THE Eclectic Review. MDCCCXXIV. DECEMBER-JULY. NEW SERIES. VOL. XXI. Φιλοσοφίαν δε ου την Στωικην λεγω, ουδε την Πλατωνικην, η την Επικουρειον σε CLEM. ALEX. Strom. Lib. 1. LONDON: PUBLISHED BY B. J. HOLDSWORTH, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD, SOLD ALSO BY JOHN ANDERSON, JUNIOR, AND AND R. M. TIMMS, DUBLIN. PAGE. Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1824 A Vindication of the Authenticity of the Narratives contained in the first Baker's History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, Part I. Clarkson's Thoughts on the Necessity of improving the Condition of the Cottû's Administration of Criminal Justice in England, and the Spirit of the Cruise's Journal of a Ten Months' Residence in New Zealand 158 Drew's Attempt to demonstrate from Reason and Revelation, the necessary Existence and essential Perfections of an Eternal Being, &c. Hall's, Robert, Address on the State of Slavery in the West India Islands Harvard's Narrative of the Establishment and Progress of the Mission to Henderson's Appeal to the Members of the British and Foreign Bible Society` Henniker's, Sir Frederick, Notes during a Visit to Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Johnson's, Dr. Private Correspondence of Wm. Cowper, &c. Esq. 193 Jones's Greek and English Lexicon Lee's, Professor, Remarks on Dr. Henderson's Appeal to the Bible Society, on the Subject of the Turkish Version Les Hermites en Prison. Par E. Jouy et A. Jay Letters from an absent Brother List of Works recently Published PAGE. 114 530 467 96, 191, 287, 383, 480, 576 Lowell's Brief Statement of the Reasons for Dissent from the Church of England 188 Mackworth's Tour through Southern India, Egypt, and Palestine, in the Morier's Adventures of Hajji Baba, of Ispahan 341 Morning Thoughts in Prose and Verse, by a Country Clergyman, &c. 380 Sheppard's Thoughts preparative or persuasive to Private Devotion Scenes and Impressions in Egypt and Italy, by the Author of Sketches of Sir Aubrey de Vere Hunt's Duke of Mercia, an Historical Drama Small's Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife Subject of a Debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th of May, 1823, Sumner's Evidence of Christianity derived from its Nature and Reception THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JANUARY, 1824. Art. I. 1. Notes, during a Visit to Egypt, Nubia, the Oasis, Mount Sinai, and Jerusalem. By Sir Frederick Henniker, Bart. 8vo. pp. 340. (Plates.) Price 12s. London. 1823. 2. Travels in Egypt and Nubia, Syria and Asia Minor, during the Years 1817 and 1818. By the Hon. Charles Leonard Irby, and James Mangles, Commanders in the Royal Navy. Printed for private Distribution. 8vo. London. 1823. YOUNG ENGLAND is running to look at old Egypt, the sleeping beauty of two thousand years ago, upon whom Time, the great enchanter, turned the key, when we, a nation of yesterday, were a mere embryo,-our ancestry scattered over the wilds and woods of Germany, or sweeping the Northern seas. All her caverns, and temples, and pyramids have been shut and sealed during great part of this long interval; and now, behold the charm is dissolved, and the whole of their furniture-gods, mummies, and amulets, are found as they were left, the very colours of the paintings as fresh as ever! Why, what is Pompeii to this spectacle? That is only an exhumated city; but here is a whole country brought to light, after having been invisible to Europeans for nearly a score of centuries. Poor Burckhardt has the merit of having led the way into Nubia; but Mr. Bankes, who travelled in 1815, is believed to have been the first Englishman that ever succeeded in gaining the Second Cataract. In 1816, M. Drovetti, the ci-devant French consul in Egypt, together with his two agents, Rifaud and Cailliaud, accomplished the same enterprise. They were speedily followed by Mr. and Mrs. Belzoni, Captains Irby and Mangles, the Earl of Belmore and Dr. Richardson, and, in 1820, by Messrs. Waddington and Hanbury, who outventured them all. Mr. Legh, who preceded Mr. Bankes, ascended the Nile no further than Ibrim; Mr. Hamilton, Colonel Leake, and Mr. Hayes, no further than Deboud. Norden, who travelled eighty years ago, could only reach Derry; and PoVOL. XXI. N. S. B |