Childhood, Lon., 1838, 8vo; 2d ed., 1839; enlarged, 1849. Commended by Brit. and For. Med. Rev., Med.-Chir. Rev., Dubl. Jour. of Med. Sci., Med. Gaz., Lancet, &c. Ure, Andrew, M.D., b. at Glasgow, 1778, and educated at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh; became Professor of Chemistry at the Andersonian University, 1804, and subsequently Astronomer of the Observatory established by himself and others in 1809; removed to London in 1830, and in 1834 was appointed Analytical Chemist to the Board of Customs; d. June 2, 1857. 1. New Systematic Table of the Materia Medica, Glasg., 1813, 8vo. 2. Dictionary of Chemistry, on the Basis of Mr. Nicholson's, Lon., 1821, 2 vols. 8vo; Ed. by Robert Hare, M.D., and Franklin Bache, M.D., Phila., 1821, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., Lon., 1824, 8vo; 3d ed., 1827, 8vo; 4th ed., 1835, 8vo. In French, by Riffault, Paris, 1822-24, 4 vols. 8vo. Translated into other languages.

No. 9, N. S.

man.

"This work, in our opinion, is unrivalled.”—Med. Jour. Superseded by WATTS, HENRY, No. 2. 3. Elements of the Art of Dyeing and Bleaching, by G. L. & A. B. Berthollet; from the French, with Notes, Lon., 1824, 2 vols. 8vo; 1846, 8vo. 4. New System of Geology, 1829, 8vo. "One of the most valuable accessions lately made to the scientific literature of our country."-Brande's Jour. of Sci., See, also, Lon. Mon. Rev. 1829, i. 591; Amer. Mon. Rev., vii. 400. 5. The Philosophy of Manufacturers, 1835, p. 8vo; 2d ed., 1835, p. 8vo; 3d ed., with Supp. by P. L. Simmonds, F.S.S., 1861, p. 8vo, (Bohn's Sci. Lib.) Notices of 1st ed. will be found in Lon. Athen., 1835, 505, and Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1835, 425. 6. The Cotton Manufacturer of Great Britain, 1836, 2 vols. p. 8vo. Also in GerNew ed., with Supp. by P. L. Simmonds, F.S.S., 1861, 2 vols. p. 8vo, (Bohn's Sci. Lib.) See Lon. Lit. Gaz., 1836, 456; Blackw. Mag., xl. 107, n., 119, 120; Lon. Gent. Mag., 1861, i. 563. 7. Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, 1837-39, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1840, 8vo; 3d ed., 1843, 8vo; 1846, 8vo; N. York, 1850, 8vo; Supp., Recent Improvements, &c., 1844, 8vo; 1845, 8vo; 1846, 8vo; N. York, 1845, 8vo. This work was the basis of the Dictionnaire des Arts et Manufactures, Paris, 1845, and was translated into several languages. 4th English ed., Lon., 1853, 2 vols. 8vo; N. York, 2 vols. 8vo; 5th ed., chiefly rewritten and enlarged, ed. by Robert Hunt, (p. 921, supra,) greatly assisted by numerous Contributors, &c., Lon., r. 8vo, with nearly 2000 wood engravings, 15 monthly Parts, 5s. ea., bound in 3 vols., cloth, £4; half Russia, £4 148. 6d., 1859-60. A work of the highest character. Notices of the 5th edition will be found in Lon. Athen., 1860, ii. 658, 754, 794, 832; 1861, i. 455. See, also, N. Amer. Rev., Jan., 1861, 133, (by S. A. Eliot.) The larger part of the new matter of this edition was repub. in N. York, (D. Appleton & Co., to complete their reprint of the 4th Lon. ed., 1853, 2 vols. 8vo,) under the title of "A Supplement to Ure's Dictionary," &c.; from the last London Edition, edited by Robert Hunt, 1863, 8vo, pp. 1096. Noticed in N. Amer. Rev., Oct. 1863, 582, (by A. P. Peabody.) 6th ed., Lon., 1867, vols. 8vo, 948. 6d. 8. The Revenue in Jeopardy from Spurious Chemistry, demonstrated in Researches upon Wood Spirit and Vinous Spirit, Lon., 1843, 8vo. Dr. Ure was a contributor to Phil. Trans., Trans. Soc. Edin., Thom. Ann. Philos., and Jour. Roy. Institution. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1857, i. 242, (Obituary.)

Ure, Rev. David, of Glasgow. 1. History of Rutherglen and East- Kilbride, Glasg., 1793, 8vo. Said to be "an entertaining volume." 2. Survey of Dumbarton. 3. General View of the Agriculture of the County of Roxburgh, Lon., 1794, 4to, pp. 93.

"These reports [Nos. 2, 3] are very well done."-Donaldson's Agr. Biog., 78.

Uri, Urus, or Ury, John. 1. Epistolæ Turcicæ et Narrationes Persicæ editæ ac Latine conversa, Oxon., 2. Pharus Artis Grammaticæ Hebrææ, 1784, 1771, 4to. 8vo. 3. LXX. Hebdomadum quas Gabriel ad Danielum detulerat, &c., 1788, 8vo. 4. Bibliothecæ Bodleianæ Codicum Manuscriptorum Orientalium, Pars I., 1788. To which add Pars II., ab Alex. Nicoll, 1821; Pars III., Arabicos complectens, ed. E. B. Pusey, 1835.

Uricoechea, Ezequiel, M.D., Ph.D., de Bogota, Nueva Granada. Mapoteca Colombiano: Coleccion de los Titulos de todos los Mapas, Planos, Vistas, &c. relativos á la América Espanola, Brasil é Islas adyacentes, &c., Londres, 1860, sm. 4to, pp. xvi., 215.

"An important contribution to American bibliography." Hist. Mag., (N. York,) 1860, 352.

Urie, Robert. Historical Discourse on Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden; from the French of M. Bayle, 8vo. Uring, Captain Nathaniel. 1. Relation of the Late Intended Settlement of the Islands of St. Lucia and St. Vincent, Lon., 1725, 8vo. 2. His Voyages and Travels, 1726, (some 1727,) 8vo; again, 1749, 8vo. Contains a curious account of his visit to New England in 1709.

Urlin, R. Denny. 1. On the Late Lord Macaulay, his Life and Writings, Lon., 1860, 8vo. 2. With KEY, THOMAS, Transfer of Land and Declaration of Title Acts, 1863, r. 12mo.

Urling, G. F. Vocal Gymnastics; or, A Guide for Stammerers, for Public Speakers, &c., Lon., 1857, fp. 8vo. Commended by Lon. Med. Times and Gaz., and Lon. Leader.

Urling, R. W. The Laws of Patents in Foreign Countries, Translated, with Notes, &c., Lon., 1845, 8vo. "An extremely useful little book."-3 Law Mag., N. S., 157.

Urmston, John. 1. London Spelling-Book, Lon., 1710, 12mo. 2. New Help to the Accidence, 1710, 8vo. Urquhart, David, the doughty opponent of Russia and the Russian policy of Lord Palmerston, was b. in Cromarty, 1805, and studied at Oxford; appointed Secretary to the Turkish Embassy by Lord Palmerston, 1835; M.P. for Stafford, 1847-52. 1. Turkey and its Resources, Lon., 1833, 8vo. 2. England, France, Russia, and Turkey, 1835. See Lon. Athen., 1835, 225; Blackw. Mag., xl. 563. 3. Spirit of the East: a Journal of Travels through Roumeli, 1838, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1839, 2 vols. 8vo. Abridged by C. Morris, Phila., 1839, 2 vols. 12mo. Reviewed in Lon. Mon. Rev., 1838, iii. 81. 4. Exposition of the Boundary Differences between Great Britain and the U. States, Liverp., 1839, 4to. Privately printed. 5. Diplomatic Transactions in Central Asia, 1834-39, Lon., 1840, 4to. 6. The Crisis, Paris, 1840. 7. Case of McLeod, Lon., 2d ed., 1841, 8vo. 8. Observations on European Turkey. 9. The Sultan Mahmoud and Mehemet Ali Pacha. 10. Annexation of Texas a Cause of War between England and the United States, 1844, 8vo. 11. The Mystery of the Danube, 1844, 8vo; 1851, 8vo. 12. Reflections on Thoughts and Things, 13. Wealth and Want: 1844, 8vo; 2d Series, 1845, 8vo.

on Taxation, 1845, 8vo. 14. Statesmen of France and English Alliance, 1847, r. 8vo. 15. Europe at the Open16. The Pillars ing of the Session of 1847, 1847, 8vo. of Hercules; or, A Narrative of Travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848, 1850, 2 vols. 8vo; N. York, 1850, 2 vols. 12mo. Reviewed in Lon. Mon. Rev., lxxxvi. 415. Progress of Russia in the West, North, and South, 1853, r. 8vo and p. 8vo; 5th ed., 12mo. Reviewed in Westm. Rev., Oct. 1853, art. viii. See, also, Lon. Athen., 1853,

on

17.

1255. Captain Von Stein's history of the Russian army -soon, we hope, to be completed-will be an important 18. Letters and Essays addition to military literature. Russian Aggressions, 1853, p. 19. Recent 8vo. 20. War of Ignorance: Events in the East, 1854, 12mo. its Progress and Results, 1854, 8vo. 21. The Occupants 22. The Home Face of the "Four of the Crimea, 8vo. 23. Familiar Words as affecting the Points," 8vo. Character of Englishmen and the Fate of England, 1855, 24. The Lebanon, (Mount Souria:) a History and

12mo.

a Diary, 1860, 2 vols. demy 8vo. Commended by Lon. Rev., 1860, and Lon. Sun, 1860, and, with qualifications, by Lon. Athen., 1860, 550. 25. On the Turkish Bath, 1861. Commended by Admiral Rous: see Lon. Times, Mar. 28, 1861. Other publications. See The Portfolio; a Diplomatic Review, N. S., 1843, 4 vols. 8vo. Urquhart, David Henry, Preb. of Lincoln, 1792. 1. The Odes of Anacreon; translated from the Greek, Lon., 1787, 12mo. Literal. 2. Serm., 1794, 4to. 3. Commentaries on Classical Learning, 1803, 8vo. Urquhart, George. Experienced Solicitor in Proceedings in the House of Lords, Lon., 1773, fol. Urquhart, H. J. Weymouth, 1845, 8vo.

Poems, Sacred and Classical,

Urquhart, John, of the University of St. Andrew's. See ORME, WILLIAM, No. 6, (add Bost., 2 vols. 18mo;) Congreg. Mag., Nov. 1827; Chris. Mon. Spec., x. 522.

"As a student he surpassed all his fellows."-DR. T. CHALMERS. Urquhart, or Urchard, Sir Thomas, according to his own account, a descendant of the Urquharts of Cromarty, himself "by line the 143d, by succession the 153d, from Adam," (see No. 4,) was knighted by Charles I. at Whitehall; taken prisoner when fighting for Charles II. at the battle of Worcester; came to his death, according to one account, by immoderate laughter at-according

to another, by immoderate vinous celebration of-the restoration of his royal master, Charles II.

1. The Trissotetras, or a Most Excellent Table for resolving Triangles, &c., Lon., 1645, 4to; 1650, 4to. Said to display considerable knowledge of mathematics. 2. Epigrams, Divine and Morall, 1646, 4to, pp. 68. Bibl. Anglo-Poet., 766, with a fac-simile of the Glover portrait, £10 108.; Lilly Cat., 1859, p. 62, with the Glover portrait and another portrait, £12 128. 3. EKEKYBAAAYPON; or, The Discovery of a Most Exquisite Jewel, &c.; found in the kennel of Worcester Streets, the day after the Fight, &c., 1652, 8vo. We have here in addition to the Jewel (the Universal Language) an account of Crichton and other famous Scotsmen. See Lon. Retrosp. Rev., vi. 177-206; Edin. Rev., xcii. 334; Blackw. Mag., v. 395, lxviii. 596. 4. IIANTOXPONOKANON: a Peculiar Promptuary of Time, &c.; the Pedigree of the Name of Urquhart in the House of Cromartie since the Creation to 1652, 1652, 8vo. 5. Logopandecteision; or an Introduction to the Universal Language, 1653, 4to. He translated Books I. and II., 1653-64, 2 vols. 8vo, of the Works of Rabelais, continued by P. A. Motteux (q. v.) and John Ozell, (q. v.) See Bohn's Lowndes, Part VII., (1861,) 2033; Bohn's ed. of Urquhart, &c.'s Rabelais, 1849, 2 vols. p. 8vo; 1859, 2 vols. p. 8vo; Amer. Pub. Circ., Oct. 10, 1863, 426. After Sir Thomas's death there appeared: 6. Tracts by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, Edin., 1774, sm. 8vo; 1782, 12mo. Edited by Herd. 7. The Works of Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty, 1834, 4to, (Maitland Club.) Noticed in Lon. Quar. Rev., lxxxvi. 415.

"The character of the humorist, the braggadocia, the schemer, the wit, the pedant, the patriot, the soldier, and the courtier, were all intermingled in his, and together formed a character which can hardly ever be equalled for excess of singularity or excess of humour, for ingenious wisdom or entertaining folly." -DAVID IRVING, LL.D.: Literary Scotch of the Last Four Centuries. See, also, Hugh Miller's Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland.

Usher, G. N. Elements of English Grammar, Lon., 1803, 18mo.

Usher, or Ussher, (in Latin, Usserius,) James, D.D., one of the most eminent scholars of modern times, a descendant of the Nevilles, an ancient English family, was b. in Dublin, Jan. 4, 1580; educated at, and became Fellow of, Trinity College, Dublin, where he was for thirteen years (1607 et seq.) Professor of Divinity; Chancellor of the Cathedral of St. Patrick, 1607; Bishop of Meath, 1620; Privy Councillor of Ireland, 1623; Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of Ireland, 1624; Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, 1647-54; d. in the house of his devoted friend the Countess of Peterborough, at Ryegate, Surrey, March 21, 1656, and, by the order of Cromwell, was interred with great magnificence in Erasmus Chapel, Westminster Abbey, the funeral service being performed according to the liturgy of the Church of England.

"He was easy, affable, and chearful in conversation, and extremely charitable. He was of so sweet a temper that I never heard he did an ill office to any one man, or revenged any of those that had been done to him. He envied no man's happiness, or vilified their persons or parts; nor was he apt to censure or condemn any man upon bare reports. Though he could rebuke sharply in the cause of virtue and religion, yet he was chaplain:) Life of Usher, 1686, fol. not easily provoked to passion."-DR. RICHARD PARR, (Usher's

He was wont to hold learned conferences with Dr. John Preston, "the most celebrated of the Puritans;" and at the conclusion of these interviews was very common with the good archbishop to say, "Come, doctor, let us say something about Christ before we part."

1. Gravissimæ Quæstionis de Christianarum Ecclesiarum, in Occidentis præsertim Partibus ab Apostolorum Temporibus ad nostram usquæ Etatem, continua Successione et Statu, Historia Explicatio, Lon., 1613, 4to; Hanoviæ, 1658, sm. 8vo; with No. 7, Lon., 1687, 4to. This is a continuation to A.D. 1240 (he never completed the design of his title-page) of Bishop Jewel's Apologia Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ. The impression of 1687 (twentyone years after Usher's death) is falsely described on the title-page as Opus integrum ab auctore auctum et recognitum, ("a trick of the bookseller:" Dr. Smith.) original edition,-1613, 4to. 2. Discourse of the ReliThis and the Hanover editions are simply reprints of the

ment, 1816, 8vo.

Urquhart, William. Sir John May Mead, the London Merchant; a Tale, Lon., Dec. 1848, 12mo.

Urquhart, William Pollard, M.P. for Westmeath, 1852, was b. 1814, in Westmeath, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge. 1. Essays on Subjects in Political Economy, Lon., Svo. 2. Life and Times of Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan, 1852, 2 vols. 8vo. "Details which will add little to the instruction of the stu

dious, and cannot be said to promise much enjoyment to the idle,

reader."-Lon. Athen., 1852, 941.

He has also published pamphlets on taxation, imposts,

&c.

Urry, John, edited, with a Life, the Works of Chaucer, (see CHAUCER, GEOFFREY,) Lon., 1721, fol., 1000 on small paper, 250 on large paper.

"Mr. Urry's edition should never be opened by any one for the purpose of reading Chaucer."-T. TYRWHITT: Pref. to his ed, of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Urwick, Thomas. Serm., Ps. cxix. 9, Lon., 1785,

8vo.

5.

Urwick, William, D.D. 1. Value and Claims of the Sacred Scriptures, &c., Dubl., 12mo. 2. Nature of Christ's Person and Atonement Stated, 1830, 12mo; 1831, 12mo. 3. Saviour's Right to Divine Worship Vindicated, 1839, r. 12mo. 4. Second Advent of Christ, 1839, r. 12mo. Connection between Religion and the State, 1845, 12mo. 6. Ordinance of Baptism, 1845, 12mo. 7. The Triple Crown, or Power of the Papacy, 1851, 12mo. He prefixed a Sketch of the Life and Ministry of the Rev. H. G. Guinness to a vol. of that divine's Sermons, Dec.

1858, 12mo.

2.

Usborne, T. H. 1. Guide to the Levant, Lon., 1840, fp. 8vo. Commended by U. S. Serv. Mag. Tales of the Braganza, 1842, r. 12mo; 2d ed., 1852, p. Svo. 3. The Magician Priest of Avignon, 1851, 2 vols. 12mo. 4. The Jesuits, their Rise and Progress, Doctrines and Morality, 1851, 18mo.

Usell, James H. Twelve Sermons preached in the Parish Church of St. Giles, Northampton, Lon., 1857,

12mo.

Usher, C. Letter on a Fellowship in Oxford, Lon., 1699. Anon.

Lon., 1631, 4to; 1687, 4to; with No. 3, 1686, 4to; 1786,

Dubl., 1632, 4to; with alterations,-Irish and British,

sm. 4to.

"A learned treatise."-BISHOP NICOLSON.

3. Answer to a Challenge made by a Jesvite [Wm. Malone] in Ireland, &c., Dubl., 1623, sm. 8vo; 1624, sm. 4to; 1625, sm. 4to; 1631, 4to; with No. 2, Lon., 1686, 4to; 1688, 4to; 1786, sm. 4to; with No. 2, &c., Ed. by Prof. Scholefield, Camb., 1835, 8vo. Malone replied, and R. Puttock, Dr. G. Singe, and Dr. Hoyle answered MaS., 4th ed., 476. lone. See Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 1068; Bickersteth's C. 4. Gotteschalci, et Prædestinationæ Controversiæ ab eo Mota Historia: una cum duplice ejusdem Confessione, Dubl., 1631, 4to; Hanov., 1662, 12mo. Said to be the first Latin work printed in Ireland. Gotteschalcus was a Saxon monk of the ninth century, to whom "is universally attributed the rise of the contest on Predestination and Divine Grace," (Mosheim.) See 5. Veterum EpisClarke's Success. of Sac. Lit., ii. 501. tolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge, quæ partim ab Hibernis, partim ad Hibernos vel de Rebus Hibernicis sunt conscriptæ, Dubl., 1632, 4to; Her. Nass., 1696, 4to; Paris, 1665, 4to, some 1. p.

"A third good help to the knowledge of the primitive state of Christianity in Ireland."-BISHOP NICOLSON.

"They abundantly show the great esteem the learning and piety of the bishops and clergy of that church had then, both at Rome, France, England, and elsewhere.”—DR. PARR: Life of

Usher.

6. Emmanuel; or, A Treatise on the Incarnation of the

Son of God, Dubl., 1638, 4to; Oxf., 1643, 4to; Lon., 1645, 4to; 1648, 4to; 1670, fol.; 1844, 18mo. Also included in a vol. of his Sermons, (see No. 15,) and in some edits. of No. 9. 7. Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates et Primordia, quibus inserta est Historia Hæreseos Pelagianæ, Dubl., 1639, 4to, ("prima editio in Mari Baltico See BERNARD, periit;") with No. 1, Lon., 1687, 4to. A notice of an old English translaNICHOLAS, D.D. tion will be found in Notes and Queries, vol. vii., 2d Ser., 121.

"All that learning can extract from the rubbish of the dark ages is copiously stated by Archbishop Usher in his Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates, cap. xvi., p. 425-503."-GIBBON, (on the Monks in Ireland :) Decline and Fall, ch. xxxvii., n.

"An everlasting monument of the author's good services to

the Church of Ireland."-BISHOP NICOLSON.

8. SS. Polycarpi et Ignatii Epistolæ una cum Vetere Vulgata Interpretatione Latina, ex trium MSS. Codicum collatione restituta, Oxon., 1644, (some 1648,) 4to; cum Appendice Ignatiana, Lon., 1647, 4to.

"La meilleure édition qui ent encore paru de ces lettres."— BRUNET: Man., 5th ed., iii. (1862) 404.

Cave and Harles warmly commend this edition.

9. Body of Divinitie, &c., 1645, fol.; 1647, fol.; 1648, fol.; 1649, fol.; 1653, fol.; with No. 6, 1658, fol.; 1670, fol.; 1677, fol.; with Life of the Author, 1702, 4to, (some edits. contain No. 6;) Revised, Corrected, and Broken into Chapters, &c. by the Rev. H. Robinson, D.D., 1841, 8vo. Published without his approbation : part of it was denied to be his.

"Orthodox and excellent, and accommodated with the most agreeable texts of Scripture upon every article."-COTTON MATHER.

Usher's Body of Divinity, though never revised by him, is full of valuable theology."-BICKERSTETH. "It is in general instructive, and clears up some important points of difficulty."-DR. E. WILLIAMS: C. P., 5th ed., 300. There is, also, Archbishop Usher on the Sacraments, extracted from his "Body of Divinity," 1838, fp. 8vo. "Well worthy of perusal."-Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 781. 10. Tractatus de Romanæ Ecclesiæ Symbolo Apostolico Vetere, aliisque Fidei Formulis, &c., 1647, 4to; cum Chronologia Sacra, à Tho. Barlow editus, Oxon., 1660, 4to. A learned account of the Apostles' Creed. 11. De Macedonum et Asianorum Anno Solari, &c., 1648, 8vo. See No. 12. 12. Annales Veteris et Novi Testamenti, à prima Mundi Origine deducti ad Initia Imperiani Vespasiani, Lon., 1650-54, 2 vols. fol. (In English, 1658, fol.) Idem, accedunt ejusdem J. Usseri Tractatus duo, viz.: Chronologia Sacra Veteris Testamenti; Dissertatio de Macedonum et Asianorum Anno Solari: cum Indicibus, Opera et Studio A. Lubini, Paris, 1673, fol., (with a fine brilliant portrait by Landry.) Idem, accedunt tria ejusdem Opuscula de Chronologia Veteris Testamenti:

manæ

de Macedonum et Asianorum Anno Solari; et de RoEcclesiæ Symbolo Apostolico Vetere, aliisque Fidai Formulis: una cum Vita, à Tho. Smitho conscripta, Genevæ, 1722, fol., some 1. p. Optima edita. The only addition to the Geneva ed. is the Diatriba de Symbolis: otherwise the Paris and Geneva edits. are the same, the latter ed. having taken the indexes from Lubin's ed. Each of the edits. contains all of Usher's chronological works. Other edits.: Bremæ, 1686, fol.; Veronæ, 1741, fol. The chronology of Usher is followed in the margins of our larger Bibles.

"I have with no small eagerness and delight turned over these your learned and accurate Annals, wondering not a little at that your indefatigable labour which you have bestowed on a work fetched together out of such a world of monuments of antiquity; whereby your Grace hath better merited the title of Χαλκέντερος and φιλοπονos than those on whom it was formerly bestowed."-Bishop Hall to Archbishop Usher, on the receipt of a copy ex dono auctoris.

Along with the reading of the historical books of the Scripture I would recommend Usher's Annals, which is a work perfect in its kind, and which well digested will give a very sound knowledge of the history of the world, sacred and profane, to the destruction of the second temple; which knowledge will upon innumerable occasions be of unspeakable use."-DR. WOTTON: Thoughts, &c. of Studying Divinity.

This book is indispensable to the study of sacred chronology There is none like it in the English language. Its value cannot be too highly appreciated."-DR. S. DAVIDSON.

This is a work of great labour and research, which has been followed by the greater part of modern chronologers, though the system of Dr. Hales [see HALES, WM., D.D., No. 2] is perhaps more correct."-Orme's Bibl. Bib., 442.

"This has been the chronology generally adopted by English historians, as well as by Bossuet, Calmet, and Rollin, so that for many years it might be called the orthodox scheme of Europe. No former annals of the world had been so exact in making dates and connecting sacred history with profane. It was, therefore, exceedingly convenient for those who, possessing no sufficient leisure or learning for these inquiries, might very reasonably confide in such authority."-HALLAM: Lit. Hist. of Europe, 4th ed., 1854, iii. 256.

See, also, Robert Walker's Analysis, &c. of Historical Time, 1798, Svo.

"1764, March 15, [I read] Dissertation on the Chronology of Usher. The Abbé Richer again. This man is a fool. Wherefore so much rage against the Jews and Protestants in treating a question of criticism? He rejects the chronology of the Jews, because it came from the schools of Tiberias and is approved by a Protestant bishop."-GIBBON: Miscell. Works, (Extracts from the Journal,) ed. 1837, 549.

13. Epistola ad Ludovicum Capellum de Variantibus Textus Hebraici Lectionibus, Lon., 1652, 4to; 1655, 4to. 14. De Græca Septuaginta Interpretum Versione Syntagma, cum duplici Editione Græca Libri Estheræ et

Cap. VI. et XVIII. Judicium, 1655, 4to; 1665, 4to; Leipsic, 1695.

"The first writer who instituted a systematic inquiry into the Septuagint version was Archbishop Usher.... This is a work of great merit; it displays much original inquiry, and may be regarded as the ground-work of later publications on the Septuagint."-BISHOP MARSH: Lects. on Divinity, Part II., 2d ed., 1811, Lect. XII., 121.

He published other works, and others of his appeared after his death: we notice-15. Eighteen Sermons, with Preface on his Life by S. Gower, Lon., 1660, 4to. A vol, of "Twenty Sermons" was pub. 1677, fol., 1678, fol.; again, really nineteen sermons,-with No. 6, with Life of the Author, (Rel. Tract Soc.,) 18mo, 1831, 1847, and 1853.

"Truly valuable, practical, and experimental Sermons, taken in short-hand at Oxford. Eighteen of these Sermons were printed in 4to, (1660,) and they have been republished by the Tract Society.”—Bickersteth's Č. S., 4th ed., 496. See, also, 246.

16. The Power Communicated by God to the Prince, and Obedience required of the Subject, with a Preface by Bishop Sanderson, 1661, 4to; 1683, 12mo; 1710, 8vo. 17. Opuscula duo, nune primùm Latine edita: De Episcoporum et Metropolitanorum Origine, [in English, Oxf., 1641,] et de Asia Proconsulari, [in English, Oxf., 1643, sm. 4to, and in Oxford Collec. of Voyages and Travels, vol. i.:] Accessit Veteris Ecclesiæ Gubernatio Patriarchalis ab E. Brerewood descripta, &c., Lon., 1687, 8vo; 1688, 8vo. 18. Historia Dogmatica Controversiæ inter Orthodoxos et Pontificios de Scripturis et Sacris Vernaculis, digessit et Notis atque Auctario locupletavit Henrici Wharton, 1690, 4to.

"Usher's rare and erudite Historia Dogmatica displays an as

tonishing acquaintance with ecclesiastical writers of every age, and is intended to show that it was the universal practice of the ancient Christians to read and circulate the Scriptures in the vernacular tongue." ."-DR. JAMES TOWNLEY.

"Displays as much as any of the other writings of Usher his very extensive erudition."-Orme's Bibl. Bib., 443. "He shows himself fully competent to meet the Romanists in

all their subtleties."-Bickersteth's C. S., 476.

It is asserted (see Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 1068) that the use of the Latin language in the Church services was not introduced until the reign of Charlemagne, (crowned A.D. 800.) See, also, BERNARD, NICHOLAS, D.D., for other posthumous publications of works by Usher. The only collective edition of Usher's Whole Works, edited, vols. i-xiii. by Professor C. R. Elrington, D.D., vols. xiv.-xvi. by J. H. Todd, D.D., was pub. (save vol. xiv., which appeared in Aug. 1862) Dublin University Press, 1841-48, 16 vols. 8vo, £9 128.; to which add (vol. xvii., June, 1864) Index to the whole. A few copies of the edition were taken off for presents (none for sale) on When a set of this kind is to be large paper, r. 8vo. had, secure it. Contents: Vol. i., (also issued separately, 1848 see REID, JAMES SEATON, D.D., No. 2,) Life by C. R. Elrington, D.D.; Account of the Commencement, 18th Aug. 1614; Declaration of Articles of Religion; Articles of Religion, 1615; Revennews of the Bishopricke of Meath and Clonemackenosh; Controversy between the Archbishops of Armagh and Dublin touching the Primacy; Tyrrell's Vindication of Ussher. Vol. ii., De Christianarum Ecclesiarum Successione et Statu; Sermon before the House of Commons, 18th Feb. 1620; Speech, 22d of Nov. 1622; Sermon on the Universality of the Church of Christ, 20th June, 1624. Vol. iii., Answer to a Challenge made by a Jesuit in Ireland; Catalogue of the Authors here alleged. Vol. iv., Gotteschalci et Prædestinationæ Controversiæ ab eo Motæ Historia; Discourse of the Religion anciently professed by the Irish and British; Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge; Immanuel, or the Mystery of the Incarnation. Vol. v., Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates, cap. 14-17; Index Chronologicus. Vol. vii., Disquisition touching Asia; The Original of Bishops; Judgment of Dr. Rainoldes touching Episcopacy; Dissertatio non de Ignatii solum et Polycarpi Scriptis, &c.; Præfationes in Ignatium; De Romanæ Ecclesiæ Symbolis, &c.; De Macedonum et Asianorum Anno Solari; De Editione Septuaginta Interpretum, &c.; Epistola ad L. Capellum de Variantibus Textus Hebraici Lectionibus; Epistola Gul. Eyre ad Usserium. Vols. viii., ix., Annales Veteris Testamenti. Vol. x., Annales Novi Testamenti. Vol. xi., Annales Novi Testamenti; Collatio Annorum; The Principles of Christian Religion; Doctrine of Christian Religion; The Power of the Prince; Original of Corbes, Herenaches, and Termon Lands; First Establishment of English Laws and Parliaments in Ireland; Of the Imperial Laws in Great Britain and Ireland; Chronologia Sacra, cap. 1-8. Vol. xii., Chronologia Sacra, cap. 9-13,

and pars posterior; Historia Dogmatica Controversiæ | inter Orthodoxos et Pontificios de Scripturis et Sacris Vernaculis; De Pseudo-Dionysii Scriptis; De Epistola ad Laodicenses; The Reduction of Episcopacy; Judgment of Archbishop of Armagh on Apoc. xvii. and xviii.; What is meant by the Beast; Intent and Extent of Christ's Death; Answer to Exceptions; Letter to Dr. Twiss concerning the Sabbath; Letter to Mr. Ley and Dr. Heylin. Vol. xiii., Sermons, 1-15. Vol. xiv., Tractatus de Controversiis Pontificiis; Prælectiones Theologicæ. Vol. xv., Letters, 1-198. Vol. xvi., Letters, 199– 461. Vol. xvii., General Index, title-pages, &c. See Blackw. Mag., xxvi. 160; Liv. Age, xvii. 206, (from Lon. Spec., 1848.)

In addition to the Lives of Usher already noticed, (see FIELD, RICHARD, D.D.; SELDEN, JOHN,) we append the following references: Latin Lives of him in Dr. Bates's Collectio Batesiana and Dr. Thomas Smith's (see No. 12, supra) Vita Eruditissimorum; English Lives of him in Biog. Brit. and Chalmers's Biog. Dict.; notices in Camden's Britannia; Burnet's Life of Bishop Bedell; Bohn's Lowndes's Bibl. Man.; Hallam's Constit. Hist. of Eng., and his Lit. Hist. of Europe; Eclec. Rev., 4th Ser., xxv. 344; Dubl. Univ. Mag., xvii. 161, 458, xviii. 152; Blackw. Mag., xxv. 396, 619, xxvi. 154, 159, xli. 482; N. Amer. Rev., Jan. 1862, 125; BERNARD, NICHOLAS, D.D.; SANDERSON, ROBERT, D.D. As a boy he was a marvel of erudition, and, when only about twenty years of age,

"having met with Stapleton's Fortress of Faith, he tasked himself to read the Fathers thoroughly, being resolved to examine the truth of that learned Author's quotations from them. He spent eighteen years in this study without interruption, only by way of refreshment spending some hours occasionally in searching into and collecting the antiquities of his country. . . . In prosecuting this study, his method was to make notes and observations upon their writings, taking them in order, and marking the passages which were genuine, and which spurious and forged. In this compass of time he not only read the Greek and Latin Fathers, but most of the considerable Schoolmen and Divines from the first to the thirteenth century. He intended to have published these collections, under the title of Bibliotheca Theologica, after a book of that title published by one Johannes Molanus, Professor of Divinity at Louvain."-Biog. Brit., 2d ed., vol. vi., Part 1, (1763,) 4064–5.

The MS. of this work he confided on his death-bed to

Dr. Gerard Langbaine, (p. 1057, supra ;) but he also died without completing it. Dean Fell then endeavoured, but in vain, to have it prepared for the press; and it now reposes in the British Museum. Will not the syndics of the Dublin University Press confide it to a competent editor and give it to the world, from which it has too long

been withheld?

don, Aug. 14, 1863, for £22 15s.: see Lon. Reader, 1863, ii. 199.

Usher, James, a descendant of the preceding, b. about 1720, in the county of Dublin, was successively a farmer, a linen-draper, a priest of the Church of Rome, and a school-teacher, (for a time in partnership with Mr. John Walker, author of the Pronouncing Dictionary, &c.,) and d. 1772. 1. New System of Philosophy, founded on the Universal Operations of Nature, Lon., 1764, 8vo. He censures Locke, as leaning too much towards naturalism. 2. Clio; or a Discourse on Taste; addressed to a Young Lady, 1772, 2 vols. 8vo. To this was subsequently added an Introduction to the Theory of the Human Mind, which Thomas Green tells us (see his Extracts from the Diary of a Lover of Lit., 1810, 128) he "read with much interest.” 3. An Elegy, 8. a., 8vo. Privately printed: 1860, with MS. notes by Porson, £3 108. Usher was a contributor to The Public Ledger. See European Mag., 1796.

Usher, James. Poems: Buonaparte, the Royal Exchange, &c., Lon., 1842, Svo.

Usher, R. Essays on the Dwellings of the Poor, &c., Lon., 1861, 8vo.

Usher, W. R. 1. Cottage Life and Rural Scenery; a Poem, Lon., 12mo. 2. Twin Foundlings; a Poem, 12mo.

Usher, William, M.D. See GLIDDON, GEORGE R.; MORTON, SAMUEL GEORGE, M.D.; NOTT, JOSIAH, M.D., No. 2; Westm. Rev., April, 1856, (Types of Mankind.) Usko, John F., Rector of Orsett, Essex, a native of Russia. Brief Narrative of his Travels and Literary Life, 1808, 12mo.

Ussher, Henry, D.D., a Senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and first Astronomer-Royal of Ireland, was a lineal descendant of Archbishop Usher. Eight astronomical papers in Trans. Irish Acad., 1785-90: see Watt's Bibl. Brit.

Ussher, or Usher, James, D.D. See USHER.

Ussher, John. Journey from London to Persepolis; including Wanderings in Daghestan, Georgia, Armenia, Kurdistan, Mesopotamia, and Persia, with col'd Illustrations, Lon., 1865, r. 8vo, £2 28.

A Narrative

Ussher, Sir Thomas, son of Henry Ussher, D.D., (supra,) was b. 1779; entered the Royal Navy, 1791; Rear-Admiral of the Blue, 1846; d. Jan. 6, 1848. See O'Byrne's Naval Biog. Dict., 1849, 1220. of Events connected with the First Abdication of the Emperor Napoleon, &c., Dubl., 1841, 12mo. Noticed in Lon. Athen., 1841, 47, 71.

Ustonson, Onesimus. True Art of Angling, Lon.,

1776.

"Archbishop Usher, that prodigy of learning and industry." -BISHOP NICOLSON: Irish Hist. Lib., ed. 1776, Appendix, 65. "The most profoundly learned offspring of the Reformation."

-BISHOP JEBB.

"He hath a great name deservedly amongst the reformed churches, for his skill in ecclesiastical antiquities, his stout defence of the orthodox religion, frequent and powerful preaching, and unblameable life."-EDWARD LEIGH.

"The most skilful of primitive antiquity; the unanswerable defender of the orthodox religion."-University of Oxford, 1644. "Usher is the great luminary of the Irish Church; and a greater no Church can boast of,-at least in modern times."DR. JOHNSON: Croker's Boswell, ch. xxiv.

"He was one of the most wonderful men of that wonderful age... His writings ... contain an invaluable mass of historical and ecclesiastical information and of controversial and practical divinity."-BICKERSTETH: Christian Student, 245, 246. "Jacobus Usserius vasta lectionis et eruditionis Theologus, inque Antiquitate Ecclesiastica versatissimus."-VOET: Thes. de Angel.

"Reverendissimus Antistes Jac. Usserius, Arch. Armachanus, vir summa pietate, judicio singulari, usque ad miraculum doctus, et literis severioribus promovendis natus."-JOANNES SELDEN: Marmor. Arundel.

"The writings of our Irish primate Usher, who maintained the antiquity of his order, but not upon such high ground as many in England would have desired, are known for their extraordinary learning, in which he has perhaps never been surpassed by an English writer. But for judgment and calm appreciation of evidence the name of Usher has not been altogether so much respected by posterity as it was by his contemporaries." -HALLAM: Lit. Hist. of Europe, 4th ed., 1854, ii. 355.

Five autograph letters of Archbishop Usher to Sir Henry Spelman were sold by Puttick & Simpson, Lon

Utterson, Edward Vernon. 1. The History of the Valiant Knight Arthur of Little Britain, &c., Lon., 1814, 4to; 50 copies on 1. p., £8 88. See BERNERS, JOHN BOURCHIER, LORD, No. 2. Noticed in Lon. Quar. Rev., lxxiv. 176. 2. Select Pieces of Early Popular Poetry: republished from Early-Printed Copies in the Black Letter, Lon., 1817, 2 vols. cr. 8vo, (Pickering;) 1825, 2 vols. 8vo.

"The learned and accomplished editor deserves every commendation."-Blackw. Mag., Jan. 1818, 370.

See, also, MERIVALE, JOHN HERMAN, No. 1. Utterton, Frances Anne. Biographical Sketches of Twenty-Three Great Emperors, Kings, and Conquerors, &c.; Edited by her brother, the Rev. J. S. Utterton, M.A., Vicar of Farnham, Surrey, Lon., 1859, cr. Svo. "Calculated to create an appetite for whole histories."-Lon. Athen., 1859, ii. 209.

Utterton, J. S. Charge at the Primary Visitation of Archdeaconry of Surrey, Lon., 1860, 8vo. See, also, UTTERTON, FRANCES ANNE.

Utting, Brooke. Guide to Great Yarmouth, Lon., 1846, fp. 8vo.

Uvedale. Memoirs of Philip de Commines, Lon., 1712, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1720, 2 vols. 8vo. Royal 8vo, in the Military Classics, 1817. See, also, ScOBLE, ANDREW R., No. 3.

Uvedale, or Udall. See UDALL.

Uvedale, Christian, M.D. Construction of the Nerves, &c., Lon., 1758, 8vo.

Uvedale, Robert, LL.D., a learned botanist, b. in Westminster, 1642, Master of the Enfield GrammarSchool about 1670, translated the Life of Dion published