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powerful community to Leo de Hemmer- 
raye, and it.continned in his hands, and 
in those of his successors, for more than 
200. years. Henry, the unfortunate Duke 
of Buckingham, succeeded long atter, but 
had scareely taken possession, when 
both life and estates were torn from him 
by Richard If1. and conferred on some 
more pleasing favourite. As we have no 
space to lay before our readers any por- 
tion of the Hengrave papers contained in 
the work, we trust it will have the effect 
only of inspiring a desire of reading and 
consulting them in the original. 
A publication, entitled Essays, by Father 
Firz-Eustace, is in our opinion of a 
very indifferent and equivocal sort of cha- 
racter. ‘Though we do not look for great 
depth of thought, extent of reasoning, or 
profound earning, in a work modestly 
ushered in under the unpretending form of 
«+ Essays,” yet. we have a right to expect a 
degree of clearness and meaning, in efforts 
however trifling and amusing. These qna- 
lities we are here at a loss to discover. 
We cannot think the author has succeeded 
in his professed object to amuse, much less 
to inform tle understanding. How he 
could suppase, indeed, he should amuse us 
by treating important subjects in a style 
ef obscurity and levity, is really beyond 
our comprehension, OF this we have nu- 
merous. examples in treating on ‘the For- 
mation of Political Society,” ‘‘ the Poli- 
tieal Character of James I. of Scotland,” 
“the Moral and Political Causes of the 
Downfall of the Roman Empire ;’ the 
whole written in a tone of commun-place 
and studied frivolity, 
We.must not, in justice to the stadents 
ef mineralogical and geological science, 
emit to notice a very useful and clever lit- 
the work, by Mr. J. Mawe, consisting of 
Familiar, Lessons on Mineralogy and Geo- 
ligy. As a compendium, embracing many 
ef the important discoveries which have 
marked the progress of the science within 
the last twenty years, calculated to en- 
courage young beginuers to proceed fur- 
ther into the theeretical and. practical 
branches of geological knowledge, it can- 
not fail to prove a valuable acquisition. 
They will perceive that whatever wonder- 
ful additions have of late repaid the un- 
wearied labours and enquiries of our Eng- 
lish geologists, such a science is still in- 
creasing, and likely to increase, both in 
its acqnisitions and importance. Mr. 
M, is the author, also, of another valuable 
treatise, entitled, ‘Instructions for the 
Management of the Blow-pipe, and Che- 
mical ‘Sests,” ri 
We think that the students and adminers 
of oriental languages and literature will feel 
themselyes indebted to the philological 
labours of My. Bb. Babington, of the Ma- 
dras Ciyil Service, who has lately publish- 
ed ¢ Tale in the Tunul Languuge, conigin- 
Literary and Critical Proémium. 
[Dec. 2, 
ing the Adventures of the Gooroo- Para- 
martan, accompanied by a translation and 
vocabulary, together with an analysis of 
the first story. The original appears to 
have been written by Father Besche, a 
Jesuit missionary, about the year 1700. 
The author possessed the advantage of an 
intimate acquaintance with the Tamul 
dialects, as well as of the Sanserit, the 
Teloogoo, the Hindostanee, and the Per- 
sian. Owing to these attainments, he was 
advanced to the office of Divan, under the 
celebrated Chunda Laheb, nabob of 
Trichinopoly. The tale of the Gooreo 
Paramartan seems to have been chosen 
rather for the information it afforded in 
regard to the Tamu! language, than for any 
inherent merits, which we are at a loss to 
discover, There. are occasional traces, 
also, of the hand of a foreigner,—a Jesuit 
and an Italian, Theadventures of Gooroo 
Paramartan, alias Noodle, together with 
his five disciples, Blockhead, Simpleton, 
Ideot, Dunce, and Fool, certainly furnish 
our Jesuit very fair game, on which to 
exercise his Christian talents; and, should 
the faith of the Tamu! priesthood have re- 
ceived a fair interpretation at the Mis- 
sionary’s hands, we are quite of opinion 
that it might fall to pieces even before the 
argumentative battery of a Catholic. 
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