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Annual Biography and Obituary for the Year 1824

A Vindication of the Authenticity of the Narratives contained in the first
two Chapters of the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark

Baker's History and Antiquities of the County of Northampton, Part I.
Bakewell's Travels in the Tarentaise and various Parts of the Grecian and

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Jones's Greek and English Lexicon

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Lee's, Professor, Remarks on Dr. Henderson's Appeal to the Bible Society,

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Mackworth's Tour through Southern India, Egypt, and Palestine, in the

List of Works recently Published

Lowell's Brief Statement of the Reasons for Dissent from the Church of England 188

Years 1821 and 1822

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Morning Thoughts in Prose and Verse, by a Country Clergyman, &c.

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Small's Interesting Roman Antiquities recently discovered in Fife
Stewart's View of the Past and Present State of the Island of Jamaica
Strutt's Sylva Britannica

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Subject of a Debate in the House of Commons, on the 15th of May, 1823,
on a Motion for the Mitigation and gradual Abolition of Slavery,
throughout the British Dominions

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Sumner's Evidence of Christianity derived from its Nature and Reception

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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. Svo. 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

cocke, who passed Norden on the Nile, went no higher than Philæ. That island was also Denon's ne plus ultra. But now, Egypt and Nubia, as well as Syria, are over-run with Englishmen, and we wait for fresh literary arrivals from the Cataracts or the Oases, as almost as much matters of course as a mail from Hamburgh. When Captains Irby and Mangles returned to Cairo, they found Mr. Jolliffe recently arrived from making • the tour of Palestine,' and Colonel Stratton, Captain Bennet, and Mr. Fuller had just set off for Assuan. Sir Frederick Henniker took the trip to Ebsambal in 1820; and his volume forms at present nearly the latest account of travels performed by Englishmen in those parts. He writes in a singularly dashing, rattling, baronet-like style, very light and lively, but sometimes tinctured with too much flippancy; and the extreme brevity of the narrative is almost as tiresome as the prolixity of more phlegmatic travellers : it is like conversing with a man who talks in an under-tone, and ekes out half his sentences with shrugs, and winks, and inuendoes. The worst fault, however, is, that Sir Frederick's wit is sometimes spiced with profaneness.

The volume for which we are indebted to Captains Irby and Mangles, does not come fairly within our province as Reviewers, it being printed only for private distribution ; but we are glad to have an opportunity of laying before our readers the substance of its interesting contents. We shall feel under no temptation to criticise the authorship of a work, which conveys, in the most unaffected manner, so much solid and novel information. The names of these enterprising fellow-travellers

. will be familiar to the readers of Belzoni and Dr. Richardson. The former, indeed, was very deeply indebted to their active assistance, in following up the discoveries which have obtained him so much credit. They set out from Europe in Aug. 1816, simply with the intention of making a tour on the Continent. Not being literary men, they were not furnished with the means of turning to the best account, their travels in the East, when curiosity at first, and an increasing admiration of antiquities as they advanced, led them on so far beyond their original intention. But their newly acquired taste seems to have stimulated their diligence in obtaining information as they went: and their excellent tact, aided by the hints and instructions of some more experienced scholars and antiquaries whom they fell in with, has enabled them to supply, if not a very learned, yet, a competent and highly interesting account of the countries they visited, and, in particular, to make some acceptable additions to our knowledge of the topography of the Holy Land. The volume consists of six Letters. Letter I. is occupied with

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