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gelical History, from the Interment to 
the Ascension of our Lord and Saviour 
Jesus Christ ;’’ a sermon ‘‘ on Religi- 
ous Meditation ;” another, ‘* on the 
History of the Rechabites;” and a 
third ‘* on the Righteousness and 
Peace of the Gospel ;” ‘* Babylon, in 
the Revelation of St. John, considered 
- with reference to the Claims of the Ro- 
man church;”? * Doubts,” and ‘* a 
Defence of the Doubts, concerning 
the Confessional ;”? and “ a Dialogue 
between Isaac Walton and Homolo- 
« sistes.’” 
The Life of Dr. Townson prefixed, 
is one of the most valuable productions 
in English biography we have of late 
seen, and does credit both to the head 
and heart of Mr. Churton. 
“¢ The Wisdom of the Calvinistic Me- 
thodists Displayed, in a Letler to ihe 
Rev. Christ. Wordsworth, D. D ;” by 
Taomas Wirserry; will be found a 
tract of no mean consideration. It 
contains much sound advice respecting 
several of our religious societies; and 
is ably and temperately written. 
A clearer view of the most important 
doctrines of Christianity will hardly 
any where be found in a more concise 
form than in ‘* an Address from a Cler- 
gyman to his Parishioners.” ByR, 
Varepy, D.D. Rector of Streddishail, 
Suffolk. } 
Nor have we of Jate seen a more 
valuable specimen of scriptural criti- 
cism, than the ‘* 4itempt to throw fur- 
dher Light on the Prophecy of Isaiah, 
chap. vill; v. 14, 15, 16.’” By Joun 
Moore, L.L.B. Minor Canon of St. 
Paul's. 
The “ Analysis of Hooker's Eight 
Books of Ecctestastical Polity.” By 
the Rev. J. Coxtinson, though not 
the first, is certainly the most success- 
ful abridgement we have sce n. 
Among the single Sermons, we can- 
not but commend that upon ‘* The 
Duty of Church Communion, altered 
and abridged from Dr, Rogers, with 
addilional Passages interspersed.” By 
Epwarp Prarson, D.D. Master of 
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. 
Dr. Hacarrr’s “* Sermon, preached at 
his Majesty's Chapel at Whitehall, Jan. 
2ist, 1810, at ihe Consecration of the 
Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Chester” 
is another discourse deserving atten- 
ticn. 
NATURAL HISTO Y. . 
The most interesting work which has 
of late appeared in this class, is the 
Nat. of both Indies. 
656 Retrospect of Domestic Literature—Natural History. 
‘¢ Hortus Kewensis; or, a Catalogue 
of the Plants cultivated in the Royul 
Botanic Garden at Kew. Ey the late 
William Aiton.” The second edition 
enlarged, by Wuxttam Townsenp 
Arron, gardener to his Majesty, vol. I. 
** In order to render this edition as 
convenient as possibie to the English 
reader, for whose use the catalogue 
has been principally compiled, and at 
the same time to show to those fo- 
reigners into whose hands it may fall, 
that Englishmen have not of late years 
been inattentive to the advancement of 
their favourite study, care has been 
taken to refer in the synonyms to Jall 
the figures that have appeared in the 
numerous periodical works lately pub- 
lished, not excepting the few that have 
already been quoted by Wildenow, in 
his edition of Tie Species Plantarum $ 
in the case of new foreign publications 
such figures only are quoted from 
them, asare not cited by Wildenow. — 
‘* When no modern figure could be 
met with, an older one has been se- 
lected from the synonyms of Wildenow, 
preference having been always given 
to a coloured figure, when a good one’ 
could be found ; the Hortus Romanus, 
however, and Knippof’s Botanica in 
originali, have not been made use of; 
these books not having been deemed 
likely to assist effectually, the studies 
of young botanists,” ve 
As specimens of the general manner 
in which the work has been conducted 
we make the following quotations. __ 
P. 9. Groznpa. Gen. pl. 51. 
Anthera duplex. Filam, lineare, 
incurvatum, longissimum, appendicu- 
latum. Stylus laxus, filiformis, in me- 
dio anthere receptus. Stigma incras- 
satum. Nectarium utrinque bifidum, 
1. G. filamenti appendiculo bilunato, 
spica foiiis breviore, bracteis late ellip- 
ticis calyce longioribus. Roscoe m 
Linn. Soc. Transact. 8. p- 356. Smith 
faxot. Bot. 2. p. 85. t, 103. 
Marantine globba. 
Nat. of the East Indies. 
Intred, 1800, by lady Amelia Hume, 
Fl. July and August. | 
P. 136. “‘ Sacenarum. Gen, pl.104. 
val, 2-valves, lanugine longa invo. 
lucratus. Cor, 2-valvis. 
1,8. floribus paniculatis, foliis pla- 
nis. Weiilden. sp, pl. 1. p. 321. 
Arundo saccharifera, 
if wi yOg, ree a 
Common sugar-cane. 
Cull, 
