mid, 
- which he defcribes with great accuracy, 
he fuppofes death to have taken place 
by a fudden fuffocation, produced by 
a {pafmodic contra¢étion of the mufcles 
of the glottis. On this ground, he ad- 
vifes, in fuch cafes hereafter, a trial of 
trachcoiomy, in order to procure prefent 
relief, in the expectation that blood- 
letting, blifters, mercury, and the other 
ufual remedies might then be employ- 
ed to compiete the cure. 
-In the fame number of the Repofi- 
tory, Dr. Rusu lays before the public 
*¢ An Account of the falutary Effects 
of a Salivation, and alfo of Tonic Re- 
medies in Pulmonary Confumption.” 
Some cafes are particularly ftated by 
this learned phyfician, in which a gen- 
tle falivation, after the previous ufe 
of evacuations, and efpecialiy blood- 
letting, carried to a proper extent, very 
happiiy effected a cure. 
A new work has juft appeared in 
Philadelphia from Dr. Rusu, intitled 
** Six Introductory Leé&ures to Courfes 
of Lectures on the Theory and Prac- 
tice of Medicine.’ The eminent ta- 
lents of the writer, fo long and uni- 
vetfally known to the medical world, 
as well as his great zeal in promoting 
every profeffional improvement, are ho- 
nourably exhibited in this publication. 
ASTRONOMY. 
Mr. Aucustus B. WoopWarp has 
lately offered to the public, “* Confide- 
rations on the Subftance of the Sun.” 
This curious and interefting work is 
divided into feven parts :—1. An hifto- 
rical review of the opinions of the an- 
cients on the fubftance cr the fun. 2. 
A concile, but comprehenfive, exami- 
nation of the opinions of the moderns 
on the particular nature of the fun. 3. 
He offers his own hypothefis. That he 
might fiate it the more clearly, he has 
found it neceffary to invent a new 
term, or rather to employ an old one 
in anew fenfe—This is the word Elec- 
troz, which he has chofen to denote 
that peculiar matter in fubftance which © 
has been called eleétricity and the elec- 
tric fluid; and his opinion is, that the 
fulfiance of the fun is eleéron. 
fourth divifion of his fubje&, the au- 
thor offers an hifterical account of 
electric difcoveries. 5. He then enu- 
merates fome of the moft remarkable 
pbenomena in which electron, as a fub- 
fiance, is obferved to be prefent. 6. 
Having ftated thefe facts, the author 
proceeds to the more immediate objeét 
of his undertaking, which is to adduce 
4. In the 
Retrofped of American Literatures—Afironomy, Se. 
thofe powerful confiderations which 
lead himto conclude that the fubitance 
of the fun is electron. . Here the reafon- 
ing which he adopts is of the analogi- 
cal kind, pointing out the fimilarity of 
appearance and effect between terref- 
trial and folar electricity ; or, in other 
words, between electron, as it operates 
in our mundane fyftem, and electron, 
as it manifefts itielf in and about the 
body of the fun. This part ofthe work 1s 
managed with a great deal of ingenu- 
ity and force of mind. The.feventh 
and laft divifion contains fuggeltions 
as to the means neceflary for {ubject- 
ing this hypothefis to the teft of direct 
experiment. Ri 
: POETRY. ; 
Mr. HoNEywoop’s ‘ Poems, with 
fome Pieces in Profe,’? though intitled 
to praife on feveral accounts, donot .’ 
feem likely to procure for him the ho- 
nours of poithumous- renown. 
fubjects of his verfe~ reprefent him 
chiefly as an occafional poet, who wrote 
from incidental reflection, principally: 
excited by local events, temporary cir- 
cumftances, or political tranfactions. 
His Mufe appears but feldom to have - 
haunted the wilds of fiction or of fancy, 
and we difcover only a few veftiges of 
her rambles through the flowery walks 
of rural nature. 
DRAMA. 
Mr. CHARLES JARED INGERSOL’s~ 
“* Edwy and Elgiva, a Tragedy, im five 
Acts 2 > Tie? tary ow 
tragedy is founded is taken from an 
early period of Anglo-faxon hiftory ; 
in thofe days, when the power of the - 
Pope held in fubjection the proudeft 
potentates, and the influence of fuper- 
{tition had enflaved the nobleft minds, 
the charms of the gentle Elgiva had 
infpired in the breait of the youthful 
Edwy a paflion too lively and tender to 
be reftrained by the’ frigid rules of 
Monkifh aufterity. Difdaining the 
obftacles which the church had raifed 
to his wifhes, and, in defiance of its 
authority, he efpoufed his lovely cou- 
fin. ~This indignity was not to be for- 
given; and 
proof of the ignorance and miftaken 
zeal of that age. The author has at- 
tempted to awaken our fenfibility by 
a dramatic reprefentation of the mis- 
fortunes and diftrefs which flowed from 
this fatal union. We find fome things 
to commend, but much more to cen{fure, 
in this compofition of a very inexpe- 
/ 
rienced writer. 
GENERAL 
The © 
which~ this: 
the narrative of their: 
wrongs and fufferings 1s a lamentable ~ 
