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LITERATURE.

BUTLER'S ANCIENT AND MODERN ATLAS.

Longman, London, 1835.
This is a most useful publication, and such as no
reader of history can afford to dispense with. 1)r.
tniler not only furnishes us with a collection of
modern maps, with all the most recent discoveries at
the North Pole, in the heart of Africa, and along the,
immense range of Australian coast, introduced into
them ; hut he gives us also an Atlas of ancient Geo-
glaPhy, with the names of places, kingdoms, Sze.,
Marked down in the map, just as we find them men-
tioned in the pages of the old classical writers. Con-
sidering the accuracy of these two Atlases, and the
handsome manner in which they are engraved, they are
singularly cheap ; and for the convenience of reference
an index is attached to each part, so that the places
which the reader may wish to turn to, may be found in
an instant, without the slightest difficulty.

MITFORD'S GREECE, Vol. IV.
Cadell, London, 1835.

The present volume of this popular and well-known
Work, commences with the reign of Hieron, King of
Syracuse, and the establishment of independent demo-
cracies in the Sicilian cities, and closes with the battle
°f lEgospotarai and the termination of the Peloponne-
-4144 war. The most interesting portions of the volume
the chapters which treat of Alcibiades, •wlicre the
iltatorian has evidently tasked his powers to the utmost.
The title-page is embellished with three curious en-
graved specimens of old silver Corinthian coins.
SE.

1.-ECTIONS from COBBETT'S POLITICAL
WORKS. Nos. I, 11.
J. Cobbett, London, ► 333.

As this selection is edited by the authors, two sur-
!lying sons, who of course are most interested in doing
Justice to their father's reputation, we may be quite
sure that it will be a useful and able one. The first
Number is headed with a brief Memoir of Cobbett,
after which follow sonic extracts from his first political
tracts which were published in America under, the
uaille of Peter Porcupine," but as many of the per-
'end allusions in these celebrated tracts require illus-
tration, short, pertinent notes are affixed, which free the
text from all obscurity. A sixpenny Number, we learn,
will be published every week till the whole is com-
pleted, which the Editors conclude will be in about
two years from the present date. We trust, however,
that they will not confine their selections to the political
• Parts of their father's writings, but extend them to his
"Rural
Rides," " Cottage Economy," and " Advice
t° Young Men ;" for many of these productions, though
Written in haste, on the spur of the moment, contain.
specimens of description, and many sound
Practical remarks on life, manners, &c., the results of
eVerience and close observation.

THE PICTURE OF DUBLIN.
Curry, Dublin, 1835.
A very serviceable guide.;book, illustrated with en-
gravings of all the most admired buildings in and about
tlie
Irish metropolis, and containing an account, just
°I a fitting length, of every object and institution
worthy of notice, together with an accurate description
°tf the surrounding country, and of its geology. As
he work has already gone through an edition, this
'lief account of it must suffice.

NICOLL'S POEMS. Tait, Edinburgh.

The author of these poems—which have already
received a favourable notice in Tait's Magazine—is,
we are informed, a very young, man, and if so, his
Verses do credit to his judgment, for there is little of
the crudity or haste of youthful composition about
them, the majority being finished with much care and
kll. When, however, we say the ". majority," we
must be understood to allude exclusively to those

I°ems which are written in plain English ; for as to
those which are penned in the Scotch dialect, we, on
11116 side the Tweed, cannot understand them'; and
have, besides, a rooted dislike to a language which,
however euphonious and appropriate to those who can
read and pronounce it, is only to be endured, by an
untaught Southron, in the pages of Burns and Scott.
:What Englishman can possibly make out the mean-
-134.g--or even give utterance to it, without provoking a
UlSlocation of the jaw—of this couplet ?
“ Syne the hale kintra's clashes he screeds them tiff han' ;
He's a gabbin• bit birkie, the auld beggar-man."
')\"!iillt we have said that Mr. Nicoll's English poems
7.e creditable to his fancy and judgment; in support
opinion we quote the following, which is enti-
lc,9ed" A Thought," and which is both well conceived
atttj
well expressed
Yon sail on the horizon's verge,
Doti] like a wandering spirit seem—
, etp A shadow in a sea of light— •
The passing of a dream.
A moment more, and it is gone !
We know not bow—we know not where—
It came—an instant stay'd—and then
It vanished into air.
t Such are we all—we sail awhile
In joy, on life's fair summer sea—
.
A moment—and our bark is gone
Into eternity

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4 CHURCH-RATE PERSECUTIONS.
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••••AfTER TO THE RE'. Z. COBB, SUII•CORATB OF SUNGAY

ST. MARY.

1; nr A NONCONFORMIST.
"911(1 Edition. London : James Dimas, Paternoster-row,
This is a clever pamphlet, containing some origina.
aid able arguments, and without departing from a tone
'euderation, possessing throughout a keenly directed
atire• The motto selected gives the writer a full
e4e, and a very favourable position. It is a passage
fNu the speech of the Rev. Mr. Cobb, the President
;)f. the Bungay Vestry Meeting, as taken from our co-
11111Ths of September 24, 1835 :—" The Rev. Mr.
C°bb interrupted the speaker, to remark that he had
I,l''msecontributed to support the Catholic Church
ti
a 10teign country, and thought it his duty to sup-
-1)(41 iwhatever Church was established." The writer
Nitrayenes this principle 'with considerable tact, anti
8" the argumenium ad absurdum with much force.
ti If you arc correct, you should expound and expand
rule for the edification of your flock. If it be
to ' support whatever Church is established by
aw,' you should teach your flock that they are bound
tit\4sia to worship idols, in Turkey to acknowledge
ahomet and at Rom?. and Lisbon to wolship at
ti'
lat altar which you have so often pronounced to be
19elatrous." Again.,, If it be right to support
I'llatever Church is established by law, it must be
vNilg to oppose whatever Church is established by
i
4,w ; by what warrant can you justify the sending mis-
84,'"aries into foreign countries to subvert the systems
are there established ?" Perhaps the Society
:r the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts,
lid other venerable societies for the same purpose,
sir. Cobb
with the Church of England, may consider
• Cobb a bad champion of the Church, or if they
'old his principle, perhaps they 'nay come forth on
t"is occasion to his help.
We especially commend the pamphlet for the zea-
‘°ll3 regard of civil and religious liberty which per-
' 46 If there may be a period when Englishmen
0 'ould strive with mote than ordinary 2;:al for these
tressing:;, the present time seems to be such. Every
ej``)tt.of dutnlicity and power is put forth by the Tory
1. Les of the people, and unhappily the clergy, and
eld
espefieldcially- the superior cl.ergy, are first in the
'Ybere civil and religious liberty
.may be at all
th!),efully assailed—we quite concur, therefore, with
jittl Pointed" adttionitiOu ‘lllich closes this seat eh ing

‘• BLwaro of the Scra),..s."