of inquisitors, endeavour to draw out the young man, whilst his father, who is sensible of the lad's imbecility, practises a thousand devices to cover over his errors. The character of the lady's father is finely developed in a situation, where he has to struggle with the duties of a loyal subject and his paternal feelings; for, by the intrigues of the elder Yang, now rendered hostile to this father by the firm rejection of his suit, the latter is appointed to a perilous political mission. Extricated from the danger, the old gentleman finds himself and his family enmeshed in a series of crosspurposes with the real hero of the story, who, in his turn, commits a thousand mistakes, and is involved in a thousand misadventures. Incidents thicken upon each other, so as more strongly to confirm the interest, without in the least affecting the unity of the story, until the proper season arrives for the usual mutual understanding between all parties, and a general reconciliation of interests. The peculiarity that will most strongly rivet the attention of the European reader in these volumes, is undoubtedly the course of love which the hero is obliged to run. The effect of a system of polygamy on society appears to be, to make divisible, as it were, a passion which, to our western notions at least, is the most exclusive in the whole catalogue. The lover of this romance is blessed with two mistresses, who are each conscious of his divided adoration. As the gentleman sighs, dies, and indites double, he must be the pink of industry, as compared with our European heroes. The two young ladies, instead of waging war under the banner of the green-eyed monster, are only more firmly leagued together; and all their mutually explained hopes and wishes aspire to an union with the object of their double attachment.
Throughout the volumes will be found a very small portion indeed, which is of the strictly narrative writing. The story is rather acted and spoken before us by the persons themselves, who thus imperceptibly disclose all the parts of their character, even to the nicest shades. bears in no part the least appearance of artifice. We perceive in it no straining of circumstances to produce surprise or terror; and there is neither a battle nor a death, to call up our sympathies, from beginning to end: but all the passions of our gentler nature are kept in constant agitation. We feel that we have contracted an intimacy with beings of our own walk, and we attend them with interest through all the turns of their fortune. We are thus brought at once into the circle of Chinese society, and admitted, as it were, among its members.
An English version of this romance is now in the press*, under the superintendence of an experienced hand. The difficulty of a translator's office on this occasion is to be faithful to his text, to preserve that air of simplicity and nature, which characterizes the only European version we yet possess of the Chinese original, and at the same time to guard his composition from the impurities of a foreign idiom. This task, we have reason to expect, is likely to be accomplished in the forthcoming translation.
* Printed for Messrs. Hunt and Clarke, Tavistock-street.
ART. XI. Continuazione della Storia d'Italia dal fine di quella d Guicciardini fino al 1789.
THIS is the title of a projected work in which Botta, the Italian historian, undertakes, at the solicitation and with the support of his Italian friends and admirers, to write the continuation of Guicciardini's history of Italy from the period at which the Florentine historian left it, to the year 1789 where it will join Botta's lately published history of the revolution. Botta intends to follow as much as possible, the method, and imitate the style of Guicciardini, so as to form a complete narrative of the affairs of Italy, written almost entirely by one hand, from the end of the fifteenth century, a period in which that country underwent a total political change, from the turbulent condition of the middle ages to that of a modern nation. Among the principal events which Botta will have to narrate, are the continuation of the wars between Charles V. and Francis I. and their successors in Piedmont, and in the Milanese, the revolutions of Naples and of Genoa, the means used by the Medici to obtain possession of the principality of Tuscany, the siege of Sienna, and the abolition of that republic, the council of Trent, and its consequences, the reigns of the princes of Savoy, especially that of Emanuel Philibert, the wars between the Porte and the republic of Venice, with the attacks of the former of the islands of Cyprus, Candia, Corfu, and Malta, the wars of the Spanish, and of the Austrian successions; the useful reforms Maria Theresa and of Joseph II., in Lombardy, those of Ferdinand d Medici, of Leopold and Ferdinand of Austria in Tuscany, and those a Charles and of Ferdinand of Bourbon at Naples, the reigns of many pontiffs, from Paul III. to Pius VI., and the vicissitudes of opinions, an the essential changes which took place during the last century in the stat of literature, sciences, and arts, forming altogether a period equalled in it importance by few in the history of the world, and inferior to none.
The work will consist of eight thick volumes 8vo., and Botta require six years to write it. It is to be printed and published at Paris, unde Botta's eyes. The first volume will be ready for the press in July, 1827 and the last in 1832. The limited subscription was opened at Mr. Cac cia's, a banker, at Paris, which, we believe, has been already filled up, s as to defray the first expenses, and to assure the author a monthly allow ance of 500 francs, whilst engaged in his laborious undertaking. We ar inclined to augur well of this new work of Botta, in which, no doubt h will avoid those failings that have been criticised in his otherwise cleve and powerfully written history of the late Italian revolutions. Botta i perhaps, of all Italian writers, he who knows best his countrymen and th general spirit of the age we live in. An universal history of Italy is still desideratum in Italian literature; Bossi's voluminous work being littl more than a useful but plain chronology of events.
THIRD VOLUME OF THE MONTHLY REVIEW.
ABEL-REMUSAT, his French version of
the Chinese novel called Iu-Kiao-Li,
540
Abuses in Chancery-see Chancery
Actors, remarks on the education of, 366
-what they should study, 367-writ-
ing for particular ones, a cause of the
degraded state of our drama, 371—
remarks on several, 460, 461.
Acting, English, remarks on, 462
Affection, parental, of two bears, men-
tioned by Parry, 65
Agriculture, petitions respecting, passed
in 1825 and 1826, 27-steady improve-
ment of, 28-flourishing state of, in the
south of France, 96-mode in which it
is conducted, ib.-state of the neigh-
bourhood of Avignon, 95, 96, 97.
Agriculturists, none in Prussia resembling
our farmers, 5-not benefitted by the
corn laws, 204-the corn laws never
come into operation except at the mo-
ment the farmers do not want them,
207-why the agriculturists have fallen
in national importance-they begin to
admit the impolicy of the restrictive
system, 312
Air, atmospheric, plan of a new vehicle
to be propelled by, 228
Aliments, the intermixture of, strongly
condemned, 43-the consequence of
such intermixture stated, ib.
Alla Giornata, a novel, by Lady Char-
lotte Campbell, 191-character of the
work, 194-the narrative part objec-
tionable, the descriptions superior, 197,
198
Amending, power of, in bills in Chancery,
greatly abused-case of its abuse, 249
-remedy for, proposed in the Chan-
cery report, 250
America, United States of, close resem-
blance of their institutions to those of
Great Britain, 45-scarcely changed in
their internal condition by their inde-
pendence, 46-they had from their
commencement as colonies free institu-
tions, 47-Connecticut had acquired
its constitution before the revolution,
and Rhode Island still preserves that
which it had received from England,
47-the geographical position of the
United States favourable to their inde-
pendence, 48-the nature and extent
of their territory afford every facility for
commercial grandeur, 49-the rapid
increase of their population, and of
their tonnage, ib.-The question ex-
amined, whether their confederation
is likely to be permanent? 50--52, 53,
54-their elements of social strength
compared with those of England, 50,
51-their constitution has hitherto re-
alized all its objects, 51-their whole
national debt less than half the interest
annually paid on our own, 51, 52—
their revenue, 52-the strong difference
of character between the people of the
north-eastern and the southern and
back states likely to lead, in time, to
their separation, 54-the elements of
American jurisprudence stated, 54, 55
-the common law not popular in the
United States, 55-the composition of
their courts, ib.-the importance of the
supreme court dangerous, 55-its cha-
racter and duties, 56-the court of
Chancery, ib.-a want of dignity in the
inferior courts, ib.-State of society in,
as compared with that of Great Bri-
tain, 57, 58-much blemished by the
existence of slavery, 58-the identity
of language and priority of literature,
will always preserve the moral influ-
ence of England over the United
States, 58, 59 View of the present
condition of the United States, by a
Russian, 45-the discussions relating
to the original union of the States-the
moderation of the people of, in model-
ling their government-great difficul-
ties of the task, 516, 517—the encou-
ragement given to the slave trade, the
great stain of the United States, 523-
disgraceful refusal of the senate to
sanction the agreement of the President
to a treaty branding this traffic with
the character of piracy, 524
Amulet, an annual publication, its me-
rits, 274-its controversial spirit ob-
jected to, 275-extracts from, 276--
abounds in turgid writings, 282
Anatomy, the study of, calculated to in-
spire religious sentiments, 85-names
of several great men mentioned, upon
whom it had that effect, 86, 87
Angelo, Michael, his painting of the roof
of the Sistine chapel, 132-state of his
body after death, 134
Anglo Saxons, poetry of, 183
Answer in the court of Chancery-the de-
fendant's statement-objections to the
process for compelling it to be given
in, 245
Antiquities, Britton's architectural of
Great Britain, 375
Aperçu de la situation interieure des
Etats Unis d'Amerique et de leurs rap-
ports politiques avec l'Europe, par un
Russe, 45
Aphorisms, opinions, and reflections of
the late Dr. Parr; with a sketch of his
life, 103
Architects, lives of celebrated, 125—cu-
rious facts relating to, 126
Architectural, Britton's antiquities of
Great Britain, vol v., 375
Architecture, remarks upon, 127-eccle-
siastical, various opinions as to its ori-
gin in England, 378-the Saxon order,
382-the Norman, 383-first pointed
style, 384-second pointed style, 385-
third pointed style, 386
Aristocracy, hereditary, none in the
United States, but the senate stands in
place of such an order, 48-curious ex-
emplification in the early history of the
United States, of a desire to form three
dignified classes, 48-an aristocratical
faction exists in America, 48-though
it has in some degree declined since the
death of Washington, ib.
Armenian, christians, account of, by Dr.
Walsh, 275-their origin and charac-
ter, 276-their religion-sketch of an
Armenian family, 277, 278-their care
of the memory of the dead, 279-their
numbers, 280
Armies, standing, remarks of Mr. Hamil-
ton, an American, upon, 518
Arndt, Moritz, his leisure hours, 476
Attachment in the court of Chancery, a
ludicrous process, 245, 246
Aurora, displays of, observed by Captain
Parry and his companions, 63, 64-no
sound was ever heard by them to issue
from this phenomenon, 64
Autobiography, collections of lives written
by the parties themselves; a serviceable
and cheap publication, 217
Authority, civil, two definitions of, 90
Avignon, points of interest of,88-climate
of, 93-proverb respecting it, ib.-state
of society there, ib.
Azote (Nitrogen), derived from food, and
not from respiration, 40
Bakou, celebrated fires of, 456
Ballad, a curious old one, 222
Balloon, ascent of the Duke of Orleans
in one, 429
Bank, a national, intended to be esta
blished in Poland, 9-singular plan by
which it is to relieve the land-owners
there, ib.-not likely to succeed, 10
Barlow (Mr.), his plate for correcting the
influence of local attraction on the mag-
netic needle, 63
Barometer, the, useless at Port Bowen, 64
Bateman (Dr.), some account of the life
and character of, 80-his birth and
education, 81-his filial piety, 82-he
makes the most diligent use of his
time,83-contributes to several medical
periodicals, and to Rees's Cyclopædia,
ib.-is a materialist, 84-becomes a
convert to Christianity, and dies, 85
Bible societies, treatment of, by the Em-
peror Alexander-the prompt assist
ance given to, by the various sects in
the southern provinces of Russia, 115
Bills in Chancery, their nature and ob-
ject, 243-case of abuse of the power
of amending them, 249
Biography, auto-see Autobiography
Biographical sketches of British charac
ters recently deceased, commencing with
the accession of George the Fourth, with
a list of their engraved portraits, by
William Miller, 112
Bise, the, an Alpine wind, so called at
Avignon, 93
Bonaparte see Napoleon.
Books, "number books," description of,
235-their injurious tendency, 236-
they are dearer to the public than
really good books-mode of getting
them up-ludicrous specimen of igno-
rance in one of them, 237
Botany Practical, by W. Johns, 437.
Botta, an Italian undertakes to write a
continuation to Guiccardini's history,
542
Bowditch, (Mrs.), her tale of Amba, or
the Witch's daughter, 287
Britton, (John), his 5th vol.
Architec
tural Antiquities of Great Britain, 375
-his egotism, 276-his admirable
chapter on the ecclesiastical orders
382
Buonarotti, his share in the building o
St. Peter's church at Rome, 133
Butler's Geography of the globe, 105
Campbell, (Lady Charlotte), authoress (
Alla Giornata, 191-her good sens
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Chancellor, an account of his avocations
from the Chancery Report, 253-ludi-
crous recommendations therein for
abridging them, ib.
Chancery, court of, its abuses long endur-
ed: only two faint and abortive attempts
made to remedy them, 240-recent
investigations into them, the result of
a growing spirit of inquiry, 241-the
exposure contained in the report con-
cerning, calculated to excite astonish-
ment, 242-objections to the present
system of procedure in, stated, 243—
facility of perverting its rules and
orders, 244-ludicrous proceeding in
case of attachment, 245, 246-various
modes of procuring delay in, 247, 248
-case of abuse of the power of award-
ing bills in, 249-the mode of taking
evidence in, defective, the reasons of the
commissioners of inquiry for not at-
tempting to remedy it, 251-the diffi-
culty of obtaining judgment, the great-
est vice of the present system, 252—
defects in its practice not the only ob-
jection to that tribunal, 255, 256-
the necessity for a revision of the
doctrines of the court, 257-report of
commissioners concerning, 240—it is
divided into three parts, its exposures
calculated to excite astonishment,242
-its want of method, and material
omission in, 243-its propositions to
correct the abuses in amending bills,
250-it acknowledges the defects in
present mode of taking evidence, but
suggests no remedy, 251-curious way
in which it gets over the necessity of
alluding to the excessive power of the
Chancellor, 253, 254-a great part of
it occupied with refutations of proceed-
ings before the Master, 254, 255-se-
veral suggestions in it, 256-the lan-
guage of it too technical for general
use, ib.-still it is a great experiment in
English jurisprudence, it proposes to do
the best that can be done with the
court, ib.
Charlemagne, establishment of his em-
pire, 487-his manner of doing it, 490
Chess, the derivation of, 111
China, a romance, exhibiting the man-
ners and customs of, 540, 541
Chiverton (Sir John), the romance of,
438
Christianity, introduction of it into the
Shetland and Orkney Isles, 479-the
Mosaic account of the creation, com-
patible with the laws of physiology,
515
Christians, Armenian-see Armenian
Cincinnatus, order of, attempted to be
established in the United States of
America, 48
Clive (Lord), his administration in India,
Cockney, the derivation of, 111
Commerce, between Europe and Asia,
new project for carrying it on, 448—
the project examined, 450, 452
Commissioners of Inquiry-see Chan-
cery Report
Companies, petitions respecting, passed
in 1825 and 1826, 27-decline of in
1826, 28-bad odour of those that
were established for mining specula-
tions, ib.
Connecticut, had its constitution before
the revolution of America, 47
Constitution, American, difficulties in
framing it, 517-some defects in, 521,
524-objections to answered, 522, 525
Conveyance, wonderful improvement in,
225-proper method to increase the
velocity of, 227
Conybeare. (John Josias), his illustrations
of Anglo Saxon poetry, 183-his in-
dustry and opportunities, and the
causes of his subsequently leaving the
work imperfect, 183
Cookery loosens the texture, and softens
the fibres of our food, 38-boiling is
better for vegetables than meat, 42-
meat if boiled too long, becomes indi-
gestible, ib.-mutton loses one-fifth,
and beef one-fourth, by boiling, ib.-
roast meats more nutritive, but less di-
gestible than boiled, 42-baked meats
not wholesome, ib.
Coral, manufactory of at Marseilles, 429
Corn, the trade in, greatly depressed in
the districts visited by Mr. Jacob, 3-
stock of, in several depots, stated, ib.--
the continued exportation of from any
country, injurious to its soil, 11-(See
Jacob) laws of, their impolicy, 203-
injury they do the agriculturist, 204-
the absurdity of their continuance
shown, 205, 206-the opening of the
ports by virtue of the order in conncil,
illustrates the evil of those laws, 208,
209, 210
Council, order in, respecting the importa-
tion of corn, 203
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