ECLECTIC REVIEW. MDCCCXXXI. JULY- -DECEMBER. THIRD SERIES. VOL. VI. Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λέγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Επι- CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1. LONDON: HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. ACKERMANN'S Juvenile Forget-me-not Aikin's, Dr., Select Works of the British Poets, from Jonson to Beattie Alexander, Dr. A., on the Canon of the Old and New Testament Scriptures . 508 Bible Society. Its Constitution impartially examined. By a Brandram's, Rev. A., Letter to T. Pell Platt, on the Bible Society Burton's, Dr. E., Enquiry into the Heresies of the Apostolic Age Calmet's Dictionary of the Bible, with the Fragments incorporated Cellérier's Discourse on the Authenticity and Divine Origin of the Old Testament. Coleridge, S. T., on the Constitution of Church and State Considerations submitted to the Committee of the British and Foreign Bible Society, on the present Crisis of its Affairs. By a Secretary of an Auxiliary Bible Continental Annual and Romantic Cabinet Corbyn on the Management and Diseases of Infants under the influence of the Dewar, Dr. D., on the Nature, Reality, and Efficacy of the Atonement Edwards's Enquiry into the Freedom of the Will, with an Introductory Essay by the Author of the Natural History of Enthusiasm Haldane's, R., Review of the Conduct of the Committee of the Bible Society Hall's, Rev. R., Works. Published under the Superintendence of Dr. Ölinthus Jowett's Lyra Sacra Insect Miscellanies-Library of Entertaining Knowledge Jenour's Translation of the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, with Notes 469 La Trobe on the Music of the Church Letter to the Hon. and Rev. Baptist W. Noel on the Bible Society. By Fiat 469 81 Lives of Eminent British Statesmen-Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopædia Mackintosh's, Sir J., Dissertation on the Progress of Ethical Philosophy Observations addressed to the Trinitarian Friends and Members of the Bible Society. Reed's Discourse on Eminent Piety essential to Eminent Usefulness Religion in Greece; with Facts and Anecdotes Robertson's Works, with an Account of his Life and Writings by Dugald Stewart THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1831. Art. I. 1. On the Constitution of the Church and State, according to the Idea of Each; with Aids toward a right Judgement of the late Catholic Bill. By S. T. Coleridge, Esq., R.A., R.S.L. Small 8vo. pp. 227. Price 10s. 6d. London, 1830. 2. A Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of York, on the present Corrupt State of the Church of England. By R. M. Beverley, Esq. 8vo. Fifth Edition. pp. 42. Beverley, 1831. 3. Church Reform. By a Churchman. Second Edition, small 8vo. pp. 226. London, Murray, 1830. FEW EW writers of the present day are so capable of furnishing aids to reflection' as Mr. Coleridge; but, aids toward a right judgement' of any question, his mode of treating things is not the best adapted to supply. What the late Mr. Hall once remarked of Dr. Owen, may with still greater propriety be applied to the Author of "The Friend,"-that he 'dives deep and comes up muddy.'* He is, perhaps, the most comprehensive thinker of the age, but it is a comprehensiveness fatal to distinctness; and the vague, generalized survey of a subject, which he loves to take, reminds us of a bird's eye view of a tract of country, or of the appearance of the earth from a balloon. And, if we may pursue the simile, from the elevation to * Mr. Hall was peculiarly happy in repartee. York, (from whom we heard the anecdote,) was Dr. Mason, of New zealously expatiating on the merits of Dr. Owen as a writer: You must at least allow,' he said to Mr. Hall, that Owen dives deep.' 'Yes, sir,' was the reply, 'dives deep,' &c. as given above. Mr. Hall was ever ready, however, to do justice to Owen as a divine: it was to his prolix and perplexed style only that he referred. VOL. VI.-N.S. B |