1. An Essay on Disorders of the Digestive Organs, and General Health, and on their complications. By Marshal Hall, M. D. &c. 2. A Treatise on Indigestion and its consequences, called nervous and bilious complaints; with observations on the organic diseases in which they sometimes terminate. By A. P. W. Philip, M. D. &c. 3. A Treatise on Diet, with a View to establish, on practicable grounds, a system of rules for the prevention and cure of the dis- eases incident to a disordered state of the digestive functions. By 4. An Essay on morbid sensibility of the Stomach and Bowels, as the proximate cause or characteristic condition of Indigestion, Nervous Irritability, Mental Despondency, Hypochondriasis, &c. &c.; to which are prefixed, Observations on the Diseases and Re- gimen of Invalids on their return from hot and unhealthy Climates. 5. Sure Methods of Improving Health and Prolonging Life; or a a Treatise on the art of living long and comfortably, by regulating the diet and regimen, embracing all the most approved principles of health and longevity, and exhibiting the remarkable power of pro- per food, wine, air, exercise, sleep, &c. in the cure of chronic dis- eases, as well as the preservation of health and prolongation of life. To which is added, the Art of Training for Health, Rules for reduc- ing Corpulency, and Maxims of Health for the bilious and nervous, the consumptive, men of letters, and people of fashion. Illustrated CONTENTS OF No. VIII. Nouveaux Principes d'Economie Politique ou de la Richesse dans ses Rapports avec la Population. Par J. C. L. Simonde de Sis- 1 Essai Politique sur l'Ile de Cuba. Par Alexandre de Hum- 2. Aperçu Statistique de l'Ile de Cuba, precedè de quelques Let- tres sur la Havane. Par B. Huber. 3. Anales de Ciencias, Agricultura, Comercio y Artes. Por D. 1. The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh. Knt. By Arthur Cayley, Jun. 2. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials. The Trial of SOUTHERN REVIEW. NO. VII. AUGUST, 1829. ART. I.-The Celtic Druids. By GODFREY HIGGINS, Esq. F. S. A. of Skellow Grange, near Doncaster, Yorkshire. 4to. London. THE Introduction to this splendid and elaborate work, contains ninety-six pages and forty-five plates, admirably lithographed, giving a full description of the Druidical remains, (temples, cromlehs, fire-towers, Logan stones, &c.) at Stonehenge, Abury, and other places in England, Scotland and Ireland; in France, Germany, and Malabar; besides fourteen vignettes of a similar kind, conclusively shewing the similarity in the design and structure of these strange erections in widely distant places, and the probable similarity of the rites and ceremonies to which they were destined. In page liii. of this Introduction, Mr. Higgins speaks of the brass weapons of ancient nations; we suspect the brass is properly bronze; an alloy not of copper and zinc, but of copper and tin. The aurichalchum of Corinth might have been brass, but there is no certain evidence of the knowledge or use among the ancients of our modern alloy, so called. The ancient weapons were usually nine parts copper, and one part tin. Their specula were either of this last mentioned alloy, or with a larger proportion of tin, or of silver. The work itself opens with some remarks on the necessity of Etymology, and a collection of alphabets disposed in separate columns. 1. The names of the Samaritan and Hebrew letters. 2. The Samaritan characters. VOL. IV.-No. 7. 3. The Chaldee characters. 4. Their respective powers of notation. 5. The Greek larger and smaller alphabet, with the same powers of notation. 6. A description of the Cadmean letters. 7. The names of the Greek alphabetical characters. 8. The Celtic letters. 9. The names of the letters of the Irish alphabet. 10. The names of the trees designated by the Irish letters. In this we have to remark, that L, Luis, the Quicken, means also the Leek. That S, Suil, which Mr. Higgins marks as unknown, means the Eye; and that T, Teine, which he also marks as unknown, means Fire. On the next page are eleven other columns, as follow1, 2, 3. The Irish Bobiloth alphabet, the characters, letters and denominations. 4, 5, 6. The Irish Bethluisnion alphabet, characters, letters and denominations. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. The Etruscan alphabet, characters and powers. Fig. 12. on the same page, characters found at Persepolis. Fig. 10. Ogham Bethluisnion characters. Fig. 11. The virgular Ogham. Fig. 13. The Callan inscription in Ogham characters, found in County Clare. (See also in corroboration, pages, 59, 60, 247, 248, 257, 264, 304, particularly the three last.) On these, we have to remark, that the names, characters, and powers of notation of the Samaritan, Hebrew, Greek, and Cadmean, are too manifest to be mistaken. 2. That the names of the Irish letters have a similarity with the preceding also, too remarkable to be ascribed to mere accident. 3. That there is a general similarity in the form of the Irish Bethluisnion alphabet with the Etruscan. 4. That the general stile and appearance of this Etruscan character struck us, as very similar to the same in the plate of the Elean inscription, discovered by G. Gell, in 1813, of which Mr. Knight has given a translation and description in 13 Class. Journal, p. 113, deducible, we think, from the Umbrian or the Pelasgic stem of the Greek people, who were certainly the progenitors of the Etruscans. 5. That we could have wished to have had placed under the eye of the reader the plate of inscriptions on the Babel bricks, of which Sir Wm. Drummond has given a description in 5 Class. Journal, p. 127, to compare with the Ogham character. Ogham, Hercules Ogmius of Lucian: Agham, sanscrit for secret. 6. We are also of opinion, it would have been well worth the while of Mr. Higgins to have enriched his pages with a fac-simile of the Phoenician al |