scends from the very summit of the mountains to the lowest depths of the valley. It is the terrible monument of the fall of almost an entire mountain. These blocks are formed of masses of from ten to a hundred thousand cubic feet each, and are heaped up and suspended one above another, as the little pebbles of our torrents are, The Gave. compressed, repelled, and divided by these ruins, which, with all its fury it cannot stir, escapes with a bellowing sound from amidst them, and adds to the horror of this chaos the tumult of its cataracts, and the thunder of its waves.' p. 87. By a tedious and hazardous ascent of one part of the Marboré, M. Ramond reached the Breche de Roland, a kind of huge gap or gateway in the rocky ridge, which forms, above the clouds, the line of separation between France and Spain; and which is traversed by no human beings, but a daring race of smugglers, several of whom our Author met in lower passes of the mountains, and admired their bold deportment and intrepid appearance. He records many curious observations which he made on the strata of the snows, and the formation of glaciers in this elevated region. His description of the mountaineer shepherds forms a most striking contrast to the Arcadian style of pastoral. ART. XI. SELECT LITERARY INFORMATION. The Honourable Richard Boyle Bermard, M.P. will publish in the course of a few days, a Journal of his Tour through some Parts of France, Switzerland, 'Savoy, Germany, and Belgium, during the Summer and Autumn of 1814. Guy Mannering or the Astrologer, 'in 3 vols. by the Author of Waverley, will certainly appear in the course of February. Dr. Holland's Travels in the Ionian -Isles, in Albania, Thessaly, and Greece, in 1812 and 1813. Together with an Account of a Residence at Joannina, the Capital and Court of Ali Pasha; and with a more cursory Sketch of a Route through Attica, the Morea, &c. illus'trated by plates will appear on the 20th of February. Charlemagne; or, the Church Delivered, an Epic Poem, in Twenty-four Cantos. By Lucien Bonaparte, Member of the Institute of France, &c. &c. &c. Translated into English Verse. By the Rev. Samuel Butler, D.D. and the Rev. Francis Hodgson, A. M. will be published in a few days. Mr. Westall's Illustrations of the Lord of the Isles, are expected to be finished early in March. A work by the late Bernardin St. Pierre, the well known Author of the "Studies of Nature," is expected to issue from the French Press in the course of the present Month. It is entitled " Harmonies de la Nature ;" and is directed to an illustration of the wisdom and beneficence of Providence in the Works of Creation, by exemplifying many coincidences and aptitudes which do not occur to ordinary observers. A translation into English from the Proof Sheets, is in progres, and will be published in this country at the same time as the 'original. The second volume of Mr. Southey's History of Brazil, is nearly ready for publication. A new edition of Mr. Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads, &c. &c. with additious will appear in a few days. Lord Clarendon's Essays, in 2 vols. foolscap 8vo. are expected in a few days 'from Edinburgh. Speedily will be published in one voTume quarto, the History of the Kings of England, from the arrival of the Saxons, A.D. 449, to his own times. By William of Malmesbury. Collated with authentic MSS. and translated from the original Latin, with a Preface, Notes, and an Index. By the Rev. John Sharp, B.A. Late of Trinity College, Oxford, Curate of Elstead and Treyford, Sussex. Mr. Forster is about to publish an enlarged edition, wit plates, of his researches about Atmospheric Pheuomena. The plates are views from nature illustrative of Mr. "oward's Nomenclature of the Winds, &c, Dr. Gregory, of the Royal Military Academy, bas in the press, the third edition of his "Letters on the Evidences, Doctrines, and Duties of the Christian Religion," with many corrections and improvements, especially several additional arguments and citations from the Ante Nicene Fathers, corroborating the Genuineness of the Scrip uies and the essential doctrines of Christianity. Dr. Gregory has also in the press, the third edition of his Treatise of Mechanics, with considerable improvements, especially in the volume, devoted to the construction of machines. There are also printing, and will be published in a few days, Dissertations and Letters by Don Joseph Rodriguez, the Chevalier Delambre, Dr. Thomas Thomson, Dr. Olinthus Gregory, and others, tending either to impugn or to defend "The Trigonometrical Survey of England and Wales, carrying on by Colonel Mudge and Captain Colby." With notes aud observations, including an exposure of Dr. Thomson's contradictions and misrepresentations, by Dr. Gregory Thomas Myers, A. M. of the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, has a practical Treatise on finding the Latitude and Longitude at Sea, with Tables designed to facilitate the calculations, nearly ready for publication. The work forms one volume, in 8vo. aud comprises the most simple and commodious methods of performing all the requisite astronomical calculations with the assistance of the Nautical Almanack only. We are informed that a gentleman in the North West of England, is preparing for publication, an abridgement of Sir Humphrey Davy's Agricultural Chemistry. It is expected to appear about the middle of the present ycar. A second edition of Mr. Bourn's Ga zetteer will speedily be published. Mrs. Hannah More has nearly ready for publication, in two volumes, an Essay on the Character of St. Paul. Dr. W. B. Collyer is delivering at Salters Hall, a course of Lectures on the Scripture Parables, which will be put to press immediately, and form the fourth volume of his Lectures. Bishop Horsley's Sermons on ancient prophecies of the Messiah dispersed among the heathens, and four discourses on the nature of the evidence borne to the fact of our Lord's resurrection, are print. ing in an octavo volume. G. J. Parkyns, Esq. has in the press, Monastic Remains, in two 8vo. volumes, illustrated by numerous engravings. Mr. John Scott is preparing for the press, a History of the Public Events of Europe, from the commencement of the French Revolution to the restoration of the Bourbons. Memoirs on European and Asiatic Turkey, from the manuscript journals of modern travellers in those countries, edited by Robert Walpole, A. M. are printing in a quarto volume, illustrated by engravings. The Rev. William Kirby and William Spence, Esq. are preparing an Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural History of Insects, which is intended to introduce that delightful science in a popular dress to the British naturalist. Dr. John Clarke has in the press, Commentaries on the Diseases of Children, in an octavo volume. The Paris Spectator, containing observations on Parisian manners and customs at the commencement of the eighteenth century, translated from the French, is printing in two duodecimo volumes. A Translation of the Travels of Ali Bey in Morocco, Tripoli. &c. between the years 1803 and 1807, written by himself, is in the press; and will form two quarto volumes, illustrated by about a hundred plates. Scripture Genealogy and Chronology, exhibiting, in regular order, the various families and tribes mentioned in the B'ble, from Adam to the birth of Christ, will shortly appear in the same size as the Scripture Atlas. The third and fourth volumes of the Memoirs of the Margravine of Bareith, are in the press. British Biography of the Eighteenth Century, including Lives of most of the eminent characters of the present age, interspersed with much original anecdote and criticism, is printing in three thick octavo volumes. Robert Southey, Esq. has in the press, a new edition of his Poems, in three voJumes, including the Metrical Tales and some pieces never before published. The Rev. J. B. A. Gerardot, late rector of S. S. Cyr and Julitta, in the bishopric of Soissons, and now of Liverpool, will speedily publish a new edition of his Elements of French Grammar, with appropriate Exercises. A new edition, with notes and illustra tions, is nearly ready, of Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland to his Friend in London, first published in 1754. This is the work so often quoted in the "Lady of the Lake," and stated to be an authentic record of the habits and manners described in "Waverley." In a few days will be published, in 8vo. with a plan and map. The Cam. paign of Paris in 1814: to which is prefixed, a Sketch of the Campaign of 1813; or, A brief and impartial History of Events, from the Invasion of France by the Foreign Armies, to the Capitulation of Paris and the Dethronement of Buonaparte; accompanied by a Delineation of the principal Traits of his Character, and the cause of his Elevation. Compiled from authentic Documents, and the Testimony of Eye-Witnesses, Translated from the French of P. F. F. J. Giraud. In the Press, the second edition considerably improved, in one Volume 8vo. with large Plans, &c. 10s. 6d. boards, a Circumstantial Narrative of the Campaign in Russia, embellished with Plans of the Battles of the Moskwa and MaloJaroslavitz. By Eugene Labaume, Captain of the Royal Geographical Engineers, Ex-Officer of the Ordnance of Prince Eugene, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, and of the Iron Crown; Author of an Abridged History of the Re This Work has public of Venice. created an extraordinary sensation in France. It is not merely a dry Narrative of Battles, but abounds with the most beautiful descriptions' of affecting and interesting scenes, of which the Author was an eye-witness: therefore we presume it cannot fail to interest all classes of readers. In the press, and in the course of March will be published in 1 vol. 4to, The Remains of the late John Tweddell A.M. Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, with a selection of his Letters written from the Continent, and an account of the extraordinary disappearance of his MSS. and Drawings, edited by the Rev. R. Tweddell, A.M. We understand that next month will be published in one Vol., 8vo. "A Memorial offered to her Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Electoress and Dutchess Dowager of Hanover, containing a delineation of the Constitution and policy of England, with Anecdotes concerning remarkable Persons of that time: By Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salis bury." Now first published, by per. mission of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, according to the original in the Royal Library at Han-over.-To which are added some Letters from Burnet and Leibnitz, and fac-similies of the hand writing of those two distinguished men. In the Press, and speedily will be published, Epistles, and other Poems. By T. Grinfield, of Trinity College, Cambridge. In the press, The World without Souls, revised and corrected with the addition of a new chapter, printed uniform. ly with the Velvet Cushion: the fifth edition. By J. W. Cunningham, M. A. Vicar of Harrow, The Rev. Mr. Eustace is now in Italy, collecting materials for a third volume of his highly interesting and popnlar work, "A Classical Tour, &c." reviewed in ourNumbers for November and December. ***We are compelled by waut of room, to defer our List of New Publications. The articles on Whitaker's Visitation Sermon, Wardlaw's Lectures, Philosophical Transactions, Salt's Abyssinia, Colquhoun on Spiritual Comfort. &c. are at press, and will appear in our next Number. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR MARCH, 1815. Art. I. A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country, executed under the Orders of the British Government, in the Years 1809 and 1810; in which are included an account of the Portuguese Settlements on the ast Coast of Africa. visited in the Course of the Vovage; a concise Narrative of late vents in Arabia Felix; and some Particulars respecting the boriginal African Tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with Vocabularies of their respective Languages Illustrated with a Map of Abyssinia, numerous Engravings and Charts. By Henry Salt, Esq. FR.S. &c. Royal 4to, pp. 580 Price 51. 55. Riving tons. 1814. FOR the last twenty-four years Abyssinia has been regarded, by the greater number of the people among us, who take some little account of the different regions of the world they inhabit, much in the light of a newly discovered country. Previously to that time it was seldom recollected to be in existence; the relations of foreign missionaries and historians of a long anterior period, were very little known among us, excepting that of Lobo, translated by Johnson; and how much of that might be accurate no one presumed to have any confident judgement; while the slight unauthenticated stories of more recent date, that might now and then find their way into the chronicles of adventures and curiosities, had amused for an hour, had excited, perhaps, a momentary vain wish, that some certain information could be obtained respecting this unknown land, and had been soon forgotten. The name always conveyed an idea of utter estrangement; and the very locality, secluded on all sides by such a breadth of impervious frontier, had to the imagination VOL. III.-N. S. R a certain dark air of vast remoteness, which was no longer retained by the regions of the great Southern Ocean. This character of profound retirement was at length broken in upon, and dissipated by, a most daring and accomplished adventurer from this country. When Bruce published his travels, Abyssinia became, all at once, far more familiar to our imaginations than a great part of our own island. Its leading personages, the general condition of its population, its institutions, the face of the country, its grand river, its most remarkable animal and vegetable productions, were suddenly displayed before us in one comprehensive picture of most vigorous delineation and glowing colours. So vivid was his representation, and in so natural and interesting a manner was he himself brought forward in it, that he has associated his name, his character, his history, inseparably with the country. Abyssinia may exhibit its long list of emperors, and its ample memorials of wars, revolutions, and missionary enterprises; but in popular recollection, in this country at least, it will, for a long time to come, have no distinction so marked, so instantly and inevitably suggested to thought, as that it is the country that Bruce visited. He had, morally, something very like that quality, or happy accident of being, which some of our voyagers to the South Sea islands found possessed by the king of a portion of one of them, that whatever ground he walked upon became thenceforward his own. Should it prove practicable for a series of travellers, each of them as intelligent, observant, and active, as the Author of this volume, to visit that country during the next half century, and make their reports in as entertaining and elegant a form, yet still, to the end of that or a longer period, Bruce will be the name which they must submit to perceive maintaining a magnitude of notoriety more than equal to their collective fame. Bruce's representation has, partly by means of its priority, but not less by the power of mind which inspirits it, taken such effectual occupancy of the general imagination, (like Milton's representations of Eden and the infernal world,) that it is not without some little reluctance that many of his readers are yielding to the evidence which is accumulating to correct his involuntary errors or intentional impositions. Even Mr. Salt himself, who will be thought quite zealous enough in the detection and exposure of these, confesses that he still reads Bruce's work with an interest which makes him regret it should contain any thing to force scepticism or disbelief on his mind. After exposing some such mis-statements and contradictions, as it must be acknowledged that no stretch of charity can put to the account of unconscious error, our Author adds, |
