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more.

His executor gives us an instance of the ardour with which | Damascus blade with the weight of the Highland clayhe prosecuted a study once begun; he found written at the end of his copy of Apollonius-" April 14-Mai 16, Intra hæc temporis intervalla peractum hoc opus."

"The school of Hooker. Chillingworth, Mede, and Barrow, is the school of acute perception and close reasoning. Yet Barrow was perhaps the most able of the four writers just named; not only in the systematic division, and masterly elucidation of the various subjects of which he treats, but in the copiousness of his ideas and of his language. There is a power and prodigality of expression in many of Barrow's discourses, as if the writer were conscious of the inefficiency of his vernacular tongue to convey precisely the views and bearings of his thesis. His sermon on the Atonement is one of the most astonishing instances, which present themselves to my memory, of an eloquence as powerful and persuasive as the ideas are original and sublime."-DR. DIBDIN.

Bishop Heber, speaking of Taylor, Hooker, and Barrow, thus distinguishes them:

"Of such a triumvirate, who shall settle the pre-eminence? The first awes most, the second convinces most, the third delights and persuades most. . . . To Barrow, the praise must be assigned of the closest and clearest views, and of a taste the most controlled and chastened."

The Rev. E. Bickersteth adds,

"Hooker was more correct in doctrine, Barrow most full in practical instruction, and Taylor most rich in devotional composi tion. The powers of Barrow's mind were of the highest order; and in his sermons on the passion of Christ, and on his incarnation, we have very able statements of the fundamental truths of the gospel; and his treatise on the Pope's Supremacy has been said to be the most valuable on that topic in the English language. In his sermons on Faith there are some magnificent passages; but there are others in which we cannot concur, though he distinctly acknowledges it to be a fruit of the Spirit. . . . His Sermons on Industry are admirable as comprehending a very valuable mass of weighty and important motives for industry in general, and in our callings as Christians, scholars. and gentlemen. It is a book which may be read through more than once with much advantage; almost every topic relating to the subject seems discussed, and almost every text quoted, but we see not evangelical motives fully developed... ... In such a sermon as his on the Passion, we are glad to sit at his feet and learn the very best lessons."

Robt. Hall, in his Review of Gisborne's Sermons, refers to the

"Extraordinary merits of Barrow, who has cultivated Christian morals with so universal an applause of the English public. We admire, as much as it is possible for our readers to admire, the rich invention, the masculine sense, the exuberantly copious, yet precise and energetic diction, which distinguish Barrow, who, by a rare felicity of genius, united in himself the most distinguishing qualities of the mathematician and the orator. We are astonished at perceiving in the same person, and in the same composition, the close logic of Aristotle, combined with the amplifying powers of Plato."

We find an admirable notice of Barrow in Dugald Stewart's Prelim. Diss. to the Encycl. Britannica:

"Among the divines who appeared at this era. it is impossible to pass over in silence the name of Barrow, whose theological works, adorned throughout by classical erudition, and by a vigorous, though unpolished. eloquence,) exhibit, in every page, marks of the same inventive genius which in mathematics has secured to him a rank second alone to that of Newton. As a writer, he is equally distinguished by the redundancy of his matter, and by the pregnant brevity of his expression; but what more peculiarly characterizes his manner, is a certain air of powerful and of conscious facility in the execution of whatever he undertakes. Whether the subject be mathematical, metaphysical, or theological, he always seems to bring to it a mind which feels itself superior to the occasion; and which in contending with the greatest difficulties, 'puts forth but half its strength.""

Professor Playfair lauds our author's

"Lectures on Optics, delivered at Cambridge in 1668, which treated of all the more difficult questions which had occurred in that state of the science, with the acuteness and depth which are found in all the writings of that geometer."

"No man that reads Dr. Barrow on any subject which he has handled, need rack his invention for topics upon which to speak, or for arguments to make these topics good."--DR. WOTTON.

"He pushes his inquiries to the very verge or confines of which they are capable of being pushed; and his works afford a sort of logical Encyclopedia. He had the clearest head with which mathematics ever endowed an individual, and one of the purest and most unsophisticated hearts that ever beat."

"Barrow's Sermons are too well known to require description. For profundity of thought and fertility of invention, for bold and majestic language, for peculiar beauty and propriety of description, for great strength of argument, and ingenious and sprightly expression, they are perhaps unrivalled in the English language, or in any other."

"Dr. Barrow's Sermons are master-pieces of the kind."-LOCKE. Bishop Warburton remarked that "in reading Barrow, he was obliged to think." The great Earl of Chatham, when in early life qualifying himself for public speaking, read Barrow's Sermons again and again, till he could recite many of them memoriter. He recommended his the son, younger Pitt, to study them frequently and deeply. It was probably the example of these great men which caused the late Daniel Webster, one of the most prominent of American statesmen, to be so frequent a reader of these extraordinary specimens of reasoning, eloquence, profundity, and perspicuity; combining the keenness of the

We do not wonder that infidelity was put to rout, and the enemy abashed by the public exposure of the worthlessness of the armour wherein he trusted.

"In Barrow we shall remark the deliberate species of eloquence existing in the highest force.... If we look for a manly and fervid eloquence, for a mighty and sustained power, kept under control by the severest logic, for a peculiar quality of mastery and vigour to which all tasks appear equally easy, we may point with pride to the writings of Barrow. He is an admirable specimen of a class of men who fortunately for the political, the literary, and the theological glory of England, have adorned her two great seats of learning, Oxford and Cambridge, at almost every period of her history. Possessed of vast, solid, and diversified learning, with practice and experience in the affairs of real life corrected and rendered philosophical by retirement and meditation, with the intense and concentrated industry of the monk, guided by the sense of utility of the man of the world, these vigorous scholars seem peculiarly adapted by Providence to become firm and majestic pillars of such an ecclesiastical establishment as the Church of England. 'Blessed is she' -we may venture to apply the words of Scripture - for she has her quiver full of them.""-Prof. Shaw's Outlines of English Literature.

"He once uttered a most memorable observation, which characterizes both the intellectual and moral constitution of his mindwould that it could be engraven on the mind of every youth, as his guide through life- A STRAIGHT LINE 18 THE SHORTEST IN MORALS AS WELL AS IN GEOMETRY.'"-Cleveland's Comp. of Eng. Lit.

In an article in the Quarterly Review, vol. xxix., on Pulpit Eloquence, we have a very satisfactory explanation of the exhaustive character of Barrow's Sermons, which was referred to by Chas. II. when he called him an "unfair preacher."

"At the Restoration, men's minds were weary of religious, as well as civil, turbulence; the country had been so long distracted by the multiplicity of sects, all equally fierce and intolerant, that repose was the prevailing wish of almost all parties. There was wanted, therefore, a writer, who, as it were, once for all, should search every question to the bottom with laborious impartiality; who should lay it in all its possible bearings before the understanding; who should not merely confute every error, but trace it to its origin, and detect its secret operation on the mind; who should. in short, exhaust as it were, theology. Such a preacher was Barrow. Endowed with an acuteness which could penetrate every subject, with a nicety and precision of definition more nearly approaching than any other modern, except perhaps Bacon, to Aristotle; with a copiousness and variety of language, which enabled him to convey to the mind with the utmost perspicuity the most minute dif ferences; Barrow added to all this some of the yet unextinguished warmth which had animated his predecessors, and is occasionally glowing, vehement, impassioned."

The following eloquent eulogium on our author is from the same able periodical:

"Never may the English student of theology be weary of the study of Barrow! The greatest man of our church-the express image of her doctrines and spirit-the model, (we do not hesitate to say it,) without a fault-a perfect master of the art of reasoning, yet aware of the limits to which reason should be confined, now wielding it with the authority of an angel, and now again stooping it before the deep things of God with the humility of a childalike removed from the Puritan of his own generation, and the Rationalist of the generation which succeeded him-no precisian, no latitudinarian: full of faith, yet free from superstition, a steadfast believer in a particular Providence, in the efficacy of human prayers, in the active influence of God's Spirit, but without one touch of the visionary:-Conscious of the deep corruption of our nature, though still thinking he could discover in it some traces of God's image in ruins, and under a lively sense of the conse quences of this corruption, casting himself altogether upon God's mercy through the sufferings of a Saviour for the consummation of that day which he desired with a strong desire to attain unto, when, his mind purged, and his eye clear, he should be permitted to behold and understand without the labour and intervention of slow and successive thought, not this our system alone, but more and more excellent things than this.""

We have devoted more space than we intended to the But which of our readers will works of this great man. blame us? Exalted as is our theme, it stands not upon its own merits alone. Great as is the name of Barrow, it is as but one of the lesser genii who announces the coming of one far mightier, before whom all subordinate powers Barrow was the most conspicuous bow in lowly reverence. star that had arisen in that twilight dawning which preceded the full burst of a new day of scientific truth; but as the brightest star must pale before the glory of the sun when he "goeth forth in his strength," so must the fame of Barrow give place to the mighty name of NEWTON.

In imagination we are carried some two centuries back, and in the classical halls of Trinity College we behold, in studious converse, a tutor who softens the austerity of instruction with the benignity of parental interest, and a pale-faced youth, whose ductile mind gladly receives those seeds of knowledge, which, by the richness of its soil, it shall shortly reproduce, augmented a hundred fold. Yes! here is the "Isaac Newton of our college," as Barrow affectionately styles him;-"peregregiæ vir indolis ac insignis peritiæ."

Thou hast read him well, philosopher! Thy master is

tained a strong attachment, and the conversation and society of his friends, to whom his visits were always acceptable; not declining, however, to give gratuitous assistance to his clerical friends in the duties of his profession, or to preach occasional sermons, of which many were published at the request of the audiences to which they were respectively addressed."-Lon. Gent. Mag.

The Familiar Sermons on several of the Doctrines and Duties of the Christian Religion, (Lon., 1818,) were pub. with the avowed design of presenting the junior clergy with models of pulpit composition.

Barrowes, or Barrowe, Henry, a Brownist, was executed at Tyburn with John Greenwood, April 6, 1592, being found guilty under an indictment (statute 23 Eliz.) "for writing and publishing sundry seditious books and pamphlets tending to the slander of the queen and government." See Brook's Lives of the Puritans. He wrote 1. A Brief Discoverie of the False Church; as is the Mother such the Daughter is, Lon., 1590, 4to; containing 263 pages. Reprinted in 1707. 2. Platform, which may serve as a Preparative to drive away Prelatism, 1593, 8vo. A copy of this rare work is in the British Museum.

Barrs, George. Sketch rel. to Church of Rowley
Regis, 1813.

Barry, Lord Yelverton. Speech in House of Lords
on Union between Gr. Britain and Ireland, 1800.
Barry, Earl Farnham. Exam. of a Speech by
Lord Minto, &c., 1800.

Barry, Sir David, M.D., 1780-1835. Researches on the Influence exercised by Atmospheric Pressure upon the Progression of the Blood in the Veins, upon the function called Absorption, and upon the Prevention and Cure of the symptoms caused by the Bites of Rabid or Venomous Animals, Lon., 1826.

"Without admitting all the inferences drawn by Dr. Barry upon this subject, the work must be allowed to be very important, and to display great ability on the part of the author. It excited considerable interest both at home and abroad."

the materials for his Topographia Hiberniæ, which he completed in 1187. In this year he read this work, the three books, on three successive days, before a public audience at Oxford. Knowing that men are accessible in other ways than through love of letters, he gave sumptuous entertainments one day to the poor of the town, the second day to the doctors and scholars of celebrity, and the third day to the scholars of lower rank, the soldiers, townsmen, and burgesses.

Giraldus is not at all too modest to inform us of his uniform success as a disputant, and of the marvellous effects of his eloquence. So great he assures us was the latter, that those who were ignorant of the Latin or French, in which he addressed them, were still moved to tears by his orations!

In 1198 Peter de Leia, preferred by the choice of Henry II. to the bishopric of St. David's, in place of Giraldus, was removed by death, and again Giraldus was elected, but the Archbishop of Canterbury refused to accept the nomination. The chapter again elected him, and Giraldus visited Rome to plead on their behalf. The pope decided against the bishop-elect in 1203, and Geoffrey de Henlawe was elected Bishop of St. David's. Thus disappointed, he renounced all ambitious hopes, and devoted himself to literary composition. When overtures were made to him in 1215 to accept of the again vacant see of St. David's, he judged it best under the circumstances of the case to decline all advances. He finished two of his most important works, De Principis Instructione, and the Speculum Ecclesiæ, in 1210, in which year he also revised a second edition of the dialogues of the church of St. David's. Tanner quotes a document which states that in 1223 the church of Chesterton in Oxfordshire was vacant "by the death of Master G. de Barri," from which we presume this to have been the date of his death. Giraldus was undoubt

Barry, Edward, M.D., D.D., b. about 1759, d. 1822, edly one of the brightest ornaments of his age. studied at the University of St. Andrews. He pub. a number of works on medicine, law, divinity, and politics, Lon., 1783-1809.

Barry, Sir Edward, M.D., d. 1776, studied at Leyden, under Boerhaave. Treatise on Consumption of the Lungs, Dub., 1726; Lon., 1727, 8vo. On Digestions, Discharges, &c., Lon., 1759. Con. to Ed. Med. Ess., 1732–44. On the Wines of the Ancients, &c., Lon., 1775.

"The substance of this work will be found in Dr. Alex. Henderson's History of Wines."-Lowndes.

But Mr. Lowndes should have stated that Dr. Barry's was a prior publication. Henderson's History was pub. in 1824.

Barry, Garret. Discourse of Military Discipline devided into three Boockes, Bruxelles, 1634, sm. fol.

"This singular and extremely curious work is not noticed by Grose in his history of the English Army."-LOWNDES.

Barry, George, 1747-1804, was minister of the parish of Shapinshay. He was a contributor to Sir John Sinclair's Statistical Account of Scotland, Edin., 1792-99, 8vo. He devoted several years to collecting materials for a civil and natural history of the 67 Islands of Orkney, and in 1805 pub. The History of the Orkney Islands, &c., Edin. and Lon., 4to.

"No inconsiderable interest is certainly imparted to the contents of this volume, by the remoteness of the Orkneys, the little intercourse which they hold with the central parts of the empire, the incidents of a foreign population, their long connection with another state, their subsequent incorporation with the crown of Scotland, and the differences of their manners, laws, and usages."

-Lon. Monthly Review.

Barry, Girald, usually called Giraldus Cambrensis, or Girald of Wales, was born about 1146, and is supposed to have died about the year 1223. His father, William de Barri, was a powerful Norman baron, his mother was a descendant of the princes of South Wales. His education was completed at the University of Paris, where he studied for three years, and proved his natural genius and assiduity in study by his famous lectures on rhetoric and polite literature. Returning to England in 1172, he entered into holy orders, and obtained several benefices in England and Wales. Upon the death of his uncle, David Fitz-Gerald, Bishop of St. David's, who had directed his early studies, the chapter made choice of Gi- | raldus as his successor; but the opposition of King Henry II. prevented this promotion. Hereupon Giraldus, in 1176, returned to Paris, and renewed his studies in theology, and in the civil and canon law, paying especial attention to the decretals, or papal constitutions. In 1180 he again visited England, and in 1185, whilst acting as secretary and privy counsellor to Prince (afterwards King) John, who was at this time in Ireland, he commenced collecting

Noble in his birth, and comely in his person; mild in his manners, and affable in his conversation; zealous, active, and undaunted in maintaining the rights and dignities of his church; moral in his character, and orthodox in his principles: charitable and disinterested, though ambitious; learned, though superstitious: such was Giraldus. And, in whatever point of view we examine the character of this extraordinary man, whether as a scholar, a patriot, or a divine, we may justly consider him as one of the brightest luminaries that adorned the annals of the twelfth century."

So writes Sir Richard Colt Hoare, who, in 1806, pub. in two splendid quarto volumes, the Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin through Wales, A. D. 1188, by Giraldus de Barri; translated into English, and illustrated with views, annotations, and a life of Giraldus.

Giraldus was a voluminous author: his own list consists of

1. The Chronography and Cosmography in Latin hexameters and pentameters. Not known to be in existence. 2. The Topographia Hiberniæ, in 3 books, printed Francfort, 1602, and in Holinshed. 3. The Expugnatio Hiberniæ, sive Historia Vaticinalis; an Account of the Norman Conquest of Ireland, being a sequel to the preceding work.

"The many invectives contained in it against Ireland, and the natives of it, the fables with which it abounded, and the gross errors through the whole, alarmed many of the Irish, and set their pens a-going."

Archbishop Usher's opinion is highly favourable: "Virum Antiquitatum, non Hiberniæ solum suæ, sed aliarum etiam gentium scientissimum."

4. Legends of Saints. Some of these lives have been printed in Wharton's Anglia Sacra. 5. The Life of Geoffrey, Archbishop of York. Printed by Wharton. Compiled in 1193. 6. Symbolum Electorum. Not printed. 7. Liber Invectionum. 8. Speculum duorum commonitorum et consolatorium. Both of these books are supposed to be lost. 9. Gemma Ecclesiastica. 10. The Itinerary of Cambria. 11. The Topographia Cambriæ, in 2 books. The 1st only was printed in the earliest editions. The 2d was first printed in the Anglia Sacra. 12. De Fidei Fructu fidelique Defectu; which is lost. 13. De Principis Instructione. 14. De Gestis Giraldi Laboriosis. 15. De Jure et Statu Menevensis ecclesiæ.

The above (from Wright's Biog. Brit. Lit.) complete Giraldus's own list; but the Speculum Ecclesiæ, one of his latest and most remarkable productions, must be added. Barry, J. M., M.D. The Cow-Pox, Cork, 1800. Barry, James, Lord of Santry, 1598-1673. The Case of Tenures, &c., Dubl., 1637, fol.; repr. 1725, 12mo.

Barry, James, 1741-1806, a distinguished painter, b. at Cork. He pub. a number of profess. works, 177598, which were collected and pub. in 2 vols. 4to, 1809, Lon.; Life prefixed. In early life Barry was enabled to study his art in Italy, through the bounty of that orna

Bartholomew, Wm. Sermon on Proclaiming King Charles II., Luke xi. 21, 22, 1660, 4to.

Bartlet, Richard. Serm., John xii. 13, Lon., 1655. Bartlet, Wm. Congregational Way, Lon., 1647. Bartlet, Wm. Sermons, 1714-18. Bartlet, William S., A.M., b. 1809, at Newburyport, Mass., Rector of St. Luke's Church, Chelsea, Mass. The Frontier Missionary: a Memoir of the Life of the Rev. Jacob Bailey, A.M., forming the 2d vol. of the collections of the Prot. Epis. Hist. Soc., Bost., 1853, 8vo. Highly commended in the Chris. Exam., N. Amer. Rev., &c.

Bartlett, Benj., 1714-1787, a writer on numismatics and topography. The Episcopal Coins of Durham and the Monastic Coins of Reading, minted during the Reigns of Edward I., II., and III., appropriated to their respective owners; Archæol., v. 335, 1779. On the Episcopal Coins of Durham, Newcastle, 1817: 105 copies printed. Episcopal Coins of Durham and Monastic Coins of Reading; Darlington. Manduessedum Romanorum, [Manchester,] Lon., 1791. This is the first portion of the continuation of the Biblioth. Topog. Brit. Mr. Bartlett formed a valuable collection of coins, &c.

Bartlett, David W., b. 1828. What I Saw in London. Life of Lady Jane Grey. Life of Frank Pierce. Pen-Portraits of Modern Agitators, &c.

Bartlett, Elisha, M.D., 1805-1855, b. Smithfield, R.I.; grad. Med. Dept. Brown Univ., 1826; Prof. in Dart- |

Bartley, O. W.

Vaccination, Bristol, 1810. A Treatise on Forensic Medicine, Bristol, 1815. Bartol, Cyrus Augustus, b. 1813, Freeport, Maine; grad. Bowdoin Coll., 1832; at Harvard Divinity School, 1835. 1. Sermons on the Christian Spirit and Life, 12mo. 2. Sermons on the Christian Body and Form, 12mo. 3. Pictures of Europe, 12mo: see Lon. Athenæum, No. 1473, Jan. 19, 1856. 4. West Church and its Ministers. 5. Church and Congregations: a Plea for their Unity, 1858: see N. A. Rev., July, 1858. 6. Grains of Gold: a Selection from his writings. Contrib. to Chris. Exam., N. A. Rev., &c. Barton. Italian Grammar, Lon., 1719. Barton, Benjamin Smith, M.D., 1766-1815, an eminent physician, botanist, and philologist, was the son of the Rev. Thomas Barton, an Episcopal minister, a native of Ireland, who emigrated to America and in 1753 married at Philadelphia a sister of Mr. David Rittenhouse. The subject of our memoir was born at Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He pursued his studies for some years in New York and Philadelphia; and in 1786 went to Edinburgh, where for about two years he enjoyed the great advantage of hearing the lectures of Professors Walker, Gregory, Black, and Home. He obtained his medical degree at Gottingen. In 1789 he returned to Philadelphia, and in the same year was appointed professor of Natural History and Botany in the College of Philadelphia, and continued to occupy the chair, when, in 1791, the college was incorporated with the University of Pennsylvania. He continued his connection with this institution until his death in 1815. In

1795 he succeeded Dr. Griffith in the chair of Materia Medica; and upon the death of Dr. Rush in 1813, he was appointed his successor in the chair of the practice of Physic, which he held in conjunction with that of Botany and Natural History, during his life. In 1809 he was elected President of the Phila. Medical Society. In 1797 he married a daughter of Edward Penington, Esq., an eminent citizen of Philadelphia, by whom he had one son and a daughter.

1810 he obtained a clerkship in the Messrs. Alexander's bank at Woodbridge, which situation he held for the rest of his life. At one time he thought of resigning his post and devoting himself entirely to literature; but his friend Charles Lamb interposed a timely remonstrance.

Mr. Barton's first volume of poems was pub. in 1811. He wrote much,-his poems filling eight or nine volumes. His Household Verses, a collection of his fugitive pieces, pub. in 1845, "contain more of his personal feelings than perhaps any previous work of his pen." Mr. Barton was remarkable for great amiability of manners, extensive information, and a refined taste in the arts. Of the English drama his knowledge, as may be supposed, was limited:

"I am amused with your knowledge of our drama being confined to Shakspeare and Miss Baillie. What a world of fine territory between Land's End and Johnny Groat's have you missed traversing! I could almost envy you to have so much to read. . . Oh, to forget Fielding, Steele, &c., and read 'em new!"-Charles Lamb to B. B., Dec. 1822.

Lord Byron thought highly of Barton's poetical talents, but did not hesitate to proffer the same advice which Lamb had given :

"I think more highly of your poetical talents than it would perhaps gratify you to have expressed; for I believe, from what I to the point, you deserve success; but we knew before Addison observe of your mind, that you are above flattery. To come wrote his Cato, that desert does not always command it. But suppose it attained,

You know what ills the author's life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.'
Byron to Barton, June, 1812.
Do not renounce writing, but never trust entirely to authorship.”—

"I have read your poems with much pleasure, those with most which speak most of your own feelings."-R. Southey to Barton, Dec. 1814.

the Society of Friends were likely to be offended at his In 1820 Mr. Barton requested Southey's opinion whether publishing a volume of poems. We give a short extract from Southey's reply:

"I know one, a man deservedly respected by all who know him, (Charles Lloyd the elder, of Birmingham,) who has amused his old age by translating Horace and Homer. He is looked up to in the society, and would not have printed these translations if he had thought it likely to give offence. Judging, however, from the spirit of the age, as affecting your society, like every thing else, I should think they would be gratified by the appearance of a poet among them who confines himself within the limits of their general principles.. They will not like virtuous feeling and religious principle the worse for being conveyed in good verse. poetry in itself were unlawful, the Bible must be a prohibited book." (See an amusing letter of Barton's to Southey, respect

Edward Penington was a descendant of the celebrated Isaac Penington of London, whose father was lord mayor in 1642. (See PENINGTON, ISAAC, in this volume.) His family at the present day, (1854,) after the lapse of two centuries, is one of the first in America. From John Penington, Esq., of Philadelphia, (grandson to the father-inlaw of Dr. Barton,) well known for his erudition and literary taste, we learn that the subject of our memoir was taught to draw by Major Andre, at the time a prisonering

of war in Lancaster. See PENINGTON, JOHN.

Dr. Barton united untiring industry with great natural talents, a warm zeal in scientific investigation, and uncommon attainments in many branches of knowledge. At the age of 16, Barton composed an Essay on the Vices of the Times. Thus early did he assume the position of a teacher!

If

the fitness of the latter to be the biographer of George Fox.) The volume appeared, and was highly commended: description of quiet home scenery, sweetly and feelingly wrought "The staple of the whole poem is description and meditation,— out; and meditation, overshadowed with tenderness, and exalted by devotion,-but all terminating in soothing, and even cheerful, views of the condition and prospects of mortality."-Edin. Rev. Wilson reviews Barton in vol. xii. of Blackwood: "He possesses much sensibility, and his mind has a strong tinge of poetry. Every now and then he surprises us with glimpses of something infinitely better than the general tone of his concep

tions."

"If we cannot compliment Mr. Barton on being naturally a great poet, he possesses feeling, has long studied his art, and has attained to a point of merit which we did not anticipate."-Lon. Monthly Review, 1820.

Observations on some parts of Natural History, to which is prefixed an account of several remarkable vestiges of an ancient date, which have been discovered in different parts of North America. Part I., Lon., 1787, 8vo, Dilly. This was pub., it will be noticed, whilst the author was resident in London. It was not continued. It relates to antiquities, giving an account of the Indian ruins in the Muskingum, with some remarks on the first peopling of America. "A prefixed advertisement to this work informs us that it is the production of a very young man. written chiefly as a recreation from the laborious studies of medicine. It is, however, a curious tract; we have here only the first part; the other three, which-Lon. Gent. Mag. will complete the work, are to be published in a few months.”— Lon. Monthly Review.

Papers relative to certain American Antiquities, Phil., 1796, 4to. Collections for an Essay towards a Materia Medica of the United States, Phila., 1798, 8vo. Fragments of the Natural History of Pennsylvania, Part I, Phila., 1800, fol. Memoir concerning the Fascinating Faculty ascribed to the Rattle Snake, Phila., 1796, 8vo. Printed only for private distribution. Supplement to ditto. Some account of the Siren Lacertina, and other species of the same genus of Amphibious Animals: in a letter to Mr. J. G. Schneider of Saxony. 50 copies printed in 1808. Reprinted 1821. Elements of Botany, Phila., 1803; Lon., 1804, R. 8vo. Contributions to Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., 1793-99; to Nic. Jour., 1805-12. In 1805 he commenced the Med. and Physical Journal, to which he contributed many articles of value. For further information respecting Dr. Barton and his works, see Biog. Sketch by his nephew, W. P. C. Barton, M.D., etc.; Rose's Biog. Dict., and Thacher's Med. Biog.

Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849, often called THE QUAKER POET, was born in the vicinity of London. In

"There is in Barton's poems a higher beauty than the beauty of ingenuity, and something of more worth than the exquisiteness of workmanship. His works are full of passages of natural tenderness, and his religious poems, though animated with a warmth of devotion, are still expressed with that subdued propriety of language, which evinces at once a correctness of taste and feeling."

"A man of a fine and cultivated, rather than of a bold and original, mind."-LORD JEFFREY.

The Widow's Tale, and other Poems.

"We should always rejoice to see this volume on any table."Lon. Literary Gazette, March, 1827.

"This interesting little volume contains some of the sweetest

poetry Mr. Barton has ever written."—Lon. Lit. Magnet, April, 1827

Devotional Verses.

"Mr. Barton's style is well suited to devotional poetry. It has great sweetness and pathos, accompanied with no small degree of power, which well qualify it for the expression of the higher and purer feelings of the heart."-Lon. New Monthly Mag., March, 1826.

Mr. Barton was a brother to Maria Hack, the authoress of a number of juvenile works of great merit, and his daughter, Miss Lucy Barton, has devoted her talents to the composition of scriptural works, principally intended for the young.

Barton, Charles, of the Middle Temple. Profess. works, 1794-1811. Mr. Barton has been highly commended as a legal writer. Modern Precedents in Conveyancing, 7 vols., Lon., 1821, 8vo.

"Mr. Barton, in various parts of these Precedents, has introduced dissertations on the nature and use of the different species of assurances contained in the collection. These essays are ably