accompanies the trumpet, every age of human agility, every attitude, every feature of alarm, haste, hurry, exertion, eagerness, burst into so many rays, like sparks flying from the hammer. Many have reached, some boldly step, some have leaped on the rocky shore; here two arms emerging from the water grapple with the rock, there two hands cry for help, and their companions bend over or rush on to assist them; often imitated, but inimitable is the ardent feature of the grim veteran whose every sinew labours to force over the dripping limbs, his cloaths, whilst gnashing, he pushes the foot through the rending garment. He is contrasted by the slender elegance of a half-averted youth, who, though eagerly buckling the armour to his thigh, methodizes haste; another swings the high-raised hauberk on his shoulder, whilst one who seems a leader, mindless of dress, ready for combat, and with brandished spear, overturns a third, who crouched to grasp a one naked himself buckles on the mail of his companion, weapon and he, turned toward the enemy, seems to stamp impatiently the ground. Experience and rage, old vigour, young velocity, expanded or contracted, vie in exertions of energy. Yet in this scene of tumult one motive animates the whole, eagerness to engage with subordination to command; this preserves the dignity of action, and from a straggling rabble changes the figures to men whose legitimate contest interests our wishes."
We now conscientiously recommend this pretty little work, either as a pictorial catalogue or as a pleasing remembrancer to those who have already seen the pictures whence the etchings are taken. To such as have not had that advantage, outlines presenting little beyond the bare composition of each subject can give but a feeble idea of paintings, of which the merit lies chiefly, if not entirely, in colouring and chiaroscuro.
ART. XVI. Contes à mes Fils, &c.; i. e. Tales for my Sons, by KOTZEBUE. Translated from the German into French by Friéville. 12mo. 2 Vols. Paris. Imported by Treuttel and Würtz. Price 138.
THE HE morality of these tales is very unequal. More evil than good seems likely to be taught by L'Espiègle,' 'Le Sournois, and some others: but several in the collection are excellent, exposing the bad consequences of youthful follies, and the good resulting from self-controul and honourable principles, with a variety and interest which are worthy of the celebrated writer whose name appears in the title-page.
To the REMARKABLE PASSAGES in this Volume,
N. B. To find any particular Book, or Pamphlet, see the Table of Contents, prefixed to the Volume.
taken by Hesiod in his de-Bailiff, taken in to pay for his nomination of that river, 262.
Acropolis of Corinth, modern visit to, and fine prospect from, 351.
Eschines, his great qualities, 17. His contest with Demos- thenes, 157. Africa, observations on the en- couragement given to dis- coveries in, and on the con- duct of the Committee of African Merchants, 68-73. Alcinous, island of, conjectures respecting, 260. Alexander the Great, early con- duct of, in his disputes with Athens, 164. His visit to the site of Troy, 167. Arago, M., his remarkable diffi- culties and dangers, 520. Arconville, Mad. d', her writ- ings, 536.
Armies, English and French, comparative losses of, 456. Discipline of the former, 460, 461.
Athenians, manners of, after the
battle of Mantinea, 12, 13. Athens, recent and minute sur- vey of, 269. View of the habits and manners of the modern Athenians, 336, &c. Population of, 347. Atterbury, Bishop, remarks on supposed letters of, 536. Attraction, magnetic, important
observations on, 23, 24. Autumn, poetically described, 309.
APP. REV. VOL. XCII.
dinner at a French hotel in London, poetically related,
Country-Assembly,
fashionable conversation after one, 378.
Barra, account of that island, 358.
Beasts, Court and Parliament of, specimens of that poem, 322. Begging, society for the pre- vention of, 420.
Bernadotte, John Baptist Julius, his military career, and ac- cession to the Swedish throne, 509-512. His high cha- racter, 513. Berwick, Lord, cause of his ab- sence from the armies during the Spanish war, 469. Biot, M., on rotations of axes of polarization of luminous rays, 516. His report of the geo- detic operations, 519. His account of M. Arago's diffi- culties and dangers, 520. His unhandsome treatment of his English scientific companions, 494.522.524. On the laws of refraction and polarization, 524. Bishop, modern Greek, his pri- mitive style of living, 265. Bitterns, particulars concerning, 145. Bonaparte, poetic musings on his exile at Elba, 207. Spe- cimens of his official corre- spondence while in Egypt,
His character of
Sir Sidney Smith, 499. Let- ter to him, from La Fayette, 500.
Bramin, of Bengal, his prefer- ence of the doctrines of Christ, 173.. Bravery, English and French, compared, 458. Brewster, Dr., unhandsomely treated by the French philo- sophers, 494. 522. 534. Bridges, military, on the con- struction of, 274. Brunet's hotel, supposed dinner at, given by a debtor to a bailiff and his follower, poeti- cally narrated, 213. Bustards, account of, 142. Bute, Lord, observations on his political ministry, 194. On his accuracy of political as- sertion, 197. His private good qualities, 198.
Cambray, league of, its effects, 481. Wars consequent on, 483.
Canna, island, account of, 370. Cape of Good Hope, its value to England, 454.
Carlos, Don, son of Philip II. of Spain, remarks on his case and treatment, 479. Caspian Sea, fishery of, 126. People on the borders of, 127. Catechism, or summary of doc- trines of the Vedant, 175. Catherine, of Russia, observations on her conduct respecting the Princess of Wirtemberg, 187. Cavalry of England, observations on, by a Frenchman, 454. Cave, near Vicenza, smothered in, 482. Charles II., King of Spain, See Spain.
V., his letter to the In-
quisitors, 477. Chatelet, Marquis and Marchio-
Chlorophæite, a substance found in the Western Islands of Scotland, 371.
Climate, of Persia, 149. Of Greece, 339.
Climax, in oratory or writing, observations on, 106. Coke, Mr., his uncommon liber- ality of view in his agricul- tural pursuits, 444..
Coll, account of that island, 358. Collier, Jeremy, strictures on his view of the English stage,
66. Colonies, policy of England re- specting, 454.
Colonna, Marcian, a poem, ac- count and specimens of, 311 -317. Comanians, a people near the
Caspian, account of, 127.
Comedy, observations on, 59.66. Commons, House of, bribed to
approve the peace of 1763, 196.
Comó, beautiful situation of, 206. Compass, mariner's, origin of, 19. Its defects at the present day,
Bad quality of the com- passes in the British navy, 28. See Magnet. Contrast, verses on the death of George III., 447: Corfu, recent visit to, 259. Strange superstition prevail- ing there, 345.. Corinth, recent description of, 351. Crystals, See Biot.
Dalmatia, account of islands on the coast of, 257. Dancing, anecdote of, 401. Dandy, that equivocal being poetically described, 105. Day, Mr., anecdotes of, 391---
Earth, on the figure of, 517. 525. Measurement of, Re- port of the operations for, 519. Edgeworth, Mr., biographical particulars of, 388-402. Education, classical, advantages of, 283.
Egg, island of, geology of, 372. Egypt, investigations respecting itsmythology, 227–242. Ob- servations on the valley of, 517. Einarson, Halfdan, memoir of, 530. Elba, poetical reflections on con-
templating that island, 207. Eliza's ring, verses on, 407. Epaminondas, his death prejudi- cial to the Athenians as well as to the Thebans, 12. Equations, linear, on the inte- gration of, 523.
Fairest, Sweetest, Dearest, à song, 387.
Fairies, speech and chorus of, 404.
Fairy Queen, strictures on that poem, 63. Fitzclarence, Lieut.-Col., his high character of Rammohun Roy, a Bengal Bramin, 176, Fixmilner, Placidus, account of, 53I.
Flodda, island, account of, 366, Flogging, in the English army, remarks on, 460.
Fluids, elastic, on the motions of, 518.
Foix, Gaston de, character of, 483.
Forster's Gallery of Engravings, account of, 541. Fox and Pitt, comparison of the eloquence of those statesmen, 191. The former accused of personal insult to the King, and defended, 192, 193. Ob- servations on his coalition with Lord North, 199. Remarks on Mr. Fox's India-Bill, 202. France, troops of, their beha- viour in Italy in the 16th cen- tury, 485.
Fratta, Giovanni, biography of, 531. Frogs, in Greece, their note re-
sembling the chorus in Aris- tophanes, 347. note. Fuseli, Mr., his commentary on Michel Angelo's Cartoon of Pisa, 543.
turesque beauties of that island, 369.
Gavirol, Soliman Ben, memoir of, 531.
Gay's chair, account of the dis- covery of, 101. Supposed new poems by Gay, found in it, 102. Geology of the western islands of Scotland, 355-375. George III., anecdotes of, 445. Verses on his death, 447. Georgia, remarks on that pro- vince, 125. 128. Gerania, Mount, passage of, in the road to Corinth, 349. Germany, soldiers of, their cha- racter as invaders of Italy in the 16th century, 485. Germination, remarks on, 440. Gibbs, Colonel, on increasing the
power of gun-powder, 495. ·Ginguené, M., memoir of, 537. Gjoeranson, John, account of, 532.
Girard, M., on the valley of Egypt, 517. On inundations at Paris, 523.
Gladiolus cardinalis, made to grow in the open air in Ireland, 441. Gneiss islands, on the western coast of Scotland, geological particulars of, 355: Gooseberry, observations on the seeds of, 440. Greece, difficulties of writing a history of, 1. Account and specimens of Mr. Mitford's history, 6-18. 155—172.
, modern, recent parti- culars relative to, and to the habits and manners of the peo- ple, 265. 268. 338. 348. See Athens.
-, Drama of, see Drama. Gregory, Dr., remarks on his conduct towards Dr. Crombie, 78-87.
Guadet, M., memoir of, 532. Gun-powder, on increasing the strength of, 495.
H Hamlet, his character discussed, as exhibited by Shakspeare, 54. 56. Harris, account of that island, 362.
Haym, Nicholas Francis, ac- count of, 533.
Heat, in Persia, excessive, 149. Hindus, remarks on the mytho- logy of, 238. Hippolitus, Death of, a picture said to be painted by Rubens, the real work of Diepenbeke, 542.
History, general, of modern
Europe, specimen of dialo- gues on, 108. Hornemann, Frederic Conrad, memoir of, 534.
Hume, Mr., observations on his theory that polytheism was the primary religion of mankind,
Hymn on the falling of the Tem- ple at Jerusalem, 430. Hyperion, a poem by Mr. Keats, specimens of, 307.
Iceland, number of writers and books in, 530.
India-Bill, of Mr. Fox, defend- ed, 202.
Indians, a play, extracts from, 35.
Inquisition, in Spain, its ravages. in the sixteenth century, 473 -480. Inundations, at Paris, Memoir on, 523. Iona, geological and statistical particulars of that island, 356. Its population, ib. Islands, Western, of Scotland, difficulty of passing from one to another, from the want of boat-accommodation, 360. Italy, state of, in the sixteenth century, 481-490. Hopes of her yet future greatness, 490.
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