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ous to be supremely excellent, the orator proceeds with great eloquence to say,

"Shut now the volume of history, and tell me, on any principle of human probability, what shall be the fate of this handful of adventurers. Tell me, man of military science, in how many months were they all swept off by the thirty savage tribes, enumerated within the early limits of New England? Tell me, politician, how long did this shadow of a colony, on which your con

ventions and treaties had not smiled,

languish on the distant coast? Student of history, compare for me the baffled projects, the deserted settlements, the abandoned adventures of other times, and find the parallel of this. Was it the winter's storm, beating upon the houseless heads of women and children; was it hard labour and spare meals;-was it disease,-was it the tomahawk,-was it the deep malady of a blighted hope, a ruined enterprise, and a broken heart, aching in its last moments, at the recollection of the loved and left, beyond the sea; was it some, or all of these united, that hurried this forsaken company to their melancholy fate? And is it possible that neither of these causes, that not all combined, were able to blast this bud of hope? Is it possible, that from a beginning so feeble, so frail, so worthy, not so much of admiration as of pity, there has gone forth a progress so steady, a growth so wonderful, an expansion so ample, a reality so important, a promise, yet to be fulfilled, so glorious?" pp. 54, 55.

Yet he is not faultless. He sometimes acts the philosopher and endeavours to raise refined reflections, on incidents too trifling to justify so much pomp and declamation. The mere fact that Congress have voted to repair Plymouth beach (see page 37, first edition,) throws the orator into raptures. Cicero did make a great deal of the replacing of Romulus's statue, just when the conspirators were led to execution, and Swift wrote some pious meditations

on a broomstick. But Cicero was

See the third Oration against Cati. fine.

speaking to the populace, and Swift was writing to merryandrews, and neither of them are patterns for Mr. E. to follow. The whole paragraph seems to us to be a touch of the exquisite, and certainly it is exquisitely bad. Congress is called the sovereign hand of this great confederacy of nations, an expression which is worthy of being quoted in Pope's Bathos; and that after two centuries, the representatives of twenty-four free, sovereign, and independent states, among other local regulations, should happen to vote to repair Plymouth beach is truly astonishing! No doubt the young Misses of Boston, who have not the least particle of affectation, admired this passage very much; it is probably transcribed already into a bundred albums; and this spice of eloquence, as well as the evening ball, which followed it, may equally serve to convey to posterity an idea of the puritanical simplicity of the pilgrims.

In a man who has heard so much from German critics, of the protasis and apodosis of a sentence, we were a little surprised at the concluding paragraph.

"Could our comfortable homes have shielded you from the wintry air; could our abundant harvests have supplied you in time of famine; could the broad shield of our beloved country have sheltered you from the visitations of arbitrary power!" p. 61.

What next? The close seems to forget the beginuing. This in a young sophomore would be censured. But sunt Superis sua jura. A professor of Greek must of course know English.

On the whole, this production is not without its literary merits. It is the work of a mind, which has some power much desire, and

of being philosophic; of a taste which is chiefly prevented from being correct by something that seems like affectation. A popular orator is obliged to strainhe hardly D

be simple, especially if people come prepared to wonder. Mr. Everett fails in simplicity; he sometimes fails in perspicuity, yet, if the piece falls short of perfection, it certainly rises far above mediocrity. We say merely that it is not superhu

man.

The oration delivered at Concord has the merit of being much more congenial to the occasion than the one last considered. It was spoken on political ground; on an anniversary calculated to turn the thoughts of both speaker and hearer into a political channel. We notice in the letter of request, which, according to due form, is prefixed to the pamphlet, that the orator has changed his designation; he has now become the Hon. Mr. Everett; the clerical gives place to the political character, and the academic shades are left for the noisy halls of legislation. This is all perfectly right. When a man proves himself to be a politician in spirit, it is certainly best he should become so in name. A Jack of all trades is no very promising character in any department of human life. When a clergyman enters the caueus he had better certainly drop the cassock.

Considering then the speaker in the light of a mere politician, the oration does no discredit to his character or his talents. We are surprised, however, to find him so much of a fatalist in the fourth page; and we would just suggest to him, that supposing his dilemma correct, it will not follow, if we exclude the agency of individual heroes, that affairs must proceed in an eternal chain, for there may possibly be such a thing in natura rerum as a superintending Providence. In the eleventh page he shows with what adroitness he can drop the

pedant; and believe, though once a professor of Greek, that all wisdom is not confined to Grecian philosophers and politicians. His narrative of the Lexington battle, for ought we know, may be more correct than other accounts. But with respect to this part of history we have long been tempted to askwhat is truth? All accounts of battles must come from the parties engaged, and they never see things with impartial eyes; the vanquished are too much mortified, the victors are too much elated, to tell the story ὡς ἐγένετο. It seems to be almost a satire of God himself on all military glory, that the deeds of warriors must always be seen through a cloud of exaggeration and falsehood.

In closing this review, the following thoughts (we hardly know why) cross our minds. What are the gratifications of ambition? What is their duration? What their amount? The laurels which the world twines around its favourites' brows come just in time to hide the death-throb within. Politicians may talk of perfecting human society, but, alas! while they are applying their plans, the world passes away. The good man is earth's best benefactor; the good man alone shall win lasting praise. We hope that Mr. Everett, amidst all his bright speculations, has deeply imbued his mind with this truth; and now that he is about to enter the public stadium, where emulation will be excited and temptation may be always at hand, we recommend to his notice a sentence from an old Greek book which we hope he has thoroughly perused. " Τί γὰρ ὠφελεῖται ἄνθρωπος, ἐὰν τὸν κόσμον ὅλον κερδήσῃ, τὴν δὲ ψυχὴν αὑτοῦ ζημιωθῇ ; η τί δώσει ἄνθρωπος ἀντάλλαγμα τῆς ψυχῆς αὑτού;”

LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE.

COLLEGIATE RECORD FOR THE YEAR 1825.

BOWDOIN.-Commencement, first Wednesday in September. Graduates, 37; degrees of M. D. 20. The honorary degree of A. M. was conferred on the Rev. Samuel Greene and Rev. Asa Cummings, alumni of Harvard University: that of M. D. on Drs. Edward Reynolds and Luther Cary; that of D. D. on the Rev. William Jenks, of Boston.

WATERVILLE.-Commencement third Wednesday in August. Eleven young gentlemen received the degree of A. B. The honorary degree of A. M. was conferred on the Rev. Daniel Lovejoy and the Rev. John Tripp.

DARTMOUTH.-Commencement, third Wednesday in August. Graduates, 26. Honorary degrees:-The Rev. Charles Walker, Samuel Sparhawk, Esq., and Mr. Josiah Tucker, A. M. His Excellency Cornelius P. Van Ness, LL. D. MIDDLEBURY.-Commencement, third Wednesday in August. Graduates 16. UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT.-Commencement, second Wednesday in August. Graduates, 13. Honorary degrees:-The Rev. Micah Townsend, the Hon.George E. Wales, and the Hon. Isaac Fletcher, A. M. His Excellency David L. Morrill, Governor of New-Hampshire, and His Honor Elijah Paine, Judge of the U. S. District Court, LL. D.

HARVARD.-Commencement, third Wednesday in August. Graduates, 59; Doctors of Medicine, 11. The degree of D. D. was conferred on the Rev. James Kendall, of Plymouth, and the Rev. James Flint, of Salem; the degree of LL. D. on the Hon. Henry Clay, Hon. Judge Putnam, Hon. Asahel Stearnes, and Hon. John Wickham.

WILLIAMS.-Commencement, first Wednesday in September. The degree of A. B. was conferred on 19 alumni of the College, and the degree of M. D. on six students of the Berkshire Medical Institution; the degree of D. D. on the Rev. John Woodbridge, of Hadley, and on the Rev. Samuel H. Cox, of New-York. AMHERST.-Commencement, fourth Wednesday in August. Twenty-three young gentlemen received the degree of A. B.

BROWN UNIVERSITY.-Commencement first Wednesday in September. The degree of A. B. was conferred on 48; the honorary degree of M. D. on Daniel Thurber, of Mendon, Mass. and that of LL. D. on His Excellency James Fenner, Governor of the State.

YALE.-Commencement, second Wednesday in September. The degree of A. B. was conferred on 68, and that of A. M. on 38, alumni of the College; the degree of M. D. on 25, of the Medical Institution. The honorary degree of M. D. was conferred on Thos. I. Wells, Roswell Abernethy, Gideon Beardsley, Chester Dewey, Rolly Dunglison, Colby Knapp, and Royal Ross; the degree of D. D. on the Rev. James Bennett, of Rotherham, England, and on the Řev. Samuel Nott, of Franklin; the degree of LL. D. on Col. Jared Mansfield, Professor in the Military Academy at West Point, and on the Hon. James C. Esten, Chief Justice in the Island of Bermuda.

HAMILTON.-The degree of A. B. was conferred on 23; that of D. D. on the Rev. Ezra Fisk, of Goshen, and that of LL. D. on Governor Cass, of Michigan. For a record of the commencements of Union and Columbia Colleges, and Pennsylvania and Transylvania Universities, see our Number for September, and for the commencements of the University of North-Carolina, and the West ern University of Pennsylvania, see No. for August.

PHI BETA KAPPA ANNIVERSARIES,

ALPHA OF CONNECTICUT.-Yale.-Hon. James Gould, Orator; Dr. James G. Percival, Poet.

ALPHA OF MASSACHUSETTS.-Harvard.-Rev. Mr. Frothingham, Orator; David H. Barlow, A. B., Poet.

ALPHA OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.-Dartmouth-Professor Charles B. Hadduck, Orator.

APPOINTMENTS.

The Rev. Manton Eastburn, of New-York, has been appointed Professor of Languages in the University of Vermont, in place of the Rev. J. L. Robinson, who has resigned.

The Rev. Edward Hitchcock, A. M. has been appointed Professor of Chemistry and Natural History, and Jacob Abbot, A. M. Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, at Amherst College.

The Rev. John Hough, recently Professor of Divinity, has been elected Professor of Languages, and Edward Turner, A. M. Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, at Middlebury College.

Mr. Francis W. Gilmer is appointed Professor of Law in the University of Virginia.

Mr. William G. Goddard has been elected to the vacant Professorship of Moral Philosophy in Brown University, and the Rev. Romeo Elton to the New Professorship of Languages.

Mr. Denison Olmsted, Professor of Chemistry in the University of North-Carelina, has been elected Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy in Yale College.

The corporation of Williams College have established a Professorship of Chemistry and Natural History, and appointed Professor Dewey to that office. Mr. E. Kellogg, late Professor of Languages, is appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, and Mr. William A. Porter, of Catskill, is appointed Professor of Languages.

Professor Olds, late Professor in the Amherst Institution, and more recently Professor of Natural Philosophy in Franklin College, Georgia, has resigned that office, and Dr. Henry Jackson is appointed to supply the vacancy.

GENEVA COLLEGE-At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of Geneva College, held on the 24th ultimo, (says the Geneva Gazette,) provision was made for opening the college on the 14th of September ensuing, under the superintendence and instruction of Daniel M'Donald, D. D. as Professor of Languages and Antiquities, and Mr. Horace Webster, now Assistant Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at the Military Academy at West Point, as Professor in the same department of this college. The choice of President was deferred until the meeting of the trustees on the 5th of October, and in the mean time the government of the college is vested in a committee of the trustees.

REVIVAL OF THE College at New-Brunswick.-We understand, says the New-York Observer, that the trustees of Queens College, New-Jersey, have taken measures to revive that institution, and that application will be made to the legislature of New-Jersey, at its next session, to change its name from QTEENS to RUTGERS COLLEGE. The following gentlemen have been chosen to compose the faculty :-Rev. Philip Milledoler, D. D. President and Professor of Moral Philosophy and the Evidences of Christianity. Rev. John De Witt, D.D. Professor of Rhetoric, Belles Lettres, and Logic. Rev. Selah S. Woodhull, D. D. Professor of the Philosophy of Mind. Rev. Wm. C. Brownlee, D. D. Professor of Languages. T. Strong, A. M. (of Hamilton College,) Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy.

Mr. Pickering's Greek and English Lexicon, now publishing at Cambridge, is printed as far as the letter Lambda, and is expected to be finished in about six months.

The edition of Stephens's Greek Thesaurus, which has been so long passing through the hands of Messrs. Barber and Valpy, will be finished this year.

HEIDELBERG UNIVERSITY.--The summer courses of lectures in this just

ly celebrated university attract a large number of students. The theologians, F. W. C. Umbreit, and H. E. G. Pau lus, explain, one the Book of Job, and the other the Epistles of St. Paul. F. H. Ch. Schwartz, so well known for his journal devoted to the subject of educa tion, lectures on Christian morals. The whole number of courses in Theology is seventeen. In the department of Jurisprudence there are twentyeight. Among the professors are Thi

baut and Zachariæ, names revered throughout Europe. In Medicine, twenty eight courses are delivered by ten professors; among whom is Tiede mann, who is universally esteemed. Philosophy, strictly so called, has but seven courses; but it embraces very numerous subdivisions, and a proportionate number of recitations; as, for example, in philology. The oriental languages are taught by Umbreit and Hanno. F. Creuzer explains the Roman Antiquities of Dionysius Halic., and of Tacitus. Boehr occupies his scholars with Pindar and Horace; but the duties of the illustrious professor Creuzer are not confined to instruction in the languages. He develops likewise, the progress of the arts among the ancients. History is confided to the care of Schlosser, a highly respected historian. Two other professors assist him; Mone, the continuator of Creuzer's mythology, so far as concerns the northern nations, is intrusted with the history of Germany; and Semer gives the theory of statistics. Schwans and Müller are the professors of Mathematics and Astronomy. nally, Natural History and Physics take up seventeen courses. Gmelin in Chemistry, and Leonhard in Mineralogy, are regarded as very scientific men. The sciences of government, politics, and commerce, are distributed into twenty courses, among which are several on rural economy and the management of forests. As to the Fine Arts, they are taught by particular instructors. The library, which is well furnished and well attended, is of great assistance to the studious youth that resort to this university.

Rev. Enc. Juin 1825.

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DENMARK.--UNIVERSITIES LEARNED SOCIETIES.-Denmark has two universities: that of Copenhagen, with forty-nine professors, ordinary and extraordinary, and that of Kiel, with thirty-six professors. In the College of Soroc, founded by the celebrated Baron Holberg, the different branches of instruction are confided to fourteen professors or adjuncts. There are also in the different provinces a large number of royal colleges, or higher schools, not to mention the primary schools, the number of which is proportioned to the population of the country. In Copenhagen are three public libraries, the largest of which, the royal library,

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contains more than 300,000 vols. In Copenhagen there are, besides academy of chirurgery, with nine professors or adjuncts, an academy of fine arts, with twelve professors. Among the literary societies sanctioned by royal authority we may mention the Royal Society of Sciences, composed of fiftyfive native or resident members, and sixty-six corresponding members, belonging to other countries. Also the Society for the Study of the National History and Language; that for Scandinavian Literature; the Royal Society of Medicine; that of the Veterinary Art; that of Rural Economy, founded in 1767; besides others, too numerous to be mentioned.

Revue Encyc. Juin 1825.

PRUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES.-The number of students in the Prussian Universities in 1824, was as follows:

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NEWLY DISCOVERED ORIENTAL SECTS.-At a late meeting of the Roy. al Asiatic Society of London, a letter was read containing many particulars concerning the existence of a sect extended round Delhi, and called Sad. This sect, founded by a visionary enthusiast, pretends to have received a divine revelation about one hundred and seventy years ago. The doctrine and usages of these sectaries greatly resemble those of the Quakers. Their simple affirmation is likewise received in court, and takes the place of an oath. Bhowanie Dos, one of their chiefs, has given to M. Tran two works of this

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