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632 
P. 12. “ My desires had instance, and 
argument to recommend them.—Instance 
is example. Johnson.—It seldom has any 
other meaning, but this is I think an ex- 
ception, it seems here to meau perseve- 
Tance.. 
P. 13. “ Cut and long tail. We have 
the various opinions of Steevens, Reed, 
Si J. Hawkins, and Judge Blackstone, 
on this phrase. I wish they had taken 
this opportunity to give us a few remarks 
en tag, rag, and bobtail. 
-P. 69. ‘ Give me your blessing”, &c. 
In this conversation between Launcelot 
and his blind father, there are frequent 
references to the deception practised on 
the blindness of Isaac, and the blessing 
ebtained in consequence of it. Henley, 
~——I confess I cannot find these references, 
neither is there any probability thaf such 
a manifest ridicule on part of the sacred 
scriptures should be permitted on the 
stage. Shakespear, it is true, has fre- 
quent allusions to the Bible; there 
are many in this play, but they are ne- 
ver introduced indecently, or irreverent- 
ly. 
: P. 190. “ Pll call for clubs, if you will 
not away.—That is for peace - officers, 
armed with clubs, er staves. Malone.— 
It is wonderful, that these gentlemen 
who will quote twenty black-letter-books, 
to investigate what often needs no inves- 
tigation at all, should be so mainly igno- 
rant of the common customs of the time, 
in which our poet wrote. Whenever any 
riot or quarrel happened in the streets, 
the cry of Clubs! wasa signal for the ap- 
prentices, not the peace-oliicers, to arm 
themselves with clubs, and part the fray. 
There is a note on this expression in 
Henry 3. Act. 5. Scene 5. where this pas- 
sage is cited by Mr. Mason. ‘The passage 
in Henry 3. shews clearly the error of 
Mr. Malone’s note here. ‘1 hit that wo- 
man who cried out, Clubs! when I might 
see from far some forty truncheoneers 
draw to her succour, which were the hope 
of the Strand, where she was quartered.’ 
Surely these were not peace-officers with 
staves, who assisted in beating the king’s 
porter in the exercise of his duty.” 
The typovraphical evrors which deform 
the work are very numerous, and very 
glaring, In p. 12, we have “any plants 
was distinguished:” and at p. 57 “ He 
might then spared.” . P. 86 dlusion for 
allusion. P. 103 jacit for jacet. P. 306 
bread for bred. P.169 Mr. Macauley’s 
History of England, &c. &c. &c. Sure- 
ly many of these lapses might have been 
aveided; at least, they ought to have 
/ 
’ 
_ Retrospect of Domesiie Literature—Miscellanies. 
been by one who shews no mercy to his 
-brother-critics, when at fault. : 
Another work, however, more origi- 
nal in its claims to notice, and of interest 
to Europeans in general, wall be found in 
the “ Oriental Field Sports,” published by 
Mr. Orme; containing coloured plates, 
with explanations, of the dilferent kinds 
of hunting and jfield-amusements of the 
inhabitants of India. The following 
are the subjects of the plates, forty in 
number. 1. Going out ina Morning; 2. 
Beating Sugar-Canes for a wild Hog; 3. 
The Chase of the Hog; 4. Hunters coming 
‘by surprise upon a Tigress, and her 
Cubs: 5. The Hog at Bay; 6. The dead 
Hog; 7. The Return from Hog-hunting ; 
8. Driving Elephants into a Keddah; 9. 
Decoy Elephants catching a Male; 
10. Decoy Elephants leaving the Mate 
fastened to a Tree; 11. A Rhinoceros 
hunted by Elephants; 12. A Tiger prowl- 
ing through a Village; 13. Shooting a 
Tiger from a Platform; 14. A Tiger seiz- 
ing a Bullock in a pass; 15. Driving a 
Tiger out of a Jungle; 16. Chasing a 
Tiger across a River; 17. The Tiger at 
bay; 18. A Tiger springing upon an Ele- 
phant; 19. The dead Tiger; 20. Shooters 
coming by Surprise on a Tiger; 21. A 
Tiger hunted by wild Dogs; 22. A Ti- 
ger killed by a poisoned Arrow; 23. 
Shooting a Leopard ina Tree; 24. Exht 
bition of a Battle between a Buffalo 
and a Tiger; 25. Tunting an old Buffalo; 
26. Peacock Shooting; 27. Shooting at 
the Edge of a Jungle; 28. Driving a 
Bear out of Sugar-Canes; 29. Death of 
the Bear; 30. Hunting of a Kuttauss or 
Civet; 31. Hunting Jackalls; $2. Chase 
of a Wolf; 33. Thecommon Wolf-trap ; 
34. Smoking Wolves from their Earths; 
35. The Ganges breaking its Banks, with 
fishing, &c. 36.; Killing Game in boats ; 
37. Doorahas or dog-keepers leading out 
Dogs; 38 Syces or Grooms leading out 
Horses; 39. Hunting a Hog-deer; 40. 
The Hog-deer at bay. The descriptions © 
in the letter-press which accompany 
these, will be found as authentic and as 
interesting, as the representations, re- 
plete with a variety of anecdotes which 
are not indicated in the different titles. 
If the most amusing and instructive 
way of teaching Geography, is by assos 
ciating it with historical and biographical 
recoliections, Mr. Bourne’s “ Concise 
Gazetteer of the most remarkable Places 
in the World,’ must be at least entitled 
to the character of an edifying work. 
Under this head, also, rather than 
among the Voyages and Travels, we men- 
tioned 
