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difficult step towards their future emancipation. 
What matters, then, his abhorrence of the word, 
when he laboured so much for the thing? Since 
despotism was necessary then, how could he bet- 
ter employ it? 
Let thanks be paid to him, since he changed 
into a source of light that source of ignorance 
whence the barbarism of the middle age had 
flowed in torrents over the face of Europe, en- 
gulpbing the civilization of ancient times. Never 
again will burst forth from those countries the 
Attilas, the Hermanrics—the scourges of God and 
of mankind, Peter the Great has called forth 
there the lastre of the Scheremetefs, the Aprax- 
ins, the Mentrikofs, the Tolstoys, the Schuvalofs, 
the Ostermans, the Rumianzofs, and the nn- 
merous band of other names, till then unknown, 
but of which, since that epoch, the European 
aristocracy has been proud. 
The passage we have quoted is taken 
from the translation, which the reader will 
see is miserably executed—full of French 
idioms. If we are to have translations at 
all, surely it would be better policy in pub- 
lishers to get them done decently—to em- 
ploy competent performers. 
The Library of Religious Knowledge, 
Parts I., II., III. 1829.—These publi- 
cations are designed to fill up a gap left by 
the Society for the diffusion of Useful 
Knowledge, essentially, if not professedly, 
open to any who chose to undertake it. 
It is the purpose of those who have under- 
taken to fill up this important gap, to pub- 
lish a series of Original Treatises, which 
means, treatises written expressly for them, 
and containing, in a condensed form, the 
substance of the reasonings and researches 
of our best divines, relative to the history, 
prophecies, doctrines and duties of revealed 
religion ;—together with memoirs of such 
as have most eminently exhibited its influ- 
ence in their lives and conduct. The three 
parts before us, each consisting of about 
forty-eight pages, of a clear anc bold type, 
in a pocket size, are wholly occupied with 
the subject of natural theology, and com- 
prise and. complete the arguments for design 
and intelligence deduced from the anatomy 
of men and animals. The writer has, of 
course, made a liberal but not an unacknow- 
ledged use of Paley, and has, what Paley 
did not, illustrated the subject by wood-cuts, 
accurately and distinctly drawn. The exe- 
cution is, indeed, perfectly unexceptionable ; 
and from the size and price, (sixpence each 
‘part) and’mode of publication, the work is 
ealeulated to circulate where books of a 
Jarger, and more expensive, and more 
‘learned and pretending cast, cannot. It is, 
“however, equal to the best of them. It is 
tight to add, there is nothing sectarian in 
‘the publication—whatever there may be by 
‘and bye. _ : 
Memoirs of ‘General Millar, of the Pe- 
‘ruvian Service. Byhis Brother. 2 vols., 
8vo., second edition, 1829.—Of General 
‘Millar’s Memoirs we gave a general sketch 
Monthly Review of Literalure, 
(June, 
some months ago, prompted by the evidence 
the book bore on the face of it, of full and ; 
fair statements, and the minute accounts it 
furnished of many scenes and circumstances, 
before little known, relative to the Revolu- 
tions of Chili and Peru, and the leading per- 
sonages connected with the management 
and settlement—if settlement there is ever 
likely to be, of these distracted regions. 
The opportunity of a second edition has 
been seized to make considerable additions, 
and some change in the general arrange- 
ment—all of advantage to the reader, and 
to the credit of the intelligent and compe- 
tent author. Additional documents have 
been inserted in the appendix to illustrate 
the military operations in the Puertos In- 
termedios, and especially the characters of 
the more conspicuous persons that figure in 
the narrative. Portraits also appear of San 
Martin, Bolivar, and O’ Higgins. 
A translation into Spanish has been pub- 
lished, executed by General Torrijos, and a 
portion of the preface to this translation, 
expressive of the translator’s sentiments on 
the Spanish colonial system, which is worth 
reading, is prefixed to this new edition o: 
Millar’s Memoirs. 
Spanish brigade at the battle of Vittori 
and continued attached to Hill’s division 
till the peace of 1814. The gratitude of 
his sovereign threw him into the cells of the 
inquisition at Marcia, where he remained in 
solitary confinement from 1817 to 1828, 
when his prison doors were thrown open by 
the re-establishment of the constitution. In 
1823 he commanded in Cartagena and Ali- 
cant, and retained those fortresseslong after 
the king re-occupied the capital. After 
surrendering on favourable terms, he emi- 
grated, and is now living in London, 
“ where,” says Millar, ‘“‘ he is respected 
and esteemed by all who have the pleasure 
of his acquaintance.” 
Syllabic Spelling. By Mrs. Williams. 
1829.—This is a new edition, the fourth, of 
a book very well known, it may be gathered 
from this fact, in schools and families. The 
system, founded upon one originally suggest- 
ed by the Sieur Berthaud, and warmly recom- 
mended by Madame de Genlis—an infallible 
authority in these matters—is that of teach- 
ing syllabic sounds by means of emblematic 
pictures. 
the mind of the suggester, to arise from the 
non-significant and non-communicative 
names of the letters of our alphabet. Aitch, 
for instance, of what use in the world is this 
name for indicating the sound intended to 
be represented ? But a picture presenti 
a hurdle, with the name, and form, and use 
Sort of natural and binding association, 
‘which securely conveys the true sound. 
‘The one is, to be sure, equally a name with 
the other; but the one is visible and defi- 
nite, the other ideal only, and incapable of 
exhibition. We do not ourselves feel the 
Torrijos commanded a 
The necessity for this seems, in 
A 
‘of which, the new student is familiar, formsa - 
