of the golden age, which it should be, according to our author's proposition, would be such a return, through misery to barbarism, as appa's the imagination. Can the author point out any one manufacture in which the number of persons employed, has been permanently diminished, or has not eventually increased, by the introduction of machi nery? and if not, what becomes of his leading proposition?

Dr. Lang's Theory of the Polynesian Nation. 7s. 6d.

THE theory of the author is, that America was originally peopled from the South Sea Islands; and that these were colonized from the ancient Malayan empire,' in the island of Sumatra. This view of the origin and the migrations of the Polynesians is supported with much ingenuity and industry. Many curious correspondences between the manners, customs, languages, &c. of the Indians of America, of the South Sea, and of China, are adduced as evidence of original identity; and, in some remarkable differences, are detected the dates of the supposed migrations. The first portion of the hypothesis is not improbable; but the second is encumbered with too much difficulty to be received as the solution of the old problem of the peopling of America. Civilization does not travel in stray canoes, feeding on human flesh by the way; nor can the materials of empire be drifted across the waters like the frame-work of a ship or galley. The founders of the Mexican state must have had ampler means than could have belonged to a shipwrecked cargo of wandering islanders, differing in no respect from the progenitors of the New Zealand savages.

France, Social, Literary, and Political. By H. L. Bulwer. 2 vols. SHOULD any body neglect these volumes, (as we hear that some persons are disposed to do,) merely because Henry Lytton Bulwer is not Edward Lytton Bulwer, they will do a foolish thing, and be punished as they deserve, by the act itself. In spite of some pretension, and some affectation, this work is rich in amusement and in information. We are at present only favoured with a portion of it; and, apparently, it will require three or four volumes more to complete the author's plan. From the sketch before us, we hope this national portrait will be completed. The epitomized view of M. Guerry's Statistique morale de la France,' particularly deserves attention.

Godwin's Lives of the Necromancers.

MR. GODWIN cannot but write eloquently and powerfully; and the subject of this work is one which even a much inferior pen must have made interesting. Yet, though interested, we are not altogether satisfied. The author does not seem to have gone into it con amore, but rather to have treated it as moral task-work. We would rather that it had been within the scope of this book' to show the modes in which the delusion acts upon the person through whom it operates.' Mr. Godwin would have excelled in such an exhibition, and might have produced a philosophy of magical biography worthy of the author of that glorious romance, St. Leon.' Still we are thankful for what he has done, and feel the truth of his apology for not doing more, viz. that he loves 'in the foremost place, to contemplate man in all his honours, and in all the exaltation of wisdom and virtue.'

Jepththa's Daughter, a Dramatic Poem. By W. J. Chapman.

SOME passages in this drama may claim the praise of pure sentiment and agreeable versification; but as a whole we cannot admire either its passion or its poetry. The following extract from the preface has, in our apprehension, more of the latter quality than any portion of the poem itself. We give it as a favourable introduction to the author :

Ever and anon, in the history of the Church, we meet with the names of remarkable women, who, like the chaste tree, spread sweetness around them, and were lovely in their lives; pearls of price and blossoms of hope in times of doubt and danger; types, and signs, and revealings; instinct with graces and filled with wisdom; whose memories skirt, at intervals, like lesser stars, the outline of times foregone, and who foreshow the coming of that glorious epoch, when the reign of Justice shall be established upon the earth, and woman, as a consequence thereof, be restored to her original equality with man.

I may have failed in attempting to express the character of the maid of Gilead; her gentleness and her devotion; her maidenly modesty and childlike simplicity, shadowing like a veil the beautiful features of pious heroism; her willingness to die according to the very letter of her father's vow, “forasmuch as the Lord hath taken vengeance for thee of thine enemies, even of the children of Ammon;" but at least a lovely vision has passed before mine eyes, and I have seen the lilies and the roses of Palestine, and a flower of exceeding beauty, Almah, the only one of her father-and am thankful.' The subject is not a good one for poetry. It must either be mystified, or exhibited as a revolting one, which it is. The attempt to idealize the character of a man who, even in the state of society in which Jephtha lived, colud make and keep such a vow, must ever be a forlorn endeavour.

Tales of the British People. By Candida.

The Reformed Parliament; Songs for the Many; and Miscellanies. By Two of the People.

INASMUCH as both of these publications are Radical, we sympathize in their spirit; but it is impossible to award our praise to their execution. The humour of the first is too broad, and the verse of the second too conventional, for our taste. A literature thoroughly imbued with antiaristocratic feelings and principles, must spring up in our country; and it is the more desirable that it should bear the stamp of genuineness and real refinement. If the Lines' by M. S. (one of the people), which have much beauty in them, were really written (i. e. the emotions they express really felt) under the branches of a poplar-tree,' we confess ourselves at fault in our criticism.

Milton's Prose Works. 8vo. 25s. We hold it a duty to announce this cheap republication. Milton's prose ought to be permanent neading for the people of England. Neither its subjects, nor its spirit, are out of date. The Church is now what it was then; and the place of a licenser of the press is filled, as far as it can be, by the taxes on knowledge. So let the ancient eloquence combine with the modern logic to enforce the claims of mental freedom. Moreover, it is good that humanity should be studied in such a specimen as Milton. The popular circulation of his works is beneficial for the national character, which must advance by the contemplation of the fair proportions of his majestic mind.

Holland's Inquiry into the Principles and Practice of Medicine. Vol. I. DR. CALVERT HOLLAND is already known as a physiologist, by his

Experimental Inquiry into the Laws of Organic and Animal Life,' a work which contains new views on several points of considerable importance. In the present work the author endeavours to point out the practical bearing of some of those views, and to show in general the importance of making physiology the basis of medicine. Physiology is the science which investigates the actions natural to the various organs of the body; disease consists in some deviation from those natural actions; to appreciate the deviation it is necessary to understand the regular course; and this is equally indispensable, in order, with any degree of certainty, to discover and apply a remedy capable of changing the deranged to a sound state. What anatomy is to the surgeon, physiology should therefore be to the physician; but the art of anatomy is easily brought to a high degree of perfection, and is not difficult to be acquired; whereas, of all the subjects of investigation to which the human mind can apply itself, physiological research is among the most difficult, on account of the obscurity and complexity of the conditions. and relations of life, which constitute the subject-matter of it. Yet before any physiological principle can be a safe guide in the practice of medicine, it must not only be in itself certain and clear, but it must be known in all its relations. Now there are not many such physiological principles established; and there are few physicians who are familiar even with those that may be considered as ascertained. The application of physiology to medicine must therefore at present necessarily be partial and imperfect; but this is no reason why the application should not be made as far as it can be done, and it is an indication that medicine is advancing from an art into a science, that the cultivators of it are at length beginning to be sensible of the right mode in which it should be studied and practised; and are anxious to turn to a useful account, at the bedside of the sick, whatever they may have learnt relative to the laws of the animal economy.

Without entering into disquisitions scarcely in place in this publication, and at all events without a greater space than can be here allotted to them, it would be impossible to examine the merits of Dr. Holland's work. It is, however, well deserving the attention not only of the physiologist but of the physician; not only of the student but of the practitioner. Some of the principles stated in it are, to a considerable extent, new and sound; are expressed with clearness and reasoned with acuteness, and to many medical men the applications suggested must appear no less novel than they really are important. The defects of the work are, that it is diffuse; that it abounds with repetitions; that its matter is not well arranged and digested, and that instead of once for all stating and developing a principle, and showing its relations, it is partially reasoned in one place, adverted to in a second, while promises are perpetually given that it will be more completely elucidated in a third. We think the author would greatly increase the usefulness of the remaining portion of his work, if he will take pains to condense, to classify, and to render as connected and complete as possible the statement and illustration of whatever principle he attempts to elucidate.

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