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Lady Morgan, b. 1783, Novels. Jas. Morier, b. 1780, Novels. Thomas Campbell, 1777-1844, Poems. John Banim, 1800-1842, Novels. Hen. F. Cary, 1772-1844, Trans. Dante, &c. The following may be named as among the best manuals in the department of History, Divinity, Moral and Political Philosophy, Voyages, and Travels. I. The History of England. Our favourite history is the 66 'Pictorial," published by Messrs. Charles Knight & Co., 11 vols., with Index vol., imp. 8vo., 1849-50; from B. C. 55 to A. D. 1846. We have given our opinion as to the merits of this compilation, when treating of the works of J. Petit Andrews, (q. v.) As regards earlier histories, Hall's History of the Houses of York and Lancaster, Leland's English Antiquities, Cavendish's Life of Wolsey, Hollingshed's Chronicles, Buchanan's History of Scotland, Stowe's Chronicles, Camden's Britannia and Reign of Elizabeth and James I., Daniel's History of England, Speed's History of Great Britain, Hayward's English History, Spelman's Antiquities, Lord Bacon's Henry VII., Lord Herbert's Life of Henry VIII., Fuller's Church History and Worthies of England, and Baker's Chronicles afford sufficient materials to the most enthusiastic lover of historic lore. For the occurrences of the memorable days of the Commonwealth, we have Harris's Charles I. and Cromwell, Neal's History of the Puritans, Clarendon's History of the Rebellion, May's History of Parliament, and the works of Whitlocke, Hutchinson, Prynne, Holles, Ludlow, &c. If we wish to see how those subjects have been treated by modern writers, we have Hume and Catherine Macaulay as the apologists of the Stuarts and of the Republicans, respectively, and the works of Godwin, Foster, and Carlyle. The following historical works should be carefully read: Burnet's Own Times, Hearne's History and Antiquities, Strype's Ecclesiastical History, Echard's History of England, the mine of curious erudition in Carte's History of England, and the Life of the Duke tific Miscellanies. Sir E. Brydges, 1762-1837, Miscellanies. Wm. Cobbett, 1762-1835, Politics, &c. J. Dalton, 1766-1844, Chemistry. J. F. Daniel, 1790-1845, Chem. Sydney Smith, 1777-1845, Theology, Essays, &c. John Bonnycastle, d. 1821, Ma thematics. Thomas Chalmers, Theology and Political Economy. John Leslie, 1832, Mathematician. J. C. Loudon, 1783-1843, Botany, Agriculture, Architecture. John Bell, 1763-1825, Anatomy and Physiology. Olinthus Gregory, 1774-1841, Mathematics and Religion. Robert Hall, 1764-1831, Ser mons. Sir Chas. Bell, 1781-1824, Anatomy and Physiology. of Ormonde,-Granger's Biographical History of England, Keightley's History of England, Sir James Mackintosh's History of the Revolution of 1688, Hallam's Constitutional History, Miller's George III., Croly's George IV., Mr. Macaulay's Commencement of the History of England from the Accession of James II., and Smyth's Lectures on Modern History. For a knowledge of the History of America, the reader should consult Robertson's America, Botta's Revolution, Irving's History of Columbus and his Followers, Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, and Conquest of Peru, Burke's European Settlements in N. America, and his Speeches on America, Grahame's, Hildreth's, and Bancroft's History of the United States, Sparks's Life and Writings of Washington, Franklin, and Morris, Sparks's American Biography, first and second series, Ramsay's Life of Washington, American Revolution, Marshall's Life of Washington, Washington Irving's ditto, Holmes's Annals of America, Flint's History of Mississippi Valley, Theodore Irving's Conquests of Florida, and the works of John Adams, Hamilton, John Jay, John Q. Adams, Jefferson, Calhoun, Benton, Webster, Colton's Life of Clay, the papers in the Federalist, Davis's Life of Burr, &c. works of Catlin and McKenney, Hall and Schoolcraft, on the North American Indians, should not be neglected. The The History of British India will be found in the works of Orme, Cambridge, Mills, Martin, Malcolm's Life of Clive, Gleig's Memoirs of Hastings, the trial of Warren Hastings in the works of Burke, &c. II. Among Commentators upon the Holy Scriptures, may be mentioned Doddridge, Patrick, Lowth, Whitby, Macknight, D'Oyly, Mant, Henry, Gill, Scott, Clarke, Burkitt, Robinson, Home, Barnes, Addison, Alexander, Turner, Bush, and the valuable manuals of Biblical Bibliography of Horne, Orme, Williams, and Bickersteth. The English language is exceed |