Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1831-09-22


Dot, a valuable work written and published
10 London by an American gentleman. We
announced il some time ago, as remarkable
for curious and valuable researches
We have on our table another book, late.
ly published in London--the production OF
our distinguished countryman Henry Whoa
ton, Charge d'Aaaires OF the United States
in Denmark. II is entitled History Of The
Mortimer, or Danes and Normans from the
earliest times to the conquest OF England by
William Of Normandy. A more particular
account of this beautiful volume is due from
us TO its literary excellence, than we can give
this morning We mention II, ourselves,
without further delay, in acknowledgement ol
the graiifc alton which we have found IN the
perusal of it. The week before the last, We
copied from the ondon Literary Gazette
favorable review Of its contents aud execu
ton. The British cannot fail TO regard IL as
a ting addition TO the historical department
Of our language. MIR Wheaton states, in
his preface. that IN this attempt 10 explore
the early annals OF the North, IL has been his
aim to seize the principal points in the pro
gress OF society and manners IN that remote
period, which have been either entirely pass
cd over or barely glanced at by the national
historians Of France and England, but which
throw strong and clear light upon the az
fairs of Europe during the middle ages. and
illustrate the Formation Of the great monar
chies now constituting some Of its leading
states. He bad access to mary original sour
ces of information, and obtained, in his en-
quires, the assistance oil the most eminent
antiquarian scholars of Denmark 10 the
annals which he has so extensively explored
and ably digested, there is much of the in
terest of the most romantic adventure and
exploit But the chapters OF his work, which
we have read with most pleasure, are the
4th, 9th and 9th, wherein the literature and
mythology Of the Mortimer are treatsd.-
"The ancient language OF the North" says
Mr.. W heatop, "'was preserved IN Iceland,
while il ceased TO be cultivated as a written,
and soon became extinct as a spoken Ian
guagc, in the parent countries OF Scandinavia
The popular supershiions. with which the
mythology and poetry OF the North are inter.
woven, continued still TO linger in the seques
tered glens of this remote island The Ian
guage, which gave expression to tho thoughts
! and feongs connected with this MYTHOLOGY
, and poetry. bears in its internal structure a
! strong resemblance TO the Latin and Greek
and even TO the ancient Persian and Sancrit
/ and according to the testimony Of one Of the
I
Rask) rivals in copiousness, ilexibility, anc
energy, every modern tongue"
t.Nati@,al Gazette.
| There are several new American books on
our table, which deserve TO be particularly
noticed.
( The History Of lynn, by Alonzo Lewis, -
a curious chronicle altogether; an octave oil
| 900 pages.
The annals Of Yale College in New Haven
Connecticut, from its foundation, to the yeaI
! 1881, with an appendix containing Statistical
tables and exhibiting the present condition
of the institution; by Ebenezer Baldwin; an
octave of 324 pages, very handsomely print
! ed. MIR. Baldwin has executed his task fully
and well We scarcely need add that i,
/ possesses interest for great number OF per
sons, and the College TO which it refers i
worthy of his labors, We extract the follow
f! ing paragraphs from the 18th chapter, for tn,
two facts which are recorded In them.
sOnfy one severe loss has been sustained
/ by the Institution during the long period o.
i its existence. A citizen of Connecticut blush
es when he points to the Eagle Bank, a char
tered favorite of the State. supposed to be
conducted by gentlemen Of integrity and pru
dence, and is obliged to say;-there the earn
ings Of frugal enterprise, the contributions oil
charity funds devoted to science, the savings
Of many generations, were sacrificed in d
spirit Of rapacious and fraudulent speculation.
''In the desolating effects Of that failure,
Yale College lost a very large portion Of its
productive funds, and il is now known that
the whole income of the Institution, aside
from the quarterly bills OF students, does not
much exceed two thousand dollars per an
mum. The whole burthen, boih of teaching
yet, with al, these embarrassnehts, tt anBu-
ally exhibits larger catalogue than any Col
lege of the Union can beast.
The Mosaic History Of the Creation Of The
World, illustrated by discoveries and expert
ments derived from the present enlightened
state Of science, with reflections, intended
to promote vital and practical religion, by
Thomas Wood, A. NJ, revised and improved
by the Rev. j. P Durbin, Professor OF Ian
guages. Augusta College, Kentucky. This
is the first American editor from the second
London The work has great and deserved
reputation, and has been really ''improvcd"
or rendered more interesting TO the Ameri-
can reader, by Professor Durbin.
Pamphlets on the Jacotot System Of Uni
rersat Instruction. One published at New
York by Mr.. Bliss,-and two by MIR Victor
Guillou, of Philadelphia.
Letters on the Spanish Inqulsition, trans
lated with netes) from the French of Count
Joseph lie Maistre, by NJ. L. |. O'Flaherty,
Of Boston.
Messrs Carey & Lea have issued the Sc
venth volume OF their valuable and popular
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