[They please, are pleased, they give to get esteem,

Till, seeming blest, they grow to what they seem.']" THOMAS CAMPBELL "The Traveller is indeed a very finished and a very noble poem. The sentiments are always interesting, generally just, and often new; the imagery is elegant, picturesque, and occasionally sublime; the language is nervous, highly finished, and full of harmony."-SIR S. EGERTON BRYDGES: Life of Goldsmith in Censura Literaria.

"In The Traveller Goldsmith has expressed, in verse of unequalled grace, the philosophy of man and of society which in other forms pervades his entire writings. The doctrine he discloses in this poetical survey is the basis of all that strain of universal tolerance and moderation which constituted the whole extent of his political and moral views. And doubtless it is no bad philosophy. . . . However the philosophy of The Traveller may be praised or censured, there is, we presume, little dispute about the poetry. There has seldom been so much lively and varied description comprised in so small a space, and ornamented with moral associations so touching and true."-PROF. BUTLER: Gallery of Illust. Irishmen : Dubl. Univ. Mag., vii. 51, 52.

"The Traveller has the most ambitious aim of Goldsmith's poetical compositions. The author, placed on a height of the Alps, muses and moralizes on the countries around him. His object, it appears, is to show the equality of happiness which consists with diversities of circumstances and situations. The poem is, therefore, mainly didactic. Description and reflection are subservient to an ethical purpose, and this purpose is never left out of sight. The descriptive passages are all vivid, but some of them are imperfect. Italy, for instance, in its prominent aspects, is boldly sketched. We are transported to the midst of its mountains, woods, and temples; we are under its sunny skies, we are embosomed in its fruits and flowers, we breathe its fragrant air, and we are charmed by its matchless landscapes; but we miss the influence of its arts, and the solemn impression of its former grandeur. We are made to survey a nation in degeneracy and decay; but we are not relieved by the glow of Raffael, or excited by the might of the Coliseum."-HENRY GILES: Lectures and Essays: Oliver Goldsmith.

THE DESERTED VILLAGE; A POEM:

"The Deserted Village has an endearing locality, and introduces us to beings with whom the imagination contracts an intimate friendship. Fiction in poetry is not the reverse of truth, but her soft and enchanted resemblance; and this ideal beauty of nature has been seldom united with so much sober fidelity as in the groups and scenery of the Deserted Village."-THOMAS CAMPBELL.

"The Deserted Village is a poem far inferior to The Traveller, though it contains many beautiful passages. I do not enter into its pretensions to skill in political economy, though, in that respect, it contains a strange mixture of important truths. My business is with the poetry. Its inferiority to its predecessor [The Traveller] arises from its comparative want of compression, as well as of force and novelty of imagery. Its tone of melancholy is more sickly, and some of the descriptions which have been most praised are marked by all the poverty and flatness, and indeed are peopled with the sort of comic and grotesque figures, of a Flemish landscape."-SIR S. EGERTON BRYDGES: Life of Goldsmith in Censura Literaria.

Read this remarkable piece of criticism,-that on The Deserted Village,-with which we imagine few readers will

concur.

follies and errors of the head, still retained its childlike innocence; and which, doomed to struggle on to the last amidst the din and turmoil of the metropolis, had ever been cheating itself with a dream of rural quiet and seclusion:

"Oh bless'd retirement! friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine." [Quotation continued to and including the line "His heaven commences ere the world be past."]

WASHINGTON IRVING: Life of Goldsmith. "Yet even the Traveller had not shewn the perfection which Goldsmith's genius was capable of attaining. It remained for him still to present to his countrymen a poem which contains a more accurate portraiture of nature in one of its sweetest phases, a more profound pathos, and a more exquisite selection of affecting images than any production of its class in this or in any other language." -PROF. BUTLER: Gallery of Illust. Irishmen: Goldsmith: Dubl. Univ. Mag., vii. 52.

THE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD; OR, LETTERS OF A CHINESE PHILOSOPHER.

"Goldsmith's Citizen of the World, like all his works, bears the stamp of the author's mind. It does not go about to cozen repu tation without the stamp of merit.' He is more observing, more original, more natural and picturesque than Johnson. His work is written on the model of the Persian Letters, and contrives to give an abstracted and somewhat perplexing view of things, by opposing foreign prepossessions to our own, and thus stripping objects of their customary disguises. Whether truth is elicited in this collision of contrary absurdities, I do not know; but I confess the process is too ambiguous and full of intricacy to be very amusing to my plain understanding. For light summer reading it is like walking through a garden full of traps and pitfalls.... Beau Tibbs, a prominent character in this little work, is the best comic sketch since the time of Addison; unrivalled in his fancy, his vanity, and his poverty."-HAZLITT: On the Periodical Essayists.

"If in any of his writings Goldsmith could be truly said to have echoed the measured tone of Johnson, it was probably in his most varied and agreeable Citizen of the World; a work written at a period when his genius was scarcely yet independent enough to allow of abjuring allegiance to the reigning powers of literature. Yet even here an imitation is but sometimes perceptible, and whenever it occurred was, perhaps, only the involuntary work of the ear taking up the rich and elaborate harmony which it was most accustomed to hear, and which, in those days, was seldom heard unaccompanied by unqualified manifestations of almost rapturous applause.... Of that gay and sparkling facetiousness which he himself was wont to admire so highly in other writers, the instances in this collection are innumerable."-PROF. BUTLER: Gallery of Illust. Irishmen: Goldsmith: Dubl. Univ. Mag., vii. 44, 45.

authorities respecting the best-known of the productions Having thus given copious quotations from eminent of Goldsmith, we imagine that the reader will not be displeased if we enlarge our article by citing opinions on the general characteristics of an author so justly distinguished and so general a favourite.

"A man of such variety of powers, and such felicity of performance, that he always seemed to do best that which he was doing; a man who had the art of being minute without tediousness, and general without confusion; whose language was copious without exuberance, exact without constraint, and easy without weakness."-DR. JOHNSON: Life of Dr. Parnell.

"Whether, indeed, we take him as a poet, as a comic writer, or as a historian, he stands in the first class. ... He deserved a place in Westminster Abbey; and every year he lived would have de served it better."-DR. JOHNSON: Life by Boswell.

with his friend Nicholls, when the poem came out; and he desired

Nicholls to read it aloud to him. He listened to it with fixed at tention from the beginning to the end, and then exclaimed, “That man is a poet.... All the characteristics of the first poem [The Traveller] seem to me developed in the second; with as chaste simplicity, with as choice selectness of natural expression, in verse of as musical cadence; but with yet greater earnestness of purpose, and a far more human interest. . . . Within the circle of its claims and pretensions, a more entirely satisfactory delightful poem than the Deserted Village was probably never written. It lingers in the memory where once it has entered; and such is the softening influence (on the heart even more than the understanding) of the mild, tender, yet clear light which makes its images so distinct and lovely, that there are few who have not wished to rate it higher than poetry of yet higher genius. What true and pretty pastoral images,' exclaimed Burke, years after the poet's death, has Goldsmith in his Deserted Village! They beat all: Pope and Phillips, and Spenser too, in my opinion.'"-JOHN FORSTER: Life of Goldsmith. As we do not pretend in this summary memoir to go into a criticism or analysis of any of Goldsmith's writings, we shall not dwell upon the peculiar merits of this poem; we cannot help noticing, however, how truly it is a mirror of the author's heart, and of all the fond pictures of early friends and early life forever present there. It seems to us as if the very last accounts received from home, of his shattered family,' and the desolation that seemed to have settled upon the haunts of his childhood, had cut to the roots one fondly-cherished hope, and produced the following exquisitely tender and mournful lines:

"In all my wand'rings round this world of care, In all my griefs-and God has giv'n my share'[Quotation continued to and including the line "Here to return and die at home at last."]

"How touchingly expressive are the succeeding lines, wrung from a heart which all the trials and temptations and buffetings

sir, now, who can pen an essay with such ease and elegance as Dr. Goldsmith ?"

"The wreath of Goldsmith is unsullied; he wrote to exalt virtue and expose vice; and he accomplished his task in a manner which raises him to the highest rank among British authors. We close his volume with a sigh that such an author should have written so little from the stores of his own genius, and that he should have been so prematurely removed from the sphere of literature which he so highly adorned."-SIR WALTER SCOTT: Life of Goldsmith. "Goldsmith, both in verse and prose, was one of the most delightful writers in the language. His verse flows like a limpid stream. His ease is quite unconscious. Every thing in him is spontaneous, unstudied, unaffected; yet elegant, harmonious, graceful, and nearly faultless.... As a poet, he is the most flowing and elegant of our versifiers since Pope, with traits of artless nature which Pope had not, and with a peculiar felicity in his turns upon words, which he constantly repeated with delightful effect."-IIAZLITT.

"As for Goldsmith and Churchill, whatever they have appeared to owe to Pope, they are remembered and admired for what they possessed independent of him, each having wealth enough of his own to be a freeholder of Parnassus, after paying off any mortgage on his little estate due to that enormous capitalist."-JAS. MONTGOMERY: Lect. on Mod. Eng. Lit.

"Goldsmith I have already had occasion to mention several times in the course of these Lectures, as the various classes of English Poetry in which he has written have come under our review. He now appears before us in the character of a Didactic Poet; and what can I say of him better than by repeating the true and eloquent eulogium in his Epitaph?

Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.' The Traveller' and The Deserted Village' scarcely claim any notice from me. They are in every one's hands; they live in every one's memory; they are felt in every one's heart; they are daily the delight of millions.”—HENRY NEELE: Lects. on Eng. Poet.

"There is something in Goldsmith's prose that to my ear is uncommonly sweet and harmonious; it is clear, simple, easy to be understood; we never want to read his periods twice over, except for the pleasure it bestows; obscurity never calls us back to a repetition of it. That he was a poet there is no doubt; but the paucity of his verse does not allow us to rank him in that high station where his genius might have carried him. There must be bulk, variety, and grandeur of design to constitute a first-rate poet."-RICHARD CUMBERLAND: Memoirs.

Prof. Butler criticizes Cumberland's comments-the whole of which we have not quoted, and the reader, we think, will be gratified with the professor's comments: see Gallery of Illust. Irishmen; Goldsmith; Dub. Univ. Mag., vii. 52, 53. See also Sir S. Egerton Brydges's criticism on Cumberland's comments; Censura Literaria.

"Goldsmith, Cowper, Burns, are all original, and all unequalled in their way. Falconer is another whose works will last forever." -ROBERT SOUTHEY: Life and Corresp.; Letter to G. C. Bedford, April 13, 1805.

Where is the poetry of which one-half is good? Is it the

Eneid? is it Milton's? is it Dryden's? is it any one's except Pope's and Goldsmith's, of which all is good?"-Lord Byron to Murray, April 23, 1820.

"His pictures may be small, may be far from historical pieces, amazing or confounding us; may be even, if severest criticism will have it so, mere happy tableaux de genre hanging up against our walls but their colours are exquisite and unfading; they have that familiar sweetness of household expression which wins their welcome alike where the rich inhabit, and in huts where poor men lie; and there, improving and gladdening all, they are likely to hang for ever."-JOHN FORSTER: Life of Goldsmith.

Washington Irving-the very sight or sound of whose beloved name never fails to excite pleasing emotions in thousands of bosoms at home and abroad-in the preface to his Life of Goldsmith pays the following beautiful tribute to his author:

"For my own part, I can only regret my shortcomings in what to me is a labor of love; for it is a tribute of gratitude to the memory of an author whose writings were the delight of my childhood and have been a source of enjoyment to me throughout life; and to whom, of all others, I may address the beautiful apostrophe of Dante to Virgil:

"Tu se' lo mio maestro, e 'l mio autore:
Tu se' solo colui da cu' io tolsi

Lo bello stile, che m' ha fatto onore."" "The prose of Goldsmith is the model of perfection, and the standard of our language; to equal which the efforts of most would be vain, and to exceed it, every expectation folly."

HEADLEY.

"Goldsmith is one of the most various and most pleasing of English writers. He touched upon every kind of excellence, and that with such inimitable grace, that where he failed of originality most he had ever a freshness and a charm."-MRS. S. C. HALL.

"But none of us probably ever think of weighing his political opinions, or his claims to the title of a great philosophical poet. His fame and influence depend on neither. We are not grateful to him because he possesses extraordinary poetical power. There is so much of genuine feeling, just thought, true description, and sound moral distinction, in these poems, [The Traveller and The Deserted Village.] the language is so clear, the strain so liquid, the general style not quite magnificent, but yet of such an easy, natural elevation and dignity, that they glide into our affections and memory in youth, and are never displaced, we apprehend, by the more exciting pleasures, the more subtile and complicated conceptions, which we owe in later years to poetry of a far higher and infinitely more varied character."-E. T. CHANNING: N. Amer. Rev., xlv. 91-116.

It would not be difficult to greatly extend our quotations, indeed the difficulty is to refrain from quoting, with so many authorities yet unnoticed at our elbow; but there must be an end to the longest article, and this is already sufficiently extended. Of the three principal biographies of our author we have already discoursed at some length in our notice of John Forster, to which the

reader is referred.

Of edits. of Goldsmith's histories, the Vicar of Wakefield, the Deserted Village, and The Traveller, the name is legion. His Poet. and Dramat. Works were first collected and pub. in 1780, Lon., 2 vols. 12mo; 1786, 8vo; 1791, 2 vols. 12mo; 1808, 8vo; 1816. Miscell. Works, with Life and Essays, Perth, 1792, 7 vols. 12mo. With Life and Writings, Lon., 1801, 4 vols. 8vo; 1806, 5 vols. 12mo; 1807, 4 vols. 8vo; 1812, 4 vols. 8vo; 1820, 4 vols. 8vo. But these and all preceding edits. were thrown into the shade in 1836 by the publication of Prior's edit. of Goldsmith's Miscellaneous Works, with Life of the Author, 6 vols. 8vo. Contents: Vol. I. The Bee; Essays; Present State of Polite Learning, &c.; Prefaces and Introduction. II. Citizen of the World; Introduction to the Study of Natural History. III. Vicar of Wakefield; Biographies of Voltaire, Nash, Parnell, and Bolingbroke; Miscellaneous Criticism. IV. Poems; The Good-Natured Man; She Stoops to Conquer; The Grumbler; Criticism relating to Poetry and the Belles-Lettres. V., VI. Prior's Life of Goldsmith.

"This is the only complete edition containing additions made to previous collections of Goldsmith, which perhaps it would be

safe to say constitute nearly one-half of the collection in the present edition. This edition is the only one having any just claim to a place, as embodying the full performances of Goldsmith, and as the fair exponent of his genius."-Lon. Quar. Rev.

The same eminent authority commends the letters of Goldsmith, collected by Mr. Prior's indefatigable industry, in researches extending from 1826 to 1836:

"No poet's letters in the world, not even those of Cowper, appear to us more interesting for the light they throw on the habits and feelings of the man that wrote them; and we think it will also be acknowledged that the simple gracefulness of their language is quite worthy of the author of the Vicar of Wakefield. We may differ from many of our readers as to all the rest, but we are confident that if Mr. Prior had done, and should do, nothing else, the services he has rendered to literature by recovering and recording these beautifully characteristic effusions would be enough to secure honour to his memory. And who will not be rejoiced to hear that in one instance at least the best secondary monument of a great Irish genius has also been erected by an Irish hand?" Mr. Prior doubtless richly deserves all that can be said in praise of his labours; but even his excellent edition of the Works of Goldsmith has been superseded within the last year or two by Peter Cunningham's edition, 1854, 4 vols. 8vo, forming the first issue of Murray's British Classics. For an account of this edition, see CUNNINGHAM, PETER.

Of the many beautiful editions of The Vicar of Wakefield, we must especially note the one embellished with thirty-two Illustrations by Wm. Mulready, Lon., 1843, cr. 8vo.

"It is the nearest to perfection of any volume that has hitherto issued from the British press."-Lon. Art. Union Jour., Jan. 1843, "One of the most beautiful editions of any standard author that has appeared for many years, and decidedly the best which has ever been published of this deservedly popular English classic."-United Service Gazette, Jan. 7, 1843.

"Briefly, we have no hesitation in asserting the superiority of these designs as works of art illustrative of family life over every thing that has been done in recent times either in France or Ger many, or our own country."-Lon. Athenæum, Jan. 21, 1843.

The reader must also procure the editions of the Vicar of Wakefield, illustrated respectively by Westall, Richter, Thomas, and Absolon. We must also notice, as a valuable companion to the modern editions of Goldsmith's Works, an edition of his Poetical Works, with Remarks attempting to ascertain from local observation the actual scene of the Deserted Village, embellished with seven illustrative engravings, by Mr. Aitkin, from drawings taken on the spot. By the Rev. R. H. Newell, B.D., 1811, 4to. Nor must the collector of a Goldsmith Library consider that he has done justice to his design until he can number among his treasures-a fit companion for the Deserted Village, illustrated by the Etching Club, before noticedthe beautiful edition of The Poetical Works of our great author, illustrated by Wood Engravings from the designs of G. W. Cope, A.R.A.; Thomas Creswick, A.R.A.; J. C. Horsley; R. Redgrave, A.R.A.; and Fred. Taylor, members of the Etching Club; with a biographical Memoir, and Notes on the Poems. Edited by Bolton Corney, 1845, 8vo. This beautiful volume has been already noticed. See CORNEY, BOLTON.

We have referred to that happy individual of good taste and excellent judgment,-perhaps you claim the appellation, gentle reader, the collector of a "Goldsmith Library." He will thank us for indicating sources of information, in addition to any little aid our humble labours may have afforded him, respecting his favourite author.

Let him then consult-Life prefixed to Goldsmith's Works, Lon., 1801, also 1807, 4 vols. 8vo, principally written by Bishop Percy; Johnson's and Chalmers's English Poets, 1810; Life by Sir S. Egerton Brydges, in the Censura Literaria, vol. vii., 2d ed., 1815; Chalmers's Biog. Dict.; Life by Rev. John Mitford; Life by James Prior; Life by John Forster; Life by Washington Irving; Northcote's Life of Sir Joshua Reynolds; Cradock's Memoirs; Davies's Life of Garrick; Boswell's Life of Johnson; Miss Hawkins's Anecdotes; Colman's Random Records; Cumberland's Memoirs; Northcote's Conversations; Hawkins's Life of Johnson; Prof. Butler's Gallery of Illust. Irishmen, in Dubl. Univ. Mag., vii. 26-54; De Quincey's Essays on the Poets, &c.; various authorities quoted from or referred to in preceding pages; also the following articles in Edin. Rev., lxv. 108, lxxxviii. 102; Lon.Quar. Rev., lvii. 149; N. Brit. Rev., ix. 100; N. Amer. Rev., (by E. T. Channing,) xlv. 91, lxx. 265; Blackwood's Mag., xvii. 137, 297, liii. 771; Fraser's Mag., xv. 387; South. Lit. Messenger, (by H. T. Tuckerman,) vi. 267.

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Goldson, Wm. Catechism, Lon., 1595, 8vo. Goldson, Wm. Medical Treatises, Lon., 1787, 1804, Observ. on the Passage between the Atlantic and Pacific, Portsm., 1793, 4to. Prefixed is a historical abridgment of discoveries in the north of America.

Goldwell, Henry. A Briefe Declaration of the Shews, Devices, &c. before the Queene's Majestie and the French Ambassadors in Whitsun weeke, 1581. "Only one copy known."-Lowndes's Bibl. Man.

Serm., 1740, 4to.

Gooch, Rev. W. General View of the Agricult. of Cambridgeshire, Lon., 1811, 8vo.

Goldwin, Wm. Serms., 1707-81. Poet. Descrip. of Bristol, 1751, 8vo. Revised by T. Smart.

Golledge, John. 1. Adam's Death, Lon., 1789, '90, 8vo. 2. Alex. Crombie's Phil. Necess., 1799, 12mo. Golovin, Ivan, b. 1816, in Russia, educated at Berlin and Heidelberg; was exiled by the Czar in 1843, and became a naturalized Englishman in 1846. 1. Political Science to teach Sovereigns how to Govern. 2. Russia under Nicholas, 1845. This work attracted considerable attention throughout Europe, and was translated into several languages. 3. The Russian Political Catechism. 4. Memoirs of a Russian Priest. 5. The Caucasus and the Nations of Russia and Turkey, 1853. He visited the U.S. in 1855, and pub. a series of Letters in the N.Y. Tribune, and the Nat. Intelligencer, at Washington. On his return to England, he issued a volume entitled (6) Stars and Stripes; or, American Impressions. Golt. Divine Hist. of the Genesis of the World, 1670, 4to. Golty, Richard. Serm., Lon., 1688, 4to. Gomersal, or Gomersall, Robert, 1600-1646, a native of London, educated at Christ Church, Oxf., became Vicar of Thorncombe, Devonshire. 1. The Levite's Revenge, containing Poetical Meditations on Judges, chaps. xix. and xx., Lon., 1628, '33, 8vo. 2. Lodowick Sforza, Duke of Milan; a Tragedy, 1628, '32, 12mo. With No. 1, &c., 1633, '38, 12mo.

"He was esteemed excellent for dramatic poetry."-Athen. Oxon. 3. Serms. on 1 Pet. ii. 13-16, Camb., 1634, 4to. "A very florid preacher." See Bliss's ed. of Athen. Oxon., where will be found a specimen of Gomersall's poetry. Gomersall, Mrs. A. 1. Eleanora; a Nov., Lon., 1789, 2 vols. 12mo. 2. The Citizen; a Nov., 1790, '91, 2 vols. 12mo. 3. The Disappointed Heir, 1796, 2 vols. 12mo. Gomm, James. Narrative of Events in St. Marcou, Lon., 1801, '07, 8vo.

Gomm, John. Hist. Inquiry resp. the performance on the Harp in the Highlands of Scotland, 1807, 4to. Gompertz, Benj. Mathematics, 1817, &c. Gompertz, John. 1. Time, or Light and Shade; a Poem, 4to. 2. The Modern Antique, or The Muse in the Costume of Queen Anne; a Poem, 8vo. See Anti-Jac. Rev., Nov. 1818. 3. Devon; a Poem, 8vo.

Gonson, Sir John. Charges to Juries, 1728, '29, &c. Gonzales, Manoel. Voyage to Great Britain. This will be found in vol. i. of Osborne's Voyages, and in vol. ii. of Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels. It was written by an Englishman-perhaps by Daniel Defoe.

Gooch, Benjamin, D.D., an eminent surgeon. Surgery, Lon., 1758, 8vo. Enlarged, Norw., 1767, 2 vols. 8vo. Appendix, Lon., 1773, 8vo. Profess. con. to Phil. Trans., 1769, '75.

Gooch, Bernard. The Whole Art of Husbandrie, Lon., 1614, 4to. We find this in the Bibl. Brit., but doubtless it is Barnaby Googe's Foure Bookes of Husbandrie, 4th ed.

Gooch, Eliza S. V. R. Novels, &c., 1788-1804. Gooch, Robert, M.De, 1784-1830, a native of Yarmouth, practised in Croydon, and subsequently in London, (from 1811,) with great reputation and success. 1. Diseases peculiar to Women, Lon., 1829, 8vo. 3 eds. have appeared in America.

"Distinguished in a very uncommon degree for originality, precision, and vigour of thought."-DR. FERGUSSON: Lon. Quar. Rev., xli. 163-183. Read this interesting essay on insanity, &c. "The most valuable work on that subject in any language; the chapters on puerperal fever and puerperal madness are probably the most important additions to practical medicine of the present age."-Lives of British Physicians.

2. Women and Children, 8vo. 3. Compendium of Midwifery, prepared by George Skinner, 12mo. 4 eds. in America.

"Among these great masters [of medical science] Robert Gooch will always stand pre-eminent."-Amer. Jour. Med. Science. "Never was a man more desirous of doing all in his power towards diminishing the sum of human misery."-ROBERT SOUTHEY: Life and Corresp., q. v.

Gooch was a contributor to the Lon. Quar. Rev., and pub. in that periodical some valuable papers on the Plague, Anatomy, &c. See Lives of Brit. Physicians, No. 14 of Murray's Family Library.

Gooch, Sir Thomas, Bart., d. 1754; Bishop of Bristol, 1737; trans. to Norwich, 1738; to Ely, 1748. 1. Serm.,

Good, B. Hanover Treaty, Lon., 1727, 8vo. Good, J. E. Serm. on the Mount, 1829, 8vo. "These lectures are very perspicuous, resembling windows of clear rather than painted glass; they are of very convenient. length, and much like a pious and benevolent companion, who, if he travels with you but a short way, gives you much and good information."-Lon. Baptist Mag.

Good, John. Works on Dialling, Lon., 1711, '30, 8vo. Good, John Mason, M.D., 1764-1827, one of the most profoundly learned Englishmen of modern days, was a native of Epping, Essex, and the son of a dissenting minister. At fifteen he was placed apprentice with a surgeon at Gosport, and in 1784 commenced practice at Sudbury. In 1793 he removed to London, where he practised as a surgeon and apothecary, and in 1820, having received a diploma from the University of Aberdeen, became a phybe found in the Lon. Gent. Mag. for March, 1827; and a sician. An interesting biographical sketch of Dr. G. will Memoir of his Life was pub. by his friend Dr. Olinthus Gregory, Lon., 1828, 8vo. 1. Maria; an Elegiac Ode, Lon., 1786, 4to. 2. Diseases of Prisons and Poor-Houses, 1795, 12mo. 3. Hist. of Medicine as far as it relates to the profession of an Apothecary, 1795, 12mo. houses, 1798, 1805, 8vo.

4. Parish Work

5. Address to the Corp. of Surgeons, 1800, 8vo. 6. Song of Songs, or Sacred Idyls. Trans. from the Hebrew, with notes crit. and explan., 1803, 8vo.

epithalamium nor a regular drama, but a collection of idyls on a "Dr. Good considers the Song of Solomon neither a continued common subject,-the loves of the Hebrew monarch and his fair bride. Into the mystical design of the poem (though, with Lowth and Horner, he believed it to have one) he enters little; so that the spirituality of the Bible now here appears in the version or the notes. Admitting his hypothesis to be correct, and considering the Song of Songs merely as an oriental collection of lovesongs, Dr. Good's version cannot be denied the praise of elegance and general accuracy. He first gives a kind of literal prose translation, and then, on the opposite page, a metrical version. The notes follow at the end, and display a great profusion of ancient and modern learning. As far as religion is concerned, however, the reader may as well consult the odes of Horace or the pastorals of Virgil."-Orme's Bibl. Bib.

"So much elegant learning and successful illustration we have seldom seen within so small a compass as the present volume."— Brit. Crit., O. S., xxvi. 454, 455. See also Lon. Month. Rev., N. S., xlvii. 302-312.

7. Triumph of Britain; an Ode, 1803. 8. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Alex. Geddes, LL.D., 1803, 8vo. See GEDDES, ALEXANDER, LL.D. 9. The Nature of Things; a Didactic Poem, trans. from the Latin of Titus Lucretius Carus, with the original text and Notes philolog, and explan., 1805-07, 2 vols. 4to.

"A noble translation; the notes contain a vast variety of miscellaneous literature."-DR. CLARKE.

These vast volumes are more like the work of a learned Ger man professor, than of an ungraduated Englishman. They dis play extensive erudition, considerable judgment, and some taste; yet, upon the whole, they are extremely heavy and uninteresting, and the leading emotion they excite in the reader is that of sympathy with the fatigue the author must have undergone in the compilation.... The truth is, that Mr. Good, though very intelligent, is very indiscriminate in the selection of his information; and though, for the most part, sufficiently candid and judicious in his remarks, is at the same time intolerably dull and tedious. He has no vivacity; no delicacy of taste or fancy; very little origi nality; and a gift of extreme prolixity. His prose is better than his poetry; his reasonings are more to be trusted to than his criticism; and his statements and explanations are of more value than his argument."-LORD JEFFREY: Edin. Rev., x. 217–234.

"Almost every polished language, Asiatic as well as European, is laid under contribution; and the versions which uniformly accompany the numerous parallelisms and quotations are, for the most part, executed in a masterly style."-Lon. Gent. Mag., xevii. 277.

10. Oration on the Structure and Physiology of Plants, 1808, 8vo. 11. Essay on Medical Technology, 1810, 8vo. This essay gained the Fothergillian Medal. 12. The Book of Job literally trans. from the Hebrew and restored to its natural arrangement; with Notes crit. and illust., and an Introduct. Dissert., 1812, 8vo. A critique on this version appeared in the Eclectic Rev. for Feb. 1816; to this Dr. Good replied, and a rejoinder followed in the number for Dec. 1816.

"No work of criticism in the language affords such a display of acquaintance with ancient and modern languages.... Dr. Good is a firm believer in the antiquity of the book, contends that Moses was the writer of it, and that it contains the great principles of the patriarchal faith.... His translation is the most valuable work on Job in the English language, and must materially assist any indi

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vidual in the interpretation of that difficult book."-Orme's Bibl. "On the whole, we regard this work as a valuable accession to our stock of sacred literature; and we can recommend it with confidence to the biblical student, as containing a great mass of useful information and valuable criticism."-Lon. Christian Observer, 13. New ed. of Mason's Self-knowledge; with a Life of the Author and Notes, 1812, 8vo. Dr. Good's mother was Miss Peyto, the favourite niece of John Mason. 14. A Physiological System of Nosology, 1817, 8vo.

xii. 306.

"It bids fair to supersede every attempt which has hitherto been made in the difficult provinces of medical technology and systematic arrangement."-Lon. Gent. Mag., xevil. 277.

15. Sketch of the Revolution in 1688. 16. In conjunction with Olinthus Gregory, LL.D., editor, and Newton Bosworth, Pantalogia; or Encyclopædia, comprising a General Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, pub. periodically, completed in 1813, 12 vols., with nearly 400 engravings, r. 8vo, £20. 17. The Study of Medicine, 1822, 4 vols. 8vo; 3d ed., 1832, 5 vols. 8vo, £3 158.; edited by Samuel Cooper, M.D., F.R.S., Prof. of Surgery in the Univ. of London, &c.

"If the general tenor of his book.... (what seems to me to be the fact).... be so excellent that no other modern system is, on the whole, half so valuable as the Study of Medicine, its imperfeetions will be indulgently regarded by every liberal critic, and its genuine merit warmly admired."-DR. COOPER, the editor.

"The additions to the text and notes by Mr. Cooper, as may have been expected, are numerous and valuable, and the entire work merits our most unqualified recommendation. The surgeon whose library contains Good's Study of Medicine, and Cooper's Surgical Dictionary, need look around him for little more that is either scientific, useful, or practical, in any branch of his profession."— Lon. Lancet, No. 304.

"We have no hesitation in pronouncing the work, beyond all comparison, the best of its kind in the English language."-Lon. Medico-Chirurg. Rev.

"As a work of reference, at once systematic and comprehensive,

it has no rival in medical literature."-Lon. Med. Gaz.

American ed. pub. by Harpers, N. York, 2 vols. 8vo, with Notes by A. S. Doane, M.D., &c. 18. The Book of Nature, 1826, 3 vols. 8vo; 3d ed., corrected, 3 vols. fp. 8vo.

CONTENTS. Vol. I. Nature of the Material World, and the Scale of Unorganized and Organized Tribes that issue from it. On Matter and a Material World; on Geology; on Organized Bodies, and the Structure of Plants compared with that of Animals; on the Principle of Life; on the Bones, &c.; on the Digestive Functions; on the Circulation of the Blood; on the Processes of Nutrition; on the External Senses of Animals. Vol. II. Nature of the Animate World; its Peculiar Powers and External Relations; Means of Communicating Ideas; Formation of Society. Vol. III. Nature of the Mind; its General Faculties and Furniture.

"This volume is designed to take a systematic, but popular, survey of the most interesting features of the general science of nature, for the purpose of elucidating what has been found obscure, controverting and correcting what has been felt erroneous, and developing, by means of original views and hypotheses, much of what yet remains to be more satisfactorily explained."-Preface. "The work is certainly the best Philosophical digest of the kind which we have seen."-Lon. Month. Rev.

19. Thoughts on Select Texts of Scripture, 12mo. 20. Historical Outline of the Book of Psalms, by Neale, 8vo; by Henderson, 1854, 8vo. Dr. Good contributed many papers to the periodicals of the day, and was for some time editor of the Analytical and Critical Review, and, we believe, of the New Annual Register, and the Gallery of Nature and Art. His review of the Junius controversy-sce our article on JUNIUS-is one of the finest pieces of criticism of modern times. There are few names that cast greater lustre upon the archives of British Medical Science and philological learning than that of John Mason Good. Good, Rev. Joseph. Poems, Lon., 1792, 8vo. Good, Thomas, D.D., Master of Baliol Coll., Oxf. Fermianus et Dubitantius; or, Dialogues concerning Atheism, Infidelity, and Popery, Oxf., 1674, 8vo.

Good, Thomas, Rector of Ashley, Worcestershire. Thanksgiving Serm. on Matt. v. 9, 1715, 4to. Good, Thomas. Speech in H. of Commons, 1800,

8vo.

Good, Wm. Measurers and Tradesman's Assistant, Edin., 1775, 8vo.

Goodacre, Robert. Educational, &c.works, 1803-12. Goodal, or Goodall, Walter, 1706-1766, a Scotch antiquary, a native of Banffshire, educated at King's Coll., Aberdeen, became librarian of the Advocates' Library, Edinburgh, and assisted Thomas Ruddiman in compiling the catalogue of that library upon the plan of the Bibliotheca Cardinalis Imperialis; it was pub. in 1742, fol. 1. An Exam. of the Letters said to be written by Mary Queen of Scots to James, Earl of Bothwell, shewing by intrinsic

evidence that they are forgeries. Also an Enquiry into the Murder of King Henry, Edin., 1754, 2 vols. 8vo. 2. An edit. with Emendatory Notes of Sir John Scott's Staggering State of Scots Statesmen, 1754. 3. An Introduc. to the Hist. and Antiq. of Scotland, Lon., 1769, 8vo; Edin., 1773, 12mo. Originally written in Latin, and prefixed to his edit. of Fordun's Scotichronicon: see FORDUN, JOHN DE. "His edition of Fordun was not executed with judgment." He contributed also a Pref. and Life to Sir James Balfour's Practicks, and some articles to Keith's New Catalogue of Scotch Bishops.

Goodall, Baptist, merchant. The Tryall of Trauell; or, 1. The Wonders in Trauell. 2. The Worthes of Trauell. 3. The Way to Trauell. In three bookes Epitomized, Lon., 1630, 4to. A poetical work of 40 leaves. Sir M. M. Sykes, Pt. 1, 1329, £5. Bibl. Anglo-Poet., 314, £12 128.

Goodall, Charles, M.D. 1. The College of Physicians vindicated against the Corner Stone, &c., Lon., 1874, 76, 8vo. 2. Hist. of the Roy. Coll. of Physicians, &c., 1684, 4to. 3. Hist. Acct. of the Coll.'s proceedings against Empyrics, &c., 1684, 4to.

Goodall, Charles. Poems and Translations, Lon., 1689, 8vo. Anon.

Goodall, Henry, D.D., Archdeacon of Suffolk and Preb. of Norwich. Serms., 1741, '51, '60. Goodall, John. Liberty of the Clergy by the Laws of the Realm. Printed temp. Hen. VIII. by R. Weir. Goodcole, Rev. Henry. 1. Fras. Robinson, Lon., 1618, 4to. 2. The Prodigal's Tears, 1620, 8vo. 3. Prayers, &c., 1620, 8vo. 4. London's Cry, 1620, 4to. 5. Eliz. Saw

yer, 1621, 4to. Goode, Francis. 1. The Better Covenant, 5th ed., Lon., 1848, fp. 8vo. Highly commended. 2. Serms. on before the Ch. Miss. Soc., 1838, 8vo. 4. Watch-Words of Doctrine, Practice, and Experience, 1838, 8vo. Gospel Truth, 12mo. 5. Posthumous Serms., 8vo. Goode, Wm.

1646, 4to.

3. Serm.

1. Serm., Lon., 1645, 4to. 2. Serm.,

Goode, Wm., 1762-1816, a native of Buckingham, entered of Magdalen Hall, Oxf., 1780; succeeded Mr. Romaine as Rector of St. Ann's, Blackfriars, London, 1795. 1. A New Version of the Book of Psalms, Lon., 1811, 2 vols. 8vo.

"A useful help to the devotional understanding of the Psalms, which are here translated into English verse, and in various metres."-Horne's Bibl. Brit.

"The poetical execution of Goode's version never rises above mediocrity."-Lon. Eclectic Rev.

2. Essays on all the Scriptural Names and Titles of Christ, 1822, 6 vols. 8vo.

"A most valuable elucidation of all the Scriptural Titles of the Redeemer."-Lowndes's Brit. Lib.

"A valuable work for ministers;-a mine for composition of sermons."

3. Eight Serms., separately pub., 1795, &c. See a memoir of Mr. Goode by W. Goode, Svo.

Goode, Wm., Rector of Allhallows the Great and Less, London, has pub. several treatises against the doctrines of the Oxford Tracts, and on other subjects, Lon., 1834-52. Among the best-known of his works are-1. The Extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit, 1834, 8vo. 2. The Established Church, 1834, 8vo. 3. Tracts on Church Rates, 1840, 8vo. 4. The Divine Rule of Faith and Practice, 1842, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., 1853, 3 vols. 8vo.

"This very able work is a defence of the great Protestant principle of the sufficiency of holy scripture, in opposition to the doo trine of Dr. Pusey and his party, who claim for tradition a coordinate authority with the written word of God. It is one of the able publications of the day."-Dr. E. Williams's C. P.

5. Two Treatises on the Church, by Drs. Jackson and Sanderson, and a Letter of Bp. Cosin. With Introduc. Remarks, 1843, sm. Svo.

"Seasonable truth against Tractarians.”—Bickersteth's C. S

6. Tract XC. historically refuted, 1845, 8vo. 7. Doctrine of the Ch. of Eng. as to the effects of Baptism in the case of Infants, 1849, 8vo. 8. Aids for determining some Disputed Points in the Ceremonial of the Ch. of Eng.; 2d ed., 1851, 8vo. 9. A Vindication of the Doctrine of the Ch. of Eng. on the Validity of the Orders of the Scotch and Foreign Non-Episcopal Churches, in three pamphlets: I. A General Review of the Subject; II. A Reply to Churton and Harrington, &c., 2d ed.; III. Reply to Bp. of Exeter, &c.; 3d ed., 1852, 8vo. 10. Letter to Sir W. P. Wood, Q.C., M.P., rel. to the Prayer Book; 2d ed., with the Answer of Sir W. P. Wood and the Author's Reply, 1852,

8vo.

Goodenough, Samuel, LL.D., 1743–1827, educated at Christ Church, Oxf.; Canon of Windsor, 1798; Dean of Rochester, 1802; Bishop of Carlisle, 1808.

"Quis gremio Enceladi doctique PALEMONIS affert QUANTUM GRAMMATICUS MERUIT LABOR ?”—Pursuits of Literature, ed. 1808, p.

332.

1. Serm., 1809, 4to. 2. Serm., 1812. 3. Con. in Nat. Hist. to Trans. Linn. Soc., 1792, '95, '98. See a Biog. Sketch of Bp. G. in Lon. Gent. Mag., xcvii. 366, 367.

Goodenow, John M. Amer. Jurisp. in Contrast with the Doct. of Eng. Com. Law, Steuben., Ohio, 1819, 8vo.

The professed object of the author is to prove that the Courts in Ohio were not possessed of Common Law Jurisdiction, and more especially in the case of crimes and offences at Common Law. The book is exceedingly scarce, less than one hundred copies having been printed."-Marvin's Leg. Bibl.; Griffith's Law Reg., 388; 12 Amer. Jur., 334.

Goodfellow, J. Universal Directory; or, Complete P. Assistant for Masters of Ships, &c., Lon., 1779, 8vo. Goodhugh, Wm., a learned bookseller of London, d. 1842, aged 43. 1. Crit. Exam. of Bellamy's Trans. of the Bible, 1822. 2. Gate to the French, Italian, and Spanish Languages unlocked. 3. Gate to the Hebrew, Arabic, and Syriac unlocked by a new and easy method of learning the Accidents, 1827, 8vo. 4. The English Gentle man's Library Manual; or, A Guide to the Formation of a Library of Select Literature, accompanied with original Notices, Biographical and Critical, of Authors and Books, 1827, 8vo. This volume does not exhibit a very comprehensive catalogue of books, but contains some good criticism and several interesting items of literary history. 5. A Course of XII. Lectures on the Study of Biblical Literature, Lon., 1838, 8vo. Re-issued under the title of Lectures on Biblical Literature.

"An admirable manual of topics connected with the history and Interpretation of the Scriptures. The author not only discovers a laudable enthusiasm for his subject, but he treats it like a master." -Lon. Congreg. Mag.

"It is with much pleasure we again meet a gentleman to whom the theological world is under great obligations for the very masterly manner in which he exposed the incompetency of John Bellamy

to the task of improving the received version of the Bible. We warmly recommend this work [the Lectures] to the attention of all who would render themselves familiar with the literature of the Bible."-Lon. Evangel. Mag., 1838, 595.

6. The Bible Cyclopedice. Mr. G. only lived to prepare this work to the letter R. It was pub. in 2 vols., fol. He had been engaged in its compilation for the three years preceding his death. In 1840 he issued proposals for a society to be called the Dugdale Society, for the elucidation of British Family Antiquity. But the project was not encouraged.

Goodinge, Thos. Law ag.B'krupts, 1719, '29, '41, 8vo. Goodison, Wm. An Hist. and Topog. Essay upon the Islands of Corfu, Leucadia, Cephalonia, Ithaca, and Zante, Lon., 1822, 8vo, pp. 267, with Maps and Sketches. "An interesting little volume, containing much curious matter not unworthy the attention of the scholar and the antiquary."

Lowndes's Bibl. Man.

Goodlad, Wm. Absorbent System, Lon., 1814, 8vo. Goodman, Christopher, 1520?-1601? a Puritan divine, educated at Brasenose Coll., Oxf., was a prominent advocate of the Reformation in Scotland. 1. How far Superior Powers ought to be obeyed of their Subjects, Geneua, 1558, 16mo.

"An absurd and factious pamphlet against Queen Mary." See Warton's Hist. of Eng. Poetry.

"Christopher Goodman almost filled up every chapter in this

book with railing speeches against the Queen, [Mary of England, and stirr'd up the people to rebel against her."-Heylin's Hist. of

the Reformation.

2. A Commentary upon Amos. Wood erroneously ascribes to Goodman John Knox's book, entitled The First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women. For accounts of Goodman, see KNOX, JOHN; Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon.; Strype's Life of Parker; Scott's Lives of the Scotch Reformers; Peck's Desiderata,

vol. i.

"The truth is, Goodman was a most violent nonconformist, and for rigidness he went beyond his friend Calvin, who remembers and mentions him in his epistles, 1561."-Athen. Oxon.

Goodman, Godfrey, 1583-1655, an English prelate, "and the only one who forsook the Church of England for that of Rome since the Reformation," was a native of Ruthvyn, Denbighshire, and educated at Westminster School and Trin. Coll., Camb.; Dean of Rochester, 1620; Bishop of Gloucester, 1625; suspended by Archbishop Laud, 1639: soon after his suspension he became a member of the Church of Rome. He pub. a treatise on the Fall of Man, 1624, 4to; Animad. on Hakewill on Providence, &c.; but is best known to modern readers by his Hist. of his Own Times, comprising Memoirs of the Courts of Eliza

S. Brewer, Lon., 1839, 2 vols. 8vo.

"An amusing and useful publication, abounding in anecdotes illustrative of the public characters of the latter end of Elizabeth's reign, and during the reign of James I. The bishop was a shrewd observer, and relates his facts and observations in a sensible, lively, and unaffected style."-Lon. Times.

Goodman, James. Serm. on Ps. lxxvi. 4.

Goodman, John, D.D., Rector of Hadham, Herts, and Archdeacon of Middlesex, pub. a Discourse on Auricular Confession, (see Gibson's Preservative, i. 10;) The Penitent Pardoned, 1679, 4to, often reprinted; some serms. and other theolog. treatises, 1674-97.

Goodman, Tobias, a Jewish Rabbi. Trans. of Rabbi Judias's Investigation of Causes, &c.; containing theolog. sentences, Lon., 1808, 12mo.

Goodrich, Rev. Charles A., of Hartford, Conn. 1. Lives of the Signers to the Declaration of Independence, Hartford, 1829, 8vo, pp. 460; Lon. and N. York, 1836, 8vo. 2. Hist. of the U. States of America. New ed., Boston, 1852, 12mo, pp. 425. The last ed. of this excellent work brings down the history to July 15, 1850. 3. Family Sabbath Day Miscellany, Phila., 1855, 12mo. 4. A Geography of the Chief Places mentioned in the Bible, and the Principal Events connected with them, New York, 18mo, pp. 195. Other works.

Goodrich, Charles B. Lowell Lectures: The Science of Government, as exhibited in the Institutions of the United States of America, Boston, 1853, 8vo. The value of expositions of this character-when ability, accuracy of statement, and popularity of style, are combined-cannot be too highly estimated; and in Mr. Goodrich's work

"The powers of the general government and the relations of the Federal and State authorities and laws are very carefully and thoroughly stated and explained. It makes an admirable book of reference, and is not encumbered with legal technicalities or the repulsive show of dry learning."

d.

1855, studied medicine, but never practised. Goodrich, Charles R., of Flushing, Long Island,

"His attainments as chemist and naturalist were extensive and accurate."

1. The World of Science, Art, and Industry, Illustrated with 500 drawings from the New York (1853) Exhibition. Edited by Prof. B. Silliman, Jr., and C. R. Goodrich, N. York, 1854, 4to.

"An exceedingly handsome work, got up with much taste and spirit."-Lon. Art Journal.

2. Practical Science and Mechanism Illustrated. Edited by C. R. Goodrich, aided by Professors Hall, Silliman, Jr., &c., 1854, 4to. This work professes to be

"A careful and laborious analysis of the present state of Science and the Arts throughout the world. with important statistical facts posted up to the present time, [1854.]"

The statistics of Coal and Minerals presented are of great value to the practical reader.

Goodrich, Chauncey A., D.D., b. Oct. 23, 1790, at New Haven, Conn., graduated at Yale College in 1810. In 1812 he became a tutor in that institution, and, at the request of President Dwight, prepared a Greek Grammar, which was extensively used in the schools and colleges of New England. This was followed by Greek Lessons, and Latin Lessons, designed to lead the pupil by regular stages into a knowledge of the ancient languages, on a plan afterwards applied to modern languages by Ollendorff. After two years spent in the ministry, he was appointed in 1817 Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in Yale College, the duties of which office, in part, he still performs, in connection with those of the professorship of Pastoral Theology, to which post he was appointed in

1839. In 1820 he was elected President of Williams

College, Massachusetts, but declined the office. Soon after the publication of Dr. Noah Webster's (father-inlaw to Dr. Goodrich) American Dictionary in 1828, he superintended an abridgment of the work, pub. in r. 8vo, for general use; and, with the author's consent, conformed the orthography, in most respects, to that which has been commonly received in the United States. In 1847 he pub. a revision of both the 4to and 8vo dictionaries, with large additions, the result of many years of labour, in which he was aided by his colleagues, Messrs. Silliman, Olmsted, &c. See N. Amer. Rev., lxvi. 256, 257. For a number of years Prof. G. discharged the duties connected with the editorship of the Quarterly Christian Spectator. But perhaps the most important contribution made by him to the literature of the age is his vol. entitled Select British Eloquence, embracing the Best Speeches Entire of the most eminent Orators of Great Britain for the last two Centuries, with Sketches of their Lives, an Estimate