 10s. 6d. This work is intended to supply a great want, now that the study | of ethnology has proved that exotic languages are not mere curiosities, but essential and interesting parts of the natural history of man, forming one of the most curious links in the great chain of national affinities, defining, as they do, the reciprocity existing between man and the soil he lives upon. No one can venture to write the history of America without a knowledge of her aboriginal languages; and, unimportant as such researches may seem to men engaged in the mere bustling occupations of life, they will at least acknowledge that these records of the past, like the stern-lights of a departing ship, are the last glimmers of savage life as it becomes absorbed, or recedes before the tide of civilization. Dr. Ludewig and Professor Turner have made most diligent use of the public and private collections in America, access to all of which was most liberally granted to them. This has placed at their disposal the labours of the American missionaries, so little known on this side of the Atlantic that they may be looked upon almost in the light of untrodden ground. But English and Continental libraries have also been ransacked, and Dr. Ludewig kept up a constant and active correspondence with scholars of "the Fatherland," as well as with men of similar tastes and pursuits in France, Spain, and Holland, determined to leave no stone unturned, to render his labours as complete as possible. The volume, perfect in itself, is the first of an enlarged edition of Vater's "Linguarum totius Orbis Index." The work has been noticed by the press of both continents, and we may be permitted to refer particularly to the following: "This work, mainly the production of the late Herr Ludewig, a German naturalized in America, is devoted to an account of the literature of the aboriginal languages of that country. It gives an alphabetical list of the various tribes of whose language any record remains, and refers to the works, papers, or manuscripts in which such information may be found. The work has evidently been a labour of love; and as no pains seem to have been spared by the editors, Prof. Turner and Mr. Trübner, in rendering the work as accurate and complete as possible, those who are most interested in its contents will be best able to judge of the labour and assiduity bestowed upon it by author, editors, and publisher.”—Lon. Athenæum, 5th April, 1858. "This is the first instalment of a work which will be of the greatest value to philologists, and is a compendium of the aboriginal languages of the American continents, and a digest of all the known literature bearing upon those languages. 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