tion on its scene, scope, language, author, and era,” 8vo; a production which materially augmented its author's fame as a student of oriental literature. The dissertation includes much that is calculated to excite the deepest and most earnest attention; and of the translation, which is in numerous parts decidedly an improvement on the common version, I shall enable my readers to judge, by selecting nearly the whole of the thirty-seventh chapter, in which the Deity is represented as creating, upholding, and regulating the seasons. Hear! O hear ye the clangour of his voice, He thundereth with the voice of his majesty ! Great things doeth he, surpassing knowledge: Behold! he saith to the snow-BE! On earth then falleth it : To the rain, and it falleth The rains of his might. Upon the labour of every man he putteth a seal : Even the brute kind go into covert, And abide in their dwellings. From the utmost zone issueth the whirlwind: And from the arctic chambers, cold. By the blast of God the frost congealeth, And the expanse of the waters, into a mirror. He also loadeth the cloudy woof with redundance; His effulgence disperseth the gloom. Thus revolveth he the Seasons in his wisdom, That they may accomplish whatsoever he commandeth them, Over the face of the world of earth. Constantly in succession, whether for judgment Or for mercy, he causeth it to take place. Hearken to this, O Job! be still, And contemplate the wondrous works of God. Dost thou know how God ordereth these things? How the light giveth refulgence to his vapour ? Teach us how we may address him, When arrayed in robes of darkness; Or, if brightness be about him, how I may commune; Even now we cannot look at the light When it is resplendent in the heavens, And a wind from the north hath passed along and cleared them. Splendour itself is with God! Insufferable majesty ! Almighty!-we cannot comprehend him !— Surpassing in power and in judgment ! The notes, which are upon a very extensive scale throughout the whole of the work, are on this chap ter, as indeed on every other, full of interest. One in particular, as including an admirable translation by the doctor from the noblest ode which Klopstock ever wrote, his Die Fruklingsfeyer, or The Vernal Ecstasy, I must be allowed in part to quote. The poet is describing the progress of a thunder-storm in Spring: Seht ihr den zeugen des Nahen den zückenden strahl? &c. &c. How Lord! God supreme! Compassionate and kind! Prais'd be thy glorious name! Prais'd and ador'd! sweeps the whirlwind !-leader of the storm! How screams discordant! and with headlong waves Lashes the forest !-All is now repose. Slow sail the dark clouds-slow. Again new signals press :-enkindled, broad, Our heavenly Father bade Th' o'erwhelming power Pass o'er our cot, and spare it. "The solemn and fearful beauties of this passage," observes the doctor, "are too numerous to be pointed out; they run, however, through the whole poem but the simplicity, sublimity, nice feeling, and abrupt turn of the last stanza, beggar all description *." If we now turn from the fields of literature to those of science, we shall find Dr. Good a no less ardent and successful cultivator. He had at no time suffered his attachment to philological pursuits to interfere with his professional zeal and duties; and as a proof of this, it may be mentioned, that between the years 1795 and 1812, he had produced, independently of a voluminous compilation on general science+, not less than seven distinct works in * Pages 426 and 427. PANTALOGIA, or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Words, in conjunction with Dr. Olinthus Gregory and Mr. Newton Bosworth, 12 vols. royal 8vo. Dr. Good published also a "SKETCH of the REVOLUTION in 1668, with Observations on the Events that occurred," of which a second edition, enlarged and illustrated, appeared in 1792. He brought forward likewise, in 1812, a new edition of "Mason's Treatise on SELF-KNOWLEDGE: Revised and corrected from the earlier and more perfect editions, with a prefixed Life of the Author, and a Translation of such Passages in the Notes as have hitherto been only given in their original tongues." 12mo. relation to the history, theory, and practice of medicine. It is, however, to the year 1817 that I would point as the era which placed Dr. Good amongst the ranks of those who will reach a distant posterity as guides and instructors in the healing art. In this year appeared his "PHYSIOLOGICAL SYSTEM OF NOSOLOGY, with a corrected and simplified Nomenclature ;" and dedicated, by permission, to the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians in London. Of this undertaking, in which the diseases of the animal functions are arranged in classes derived from a physiological view of these functions, it may justly be said, that more full and comprehensive in its plan than any previous system of nosology, more intelligible in its classification, and more classical and correct in its language, it bids fair to supersede every attempt which has hitherto been made in the difficult provinces of medical technology and systematic arrange ment. Elaborate, however, and arduous as this attempt might be deemed, it was but the precursor of one still more important and extensive; for, in the year 1822, Dr. Good presented us with "THE STUDY OF MEDICINE," in four large volumes octavo; a |