Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λέγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Ἐπι CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1. LONDON: HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1830. ADKINS's Sermon on the Sorrows of the Righteous, for the Sins of Mankind. Alexander's (Dr.) Outlines of the Evidences of the Christian Religion Calamy's Historical Account of his own Life Carpenter's Guide to the Practical Reading of the Bible Popular Lectures on Biblical Criticism and Interpretation Castle's Introduction to Systematical and Physiological Botany Coleridge's (H. N.) Introduction to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets Hull's Discourses on important Theological Subjects Humboldt's Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial Regions of the New Mühlenfels' (Dr.) Introduction to a Course of German Literature Muston's Recognition in the World to Come Narrative of Discoveries and Adventure in the Polar Seas (Edinburgh Cabinet Wardlaw's Essays on the Assurance of Faith, and the Extent of the Atonement Wickham and Cramer's Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over the Alps Williams's Life and Actions of Alexander the Great THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JULY, 1830. Art. I. Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, F.R.S. &c. particularly in the Government of Java, 1811--16, and of Bencoolen and its Dependencies, 1817-24. By his Widow. 4to. pp. 838. Price 27. 12s. 6d. London, 1830. IT T is but a short time since we had to lay before our readers, thechronicle and brief abstract' of the life and public services of a highly distinguished officer in the employment of the East India Company; and we are now furnished with an opportunity of offering a similar tribute of regret and admiration to the memory of an individual not less eminent, and whose services, though requited with something very like ingratitude, have not been surpassed in importance by those of any of his predecessors in similar circumstances. It seldom happens to a Government, that it can reckon among its agents, two such men as Sir Thomas Munro, and Sir Stamford Raffles; and still more rare is it to find such vigorous and effective administrators perfectly to the taste of their principals. There is usually a slowness to understand their worth; and, when it is comprehended, a want of generous confidence in their wisdom and integrity, is apt either to withhold from them the instruments and opportunities of action, or, when compelled to give them a fair field, to watch them with jealous vigilance, and to criticise their measures with mean and miserable captiousness. It is, accordingly, not too much to say respecting the great men of whom we are now speaking, that they were both neglected by their employers, until Sir Thomas Munro was forced upon their notice by the admiration of his comrades and coadjutors, and until VOL. IV.-N.S. B |