ON THE MARRIAGE OF AN AMIABLE YOUNG LADY. YES! 'tis the renovating glow Of joy, that wakes my torpid heart; Again my quick'ning spirits flow, How well their master-spring they know! Oh Muse! let fond Devotion's sigh Sweep o'er thy long deserted lyre; Shall Fancy's long lost aid supply, And clothe my kindling thoughts in words of fire. Refulgent lo! in saffion stole Exulting Hymen darts his torch around, Than e'er before his rosy fetters bound. Sees thou not, Muse, attendant on the fair, Sylphs wanton in her glossy hair, And fan the rising blushes of her cheek? Such scenes would I forego, tho' Memory still And shew, by thy prophetic skill, Joy pouring radiance o'er her lengthen'd years. Rapture sublime shall then my bosom sway, Unheard I'll pour the votive lay, "And deck her altar still, tho' pierc'd with many a wound." TO MELANCHOLY. WRITTEN NEAR MELROSE. HAIL, sable-cinctur'd Goddess, hail! I own thy sovereign sway: Ah why my dawn of life assail, And dim the rising day? Yet, pensive, meditating maid, Let Let not fell anguish in thy train, But lead thro' groves, whose solemn shades Whose arch the sun-beam scarce pervades, There by the birch-o'ershadow'd stream, Oh! send the peace imparting dream Or is yon mouldering pile thy shrine, There let me shun the gaudy day; There let my lonely footsteps stray, Malton. SONG. TO-MORROW comes to bid us part, To tear me from thy side, And send the husband of thy heart A sad to-morrow 'tis to me, How slow the hours will wear away But cheer thee, love, our sun shall shine, W. LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. The first number of a new Medical Quarterly Review, to be entitled the London Medical Review, is announced to appear on the first day of February next. The editors propose to restrict their criticisms to such works in medical literature as may be considered of primary importance; and to subjoin to their review of each author as full a discussion of the subjects on which he treats as the limits of such a publication will properly admit. A new work has just been put to press entitled The Medical Mentor; or Reflections on the History, Importance, Objects and Difficulties of the Healing Art: consisting of a series of letters from an Old Physician to his son during his Collegiate and other studies, preparatory to his engagements in the active duties of the profession. It comprises a History of Physic; a view of the present state of medicine and medical practitioners; an account of the qualifications necessary for the profession; with a general view of the education and preparatory studies best adapted to qualify the pupil for the discharge of its duties; together with a variety of miscellaneous remarks on subjects connected with the practice of physic and medical science in general. Dr. Carpenter, of Exeter, is preparing for publication, an account of the Structure and Function of the Eye, principally intended to illustrate the argument contained in the first and second chapters of Paley's natural Theology. It will be printed to correspond in size and type with that work, so as to bind up with it if wished by the purchasers. A new edition of Bell's popular work on the Cow-pox will shortly be published. The first part of the third volume of Mr. John Bell's Surgery, containing Consultations and Operations, is now ready for publication. Mr. Bell has been loug occupied in preparing two Books, which will be found very useful to all ranks of the profession. I. The ELEMENTS of SURGERY deduced from ANATOMY, in short aphoristical rules, for the conduct of the Surgeon in every ordinary accident of practice, as well as in every greater operation. On one plate plate will be represented the various forms of the disease, on the opposite plate plans of the parts or dissections, and the instruments with which the operation is performed, and in the accompanying text, short rules for distinguishing the nature of the disease, and for its general treatment. II. A collection of the most interesting and useful cases, adapted to illustrate the aphorisms of Surgery, and the practice of Medicine in all organic diseases, selected from the works of Learned Societies of London, Edinburgh, Manchester, Dublin, &c. and from the greatest masters in the profession in England; as Hunter, Monro, Bailie, Abernethey. In 5 Volumes 8vo. These Volumes will be accompanied with short prefaces, introductory of each subject, and marginal notes explaining each individual case, commenting upon the nature and tendency of the disease, and pointing out the ingenuity, the mistakes, the successes, or the disappointments of the original author. Mr. Bigland, the author of Letters on History, &c. is about to publish a History of the World, to be comprised in four closely printed octavo volumes. It will include also a geographical description of the different countries of the globe, and au account of whatever is most interesting in relation to their natural productions, inhabitants, &c. Mr. Cox will shortly put to press a new and improved edition, in octavo, of his Life of Lord Walpole. A volume of Sermons by the late Archdeacon Paley will shortly be pub. lished. Two Tales, Edwy and Elgiva, and Sir Everand, by the Rev. Robert Bland will appear in a few days. Mr. George Dyer is preparing for the Press a Poem in Four Books, with Notes, entitled Poetics. On the first of January will be published in 4 very handsome Volumes 8vo. a new and improved edition, being the 16th, of that valuable and standard work "Dr. Prideaux's old and new Testaments, connected in the History of the Jews and neighbouring nations to the time of Christ." To which is now, for the first time, added a full and Interesting Life of the author, which contains his own defence and Illustrations of certain Passages in the connections. The whole embellished, with 8 new and correct maps and a fise portrait of the author. Shuckford's Sacred and Profane History of the World, connected with the Creation and Fall of Man, printed uniformly to complete Prideaux's, with notes, revised and corrected by Adam Clarke, A. M. with new maps in 4 handsome Volumes 8vo. will very shortly be published; it was nearly completed some months ago: but entirely destroyed in the fire in Fleet-street. Harmer's Observations by Adam Clarke, A. M. is republishing. A series of Letters, by Mr. J. Gilbert, addressed to the Rev. William, Bennet, in Reply to his "remarks on a recent Hypothesis respecting the Origin of Moral Evil," will be published in a few weeks. Mr. Pitman, late of Pembroke-hall, Cambridge, and now of Hackney School, has in the Press a volume of Selections from the rarer Latin Classics, for the use of the upper forms in school. The object of the work is to supersede the use of Martial, whose best epigrams it will include, and to acquaint boys with the beauties of Lucretius, Catullus, and other authors, who on account of their general want of interest or occasional indecencies, have been wholly banished from scholastic reading. A selection of the best notes, and biographical and critical remarks, on each author, will conclude the volume. The author of the Theatrical Criticisms, in the weekly paper called the News, has nearly ready for publication, a volume of Critical Essays on the Performers of the London Theatres; including remarks on the practice and the genius of the Stage. A Farce in two Acts, entitled Antiquity, is in the Press, written upon the dramatic principles inculcated by the author of the theatrical criticisms in the weekly paper called the News, to whom it is dedicated. Miss Betham has in the Press a Volume of Poems, which will he published in the course of next month. Mr. Octavius Gilchrist is printing a few copies, for gratuitous distribution, of the ancient metrical romance, of the "Sowdon of Babyloyne," from the original manuscript which came into his possession at the dispersion of George Steevens's collection. The Rev. Charles Francis Retor of Mildenhall, will shortly publish a Sermon, in recommendation of Union with the Established Church of England, preached in the Parish Church of St. Peter's, Marlborough, before the Archdeacon of Wilts, August 11th, 1807, and printed at his request. Mr. Middleton's "Doctrine of the Greek Article applied to the Criticism and the Illustrations of the New Testament," is nearly ready for publication. The works of the late Dr. Kirwan, Dean of Killala, are preparing for the press. Two posthumous works by the late Mr. Joseph Strutt, author of Rural Sports and Pastimes, &c. entitled Queen-Hoo-Hall, a Legendary Romance; and Ancient Times, a Drama exhibiting the domestic manners and amusements of the fifteenth century, are now in the Press. They will form four volumes in foolscap octavo. vols. Dr. Jamieson's Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language, 4to. will be published in a few weeks. This work is the fruit of many years labour and research; and will, it is hoped, be an acceptable present not only to the Scottish, but to the English antiquary; as containing elucidations of many antient words and phrases common to both languages. Mr. Donovan will shortly publish, in five volumes, octavo, his Natural History of British Fishes, including scientific and general descriptions of the most interesting species, and one hundred and twenty accurately finished coloured plates, taken entirely from original drawings purposely made from the specimens in a recent state, and for the most part while living. Mr. Charles Dunne, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, has in the press a work which he entitles the Chirurgical Candidate, or Reflections on the Education indispensible to complete Naval, Military, and other Surgeons. Messrs. Carey and Marsham, two of the Baptists' Ministers in Bengal, are translating, from the original Sanscrit, the Ramavana of Valmeki, with explanatory notes: the first volume, containing the first Book, will soon be ready for publication. Mr. Hervey Morris has made considerable progress in the printing of a Historical and Typographical Dictionary of Ireland, in two volumes, quarto, illustrated by Maps and other Engravings. The Rev. Thomas Rees, has nearly ready for publication, a FAMILIAR INTRODUCTION TO THE ARTS AND SCIENCES. It will form one Volume, and will comprise the fundamental principles of Scientific Knowledge, simplified and adapted to the capacities of children, and young persons; illustrated by a considerable number of appropriate Engravings. Questions and practical exercises, will be appended to each department of consequence. We hear that Mr. Malcolm is now employed in etching fifty plates from drawings made by himself, which are to be accompanied by explanatory and historical pages. The idea of this work is said to have occurred to him from observing that most Topographical Publications have originated almost exclusively from the same set of antique buildings Those are tortured into new forms in some instances, but they may be traced in the same outline through many works. Mr. M. means to endeavour to find such new and interesting subjects, as shall not only give the architectural, but the natural characteristics of the place; selected with such a portion of circumjacent landscape, as will be useful in a geographical point of view. The Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, will shortly publish a small Selection of the most interesting Papers on subjects relating to Medicine and Surgery, which have been read at the meetings of the Society during the last two years. Proposals have been issued at New Orleans, (North America) for publishing, in four octavo volumes, a Digest of the Laws of Castille and the Spanish Indies; with a General View of the Principles of the Roman Code on which those Laws are founded. By James Workinan, Esq. An |