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Also the Theory of Curves of the higher order, with the application of the Differential and Integral Calculus to them.-The second Part will contain the principles by which the properties of Curved Surfaces may be investigated by the same method, and the investigation of the figures and properties of Curved Surfaces of the second order. In the press, Observations on the Influence of Manners upon the Health of the Human Race; more particularly as it regards Females in the higher and middle classes of society. By R. Palin, M. D. of Newport, Salop. 1 vol. demy 8vo. Mr. J. H. Brady has in the press, A Critical and Analytical Dissertation on the Names of Persons. Towards the end of the present month, Dr. Roche will publish, the first Number of a New Series of Ancient Irish Melodies, with appropriate words; and with Symphonies and Accompani ments for the Pianoforte. The History of Stamford, in Lincolnshire, comprising its ancient and modern state, to which is added an account of St. Martin's, Stamford Baron, and Great and Little Wothorpe, în Northamptonshire, is now in the press, and will shortly be published by Mr. Dra-. kard, of Stamford. The work, although in a great measure compiled from former historians, contains several new and interesting documents, and will be embellished with a number of excellent engravings. In the press, The Bridal of Caölchairn and other poems, by John Hay Allan. During the ensuing month will be published, Travels in the Interior of Southern Africa. By William J. Burchell, Esq. With an entirely new map, and numerous other engravings, from the author's own drawings. In 4to. Mr. Burchell's Researches in the Interior of Africa, during five Years, over 1,500 miles of ground, besides numberless lateral excursions, have produced a multitude of discoveries and observations which have never yet been laid before the public. 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Titsingh, formerly Chief Agent of the Dutch East Company at Nangasaki; and accompanied with many coloured engravings, faithfully copied from original Japanese paintings and designs. royal 4to. 21. 18s. Views of Society and Manners in America, in a Series of Letters from that Country to a Friend in England, during 1818, 19, and 20. By Francis Wright. 8vo. 12s. THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR APRIL, 1822. Art. I. Memoires Historiques, Politiques, et Litteraires sur le Royaume de Naples. Par M. Le Comte Gregoire Orloff. Senateur de l'Empire de Russie. Publié avec des Notes et Additions. Par Amaury Duval. 5 Tom. Paris. 1821. THERE seem to be two modes of writing and of studying history. The obvious and beaten track is that which leads us along over the chronological series, to pause at the great and pregnant incidents, and to treasure them in the memory as matters of immediate or of future meditation. The other course is, to catch the spirit and character of successive ages, as they are imbodied in institutions, polities, and manners. But general and comprehensive histories presenting the order of events with clearness and fidelity, require and presuppose quick and penetrating understandings in those who undertake to read them. Enabled by right habits of intellectual culture to think for themselves, there are many minds which will derive from the facts that are presented to them, all that is instructive or useful, without having recourse to the subsidiary reasonings of other minds and other understandings. A more numerous class of readers, however, require something more. Wholly unable to arrest the fleeting and rapid succession of events, as it moves along, and throws its passing shadows on the stream of time,-needing something more than naked recitals, to supply them with materials of thinking, they find the aid of those historic disquisitions in which the task is removed from their shoulders, and not merely a train of reflection awakened in their minds, but specific reflections actually provided for them, indispensably needful. Necessity, therefore, has gradually introduced into this department of letters, a machinery wholly unknown in the first stages of historical writing. Å simple process is at hand to extract the philosophy of history for those who are unable to extract it for themselves; and our kind neighbours the French have greatly facilitated the histoVol. XVII. N. S. Ꮓ |