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Full of matter of various kinds, but tedious and dry. Introduccion a la Historia natural y geographia-fisico del Reyno de España. Par D. Guill. Bowles. The Italian translation of this work, Parma, 1783. 8vo. Descrizione della Spagna di Don A. Conca. Parma, 1793-7. 4 vols. 8vo. This work is chiefly devoted to the fine arts, of which it enters into a full and minute description.
Compiled from Original Papers, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, M. A. 3 vols. 8vo. London: 1841. The Edinburgh Review, April, 1842 This work, which has the high honor of being introduced to the world by the author of Lochiel and Hohenlinden, is not wholly unworthy of so distinguished a chaperon.
Poet, b. in London, and ed. at Merchant Taylor's School and Oxf., took orders and became Headmaster of Merchant Taylor's School. His poems on miscellaneous subjects fill two quarto vols., the best of them are those to his wife and dau. He also pub. essays. Novelist. After studying as a landscape painter, he took to journalism in Glasgow.
We read prayers, and afterwards walked round the terrace. I had also time to work hard on the additions to the Tales of a Grandfather, vols. 1 and 2. The day passed pleasantly over. December 30. The Fergusons came over, and we welcomed in the New Year with the usual forms of song and flagon.
Many of the more important works written during the period are reprinted in the Tractatus Universi Juris, vols. vi. and vii. The appendix to the first chapter of Reseller's Geschichte also contains a valuable account of certain typical writers, especially of Langenstein and Henricus de Hoyta.
Farmer's Tour through the East of England. Though these works are almost entirely directed to agriculture, yet they contain much information on the subject of manufactures, population, &c. as they were about the middle of the last century. Hassel's Tour in the Isle of Wight, 1790. 2 vols. 4to. 1798. 2 vols. 8vo. Picturesque. A Picture of the Isle of Wight. By Penruddocke Wyndham, 1794.
In addition to his duties as Brigade Commander, Brigadier-General Arthur MacArthur, U. S. Vols., is hereby appointed Military Commandant of the walled city of Manila, and Provost-Marshal-General of the City of Manila, including all the outlying districts within the municipal jurisdiction.
Revised by himself, and edited, with an Introduction, by S. ADAMS LEE. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. 2 vols. 18mo. Leigh Hunt has outlived all the enmities and enemies provoked either by his merits or his demerits, and is especially interesting as the sole survivor of the illustrious company of poets with whom the mind instinctively associates him.
VIII , a similar work in English; Heinrich von Sybel, Geschichte der Revolutionzeit von 1789, 3d ed., 5 vols.
Leo was a Spanish Moor, who left Spain at the reduction of Grenada, and travelled a long time in Europe, Asia, and Africa: his description of the northern parts of Africa is the most full and accurate. L'Afrique de Marmol. Paris, 1669. 3 vols. 4to. This translation, by D'Ablancourt, of a very scarce Portuguese writer, is not made with fidelity.
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