Impey has done in his version to the lines of one to whom he was used to look with affectionate veneration, and who early detected and assiduously fostered the talents which have so well repaid his care. "GUARRENO HASTINGS. "O decus imperii, cui Ganges paruit ingens, "To the Right Hon. Warren Hastings. Translated from the Latin of Dr. Vincent, Dean of Westminster. "O thou, of India's weal the source and soul prey : And to his harem, taught to roam no more, Yes! still thou liv'st, in Daylesford's calm retreat And many a wreath, which later brows hath crown'd, Take then thy due: though sparing of her praise The Muses' gift; for thine is ev'ry Muse." P. 278. We shall take an early opportunity of returning to Mr. Impey, who, as we rejoice to hear, has another volume in the press. MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS. DIVINITY. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Gloucester, at the Third Visitation of that Diocese, in the Year 1822. By Henry Ryder, D.D. 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A Work entitled, Royal Naval Biography; consisting of Genealogical, Biographical, and Historical Memoirs of all the Flag-Officers, Captains, and Commanders of his Majesty's Fleet, now living, is nearly ready for the Press. To be published by Subscription.. A new Translation of the Tragedies of Sophocles, by Mr. T. Dale, of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, is preparing for Publication. A new Edition of Bythner's Lyra Prophetica, in one Volume, Octavo, will appear in November. A Work on the Subject of our Possessions in India, entitled, "An Inquiry into the Expediency of applying the Principles of Colonial Policy to the Government of India, and of effecting an essential Change in its Landed Tenures, and in the Character of its Inhabitants," will shortly be published in an Octavo Volume. Fifty Lithographic Prints, illustrative of a Tour in France, Switzerland, and Italy, during the Years 1819-20, and 21; from Original Drawings, taken in Italy; the Alps, and the Pyrenees, by Marianne Colston, are preparing for Publication. Shortly will be published, a very considerable Portion of the celebrated Treatise of Cicero de Republica, discovered by M. Angelo Mai, the Keeper of the Vatican Library, in a Codex Rescriptus. Mr. T. G. Lockhart, has in the Press, in a small Quarto Volume, Sixty English Ballads, translated from the Spanish, with Notes and Illustrations. The Rev. T. R. England, of Cork, is printing, in an Octavo Volume, a Life of the Rev. Arthur O'Leary, including many unpublished Documents, relative to the Irish Catholics. Mr. Bowring intends shortly to publish a Second Volume of Specimens of the Russian Poets. The Cento, a Volume of Prose Selections, from the most approved Works of living Authors, will appear in the Course of the ensuing Month. THE BRITISH CRITIC, FOR OCTOBER, 1822. ART. I, A Manual of Chemistry; containing the principal Facts of the Science, arranged in the Order in which they are discussed and illustrated in the Lectures at the Royal Institution of Great Britain. By William Thomas Brande, &c. &c. &c. Murray. 1821. THIS is a book made after the modern fashion; being compiled from other works by the same author, and chiefly from the Supplement to the Encyclopædia Britannica, to which he is known to have contributed sundry articles. The "History of Chemistry," for example, which is prefixed to the first of the three volumes now before us, is a mere abridgment of a certain Dissertation on the same subject, which Mr. Brande furnished for the publication just named: the main body of the work is the article "chemistry," which originally appeared in the same quarter; whilst the chapter on geology is a new edition of a treatise bearing a somewhat similar title, and given to the world, in a separate form, five or six years ago. But our business is with the contents of the book, viewed as a scientific performance, rather than with its history, considered as an article of commerce; we shall, therefore, give our opinion of its merits in a very few words. The historical part is meagre and not very well written; but, in recompense, its details are marked with sufficient candour and discrimination, and there is, throughout, the greatest fairness in the allotment of merit to all who have had any share in discovery or invention. Nor are we aware that any remarkable event in the annals of chemical enquiry is either forgotton or incorrectly narrated. The main deficiency appears in the history of principle rather than in that of facts; and the scientific reader, accordingly, has, in many places, to regret the absence of such information as would connect together the several epochs of chemical discovery VOL. XVIII OCTOBER, 1822. Ꮓ |