And then there is all the luxury of passing in the lightness of imagination, over all the scenes of so many adventures, exertions, dangers, and pleasures. The traveller renews the vision of a vast diversity of the aspects of nature and of man. He rekindles the enthusiasm which he felt in scenes where the very form of the earth's surface seems moulded by a special energy of Heaven, into surpassing grandeur and beauty; or among the funereal remains of human works of ancient time, stupendous by their magnitude of mass, or commanding or enchanting by their superb or graceful forms. As he touches once more the paper which, while sitting perhaps on some fragment of a marble column or tomb, he held in his hands to delineate some of those beautiful or majestic objects, then full in his sight, his very being and identity become an enigma, in a kind of competition between the consciousness of where he now is, and the powerfully vivid remembrance of where he then was.

Our Author must also have, throughout the long review of his adventures, the flattering recollection, that he displayed the utmost activity, inquisitiveness, address, and courage; he knows that he availed himself of all advantages, and has brought home in his accumulated papers an equivalent to the time and enterprise expended. Besides all this, he finds innumerable opportunities, in the course of his work, for turning to account those acquisitions in literature and art, which have been made independently of his pursuits and researches as a traveller.

We may then repeat, that Dr. Clarke's lot, in the great distribution of the business of authorship, is one of the most enviable of the age. Probably he himself, in looking round on his contemporaries, sees scarcely one with whom, if that were possible, he would exchange; certainly not one among the multitude of travellers, with the single splendid exception to which we recollect to have before adverted, that of M. Humboldt.

The first volume traced him across the Russian empire, from north to south, and left him at the metropolis of the Mahomedans. Thence the narration in the second volume, carried him to the Troad, to Rhodes, to Egypt, to Cyprus, and to the Holy Land, and left him at Acre on his return towards Egypt, in which region of wonders we find him occupied through nearly half the third volume, which is the largest of the series. It commences with a prefatory miscellany of notices and observations, respecting the rules of selection which he has observed, and the improvements that have been made during the progress of the work; respecting the disputed site of Heliopolis; and also the reluctance in certain quarters, to admit the evidence, still regarded by him as quite

great objects and duties of bettering her own condition, and diffusing the blessings of civilization and Christianity.'

There is surely something far more noble and far more Christian in this language, than in the desponding speculations of our second-sighted politicians. The errors and the crimes of different governments-indeed, the whole system of European policy, for the last twenty years, may with much reason excite, on the retrospect, sentiments of a painful and indignant nature. It is not to be forgotten, that the contests in which during that period this country has been engaged, have not all been with a military despot; have not all been a struggle between good and evil principles. We have loved war better than peace, our policy being evil, and we are now reaping the bitter, bitter fruits of that unnatural excitation which war occasions. The victory of Waterloo was achieved by a last desperate effort of feverish strength; it has left us without an enemy, but it has also left us impoverished, spiritless, in the weakness of exhaustion. Still, amid all the present distresses, there are in the moral features of the times, indications of the future good which awaits us. We deem it immoral to despond. We warmly participate in the confidence expressed by Mr. Southey, with respect to the hopes of man, and we call upon at least every believer in the promises of inspiration, to discard those morbid feelings of impatience and distrust which the too exclusive contemplation of human agency is apt to engender, and to rejoice that the Lord "God Omnipotent reigneth.'

• Here under freedom's tutelary wing,

Deliberate courage fears no human foe;
Here undefiled as in their native spring
The living waters of religion flow;
Here like a beacon the transmitted light
Conspicuous to all nations burneth bright.'

Mr. Southey thus nobly celebrates the noblest triumph of Britain.

The landscape changed;-a region next was seen,
Where sable swans on rivers yet unfound
Glided thro' broad savannahs ever-green;

Innumerous flocks and herds were feeding round,
And scattered farms appeared and hamlets fair,
And rising towns which made another Britain there.
Then thick as stars which stud the moonless sky,
Green islands in a peaceful sea were seen;
Darkened no more with blind idolatry,

Nor curst with hideous usages obscene,

But healed of leprous crimes, from butchering strife
Delivered, and reclaimed to moral life.

Around the rude Morai, the temple now

Of truth, hosannahs to the Holiest rung:
There from the Christian's equal marriage-vow,
In natural growth the household virtues sprung:
Children were taught the paths of heavenly peace,
And age in hope looked on to its release.
The light those happy Islanders enjoyed,

Good messengers from Britain had conveyed;
(Where might such bounty wiselier be employed?)
One people with their teachers were they made,
Their arts, their language, and their faith the same,
And blest in all, for all they blest the British name.
Then rose a different land, where loftiest trees

High o'er the grove their fan-like foliage rear;
Where spicy bowers upon the passing breeze
Diffuse their precious fragrance far and near;
And yet untaught to bend his massive knee,
Wisest of brutes, the elephant roams free.
Ministrant there to health and public good,
The busy axe was heard on every side,
Opening new channels, that the noxious wood
With wind and sunshine might be purified,
And that wise Government, the general friend,
Might every where its eye and arm extend.
The half-brutal Bedah came from his retreat,
To human life by human kindness won;
The Cingalese beheld that work compleat

Which Holland in her day had well begun;
The Candian, prospering under Britain s reign,
Blest the redeeming hand which broke his chain.
Colours and castes were heeded there no more:
Laws which depraved. degraded, and opprest,
Were laid aside, for on that happy shore

All men with equal liberty were blest;
And thro' the land, the breeze upon its swells
Bore the sweet music of the sabbath bells

*

pp. 184-187.

"Enough! the Goddess cried; with that the cloud
Obeyed, and closed upon the inagic scene:
Thus much, quoth she, is to thine hopes allowed;
Ills may impede, delays may intervene,

But scenes like these the coming age will bless,

If England but pursue the course of righteousness.' pp. 191.

We shall adopt the last stanza of the poem in conclusion, as a parting address to Mr. Southey.

And thou to whom in spirit at this hour
The vision of thy country's bliss is given,

Who feelest that she holds her trusted power

To do the will and spread the word of Heaven,...
Hold fast the fate which animates thy mind,

And in thy songs proclaim the hopes of human kind.

Art. II. Travels into various Countries of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By Edward Daniel Clarke, LL.D. Part II. Greece, Egypt, and the Holy Land.

Section Second, 4to. pp. about 850. Price 41. 14s. 6d. Cadell and Davies. 1814.

Section Third. To which is added a Supplement, respecting the Author's Journey from Constantinople to Vienna; containing his Account of the Gold Mines of Transylvania and Hungary, 4to. pp. 750. Price 41. 14s. 6d. 1816.

[The Two Volumes contain (including Maps and Charts) 56 Engravings of the full Size, and 48 Vignettes.]

THESE are the third and fourth massive volumes of Dr.

Clarke's splendid performance. The latter of them constitutes the last section of the second part. It brings the Author back, after so long a sojourn, to the shores of his native country. No conjecture is given as to the probable extent of the portion yet in reserve, and of which the subjects are to be Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Lapland, and Finland. Its preparation, we may presume, will be carried on without intermission.

We cannot think without some degree of envy of the continuous interest attending such a process as that of our Author's work. From one main cause of anxiety in authorship he is totally exempt, the necessity of inventing or collecting materials, with a constant uncertainty whether exactly the desirable ones will occur, and a doubt still haunting, at each step of the progress, whether something much better might not have been found than that of which the composition is actually made to consist. In a case like the present, the writer is, beforehand, quite certain of his materials; they are ready, in full existence and abundance in his papers; they are absolutely his own; and he knows that a large proportion are such as inevitably will and must be interesting to the intelligent public-that they will be so in a considerable degree even independently of the manner in which they shall be drawn out to view. Whatever of excellence therefore he may evince in execution, whatever judgement, taste, and elegance, in the complicated task of selection, arrangement, and composition, will be received, not indeed as quite gratuitous, but with the pleasure imparted by a handsome way of presenting a good thing. The very considerable labour of the operation is thus exhilarated by the full confidence that between the merits of matter and of manuer he cannot labour in vain.

And then there is all the luxury of passing in the lightness of imagination, over all the scenes of so many adventures, exertions, dangers, and pleasures. The traveller renews the vision of a vast diversity of the aspects of nature and of man. He rekindles the enthusiasm which he felt in scenes where the very form of the earth's surface seems moulded by a special energy of Heaven, into surpassing grandeur and beauty; or among the funereal remains of human works of ancient time, stupendous by their magnitude of mass, or commanding or enchanting by their superb or graceful forms. As he touches once more the paper which, while sitting perhaps on some fragment of a marble column or tomb, he held in his hands to delineate some of those beautiful or majestic objects, then full in his sight, his very being and identity become an enigma, in a kind of competition between the consciousness of where he now is, and the powerfully vivid remembrance of where he then was.

Our Author must also have, throughout the long review of his adventures, the flattering recollection, that he displayed the utmost activity, inquisitiveness, address, and courage; he knows that he availed himself of all advantages, and has brought home in his accumulated papers an equivalent to the time and enterprise expended. Besides all this, he finds innumerable opportunities, in the course of his work, for turning to account those acquisitions in literature and art, which have been made independently of his pursuits and researches as a traveller.

We may then repeat, that Dr. Clarke's lot, in the great distribution of the business of authorship, is one of the most enviable of the age. Probably he himself, in looking round on his contemporaries, sees scarcely one with whom, if that were possible, he would exchange; certainly not one among the multitude of travellers, with the single splendid exception to which we recollect to have before adverted, that of M. Humboldt.

The first volume traced him across the Russian empire, from north to south, and left him at the metropolis of the Mahomedans. Thence the narration in the second volume, carried him to the Troad, to Rhodes, to Egypt, to Cyprus, and to the Holy Land, and left him at Acre on his return towards Egypt, in which region of wonders we find him occupied through nearly half the third volume, which is the largest of the series. It commences with a prefatory miscellany of notices and observations, respecting the rules of selection which he has observed, and the improvements that have been made during the progress of the work; respecting the disputed site of Heliopolis; and also the reluctance in certain quarters, to admit the evidence, still regarded by him as quite