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Gentleman,” is a publication from which 
those who take as much interest in North 
America and its affairs, as most English- 
men cannot but think they merit, will de- 
rive considerable satisfaction and enter- 
tainment. “ After travelling through al- 
most the whole of Great Britain and 
Freland, as well as through a considerable 
part of Holland, France, Switzerland, and 
Italy,” says the author on the opening of 
his first chapter, “‘I determined to cross 
the Atlantic, and visit the United States, 
a country which [ was particularly anxious 
of being personally acquainted with, as 
the descriptions I had read of it seemed to 
abound in contradictions.” ‘This heing 
premised, the reader is informed, that to- 
wards the end of the summer of 1822, the 
author ‘* set out from Gravesend, on-board 
a fine American ship of 350 tons;” ‘and, 
after being presented with some remarks 
6n the nature and incidents of the voyage, 
is carried to New York, where at that 
time the yellow fever prevailed. The 
consequent sombre and deserted state of 
that city being described, Philadelphia is 
visited, whence we successively proceed 
fo Baltimore, Washington, Lexington, 
Birkbeck’s Settlement, Cat’s Ferry, Long 
¥sland, Hudson River, the St. Lawrence, 
and Boston, the particularsof which places, 
in the various views taken of them, are 
highly interesting, and, displayed as they 
here are, offer a clear and luminous picture 
of men and things, as they exist in the 
United States. The government, as de- 
lineated in the fourth chapter; the Jaws, as 
explained in the fifth; the domestic slavery, 
as set forth in the eleventh; the missionaries, 
as depicted in the twelfth; the atcount of 
the backwoodsmen, as given in the four- 
teenth; the state of the navy, as presented 
in the eighteenth; of commerce, as treated 
in the nineteenth ; of the army, as exhibited 
in the twenty-first ; of education aad reli- 
gion, as considered in the twenty~eventh 
and twenty-eighth; and of the American 
character, as shown in twenty-nint! and 
last, are rendered striking objects of at- 
tention, and import much real value to the 
octavo volume, in which they are com- 
prised. To the manners of the Americans, 
objections have been felt by many Eng- 
lishmen, as being too coarse and homely; 
but we should rather say of them, that 
they are simple, and that, therefore, they 
please us. ‘Shortly after my arrival at 
Washington,” says the author, “as I was 
one day coming with a friend from visiting 
the public offices, he pointed out to mea 
well-dressed gentleman walking by himself. 
‘That,’ said he ‘is the ‘President of the 
United States.” When this great person- 
age met us,.my friend introduced me to 
him. I took off my hat, as a mark of 
respect; upon which the President did the 
same, and shook me by the hand, saying, 
he was-glad to see me.” Unbecoming the 
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supreme head of a great people, as this 
natuial and unaffected demeanor would, 
perhaps, appear to the eyes and under- 
standing of the despots and crouching 
courtiers of the European continent, to our 
comprehension it carries with it an air of 
candour and generosity that does honor ‘to 
the affability of power, and to the rightful 
dignity of the subject. When the writer 
of this just and expansive view of the United 
States, tells us, that the manly simplicity 
of the President impressed him with more 
respect than the absurd mummery of En- 
ropean potentates ; we fully enter into his 
feelings, and sincerely join him in the re- 
flection, that Mr. Monroe, placed at the 
head of the government of his native 
country, by the unanimous suffrage of 
eight millions of his fellow-citizens, has 
much more to be proud of than the petty 
distinetion of birth or fortune; and holds 
in that great family of the human race, a 
station immeasurably more exalted than 
that of a German Princeling. The exten- 
sive and liberal views taken by this work, 
of the general condition of the country it 
examines and describes,—of its politics and 
legislation, its external and internal rela- 
tions, its principles and habits, its soil and 
aspect, its fertility and productions, will be 
found to throw every required light on itsim- 
portant subject,and to wellrepay its perusal. 
A new edition of Horatius de Arte Poetica 
in the text of Gesner, and by so sound a 
scholar and able a commentator as Mr. 
Aylmer, is not an unacceptable offering to 
grammar-schools, especially as itis ac- 
companied with a copious collection of 
notes, original and select, the ordo 
verborum, figures of rhetoric, and a Ji- 
teral translation; and we are pleased with 
the feeling that has dictated to Mr. A. the 
propriety of dedicating the work to his 
venerable friend and quondam tutor, the 
Rev. Dr. Wool!, head-master of Ringley 
schoo!. This edition of a production of an 
ancient, whom ‘Anthony Blackwall so 
justly denominates a scholar and a critic, 
a gentleman and a courtier, will, we think, 
be found very useful to classical semina- 
ries, and to all ‘tyros in the Latin tongue. 
Of all'the Roman ‘poets, no one is more 
proper for the study of youth; his subjeet- 
matter is informing, his reflections are cor- 
rect and clear, and his style is easy and 
graceful; he quickens the mind of his 
readers, without exciting those passions 
that are in themselves sufficiently prompt; 
he treats of men and things in a way more 
calculated to produce wisdom and pru- 
dence, than artifice and cunning ; and, 
while ‘he opens to our conception the 
beauties ‘of the best authors, lays down 
the most valuable rules for attaining the 
art of good writing. Whether Bishop 
Hurd is correct in thinking that Horace 
wrote’ his epistle to the Pisos simply asa 
criticism of the drama, or Dacier in sup- 
I posing 
