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ACASTER'S Church in danger from herself,
465; interesting character of this discus-
sion, ib.; mode of treating the subject,
466; declension of the Church of Eng-
land, ib.; the power of ordination in the
Church left free and unfettered to the
bishops, 468; duty of the bishops, in the
examination of candidates for the minis-
try, 469; their deviation from the inten-
tion of the Church and the State, ib; guilt
of those who undertake the ministerial of-
fice with undevout habits and temper, 471;
character of the English clergy at the time
of the appearance of the Wesleys and
Whitfield, ib.; the question between the
evangelical and orthodox parties in the
Church, 472; residence of the clergy,
473, 476; reflections upon the non-resi-
dence and neglect of the clergy, 474; in-
terpretation of the law relative to the
irregularity of t
of the Church,
ergy, ib.; services
clesiastical dignities, 477; the dispensing
the purchase of ec-
power of the archbishop of Canterbury, ib.;
pluralists, 479; consequences of plural-
ities, 481; perversion of episcopal visit-
ations, 482; grounds of remonstrance
urged by the author, 484; object and de-
sign of this article, ib.; ultra dissenters,
485; necessity for a reform in the Church,
486; causes of the weak influence of
public opinion upon the urch of Eng-
land, 487; consequences of corrupt ap-
pointments in the Church, 488; conse-
quences of the jealousies and hostilities
of the members of the Church, 489; dis-
senters to blame for the negligence and
secularity of the bishops and clergy, 492;
the necessary qualifications for a bishop,
493; consequences which would result
from a suppression of sectarianism, 494;

duty of dissenters at the present crisis,

495.

Afghans, history of, 431; their descent
from king Saul, ib.

Africa, North, the land of mystery and ro-
mance, 3; correspondence on the Ethio-
pian Sea, and the ancient Atlantide
Island, 1; Ibn Batouta's travels in, 10.
Age, the, a poem, 161; character of the
work, with extracts, 163.

Aids to development, 142; character of this
work, 144.

Alfred's (king) Anglo Saxon version of
Boethius de Consolatione Philosophiæ,
character of, 399; his additions to the
treatise, ib.

will, with a translation and notes,

402.
Almanac, the lady's, a tasteful annual, 557.
America, its recent discovery, 365; its re-
action upon Europe, 369; its remark-
able character, ib.; its population, 370;
its commerce, 372; cause of republic-
anism, 375; necessarily pacific, 377;
Sabbath in, 390; resemblance between
the English and American institutions,
392; condition of women in, 395.
American Indians, their origin, 116; coin-
cidences between their customs and those
of the Jews, 119; diversities among
them, 125; languages of, 126.
Americans as they are, character of this
work, 389; Sabbath in America, 390.
Americans, notions of the, by a travelling
bachelor, 365; religion in America, 379;
character of this work, 389; condition of
women in America, 395.
Amulet, the, extracts from, 450.
Andes, the, 108.

Angling, delights of, 433.
Anglo-Saxon dialects, 401.

a

Annuals, the, 436; engravings of, 550.
Annuals, the juvenile, 460.
Aristocracy of England, 374.
Avalanche, description of one, 346.

Babel, an appellation given to an extensive
territory, 498.

Babylon, extent of, 496; see Mignan.
Bailey's exposition of the parables of our
Lord, character of this work, 221, 227;
the prodigal son, ib.; arrangement of the
parables, 226; the parable of the wedding
garment, 227.

Belfour's travels of Macarius, patriarch of
Antioch, 419, 428; storm on the sea of
Marmora, 429; image worship at Con-
stantinople, 429.

Benefices, sometimes purchased by dissent-
ers for the purpose of conferring them
on good men, 154; a wrong system
which requires or admits of such inter-
position, ib.; consequences of it, 156.
Berne, recent persecutions in, 299; state
of religious parties there, 802.
Biography, classes of, 149, 169.
Biography, Scripture, character of, 541.
Bird's original psalmody, 362.
Blunt's lectures on the history of Jacob,
character of this work, 541; character of
Jacob, ib.; his vow, 544; spiritual lesson
taught by Jacob's pillar, ib.

lectures on the history of Peter,
character of the work, 541; Peter's con-
fession of faith, 545; the temper in which
the Christian should wait the coming of
his Lord, 546; Peter's recovery, 548.
Boethius, the celebrated Roman, 398.
Bond's memoir of Fisk, 169; character
of, 170.

Botany; see Hooker and Curtis.
Brand's journal of a voyage to Peru, 93;
contrast between the ladies of Lima and
those of Buenos Ayres, 106; religious
worship at Buenos Ayres, ib.; religious
ceremonies at Lima, 107; descent of
the Cordillera of the Andes, 110; pas-
sage of a drove of mules across the La-
dera de las Vacas, 111.

Brown's biographical sketches and authen-

tic anecdotes of dogs, character of the
work, 259; tales of canine freakishness,
260; Sir W. Scoll's bull-dog terrier, 261.

Canton of Vaud, persecutions in, 299.
Cardale's translation of king Alfred's

Anglo-Saxon version of Boethius, 398;
character of this work, 400; Anglo-
Saxon dialects, 401.
Chaldea; see Mignan.

Christian gentleman, portraiture of a, 248.
Christianity, divine origin of; see Shep-
pard.

Christianity, revival of, in France, Switzer-

land, the Netherlands, Germany, &c., 299.
Chronological guide, a judicious work, 270.
Church, the established, benefits of, 380;
security of, 383; see Acaster.
Cocoa-nut, the double, 403.
Comets, form distinct classes of bodies,
more numerous and important in the
economy of the system than planets,
287; their substances and composition,
288; their tails, 289; the history of
opinion in connection with cometary
phenomena, 290; perturbations occa-
sioned by planetary attraction, 294;
supposed consequences which would re-
sult from the near approach of a comet
to the earth, 296.

Cræsus, remarks on his consulting the

oracles, 35; sacrifices offered upon the

occasion, ib.

Crombie's discourses on the character and
offices of Christ, illustrated by a com-
parison with the typical characters of the
Old Testament, 243; character of this
work, 246, 247; tests by which the an-
cient types and shadows are to be tried,
ib.; Joseph and Christ, 247.

Curtis's botanical magazine, 403; the
double cocoa-nut, ib.

Development of the mental and moral

powers, 142.

Dobson's advantages and deficiencies of the
Protestant reformation, 66; the stand
made at its outset, for the authority and
sufficiency of the Sacred Writings, 67;
the change it effected in the mode of con-
templating religion, and the new light
in which it placed the great subject of
our acceptance with God, ib.; the emi-
nent degree which it contributed to the
subversion of the scholastic theology, 68;
the deficiencies of the reformation, in the
continuance of the general form and con-
stitution of the Church, and the leading
principles of ecclesiastical doctrine and
polity; and in the retaining in the ritual
of the Church much of the meretricious
appendages of Popish superstition, ib. ;
character of Mr. Dobson's work, ib. ;
struggle of the reformers to maintain the
perfection of the Scriptures, 69; doc-
trines of Popery at the period of the Re-
formation, 70; appeal to Protestant Dis-
senters to exemplify the spiritual nature
Doddridge's, Dr. P., correspondence and
of Christ's kingdom, 71.
diary, 410; Mr. Humphreys's account of
the design of the publication, 411; its
impropriety, 413; extracts from his
early letters, 415; his character as a
writer, 418.

Donkin's, Sir Rufane, dissertation on the

Niger, 1; see Niger.
Dorn's history of the Afghans, translated
from the Persian, 419.

Education, mistakes in, 142; the de-
velopment of the faculties, its object,
144; duties of Christians in reference to

this subject, 269.
Electric phenomena, inquiry into, 132;
affinity of electric and chemical agency,
133; some modification of electricity
probably at the root of many changes
and effects consequent upon aërial influ-
ence, 134; spectral illusions, 140.
Ellis's Polynesian researches, character of
this work, 512; analogy between the
language of the aborigines of Madagascar
and the Malays, and the Polynesians, 513;
resemblance between the Polynesians
and the American tribes, 514; South
Sea Islands peopled from the East, 515;
every hypothesis as to the origin of the
Polynesians encumbered with difficulties,
516; alliance between some of the Poly-
nesian traditions and the Hindoo cosmo-
gony, 517; singular predictions pre-
served by the islanders, 518.
Emmanuel, an annual, its name objection-
able, 554; extracts from, 555.
England, its moral and political influence,
366; its constitution, 374.
Engravings in the annuals, 550.
Ethiopian sea, the, Sir Sidney Smith's no-
tion of its situation, 2; Isaiah's refer-
ence to it, ib.

Euphrates, the course of, at Babylon, 497.

Fayette, La, en Amérique, 388; ladies of
New York, 397.

Fenelon's devout meditations, 557.
Fenelon, remarks upon some parts of his
Telemachus, 39.

Fisk, Rev. Pliny, memoirs of, 169; his
description of Jerusalem, 171; extract
from a letter on the support of mission-
aries, 172; letter written a few days be-
fore his death, 173.

Flaxman's lectures on sculpture, 333;
character of this work, 334, 342; sketch
of Flaxman's career, ib.; criticism on
Wells cathedral, 337; colouring inap-
plicable to statuary, 339; the effect of
sculpture essentially distinct from that of
painting, 341; history of Grecian art,
342.

Forget me not, the, extracts from, 439.
Forster's illustration of the atmospheric
origin of epidemic disorders of health,
132; connexion of health and disease
with the state of the air, 133; planetary

influence upon nervous or mental ma-
lady, 134; general periodicity of nature,
136; distinction between contagious and
infectious diseases, 137; influence of
comets on the human body, 138; epi-
demics aependent on atmospherical causes,
139; spectral illusions, 140.
Friendship's offering, extracts from, 445.

Genesis, the book of, in English-He-
brew, 90.

Geographical discovery, progress of, 93.
Gesenius's Hebrew lexicon, 40; character
of this work, 41, 45; advantages and
disadvantages of the alphabetical arrange-
ment, ib.; definition of the word 78;
misconceptions of Gesenius, 43.
Giorgione, a famous Venetian painter, 237.
Grenville's, lord, Oxford and Locke, 181;
his view of Locke's expulsion from Ox-
ford, 193; his eulogy on Locke, 194;
his conduct towards dissenters, ib.
Grimshawe's memoir of Rev. Legh Rich-
mond, 148; classes of biographical me-
moir, 149; character of this work, ib. ;
account of Mr. Richmond's last illness
and death, 150; his nomination to the
rectory of Turvey through the medium
of dissenters, 153; benefices purchased
by dissenters, for the purpose of con-
ferring them upon good men, 154.
Haigh's sketches of Buenos Ayres and

Chile, 93; character of, 108; snow storm
on the summit of the Cumbre, 109.
Hall's, Capt. B., travels in North America,
365; benefits of the English Established
Church, 380; method of preserving
friendly relations between England and
America, 385; discussions with the Ame-
ricans, 387; character of Captain Hall's
work, 388.

Hall's, Judge, letters from the West, cha-
racter of the work, 391.

Hall's, Mrs. S. C., sketches of Irish cha-

racter, 72; village of Bannow, ib.; effect
of civilization in reuniting distinct tribes
and nations, 73; specimen of Anglo-Irish,
ib.; the Bannow postman, 81; charac-
ter of Mrs. Hall's sketches, 83.
Harrison's tales of a physician, 72; cha

racter of this work, 84; the Jew, ib.
Head's rough notes, 93; character of them,
108; journey to the silver mines of San
Pedro Nolasco, 113.
Heber, bishop, some account of his life,
a catch-penny publication, 262.
Henry's letters to a friend, intended to re-
lieve the difficulties of an anxious in-
quirer, under serious impressions on the
subjects of conversion and salvation,
174; Dr. J. P. Smith's character of

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