would no longer sooth, friendship should impart no consolation and even love would lose its power to charm. Man should have a charter free as air; he should have no meteors to guide him but those dim lights which belong to modern philosophy, and teach the rights of sensualism and sentiment. Such men would tear up the roots of society and destroy the land-marks of civilization. Instead of the softness of Tasso we have the ferocity of a bloodhound in this poem. The spirit of Tasso was wounded by the indignities he had suffered and he might have murmured; but he never would have indulged himself in the dark and malignant passions of a grim visaged buccaneer. Lord Byron drew from his own stores in the Lament, and the best proof of our conjecture may be deduced from those passages in which he undertakes to represent the poet as mad.

If this nobleman should be made king, there will be no need of any gallows in England, for he no sooner finds a vagabond, who could play the character of "the benevolent cut-throat," in one of the dramas of the German school, than he converts him into a hero, makes him fall in love with some black-eyed girl, who has as little principle as himself,-leads him through a variety of strange adventures, and then blows him up with gun-powder, amidst

Guns, trumpets, blunder-busses, drums and thunder.

We observe that a fourth canto of Childe Harold is announced, and are glad to find that it is to be the last. Our readers may now look for a fresh assortment of Byron's mixtures; a heterogeneous compound of light morality and atheism, rapine, force, blasphemy and scorn; sweetened to the fancy of youthful minds by a fine tincture of classical taste, splendid imagery and noble sentiSuch is the strange perversion of the human mind!

ment.

In the press, and will be speedily published by James Eastburn and Co., at the Literary Rooms, in New York, (in one vol. 8vo.) The Resources of the United States of America, by JOHN BRISTED, counsellor at law, author of The Resources of the British Empire. It will, perhaps, be recollected by some of our readers, that in the fall of 1809, when the general impression here, was, that Na

polean had subjugated the European continent, and was on the eve of subduing Great Britain, Mr. Bristed published his " Hints on the National Bankruptcy of England," in which he undertook to prove, that so far from finally conquering Europe, France would herself be eventually conquered by her opponents, and mainly by the efforts of England. Subsequent events have fully verified that gentleman's predictions. In the advertisement to his "Hints," he declared his intention of publishing a work on the Resources of the United States, materials for which he had been collecting for upwards, of three years. Eight additional years of observation, collection, and digesting, have lent their aid to form the work now announced. After a few introductory remarks on the importance of a right acquaintance with the resources and character of the United States, and the grievous misrepresentation of them by European writers, the author, in the first chapter, exhibits their territorial aspect, population, agriculture, and navigable capacities; in the second, their commerce, home and foreign; in the third, their manufactures; in the fourth, their finances; the fifth, their government, policy, and laws; sixth, their literature, arts and sciences; the seventh, their religion, morals, habits, manners and character. The work is concluded by a rapid glance at the present condition of Europe, particularly of Spain, France, England, and Russia, and the probable consequences of the present European coalition to these United States. More anon.

Messrs. Murray, Draper, Fairman and Co. have published the seventy-fourth number of Dr. Rees's New Cyclopædia; which is the last that has been received from London. They have addressed a circular letter to the subscribers to this work, from which we make the following extracts for general information:

"This work already contains upwards of eight hundred engravings; which, when completed, will probably amount to one thousand. These plates will comprehend, as they believe, upwards of five thousand different ⚫ subjects, in all the various departments of the arts and sciences. The engravings of the portraits of distinguished American characters, promised to be given in the work, are nearly completed, and will be delivered, (with two volumes of extra plates), with the last number.

"Those subscribers, who have not yet taken up their volumes, are once more notified, that two hundred and fifty copies less of each of the last twenty-five numbers have been printed than of the preceding forty-nine;

and, that, owing to this arrangement, which was rendered necessary by the neglect of distant subscribers to take up their books, and other uncon trollable circumstances, there must, inevitably, be upwards of two hundred and fifty sets left incomplete at the close of the publication. Those, who, through neglect or improper delay, may hereafter find their application for the completion of their sets too late, will have no reasonable cause of complaint, as all the subscribers were advised of the edition being reduced, more than two years ago."

Mr. Bowditch, of Salem, has been engaged in tranlsating the work of the celebrated French mathematician Laplace, entitled Mécanique Cèleste. The North American Review-a new, but very valuable journal-mentions the completion of this arduous undertaking; and we hear that the very extensive notes and illustrations by Mr. Bowditch himself, are almost as copious as the original work of the French astronomer. The value to science of every thing which the Salem Mathematician has hitherto given to the world, confers importance upon whatever he is willing to publish. As Laplace's Mèchanique Cèleste stands unrivalled as a work of science, but is voluminous, would be extremely expensive to publish, and is not easily comprehended except by the best informed astronomers, it becomes, we think, a matter of serious consideration to wealthy men, to the state governments, and to our universities, whether a general effort ought not to be made to enrich the literary reputation of North America by opening so valuable a vein of treasure to the English public.

We understand that brigadier general H. A. S. Dearborn, is preparing for the press, and will shortly publish, a Memoir on the Commerce of the Black Sea and Turkey, embellished with charts of the Black Sea, of Azoff and Marmora, the Archipelago and Mediterranean. The work will contain a history of the commerce of the Black Sea, from the earliest ages; a description of all the commercial ports, situated on its borders, and those of the Turkish Empire; the articles of export and import of each; tables of the weights, measures, and currencies, with a brief account of the most remarkable events and objects of curiosity, for which they are celebrated. It is intended for the use of the merchants and navigators of the United States, and will contain three or four hundred octavo

pages. As the subject of a minister to Constantinople has been agitated, and as there is a probability that the trade to the Black Sea will become of the utmost consequence to this country, the above work will be considered a very importaut acquisition.

A French writer who inherits no inconsiderable portion of the humour of the dean of St. Patrick, has recently published a work at Paris which would suit the meridian of some of our cities. It is entitled The Art of Preserving Places. Some of the chapters, bear these tities,-on reducing theory to practice-on the talent of being discontented-on the folly of rendering one's self usefulall things to all men-on treats and good dinners-on taking a hand at cards-Chrysologus or the clever fellow at all things-on intrigue-&c. &c.

We are gratified to learn that the civilization of Greece is making a regular progress. Lyceums or gymnasia have been established in several places by authority. The brothers Zodimades, in Russia, evince a generous zeal in behalf of literature not excelled in the better days of their country. Instead of hoarding up their treasures, like a wary merchant, they expend them in printing the ancient Greek authors. A Greek lady named Basiliki has disposed of her fortune (100,000 franks) in favour of Siatiste, her native city, to establish there a school for the sciences and polite literature, under the protection of Cyrilly, the patriarch of Constantinople, a prelate of great acquirements. The Greek merchants at Leghorn and those of Vienna have founded schools in those cities for the same purpose.

Karamania, or a brief description of the south coast of Asia Minor, by Francis Beaufort, is characterised as a very unassuming but valuable work. The tract of country which it describes comprises the ancient provinces of Lycia, Pamphylia, and the two Cilicias, together with parts of Caria and Phrygia; although, from a variety of circumstances this interesting portion of classical geography has remained almost unexplored, there are few parts which possess greater claims to attention. It was colonized by that redundant portion of population of ancient Greece which had gradually overspread the rest of Asia Minor, and which had every

where introduced the same splendid conceptions, the same superiority in arts, that had immortalized the parent country. It was at once the seat of learning and riches, and the theatre of some of the most celebrated events that history unfolds. It was signalized by the exploits of Cyrus and Alexander, and was dignified by the birth and the labours of the illustrious apostle of the Gentiles. Yet with all these claims to attention, excepting a few imperfect notices of some modern travellers, our knowledge of this interesting region was almost wholly derived from the accounts contained in the writings of the ancient geographers.

A new play from the pen of our countryman, Mr. Payne, is announced as shortly to appear in London.

NOTICES RELATIVE TO SOME OF THE NATIVE TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA.-BY JOHN DUNNE, ESQ.

I ANXIOUSLY availed myself of a favourable opportunity to obtain some insight into the real state of the natives of North America. I knew from a thousand sources, that they hunted, and fought, and harangued; that they danced and sung, and amused themselves with various sports; but I was at a loss to know whether they were satisfied with those exertions of their powers, or amused themselves in their hours of leisure, between the busy acts of life, with exercises of memory, invention, and fancy; whether they laughed and wept at fictitious tales as we do, and conjured up the forms of imaginary beings to divert and instruct them. Not content with seeing the bark of a wigwam, and the outside ceremonial exhibited to strangers, I wished to know what passed in its recesses, and in the hearts of its inhabitants. My wishes were, in this respect, fully gratified by the friendship of a Miami chief, who, adopting me according to their custom, in the place of a deceased friend, by whose name I was distinguished, entered warmly into my views, and gave me his confidence. I have derived from him a great deal of information relative to his countrymen, which I at least think interesting. For the present, I shall confine myself to notices respecting this friendly chief, and some of the works of