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Khosroo, who chief of sinners mourns 



His weakness in the dust. 

 Can he e'er hope his lot may be 

 ' Associate with the Just ? 



Ah ! lieavenly Lord, I pray thee deign 



To hear thy suppliant's call ! 

 Thou art my everlasting God, 



Thou art the God of all.— C. Fox." 



The typography of this volume is excellent, and does credit to the 

 Frome press. 



Mr. Clarke, speaking of the MSS., thus concludes his preface : " It is 

 possible that the following three united circumstances may shortly separate 

 them and their present owner, — a want of time to use them, an inability to 

 increase them, and my being apparently born only to occupy heavy cura- 

 cies." A valuable piece of preferment has just been creditably bestowed 

 upon the son and biographer of Ckabbe ; let us hope that a similar reward 

 may be the lot of the son and biographer of Clarke ; who, if not like 

 Mr. Crabbe, a poet and a minister of the Church of England, was certainly 

 not less illustrious than he, as a benefactor to his country, and a minister 

 of the Church of Christ. 



Russia ; or, Miscellaneous Observations on the Past and Present Stale of 



that Country and its Inhabitants. By R. Pinker ton, D. D. 1833, %vo. 



pp. 486. 



With the empire of Russia, that is, with its physical constitution and 

 boundaries, with the numerous tribes and nations that inhabit it, with their 

 manners, customs, state of civilisation, and religious observances, the 

 English public are, in proportion to the importance of the subject, but little 

 acquainted. 



Dr. Pinkerton, already respectably known by his work upon the present 

 state of the Greek church in Russia, and by the important reports which 

 he has from time to time transmitted home during his protracted residence 

 in that country, was admirably calculated, from his knowledge of the people 

 and their languages, from the activity of his habits, and from his perfect 

 freedom from all party or political prejudices, to make important additions 

 to our stock of knowledge upon almost every department of Russian policy 

 and a-conomy. It is to fulfil such desiderata, that a part of his present 

 volume has been written j it is in size a thick 8vo. decorated with some 

 very well executed plates of costumes j and it is, as its title states, of a 

 very miscellaneous character. 



Since the reign of Peter the Great, the attention of the Russian govern- 

 ment has been closely directed to the numerous and dissimilar tribes by 

 whom the empire is peopled, and to the condition and capabilities of the 

 territory itself, for the support of a vast and increasing population. 



