:

James's Christian father's present to his
children, 446, et seq.; reflections on
the occasional meetings of a dispersed
family, 447; evils of the stage, 448;
caution to Christian parents, ib.
Jews, three celebrated literary ones, account
of, 513.
Joanna of Sicily, queen of Naples, &c.
historical life of, 385, et seq.; her
early marriage with her cousin An-
drew, king of Hungary, 386; its
fatal consequences, ib.; is styled the
Pandora of her country, ib.; accused
of having caused her husband to be
strangled, ib.; flees to Provence with
her second husband, ib. ; is acquitted
of the murder by Cleinent VI. ib.; v'e-
covers her throne and reigus thirty
years, ib.; is dethroned and smothered
by order of her presumptive heir, i5. ;'
remarks on the defence set up in favour
of Joanna and of Mary Stuart, 387;
introductory topics of the present
work, ib.; account of Provençal litera-
ture, 388; similarity between the'
Knight and the Troubadour, ib.; vanity
of the Troubadour Pierre de Corbian,
389; qualifications and musical powers of
the Jongleurs, the attendants of the Trou-
badours, 390; character, &c. of Pierre
Vidal, ib.; account of Brunetto Latini,
preceptor of Dante, 391; education of
Dante, ib.; his disappointment and un-
happy marriage, 392; his personal ap-
pearance, ib.; birth of the. Princess
Jóanna, 392, 3; desciption of the deco-
rations, &c. of the rooms appropriated to.
the princess and her infunt, 393, 4; cere-
mony, &c. of the baptism, 394, 5; death
of the duke and of the dutchess of Ca- !
labria, 395; early nuptials of Joanna
and Andrew, ib. ; Petrarch's character
of friar Robert, tutor of Joanna, ib.;
the former obtains the laurel crown from
the Roman senale, by the influence of
Robert, 396; anecdotes of Petrarch,
396, 7; magnificence of the palaces of
the Neapolitan nobles, 399; their cos-
tume, ib.; personal character and appear
ance of Joanna, 400, 1; detail of the
violent death of her husband, 402, 3;
opinion of the author, on the cause of
the murder, 403, 4; testimony of Pe-
trarch and Boccaccio in favour of the
innocence of Joanna, 404; adverse
testimony of Muratori, ib.; her mar-
riage with Louis of Tarento, ib. ; re-
gret of her subjects, on her quitting
Naples, 404, 5; death of the treache
rous Durazzo, 406; the queen justifies

herself before Pope Clement VI., and
is declared above suspicion, ib.; she
recovers her throne, and is crowned
queen of Naples, 407; death of the
king, ib. is advised by her council
to marry a third time, ib. ; receives a
present of two vanquished knights, ib.;
her generosity to them, 408; character
of Charles of Durazzo, 409; the queen
marries ber fourth husband, 410; op-
poses the elevation of Pope Urban
VI., ib.; he declares the deposition
of the queen, and transfers her crown
to Durazzo, ib. ; capture and imprison-
ment of the queen, 411; her conduct
during her captivity, ib. ; is strangled
by order of Durazzo, ib.
Jones's Greek and English lexicon, 532,
et seq.; the author's reasons for attempt-
ing to explain the Scriptures, 533; ex-
tract from a laudatory letter from Dr.
Parr, ib.

Kinghorn's considerations addressed to
the Eclectic reviewer, in defence of
those who maintain that baptism
should precede communion, 431, et
seq.; conduct pursued by the Eclectic
review, on the subject, &c. of baptism,
prior to the publication of Mr. Hall's

Terms of Communion,' 431; line of
conduct adopted by the E. R. upon
the appearance of that work, justified
by Mr. Hall's own statements, 432;
fundamental principle of Mr. H. in
regard to terms of communion, ib. .;
argument of Mr. Kinghorn in reply,
433, 4; statement of Mr. Jerram that
Mr. Hall makes an exception in favour
of the established church considered,
ib.; Mr. Hall's own words on this point,
434, 5; Mr. Howe's defence of occa-
sional communion with the church of
England, 436; his reasons for the dis-
senter's not constantly communing
with it, 436, 7; the reasoning and the
practice of churchmen, in regard to
communicating, &c. inconsistent,
437; the Eclectic Reviewer's reasons
for not going to the establishment, in
reply to Mr. Kinghorn's question, 437,
8; the Puritans and the ejected mi-
nisters held the lawfulness of commu-

nion with the church which was perse-
cuting them, 438; Mr. Kinghorn's
quotation from Dean Stilling fleet on the
insufficiency of the causes of separation,
440; the Dean's remarks controverted
by Howe and Owen, 440, 1; the grand
argument for lay-nonconformity, 441;
remark of Dr. Doddridge on the im-
portance of an evangelical ministry
to the continuance of dissent, 442;
reasons for the dissenter not going to
the church when the preacher is evan-
gelical, 442, 3; tendency of the prin-
ciple of strict communion to lead the
pædobaptist to the church, 442; re-
marks on the author's quotations from
Wall and Baxter, in proof that un-
baptized persons should not partake
of the communion, 544, 5; opinion
of Hooker, ib.; cautious reasoning of
Baxter, 546; arguments of Danvers,
and other strict baptists in the days of
John Bunyan, 547, 8; a moral dis..
qualification, &c. shewn to be the
principle on which all communities
have excluded from communion, 548;.
the professed design of all Christian
communion has been to separate be.
tween the Church and the world, 549;
the principle of strict communion is
to exclude 'not the unworthy,' but
only the unqualified,' ib.; remark of
the late Mr. Ward, of Serampore, on
this subject, 551; unfair attempt of
Mr. Kinghorn to confound the abroga-
tion of baptism as an institute, with
the abrogation of baptism as a term of
communion, 552; concession of the
author that the word of God contains
no direction that the unbaptized
should not partake of the Lord's Sup-
per, 553; arguments of John Bun
yan, that the Church should receive
whom God and Christ have received,
554, et seq.; proof that the spirit of
the strict-communionist is an intole
rant and a malignant spirit, 556, et
seq.; reasoning of Mr. M'Lean, that
the order of the words is a demonstra-
tion that baptism is an indispensable
prerequisite to communion, examined
and exposed, 558, 9; remarks on
'expediency,' as the 'grand practical
'argument for mixed communion,'
560, et seq.; the real state of the
question is-What is the law of Christ,
562,3.

Knight and Troubadour, similarity be-
tween them, 388.

Landor's imaginary conversations of li-

terary men, &c. 211, et seq.; the au-
thor remarkable for his singularity of
opinion, 211; portrays Tiberius as an
excellent prince, 212; denounces
Zaïre as a wretched imitation of
Shakspeare, ib.; his spleen against
every thing that is French, 213; his
language profane and indelicate, 213,
14; his conversation between Cicero and
his brother Quinctus, on the character of
Caesar, 215, 16; Cicero talks of the
laws of perspective, 217; beautiful
dialogue between Roger Ascham and
Lady Jane Gray, 217, 18; conversation
between Lord Bacon and Hooker, 219,
et seq; Lord Brooke and Sir Philip
Sydney, 221, et seq.

Languages, European, Murray's history
of, 360, et seq.

Latin the origin of all the southern dia-
lects of Europe, 194.

Lavater, remarkable correspondence be-

tween him and Moses Mendelsohn, the
great Jewish philosopher, 520.
Lawrence's, Mr., proposition that insanity
springs from disease of the brain, ex-
amined and exposed by Dr. Dawson, 459,

60.

Leighton, Archbishop, Wilson's selec-
tions from his works, 382.
Letters, chiefly practical and consola.
tory, by David Russell, 469, ét seq.
Letter-writing, familiar, specimens of,

not to be found before the fifteenth
century, 126.

L'Etrangére, par le Vicompte D'Arlin-
court, 412, et seq.

Lexicon, Greek and English, by Dr.
Parr, 532, et seq.

Life, historical, of Joanna, queen of
Naples, &c. 385, et seq.

Literature, provençal, account of, 388, et
seq.

Macchiavelli, M. Sismondi's remarks on
his life and writings, 323, 4.
Malmesbury, William of, the modern
history of, translated by the Rev. J.
Sharpe, 54, et seq.

Mant's book of pslams, in an English
metrical version, 1, el seq.
Massillon's thoughts on different moral
and religious subjects, &c. 454; com-
parative merits of Bourdalone, Bos-
suet, and Massillon, 454; reflections
on the swiftness of time, 454, 5.
Memoirs, &c. by Miss Hawkins, 164, et
seq.
Mendelsohn, Moses, Samuels's memoirs
of, 512, et seq.

Methodists, the Quarterly Reviewer's

detail of their 'great evils and griev-

ous sins,' 381, 2.

Mexico, 289, et seq.; progress of the
late revolution, 290; abdication and
departure of Iturbidé to Europe, 291;
various conjectures respecting his re-
turn to Mexico in 1824, ib.; detail
of his landing, capture and execution,
293; the Mexican congress grant a
pension to his widow, 294; character
of Iturbide, while Emperor, by Mr.
Poinsett, ib.; character of Guadalupe
Victoria, the present president of
Mexico, 295; he takes up arms in
the patriotic cause, ib.; his brave ex-
ploits, his privations and sufferings, 296,
7; is proscribed by the Spanish vice-
roy and conceals himself, ib.; ap-
pears again in arms with Iturbidé,
297; opposes Iturbidé, and is im-
prisoned, 298; escapes, and again
conceals himself, 299; Santana appears
in arms against Iturbidé, ib. ; is joined
by Victoria, 300; abdication of the Em-
peror, ib.; Mexico declares itself a
federal republic, 301; General Vic-
toria chosen president, ib.; testimo-
nies to his excellent character by Mr.
Bullock and Mr. Poinsett, ib.; some
remarks of a Quarterly reviewer ex-
amined and exposed, 302; Guatemala
declared an independent federal re-
public, under the title of The Con-
'federated States of the Centre of
'America,' ib.; extract from the ' Mo-
'dern Traveller, on the state of society in
Mexico, 303; Humboldt's remarks on
the population of New Spain, and of the
capital, 304; the rank of the individual
in Mexico determined by the whiteness of
his skin, 304, 5; few negroes in Mexico,
ib.; statement of the ranks and orders in
the Mexican society, 305; the Mexican
clergy, 306; exposition of some in-
accuracies in Mill's history of Mexi-
co, 306, 7; Juarros's history of Gu-
atemala, 307; contents of the work,
308; the author's attempt to prove that
Guatemala was never subject to the Mex-
ican empire, 309, 10; remarks on his
* statements, 310, 11; the topography
of Mexico and Guatemala little
known till the visit of Humboldt,
312; the errors and ignorance of for-
mer writers exposed, 313; the mines
of Mexico, 313, 14.

Miller's lectures on the philosophy of
bistory, 139, et seq.

Mill's history of Mexico, &c. 289, et seq.

Mina, General, short extract of the life
of, published by himself, 181.
Mines of Mexico, 313, 14.

Miracles asserted by Mendelsohn not to be
a distinctive mark of truth, 521.
Modern Traveller, Farts XI. and XII.,
289, et seq. see Mexico.

Morison's fashionable amusements, the
bane of youth, 182, et seq.

Morris's translation of Massillon's
thoughts on different moral and reli-
gious subjects, 454, et seq.
Munro's plea for the christian education
of youth, 98, et seq.

Murray's historical account of voyages
and travels in Asia, &c., 22, et seq.

history of the European lan-
guages, &c., 360, et seq.; the author's
explication of the nine words, which are
the foundations of language, &c., 360,
1; his singular account of the forma-
tion of language by man, 362; in-
quiry into the prime source of the
diversity of language, 363, et seq.; the
Mexican MSS. the oldest method of
writing, 364; its progressive state,
ib.; the first alphabet the parent of
the others, ib.; inconsistency of the
author in his attempt to prove it to
be of Phenician origin, 364, 5; the
language of Noah probably extant in
the names of places, in the country
where the ark rested, 366;' the five
primary tribes of the European na-
tions, 366; the Teutonic spoken at
Babel, and was the language of para-
dise, ib.; different opinions respect-
ing the primary languages of Europe,
367; admirable simplicity of Dr. Mur-
ray's system, 367.

Onamese, character of them, 91; descrip-
tion of their persons, ib., et seq.
Orme's Bibliotheca Biblica, 528, et seq.;
design and plan of the work, 528, 9;
list of omissions and inaccuracies, 529,
et seq.

Owen's, R. Dale, outline of the system'
of education at New Lanark, 98, et
seq.

Painting, Buchanan's memoirs of, &c.
276, et seq.

Pantaloon, Harlequin, and Columbine,
invention of the masks of, 325.
Papers, Stuart, history of them, 138, 9.
Pentateuch, admirable translation of, by

Moses Mendelsohn, 526.
Petrarch, anecdotes of, &c., 395.

C

Petrarch, M. Sismondi's remarks on his

writings, 209, et seq.

Physic, Dawson's nosological practice
of, 458, et seq.

Pinery, death of a gardener occasioned

by sleeping in one, 82.
Piracies, on the coast of Cuba, countenanced
by the authorities of the island, 566.
Plague, a disease sui generis, 538.
Plants, odoriferous, danger from keeping
them in bed chambers, 82.
Poetry, Provençal; see Sismondi's his-
torical sketch.

Poinsett's notes on Mexico, 289, el seq.
Popery in 1824, &c., 177, et seq.; the
present pope formerly notorious in
Rome for his gallantries, 177; ex-
tracts from the pope's bull of jubilee," 178,
et seq.; grant of a plenary indulgence,
ib.; its conditions, 179; his holiness de-
nounces the bible society, 180, 1.
Population, Asiatic, its multiplied va-

rieties as contrasted with Africa and
America, 23.

Portraits, contemporary, 152, et seq.
Portugal, language and literature of,
500.

Power, ecclesiastical, an engine of mis-

chief, 66; not acknowledged by the
English constitution, ib.

Present for a Sunday School, 191.
Progress of dissent, by a Nonconformist,
371, et seq.

Psalms, the book of, in an English me-
trical version, by Dr. Mant, 1, et seq.;
different opinions held by the Fathers
respecting the psalms, their author,
sense, titles, &c., 2; double sense of
the psalms, ib.; opinion of Dr. Hors-
ley, ib.; of Calvin, 2, 3; Dr. Horsley
ill-qualified to appreciate justly the
devotional beauty of the psalms, 3;
Dr. Watts's metrical version the most
instructive commentary on them, 4;
his version not mentioned by Dr.
Horne, ib.; remarks on the psalms as
a formulary of public devotion, 4, 5;
division of the psalms into five books,
with remarks on the contents of each,
the author, &c., 5, 6; songs of
degrees, their design, 6; the three
classes of David's poetical composi-
tions, 7; the author's version of the se-
cond psalm, 8; superiority of Dr.
Watts's version of the seventeenth
psalm, 9; different versions of vari-
ous psalms, 10, et seq.

Rainbow, stanzas to, by Campbell, 118, 9.
Religion, H. F. Burder's lectures on the
essentials of, 455.

Review, Quarterly, a nonconformist's
observations on some remarkable pas.
sages in an article on dissent, in the
sixty-first number of it, 371, et seq.
Rome, church of, Hamilton's tracts upon

some leading errors of it, 286, et seq.
Roubiliac, his excellence as an artist,
164; striking instance of his ingenu-
ousness, ib.

Russell's letters, chiefly practical and
consolatory, &c., 469, et seq.; diffi-
culties supposed to attach to the act of
coming to Christ, 470, et seq.
Russia and Siberian Tartary, &c., Coch-
rane's narrative of a pedestrian jour-
ney through, 227, et seq.; the politi-
cal and the private character of Alex-
ander at variance, 227; his peculiarly
difficult situation, 227, 8; his late
conduct influenced probably by impe-
rious circumstances, 228; liberal con-
duct of the Russian administration to
the author, 228; example of Russian
inhospitality, 229, 30; curious adven-
ture, 230; the author is plundered,
231; and beaten by a mob of women,
ib.; situation, &c. of Tobolsk, ib.;
he visits the fortress built by Yermak,
232; death of Yermak, 233; his
plans counteracted, 234; marries a
lady in Kamtchatka, 235; illiberal
conduct of the royal society, ib.
Russians, their recent attempt to dis
cover a north east passage from Beer-
ing's straits, 273; their discoveries in
the southern ocean, ib.
Ryan's time's telescope, 82, et seq.

Samuel's memoirs of Moses Mendelsohn,
512, et seq.; his birth-place, &c., 512;
acquires great fame from his transla-
tion of Plato's Phædo into German,
ib.; his account of the three celebrated
jews, Manasseh ben Israel, Benedict
Spinoza, and Orobio, 513; appearance
of Mendelsohn, ib.; Spinoza main-
tained atheistic principles, 514; had
abjured judaism and embraced chris-
tianity in early life, ib. ; dissimula-
tion of Orobio, ib.; he suffers a three
years' imprisonment in the inquisition,
ib.; professes himself a jew, ib.; re-
ligious opinions of Mendelsohn, ib.; his
early education, 516; his ardent love of
literature the ruin of his health, ib.;
his rapid progress in literature, and
rise to independence, ib.; fate of his
first publication, the moral preacher,'
518, 9; writes philosophical essays
and dialogues, 519; his marriage,

ib.;

his daughters and grandsons
stated by Mr. Wolf to be true chris-
tians, 519, 20; remarkable corres-
pondence between Lavater and Men-
delsohn, 520; injudicious conduct of
Lavater, ib.; reply of Mendelsohn, with
his opinion that mirucles are not a dis-
tinctive mark of truth, 521, 2; affirms
the miracles of Moses to have been
superfluous, 523, 4; importance of
this correspondence in two respects,
524, 5; other works published by this
writer, 526; account of his admirable
translation of the Pentateuch, ib.
Sandemanianism, Fuller's letters
character and merits of, 508.
Scenes, foreign, and travelling recrea-
tions, by J. Howison, 562, et seq.
Sharpe's translation of the history of
the kings of England, and the mo-
dern history of William of Malmes-
bury, 54, et seq.

on,

Sismondi's historical view of the litera-

ture of the south of Europe, trans-
lated by Mr. Roscoe, 193, et seq.;
subjects treated of in the present vo⚫
lume, 193; Latin the origin of all the
southern dialects of Europe, 194;
gradual corruption of that language,
and cause of it, ib.; the author's re-
marks on the sudden rise and sudden ex-
tinction of the Provençal language, 195;
the Provençal poetry not coeval with
the language, 196; chivalry and the
Provençal poetry rose at the same period,
196, 7; essential character of chivalry,
ib.; new character assumed by love in the
middle ages, 197; chivalry a poetic
invention, 198; must be assigned to
a period antecedent to authentic his-
tory, ib.; the compositions of the
Troubadours entirely lyrical, ib.; the
author's remarks on the influence of
Arabian poetry and eastern manners,
198, 9; the Arabian literature the
true parentage of the Provençal poe-
try, 199; M. Sismondi's remarks on
the laws and composition of poetry, 199,
200; specimen of Troubadour poetry,
200, 1; real grounds of the fame of
the Troubadours, 201; its merits ex-
amined, 201, 2; literature of Italy,
202; author's remarks on Dante, 203,
4; probable origin of the Inferno, ib. ;
remarks on the purgatory, 205; M.
Ginguene's criticism on the paradise, ib.;
narrative of Count Ugolino, versified by
Mr. Roscoe, 206, 7; Dante the crea-
tor of his own language, 208; Pe-
trarch, ib.; true basis of his reputation,

ib.; observations on the two mea-
sures adopted by Petrarch, 209; lead-
ing characteristics of his sonnets, 210;
extracts, 210, 11; the strong attach-
ment of some of our best poets to the
sonnet, 314, 15; cause of the low es-
timation of the sonnet in the present
day, 315; true description of the
sonnet, ib.; claim of Boccaccio, as a
reviver of ancient learning, 316; M.
Sismondi's remarks on the Decameron,
316, 7; striking coincidence between
the literary fortunes of Petrarch and
Boccaccio, 318; poems of Uberti and
Frezzi, ib.; of Pulci and Boiardo,
319; the author's observations on the
Orlando Furioso of Ariosto, 219, 20;
on the Jerusalem of Tasso, 320, et seq. ;
on Francesco Berni, and his new style of
poetry, 322, 3; life of Macchiavelli,
323; his
is principe,' 324; the discour-
ses on Livy his best work, ib. ; inven
tion of the masks of pantaloon, harle
quin, and Columbine, 325; character
of Guarini's Pastor Fido, ib. ; Filacaia,
326; his sonnets addressed to Italy and
to fortune, ib.: Alfieri, 327; remarks
on his dramatic writings, ib.; objections
to his excellence as a dramatist, 328,
9; critical remarks on his Philip II.,
330, et seq. the improvvisatori, 482;
not exclusively Italian, ib.; the art
confined to poetry, ib.; Biondi and
Syricci, the heads of their profession,
ib.; the improvvisatoré's mode of pro-
ceeding, ib. et seq.; they do not all sing,
ib.; the more celebrated can conform to
the most rigid laws of versification, 483;
great powers of Gianni, ib.; Corilla,
and La Bandettini, ib.; superior quali-
fications of Mad. Mazzei, ib. ; on the
language and literature of Spain,
484; origin of the language, ib. ;
antiquity, versification, &c. of the
poem of the Cid, ib. ; character of
the poetry of Spain, up to the reign of
Charles V., 485, 6; the reign of Charles
V. fatal to Spain, 487; sonnets of La
Vega, 487, 8; extract, 488; Cervan-
tes, ib.; the most striking feature in the
composition of Don Quixote, 488, 9;
the design and success of the work, 489;
Cervantes, the progenitor of the Spa-
nish drama, 490; his two extant
dramas, the tragedy of Numantia and
Life in Algiers; account of the Numan-
tia, 491; notice of Alonzo de Er-
cilla, 492; dramas of Lope Felix de
Vega, 492, 3; his great fame, &c. ib. ;
intrigue the character of his plays,