EUROPEAN MAGAZINE, MAY, 1823: PUBLISHED ON THE FIRST OF JUNE. WITH A PORTRAIT OF JOHN FLAXMAN, ESQ. R.A. TAKEN FROM THL LIFE EXPRESSLY FOR THIS WORK. CONTENTS. 454 Original Essays. PAGI ENGLISH BOOKS. PAGE Memoir of John Flaxman, Esq........ Fables for the Holy Alliance, By Thomas 387 Brown the Younger 452 Sleep, a Fragment. 389 Chateau of Madame de Sevigne The Naval History of Great Britain. By 390 E. P. Brenton, Esq...... 153 Lines to Miss P. H. KELLY 392 Description of the Ruins of a City pear Ske:ches of Society in London and Paris., 393 Palenque. From the Spanish. Matins and Vespers, with Hymns, &c. By 456 On the Industry and Commerce of Egypt.. 404 The Hermit of Mona and other Poems, By My School-Bay Scenes 408 459 The Praises of Osiris .... 411 On Poetical Resemblance 412 Sketches of France Science and Literature, 420 Sketches of Popular Preachers :-The Rev. FOREIGN :- America -- Asia - Germany George Saxby Penfold. 424 -Prussia-Russia--Sweden-Turkey Letter relative to the Strictures on Popular ---Italy–Switzerland-France 459 Preachers 425 Exolish: The Shiprereck.. - Literary Inteliigence 426 Supplement to the Memoir of Buonaparte, Works preparing for Publication, inIncluding Las Cases' work cluding Works in the Press - New 429 Publications..... 463 Lines from the French a.. 440 465 fine arts. Exbibition of the Royal Academy The Drama. 441 Exhibition of Painters in Water-Colours .. 415 Italian Opera 469 Mr. Glover's Exhibition... 446 Drury-Lane Theatre 471 Panorama, Leicester Square 447 Covent-Garden Theatre 471 Model of Palestine 448 MONTHLY MEMORANDA The Gallery of Raphael.... 472 448 Intelligence relative to the Fine Arts ..... 449 Births, Marriages, and Deaths, 473 475 Commercial Report 475 YOREIGN BOOKS List of Bankrupts and Dividends 476 History of Joan of Are. By Jollois 450 East India Shipping List 479 State of the Protestants in Hungary. By Meteorological Table. Berzexiczy 452 Price of Canal Shares, &c. 480 LONDON: Published for the Proprietors, [TWO SHILLINGS.) EDITOR'S NOTICE. We are continually receiving “ Reviews" of books from publishers and authors, who have not the delicacy to send even a copy of the work by which we might judge of the talent and honesty of the reviewer ; can any one be soʻunjust as to suppose, after reading our critiques, that we are to be induced to swerve from our duty by either partiality or party spirit? 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The lives of artists and literati general diffusion of knowledge we are proverbially destitute of those owe almost all that is commendable striking events that captivate the in history, which chiefly instructs understanding and excite the curio- us in the contests waged by ignorance sity of the ignorant multitude; but and usurpation against nascent into the philosopher and politician, telligence and the acknowledged who dive beneath the surface for rights of mankind. How puerile the causes that agitate the sea of and contemprible do the exploits of political and moral contention, every the Macedonian bravo appear in the event of those lives are truly inte romance of Quintus Curtius, when resting. They are the guides by compared with the philosophic lewhich man is led from brutality to roism of the Athenian Sage as decivilization; in comparison with scribed in Plato: the one lived to which the stormy incidents, that scourge the world, the other died to crowd the lives of warriors and enlighten it! These reflections nastatesmen, are like the irruptions turally occur, when we contemplate of volcanos over a fertile country. the unobtrusive life of the subject of “ The proper study of mankind is our present memoir, calculate its man," and where can we trace the usefulness and compare it with those inmost workings of the mind so well of inglorious men, who are now seas in its silent retreats, undisturbed curing to themselves eternal infamy by extrinsic circumstances ? Those, by their aggressions on a peaceful, who would deduce the present im- magnanimous, and unoffending naproved state of society from the ex tion. They disgrace their Creator amples of potentates and legal deso- by impiously assuming his name to laters of the earth, know nothing of mask their hypocrisy; he honours the philosophy of history or of the the Eternal Being hy shewing how causes that secretly work out the much mankind is capable of intelamelioration of what is termed civi- lectual improvement. We wish we lised society. From the diffusion were able to enter into those details of knowledge among the mass of that would develope the means by mankind arises the only real liberty which the subject of our present man is susceptible of, because that memoir has arrived at the highest powerful engine not only teaches honour in his profession, and achim the nature and advantages of quired a name that is not only at rational freedom, but renders him the present time European, but incapable of abusing it. To this which will endure to the latest |