shall form an idea of the importance of those if we consider that the attributed to their influence are not confined merely to the vicinity of the shore but extend to a considerable distance from it a proof of this is furnished by the vast banks which are found at the extremity of the american continent by the of by green bank by bank � etc etc k all parts of these great banks as we must believe are formed of materials like the sand banks nearer the shore it is evident that their structure and their mode of are of the highest importance in the study of which at the present time are above water and hich at an earlier period have been formed and e e d in the game manner by the agency of the ocean one y � im of which we are v the name of wiu rise the ocean and meaning in from the bosom of the ocean after having long been the abode of a marine population to serve as a dwelling place for the tribes of earth then the of those future ages going about with his hammer and pick axe in hand to explore tiie bosom of this new land will perhaps be a prey to the same doubts and the same as ourselves and experience the same delights while they find in those new in a soil at present in the process of construction some new fact some relations hitherto which permit them to connect their epoch with former ages and in those new to discover the same infinite providence which in our time and all preceding ages has presided over the of our globe thus to comprehend the structure and the form of the soil we we are obliged to go back to the ocean there in the great deep which is the of unhappily our knowledge of the form and the connection of the different is exceedingly imperfect hitherto the minds of men have been to such a degree with the idea that they are dangerous to that we may say of them what the old poets were wont to say of the infernal regions that they were more dreaded than known however we have reason to hope that the of the sea who follow one another with so a zeal along the shores of the two � thanks to the liberal and enlightened ideas which begin to prevail with � will not fail to us more and more into the mystery of those grand operations which take place in silence at the bottom of the sea in another article we will make a more detailed investigation into the of nature in these and these principles to the of the soil we will show what has been done by the ocean in the formation of the and what is due to mere causes s of art in � the of england from the of james ii by t b esq london vo perhaps there is no period m the annals of of more interest to englishmen and americans than the one in the plan of s history from the accession of james the second till near the present time and no one standing in so much need of a good historian we know of no good history of england for the last one hundred and sixty years since the termination of s when it was understood that had undertaken his work it was a subject of general all were f ed that so important and a work had fallen to the ot of perhaps the only man of the age who was supposed to have the learning and genius required for the task mr is well known as the most popular and able of the present or perhaps of any past time many of his articles in the review are of permanent value and have been here m a separate work there be articles in that review that display more profound and exact knowledge in some but there are none so eagerly sought for none that combine so much varied and extensive information on subjects of general interest presented in so popular and a style it is rare that any man so many essential and so many accidental advantages for writing a history of england in addition to great learning and talent as an author he is eminently a practical man well acquainted with the world and its his public life for many years as a member of parliament and a part of the time one of the and of the cabinet has made him intimately acquainted with and and given him an opportunity of knowing from his own experience how the of government is carried on we believe too that he had the reputation of being one of the best in the house of and the powers of speaking well and writing well so rarely found united since the days of this work is more entertaining and contains more of what we wish to know than any other history of the times though it appears to us that the author is sometimes liable to the charge of and dwells too long in a s of and in and description the characters of eminent men are with great skill and much life hut are sometimes drawn out to an length he seems desirous to give a view so full and complete of every part of his subject as not only to prevent the possibility of being misunderstood but also to save the reader all the trouble of or making any conclusions for himself nothing can be more opposite to the manner of though they agree in one respect � in fondness for point and his style is clear and pointed as well as beautiful and brilliant perhaps the splendor is not always genuine and sometimes contrary to the that of rather than the brightness of polished steel the 