1823.] 



For tlioe, love, — for thee, love, — 



My fond heart would resign 

 Tlie brightest cup that Pleasure fills. 



And Fortune's wealthiest i^ne : 

 For Pleasnre's smiles are vanity, 



Aud Fortune's fade or flee; 

 There's purity aud constancy 



In thee, love, — only thee. 



For thee, love, — for Ihee, love, — 



Life's lowly vale I'll tread, 

 And aid thy steps the. journey through, 



Nor quit thee till I'm dead; 

 And even then, round her 1 love 



Sly shade shall hovering be, 

 And warble notes from heaven above 



To thee, love, — only thee. 



James Shergold Boone, m.a. (in a 

 volume entitled Men and Things in 1823,) 

 after a preface boasting of his indepen- 

 dence, has prostituted his poetical powers 

 by a fulsome panegyric on Mr. Canning. 

 The praise of persons in high stations is 

 always suspicious, and has often degraded, 

 but never raised, the votaries of the 

 Muses. We regret this the more on the 

 present occasion, because Mr. Boone ap- 

 pears to be capable of better things ; and, 

 from the conchiding lines, we are prepared 

 to expect a work that may do him honour. 



Enough !— the IMuse, if now not woo'd in vain. 



May soon, perchance, attempt a bolder strain. 



He who, tho' anxious onward to explore. 



Ha? kept his little bark in sight of shore. 



May venturous launch hereafter on the sea 



With steadier hand, — but not with heart more free ! 



Mr. AcKERMANN is indefatigable in 

 adding to the ornament and utility of the 

 juvenile library. The seventh aud eighth 

 divisions of his (Votld in Miniulure, two 

 volumes each, are now before us. They 

 illustrate the manricr.s, character, and cos- 

 tumes, of Austria and of China ; the for- 

 aier with thirty-two, and the latter with 

 thirty, coliiured engravings. Of these vo- 

 lumes it is .sufficient to say, that they are 

 inferior in no respect to the parts that 

 were previously published. 



Alexander Tilloch (now ll.d.) has 

 been long known to the literary world, as 

 the editor of that respeciable publication, 

 the " Philosophical Magazine." We are 

 (lOiry to learn, that ill health has obliged 

 this gpiitknian to resign his active em- 

 ploynienl«, and to leave Ibe metropolis; 

 but such a nnnd as hi» cannot be idle: an 

 octavo volume, entitled Disserlutions intro- 

 ductory to the Sludij and rigid UndcrblunJiiig 

 of the Language, Structure, and Contenls, 

 of the Aiioculypsi', is ihe tirst fruit of his 

 retirement. Persuaded (says the author) 

 that lie has discovered the nature of those 

 peciiliaiities in \\u- composition of the 

 Apocalypse, which have perplexed men 

 of Incomparably higher attaiiimculs, and 

 have led to the erroneous opinion, so 

 generally entertained, rci. peeling its style, 

 he thinks that he but performs a duly to 

 bis fellow Cliristiam, in giving [uiblicity to 

 that discovery ; and the mine so as, from 

 the precniioijs slate (jf liis health, it is 

 very probable that he may not live lo finish 



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Literary and Critical Protmium. 545 



a larger work, — devoted to the elucidation 

 of the Apocalypse, with which he has been 

 many years occupied : but, whether that 

 work shall ever see the light or not, it is 

 hoped that the other topics, connected 

 Willi the subject, introduced into this 

 volume, may also prove serviceable to 

 persons engaged in the same pursuit." 

 We must leave to other journals, to whose 

 province it more peculiarly belongs, to 

 analyse and animadvert on this volume. 

 We would only remind the reader that 

 Dr. Tilloch's present labours are by no 

 means incompatible with his former occu- 

 pations. Condorcet, in his " Eulogy on 

 D'Aleinbert," has these remarkable words : 

 " Newton, in his old age, wrote a commen- 

 tary upon the Revelations ; and D' Alem- 

 bert, when very young, wrote an Essay 

 upon the Epistles of St. Paul : thus begin- 

 ning where Newton ended." 



Another work, on the same subject as 

 that last mentioned, has also been put into 

 our hands, of which we have only room to 

 give the title, but this will be sufficiently 

 explanatory of its contents. It is called 

 " The Chronology of the Apocalypse inves- 

 tigated and defended ; shewing the 666 

 years of the Babylonian Beast, followed 

 by his 42 mouths' power, reach from the 

 third of Cyrus to the final desolation in 

 Jiulea, A.u. 136, which Daniel's vision 

 extended to ; then after a thousand year* 

 appeared in Rome against the W^aldenses, 

 & c. w hose souls rest with Chi ist the present 

 thousand ; ufier which Infidel Gog in the 

 last effort will perish with the Beast for 

 ever, and the endless sabbath of rest 

 begin ;" by John Overton, Rose Cot- 

 tage, King's Road, Chelsea. 



Seventy-Six, by the author of Logan, 

 pretends to have been first printed at 

 Baltimore, but is known here only as a 

 London publication. It purports to be 

 Ihe narrative of an old man, to his chil- 

 c'.ien, of certain scenes during the Ameri- 

 can contest for independence, wherein, as 

 a warrior, he i)erfornied a pait. The tale 

 involves the lortiiues of two families. It 

 is rude and boisterous; every chapter 

 being covered with blood, or heaving with 

 the throes of lacerated flesh. The style, 

 too, is atiectedly precipitous; and its 

 metaphors as incongruous as those of the 

 poets of the Lakes. In addition to the 

 regularly-formed oaths, which are very 

 numerous, the name of God is invoked in 

 every page ; and in such a manner as to 

 make it difficult to discover whether the 

 author meant to piay or to swear. 



When a friend of Whitfield observed, 

 that many of the Methodist's hymns were 

 sinig to tunes which had, originally, been 

 adapted to compositions of a lighter na- 

 ture, he gravely replied, " Why should the 

 devil have all the good times?'' In Ihe 

 same spirit, our modern .saints h.ivc 

 4 A betaken 



