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Watson, Thomas. Plans, &c. of Wakefield Luna- | tic Asylum, Lon., fol.

Watson, Thomas, Vicar of East Farleigh, Kent, formerly minister of St. Philip's, Pentonville. 1. Discourses, [XXI.,] Practical and Experimental, on the Epistle to the Colossians, Lon., 1833, 8vo; 3d ed., 1838, 8vo. 2. Spiritual Life Delineated, 1838, 12mo.

Watson, Sir Thomas, M.D., Physician-Extraordinary to the Queen, late Physician to the Middlesex Hospital, &c., "a ripe scholar and the preeminently successful physician of his time," (Lon. Athen., 1862, i. 294.) Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic, delivered at King's College, Lon., 1843, 2 vols. 8vo; Phila., 1844, 8vo, (see GIBBES, ROBERT WILSON, M.D.:) 3d ed., Lon., 1848, 2 vols. 8vo; 1850, 2 vols. 8vo; 3d Amer. ed., by D. Francis Condie, Phila., 1851, 8vo; 4th ed., Lon., 1857, 2 vols. 8vo, pp. 1880, £1 148.; New Amer. ed., by D. Francis Condie, M.D., Phila., 1858, 8vo, pp. 1224; new ed. in prep., Lon., 1870.

We know of no work better calculated for being placed in the hands of the student, and for a text-book."-Amer. Med.

Jour.

We have before us commendations from nine other medical journals.

"Among the most entertaining of all technical writings, they are full of instruction."-S. H. DICKSON, M.D., LL.D.: Charleston Med. Jour., Mar. 1859, 194-208, (q. v.)

See, also, Dr. J. W. Francis's Old New York, ed. 1858, 319; Photographs of Em. Med. Men, with Notices, Lon.: No. 1, 1865.

Watson, Rev. Thomas. Annals of the Ancient British Church, Lon., 1862, 12mo.

Watson, Thomas. John Watson, Hartford, Conn., and his Descendants, N. York, 1866, 8vo, pp. 47.

Watson, Walker, "the poet of Kirkintilloch," Dumbartonshire, Scotland, author of Jockie's Far Awa, and other popular songs, d. at an advanced age in 1854. Watson, Walker, V.S. See YOUATT, WILLIAM,

V.S., No. 2.

Watson, Walter. 1. Cruise in the Egean: the Retrospect of a Summer Journey Westward "from the Great City by Propontic Sea;" including an Ascent of Mount Etna, Lon., 1853, p. 8vo.

"For a touch of Della Cruscan sentimentality the title-page will prepare all who enter on the book; but it is not flagrant enough to destroy the pleasure of the summer hour which may be given to the perusal."-Lon. Athen., 1853, 1058.

2. Homewards from Constantinople, 1854, p. 8vo. Watson, William, Secular Priest. 1. A Decacordon of Ten Quodlibeticall Questions, concerning Religion and State, new ed., 1600, 4to; 8. l., 1602, 4to: Bright,

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3. Dialogue between a Secular Priest and a Lay Gentleman, Rheims, 1601, 8vo: Sotheby's, April, 1863, £1. 4. Important Considerations, which ought to move all true Catholikes who are not wholly jesuited to acknowledge that the Proceedings of H. Majestie and of the State to them have been both mild and merciful, 8. ., 1601, 4to; with Preface and Notes by Rev. Joseph Mendham, Lon., 1831, 12mo.

Watson, William. Amical Call to Repentance and the Practical Belief of the Gospel, Lon., 1691, 8vo.

Watson, William, LL.D., Dean of Battel. The Clergyman's Law; or, Complete Incumbent, Lon., 1701, fol.; 2d ed., 1712, 2 vols. 8vo; 3d ed., 1725, fol.; 4th ed., Savoy, 1747, fol. Said to be the production of Mr. Place, a barrister of York: see 1 Burr. 307; 2 Wils., 195; Blackst. Com., b. i. ch. xl., (where the earlier edits. are commended.)

Watson, William. Rules and Orders in Common Pleas, M.T. 1654-M.T. 1736, 1736, 8vo; Cont. from E.T. 10 Geo. III. to the Present, &c., by George Stubbs, 1784, 4to.

Watson, Sir William, M.D., an eminent botanist and electrician, b. in London, 1715; knighted, 1786; d. 1787. 1. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Lon., 1745, 8vo; 3d ed., 1746, 8vo; Sequel, 1746, 8vo; 2d ed., 1746, 8vo. 2. Cause of Electricity, 1748, 8vo. 3. Experiments in Electricity, 1748, 8vo. 4. Electricity applied to Tetanus, 1763, 4to. 5. Account of Experiments in Inoculating the Small Pox, 1768, 8vo. In German, Halle, 1769, 8vo. In Dutch, Amst., 1769, 8vo. He contributed medical, botanical, and other papers to

Phil. Trans., Med. Obs. and Inq., and Med. Trans. See Pulteney's Sketches; Thomson's Hist. of Roy. Soc.; Chalmers's Biog. Diet.; Watt's Bibl. Brit.

Watson, William, Jr., M.D. Treatise on Time, Lon., 1785, 8vo.

Watson, William, Barrister-at-Law. Treatise on the Law of Partnership, Lon., 1794, 8vo; 2d ed., 1807, 8vo.

Watson, William. Life of Henry Fielding; with Observations on his Character and Writings, Edia., 1807, 8vo; 1808, 8vo.

Watson, William. Culture of Turnips; Nic. Jour., 1807.

Watson, William. 1. Compendium of many Important Branches of Science, 1812, 8vo. 2. Strictures on Book Keeping, 1812, 4to.

Watson, William. Charge delivered at the Session-House, Clerkenwell, Lon., 1816, 8vo.

Watson, William. Historical Account of the Ancient Town and Port of Wisbech, in the Isle of Ely, Cambridgeshire; and of the Adjacent Towns and Villages, the Drainage of the Great Level of the Fens, &c., Lon., 1827, r. 8vo, £1 11s. 6d.

Watson, William. 1. Forester's Manual, Lon., 1838, 12mo. 2. General Telegraphio List of Ships' Names, 1840, 18mo. 3. Introduction to Algebra, 2d ed., 1844, 12mo. 4. Tutor's Assistant, 4th ed., 1846, 12mo. Key, 12mo. 5. Dialing Diagrams, with Explanations, 2d ed., 1853, 12mo.

Watson, William Davy, Barrister-at-Law. 1. Trevethlan; a Cornish Story, Lon., 1848, 3 vols. p. 8vo. Favourably noticed by Lon. Examiner, Lon. Observer, John Bull, and Britannia; less admired by Lon. Athen., 1848, 1297. 2. Cache-Cache; a Tale in Verse, 1862, fp. 8vo.

"There are passages of pure imagination in the book, and we see no reason why the 'tale-teller' in some future effort should not rise into the poet."-Lon. Athen., 1862, ii. 425.

Watson, William Henry, b. 1798, deacon of the Baptist Church at Walworth, England, from 1833 until his death, 1868, was editor of The Teacher's Magazine, 1859-67, and Senior Secretary of the London SundaySchool Union. 1. The History of the Sunday-School Union, Lon., 1853, p. 8vo. 2. The First Fifty Years of the Sunday-School Union, 1868, p. 8vo. 3. The SundaySchool Union its History and Work: with a Memorial of the Author, by W. H. Groser, 1869, p. 8vo. Mr. school books: e.g., I. Our Work; II. Bible Months; Groser is the author of a number of valuable SundayIII. The Teacher's Model and the Model Teacher; IV. Art of Picturing; V. The Teacher: His Books, and How to Read Them. Happy are they who thus, by instructing children in Sunday-schools, seek the blessing promised to those who "turn many to righteousness"!

Watson, William Henry, of Lincoln's Inn. 1. Treatise on the Law of Arbitration and Awards, Lon., 1825, 8vo; 2d ed., 1836, 8vo; Phila., 1836, 8vo, (and in Phila. Law Lib., vols. xl., lix. ;) 3d ed., Lon., 1846, 8vo. 2. Practical Treatise on the Office of Sheriff, Lon., 1827, 8vo; Phila., 1834, 8vo, (and in Phila. Law Lib., vol. vii.;) 2d ed., by W. N. Welsby, Lon., 1848, r. 8vo.

Watson, Winslow Cossoul, son of Elkanah Watson, (q. v., No. 5,) was b. at Albany, N. York, 1803. 1. General View and Agricultural Survey of the County of Essex, Albany, 8vo. 2. Treatise on Practical Husbandry; a Prize Essay, 1854, 8vo; Part 2, 1855, 8vo. 3. Eulogy on Lieut.-Col. G. T. Thomas, 22d Regt. N. York, Burling.. (N.J.,) 1862, 8vo. 4. Pioneer History of the Champlain Valley; being an Account of the Settlement of the Town of Willsborough, by William Gilliland, together with his Journal and other Papers, and a Memoir, Albany, 1863, 8vo, 200 copies, and 50 copies 1. p., r. 8vo. 5. The History of Essex County, New York, and Military Annals of Ticonderoga and Crown Point, together with An Account of the Services of the Troops of the County in the War of the Rebellion, and a General Survey of its Physical Geography, by its Mines and Minerals and Industrial Pursuits: in prep., 1870. Also, occasional addresses and other pamphlets, and religious, political, and agricultural papers in periodicals.

Watt, Alexander. 1. Denholm's Synopsis of Geography, new ed., Glasg., 1819. 2. Report on the Census of Lanarkshire, 1841, 8vo.

"A short but most valuable pamphlet."-Blackw. Mag, L 659-673.

Watt, Alexander. Electro-Metallurgy, Lon., 1860, 12mo.

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Watt, Mrs. F. Poems, Edited by J. T. B. Landon, | Arago's Biographies; see PoWELL, REV. BADEN :) in Lon., 1853, 12mo.

Watt, Gregory, youngest son of James Watt, LL.D., b. 1777, d. 1804. Observations on Basalt, and on the Transition from the Vitreous to the Stony Texture which occurs in the Gradual Refrigeration of Melted Basalt; with some Geological Remarks; Phil. Trans., 1804, 279, and Nic. Jour., x. 113, 1805.

"Abounds in acute observations and sagacions inferences."SIR HUMPHRY DAVY: Lect. on Geology at Roy. Instit., 1811. See Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., vi. (1858) 567. Watt, Captain I. See Memoir of, with Letters on his Early Death, Preface by Wardlaw, Glasg., 1852, p.

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Watt, James, LL.D., who by "the improvement of the steam-engine enlarged the resources of his country, increased the power of man, and rose to an eminent place among the most illustrious followers of science and the real benefactors of the world," (Lord Brougham: inscription on Chantrey's statue of Watt in Westminster Abbey,) was b. at Greenock, Jan. 19, 1736, d. at Hatfield, Staffordshire, Aug. 25, 1819.

1. Account of the Navigable Canal proposed to be cut from the River Clyde to the River Carron, Lon., 1767, 4to. 2. Scheme for making a Navigable Canal from the City of Glasgow to the Monkland Coalierys, s. a., 4to, pp. 12. 3. Report concerning the Harbour of Port Glasgow, 8. a., 4to, pp. 7. 4. Thoughts on the Constituent Parts of Water and of Dephlogisticated Air; with an Account of some Experiments on that Subject; Phil. Trans., 1784, Abr., xv. 555, 569. 5. On a New Method of Preparing a Test Liquor to show the Presence of Acids and Alkalis in Chemical Mixtures; ibid., 605. 6. Description of a Pneumatic Apparatus; with Directions for procuring the Factitious Airs, 2d ed., Lon., 1795, 8vo, pp. 49. The first ed. was pub. in the same pamphlet (Considerations, &c.) with a paper, Part 1, by T. Beddoes, M.D., 1794, 8vo; 2d ed., with Part 3, by Beddoes and Watt, 1795, 8vo; 3d ed., Bristol, 1796, 8vo. See, also, Beddoes's Medical Cases and Speculations, including Parts 4 and 5 of Considerations, &c., by Beddoes and Watt, 1796, Svo. In 1814 Watt revised and enriched with valuable notes the articles Steam and Steam Engine (originally contributed by Robison, with some assistance from Watt, to the Encyclopædia Britannica) for Dr. John Robison's System of Mechanical Philosophy, 1822, 4 vols. 8vo. For detailed accounts of Watt and his discoveries we refer to the following authorities:

I. Correspondence of the Late James Watt on his Discovery of the Theory of the Composition of Water: with a Letter from his Son, [James Watt, Jr., infra;] Edited, with Introductory Remarks and Appendix, by J. P. Muirhead, Esq., F.R.S.E., Lon., 1846, 8vo, 10s. 6d. ; 1. p., 4to, £1 48. Reviewed by Lord Jeffrey in Edin. Rev., Jan. 1848, (lxxxvii.) 67-137: The Discoverer of the Composition of Water; Watt or Cavendish? his last paper in that periodical. See, also, N. Brit. Rev., vol. vi.

II. The Origin and Progress of the Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, Illustrated by the Correspondence of his Friends and the Specifications of his Patents, by J. P. Muirhead, Esq., M.A., 1854, (some 1855,) 3 vols. 8vo, £2 58.; 1. p., 4to, £4 48. Reviewed by Brit. Quar. Rev., April, 1855; N. Brit. Rev., May, 1855, (same in Liv. Age, xlv. 743;) Lon. Athen., 1855, 39; Lon. Lit. Gaz.. 1855, 19, 54.

III. Life of James Watt, with Selections from his Correspondence, by J. P. Muirhead, 1858, 8vo, 168.; N. York, 1859, 12mo; 2d ed., Lon., 1859, 8vo, 168.

"James Watt, the greatest name in the roll of English inventors, left behind him a large store of valuable materials, which have been published by his zealous relative Mr. Muirhead, who has now crowned his long labours by an elaborate Life of Watt, the expansion of a former Memoir, which comprises all that we are likely to learn of a man to whom we mainly owe the greatest commercial and social revolution in the entire history of the world."-Lo. Quar. Rev., Oct. 1858.

See, also, Lon. Athen., 1858, ii. 711, and Fraser's Mag.,

Mar. 1859, 318.

IV. Memorials of the Lineage, Early Life, Education, and Development of the Genius of James Watt: By George Williamson, Esq., Late Perpetual President of the Watt Club of Greenock; Printed for the Watt Club, 1856, 4to.

Many interesting particulars about Watt's great-grandfather: mathematician and schoolmaster."-Westm. Rev., Jan. 1857: Contemp. Lit.

V. Eloge historique de James Watt; par M. Arago; lu à la Séance publique de l'Académie des Sciences du 8 Décembre, 1834; Annuaire pour l'An 1839, (also in

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English, with Memoir on Machinery, and Note, by Lord Brougham, 3d ed., Edin., 1839, fp. 8vo; in English, with Memoir on Machinery, Lon., 1839, 18mo; in English, by J. P. Muirhead, with Additional Notes and an Appendix, 1839, 8vo. Reviewed in Edin. Rev., Jan. 1840, (1xx.) 466-502, and Jan. 1848, (lxxxvii.) 67-137, (by Lord Jeffrey;) Lon. Gent. Mag., 1841, ii. 453-467.

VI. Lives of Boulton and Watt; principally from the
Original Soho MSS.; Comprising also a History of the
Invention and Introduction of the Steam- Engine, by
8vo.
Samuel Smiles; with Portraits and Illustrations, 1865, r.
Reviewed in Lon. Reader, 1865, ii. 618. See,
also, REID, HUGO, Nos. 5, 7. To these we add: James
8th ed.. Index, also xxi. (1860) 773-777, by his son,
Watt and the Steam Engine, 1852, 18mo; Encyc. Brit.,
James Watt, Jr., of Birmingham, and 777-778, by Lord
Jeffrey, (also pub. in The Sootsman, Sept. 4, 1819, and
also, 41;) Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., vi. (1858) 555-566,
in Jeffrey's Contrib. to Edin. Rev., ed. 1853, 981; see,
and the articles Cavendish and Lavoisier in same work;
Brewster's Edin. Encyc.; Public Characters, 1802-3;
Proceed. of a Meeting relative to a Statue to Watt held
of Time Geo. III., ed. 1855, 25–67: Pursuit of Knowledge
at Freemasons' Tavern, 1824; Lord Brougham's Philos.
under Difficulties, ii. 254; Chambers's and Thomson's
Biog. Diet. of Ein. Scots., ed. 1855, iv. 422-432; Scott's
Monastery; Address to the Meeting of the Brit. Assoc.,
Letter to Captain Clutterbuck, in the Introduc. to The
(reviewed by Lord Jeffrey in Edin. Rev., lxxxvii. 67-
with Postscript by the Rev. W. Vernon Harcourt, 1840,
137 :) Whewell's Hist. of the Induc. Sci., and his Philos.
David Brewster:) Life of Hon. Henry Cavendish, &c.,
of the Induc. Sci., and Edin. Rev., 1xxiv. 302, (by Sir
by George Wilson, M.D., 1851, 8vo, (Cavendish Soc.;)
Dissert. (Sixth) by J. D. Forbes, D.C.L., in Encyc. Brit.,
sq. 16mo; Lon. Quar. Rev., Nov. 1858; Lon. Builder,
8th ed., i. (1853) 795; Triumphs of Steam, Dec. 1858,
HENRY; HUTTON, JAMES, M.D.; TAYLOR, JOHN EDWARD,
1859, 79, (Memorial Tower Proposed ;) CAVENDISH, HON.
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mechanic, form a very erroneous idea of his character. He was
"Those who consider James Watt only as a great practical
equally distinguished as a natural philosopher and a chemist,
and his inventions demonstrate his profound knowledge of these
sciences, and that peculiar characteristic of genius, the union
of them for practical application."--SIR HUMPHRY DAVY.
"Dr. Priestley drew no conclusion of the least value from his
by careful comparison with other facts, arrived at the opinion
experiments. But Mr. Watt, after thoroughly weighing them,
that they proved the composition of water. This may justly be
said to have been the discovery of that great truth in chemical
science. I have examined the evidence, and am convinced that
possible that Mr. Cavendish may have arrived at the same truth
he was the first discoverer, in point of time; although it is very
from his own experiments, without any knowledge of Mr. Watt's
earlier process of reasoning."-LORD BROUGHAM: Discourse of
Nat. Theology, ed. 1856, 108, n.

"No man ever had a more eminent claim to be honoured by his country and revered by all generations."-SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH: Speech, 1824.

"Perhaps no individual of his age possessed so much and such varied and exact information, had read so much, or remembered what he had read so accurately and so well."-LORD JEFFREY: ubi supra.

"He it was who, by his brilliant inventions, supplied England with the means of maintaining a deadly struggle, on which her very existence as a nation depended. And what was done to honour, during his lifetime, this new Archimedes, this benefactor of the whole human race, whose memory generations yet unborn will forever bless? A peerage is in England the highest of dignities, the greatest of rewards: you naturally conclude that Watt was made a peer. It was never even proposed."ARAGO: Eloge historique de James Watt.

But there are other marks of public appreciation besides peerages: when, in 1841, the University of Edinburgh ordered from Sir Francis Chantrey a statue of Watt,-making the sixth in Great Britain.-the Gentleman's Magazine (1841, i. 74) remarked, "Even the than those to plain James Watt." But the Duke of statues to the Duke of Wellington are fewer in number Wellington had more substantial honours and rewards feet three inches in height, of Sicilian marble, was erected than statues. In 1868 a statue of James Watt, eight in Birmingham. See YOUNG, THOMAS, M.D., at end.

Watt, James, Jr., eldest son of the preceding, his father, was b. 1769, and d. unmarried at Aston Hall, (q. v.,) and successor to the manufactory and fortune of near Birmingham, 1848. 1. Some Account of a Mine in which Aerated Barytes is found; Mem. of the Soc. of Manches., iii. 598, 609. 2. On the Effects produced by Different Combinations of the Terra Ponderosa given to

WAT

Animals; ibid, 609-618. See Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., vi. (1858) 566.

Watt, James, M.D., Glasgow. On the Ventilation of Mines; Phil. Mag., xlvii. 30, 1816.

Watt, James Henry, an eminent line-engraver, b. in London, 1799, d. 1867, was well known by his transcripts of Stothard's Procession of the Flitch of Bacon, The Highland Drovers' Departure, (after Landseer,) May-Day in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, (after Leslie,) &c., and executed some portraits and book-plates. See Men of the Time, ed. 1865, 815.

Watt, John, uncle of James Watt, LL.D., (supra,) a surveyor, d. 1737, left A Survey of the River Clyde from Glasgow to the River Clyde, which, several years after his death, was published by his brother James. Watt, John James, Surgeon, London. 1. Encyclopædia of Surgery, Medicine, Midwifery, &c., Lon., 1806, sm. 8vo. 2. Anatomico-Chirurgical Views of the 3. AnatomicoNose, Mouth, Larynx, &c., 1809, fol. Chirurgical Views of the Male and Female Pelvis, 1811, fol. 4. Medical Dictionary, 2d ed., 1813, 12mo. Watt, Mark. Antidote to Atheism, Edin., 1850,

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Watt, Peter. 1. Theory and Practice of JointStock Banking, Lon., 1836, 8vo; N. York, 1836, 12mo. 2. Progress and Present State of the Science of LifeInsurance, Lon., 1837, 8vo.

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Watt, Robert, M.D., b. in Ayrshire, 1774, after working for some time as a farm-labourer and cabinetmaker, matriculated in the college at Glasgow in 1793, and went through the successive classes in the University from that time until 1797; was licensed to practise surgery and pharmacy, 1799, and in the same year set up as surgeon in Paisley; removed to Glasgow in 1810, and practised and lectured there with great success until 1817; d. at Glasgow, Mar. 12, 1819. He was President of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, and Physician to the Glasgow Infirmary. 1. Disp. Inaug. de Scarlatina Anginosa, Edin., 1803, 8vo. 2. Cases of Diabetes, Consumption, &c., Paisley, 1808, 8vo. 3. Catalogue of Medical Books, Glasg., 1812, 8vo. Treatise on the History, &c. of Chincough, 1813, 8vo. 5. He also Rules of Life, &c., Edin., 1814, 12mo. Anon. published a paper on Chorea, in Med.-Chir. Trans., v. p. 1, 1814, one on Vaccination, &c., in Edin. Med. and Surg. Jour., 1814, and one on the Rainbow, in Thomson's Ann. Philos., Feb. 1819, 131. 6. Bibliotheca Britannica; or, A General Index to British and Foreign Literature, 4to, in Two Parts: Authors and Subjects; in 11 Nos., £1 18. ea.: 1-4, Glasg., 1819-20; 5-11, Edin., 1821-24: the Vols. i. and ii. conwhole in 4 vols., Edin., 1824. tain an alphabetical list of Authors and their works; vols. iii. and iv. contain an alphabetical classification of Subjects. Present value, (1870,) about £6 to £8, according to binding and condition.

"Although he had long laboured under that painful disease which we have spoken of, and of which he eventually died, it was not until the year 1817 that he totally discontinued his professional pursuits. . . . He had by this time brought his great work, the Bibliotheca Britannica,' to a very considerable state of forwardness, and become interested in it and anxious for its completion. ... He retired, therefore, with his family, to a small country-house about two miles from Glasgow, engaged several young men as amanuenses, [William Motherwell, the poet, Alexander, editor of The Casquet, &c.,] and devoted himself exclusively to the compilation."-Chambers's and Thomson's Biog. Dict. of Em. Scots., ed. 1855, iv. 437: Robert Watt, M.D., (q. v.)

Dr. Watt, the Author of the BIBLIOTHECA BRITANNICA, died when only a few of its sheets were printed off. He left the work, however, in such a state of forwardness as not to affect its completion. . . . In an undertaking of such magnitude, and 80 extensive in its scope,-having all the disadvantages of a first attempt, and the blunders and contradictions of numberless authorities to combat with,-many inaccuracies, doubtless, must have passed, and much must have been omitted. These every candid mind will make allowances for. If unwearied care and indefatigable labour for nearly twenty years-if the sacrifice of a useful life in the cause-was all that was necessary to render the BIBLIOTHECA BRITANNICA accurate and complete, there would now be little solicitude about its success."-Preface, vol. i.

"At his death, the publication of the Bibliotheca' devolved upon his two eldest sons, who devoted themselves to its completion with filial enthusiasm. They were both young men of the most promising abilities; and it is to be feared that their lives were shortened by the assiduity with which they applied themselves to the important charge that was so prematurely laid upon them. John, the elder of the two, [who had been engaged on the work for the four years preceding his father's decease,] died in 1821, at the early age of twenty; James, his brother, lived to see the work completed, but died in 1829, leaving behind him the deep regrets of all who knew and could appreciate his high character and brilliant talents. The printing of the

'Bibliotheca' [which was delayed for nearly a year by the destruction of a portion of the MS. by robbers, who threw it into the fire for the purpose of lighting an apartment] was completed in 1824, in four large quarto volumes. The first division or portion of it was printed in Glasgow, and the second in Edinburgh. Messrs. Archibald, Constable and Company, of Edin burgh, purchased the whole for about £2000, giving bills to that amount; but before any of the bills were honoured the hous failed, and thus the family of Dr. Watt was prevented from receiving any benefit from a work to which so many sacrifices had been made, and upon which all their hopes depended."— Chambers's and Thomson's Dict., (ut supra,) 459.

A melancholy sequel to this sad story has been recorded within the last few months:

"Miss Watt, the only surviving child of the greatest British bibliographer, Dr. Watt, has lately died at Glasgow, in a workhouse. Hardly a fit place, this, for the country to let the daughter of such a man die in," &c.-Lon. Reader, May 28, 1864, 682, (q. v.)

"But in Bibliography let me not forget the notice and commendation of that wonderful work of the late DR. WATT, called Bibliotheca Britannica. . . . Such a concentration of labour was hardly ever beheld; but the authors, Father and Son, both FELL To say that such a work, on so stuVICTIMS to their zeal.. pendous a scale, should be faultless, would be equally rash and ridiculous. On the contrary, it contains numerous errors, and But its uses and admust not be unlimitedly confided in. vantages are manifest and indispensable. The history of the completion of this great labour is among the most curious ou record."-DR. DIBDIN: Lib. Man., ed. 1825, Pref., xviii, "After these imperfect observations on the utility and difficulties of Bibliography, the Editor will proceed to allude, in as few words as possible, to the plan and contents of Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica,' to show in what points these volumes supply information which is not contained in that valuable com pilation. In speaking of the Bibliotheca Britannica, no praise can be too high; for, notwithstanding its imperfections, it contains a mass of most valuable matter, disposed in such form as to be of great assistance to persons desirous of ascertaining what works have been written on a particular subject or by a particular author. It is obvious, however, that, from the very extensive plan adopted by Watt, his work must necessarily be incomplete in various points, which, though of minor detail, are of great importance. Thus, for instance, he gives neither the collation nor prices of books; nor does he afford a guide to the best authors on any particular subject, or to the best editions,information of the highest value to foreigners and students.

A work of considerable labour, but which, like all bibliographical labours in this country, was of no pecuniary advantage to the compiler or his heirs: is principally taken from Ames' Typogr. Antiq., by Herbert and Dibdin, the Monthly, Edinburgh, and Quarterly Reviews, the catalogues of the British Museum, Bodleian and Advocates' Libraries, Clarke's Bibliographical Dictionary and Supplement, &c. &c."-W. T. LOWNDES: Bibl. Man. of Eng. Lit., 1834, i. vii., and iv. 1914. Repub. in Bohn's Lowndes, 1857-64, 10 Parts, and Appendix, 1 vol. Large paper, 100 copies, 6 vols. r. 8vo.

To this excellent edition add: I. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English Language, Alphabetically Arranged, which during the Last Fifty Years have come under the Observation of J. Payne Collier, F.S.A., 1865, 2 vols. 8vo; N. York, 1866, 4 vols. cr. 8vo, 75 copies 1. p., and 5 copies 1. p. on India paper. II. Hand-Book to the Popular, Poetical, and Dramatic Literature of Great Britain, from the Invention of Printing to the Restoration, by W. Carew Hazlitt, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law, Lon., 1867, 11.Parts, 8vo; 1. p., r. 8vo.

I continue notices of the Bibliotheca Britannica: "No doubt chargeable with many positive errors, as well as with important deficiencies; but it is, notwithstanding both, a remarkable performance for an individual, and an aid of very considerable utility in many literary investigations. It cannot be relied upon as an authority, but it is serviceable as a guide or indicator."-Knight's Eng. Cyc., Biog., vi. (1858) 569.

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"A remarkable performance, despite of all its imperfections, and one on which Watt's name will live for centuries to come.' -Encyc. Brit., 8th ed., xxi. (1860) 778.

"Le plan de cette vaste compilation est neufet fort bien conçu; mais malheureusement les détails laissent beaucoup à désirer, tant sous le rapport de l'exactitude qu'à cause des omissions," &c.-BRUNET: Manuel du Libraire, 5th ed., v. (1864) 1423, (q. v.)

See, also, D'Israeli's Miscell. of Lit., (Of Voluminous Works incomplete by the Death of their Authors;) Blackw. Mag., Aug. 1819, 553; Preface to this Dictionary, 5, 7.

Watt, Susan. Animal's Friend, Prose and Verse, Lon., 16mo.

Watt, Thomas. 1. Grammar made Easy, Edin., 1704, 12mo. 2. Vocabulary, Latin and English, 1734, 12mo.

Watt, William. Remarks on Shooting, in Verse, Lon., 1839, 12mo.

Watt, William, Counsellor-at-Law. The Law and Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in Justices' Courts, and on Appeal to the County Courts, in the State of New York, &c., Albany, 2 vols. 8vo: vol. i., 1865. Watter, J. Natural History of Birds of Ireland, Lon., 1853, 12m'.

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Watters, Roger. Practical Treatise on the Statutes for the Amendment of the Law of Property, &c., Lon., 1862, 12mo.

Watterston, George, Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C., 1825-1829. 1. Memoir on the Tobacco Plant, Wash., 1817, 8vo. 2. Letters from Washington, 1818, 12mo. 3. Course of Study preparatory to the Bar or the Senate, 1823, 12mo. 4. Wanderer in Washington, 1827, 12mo. 5. The Lawyer; or, Man as he ought not to be, Charlestown, Mass., 1829, 18mo. 6. With VAN ZANDT, NICHOLAS BIDDLE, Tabular Statistical Views of the Population, Commerce, Navigation, Public Lands, &c. of the United States, Wash., 1829, 4to. Continuation, 1833, 8vo. 7. Gallery of American Portraits, 1836, 12mo. 8. New Guide to Washington, 1842, 18mo; 1847, 18mo;

1848, 18mo.

Wattez, F. J., French Master in King's College School, London. 1. Colloquial Exercises on French Idioms, Lon., 1838, 12mo; 6th ed. pub. 2. English Phraseology, 1859, fp. 8vo. See, also, VENTOUILLAC, L. T., No. 6.

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recent Lyrics of the Heart,' Alaric Watts has given abundant proofs, if not of high creative strength, of gentle pathos, of cultivated intellect, and an eye and ear sensitively alive to all the genial impulses of nature, of home-bred delights and heartfelt happiness.'"-D. M. MOIR: Sketches of the Poet. Lit., &c., 3d ed., 1856, 290,

Mr. Watts was editor of The Leeds Intelligencer, 1822-24 of The Manchester Courier, 1824-25; assisted in The London Standard, 1827, and 1841-47; started the United Service Gazette, 1833, and was its sole editor and manager until 1843; from 1842 to 1847, inclusive established, or assisted in establishing, upwards of twenty conservative journals in town and country, several of which became very profitable to their proprietors; after 1847 had no connection with the newspaper press. He published several volumes of prose without his name. See, also, BOWLES, WILLIAM LISLE, at end; TURNER, JOSEPH MALLORD WILLIAM, No. 12. For notices of Mr. Watt and his literary labours, see Men of the Time, 1856, 768, or 1858, 737; Fraser's Mag., xi. 652, (with portrait,) xiii. 129; Allan Cunningham's Biog, and Crit. Hist., in Lon. Athen., 1833, 772; Howitt's Homes, &c. of the Poets, Concluding Remarks. In 1853 a pension of £100 per annum was conferred on

Watts, Mrs. Alaric Alexander. See WATTS, MRS. ZILLAH.

Watton, or Wotton, John. Speculum Xpristiani,
Lon., s. a., but shortly after 1480, 4to. Interspersed with
English verse. It is "a sort of paraphrase or the deca-him by the Queen.
logue and the creed," after which follows another work.
Alehorne, 178, £34 138.; Maskell, 1854, £9 2s. 6d.; Libri,
1859, £21 108. See Dibdin's Typ. Antiq., ii. 13-15.
Watton, T. Outline Charts of General History,
Birm., 1849, fol.

Watts, Miss. 1. Ladies' Knitting and Netting Book, Lon., 1841-43, 3 series, ea. 12mo. 2. Selections of Knitting, Netting, and Crochet Work, 1843, sq. 32mo. 3. Illustrated Knitting-Book, 1845, sq.

Watts, A. 1. Glasgow Bills of Mortality for 1841-2, Lon., 1844, 8vo. 2. Vital Statistics of Glasgow, 1843-4, 8vo, 1846.

Watts, Mrs. Anna Mary. See HowITT, ANNE MARY. She has since contributed to The Victoria Regia, edited by Miss A. A. Procter, Lon., 1861, sup. r. 8vo. Watts, Alaric Alexander, well known as a poet, editor, and journalist, was b. in London, 1799; d. 1864. 1. Poetical Sketches, Lon., 1822, 12mo; privately printed; published, 1823, 12mo; 4th ed., 1828, 12mo; 5th ed., 12mo. Commended by eleven authorities before us. See, also, No. 6. Ten Years Ago, To Octavia, Death of the First-Born, Kirkstall Abbey Revisited, and I Think of Thee, have been especially admired. The late Sir Robert Peel said, in 1826, that "to have written The Death of the First-Born' and 'My Own Fireside' would be an honourable distinction to any one." 2. Literary Souvenir; a Cabinet of Poetry and Romance; Edited, 1825-35, 11 vols. 18mo. This was a great favourite. See Blackw. Mag., xvii. 94, xix. 81, xxi. 106, xxiv. 698, xxvi. 954. xxxvii. 387, (see, also, xiii. 460, xx. 893;) Lon. M. Rev., cviii. 279; Lon. Gent. Mag., 1835, i. 72; No. 6, infra. 3. Poetical Album; or, Register of Modern Fugitive Poetry: First and Second Series, 1828-29, 2 vols. p. 8vo. 4. Scenes of Life and Shades of Character, 1831, 2 vols. p. 8vo. 5. Cabinet of Modern Art, and Literary Souvenir, (in verse and prose ;) Edited, 1835-37, 3 vols. 8vo. See Eclec. Rev., 4th Ser., i. 78. 6. Lyrics of the Heart, and other Poems, with 41 line-engravings after Stothard, Westall, Etty, Leslie, Roberts, Danby, &c., Christmas, 1850, (dated 1851,) Longman, sq. cr. 8vo, boards, £1 118. 6d.; mor., £2 58.; India proofs, £3 38. Engravings only, plain proofs, demy 4to, £2 28.; India proofs, colombier 4to, 50 copies, £5 58. The volume is printed and embellished uniformly with Rogers's Italy and Poems. Lyrics of the Heart, with 41 steel engravings, N. York, (D. Appleton & Co.,) 8vo, $5, mor. $7; with 11 engravings, Phila., (E. H. Butler,) 1852, Svo, el. $3.75, mor. $4.50, cf. ex. $6.

"There is no living author to whom British Art is so much indebted as to Mr. Alaric Watts. ... The engravings which embellished The Literary Souvenir,' of which he was for so long a time the Editor, have never been equalled in England since the abandonment of that ably-conducted publication. This book of Lyrics of the Heart' was commenced twenty years ago, and many of the engravings were executed about that period. ... As a series of fine engravings of admirable pictures, it has certainly not been equalled since the Annuals died. The volume is a collection of Poems from the pen of Mr. Watts, with a few graceful and touching compositions by his lady. Many of them have been long established in public favour."— Lon. Art Journal, Dec. 1850.

"We close the book with the conviction that there has been

no illustrated work of its class at all entitled to enter into com

parison with it."-Lon. Athen., 1850, 1373. See, also, 1234, 1366;
Internat. Mag., iii. 55.
"In his Poetic Sketches,' an early work, as well as in his more

Watts, David Pike. See Some Account of the
Late David Pike Watts, (father of Mrs. Russell, of Ilam
Hall, Derbyshire :) Privately printed, 1841, 8vo.
Watts, Elizabeth. 1. Poultry Yard, Edited, 1863,
'66, '67, '70, fp. 8vo. 2. Flowers and the Flower-Garden,

Lon., 1865, 66, fp. 8vo. 3. Vegetables and Flowers,
1866, fp. 8vo. 4. Fish, and How to Cook it, 1866, fp.
8vo. 5. Orchard and Fruit Garden, 1866, '69, fp. 8vo.
6. Modern Practical Gardening, 1867, fp. 8vo.

Watts, Frederick, late Reporter of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, was b. in Carlisle, Penna., 1801. Reports Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, May, 1832Sept. 1840, Phila., 1834-41, 10 vols. 8vo. See, also, RAWLE, WILLIAM, JR., No. 3: SERGEANT, HENRY J.; 10 Amer. Jur., 109; Marvin's Leg. Bibl., 562, 637, 722. Contributed to the Farm Journal, &c.

Watts, Gab. 1. Insects in Council, Lon., 12mo. 2. Things Invisible, and other Poems, 12mo.

Watts, George, of Clare Hall, Cambridge, Preacher of Lincoln's Inn, London. 1. Serm., Lu. xii. 21, 1721, 4to. 2. Serm., Ps. cvii. 35-37, (Colony of Georgia in America,) 1736, 4to. 3. Fast Serm., 1 Sam. xii. 25, 1742, 4to.

Watts, Giles. 1. Dissertation on Revulsion and Derivation, Lon., 1754, 8vo. 2. Reflections on Slow Labours, &c., 1755, 8vo. 3. Letter to Dr. Frewen on Inoculation, 1755, 8vo. 4. Second Letter, 1756, 8vo. 5. Vindication of the New Method for Inoculating, 1767, 8vo.

Watts, Henry, editor of the Quarterly Journal of the Chemical Society, London. With the assistance of Eminent Contributors, A Dictionary of Chemistry and the Allied Branches of other Sciences, founded on that of the Late Dr. Ure, (and uniform with URE, ANDREW, M.D., No. 6,) 8vo, in monthly Parts, forming 5 vols., 1863-68, £7 38.

"Mr. Watts's Dictionary is already recognised as the standard English work on Chemistry."-Dubl. Med. Press, 1863.

"In Watts's Dictionary the reader will find a vast store of valuable matter, theoretical and practical, which the editor's extensive acquaintance with chemical literature so well enables him to give."-Lom. Med. Times and Gaz.

Also commended by Lon. Athen., 1863, and Lon. Reader, 1863, i. 245, ii. 112, 283, 473, 677. See, also, 1865, i. 402.

Mr. Watts translated from the German Leopold Gmelin's Hand-Book of Chemistry, 1848-55, 9 vols. 8vo, (Cavendish Soc.;) Edited and Enlarged, with Appendix, the 2d ed. of Thomas Graham's Chemistry, (p. 716, supra,) 1856-58, 2 vols. 8vo; Amer. ed., by Robert Bridges, M.D., Phila., 1856-58, 2 vols. 8vo; translated and edited A History of Chemical Theory, from the Age of Lavoisier to the Present Time, by Ad. Wurtz, Lon., 1869, er. 8vo; and has assisted H. Bence Jones in the supervision of the late editions (10th ed., 1869, 12mo, by Robert Bridges, Phila., 1869, 12mo) of George Fownes's Manual of Elementary Chemistry. See, also, RONALDS, E., and RICHARDSON, THOMAS. Nor should the learner neglect The Student's Practical Chemistry: a Text-Book Heat, Light, and Electricity, and on Inorganic and Orfor Colleges and Schools, on Chemical Physics, including ganic Chemistry, by Henry Morton, A.M., and Albert H.

Leeds, A.M., Professors in the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Phila., 1866.

Watts, Henry Edward. See TENNYSON, ALFRED, D.C.L.. (p. 2375, supra.)

Watts, Isaac, D.D., b. at Southampton, July 17, 1674, studied from his 16th to his 19th year at an academy in London, kept by the Rev. Thomas Rowe, minister of the Independent Meeting-House in Haberdashers' Hall, and subsequently, at home, devoted two more years to his books; lived from 1696 to 1702 in the family of Sir John Hartopp, Stoke Newington, às tutor to his son; preached his first sermon July 17, 1698; in the same year was chosen assistant to Dr. Isaac Chauncy, pastor of the Independent congregation then meeting in Mark Lane, and on March 8, 1702, succeeded Dr. Chauncy in the pastoral office; was soon seized with a severe illness, which induced the congregation, June, 1703, to elect Samuel Price assistant minister, and this copartnership lasted for the rest of Watts's life; was attacked by a violent fever in 1712, and, on his partial recovery, (he never entirely recovered,) accepted an invitation to spend a week at the seat of his friend Sir Thomas Abney, (Lord Mayor of London in 1700,) at Theobalds, and remained at this delightful residence-preaching to and overlooking his congregation, or using his pen, as his health permitted-until his decease, Nov. 25, 1748. Sir Thomas died when the visit had extended over only about ten years; but the Doctor, who remained (not always willingly) a bachelor, spent twenty-six years more with the widow (who survived him a year) and her daughters.

"Here he enjoyed the uninterrupted demonstrations of the truest friendship. Here, without any care of his own, he had every thing which could contribute to the enjoyment of life and favour the unwearied pursuits of his studies. Here he dwelt in a family which, for piety, order, harmony, and every virtue, was a house of God. Here he had the privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages, to soothe his mind and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight."-DR. GIBBONS, (see his Memoirs of Watts, 1780, 8vo:) quoted by Dr. Johnson in his Lives of the Poets, Cunningham's ed., 1854, iii. 250.

1. Hora Lyrica; Poems, chiefly of the Lyric Kind, Lon.. 1706, 12mo; 2d ed., 1709; 4th ed., 1722, 12mo; 7th ed., 1736; 8th ed., 1743, 12mo; 9th ed., 1751, 12mo; 1770, 12mo; 1779, 16mo; with a Memoir by Robert Southey, Esq., LL.D., 1834, p. 18mo, (Sacred Classics, ix. :) 1837, 12mo: same, with his Divine Songs, No. 6, infra, Bost., 1854, (some 1855, &c.,) 16mo, (Little, Brown, & Co.'s Brit. Poets.) 2. Hymns, Lon., 1707, 12mo.

"A first edition of his 'Hymns' is rarer than a first edition of the Pilgrim's Progress,' of which only one copy is known."— P. CUNNINGHAM: ubi supra, 254, n.

Repub. by Franklin in Philadelphia, 1741. 3. Orthodoxy and Charity United, 1707, 12mo: anon.; 1745, 8vo; Exeter, 1780, 8vo. 4. The Psalms of David, Lon., 1719, 12mo: Park, £6 128. 2d.; 2d ed., 1719, 12mo: 7th ed., 1729, 12mo: Bost., 1741. Psalms and Hymns, 15th ed., Lon., 1748, 8vo. Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, 27th ed., Bost., 1771-2, 12mo. Hymnan a Chaniadan Ysprydol Caerfyrddin, 1794, 12mo.

"In point of popularity his Psalms and Hymns far exceed all publications of the last century, and it is said that for many years past, communibus annos, nearly fifty thousand copies have been printed of these in Great Britain, Ireland, and America."Chalmers's Biog. Brit., xxxi. (1817) 253.

Later London editions:

I. "An admirably executed revision of Dr. Watts's Psalms and Hymns, by (the late) Josiah Conder, was published at London, 1841, 18mo." (T. H. Horne, D.D., to S. Austin Allibone.)

II. Illust. ed., with Additional Hymns, and 24 woodcuts by Martin and Westall, 1845, 8vo, (H. G. Bohn.) III. 1850, 18mo, (Simpkin.)

IV. 1854, 18mo, (Ward.)

V. With Appropriate Music, Arranged for Four Voices, 1869, 4to, (Pitman.)

There are also edits. pub. by Ward in 12mo, r. 18mo, demy 18mo, r. 32mo, 32mo, and 48mo; and edits. pub. by Hall in fp. 8vo, 12mo, 18mo, 24mo, 32mo, and 48mo. See BURDER, GEORGE; RUSSELL, THOMAS; Lowndes's Brit. Lib., 429, 431, 433, 434. Many editions, and also editions of Watts's and Rippon's Hymns, in the United States.

"Every Sabbath, in every region of the earth where his native tongue is spoken, thousands and tens of thousands of voices are sending the sacrifices of prayer and praise to God in the strains which he prepared for them a century ago: yea,

every day the, being dead, yet speaketh,' by the lips of posterity in these sacred lays," &c.-JAMES MONTGOMERY: Introduc. Essay

prefixed to his Christian Psalmist, 1825, 8vo. See, also, Blackw.

Mag., xxiv, 932, (by Prof. Wilson.)

"For Dr. Watts Mr. Montgomery has claimed the honour of being almost the inventor of hymns in our language; and the claim is not extravagant."-N. Brit. Rev., Aug. 1857: Dr. Watts, (same in Liv. Age, liv. 641.)

"His ear was well tuned, and his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done well."-DR. JOHNSON: ubi supra, 255, q. v. for comments on this much-criticised dictum. See, also, Prescott's Mexico, 23d ed., 1855, i. 63, n.; No. 10, infra. 5. Guide to Prayer, Lon., 1715, 8vo; 9th ed., 1751, 12mo. Later London edits.: 1846, 12mo; with Preface by Rev. R. Forbes, 1849, 32mo.

6. Divine and Moral Songs for Children, (1720,) 12mo. Often repub. in Great Britain, United States, &c. Later London editions: I. Edited by I. Cobbin, 1830, 18mo; 1848, 18mo; 1852, 18mo; 1865, 18mo. II. With engravings after Stothard, 1832, fp. 8vo, (Tilt.) III. Improved by John Scott, 2d ed., 1835; 1839, 12mo.

"He has tamed some of the most beautiful thoughts by his vulgar and conceited alterations, and produced some of the trashiest and most twaddling rhyme which was ever miscalled sacred."-Lom. Athen., 1835, 277.

by C. W. Cope, Dec. 1847, sq. 8vo; 1848, sq. 8vo; 1850, IV. 1839, fp. 8vo, (Houlston.) V. With 30 wood-cuts Printed on cloth, 1855, 12mo, (Low.) VII. 1857, 12mo, See Lon. Athen., 1848, 11. VI. sq. 8vo; 1851, sq. 8vo. (Ward & Lock.) VIII. With coloured plates, 1861, 12mo, (Lon. Rel. Tract Soc.) IX. Illustrated, 1865, sq. er. 8vo, (Low.) X. 1866, 4to. (Nisbet.) XI. With 100 wood-cuts by J. D. Cooper, Dec. 1865, sm. 4to. XII. 1869, sm. 4to, (Lon. Rel. Tract Soc.) XIII. 1869, sq., (Partridge.) See, also, No. 1: Hora Lyricæ. XIV. Set to Music for Children, by Mrs. Brent, 1848, r. 8vo, • (Houlston.) XV. Isaaci Wattsii Carminum Fasciculus, qui inscribitur Divine Songs, Latine redditorum, Auctore E. C. Kemp, A.M., 1848. See Lon. Athen., 1848, 1328.

"For children he condescended to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to their wants and capacities from the dawn of reason through its gradations of advance in the morning of life."-DR. JOHNSON: ubi supra, 252.

"I am surprised at nothing which Dr. Watts did, but his Hymns for Children. Other men could have written as well as he in his other works; but how he wrote these Hymns I know not."-Cecil's Remains, 158.

See, also, Lon. Reader, 1864, ii. 538, 610.

7. Sermons on Various Subjects, Divine and Moral, 1721-23, 3 vols. 12mo; 3d ed., 1725, 3 vols. 12mo; 7th ed., 1752, 2 vols. 8vo. Later editions: 1772, 2 vols. 8vo; 1792, 2 vols. 12mo; 1796, 8vo; 1805, 2 vols. 12mo: 1808, 8vo; 1811, 8vo; 1814, 2 vols. 8vo; 1821, 2 vols. 12mo; 1826, 8vo. His sermon, entitled A Rational Defence of the Gospel, was repub., with a Preface by A. Alexander, N. York, 1831, 12mo. 8. Logick; or, The Right Use of ed., 1760, 2 vols. 8vo. Later editions: 1782, 8vo; Edin., Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, Lon., 1725, 8vo; 11th

1792, 12mo; Lon., 1793, 12mo: 1801, 8vo; 1805, 18mo; 1809, 12mo; Glasg., 1821, 12mo; Lon., 1822, 12mo; 1824, 12mo; 1825, 24mo, (Walker's Class. ;) 1830, 24mo. (Dove's Class.) In French, by Tissot of Dijon, Paris, 1846. See No. 26.

"Of his philosophical pieces, his Logic has been received into the universities, and therefore wants no private recommendation: if he owes part of it to Le Clerc, it must be considered that no man who undertakes merely to methodise or illustrate a system pretends to be its author."-DR. JOHNSON: ubi supra, 253. "Watts, when he does not bewilder himself and his readers

in scholastic subtleties,. is very judicious."-GREEN: Diary of a Lover of Lit., 1810, 4to, 134, (q. v.) Logique de Watts que dans celle d'Arnauld."-Tissor: Pref. to "Il y a aussi plus de méthode et de clarté peut-être dans la

his trans. of Watt's Logic.

"This treatise is valuable."-HOFFMAN: Leg. Stu., 719. "The Logic of Watts, of Duncan, and of others, are worth reading as books, but not as books upon Logic."-SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON: Lects, on Logic, (1860,) Lect. IX. See, also, Lect. II. "Not a very inviting treatise, compared with that of Archbishop Whately; but easily comprehended, and not repulsive." EDWARD EVERETT. See Atlantic Mon., Mar. 1865, 347.

9. The Knowledge of the Heavens and Earth made Easy; or, The First Principles of Geography and Astronomy Explained, 1726, 8vo; 6th ed., 1760, 8vo: "5th ed.," 1782, 8vo. 10. Dissertations relating to the Christian Doctrine of the Trinity, 1726, 2 vols. 12mo. See TOMKINS, MARTIN, No. 4; Chris. Disc., ii. 461.

"Few writers have been more useful, especially in Psalms and Hymns: a fine genius, and deep piety. He fell into some peculiar notions on the Trinity, and was answered by Abraham

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