ΤΟ ART. I. Travels in New England and New York. By Timothy Dwight, S.T.D. LL.D. late President of Yale College; Author of Theology Explained and Defended. II. The Orlando Furioso. Translated into English Verse. By William Stewart Rose. Vol. I. III. 1. Recollections of the Peninsula. By the Author of 2. Campaign of the Left Wing of the Allied Army, in the Western Pyrenees and South of France, in the Years 1813-14, under Field-Marshal the Marquess of Wel- lington. Illustrated by a detailed Plan of the Opera- tions, and numerous Plates of Mountain and River Scenery, drawn and etched by Captain Batty, of the First or Grenadier Guards, F.R.S., &c. &c. IV. The Epistles of Paul the Apostle translated, with an Ex- position and Notes. By the Rev. Thomas Belsham, Minister of Essex Street Chapel. V. Travels through Sweden, Norway, and Finmark, to the VI. 1. Facts and Observations respecting Intermittent Fevers, and the Exhalations which occasion them, collected chiefly on a Professional Mission to inquire and report on the Cause of the Sickness of the Army in Walche- ren, in 1809, and to Northfleet, to report on the Ex- pediency of Establishing a Dock Yard and Naval Arse- nal at that Place, in 1810. In Select Dissertations on several Subjects of Medical Science.' By Sir Gil- bert Blane, Bart. F.R.S. &c. &c. 2. De Regionibus Italiæ Aëre pernicioso contaminatis Observationum quas Munia Professoris ordinarii pub- lici in celeberrimâ Universitate Berolinensi subiens Commilitonibus Prodromi instar ad Lectiones de Epi- demiis et Contagiis habendas offert Johannes Ferdi- nand Koreff, Dr. Med. et Chirurg. &c. &c. Fr. Fr. Emm. Fodéré, Professeur à cette Faculté. Tome 4. Recherches Historiques, Chimiques et Médicales sur l'Air Marécageux, Ouvrage Couronné par l'Académie VII. 1. Memoirs of the Mexican Revolution, and of General 2. History of Guatimala, in Spanish America. Trans- lated from the Spanish of Don Domingo Juarros, by 3. Historia de la Revolucion de Neuva Espana, ó ver- dadero Origen y Causas de ella, &c. &c. Por Don Jose Guerra, Doctor de la Universidad de Mexico. 4. Origen de la Espantosa Revolucion de Neuva Espana comenzada en Setiembre. Por Don Juan Lopez Can- VIII. Private Correspondence of William Cowper, Esq. with several of his most intimate Friends. Now first pub- XI. Journal of a Second Voyage for the Discovery of a North-West Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in the Years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's THE QUARTERLY REVIEW. OCTOBER, 1828. ART. I.-Travels in New England and New York. By Timothy Dwight, S.T.D. LL.D. late President of Yale College; Author of Theology Explained and Defended. 4 vols. NewHaven. THIS HIS writer was known in England about thirty years ago by an heroic poem upon the Conquest of Canaan, and a descriptive one, entitled Greenfield Hill,' both republished in this country. More recently his System of Theology has been reprinted here, and with considerable success. But the work before us, though the humblest in its pretences, is the most important of his writings, and will derive additional value from time, whatever may become of his poetry and of his sermons. Soon after Dr. Dwight had been appointed President of Yale College, he found it necessary for his health to employ the vacations in travelling-of all restoratives, both for body and mind, the most effectual for men of sedentary habits. A wish to gratify those who, a hundred years hence, might feel curiosity concerning his native country, made him resolve to prepare a faithful description of its existing state. He made notes, therefore, and collected information, on the spot; the materials were arranged and composed at leisure; and when a weakness of sight compelled him to desist from the undertaking, the students of his college offered to write for him in succession-a fact creditable to both parties, as showing an attachment on their part which could not have existed unless it had been deserved. The work is in the form of Letters addressed to an English gentleman; the author," however, wished it to be understood that they were written for his own countrymen, supposing that few persons in Great Britain felt any desire to be acquainted with the condition of the United States, or the real character of the Americans. By the government,' he says, ' indeed we must, from the extent of our territory, our local circumstances, our population and our commerce, be considered as possessing a degree of political importance; and by the merchants of Liverpool, and the manufacturers of Manchester, Birmingham and Sheffield, we may be regarded with some attention as customers. But, except by the religious part of the British nation, we seem to be chiefly unknown or forgotten in the character of rational beings; or known and remembered almost only to be made the object of contempt and calumny. A book which professes nothing more than to give a description of a country and a people regarded in this VOL. XXX. NO. 59.-Q.R. manner, 1 |
