Bickersteth styles Goodwin's Exposition of the 1st and part of the 2d chapter of Ephesians

"A remarkable display of the riches of the Scriptures, and full of evangelical matter."-Christian Student.

"His Works, besides many discourses, include an exposition of part of the Epistle to the Ephesians, part of the book of Revelation, and some other portions of Scripture; but, from their extent and prolixity, they are not likely to be much consulted. Dr. Goodwin was a learned man, said to be rather high in his Calvinistic sentiments, (though I have not observed much of this,) but excelled in expounding the Scriptures. He delighted to search into abstruse and difficult texts. The least particle of speech came under his notice, and in numerous instances he has made it appear how much depends upon the connecting particles in Scripture, which are generally overlooked."-Orme's Bibl. Bib.

"Dr. Goodwin, with sentiments truly evangelical, and a most happy talent at opening, sifting, and displaying the hidden riches of Scripture."-HERVEY.

C. P.

Anthony à Wood considered Owen and Goodwin the two Atlases and Patriarchs of Independency. "Dr. Goodwin's Works are numerous, and, in point of sentiment, valuable.... He was a good scholar, and an eminent divine and textuary. His style is involved and obscure."-Dr. E. Williams's "A Puritan Divine of very superior powers, whose writings cast much light on the Scriptures on which he treats. He enters very fully into the peculiar mode of expression in the sacred writings, is very evangelical, and full of useful matter."-Bickersteth's C. S. Goodwin's treatises-original edits.-had become very scarce and dear; but the new edits., 1840-51, pub. by Mr. Shaw, Seeleys, and the London Religious Tract Society, have reduced the value of the former. See Athen. Oxon.; Calamy; Neal's Puritans.

Goodwin, Thomas, son of the preceding, and pastor of a Dissenting congregation at Pinner, Middlesex. A Discourse of the True Nature of the Gospel. In answer to the Rev. Mr. Thos. Lorimer's Apology, Lon., 1695, 4to.

Goodwin, Thomas. Hist. of the Reign of Henry V., King of England, &c., Lon., 1704, fol.

"Compiled from good authorities." See Bp. Nicolson's Eng. Hist. Lib.

Goodwin, or Goodwyn, Thomas, surgeon. Hampstead Waters and Bathing, Lon., 1804, 12mo.

Goodwin, Wm. Serm. Oxon., 1614, 4to. Goodwyn, or Goodwin, Christopher. 1. The Chauce of the Dolorous Louer, Lon., 1520, 4to.

"Mr. Heber's richly-furnished library may boast of a copy of it." Dibdin's Lib. Comp.

"A lamentable story without pathos."-Warton's Hist. of Eng. Poet.

But not without passion: for thus the "Dolorous Louer" apostrophizes his Ladie Faire :

"O rubycunde ruby and perle most argent,
O gyloffer gentyll and swete flowre delyce,

O daynte dyamounde and moost resplendent,

O doulcet blossome of a full grete pryce."

Could the lady resist an appeal so impassioned? 2. The Mayden's Dreme, compyled and made, 1542, sine anno, 4to.

"A vision without imagination."-WARTON: ubi supra. Goodwyn, Edmund, M.D. Med. treatise, 1786, '88, 8vo.

Goodwyn, H. Interest Table; Nic. Jour., 1801. Goodwyn, John. Gauging, Lon., 1594, 16mo. Goodwyn, Thomas. See GOODWIN. Goodyear, Aaron. Serpent's Bite, Phil. Trans., 1698. Goodyeare, Wm., merchant. Trans. of John Carthemy's Wandering Knight, Lon., 1584; again, sine anno,

4to.

We have already noticed this allegorical work; see BUNYAN, JOHN; Lon. Retrosp. Rev., i. 250, 1820.

Googe, Barnaby, b. 1538? a poet and translator, of whom but little is known, was educated at Christ's Coll., Cambridge, whence he removed to Staples Inn. See authorities cited below. 1. Trans. of the Firste Three Bokes of Palingenius's Zodiake of Lyfe, Lon., 1560. The trans. of the Firste Syxe Bokes was pub. in 1561, 12mo. The whole in 1565, 16mo, 8vo, and 4to; 1588, 4to. These edits. are rare; Bibl. Anglo-Poet., edit. of 1561, £5 58.; of 1565, £9 9s.; of 1588, £6 68.

"Googe's Zodiac of Palingenius was a favourite performance, and is constantly classed with the poetical translations of the period by cotemporary critics. The work itself was written by G. A. Manzolius, and contains sarcasms against the Pope, the Car

dinals, and the Church of Rome."-ELLIS.

But see Warton's Hist. of Eng. Poet.

"This poem is a general satire on life, yet without peevishness or malevolence; and with more of the solemnity of the censor than the petulance of the satirist."-WARTON: ubi supra. "Copious extracts from this wretchedly dull book are given in Cens. Lit. ;—but why are they given?"-Dibdin's Lib. Comp. 2. Eglogs, Epitaphes, and Sonnettes, 1563, 8vo; 1570, 4to. "Mr. Steevens, of which library this book formed No. 876, (sold for £10 158. 6d.,) said there was no scarcer book in the English language than this. It now belongs to Mr. Heber."-Cens. Lit.

There is another copy in the Library of Trin. Coll., Camb. 3. Trans. of T. Naogeorgius's Popish Kingdom, 1570, 4to. 4. Trans. of Foure Bookes of Husbandrie from Heresbachius, enlarged, 1577, '86, 4to. By Gervase Markham, with Notes and Illustrations, 1614, 4to. See Donaldson's Agricult. Biog. 5. Trans. of The Proverbes of Sir James Lopes de Mendoza, 1579, 18mo. Googe also pub. trans. of Aristotle's Categories and Virgil's Georgics. See FLEMING, ABRAHAM; GOOCH, BERNARD, in this vol.; and the following works, in addit. to those cited above: Tuberville's Sonnets; Tanner; Brydges's Phillips's Theat. Poet.; Churton's Life of Nowel; Strype's Parker; Restituta: Ellis's Specimens.

Gookin, Daniel, d. 1687, aged 75, a native of Kent, England, emigrated to Virginia, 1621; settled in Cambridge, Mass., 1644; visited England, 1656; Major-General of Mass., 1681-86. He was Superintendent of the Indians who had submitted to the governor of Massachusetts, from 1656 until his death, and zealously co-operated with Eliot in his efforts for their spiritual instruction. Historical Collections of the Indians in New England. This was written in 1674, and remained in MS. until 1792, when it was pub. by the Mass. Hist. Soc. He also wrote history of N. England. See Mass. Hist. Coll., i. 226, 228; vii. 23; Holmes's Hist. of Camb.; Hutchinson; Mather's Magnalia; Johnson's Wond.-Work. Prov., 109, 192; Stith, 205; Allen's Amer. Biog. Dict.

Gookin, Nathaniel, d. 1734, aged 46, grandson of the preceding, and minister of Hampton, N. H., graduated at Harvard Coll., 1703; succeeded John Cotton, 1710. He pub. three serms. occasioned by the earthquake in Oct. 1727, to which is added an account of the earthquake, &c. See Mass. Hist. Coll., vii. 55; Allen's Amer. Biog. Dict.

Gookin, Vincent. Transplanting the Irish into Connaught, &c.; in answer to Rich. Laurence, Lon., 1695, 4to. Goold, Rev. Wm. H. See OWEN, JOHN, D.D. Goolden, Samuel. Gangrene; Ed. Med. Ess., 1734. Gordon, a layman. Serm., 1733, 8vo. Gordon. 1. Comedies of Terence in Eng. Verse, Lon., 1752, 12mo. 2. Powers of Ecclesiastics, 1776, 8vo.

Gordon of Lochinvar. Encouragements for such as shall have Intention to bee Undertakers in the new Plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway, in America, by mee, Lochinvar, Edin., 1620, 4to; Gordounston, 1073, £3. Gordon, Lt. Col. To the Volunteer Corps, Lon., 1805. Gordon, Abraham. Con. to Med. Obs. and Inq., 1755.

Gordon, Sir Adam, Rector of West Tilbury, Essex, Preb. of Bristol. His best-known works are-1. Serms., Lon., 1790, 2 vols. 2. Discourses, &c.; the substance of the Homilies in a modern style, 1795, 2 vols. 8vo; 1817, 2 vols. 8vo.

"Very necessary for every clergyman to possess, who wishes properly to discharge his pastoral duties."-BP. TOMLINE.

But see Bickersteth's Chris. Stu., 4th ed., p. 325.

3. Serms., 1796, 8vo. 4. Fifty-two Lectures on the Catechism of the Ch. of Eng. with three Discourses, 1817, 3 vols. 8vo. He pub. a number of occasional serms: sce Bibl. Brit.

Gordon, Alexander. Tyrocinium Linguæ Latinæ, Lon., 1664, 8vo.

Gordon, Alexander. Theatre of the Scottish Kings, 1709, 4to.

Gordon, Alexander, d. 1750, a Scotch antiquary, resided for many years on the continent, and also visited Carolina in 1741, and died there. He was a good Greek scholar, and an excellent draughtsman. 1. Itinerarium Septentrionale; or, a Journey through most of the Counties of Scotland, and those in the North of England. In two Parts, Lon., 1726, fol. 2. Supplement to above, 1732, fol. A Latin edit. of Nos. 1 and 2 was pub. in Holland, 1731. 3. The Lives of Pope Alex. VI. and his son Cæsar Borgia, &c., Lon., 1729, fol. 4. Trans. of Maffei's Hist. of the Ancient Amphitheatres, 1730, 8vo; 2d ed. enlarged, 625 Plates of Mummies, about 1739, fol. 5. Essays resp. Mummies, 1737, fol. See Nichols's Lit. Anec. Major-General in the Czar's service. 1. Hist. of Peter Gordon, Alexander, of Achintoul, several years the Great, Aberdeen, 1755, 2 vols. 8vo. 2. The Prussiad; an Heroic Poem, &c., Lon., 1759, 4to.

Gordon, Alexander, M.D. 1. Puerperal Fever of Aberdeen, Lon., 1795, 8vo. 2. In conjunction with Rev. Dr. Colin Milne, Indigenous Botany, vol. i., 1793, 8vo. 3. Con. to Med. Com., 1793.

Gordon, Sir Alexander Duff, Bart. 1. Trans. of Sketches of German Life, Lon., 1847, p. 8vo.

"This is a selection deserving of more than ordinary attention.

Though the writer [Von Ense] does not take a high rank among the authors of modern Germany, in right either of original talent or any peculiar charm of style as a narrator, he is easy, circumstantial, and trustworthy. He has lived, too, among distinguished people and in stirring times."-Lon. Athenæum.

2. Trans. of A. Weill's Village Tales from Alsatia. New ed., 1847, sq. 3. In conjunction with Lady Duff Gordon, Trans. of Leopold Ranke's Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg and Hist. of Prussia, 1849, 3 vols. 8vo.

"Professor Ranke has devoted some eight or ten years to the examination of materials especially relating to the period embraced by this history; he was, moreover, one of the Commission appointed to superintend the preparation of the new edition of the Great Frederick's works now in course of publication at Berlin, and has thus been enabled to gain a fresh insight into several portions of that monarch's life, and to throw a new light upon several of his actions."-Translators' Preface.

"The translation transfers the whole value of the original work into our language, and, whatever may be its merits as an historical composition, they now belong as much to English as German

literature."-Lon. Economist.

"The translation is well done, on a somewhat free principle; not free as to the sense, for the translators have completely penetrated their author's meaning; but free with respect to the choice of words and the structure of opinion."-Lon. Spectator.

Gordon, Alexander George, M.D. The Complete English Physician; or, a Univ. Lib. of Family Med., Lon., 1778, 8vo.

His

Gordon, Andrew, 1712–1751, Prof. of Philos. in the Scots Monastery of the Benedictines at Erfurt. principal works are-1. Progr. de studii philosophici dignitate et utilitate, Erfurt, 1737, 4to. 2. De Concordandis mensuris, 1742, 4to. 3. Phænomena electricitatis exposita, 1744, 8vo. 4. Physica experimentalis elementa, 1751-52, 2 vols. 8vo, with plates. Dr. Priestley says that Gordon was the first person who used a cylinder instead of a globe in the electrical apparatus. See Hirsching's Manual of Eminent Persons who died in the 18th Century.

Gordon, Anthony. Science of Defence, Lon., 1805,

4to.

Gordon, Bernard, a native of Gordon, in Rouvergne, France, is improperly called a Scotsman by Watt. For an account of him and his medical works, see Mémoires pour servir à l'histoire de la faculté de Montpellier, par Astruc; Biog. Univ.

Gordon, C. A. A Concise Hist. of the antient and illust. House of Gordon, Aberd., 1754, 12mo. Privately printed, Jadis, 84, 178.

Gordon, Charles Alexander, M.D. 1. The Principal Diseases of India briefly described, Lon., 1847, 12mo. Hand-Book for Medical Officers of Her Majesty's Service in India, 1852, 12mo. Gordon, D. Pharmacopinax, Aberd., 1625, 4to. Gordonstoun, 1021, £5 178. 6d.

Gordon, Duncan, M.D. Letter to John Hunter, Lon., 1786, 4to.

Gordon, Francis. Predestination, &c., Edin., 1712,

4to.

Gordon, George. 1. Newtonian Philos., Lon., 1719, 12mo. 2. Longitude, 1724, 8vo. 3. Astronomy, &c., 1726, 8vo.

Gordon, George. Annals of Europe, Lon., 1739-43, 6 vols. 8vo.

Gordon, George. De Natura Rerum, Quæstiones Philosophica, Glasg., 1758, 8vo.

Gordon, George. Serms., Lon., 1794, 1805, 4to. Gordon, George Campbell. Serm., Luke xxii. 19: The Holy Communion, Lon., 1850, r. 12mo.

Gordon, J. Memoirs concerning Popery, Lon.,1733,8vo. Gordon, James, D.D., 1543-1620, surnamed Huntlæus, from his connection with the noble family of Gordon; a Scotch Jesuit, was for nearly fifty years professor of Hebrew and divinity in several parts of Europe, and for some time a missionary in Scotland and England; and his zeal in making converts caused him to be twice imprisoned.

1. Controversarium Fidei Epitome, &c.; 1st tom., Aug. Pict., 1612; 2d tom., Paris; 3d tom., Cologne, 1620, all 8vo. "This work is entitled to a place here, were it only because it partly led to the publication of the Philologia Sacra of Glassuis. In one of the tracts which it contains, De Verbo Dei, he [Gordon] attacks with great vigour and acuteness the present Hebrew text, and extols exceedingly the Latin Vulgate."-Örme's Bibl. Brit., q.v. 2. Summaries of the Controversies, &c. betweene Catholickes and Protestants, 1618, 8vo. 3. Traditions, 1614, 8vo. Gordon, James, D.D., 1553-1641, surnamed Lesmoræus, from his connection with the family of Lesmore; a Scotch Jesuit, was born at or near Aberdeen. He was Rector of the Colleges of Toulouse and Bordeaux, and confessor to Louis XIII. 1. Opus Chronologicum, Col. Agr., 1614, fol.

It is not. I believe, a work of great value."-Orme's Bibl. Bib.

2. Chronologia ab Orbe condita ad annum Christi, 1617; Aug. Rot., 1617, fol. 3. Catholica veritate, diatriba, Burdig, 1623, 12mo. 4. Biblia Sacra: cum Commentariis, &c.,

Paris, 1636, 3 vols. fol.

"These volumes, according to Walch, contain many things which may be read with profit."-ORME: ubi supra.

5. Theologia Moralis, tomus prior, Paris, 1634. 6. Opuscula Chronologicum, Historicum, Geographicum, Col. Agr., 1636, 8vo.

Gordon, James, Bishop of Aberdeen. 1. The Reformed Bishop, Lon., 1679, 8vo. Anon. 2. To R. Catholies, 1687, 4to. 3. Fables of Esop, as commented on by Sir Roger L'Estrange, Edin., 1700, fol. 4. A Generous Prince, Lon., 1703, 8vo.

Gordon, James. An Ordination Serm., 1735. Gordon, James, Parson of Rothiemay. 1. Hist. of Scots Affairs, 1637-41, Aberd., 1840-42, 3 vols. 4to, Spalding Club, vols. i., iii., v. Only 250 copies printed.

This valuable work is printed from a unique MS. in the library of the King's College at Aberdeen, and forms a work of great authority, and the principal writers of this period have all referred to it, even while locked up in manuscript."

2. Description of bothe Towns of Aberdeene, edit. by C. Innes, 1842, 4to, Spalding Club, vol. iv.

Gordon, James, Vicar of Barragh, Rector of Killegny, &c., Ireland. 1. Terraquea; or, a New System of Geography and Modern Hist., Lon., 1790-93, 2 vols. 8vo. 2. Hist. of the Rebell. in Ireland in 1798, &c., 1801, '03, 8vo. 3. Hist. of Ireland from the earliest accounts to the Union in 1801, 2 vols. 8vo, 1806. In French, by P. La Montague, Paris, 1808, 3 vols. 8vo.

"The author has not derogated from the reputation which he derived from his prior publication, since we discover in it the same clear discernment, the same sound judgment, the same strong good sense, the same manly sentiments, and the same fearless integrity and devotion to truth."-Lon. Month. Rev.

"A party work abounding in misrepresentation."-Lowndes's Bibl. Man.

4. Hist. of the Brit. Islands, Great Brit., and the Islands that with it compose a geographical group, from the earliest accounts to 1807, 4 vols. 8vo., 1815.

Gordon, Rev. James Bentley. An Hist. and Geographical Memoir of the N. Amer. Continent: its Nations and Tribes; with a summary Acct. of his Life, Writings, and Opinions. Edited by Thos. Jones, Dubl., 1820, 4to.

Gordon, John, Gentleman of the Chamber to the King of France. Panegyrique de Congratulation pour la Concorde des Royaumes de la Grande Bretagne en Vnité de Religion et Vnique Royauté, Paris, 1603, sm. 8vo; Rochelle, 1603, 8vo. In English, Lon., 1603, 4to. Liber rarissimus. This work is ascribed by Lowndes to Dr. Gordon, Dean of Sarum.

Gordon, John, D.D., Dean of Sarum, pub. Assertionis pro vera veræ Ecclesiæ Nota, 1603, 8vo; Anti-Torto-BelÎarminus, &c., 1610, 4to; and other theolog. treatises. See Bibl. Brit.; Lowndes's Bibl. Man.

Gordon, John. Serm. on the Union, Lon., 1604, 4to. Gordon, John, of Glencat. Autobiog., Lon.,1733, 8vo. Gordon, John, of Buthlaw. De Nuptijs Roberti Senescalli Scotia atque Elizabethæ Moræ Dissertatio, Edin., 1749. For a trans. of this work-highly commended-see Scotia Rediviva, vol. i., Edin., 1826, 8vo.

Gordon, John. Specimen Animadversionum Criticarum in priscam Evangeliorum Gothicam; item novæ ejusdem versionis interpretationis Latina, Edin., 1760, 8vo.

Gordon, John. The Famous Bull, or Constitution Unigenitus, &c.; related in the Memoirs of John Gordon, who was thirteen years in the Scots College at Paris; 2d ed., Lon., 12mo, sine anno.

Gordon, John, D.D., Archdeacon of Lincoln, d. 1793, aged 68. 1. Serm., Camb., 1767, 4to. 2. Serm., Lon., 1771, 4to.

Gordon, John. Poems, Lon., 1807, '12, 12mo. Gordon, John, M.D. Lect. on Anat. and Physiol., Edin. 1. Structure of the Brain, comprising an estimate of the claims of Drs. Gall and Spurzheim, Edin., 1807, 8vo. 2. A System of Anatomy, 1815, 8vo; engravings (22) to do., 1817, 8vo.

"A much-esteemed work."-Lowndes's Bibl. Man.

3 Lect. on Human Physiology, 1817, 8vo. 4. Caloric; Thom. Ann. Philos., 1814.

Gordon, John. Eng. Spelling, Lon., 1814, 18mo. Gordon, Prof. Lewis, of Glasgow. 1. Lect. on Civil Engineering and Mechanics, Edin., r. 8vo. 2. Trans. of Prof. Julius Weisbach's Principles of the Mechanics of First Machinery and Engineering, 1847-48, 2 vols. 8vo. Amer. ed., with addits. by Prof. Walter R. Johnson, Phila., 1849, 2 vols. 8vo.

"The most valuable contribution to practical science that has yet appeared in this country."-Lon. Athenæum.

"In every way worthy of being recommended to our readers." -Franklin Institute Jour.

Gordon, Rev. Loudon Harcourt. An Apology for the Conduct of the Gordons, &c. rel. to Mrs. Lee, Lon., 1804, 8vo.

Gordon, Lady Lucie Duff, wife of Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, is a daughter of Mrs. Sarah Austin; see ante. 1. Trans. of Niebuhr's Greek Legends. 2. Trans. from the German of The Amber Witch: the most interesting Trial for Witchcraft yet known, Lon., 1844, p. 8vo. A new English ed. was pub. in 1849, 18mo.

"If this work be genuine, it is, undoubtedly, as it announces itself, the most interesting of all those strange trials for witchcraft, so absorbing and sometimes so inexplicable, which occur at a certain period in almost every country in Europe; if it be a fiction, it is worthy-we can give no higher praise of Defoe. The editor professes to have found the manuscript in a manner by no means improbable, yet rather too like that which the author of Waverley, as well as many others of inferior name, have been so fond of playing off upon us. It was brought to him by his sexton out of a niche or closet in the church, where it had long lain hid among a heap of old hymn-books and useless parish-accounts. We have read nothing for a long time, in fiction or in history, which has so completely riveted and absorbed our attention."-Lon. Quar. Rev., June, 1844.

But hear the conclusion of the story:

"The best collection of real anecdotes and adventures that we have seen for many a day."-Lon. Spectator.

"We know not any species of work so calculated to give a real view of life in its infinite varieties."-Court Journal.

Gordon, Robert, of Stralogh, Scotland, d. about 1650, wrote a topographical work entitled Theatrum Scotia, illustrated with maps, and dedicated to Cromwell. It was printed at Amsterdam.

"On y trouve une description complète de l'Écosse, avec des cartes particulières de chaque comté. On y ajoute le livre de Buchanan, De Jure regni apud Scotos."-Biog. Univers.

Gordon, Robert. Deafness; Med. Com., 1775. Gordon, Sir Robert, of Gordonstoun, Bart., Gentleman of the Bedchamber to K. James I. and K. Charles I., &c. A Genealogical Hist. of the Earldom of Sutherland, Edin., 1813, fol. Bindley, Pt. 1, 2046, £1 138. Largest paper, Brockett, 1329, £1 198. One copy was struck off on vellum for the Marquis of Stafford. This splendid volume, edited by Henry Weber, was pub. under the auspices and at the charge of the Marchioness of Stafford, (in her own right Countess of Sutherland.) "The paper, printing, and style of getting up are worthy of the intrinsic value of the volumes. Such works are sometimes not only highly curious and interesting, but are absolutely necessary to the Historian and Antiquary for the satisfactory completion of their historical labours. In this work we have materials which equally appertain to English and Scottish history."-Dibdin's Bibl. Spenseriana.

3. Trans, of Lt. Lamping's [a young Oldenburg soldier] work entitled, The French in Algiers, 1844, p. 8vo. "The events are described in a pleasing style of easy epistolary narrative. The glimpses which they afford of the barbarities of the French African war fully confirm the worst opinions which we had formed on the subject."-Northern Whig.

4. Trans. from the German of Ritter Von Feuerbach's

Remarkable Crimes and Trials, 1846, 8vo.

"The reader is taken into a new world, in which all is grotesque and horrible. . . . The secrets of the prison-house are opened to him."-Edin. Rev.

"The translation is excellent, and a judicious compression of the original has added much to the effect."-Lon. Examiner.

"Lady Gordon possesses in a high degree the rare faculty of translation, to which she has a hereditary right. She has skilfully pruned the luxuriant details of some of the cases, and omitted the disquisitions on evidence and other legal topics, which, however valuable in themselves, would be uninteresting to general readers. The present collection of criminal cases forms, as far as we are aware, the most interesting specimen existing in our language."-4 Law Mag., N. S., 310; and see 4 Law Rev.

Celebrated Crimes.

The legal student should add to this volume Dumas's "Dumas's book is very striking. The tragedy of Truth-the serious side of what is called the Romance of Real Life-had never Buch startling illustration as this remarkable book affords. What a story is that of the Marchioness de Ganges!"-Lon. Examiner. 5. Trans. of Stella and Vanessa; a Novel, by Léon de Wailly. 6. Trans. of Ferdinand and Maximilian, by Ranke. 7. Trans. of the Village Doctor, by the late Comtesse d'Arbouville. 8. Trans. of Moltke's Russian Campaigns of 1828-29 on the Danube; pub. in 1854. 9. In conjunction with Sir Alexander Duff Gordon, Trans. of Ranke's Memoirs of the House of Brandenburg, and Hist. of Prussia, 1849, 3 vols. 8vo.

Gordon, N. M. Alleghan; a Poem in Nine Books, Cin., 1855, 12mo. In blank verse. The theme of the poem is the spread of the Gospel.

Gordon, Patrick. 1. Neptunus Britannicus Corydonis, Lon., 1613, 4to. 2. Historie of Penardo and Laissa, &c., in heroik Verse, Dort, 1615, 12mo. 3. The famovs Historie of Robt. Bruce, &c., Dort, 1615, 4to; Edin., 1718, 12mo.

Gordon, Patrick. Geography, &c., 1693, &c. Gordon, Patrick, Lt.-Gov. of Penna. Two Indian Treaties at Conestogoe, 1728; Phila., 1728, fol.

Gordon, Pryse Lockhart. Personal Memoirs; or, Reminiscences of Men and Manners at Home and Abroad during the last Half-Century, with occasional sketches of the Author's Life, Lon., 1830, 2 vols. 8vo.

With many pleasant anecdotes of men and things, we have in these volumes an abundance of commonplace and almost puerile narrative, which necessarily must take the lead in fixing a character on this book."-Lon. Month. Rev.

and 1650, by Sir Robert Gordon, of Gordonstoun, &c., with some addits. by his successors, comprising an extraordinary number of rarities in the literature of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Sold by auction, London, in March and April, 1816.

Gordon, Robert, D.D., minister of the Free High Church, Edin. 22 Evangelical Serms., Edin., 1825, '26, '33, 8vo.

"These are orations, these are arguments, worthy of a high and permanent place in our theological literature. They display a vigour and originality of thought which it is truly refreshing to meet with in printed sermons, and are, at the same time, boldly explicit in the enunciation of the Gospel system."-Lon. Eclectic Rev.

treatises by Flavel, Cecil, and Shaw, will be found an EsIn The Mourner's Companion, 1825, 12mo, containing say by Dr. Gordon.

"This volume is well fitted to be a companion to the afflicted; nor can the Christian rise from the perusal of the treatises without suffering, or fit him for meeting future trials with devout acquisome salutary impressions, calculated to soothe him under present

escence in the divine appointment."

Gordon, T. Trans. of Menzel's Hist. of German Literature, with Notes, Oxf., 1840, 4 vols. p. 8vo.

"There is no higher name in the living literature of his country than Menzel; he is eloquent and popular at the same time."Blackwood's Mag.

Gordon, Thomas, 1684 ?-1750, a native of Kirkcudpolitical and religious writer. 1. Tacitus, trans. into Engbright, Galloway, settled in London, and became a noted lish, &c., Lon., 1728-31, 2 vols. fol. 2. The Independent Whig; or, a Defence of Primitive Christianity, 1732, 2 vols. 12mo. 3. Sallust, trans. into English, 1744, 4to. 4. Review of a pamph. by Chas. Yorke, 1746, 8vo. 5. In conjunction with John Trenchard, Cato's Letters, 1724, '37, '48, '55, 4 vols. 12mo. 6, 7. Two Collec. of Tracts: I. A Cordial for Low Spirits, 1750, 3 vols. 12mo; 3d ed., by Richard Baron, 1763, 3 vols. 12mo. II. The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken, 1750, 2 vols. 12mo. New ed., by Richard Baron, 1768, 4 vols. 12mo.

Gordon, Thomas. 1. Naval Architecture, Lon., 1784, 8vo. 2. British Fisheries, 1785, 8vo.

Gordon, Thomas, of Aberdeenshire, General of a Division of the Greek Army. Hist. of the Greek Revolution, Lon., 1832, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., Lon., 1842.

the merits of these important volumes; but we have seen more "It is utterly impossible for us to do any thing like justice to than enough to justify us in declaring that they must at once take their rank among our standard histories."-Lon. Athenæum.

"Hundreds of books have been written about the Greek Revolution, but its history is now truly written for the first time."— Lon. Examiner.

Gordon, Thomas F. 1. Digest of the Laws of the United States, Phila., 1827, 8vo; 4th ed., 1851. vin's Leg. Bibl., 342; 18 Amer. Jur., 229; 19, 257; 1 Leg. Exam., 263. "An exceedingly useful work, very carefully prepared."-Mar

2. Hist. of Pennsylvania from its Discovery to 1776, 1823, '29, 8vo. 3. Hist. of New Jersey from its Discovery to 1789, Trenton, 1831, 8vo. 4. The Hist. of America, Phila., 1831, 2 vols. 12mo. Cabinet of American History. Two more were pub. in The first two vols. of the 1832: see No. 5. 5. The Hist. of Ancient Mexico, 2 vols.

12mo. See No. 4. 6. Gazetteer of New Jersey, Trenton, 1834, 8vo. 7. Gazetteer of New York, 1836, 8vo.

Gordon, Wm. 1. Serm., 1710, 4to. 2. Do., 1717, 8vo. Gordon, Wm. Theolog. treatises, Lon., 1718, '19, 8vo. Gordon, Wm. Hist. of the Ancient Noble and Illust. Family of the Gordons to 1690, Edin., 1726, 2 vols. 8vo. "Collected from Scots and foreign historical manuscripts, records, and registers of the nation."

Gordon, Wm. Serm., 1746, 8vo.

Gordon, Wm. 1. The Universal Accountant and Complete Merchant, 1763, '65, '74, 2 vols. 8vo.

"A work of this kind adapted to the present state of science

and commerce is a desideratum"-McCulloch's Lit. of Polit. Econ. Mr. McCulloch heads the department devoted to Bookkeeping and Mercantile Accounts in the valuable work from which we have just quoted, with the following apt

citation from an eminent authority:

"The counting-house of an accomplished merchant is a school of method, where the great science may be learned of ranging particulars under generals, of bringing the different parts of a transaction together, and of showing at one view a long series of dealing and exchange. Let no man venture into large business while he is ignorant of the method of regulating books; never let him imagine that any degree of natural abilities will enable him to supply this deficiency or preserve multiplicity of affairs from inextricable confusion."-DR. JOHNSON: Preface to Roll's Dictionary of Trade and Commerce.

2. Arithmetic, 1779, 12mo. 3. Livy, in English, 1813,

12mo.

Gordon, Wm. Thanksg. Serm., Lon., 1776, 8vo. Gordon, Wm., D.D., 1729-1807, a native of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England, was pastor of an Independent church at Ipswich, and was subsequently successor to Dr. David Jennings in the church at Old Gravel Lane, Wapping. In 1770 he removed to America, and became minister of the Third Church, Roxbury, Mass. In 1786 he returned to England, and preached both at St. Neot's, Huntingdonshire, and at Ipswich. He died in the latter place Oct. 19, 1807. He pub. serms., &c., 1772, 75, 77, '83; an Abridgt. of Jonathan Edwards's Treatise on the Religious Affections, and a History of the Rise, Progress, and Establishment of the Independency of the U. States of America, &c., Lon., 1788, 4 vols. 8vo; N. York, 1789, 3 vols. 8vo; 1794, 3 vols. 8vo.

"The language of this work deserves little encomium, but the merit of fidelity is the first qualification in an historian; and to that claim we believe the present dispassionate writer is fully entitled."-Lon. Month. Rev., May, 1789, 441, 442.

"The History of Gordon, in four thick octavo volumes, will, in

like manner, be consulted with best effect when other accounts have been perused. The author appears to have access to good sources of information; and the work is an immense assemblage of facts, presented to the reader with little or no comment, and with great impartiality."-Smyth's Lects. on Mod. Hist.

But audi alteram partem:

"This however is rather a collection of facts than a regular history, for the writing of which, indeed, the author had no talent; his style is vulgar and confused, and his reflections commonplace. The best parts of it occur where he made most use of Dodsley's Annual Register. The colouring he attempts to give, as may be expected, is entirely unfavourable to the English, nor does he endeavour to disguise his partialities."-Supp. vol. to the Dict. Hist., 1812.

"There arises some suspicion that Dr. Gordon actually wrote under the influence of American prejudice."-Lon. Critical Rev. Gordon, Wm., M.D., 1801-1849, was educated at Ripon, England, in the vicinity of which city he was born. After some years' experience as a general practitioner, in 1841 he took the degree of M.D., and settled as a physician in Hull. 1. Academical Examinations on the Practice of Surgery, 1828. 2. Critical Inquiry concerning a new Membrane of the Eye, 1832. 3. Contributions to Medical Journals. See The Christian Philosopher triumphing over Death; a narrative of the Closing Scenes of the Life of the late Wm. Gordon, M.D., F.L.S., of Kingston-upon-Hull, by Newman Hall, Lon., 1849, 12mo; 5th ed., 1854. We have referred to this work in our life of GODMAN, JOHN D. Gore, Mrs. Catherine Grace, a celebrated English novelist, the widow of Mr. Charles Gore, has perhaps done more to familiarize the public mind with the tone of fashionable manners and conversation than any other writer of the day. The following alphabetical list of her writings presents the best illustration of her literary industry. From the date of her first work, (about 1823,)-Theresa Marchmont; or, The Maid of Honour,-Mrs. Gore has been in constant communication with the public. 1. Agathonia, 1844, 12mo. 2. Ambassador's Wife, 1842, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 3. Banker's Wife, 1843, 3 vols. cr. 8vo. 4. Birthright, and other Tales, 1843, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 5. Bond; a Dramatic Poem, 8vo. 6. Cabinet Minister, 1839, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 7. Castles in the Air, 1847, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 8. Cecil; or, Adventures of a Coxcomb, 1845, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 1849, 12mo. 9. Courtier of the Days of Charles the Second,

and other Tales, 1839, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 10. Dacre of the South, or the Olden Time; a Tragedy, 1840, 8vo. 11. Débutante, 2d ed., 1846, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 12. Dean's Daughter; or, The Days We Live In, 1853, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 13. Diamond and the Pearl, 1848, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 14. Diary of a Desennuyée, 1836, 2 vols. p. 8vo. 15. Dowager; or, Modern School of Scandal, 1840, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 1854, 12mo. 16. Fair of May Fair, 1832, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 17. Fascination, and other Tales, (edited by Mrs. Gore,) 1842, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 18. Greville; or, A Season in Paris, 1841, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 19. Hamiltons, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 1850, 12mo. 20. Heir of 21. Historical Traveller, Selwood, 1838, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 1831, 2 vols. 8vo. p. 22. Hungarian Tales, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 23. Inundation; a Christmas Story, 1843, '50, 12mo. 24. Terror; two tales, 1827, p. 8vo. 26. Lost Son. New ed., Lady Leighton. 25. Lettre de Cachet; The Reign of 1854, 12mo. 27. Mammon; or, the Hardships of an Heiress, 1855, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 28. Man of Fortune, and other Tales, 1841, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 29. Manners of the Day; or, Women as they are, 1830, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 30. Mary Raymond, and other Tales, 1837, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 31. Memoirs of a Peeress; edited by Lady Charlotte Bury, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 32. Men of Capital; Two Stories, 1846, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 33. Modern Chivalry, 1843, 2 vols. cr. 8vo. 35. Mothers and Daughters, 1831, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 1834, 34. Money-Lender, 1843, 3 vols. cr. 8vo; 1854, 12mo. '49, 12mo. 36. Mrs. Armytage; or, Female Domination, 3 vols. p. 8vo; 1848, 12mo. 37. New Year's Day, 1846, '50, 12mo. 38. Opera; a Story of the Beau Monde, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 39. Ormington, or Cecil a Peer: a sequel to Cecil a Coxcomb, 1842, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 40. Paris, Picturesque and Romantic; letter-press by Mrs. Gore, with 21 Parvenus, 1846, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 42. Pin-Money, 3 vols. p. illustrations by Mr. T. Allom, 1842, r. 8vo. 41. Peers and ber, and other Tales, 1844, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 43. Polish Tales, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 44. Popular Memment; or, my Uncle the Earl, 1839, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 46. Progress and Prejudice, 1854, 3 vols. p. 8vo. .47. Queen of Denmark, 1845, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 48. Quid Pro Quo; a Comedy, 8vo. 49. Romances of Real Life, 3 vols. p. Svo. 50. Rose-Fancier's Manual, a trans. from the French, 51. Self, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 1838, p. 8vo. 52. Sketch-Book of Fashion, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 53. Sketches of English Character, 1846, 2 vols. p. 8vo; 1852, 12mo. 54. Snow-Storm; a Christmas Story, 1845, '50, 54, 12mo. 55. Soldier of Lyons, 1841, '49, 12mo. 56. Stokeshill Place; or, The Man of Business, 1837, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 57. Story of a Royal Favourite, 1845, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 58. Temptation and Atonement, 1847, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 59. The Lover and the Husband, (a free trans. of M. Bertrand's Gerfault;) The Woman of a Certain Age, &c., 1841, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 60. The Peeress. 61. Theresa Marchmont; or, the Maid of Honour, about 1823, 18mo. 62. Tuileries, 3 vols. p. 8vo. 63. Two Broken Hearts; a Poem, 8vo. 64. Woman of Business. 65. Woman of the World, 1838, 3 vols. p. 8vo. This list might be lengthened by the addition of The Maid of Croissy, The Sledge-Driver,-dramas from the French,

Svo.

45. Prefer

The School for Coquettes, a Comedy; Life's Lesson, 1856; The Two Aristocracies, 1857, and a number of works pub. without the author's name. Mrs. Gore is said to have in preparation for the press, Memoirs of the Present Century, Social, Literary, and Political, (1858.)

The success of this popular novelist in her sketches of the prevailing tone of fashionable society is admitted by the ablest critics:

"The more respectable of Mrs. Gore's personages are affecters of an excessive prudery concerning the decencies of life,—nay, occasionally of an exalted and mystical religious feeling. Whatever, therefore, they do, is a fair and absolute measure of the prevailing opinions of the class, and may be regarded as not derogatory to their position in the eyes of their equals. But the low average standard of morality thus depicted, with its conventional which the parties live; and were it a fictitious compound, fabri distinctions, cannot be invented. It forms the atmosphere in cated at the author's pleasure, the beings who breathe it could not but be universally acknowledged as fantastical, and as mere monstrosities; they would, indeed, be incapable of acting in civil life. If the situations and dialogues of Mrs. Gore's novels be harmony and consistence with the known laws and usages of compared with these usages and laws, and with any of the records of the actual sayings and doings of high life,-such as a series of parliamentary reports, county meetings, race-course transactions, &c., they will be found, with a reasonable allowance for artistic colouring, to reflect accurately enough the notions current among the upper classes respecting religion, politics, domestic morals, the social affections, and that coarse aggregate of dealing with our neighbours which is embraced by the term common honesty.

"It is this average morality of the aristocratic classes that

chiefly concerns society at large. The specific overt acts of high deportment and carriage."-Lon. Athenæum, 1839, 888, 889. Read life are as much out of the reach of imitation by inferiors as its the whole of this paper.

"Many of Mrs. Gore's novels are works in which the present | state of society and manners is more or less clearly impressed: they are pictures of the time, and no more."-ALLAN CUNNINGHAM: Biog, and Crit. Hist. of the Lit. of the Last Fifty Years. "Among the novelists of the day, Mrs. Gore is entitled to a high place."-Edin. Rev.

Mrs. Gore's style is always animated, light, and playful. It is sustained by originality of thought, and sparkles with satirical allusions." "All the productions of Mrs. Gore afford evidence of great apti

tude, cleverness, and talent."-Lon. Lit. Gazette.

"Mrs. Gore is certainly foremost among the female novelists of the day, for wit, acuteness of observation, for originality of remark, and generally for her graphic powers."-Lon. Observer. "The novel of conventional and artificial life belongs to no one so much as to Mrs. Gore. Who does not know the ring of her regular sentences?-the dialogue which chimes in exactly the same measure, whether the speakers speak in a club, or in the dowager-duchess's sombre and pious boudoir ?"

The critic proceeds to notice the sameness of this lady's scenes and characters in her different works, and then continues:

"Nevertheless, Mrs. Gore's novels have a host of readers, and Mrs. Gore's readers are interested. People will be interested, we suspect, till the end of the world, in the old, old story how Edwin and Angelina fell in love with each other; how they were separated, persecuted, and tempted; and how their virtue and constancy triumphed over all their misfortunes. And there is much vivacity and liveliness, and a good deal of shrewd observation, in these books. They are amusing, pleasant beguilers of a stray hour; and, after all our grand pretensions, how valuable a property is this in the genus novel, which proclaims itself an ephe meron in its very name!"-Modern Novelists, Great and Small: Blackwood's Mag., May, 1855.

Gore, Charles. A work on ships, Lon., 1799, 4to. Gore, Christopher, 1758-1827; Governor of Massachusetts, 1809; U. States Senator, 1814-17; pub. a Masonic Oration, 1783. See Amer. Ann. Reg., 1826-27, p. 339-341. Gov. Gore left to Harvard College a bequest amounting to nearly one hundred thousand dollars.

Gore, Henry. Elements of S. Geometry, 1733, 8vo. Gore, John. Serm., Phil. iv. 11, Lon., 1634, 4to. Gore, Montagu. Some Remarks on the Foreign Relations of England at the present Crisis, Lon., 1838, 8vo. Reviewed by Lord Brougham in the Edin. Rev., lxviii. 495-537; and in his Contrib. to the Edin. Rev., vol. ii. 132-184, 1856.

Gore, R. T., of the Roy. Coll. of Surgeons, London. Trans. of J. F. Blumenbach's Elements of Natural History. From the 10th German ed. New ed., Lon., 1826, 8vo. "It is, indeed, remarkable for its clear arrangement, and for the immense quantity of interesting and valuable information it contains, condensed into a small compass. It is altogether the best Elementary Book on Natural History, in any language."-Lawrence's Lectures.

A trans. of Blumenbach's System of Comparative Anatomy, with addits. by W. Lawrence, was pub. in 1807, 8vo. Gore, Thomas, 1631-1684, a heraldic writer, a native of Alderton, Wiltshire, was educated at Magdalen Coll., Oxf., and was subsequently for a short time an inmate of Lincoln's Inn. 1. A Table showing how to Blazon a Coat ten several ways, 1655; a single folio sheet, copied from Sir John Ferne, q. v. 2. Nomenclator Geographicus, &c., Oxon., 1667, 8vo. 3. Series Alphabetica, LatinoAnglica, Nomina Gentilitiorum, sive Cognominum plumirarum Familiarum, quæ multos per Annos in Anglia floruere, &c., 1667, 8vo. 4. Catalogus in certa Capita, seu Classes, alphabetico ordine concinnatus, plerorumque omnium Authorum (tam antiquorum quam recentiorum) qui de re Heraldica, Latine, Gallice, Ital., Hispan., Germ., Anglice, scripserunt: &c., 1668, 4to. With enlargements, 1674, 4to. In this catalogue raisonnée—for such it is-we have simply the names of the authors, and brief titles of their productions.

"This work displayed much talent, and the books were classed in a scientific method; but the list was confined entirely to an enumeration of the names of authors, and brief titles of their works. The tract has become so exceedingly scarce, that it is now to be found in very few libraries, and its purchase is only to be obtained at a price considerably above its intrinsic value."Moule's Bibl. Heraldica, (Pref.) q. v.

5. Loyalty Displayed and Falsehood Unmasked, Lon., 1681, 4to. See Athen. Oxon.; Lon. Gent. Mag., vol. lxii. Goree, Father. A New Island; Phil. Trans., 1711. Gorges, Sir Arthur. Transcript, &c. rel. to an office called the Public Register for General Commerce, Lon., 1611, '12, 4to.

Gorges, Sir Ferdinando, d. 1647, Proprietor of the Province of Maine, was the Governor of Plymouth, and an early member of the Plymouth Company in England. He expended £20,000 in his American enterprises. A narrative of his proceedings relative to the settlement of New England will be found in his grandson Ferdinando

Gorges's America Painted to the Life. See Belknap's Biog. of Gorges; Bancroft's Hist. of America.

Gorges, Ferdinando, grandson of the preceding and inheritor of his interests in New England, pub. a description of New England, entitled America Painted to the Life, Lon., 1659, 4to; pub. at £1 18. It is seldom found complete: see collation in Lowndes's Bibl. Man. Johnson's Wonder-Working Providence is annexed to some copies, and the History of the Spaniards' Proceedings, &c., is sometimes found separate.

Gorham, George Cornelius, Vicar of BrampfordSpeke, Devon. 1. Public Worship, Lon., 1809. 2. Proceedings rel. to 2d Anniv. Camb. Bible Society, 1814. 3. Hist. and Antiq. of Eynesbury and St. Neot's in Huntingdonshire, and of St. Neot's in County of Cornwall, Lon., 1820, 8vo. 3. A Statement submitted to the Members of the Brit. and For. Bible Soc. on the impropriety of circulating the Apocryphal Books indiscriminately intermingled with the inspired writings, 1825, 8vo.

"Deserving of a place in the student's library, on account of the various and interesting information which it contains relative to the literary History of the Apocrypha. The second edition is the best."-Horne's Bibl. Bib.

See

It elicited two Letters from L. Von Ess, D.D., which were pub., with Mr. Gorham's Reply, 1826, 8vo. Horne, ubi supra. But the name of Gorham is suggestive of another controversy-with the Bishop of Exeter and his advocates, on the efficacy of Infant Baptism-which has excited great interest both at home and abroad. Respecting this matter, we refer the reader to the Examination of Mr. Gorham before the Bishop of Exeter, 1848, 8vo; The Gorham Case Complete, 5th ed., 1850, 12mo; The Gorham Case, by E. F. Moore, 1852, r. 18mo; The Judicial Com. of the Privy Council, and petition for a Church Tribunal in lieu of it, 1850, 8vo; and an elaborate review of The Gorham Controversy in Edin. Rev., xcii. 263-292.

Gorham, John, M.D., of Boston, Mass., d. 1829, aged 46, adjunct Prof. of Chemistry and Materia Medica at Cambridge, 1809; of Chemistry and Mineralogy, 1816. 1. Inaug. Address, 1817. 2. Elements of Chemical Science, 1819, 2 vols. 8vo. 3. Con. on Sugar to Thom. Ann. Philos., 1817.

Gorham, Wm. Dividing the Land of Israel, &c., Lon., 1688. This is by some supposed to be the production of Thos. Rannew. Thoughts on Revelations, &c., Lon.,

Goring, C. 1807, 8vo.

"Shewing the unity of the prophecies of Daniel and Esdras with the Apocalypse; and their clear explanation of the events which are now acting in Christendom."-Lowndes's Bibl. Man. Goring, Col. His Declaration rel. to the late Conspiracy, &c., 1641, 4to.

Gorrie, Rev. P. Douglass, b. 1813, at Glasgow, Scotland, emigrated to the U. States, 1820. 1. Essay on Episcopal Succession. 2. Lives of Eminent Methodist Ministers in Europe and America, pp. 400. 3. Black River Conference Memorial, pp. 350. 4. The Churches and Sects in the U. States, N. York, 1850, 12mo. 5. Episcopal Methodism as it was and is, Auburn, 1852, 12mo. Gorton, John. 1. 500 Ques. on Goldsmith's Hist. of Eng., Lon., 1815, 18mo. 2. Populat. Returns of G. Brit. for 1831, 8vo. 3. A General Biographical Dictionary, 1828-30, 2 vols. 8vo. Pub. in numbers. Enlarged, 1833, 3 vols. 8vo; 1841, 3 vols. 8vo. New ed., with a Supp. to 1850, edited by Cyrus Redding, 1851, 4 vols. 8vo. Notices of first ed.:

"This Dictionary is peculiarly valuable as a work of reference for the general reader, on account of information respecting prominent characters that have figured on the stage of life being more its object than an alphabetical list of individuals of various note and merit; and upon this ground particularly it has a claim to distinguished notice. Impartiality is another recommendation; and, as far as we have observed, this spirit is very creditably maintained throughout."-Lon. New Month. Mag.

"Mr. Gorton's publication is altogether one of great excellence, calculated to be useful to a large number of students, and deserving extensive popularity. We may also mention that it is sufficiently large to contain every thing necessary, but not too extensive for the ordinary purposes of study; filling, in this respect, an open space in the fields of biographical literature."-Lon. Athe

næum.

4. A New Topographical Dictionary of G. Brit. and Ireland, with maps by Sidney Hall, 1830-33, 3 vols. 8vo and 1 vol. 4to. Pub. in numbers. See Lon. Month. Rev., June, 1830, 305.

Gorton, Samuel, d. 1677, at an advanced age, a native of Gorton, England, emigrated to New England in 1636, and excited great opposition by the theological opinions which he preached. For particulars respecting his career and writings, the reader is referred to his bio