month to exploring its magnificent ruins. The vocal Memnon still sits to watch the rising and the setting sun; and the report of his musical powers is still preserved in the country: the Arabs call it Salamat, or the statue that bids good morning. But our Author listened for the magic voice in vain. The name of the hundred-gated city, he thinks, is to be discovered in that of the village of Medina Thabou; and Goshen, he is disposed to identify, on stronger grounds than a distant resemblance in the name, with Gheeza, the district containing Memphis. Here we must take leave of this interesting and intelligent Traveller, whose volumes form, certainly, one of the most valuable additions that have recently been made to our topographical litetrature. They abound with illustrations both of sacred and profane history, and every where exhibit marks of an enlightened, reflective, and pious mind. Our extracts will have shewn that Dr. Richardson is capable of writing in a very nervous and impressive style; yet, it is evident that authorship has not been his profession, and in the next edition, we should be glad to notice some corrections and a few retrenchments. While true simplicity of mind is displayed in the sentiments, the style is not always equally unaffected, but occasionally partakes too much of the florid. But how can this be objected to in an author fresh from the East? The palmary excellence of his work is, that we feel we can depend upon his statements; and this, even should it not immediately obtain the extensive circulation gained by the works of some fortunate predecessors, will ensure it a more permanent popularity. Mr. Jowett's volume contains, in addition to the notices and remarks of which we have availed ourselves, much highly important information relative to the present state of the Greek, Coptic, and Abyssinian Churches; the Jews and Mahommedans; the Ethiopic, Amharic, and Tigré versions of the Scriptures; the most eligible stations for Missionary labourers, and the best means of extending the influence of Christianity in the regions bordering on the Méditerranean. The topics are too multifarious for us to attempt a regular analysis of the volume, and our limits will not admit of further extracts. We must content ourselves with strongly recommending it to all those readers who are interested in the moral aspect of the world and the brightest prospects of humanity. Two neat maps are given, of the countries bordering on the Mediterranean, and the countries bordering on the Red Sea. Art. V. Italy, a Poem. Part the First. f.cp. 8vo. pp. 164. Price 7s. London. 1822. THIS volume contains eighteen sketches; the following are the subjects: The Lake of Geneva, The Great St. Bernard, The Descent, Jorasse, Margaret De Tours, The Alps, Como, Bergamo, Italy, Venice, Luigi, St. Mark's Place, The Brides of Venice, Foscari, Arqua, Ginevra, Florence, Don Garzia. We shall give two entire specimens, leaving them to recommend themselves and the volume by the taste, and spirit, and graphical fidelity with which they are executed. THE GREAT ST. BERNARD. "Night was again descending, when my mule, Who, as we toiled below, had heard by fits Came and held fast my stirrup in his hand, 'Long could I have stood, That house, the highest in the Ancient World, 'Twas a rude pile of simplest masonry, With narrow windows and vast buttresses, Built to endure the shocks of Time and Chance ; Yet shewing many a rent, as well it might, And in an evil day, nor long ago, By violent men when on the mountain-top The French and Austrian banners met in conflict. On the same rock beside it stood the church,, Reft of its cross, not of its sanctity ;. 66 All ye who hear, whatever be your work, On its dead surface glimmering. "Twas a scene As tho' all worldly ties were now dissolved ;- 'But the Bise blew cold; At their long board. The fare indeed was such But might have pleased a nicer taste than mine, And sheds a grace on all. Theirs Time as yet Mingling small games of chance with social converse, But who descends Mont Velan? 'Tis La Croix. Away, away! if not, alas, too late. Homeward he drags an old man and a boy, Faltering and falling, and but half awakened, Asking to sleep again." Such their discourse. pp. 13-19. 'ARQUA. THERE is, within three leagues and less of Padua, Low in the west. The gentle airs, that breathe And from that hour have kindred spirits flocked • Twelve years ago, Frail and uncouth, launched to return no more, Entering the arched Cave, to wander where That soothed, not stirred.-But knock, and enter in, As if he now were busy in his garden. And this his closet. Here he sate and read. This was his chair; and in it, unobserved, Peace to this region! Peace to those who dwell here! That gathers round the children from their play, Where he is sleeping; where, and in an age Of savage warfare and blind bigotry, Art. VI. Europe, or, a General Survey of the Present Situation of the Principal Powers: with Conjectures on their Future Prospects. By a Citizen of the United States. 8vo. pp. 411. London. 1822. IF F the statesmen who were concerned in getting up the Treaty of Westphalia, were to rise from the dead, and to witness, at the present moment, the complete annihilation of the system which it cost them so much trouble and anxiety to construct, they would be strangely at a loss to account for the conduct of their successors. Were the great Earl of Chatham, or Frederick of Prussia, to re-appear on the scenes of their former glory, they would shudder with indignation at the subserviency which has permitted Russia to place herself in an attitude of such appalling menace to the liberties of Europe. The present Writer, whose views seem to be, in general, judicious and impartial, has set the impolicy of this conduct in a strong light; and though there may be somewhat of exaggeration in his estimate of Muscovite power, yet, there is enough of unquestionable truth to excite the most serious apprehensions. When he affirms that not all Europe combined in opposition will be able to resist its progress," should it assail the independence of other nations, we must be permitted to doubt his infallibility. But when he suggests, that the civilization of the Russian nobility ⚫ created a new Macedon in the north of the modern Grecian commonwealths, and it only wants a Philip to be as fatal to ، the liberty of its neighbours as the other, he starts a comparison which has so much of the semblance, at least, of truth, as justly to awaken our alarm. Ever since the reign of Peter the Great, the aggrandisement of Russia has been steadily advancing. ( The command of the Balticy the Euxine, and the Caspian, the complete subjugation and organization of the Cossacks, the acquisition of Courland, and finally the possession of Finland and Poland, have given her a position of terrible advantage both for attack and defence. We are not yet, 6 |