ANG Stenography, or Short-Hand Improved, Lon., 1759. His system is described as "complex and difficult." Dr. Johnson wrote the preface to the work. See ANNESLEY. in the celebrated suit brought by James Annesley in 1744, Serms. pub. 1732-45-56. Angus, Joseph, D.D. 1. Bible Hand-Book, Lon., Angell, Joseph K., 1794-1857, b. Providence, R. I., United States Law Intelligencer and Review, Providence, 1828-31, 3 vols. Treatise on the Right of Property in Tide Waters, Boston, 1826; 2d ed., 1847. "The only regular treatise upon this branch of the law, besides the one under consideration, is Lord Hale's De jure Maris et Brachiorum ejusdem. Mr. Angell has furnished the profession, in the present publication, with a work that was much needed. He has collected the materials for his book with great industry, from a variety of sources that are not generally accessible, and his work is a valuable contribution to our jurisprudence."-Marvin's Legal Bibliography. Inquiry, &c., relative to an Incorporeal Hereditament, Boston, 1827. A Treatise on the Limitation of Actions at Law and Suits in Equity and Admiralty, Boston; 2d ed., 1846; 4th ed., 8vo, revised and enlarged by J. Wilder May. "It is now more full and complete than any other treatise upon this subject extant."-Marvin's Legal Bibl. "Lord Brougham begs Mr. A. would kindly communicate to Mr. Angell his very grateful sense of the favour done him by the valuable present of Mr. A.'s work. Lord B. has already consulted it, and found it to be by much the best treatise on this very important subject."-Lord Brougham's Note to Mr. Arnold. A Practical Summary of the Law of Assignments, Boston, 1835. "It is a neat and valuable little manual of the law of voluntary assignments by insolvent debtors."-2 Kent's Com., 536 n; 13 Am. Jur. 234. a Copious Analysis, Notes, and Indexes, 1855, 12mo, pp. Angus, W. Seats of the Nobility, Lon., 1787-1810. Annand, Alex. Legal Government of India, Lon., 4to. Annesley, Alexander, author of several treatises on Political Economy, and of the Compendium of the Law of Marine, Life, and Fire Insurance; pub. Lon., 1800-8. Annesley, Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, 1614-1686, He became a At was Lord Privy-Seal under Charles II. Fellow-Commoner of Magd. Coll., Oxf., about 1630. the Restoration he was created Earl of Anglesey. His Mr. Angell, in conjunction with Samuel Ames, has pub- lordship was the author of a number of political and theolished a Treatise on the Law of Private Corporations Ag-logical works. Truth Unveiled, with a treatise on Trangregate; 2d ed., Boston, 1843; 4th ed., 1858; 6th ed., 8vo. "To these authors belongs the honour of first producing an American treatise upon corporations, and whatever its defects may be in style, arrangement, or in profusion of citations from English or American reports, it is undoubtedly the best work upon corporations that an American lawyer can possess. . . . Chancellor Kent highly commends the work."-Marvin's Legal Bibl. "It is a very learned, full, and finished treatise, and cannot be too highly praised."-CHANCellor Kent. Treatise on the Law concerning the Liabilities and Rights of Common Carriers; 2d ed., Boston, 1845, 8vo; pub. in Lon. in 1849, royal 8vo. "It displays thorough research and learning, and cannot fail to be welcomed as a valuable accession to the legal literature of the age." A Treatise on the Law of Fire and Life Insurance; with an Appendix, containing Forms, Tables, &c., 8vo. A Treat. on the Law of Highways, by Joseph K. Angell and Thomas Durfee, Esqrs., 8vo. "We have here the last of Mr. Angell's useful labours for the profession of which he was a distinguished ornament. Being left incomplete, it was finished in a very satisfactory manner by Mr. Durfee. "The work contains a thorough and accurate analysis of all the 1673. Angier, Saml. Polite Modern Divine, Lon., 1756, etc. For an Epitome of this curious pamphlet, see Gentle- substantiation, Lon., 1676. The King's Right of Indul1688. Happy Future State of England, 1688. Memoirs, gence in Spiritual Matters, with the equity thereof asserted, &c., 1693, etc. "He was a person very subtil, cunning, and reserved in the and one who had the command of a very smooth, sharp, and managery and transacting his affairs; of more than ordinary parts, keen pen. He was also much conversant in Books, and a great Calvinist, but his known countenance and encouragement given to persons of very different persuasions in matters of religion, hath left it somewhat difficult, at least in some men's judgments, peremptorily to determine among what sort of men, as to point of religion, he himself ought in truth to have been ranked."-Wood's Athen. Oxon. Bishop Burnet describes him as a tedious and ungraceful orator; a grave, abandoned, corrupt man, whom no party would trust. But on the other hand, see Dr. Campbell's clares that "it is not easy to say any thing worthy of so life of his lordship in the Biographia Britannica, who degreat a man's character." When Drs. Burnet and Campbell disagree, who shall decide? "That his Lordship sailed with the times, remains notorious. Those principles must be of an accommodating temper which could suffer the same man to be president of a republican council of popish king. Once when the Earl of Essex charged him in the state, and recommend him for chancellor to an arbitrary and House of Lords with being prayed for by the Papists, Anglesey or Turks in their mosques, would pray for him unasked, he should said, He believed it was not so; but if Jews in their synagogues, be glad to be the better for their devotion.'"-Walpole's R. & N. Authors. "He was capable of great application, and a man of a grave deportment; but stuck at nothing and was ashamed of nothing. He seemed to have no regard to common decencies, but sold every thing that was in his power, and sold himself so often, that at last the price fell so low that he grew useless."-Burnet's History of the Reign of Charles II. Dr. Kippis, the editor of the Biographia Britannica, was quite indignant at Walpole's styling it (for giving, as he catio Britannica," or a "Defence of Everybody;" wherethought, too favourable an opinion of our author) "Vindi"If we have been guilty of an excess of gentleness, we must It will behoove us, upon the editor remarks, in his 2d edition, guard for the future against this amiable error. for instance, when we come to the Life of Sir Robert Walpole, to take care that we be not too milky.” The lively Horace could have afforded to laugh at this Before the slowly-adthreat; his alphabetical distance from the Doctor's vengeance rendered him very secure. vancing foe could reach the letter "W," the "Blue" and the "Red Chambers," the "Round Tower," and the "Tribune" of Strawberry Hill, would, in all probability, know no more the collector of trinkets, and the distributor of bons mots. True enough! some eighteen years were required to reach the letter "F," and the "force of" book-making "could no further go." At this rate, would it not require a Methuselah of an editor to punish Walpole, Sir Robert, for the sins of Walpole, Horace? Let not the alphabetical editor threaten in "A" what he intends to do in "W!" "Life is short," and biographies are "long;" which last consideration induces us to resume, that we may speedily cut short, that of Arthur, Earl of Anglesey. We shall gratify Anthony Wood, who seems in this instance quite sanguinary, by permitting him to despatch our "Author Anglesey," as he rather contemptuously designates the earl: "At length, after our author, Arthur, Earl of Anglesey, had acted the part of a Politician, and ran with the times for more than 45 years, he gave way to fate in his house in Drury Lane, in 1686. He left behind him a choice library of books, which were exposed to sale by way of Auction, in Oct., Nov., &c. following." The mention of that "Library of books" will touch a chord in the bosom of many a Bibliomaniac; and being slightly of that order ourselves, we shall crave the indulgence of the general reader to linger a moment in this "Library." Dr. Campbell gives the earl no small praise for his book-collecting zeal : "He was one of the first English Peers who distinguished himself by collecting a fine library, which he performed with great care, as well as at a large expense; and as he was desirous that so valuable a collection might not be quickly dissipated, but remain in his family, he caused it to be disposed in a manner suitable to its worth in a particular department of Anglesey House. But these precautions proved fruitless, as his Lordship's good intentions likewise did; his books, within a few months after his de cease, being exposed to public sale by Mr. Millington, a famous auctioneer." in his pursuits, and when, at the age of fifteen, Anselm ventured to declare his wish to embrace a monastic life, the anger of the parent was so strongly expressed, that the youth determined to quit his home and country, and throw himself upon the wide world. Of the next three years of Anselm's life, we only know that they were spent, perhaps fruitlessly, partly in Burgundy and partly in France. It does not appear how he was occupied during this period, but in the course of his wanderings he arrived at Avranches, and there he first heard of the fame of his countryman Lanfranc and the school of Bec. The eagerness after learning which had distinguished Anselm in his childhood now returned, and he hastened to Bec to place himself under Lanfranc's tuition. He devoted himself to his studies with wonderful perseverance, scarcely quitting his books by night or by day, and often forgetting his meals. When Lanfranc at length made him a partner in his labours, and intrusted to him the instruction of others, Anselm showed little taste for his occupation; he preferred solitude and meditation to an active life, and after much doubting as to where and how he should take the habit, and after consulting with Lanfranc and with Maurilius, Archbishop of Rouen, he became a monk in the abbey of Bec, in the twenty-seventh year of his age, (A. D. 1060.) Still he was not allowed to remain inactive; for, when Lanfrane was made Abbot of Caen, (not, as commonly supposed, in 1063, but in 1066,) Anselm was chosen to succeed him as Prior of Bec, an office which he held till Abbot Herluin's death in 1078, when he was further raised to be his successor. As monk and prior, he was distinguished so much by his piety and virtues, that his brethren believed him to be possessed of the power of working miracles. The abbey of Bec had possessions in England, and soon after his election Abbot Anselm found it necessary to visit them. This was a favourable opportunity of consulting with his ancient friend Lanfranc, by whom he was received at Canterbury with the greatest marks of distinction and We marvel that Dr. Dibdin omitted to place our Bibliomaniac in his list of "Collectors of Books in Great Britain." See BIBLIOMANIA. Now this auction sale would be memorable were it only for the discovery of the "fa-esteem. He spent a short time in the society of the monks mous memorandum," made by the earl on the blank leaf of a copy of EIKON BASILIKE; but we must not prolong this hydra-headed article by any further dissertations. How this curious memorandum was accidentally discovered, how it was purposely published, how a great controversy thence arose, how sundry controversialists were "set together by the ears," how men, usually amiable enough, in disputing about the EIKON BASILIKE presented any thing but the portraiture of unprejudiced judges in the premises -all these matters will be found in the Life of Bp. Gauden, in the present volume. For a detailed account of the whole controversy, the reader is referred to the Biog. Britannica, article Gauden. Annesley, or Anslay. Trans. The Boke of the Cyte of Ladyes, Lon., 1521. Annesley, Sir James. 1. Researches into the Causes of Diseases of India, Lon., 2 vols. imp. 4to, £14 14s. 2d.; 2d ed., 1841, 128.; 3d ed., 1855, 8vo. 2. Sketches of Diseases Prevalent in India, 8vo. Annesley, Sir Francis. Copy of Sentence of War, &c., with his Petition against Earl of Stafford, Lon., 1641. Annesley, or Aneley, Saml., LL.D., 1620 ?-1696, a very eminent Nonconformist minister, pub. sermons, Lon., 1655-92, and wrote a supplement to the Morning Exercise at Cripplegate. "He with much ado (being naturally dull, yet industrious) got to be Bach. of Arts, notwithstanding he that presented him to that degree (who did swear that he knew him to be aptus, habilis, and idoneus) did take a hard oath for him."-Wood's Athen. Ozon. Anneson, or Annerson, James. See MAXWELL, JAMES. Annet. Short-Hand Perfected, 1761. Annet, Peter. A Collection of the Tracts of a certain Free Enquirer, noted by his sufferings for his opinions, 1766, respecting himself. "The tracts here reprinted, are chiefly those which appeared on the infidel side of the question, in the notable controversy concerning the resurrection of Christ, in the years 1744 and 1745; the answers to Mr. Jackson's Letter to the Deists, and to Lord Lytleton's Observations on St. Paul, with some others."-Lon. Monthly Rev. See CHANDLER, SAMUEL, p. 367, post. Annet's Works, 1739, contains also the tract Social Bliss considered, (or all things in community,) which is the germ of Owenism and Socialism. Anselm, 1033-1109, like his predecessor Lanfranc, was a native of Italy. He was born at Aosta, in Piedmont, at the foot of the Graian Alps, about the year 1033. In his childhood he had imbibed religious sentiments from the teaching and example of his mother, and exhibited an early taste for learning. His father discouraged the child of Canterbury, and gave his advice in the question then agitated relating to the sanctity of the Saxon Archbishop Elfege. In other parts of England, Anselm was received with the same marks of respect as at Canterbury. In 1088, Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, died, and in 1093, Anselm, much against his will, obeyed the commands of William Rufus, by accepting the vacant see. He died of a lingering illness, attended by a distaste for all kinds of nourishment, on the 21st of April, 1109, in the seventysixth year of his age, after having held the see of Canterbury sixteen years. He was buried in his cathedral, at the head of his friend and predecessor, Lanfranc. By his rare genius he did much towards bringing metaphysics into repute. He laid the foundation of a new school of theology, which was free from the servile character of the older writers, who did little more than collect together a heap of authorities on the subjects which they treated. The Monologium and the Proslogium are admirable specimens of abstract reasoning. His reading was extensive, and his style is clear and vigorous. His published writings are, 1. The Monologion, a metaphysical treatise, in which Anselm attempts to establish, by abstract reasoning, the existence of God, his attributes, &c. He submitted this work to the judgment of Lanfranc, before he ventured to publish it. 2. The Proslogion, in which he undertakes to prove the existence of God by one single, continued argument. 3. The answer to Gaunilo, a monk of Marmoutier, who had criticised the Proslogion, and introduced as his imaginary opponent) against Anselm's espoused the cause of the incipiens (whom Anselm had arguments. In this tract he enlarges and explains some of his arguments which had been misunderstood. 4. On against the celebrated philosopher Roscelin. the Trinity and the Incarnation, a controversial treatise 5. On the Procession of the Holy Ghost, another controversial treatise, in which he collected the arguments he had employed in the Council of Bari against the Greeks, who denied that the Holy Ghost proceeded from the Son. Anselm is said to have written this book between 1100 and 1103, at the request of Hildebert, Bishop of Mans. 6. Dialogue in twenty-eight chapters, De casu Diaboli, treating chiefly on the subject of the origin of evil. 7. A treatise entitled Cur Deus Homo? in two books, written in the form of a dialogue between the author and Boso, Abbot of Bec, for the purpose of showing the necessity of the Christian scheme of redemption, and proving the resurrection of the body. It was begun in England, and finished in Italy. 8. A treatise in twenty-nine chapters on the Conception of the Virgin, and on Original Sin, composed at Lyons, 16. A expurgata et aucta. Secunda editio, correcta et aucta. Lutetia Parissiorum, 1721, fol. The first edition was published at Paris in 1675. A third was printed at Venice, 1744, in 2 vols. folio.-The works of S. Anselm, more or less complete, will also be found in different collections printed under the title of Bibliotheca Patrum. Translations. A French translation of the Meditations of Anselm was published in 1571, and reprinted in 1588, 1602, and 1642.-Another French translation of the Meditations, by Cerizius, appeared in 1650. A German translation of the Meditations had been printed at Lunenberg in 1638.-The Mount of Olives; or, Solitary Devotions. By Henry Vaughan, Silurist. With an excellent discourse of the blessed state of Man in Glory, written by the most reverend and holy father Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury, and now done into English, London, 1652, 12mo.-A third French translation of the Meditations was published anonymously in 1700.-Pious Breathings. Being the Meditations of St. Augustine, his Treatise of the Love of God, Soliloquies, and Manual, to which are added Select Contemplations from St. Anselm and St. Bernard. Made English by George Stanhope, D.D., chaplain in ordinary to his Majesty, London, 1701, 8vo.-A translation into French of the treatise Cur Deus homo? has been recently published in Paris.— Abbreviated from Wright's Biog. Brit. Lit. and addressed to the same Abbot Boso who appears in the Cur Deus Homo? 9. A dialogue De Veritate between a Master and his Disciple. 10. A treatise De Voluntate, first published by Gerberon, who found it without the name of the author, but with strong internal proofs that it was the work of Anselm. 11. A dialogue De Libero Arbitrio. 12. The treatise De Concordia præscientiæ et This prædestinationis et gratiæ Dei cum libero arbitrio. was Anselm's last, and perhaps his most profound work, in which he undertakes to prove, first, that prescience is not repugnant to free-will; secondly, that predestination does not exclude free-will; and, thirdly, that grace does not exclude free-will. 13. A short tract De Fermento et Azymo. 14 and 15. Two brief treatises on Priests who keep Concubines, and on Marriage between certain degrees of affinity, questions then agitated in England. dialogue on Dialectics, entitled De Grammatico. 17. A very short treatise De Voluntate Dei. 18. Sixteen homilies. 19. A treatise on the Contempt of Temporal Things. 20. Another short tract in question and answer, entitled, Anson, George, Lord, 1697-1762. Voyage round Admonitio morienti. 21. Twenty-one Meditations, of the World in 1740-2-3-4; compiled from his papers, and some of which the authenticity is doubtful. 22. A collec-published under his direction; with Charts of the Southern tion of seventy-four prayers. 23. Hymns, and a Psalter part of South America, of part of the Pacific Ocean, and of the Virgin, which are probably erroneously attributed of the Track of the "Centurion" round the World, by to Anselm. 24. A large collection of miscellaneous letters, Richard Walter, A.M., Lon., 1748. Most of this work was many of which afford valuable materials for the history composed by Peter Robbins. of the time. 25. His Constitutions. In addition to these, the writers of the Histoire Littéraire de France enumerate no less than thirty-six treatises which have been wrongly attributed to Anselm. Among these we may place the poem De Contemptu Mundi, which was the work of Alexander Neckham. Some additions might still be made from manuscripts to his authentic works, particularly to the Homilies, Meditations, and Letters; and perhaps some of Anselm's writings are entirely lost, such as the poem on the death of Lanfranc, mentioned by Ordericus Vitalis. Editions. "Anson's Voyage will contribute more to call forth genius, and open the blossoms of the mind, than a dull didactic treatise of the most sagacious philosopher."-Knox's Essays. "A voyage which is still about the most delightful of any with which we are acquainted.”—Edinburgh Review, April, 1839. In 1752 was pub. a Supplement to Lord Anson's Voyage round the World, containing a Discovery and Description of the Island of Frivola. By the Abbé Coyer. To which is prefixed an introductory Preface by the translator. This is a satirical romance, in which the French nation (Frivola) is most severely ridiculed. "The modern French are represented as a race of triflers, witlings, and fops, whose effeminate manners, and slavish notions of government, are contrasted with the supposed manlier conduct of the English. As our judgment may be thought biassed on the present occasion, we shall say the less of this entertaining performance of the Abbé's."-Lon. Monthly Review. "Anson was the veriest Bull Dog of all circumnavigators, loving nothing better than tough contests, by sea and by land; a Spanish Galleon, or a hostile town, was equally an object of attack, and he returned from his three years and nine months' absence laden with more spoil and wealth than it had fallen to the lot of any individual to bring home."-DIBDIN. See Life of Lord Anson, by Sir J. Barrow, Lon., 8vo. Anspach, Elizabeth, Margravine of, 1750-1828, the youngest daughter of Augustus, fourth Earl of Berkeley, pub. a number of works, 1778-1826. The principal are, 1. Journey through the Crimea to Constantinople, Lon., 1789. 2. Letters from Lady Craven to the Margrave of Anspach, during her Travels through France, Germany, Russia, &c., in 1785-87, Lon., 1814. 3. Memoirs of the Margravine of Anspach, written by herself, Lon., 1826. "The Margravine of Anspach claims attention rather from circumstances than talent. She was a light and vivacious woman, of a school which is rapidly going by, and which it is of the least possible consequence to renovate." Opera et tractatus beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Cantuarien. ordinis sancti Benedicti. At the end, Opera sancti Anselmi que is scripsit hoc libro quam salutari sidere clauduntur. Anno xp'i. M. cccc. lxxxxj. die vero vicesima septima martii Nurenberge. per Caspar Hochfeder: opifecem mira arte ac diligentia impressa. fol. This volume contains the Duo libri cur Deus homo; liber unus de incarnatione verbi; De conceptu virginali et peccato originali; Declaratio cujusdam de eodem; Proslogion; Monologion; De proces sione spiritus sancti contra Græcos; Dyalogus de casu Dyaboli; Pro insipiente; contra insipientem; De diversitate sacramentorum; De fermento et azimo; Expositiones membrorum et actuum Dei et vestimentorum; De voluntate; De concordia præscientiæ et prædestinationis et gratiæ Dei cum libero arbitrio; De libero arbitrio; De veritate; De similitudinibus; De mensuratione crucis; Meditationes magnæ Anselmi; Meditatio ejusdem de redemptione generis humani; De passione Domini; Speculum evangelici sermonis; Homelia, Intravit Jesus in quoddam castellum; Epistolæ Sancti Anselmi; De imagine mundi. This edition was reprinted in 1494.-Sermones tres de passione Christi. Argentie, M. cccc. xcvj. 4to. At the end, sig. & 4, is added, Anselmi devotissimi de passione Jesu Christi queretis de gloriosissime b't'e Marie V'gnis respondent! dyalogus incipit feliciter.-Opuscula beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis ordinis sancti benedicti. fol. without name of place or date. It contains two tracts not in the edition of 1491, De miseria hominis, and De excellentia Virginis Mariæ. "These delightful volumes remind us of the best French meIt also contains an index. There was another edition of the Opus-moirs, a species of literature in which we are wofully deficient."cula without date.-Omnia divi Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepis-Lon. N. Monthly Magazine. copi theologorum omnium sui temporis facile principis Opuscula, Antonii Democharis Ressonæi industria nunc primum restituta. Parisiis, 1544, fol. This contains, in addition to the previous editions, the tracts De similitudinibus, and De voluntate Dei. Reprinted in 1549.-D. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi, theologorum omnium sui temporis facile principis, neminique eorum qui post eum fuerunt vel sanctitate, vel eruditione, vel eloquentia secundi, luculentissimæ in omnes sanctissimi Pauli apostoli epistolas et aliquot Evangelia enarrationes. Has enarrationes alii D. Heroæo ascribunt., Parisiis, 1544, fol.-Opera Venet. 1549. This edition appears to have been reprinted at the same place in 1568.-Anselmi Elucidarium, Paris, 1560.-Opera Colon, 1560, fol., and again, Colon. 1573, fol.-B. Anselmi Vita et Opera iv. tomis, ubi ejus Epistolæ adjecta sunt et notis illustratæ, per Joh. Piccardum. Col. Agr. 1612. More complete than any of the preceding editions.-foundland, Lon., 1809. B. Anselmi Opera extraneis in Sacros Libros Commentariis exonerata, recensuit et edidit Theoph. Raynaudus. Lugd. 1630, 3 vols. fol.-S. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi de Felicitate Sanctorum dissertatio, Exscriptore Eadinero Anglo canonico regulari. Editore Joanne Bapt. de Machault, Parisino, Soc. Jesu. Parisiis, 1639, 8vo.-The dialogue De libero arbitrio, was published in the third volume of the Opuscula of St. Augustine, 4to, Lovan. 1648. -Divi Aurelii Augustini Hippon. episcopi Meditationes, Soliloquia, et Manuale. Meditationes B. Anselmi, cum tratatu de humani generis redemptione, &c. Coloniæ Agrippinæ, 1649, 16mo.-D'Acherii Spicilegium, 4to, 1653-1677, tom. iii. p. 24. Second Edit. Paris, 1723, fol. vol. i. pp. 443-449. Sancti Anselmi Cantuariensis archie piscopi tractatus asceticus, 4to. tom. iii. p. 121, tom. ix. pp. 116-123. Second ed. tom. iii. p. 433-435. Some letters of Anselm.-Usher, Veterum Epistolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge., 4to. Dublin., 1633, pp. 88-99. Six letters of Anselm.-Sancti Anselmi ex Beccensi ab bate Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi Opera... labore ac studio D. Gabrielis Gerberon monachi congregationis S. Mauri ad MSS. fidem Anspach, Rev. F. R., b. 1817, Penn. Systematic Benevolence, 1853. Sepulchres of our Departed, 12mo. 1854. timents ornately expressed."-Presbyterian. "A fine tone pervades the volume, and it abounds in just sen Anspach, Rev. L. A., a magistrate of Newfoundland. A Sermon in French, 1798. Summary of the Laws of Commerce and Navigation, adapted to the present State, Government, and Trade, of the Island of New "The law on these several matters is here laid down with great precision, and expounded with clearness."-Lon. Monthly Review. Ansted, David Thomas, b. 1812, London, a distinguished geologist, educated at Cambridge, Prof. Geol. King's Coll., London, Ass. Sec. Geol. Soc. and ed. of its Journal and Proceedings. 1. Geology, Introductory, Descriptive, and Practical, 1844, Lon., 2 vols. 8vo. This work gave its author a high position as a geologist. 2. Geologist's Text-Book, 1845. 3. The Ancient World; or, Picturesque Sketches of Great Britain, 1847. 4. The GoldSeeker's Manual, 12mo. 5. Elementary Course of Geology, Mineralogy, &c., p. 8vo; 2d ed., 1856. 6. Notes on Scenery, Science, and Art, 8vo. Anster, John, LL.D., b. 1793, Charleville, Ireland, Regius Prof. Civil Law in Trinity College, Dublin. Prize &c. projected a classical series, which should comprise as well the text-books used in academies and schools preparatory to college, as those usually read in colleges and universities. This series includes some of the most important Greek and Latin authors. Dr. A. has pub. larger works on Ancient Geography, Greek and Roman Antiquities, Mythology, Literature, &c., in all about 50 vols. Poem on the death of the Princess Charlotte, 1817. Poems, readings, and a copious commentary; a smaller edition with trans. from the German, 1819. Faustus; from the was published in 1833. In 1835, in connection with the German of Goethe, 1835. Highly praised by S. T. Cole-publishing house of the Messrs. Harper, Professor Anthon ridge, Blackwood's Mag. and Edin. Rev., and Dr. Mackenzie. Xeniola, with other Poems and Translations, 1837. Introductory Lecture on the Study of the Civil Law, 1849. Contrib. largely to Blackwood's Mag., Dublin Univ. Mag., Anstey, Christopher, 1724-1805, was a son of the Rev. Christopher Anstey, Rector of Brinkeley, in Cambridgeshire. He pub. a number of works, 1766-1804; but his fame rests upon The New Bath Guide, one of the most popular poems of the day, pub. in Lon., 1766. Dodsley gave £200 for the copyright, which Anstey bestowed in aid of the hospital at Bath. The publisher declared that the profits on the sale were greater than he had ever gained in the same period by any other book, and in 1777 be returned it to the author. "There are a thousand strains of humour in these high wrought Epistles, some of which do not occur to you at the first reading; -si propius, te capiet magis:-the author frequently heightens and enriches his humour by parodies and imitations."-Lon. Monthly Review, 1766. Smollett has borrowed so largely from Anstey, that Humphrey Clinker may almost be called The New Bath Guide in Prose, so far as characters and situations are concerned. "But Anstey's diverting satire was but a slight sketch compared to the finished and elaborate manner in which Smollett has, in the first place, identified his characters, and then filled them with language, sentiments, and powers of observation in exact correspondence with their talents, temper, condition, and disposition." -SIR WALTER SCOTT. Several authors, who shall be nameless, have committed a grave error in charging Anstey with borrowing from Smollett; whereas The New Bath Guide was published in 1766, whilst Humphrey Clinker was not written until 1770, and was published in 1771. Anstey, John, son of the preceding. The Pleader's Guide. A Didactic Poem, Lon., 1796. The Poet. Works of the late Christopher Anstey, Esq., &c., Lon., 1808. Anstey, T. C. Guide to the Laws of England affecting Roman Catholics, Lon., 1842. "This is the only professed treatise upon the laws of Great Britain relative to the Roman Catholics, and contains much valuable information respecting Nonconformists of every denomination. The author has ably discussed the conflict of imperial with local laws-a branch of the conflict of laws that Mr. Justice Story and Mr. Burge have omitted in their treatise upon the Conflict of Laws. He is also of opinion that confessions made to a Catholic clergyman are, upon legal principles, privileged communications. Mr. Anstey's work is a complete and valuable treatise upon the rights and liabilities of Catholics. 24 L. O. 535; E. Jurist, 25 E." Marvin's Legal Bibl. Lectures on Laws and Constitution of England, p. 8vo. Anstice, Robt. Work on Wheel-Carriages, Lon., 1790. Inquiry into Laws of Falling Bodies, Lon., 1794. Anstie, J. Works upon Commerce, Lon., 1787-1802. Anstis, John, 1699-1745, a learned heraldic writer, and Garter king-at-arms, was born at St. Neot's, in Cornwall, and educated at Oxford, and at the Middle Temple. He was M.P. in the reigns of Anne and George I. He left a number of very curious and laborious works in MS. Of his published essays the most important are, The Register of the most noble Order of the Garter, Lon., 1724, 2 vols. folio; usually called The Black Book, from its black velvet cover. Observations introductory to an Historical Essay on the Knighthood of the Bath, Lon., 1725. Anstruther, Alex. Reports of Cases in the Court of Exchequer from E. T. 32 George III. to T. T. 37 Geo. III., Lon., 1796-97, 3 vols. 2d ed., Lon., 1817. "Anstruther's Reports are carefully and accurately compiled, and have always been considered a good authority."-Marvin's Legal Bibl. Anstruther, Sir John. On Drill Husb., Lon., 1796. "He must have possessed a very ample and correct practical knowledge of agriculture."-DONALDSON: Agricult. Biog. Anstruther, Sir W. Essays, Moral and Divine, Edin., 1701. Antes, J. Obs. on M. and C. of the Egyptians, Lon., 1800. Anthon, Chas., LL.D., was born in the city of New York in 1797. In 1820 he was appointed adjunct Professor of Languages in Columbia College, New York, and in 1835 he was advanced to the station filled for many years by Professor Moore, and vacated by his resignation. He received the degree of LL.D. from his Alma Mater in 1831. Mr. Anthon's publications have been numerous. tion of Lemprière's Classical Dictionary, was very favourably received, and immediately republished in England. In 1830 appeared his larger edition of Horace, with various His edi Dr. Anthon's Classical Series has proved one of the most successful enterprises of the kind in America. Anthon, Charles E. Pilgrimage to Treves in 1844, N. York, 12mo. Anthon, Henry. Easy Catechism, N. York, 18mo. Catechism on the Church Homilies; Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, N. York, 18mo. Anthon, John, b. at Detroit, 1784, an eminent American lawyer and legal writer, brother of Chas. Anthon, LL.D. Essay on the Study of Law; improved and finally prefixed to Mr. A.'s Analysis of Blackstone. "This essay is worth the perusal of the legal aspirant.”—Marvin's Legal Bibl. Notes to Tidd's Practice. Analysis of Blackstone, 2d ed., Phila., 1832, 8vo. "Especially valuable in this country, because it is prepared with peculiar reference to our circumstances." "It cannot fail to be a great favourite with elementary students."-Hoffman's Leg. Stud. 160. Nisi Prius Cases; 2 edits. The Law Student-American Digest, 1 vol. Edited by J. A.:-Booth on Real Actions; American Precedents, 1821, 8vo, 4th ed.; West Brookfield, 1848, 8vo; Espinasse's Nisi Prius. Shepherd's Touchstone. Oration, July 4, 1812. Coutribution to the American Jurist. Anthony, Elliot. A Digest of Cases in the Supreme Court of Illinois from 1819 to 1854, Philadelphia, 1855, 8vo. Anthony, Dr. Francis, 1550-1623, a noted empiric and chemist, was the father of the controversy concerning the Aurum Potabile, in which Dr. Gwinne and Dr. John Cotta took part. He declared that he could produce an extract, or honey, of gold, which he calls the "Universal Medicine," from its marvellous effects upon the human system. His first treatise on this subject was published in 1598. In 1610 he pub. Medicina Chymicæ et veri potabilis Auri Assertio, &c. Anthony, John, 1587-1655, son of the preceding. Lucas Redivivus, or the Gospel Physician, prescribing (by way of Meditation) Divine Physic, to prevent diseases not yet entered upon the Soul, and to cure those maladies which have already seized upon the Spirit, Lon., 1656. The Comfort of the Soul, 1654. So great was the demand for the father's Aurum Potabile, that the son made a handsome living by its sale. Extracts Anthony, Susanna, of Rhode Island. from her writings were pub. by Dr. Hopkins, 2d ed., 1810. Antill, Ed., of N. Jersey. Cultivation of the Vine. Amer. Trans., i. 181, 1789. Method of Curing Figs. Ib. i. 266. Antisel, Thos. Manual of Agricultural Chemistry, 12mo. 2. Irish Geology. "These little works are worth notice."-Donaldson's Agricult. Biog. Anton, Robt., a minor poet temp. James I. Vice's Anatomy Scourged and Corrected; or, the Philosopher's Satyrs, Lon., 1616. "These satires possess little claim on the reader's notice, although there are a few slight notices of the eminent poets contemporary with this almost-forgotten author."-Rose's Biog. Dict. Antrobus, Benj. Buds and Blossoms of Piety, with some Fruit of the Spirit of Love, Lon., 1691. Antrobus, J. 1. Clifton; a Poem, Lon., 12mo. 2. Parental Wisdom, 8vo. 3. Pilgrim's Dream, and other Poems, 12mo. 4. Student's Manual, 1840, p. 8vo. 5. Wrongs of Poland; a Poem, 8vo. Antrobus, R. Brevia Selecta; or, Choice Writs, collected out of the writings of R. Antrobus and T. Impy, Lon., 1663. Antrobus, Thos., Surgeon, Liverpool. An Amputation of a Leg, without any subsequent Hæmorrhage, Med. Obs. and Inq. ii. p. 152, 1762. Anvers, Alicia D'. See D'ANVERS. Anwick. Med. upon God's Monarchie, Lon., 1587. Appelius, J. Death of Earl of Hanaw, Lon., 1612. | tacked this Essay with great success in an Examination of Apperley. Essays and Reflections, Lon., 1793. Apperley, Charles James, 1777-1843, a popular writer on sporting-subjects. 1. The Chase, Turf, and Road, 12mo, pub. in Quar. Rev., 1827. 2. Hunting Reminiscences, 8vo. 3. Hunting Tours, 8vo. 4. Life of a Sportsman, 8vo. 5. Nimrod Abroad, 2 vols. p. 8vo. 6. Northern Tour. 7. Remarks on the Choice of Horses, Svo. 8. Sporting Annual, imp. 4to. 9. Treatise on the Horse and Hound, p. 8vo. Most of the above works were written for periodicals under the nom de plume of "Nimrod." Apperley, T. Observations on Physic, Lon., 1731. Applegarth, H. The Common Law Epitomized, Lon., 1660. Applegarth, Robt., formerly a Quaker, became a member of the Church of England, and wrote Ápology for the Two Ordinances of Jesus Christ, by the Holy Communion and Baptism, recommended to the Quakers, Lon., 1789. Mr. Applegarth pub. some other works on Theology and Political Economy, 1776-92. Appleton, Mrs. Eliz. 1. Private Education, 1815. "Many practical directions are given in this volume which will be really useful to those who undertake the education of children." -Lon. Monthly Review. This lady had been governess in the family of the Earl 2. Edgar; a National Tale, 3 of Leven and Melville. vols. 1810. Appleton, Jesse, D.D., 1772-1819, was the second President of Bowdoin College. He pub. several sermons, 1797-1818. Apthorp, East, 1732-1816, an Episcopal minister, was the son of Charles Apthorp, a merchant of Boston, New England. He studied at Jesus College, Cambridge, England, and in 1790 became prebend of Finsbury in St. Paul's Cathedral. He pub. a number of Theological works, 1761-86, some of which are held in high estimation. Letter on the Prevalence of Christianity before its civil establishment with observations on a late History of the Decline of the Roman Empire, Lon., 1778. This is one of the many answers to the illogical insinuations of Gibbon in the above-named work. "The author has enriched this work with many learned remarks, and especially with a catalogue of civil and ecclesiastical historians, which the reader will find to be very useful."-BISHOP WATSON. Discourses on Prophecy, 2 vols., 1786. "These discourses were read at the Warburtonian Lectures, at which the celebrated Discourses of Bishop Hurd were also delivered; and are not unworthy of the object which the learned prelate had in view in the establishment of that foundation. The topics embraced by Dr. Apthorp are, the history of prophecy; Canons of Interpretation; prophecies of the birth of Christ; chrono logical characters of the Messiah; theological characters of the Messiah; prophecies of the death of Christ; of the kingdom of Christ; characters of Antichrist; the mystic Tyre, and the origin and progress of the Reformation. These subjects are discussed with considerable ability and originality, and abound with clear and satisfactory views of the great doctrines of Christianity."-ORME. "A most excellent and highly-esteemed work."-LOWNDES. Arbuckle, Jas., 1700-1734. 1. Hibernicus's Letters, pub. in the Dublin Journal, Lon., 1729, 2 vols. 2. Poems. Arbuthnot, Rev. Alexander, 1538-1582, was Principal of the University of Aberdeen. He edited Buchanan's History of Scotland, pub. 1582. His only production is his Orationes de Origine et Dignitate Juris., Edin., 1572. He was very serviceable to the Church of Scotland. James VI. was much displeased at his editing Buchanan's History. See Delit. Poet. Scot. for Latin verses by Thomas Maitland, and an epitaph by Andrew Melvil, both in honour of our author. Dr. W.'s Account, &c., which at once established his fame. In 1700, he pub. a treatise On the Usefulness of Mathematical Learning, which increased his reputation. An interesting paper On the Regularity of the Births of both Sexes, (a most conclusive proof of a superintending Providence,) procured his election in 1704 into the Royal Society. In 1712 appeared the first part of The History of John Bull, intended to ridicule Marlborough, and dissatisfy the nation with the war. There "never was a political allegory managed with more exquisite humour, or with a more skilful adaptation of characters and circumstances." Swift, in his Journal to Stella, and Pope, in Spence's Anecdotes, both attribute this work to Arbuthnot, and certainly their testimony should settle the question. Arbuthnot published a number of other works, the most celebrated of which was Tables of Ancient Coins, Weights, and Measures; 2d ed.,1727. "Although there are several inaccuracies in it, which could hardly be avoided in so intricate a subject, it is a work of great merit, and has ever since been considered as the standard authority."-Encyc. Britannica. The "Miscellaneous Works of Dr. Arbuthnot," pub. in 2 vols. in 1751, were publicly denied by his son to be his father's productions. spurious, the style and character of many fully prove them to be "Positive as is this assurance, and though some few may be genuine."-Rose's Biog. Dict. The celebrated Scriblerus Club was formed in 1714. Arbuthnot and his intimate friends, Pope, Gray, and Swift, together with Harley, Atterbury, and Congreve, were memto "ridicule all the false tastes in learning, under the chabers of this brilliant circle. The object of these wits was racter of a man of capacity enough, that had dipped into every art and science, but injudiciously in each."-POPE. The club was not of long continuance, but we have as its fruits, The First Book of Martinus Scriblerus, The Travels of Gulliver, and The Art of Sinking in Poetry. "There seems to be every reason to believe, that of the three pieces. Arbuthnot was the sole author of the first, Swift of the second, and Pope of the last."-Retrosp. Review. Dr. Johnson has asserted that no one was ever wiser, better, or merrier for reading the Memoirs of Scriblerus. During the last illness of Queen Anne, in 1714, Doctors Arbuthnot and Mead attended her majesty: to this Gay alludes in the Prologue to the Shepherd's Week: "This leach Arbuthnot was yclept, Who many a night not once had slept, But watched our gracious sovereign still; For who could rest while she was ill?" Swift replied to a lady who desired to know his opinion concerning Arbuthnot, "He has more wit than we all have, and his humanity is equal to his wit." In one of his poems, he laments that he is "Far from his kind Arbuthnot's aid. Who knows his art, but not his trade." Dr. Johnson, when talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, observed: "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them. He was the most universal genius, being an excellent physician, a man of deep learning, and a man of much humour." Pope declared that he was fitter to live or die than any man he knew: "His good morals were equal to any man's, but his wit and humour superior to all mankind." "Oh if the world had but a dozen Arbuthnots in it, I would burn my travels! but. however, he is not without fault. There is a passage in Bede highly commending the piety and learning of the Irish in that age, where, after abundance of praises, he overthrows them all, by lamenting that, alas! they kept Easter So our doctor has every quality and at a wrong time of the year. virtue that can make a man amiable and useful, but, alas! he hath a sort of slouch in his walk."-DEAN SWIFT. This slouch in the doctor's walk is noticed in a letter from Pope to Mr. Digby, in which, after recommending Arbuthnot to Mrs. Mary Digby, he says: "But, indeed, I fear she would not walk with him, for, as Dean Swift observed to me the very first time I saw the doctor, He is a man that can do every thing but walk.'" "Although he was justly celebrated for wit and learning, there was an excellence in his character more amiable than all his other Arbuthnot, Arch. Life, &c., of Lord Lovat, Lon., qualifications: I mean the goodness of his heart.... He is seldom 1746. Life, &c., of Miss Jenny Cameron, Lon., 1746. serious, except in his attacks upon vice, and there his spirit rises Arbuthnot, John, M.D., 1675-1734-5, was a native with a manly strength and noble indignation."-LORD ORRERY. of Arbuthnot, near Montrose. He studied at the College Archard. Essay on the French Nobility, 1798. of Aberdeen, where he took his degree of M.D. Upon his Archbold, J. F., an eminent writer on Law. 1. The removal to London, his uncommon powers of wit and ripe Practice of the Court of King's Bench, in personal Acscholarship introduced him to the society of the principal tions and Ejectments, 8th ed., by Thomas Chitty. Includliterary characters of the day, with whom he was a great ing the Practice of the Courts of Common Pleas and Exfavourite. For some time he supported himself by teaching chequer, 2 vols. 12mo, Lon., 1840, '45, '47; 9th edit., mathematics. In 1697, Dr. Woodward pub. an Essay to- adapted to the Common Law Procedure Act, 1852, entitled wards a natural history of the Earth, in which he threw out | Proc. Courts Queen's Bench, 2 vols. 8vo, 1855; 2d Amesome singular views respecting the Deluge. Arbuthnot at-rican ed., 2 vols. 8vo, New York, 1838. |