daily do, we may be sure that there is a copious supply of original matter at the fountain head. We hope (to continue the metaphor) that those who drink from ours, which is one of the oldest watercourses that has been made from the general reservoir, will have no reason to complain that the channel has been injured by time, or the supply directed by unskilful or unfaithful hands. We wish to continue now what we formerly were, and that it may be said of us, as was said of a learned German divine, Luitprandus nunquam Luitprando dissimilis fuit. S. URBAN. LIST OF EMBELLISHMENTS TO THE VOLUME. **Those marked thus are Vignettes, printed with the letter-press. Facsimile of an ancient Drawing of the Court of the Pope *Ancient anchor found in Fleet Ditch Four figures of Churches showing the difference of high and low chancels *View of Blithborough Church, Suffolk *Profile of John Britton, F.S.A. *Diagrams illustrative of the construction of the Pyramids Interior View of Great Musgrave Church, Westmorland *Ancient Grave-stone found in Fetter Lane INDEX TO POETRY. Chorus, Bride of Messina 607 Decease of the Mass 271 Elegiac Poem 402 Enduring Woe 623 Epistle (Turberville), from the Author to the Reader 45 Epitaphs on the E. of Pembroke 46. On H. Sydenham and Gyles Bampfield 46 James I. Poem on his Accession 366 Odes of Horace, by J. Scriven 615 Papal Court, Latin Verses on 573 Sandys, G. Version of the 60th Psalm 507 Spenser, Poetic Notices of 48 GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Canova's Magdalen-St. Maurice, Winchester.. MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF FRANCIS HORNER.. Swindon Church, Gloucestershire (with a Plate.).. The Merry Llwyd on St. John's Eve, and Fire Worship. D'Aubigné's History of the Reformation-Comparative Cultivation of the Arts by Catholics and Protestants-Hymns of the Church-Church Music- Memoirs of the Bover Family-Original letters relating to the Mutiny at the THE WISDOM OF AGE; a ballad: by the Rev. Wm. Harness, M.A...... Sir W. Betham on the Hiberno-Celtic Language.. Sepulchral Tablets at St. Mary in the Capitol, Cologne (with Engravings) "Letter to an Hon. Brigadier-General "-By whom? By Junius? RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW-Tragical Tales and other Poems... Langdon's Ten Thousand Things relating to China, 49; White's History of ........ FINE ARTS.-Royal Commission of Fine Arts; LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE.- New Publications, 62; Oxford University, 67; Cambridge University, 68; Asiatic Society, ib.; Society of Arts, ib.; Lord Berwick's Library, 69; Library of Dean Milles, 72; Roxburghe Club....... ARCHITECTURE.-Oxford Architectural Society, 73; Norman Tower, Bury, ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES.-Society of Antiquaries, 77; Cambridge Antiquarian Society, 78; Oxford Ashmolean Society, ib.; Numismatic HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Proceedings in Parliament, 82; Foreign Promotions and Preferments, 85; Births and Marriages... OBITUARY; with Memoirs of the Duke of Manchester; Earl of Co- ventry; Earl of Abergavenny; Lord Forbes; Lord Fitzgerald and Vesey; Hon. William Howard; Sir Gregory O. P. Turner, Bart.; Rear-Adm. Sir Josiah Coghill, Bart.; Sir R. W. Vaughan, Bart.; Sir Francis Sykes, Bart.; Sir Peter Payne, Bart.; General J. M. Kerr; Capt. H. C. Pemberton, R.N.; R. L. Gwatkin, esq.; C. Fyshe Palmer, esq.; George Henry Carew, esq.; Robert Hurst, esq.; John Allen, esq.; Henry Nelson Coleridge, esq.; Henry Goulburn, esq.; Mrs. Fairlie; Robert Fox, esq. F.S.A.; Rev. J. W. Niblock, D.D.; W. H. Pyne, esq.; Henry Thompson, H. F. Cooper, esq.; Wm. G. Mucklow, esq.; Mrs. Daven- port; Mrs. Honey Table of Mortality in the Metropolis for May and June-Prices of Shares- Markets, 111; Meteorological Diary-Stocks Embellished with a Plate of SWINDON CHURCH, near Cheltenham; and with Re- MINOR CORRESPONDENCE. CYDWELI Writes,-On opening the June number, I see (p. 589), that a suggestion of mine is treated as a plagiarism, a charge which I hasten to repel, premising that the quotation from Erasmus is only known to me through M. D'Aubigné. J. R. pronounces my (not uncharitable) suggestion of a numerical error in the text of Erasmus, in the astounding number of fines paid by licentious priests, as borrowed from the translator. Such is not the case. I have never even seen the translation to which he refers, except in the third volume, whereas he refers to the first. Mr. Kelly's translation, which I possess, but which is printed in another form, has no translator's note on the passage. As to the words, “so exultingly produced," your readers will know how to appreciate them; nor do I wish to offend against courtesy, by the too easy means of retort. Man is indeed a construction-putting creature; but the faculty belongs to his vices, rather than his virtues. J. T. M. remarks with respect to the name of Mansel, that William Mansel, esq. who died December 11th, 1541, is buried in York Minster.-In Prior's Life of Burke, and in Hardiman's History of Galway, the name of Dolphin (still respectably known in Loughrea), occurs frequently. The name is found in the Saxon Chronicle, ad. an. 1092, where it is said that William Rufus, when he went to Carlisle, and built the castle there, "drove out Dolfin, who had before governed that country." (Miss Gurney's translation, p. 252. In the chronological index he is styled Warden of Cumberland.) Canova's "Magdalen," which formed part of the gallery of the late wealthy Spanish capitalist, M. Aguado, was sold by auction at Paris, on the 28th of March, 1843, for the sum of 59,500 francs. The purchaser is said to be the Duke de Sarraglia, who, it is said, is about to remove the Magdalen to Italy. At the sale of the Marquis de Sommariva's gallery, four years ago, M. Aguado paid for it 66,000 francs. It is a circumstance seldom adverted to, that the Greek poet, Menander, was an Anti-democrat. He is stated to have been a friend of Demetrius Phalereus, and to have narrowly escaped death, on the downfall of that eminent person, at the hands of the Athenian populace. The fact is adduced by Dr. Gillies in his History of the World, chap. 7, from the Life of Demetrius by Diogenes Laertius; and, in times when men of talent are apt to be led away by popular sentiments, is not unworthy of notice. it The following remarkable entry occurs in one of the old register books of St. Maurice, Winchester. "1644, Charles Eburne Cler: being shott thro. dyed the same night at Christopher Hussey's, Gent: and one of the Aidermen of this Cittie of Winton. Also James Mingam and Richard Shoveler; all three wounded together in the Soake by East Gate, dyed that night, beinge the 9th of Decem: and weare buried the 10th out of the parish of St. Maurice in Winton, by me WILLM. CLUN. Recr." A later hand (apparently) has added, " Væ malum belli civilis." The old church of St. Maurice has been pulled down in 1840, and a new one rather larger has been erected on the same site. It was formerly collegiate, with regular clergy attached, and a most venerable parish church. The porch was of handsome Norman workmanship. "Can any reader inform me whether there exists any engraved portrait of Mallet the poet. I have never been able to meet with one." F. T. P. 640. The storm in which the steeple of Exton church was struck with lightning took place on the 25th of April, not the 2nd of May. In June, p. 664, the Rev. Richard Loxham, Rector of Halsall, has been incorrectly stated as of St. John's coll, Cambridge. It ought to have been Jesus' coll. Cambridge, where he graduated 1783. His brother, Rev. Robert Loxham, was of St. John's, 15th Wrangler, 1779; hence perhaps the mistake. MR. E. MAUDE answers the quære in May, p. 476, respecting "red nepe." In Salmon's Herbal, Ed. 1710, chap. 517, pages 768 and 769, are three cuts of Nep. 1. Nep: or, Cat-Mint common. 2. Nep: or, Cat. Mint small. 3. Nep, broad leaved. ERRATUM.-P. 601, col. 2, for Pantathlete, read Pentathlete.-P. 625. "Bishop of London in 1553, and Bp. of London in 1848," for a Lady Citizen, read a Lay Citizen; for price 4d. read price One Shilling. GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE. } Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Horner, Esq. Edited by his Brother, Leonard Horner, Esq. 2 vols. SO well has this work been executed that we can scarcely regret the failure of the previous attempts to compose a biographical memoir of Mr. Horner, when the materials collected for the subject had been successively entrusted to two of his intimate friends, who were both prevented, by professional engagements, from executing the task, which otherwise the duties and recollections of past friendship would have made them eager to accept. Mr. Leonard Horner has, however, judiciously adopted a plan of biography which must surpass, in the fidelity of the likeness, the most delicate and finished touches of any other hand, as much as the reflection of the countenance in the clear and transparent mirror does the strongest resemblance by the painter's hand. He has adopted the plan suggested to him in the memoir of Sir Samuel Romilly,-selecting and arranging the authentic and original materials collected, abstaining himself from comment and remark, and giving little or nothing but what had been written by the subject of the biography, or by one or other of his correspondents; thus, by a careful selection from the correspondence and journals of his brother, and by the addition of a few pages at the commencement and close, and by filling up occasional blanks in the narrative, he has made Mr. Horner himself narrate the history of his life. As he limited his work to two volumes, he has given, he informs us, not more than a third of the number of letters he possesses, only a small part of those of his correspondents, and a certain portion of extracts from the journal. In most cases this would have been judicious, for an overloaded and encumbered biography of ordinary persons is one of the evils of the age, and the addition of a third volume would scarcely be desirable; but so valuable, in the present instance, are the materials which form the narrative, so illustrious are the names of the persons that occur, so important the events that are described and the opinions that are discussed, that, when the work comes to a second edition, we hope to see some enlargement of it, especially in the journal, which we consider to be a very valuable record of the education of an individual mind, and of the formation of principles of conduct, calculated to be of service as an example to others who are commencing their progress in life with an ambition as pure and honourable and upright as Mr. Horner's was. The life of a man of very exalted geniusof one of the great heirs of fame-is, as it were, a brilliant vision, a thing exciting high admiration, awakening powerful trains of emotion and sympathy in the mind, but too little connected with our own more contracted powers and our humbler principles of action to be of service to us as a guide; it acts, by way of example, too remotely on us. Fires, like its own, can be kindled in few congenial breasts; it rises before us in enchanting yet be We presume that Mr. Jeffrey is one of the friends alluded to,-who the other is, who is also mentioned, we do not know. wildering splendour-astonishes and dazzles us with its uncertain movement and its unwonted light, and then it blazes on in its progress in a path too remote for us to reach, and with a brilliancy we find it difficult to endure. The creations of the highest genius are made for the admiration, not the imitation, of ordinary minds. It is from others of another and a different class that we can obtain rules for our instruction and guidanceknowledge such as we can adopt and employ-principles we can understand and associate with our own. It is in this point of view that we consider the work before us as one of no common value. Mr. Horner appears to have been gifted with a very clear and vigorous understandingthis was Nature's dowry to him—all beside he achieved out of this for himself, and no one but will peruse with interest the steps which led to such early maturity of mind, and to such rapid accumulations of select and valuable knowledge. It will be seen that he had the advantage of excellent instruction in his youth, that he was placed, when he quitted the parental roof, under those who guided his progress with attention and skill-that he lost no time in unnecessary and unconnected pursuits-that he never lingered in those bye-ways and pleasant nooks and paths of literary amusement that have been so fatally seductive to many, that he was never entangled among the "difficiles nuga" of a too curious and unwieldy erudition,-that he was never lost in those devious ways that in every direction are intersecting the vast map of knowledge, that he did not suffer himself to cast anchor and become becalmed by the tranquil and alluring enjoyment of some inferior pursuit; and that he escaped, by strength and determination of purpose, those seductions which have paralysed the efforts of so many minds, and consigned to oblivion names worthy of a better fate. But he seems early to have seen before him the arduous and honourable path he designed to traverse, and to have taken the means to attain success. The broad and massive foundation on which his system of education was laid, that was to fit him for all the purposes of his future life, and the great extent of those studies which, however apparently remote, all pointed to and united in the same end, may be seen in a passage in his journal.* "It is not with a view, however, to mathematical knowledge merely, or even to a future intimacy with physical science, that I have resolved to place myself under Mr. Playfair; but as forming a necessary part of that survey, in which I have occasionally been employed for two or three years past, of the general field of the sciences, and of the logical methods that are suited to various investigations. The study of Lord Bacon's writings is still uppermost in my mind, and that with an ultimate and steady view towards the phi losophy of legislation. The calculus of fluxions and the theory of curves, may appear remote enough from such an object; but my intention is to get a knowledge only of the instrument, and of the principles upon which it works, not to learn the manual and ready use of it. It is as a chapter in the great system of logic that I wish to understand the transcendental geometry; and it is with my eyes bent upon the philosophy of politics and law that I have always been studying that system," &c. It was in this manner that with his strong and extensive understanding, and under a system of well-directed study, vigorously pursued, he was able, in the very commencement of his public career, to distinguish himself by his extensive and accurate knowledge, by his sound judgment, and clear and convincing eloquence; when to these are added the qualities which gave them double force, the unbending integrity which |