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NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Ceylon: An Account of the Island, Physical, Historical, 

 and Topographical; with Notices of its Natural History, 

 Antiquities, and Productions. By Sir J. Emerson Tenneut, 

 K.C.S. &c. Illustrated by Maps, Plans, and Drawings. 

 Fourth Edition. Thoroughly revised. 2 vols. 8vo. (Long- 

 man & Co.) 



A very cursory glance at these volumes suffices to ex- 

 plain how it is that in little more than four months from 

 the date of their first publication, a fourth edition has 

 not only been called for, but as we are assured has also 

 been well nigh exhausted. Sir Emerson Tennent, in 

 undertaking to give us a history of Ceylon, imposed upon 

 himself a task for which he is peculiarly fitted. Having 

 occupied for some years an important position in the 

 island, he had the best possible opportunity of making 

 himself acquainted, by personal observation, with all that 

 it contains most deserving of attention either in its phy- 

 sical aspect or social condition. But being moreover a ripe 

 and accomplished scholar, he was enabled to test ami com- 

 plete his own observations aud remarks by comparing them 

 with the best authorities extant upon the subject. But 

 he has done even more than this. Not content with 

 references to the best writers, ancient as well as modern, 

 who have made Ceylon, its history, antiquities, or natural 

 products, the subject of their labours, Sir Emerson Ten- 

 nent has had the advantage of submitting a great portion 

 of his very interesting work to the friendly supervision 

 of men peculiarly eminent in the several branches of 

 literature or science on which he desired that his views 

 should be confirmed by higher authority. It is scarcely, 

 therefore, to be wondered at, if our author has completely 

 exhausted his subject, and produced a work calculated 

 not only to interest the ethnologist, the naturalist, and 

 the student of antiquities, but from the novelty and va- 

 riety of the subjects discussed in it, and from the agree- 

 able style in which they are treated, to make the book 

 a favourite with the general reader, and secure it a 

 permanent place in the literature of the country. We 

 ought to aild that the work is profusely illustrated with 

 woodcuts and maps; is enriched with a capital Index ; 

 and that the author is scrupulously careful in giving his 

 authorities. 



Lottos of George Lord Carew to Sir Thomas lloe, Am- 

 bassador to the Court of the Great Mogul, 1615—1617. 

 Edited by John Maclean, F.S.A. {Printed for the Camden 

 Society.) 



These curious news letters, for such they may well be 

 considered, written by Lord Carew to his friend Sir 

 Thomas Roe, reveal to us numerous facts and the dales 

 of many events not elsewhere found. Mrs. Everett Green, 

 to whom historical students are already so largely in- 

 debted, having while pursuing her labours at the State 

 Paper Office brought these letters together from the 

 various incongruous places in which they wore deposited, 

 directed Mr. Maclean's attention to them, knowing that 

 that gentleman was engaged in preparing a Memoir of 

 the writer. Mr. Maclean, upon perusing them, considered 

 them of sufficient historical interest to justify their pub- 

 lication: and his offer to edit them for The Camden 

 Society having been at once accepted by the Council, 'he 

 present volume is the result. Great credit is due to 

 Mr. Maclean for the pains he has bestowed upon its 

 editorship, and especially in identifying the numerous 

 parties alluded to by Lord Carew in his friendly gossip; 

 and we have consequently to thank him for a volume 

 which will hereafter, we doubt not, be largely referred 

 to by all who may have occasion to treat upon the his- 

 torical period whicli it serves to illustrate. 



Anecdote Biography : William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, 

 and Edmund Burke. By John Timbs, F.S.A. (Bentley.) 



Mr. Timbs is not the man who, having hit upon a 

 good idea, would be likely to spoil it in the carrying out. 

 His notion of condensing the salient points, events, and 

 incidents in the lives of these distinguished men, and 

 presenting them by way of anecdote in chronological 

 order, is certainly a very happy one ; and we have no 

 doubt that this neatly printed volume, which contains 

 the quintessence of the preceding Biographies of the 

 "Great Commoner" and the "Scientific Statesman," will 

 share the popularity which all Mr. Timbs's compilations 

 have so deservedly attained. 



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Loogan's CxNTABnion Iu.usthata. Collegium Em manuelis. No. 31. 

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Porskniana, or, Scraps from Porson 's Rich Feast. 8vo. London. IMI. 

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Genius. 8vo. London. Published about same time. Both l'am- 



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Porson. 

 Lettfrs from Blunt to Sharp. 



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Mr. Halliwexl's article on The Proposed Taylor Society and The 

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Don will find in Font's Handbook of Spain, not only abundant infor- 

 mation on tlie subject of his inquiry s, hnt also numeroUi toother 



. /■! ilU::, ■ ,,/otioU. 



IcNon ami is has bt i n ttoice reft rred to vols. ii. andviii.q/'otii' 1st 

 where there is abundance Qfijybrmation respecting Ampcrs and. 



11 Queu Deus vii. t ri-unirir." J. G. (S. Julians) is referred to our 

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11 A fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind." 



J. L. F. will find thisline in Garrick's " Occasional Prologue" vide 



his Poetical "Works, vol. ii. p. 225. ted. 1785.) 



T- T. S. is r.fcn,, I to our lit S. ii. 129. obo: 8ndS.il. 77.00. l53./or 

 etymology of Whitsuntide. 



Gospfl Oaks are fully treated of in our 1st 8. vole. 11. v. and vi. As 

 our correspondent himself does not recollect ti,- the Q 



tl„ no, /-insertion of whtcli he so grievously complains, we may fairly 

 inter that it was if so trivial a nature as quite to justify Its omisSV 

 ORONf ; I Malta I is r: f: real to our 1st S. vol. ix. I!)*. 884. and vol. X. 38. 



for articles on Sunday, its Commencement and End. 



Errata. — 2nd S. ix. p. 2«9. col. i. 1. 29. for "Matthews" read" Ma- 

 thews.." Same col. 1. 30. for" Street " read " Strut." 



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