THE

EDINBURGH REVIEW,

OR

CRITICAL JOURNAL:

FOR

AUGUST...... DECEMBER, 1831.

TO BE CONTINUED QUARTERLY,

JUDEX DAMNATUR CUM NOCENS ABSOLVITUR.

PUBLIUS SYRUS.

VOL. LIV.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY,

FOR LONGMAN, Rees, orME, BROWN, AND GREEN, LONDON;
AND ADAM BLACK, EDINBURGH.

1831.

CONTENTS OF No. CVII.

ART. I. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Including a Jour-
nal of a Tour to the Hebrides, by James Boswell,
Esq. A new Edition, with numerous Additions and
Notes. By John Wilson Croker, LL.D. F.R.S.

II. Remarks on the supposed Dionysius Longinus; with
an Attempt to restore the Treatise on Sublimity to
its Original State,

III. Attempts in Verse, by John Jones, an old Servant;
with some Account of the Writer, written by himself;
and an Introductory Essay on the Lives and Works
of Uneducated Poets. By Robert Southey, Esq.,
Poet Laureate,

IV. An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth, and on the
Sources of Taxation. By the Rev. Richard Jones,
A.M.,

Page.

39

69

84

V. The Drama brought to the Test of Scripture, and found
wanting,

100

VI. The Life and Death of Lord Edward Fitzgerald. By
Thomas Moore,

114

VII. Natural Theology; or, Essays on the Existence of
Deity and of Providence, on the Immateriality of the
Soul, and a Future State. By the Rev. Alexander
Crombie, LL.D., F.R.S.,

VIII. The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, M.A.R.A.
The former Written, and the latter Edited by John
Knowles, F.R.S., .

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159

ART. IX. Traité de Droit Penal. Par M. P. Rossi, Professeur

de Droit Romain à l'Academie de Genêve,

X. 1. The State of Protestantism in Germany, being the

Substance of Four Discourses preached before the

University of Cambridge. By the Rev. Hugh James

Rose, B.D.

2. An Historical Enquiry into the probable Causes of

the Rationalist Character, lately predominant in the

Theology of Germany. By E. B. Pusey, M.A., Re-

gius Professor of Hebrew in the University of Oxford.

3. An Historical Enquiry, &c. Part the Second; con-

taining an Explanation of the Views misconceived by

Mr Rose, and further Illustrations. By E. B. Pusey.

4. Six Sermons on the Study of the Holy Scriptures,

preached before the University of Cambridge in the

years 1827 and 1828; to which are annexed two

Dissertations; the first on the Reasonableness of the

Orthodox Views of Christianity, as opposed to the

Rationalism of Germany; the second on Prophecy,

with an original Exposition of the Book of Revela-

tion, showing that the whole of that remarkable Pro-

phecy has long ago been fulfilled. By the Rev. S.

Lee, B.D., D.D., Professor of Arabic in the Univer-

sity of Cambridge,

XI. What will the Lords do?

Page.

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CONTENTS OF No. CVIII.

Page.

ART. I. 1. The Game Laws, including the New Game Bill,

with Notes and Practical Directions. By P. B. Leigh,

Esq. Barrister-at-Law.

2. Abridgement of the new Game Laws, with Obser-

vations and Suggestions for their Improvement; being

an Appendix to the Sixth Edition of Instructions to

Young Sportsmen. By Lieut.-Col. P. Hawker,

II. The Life of Archbishop Cranmer. By the Rev. Henry

John Todd, M.A. Chaplain in Ordinary to his Majes-

ty, Prebendary of York, and Rector of Settrington,

County of York,

III. 1. Statements, Calculations, and Explanations, submit-

ted to the Board of Trade, relative to the State of the

British West Indian Colonies. Printed by order of

the House of Commons. 7th of February, 1831.

2. Papers laid before the Finance Committee. Printed

by order of the Committee. 1828,

IV. 1. An Essay on the Origin and Prospects of Man. By

Thomas Hope.

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312

330

2. Philosophische Vorlesungen, insbesondere über Phi-

losophie der Sprache und des Wortes. Geschrieben

und vorgetragen zu Dresden im December 1828, und

in den ersten Tagen des Januars 1829. (Philosophi-

cal Lectures, especially on the Philosophy of Lan-

guage and the Gift of Speech. Written and delivered

at Dresden in December 1828, and the early days of

January 1829.) By Friedrich von Schlegel,

351

V. Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years

1828 and 1829; with Remarks on the Manners and

Customs of the Inhabitants, and Anecdotes of dis-

tinguished Public Characters. In a series of Letters.

By a German Prince,

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