ART. 35. We have here the picture of a truly faithful and valuable paftor who had officiated in the parish Church of Leeds, fucceffively as curate and lecturer, nearly fifty years. Mature as he must have been for death, after fo long a period of fincerely pious service, it appears from the difcourfe, that his removal was lamented, as that of an amiable and affectionate friend, and even as a near and dear relative. It is more painful to read, that after fo long labour he should leave his family in want of aid. This is fufficiently accounted for, by the following paffage of the Sermon. "Though his income was finall, and his family large, yet he not only paid his juft debts with the moft fcrupulous exactnefs, but it may faid of him, as juftly as it was of the Macedonian Christians, that to his power, and, beyond his power, he was always willing to contribute to every work which had for its object the promotion of religion or charity." P. 14. Mr. Atkinfon is defcribed as at once zealous for true religion, ́and free from all fanaticifm, "He did not felect fome one doctrine from the facred Scriptures, and make it the perpetual theme of his difcourses, to the exclufion of others equally important; but like a workman that needeth not to be afhamed, he rightly divided the word of truth. Nor did he teach the doctrines of religion, as abftract points of fpeculation, or curious queftions to amufe the understanding. No. He confidered them in their true light, as motives to practice, as the powerful means of fanctifying the heart, and raising the affections to heaven: he therefore frequently entered into the detail of moral precept, and taught all thofe relative duties which we are required to perform in the various fituations of life, that Providence has af figned us." P. io. May the circulation of this difcourfe contribute fomething to the comfort of that family, which has loft so ineftimable a guide, ART. 36. A Prefent or Reward to thofe Girls who have left their Sunday School with Improvement and a good Character. By a Lady. 8vo. Frome. 1811, This fenfible and ufeful tract is printed for the purposes expreffed in the title page, by a venerable female, who has been employed in teaching female children in a Sunday School for more than fourteen years, and who is now feventy-four years old. We have here the fubftance of her lectures, which are judicious, and and cannot fail to make a falutary impreffion upon the ingenu ous and youthful minds of thofe for whofe particular benefit they were more immediately intended. No bookfeller's name in the metropolis appears in the title page, which we are inclined to regret, as the tract might be very properly recommended to the attention of all who are engaged in a fimilar branch of in. ftruction. ART. 37. Abort Sermon. To which is added, the good Man's comfortable Companion: or, a daily Preparation for Heaven: wherein are Directions for paffing our Days well and gratefully to God. With Divine Meditations, Prayers, and Ejaculations, fitted for the feveral Times and Occafions of offering them to God. Alfo, a Collection of excelient Prayers for Morning and Evening, for every Day in the Week. 12mo. 24 pp. Naufan, Man chefter. 1809. The Sermon is fhort indeed, and would be delivered within three minutes. Probably it is a peroration; and is certainly very pious and interesting. The rest of this little work is of the fame character perhaps it may appear, in a few inftances, a little enthufiaftic; certainly it is not cold and formal, but full of devout animation. The concluding hymn is not fo correctly poetical as might be wifhed. ART. 38. A Charge delivered to the Archdeaconry of Sarum on the 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th of June, 1810. By the Rev. Charles Daubeny, Archdeacon of Sarum. 8vo. 32 PP. 1s. 6d. Rivingtons. 1810.. The fubjects on which this learned and zealous Archdeacon addreffes his Clergy in this Charge may be faid to be four: First, the neceffity of energy and union among themselves; 2dly, the Lancaftrian mode of education; 3dly, the British and Foreign Bible Society; 4thly, the decifion of Sir John Nicholl in the cafe of Mr. Wickes: On the last of these subjects, the Reverend author has fince published a truly valuable tract, which accidental circumftances alone, and not any degree of inattention to the cafe or to the writer, have hitherto prevented us from noticing. For this omiffion, we fhall speedily make ample amends. On the third topic we have the misfortune to differ a little from Mr. D. which we fhould do with great diffidence, had we not confidered the fubject with particular care and attention. On this point, therefore, we shall only remark, that the very dif tant places to which that fociety very principally fends its do nations of books, totally preclude any kind of interference by way of interpretation or comment *. Bibles fent to the extre We do not quite like the anecdote relating to the Welch Bibles told in p. 22, on high authority; but we doubt not that it will admit of a fatisfactory explanation. X 2 mities, mities of the old and new world without any printed comment, cannot be made inftruments in the hands of unfair interpreters. On the fubject of the Lancaftrian fchool, the Archdeacon gives an excellent piece of advice, namely, that the Clergy fhould where occafion prefents itfelf, and fo far as their influence may extend, adopt this new fyftem of education as their own; for the purpose of making it what in their eyes it ought to be; on the firm perfuafion, that the ingenious part of the plan in queftion will not be rendered lefs effectual, by being combined with what by them must be confidered to be effential to its perfection, as a Chritian plan." P. 13. This is the more eafy to be done, because the directions and assistance of Dr. Bell, the real author of the fyftem. are as eafy to be had as those of Mr. Lancafer. The exhortation to union and co-operation among the Clergy, in the first part of this Charge, is highly worthy of their atten. tion. They appear, the Archdeacon fays, "almoft to have for. gotten, that they are not independent individuals, but members of a fpiritual fociety;" and when he mentions one publication, intended for their benefit, which has fallen for want of due fupport, he might alfo have alluded to. another, which, though it is indeed fupported at prefent, by no means experiences that energy of patronage, which can reward it for the conflicts it has long fuftained; or raife it to any thing like that height of fecurity, which the meanest diffenting publication is certain to obtain from the zeal of its adherents. MISCELLANIES. ART. 39. It is pleafing to us to obferve, that increafing attention feems to be paid to the ftudy of geography among junior ftudents. We can remember when it was not fo much cultivated as it ought to have been, and we have known young men, otherwise very refpectably accomplished, miferably deficient in geographical knowledge. The purfuit is now rendered more eafy, by a number of perfpicuous and ufeful publications, among which this by Mr. Dix merits our particular recommendation. There can be no doubt of the utility of copying geographical maps, and the procefs here pointed out and explained by Mr. Dix, is as fimple and effective as can be required. ART. 40. A Letter to Henry Cline, Efq. on Imperfect Developements of the Faculties, Mental and Moral, as well as Conftitutional and Organic, and on the Treatment of Impediments of Speech. By John Thelwall, Esq. Profeffor of the Science and Pradice Practice of Elocution. 8vo. 271 pp. 7s. R. Taylor and Co. 1810. "Speechleffnefs," fays Mr. Thelwall, when neither refulting from ideocy nor deafnefs is, in reality, a malady of nondevelopement of faculty, affignable to educational caufes." P. 128. The non-developementnefs of our faculties, whether arifing from educational caufes, or otherwife, prevents our comprehending the meaning of this author; our readers, therefore, we truft, will excufe our Speechlessness, and reft fatisfied with the above fhort quotation from his work. MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. DIVINITY. The Chriftian Alphabet, confifting of 1. An Evidence of Genuine Chriftianity 2. Its ever unchangeable Identity in fine, 3. Its Refemblance with the Human Frame. Together with an Appendix, pointing out the Means of effecting the neceffary Peace of Christendom, The whole illuftrated by a Scriptural, Traditional, and Ocular Demonftration of the Church. By Andronicus McCartan, M.D. 8s. The Ten Commandments illuftrated by concurring Paffages in the Old and New Teftament, and by their Connection, forming a complete Syftem of Morality, and teaching the Whole Duty of Man A Charge, delivered by the Rev. S. 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