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view of the Spanish Revolution, including 
some Account of Religion, Manners, and 
Literature in Spain, by EDwArRD BLA- 
QUIERE, esq. which will be perused with 
much interest by all who are aware, that 
on the issue of the great regeneration now 
in progress through the south of Europe, 
the political fortunes of one quarter of the 
globe are depending. It is impossible to 
peruse this volume without feelings of the 
most affecting and irresistible nature. 
Whatever a people could endure from the 
hand of a most merciless despotism, was 
borne by Spain for centuries, if not with 
brutish apathy, with at least superhuman 
patience ; and when at last, to the conster- 
nation of all tyrants and bigots, she broke 
her chains, the example she has shown of 
firmness, moderation, and wisdom, is be- 
yond all praise. Many trials she has yet, 
no donbt, to undergo ; but she is destined, 
we trust, to surmount them, and to pre- 
sent the world with the model of a Revo- 
lution, peaceful, wholesome, and com- 
plete. The proudest deed to which a 
human being can aspire, is to put his hand 
to such a work as this; and, in the belief 
that Mr, Blaquiere’s labours are calculated 
materially to promote its success, we con- 
gratulate him on the devotion of his time 
and thoughts to sonoble a subject. With- 
eut entering into any minute criticisms, 
we shall limit ourselves to stating broadly, 
that the scope of Mr, Blaquiere’s volume 
is good, and the execation respectable ; 
and we cannol convey a more adequate 
idca of the rational and just nature of his 
views, both in politics and religion, than 
by transcribing his concluding passage ; a 
summary which every legislator ought to 
commit to memory:—‘ Endeavour to in- 
spire your fellow-citizens with purer con- 
ceptions of the Divinity, and a more 
rational system of adoration; extend the 
Dlessings of education to the humblest 
portion of the community; and, 10 crown 
your work, make the representative sys- 
tem, in its fullest and broadest basis, the 
foundation of law and power.” 
It gives us sincere pleasure when, amidst 
the mass of dull and indifferent attempts, 
which every day put in their ineffectual 
claim for the prize of poetical fame, we 
can discover something of a better order, _ 
whose merits we may recognize with dis- 
tinct and deserved praise. Such a recep- 
tion we do not hesitate to give to Julian 
the Apostate, a Dramatic Poem, by Sir 
AUBREY DE VERE Hunt, bart. which, 
considered as a first effort, is highly cre- 
ditable to its author; containmg many 
brilliant poetical passages, and scenes of 
great spirit and effect, worthy of a far 
more experienced hand. ‘The story, 
though not so closely connected as might 
be required in the regular drama, is suffi- 
ciently clear and intelligible; and the 
principal characters are discriminated 
with much force and nature, We shall 
Literary and Critical Proémium. 
{Sept. 1, 
look forward with pleasure to the fature 
labours of this promising writer, who has, 
we think, in this piece, displayed powers 
not inferior to those of the best tragic 
writers of the day, and far superior to some 
whose representations obtained a splen- 
did, but unmerited and short-lived, cele- 
brity. f 
Mr. Dunettson has very laudably and 
usefully employed his talents in giving an 
English dress to Baron LARREy’s tract 
on the Use of Moxa as a Therapeutical 
Agent ; and, although the account of cures 
are to be received in this, as in almost alt 
other instances, with much_ reserve, it 
must be admitted that the records of Lar- 
rey are worthy the attention of the British 
public. His name and character consti- 
tute, indeed, a sufficient guarantee against 
any thing further, in the way of misrepre- 
sentation, than may be supposed to result 
from Gallic enthusiasm, aided by acon 
amore feeling in favour of the particular 
mode of treatment which it is the object of 
his book to illustrate. Many of our 
readers may not be aware that the Moxa 
is a species of cautery; that it has been 
employed in China and other parts from 
the remotest antiquity; that when the 
term was first introduced into Europe, it 
was understood to signify a cottony sub- 
stance procured from the gold-beater's leaf, 
or pith of the Artemisia Chinensis, rolled up 
into a conical shape,—which, placed upon 
different parts of the body, and ignited, 
was suffered to burn down until cauteriza- 
tion was produced. Any combustible 
substance, however, made into the same 
form, and applied in a similar way, is now 
termed a Moxa; and that which Baron 
Larrey employs “is composed of a cer- 
tain quantity of cotton-wool, over which 
a piece of fine linen is rolled, and fastened 
at the side by a few stitches.” ‘This is 
applied to the part operated on by means 
of a metallic ring, and its extremity being 
ignited, the combustion, in some cases, 1s 
best kept up by means of a blow-pipe.— 
The eases in which Larrey principally re- 
commends this mode of canterising, are 
those in which the nervous and lymphatic 
organization are especially implicated ; 
such as certain species of paralytic affec- 
tion, articular disorders, chronic tumours, 
and pulmonary consumption. He con- 
tends that the vicarious and derivative influ- 
ence of Moxa is far superior to issues and 
setons, and to the metallic cautery, which 
was so much employed by the ancients, 
and has recently been re introduced into 
practice on some parts of the European 
Continent. He states that even ossific 
ulceration may be arrested by its judicious 
employment, and a healthy action induced 
and kept up in the most deep-seated parts. 
The English reader will find the language 
made use of to explain the methodus me- 
dendi ot the Moxa to be a little antiquated 
and humorous (capricious) ; but, if ihe - 
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