immortal interests of his fellow creatures; and as a zealous minister, seeking and embracing the best opportunities of discharging the high demands and duties of his office.

Under the title of "An Essay on Evangelical Hope," he has here presented us with remarks on the different and opposite views which men entertain of the Deity, of themselves, of the Scriptures, and of Heaven. In this Essay, he carefully distinguishes between the hope of the Christian, and the hopes of the hypocrite, the Pharisee, and the man of the world. He strongly urges every one to a close examination of his own heart; and furnishes, in as ample a manner as his space allows, those encouragements which every good man needs in this state of darkness and in this world of trial. Would our limits permit, we should gladly extract some passages which have given us no small pleasure, and which exhibit evident proofs that the writer both understood and felt his subject. His remarks are not indeed distinguished either by novelty or genius, but they bear the more valuable impress of a sound mind, and of a benevolent heart. There are, however, in this little volume some few things which are by no means in accordance with its general character; and we shall the more cheerfully point them out, from the hope of their being corrected in the event of a future edition being called for, and that it will not displease the Author who anticipates essential advantage from those remarks which the pen of criticism may offer upon its 'contents.'

The following we consider to be a very censurable passage.

Those who maintain the sentiment, which they call falling from grace, are remarkable for their gloom and melancholy; which, when their sentiments have their legitimate effect upon them, become depicted in their very features." p. 175.

How could a man of Mr. Tyerman's good sense, suffer himself to write and print this libel upon one of the most upright and useful communities of modern Christians? We approach, probably, much nearer to Mr. T.'s views on this sentiment, than to theirs; but we deny the existence of the effect which he ascribes to their supposed error. In circumstances not unfavourable to observation nor wanting in evidence on this subject, it is our decided opinion, that they who hold the possibility of losing the principle of Evangelical hope, are as happy, and appear as happy, as they who are persuaded it can 'never be lost.' The persuasion of which our Author speaks, produces happiness in the Christian's mind, exactly in proportion to his holiness; that is, to the evidence he has in himself,

and which he exhibits to others, that he is a Christian. For any one to attempt, under other circumstances, to render himself happy by such a persuasion, would be as absurd as it would be wicked. He would be comforting himself with an assurance of reaching the goal, and of receiving the crown, before he had commenced the race, or even entered the lists.

Let us consider for a moment a man, who believes in the possibility of falling from grace, in possession of the evidence we have mentioned. He gives unequivocal proof in every part of his disposition and conduct, that he is a son of God, being made meet for the inheritance of the saints in light.' Is he rendered miserable by the view which he takes of the terms of his security? Does he moan and frown because he thinks that his final happiness is suspended upon his "endur"ing to the end?" Is he even unhappy till he becomes unholy? And when a believer in the doctrine of final perseverance becomes unholy, does Mr. T. wish him to comfort his mind by the persuasion that his hope can never be lost?' We have been the more particular on this point, because we think our Author has strangely mistaken the feelings and features of a large and increasing body of the excellent on earth!'

We think, also, that Mr. T. might have stated the doctrine of final perseverance in terms less liable to objection and abuse than those which he has chosen. We were struck, on reading his work, with the difference in his mode of asserting this, and some other equally important though less controverted truths. He frequently places the latter before his readers in all the native beauty and purity of revelation. When he does not profess to quote from scripture, he often adopts its style of expression. But when he comes to a doctrine which the inspired writers have expressed more cautiously than any other, he abandons this method, and clothes his sentiments in language which we deem extremely objectionable. The following are instances.

• Whenever God implants this principle in the mind, he will never suffer it to be eradicated.'' God never excited a hope of future bliss in the soul of a sinner, and then hurled him into the gulph of endless despair.'

How different these representations of the doctrine from those we receive from Prophets and Apostles! " The righteous shall hold on his way; and he that hath clean hands shall grow "stronger and stronger " "He that endureth to the end shall ❝ be saved." "Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus."

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Art. XI. Sacred Dramas; chiefly intended for young Persons: the Subjects taken from the Bible. To which is added, Sensibility, an Epistle. By Hannah More. Nineteenth Edition, witha Additions and a Portrait of the Author, 32mo. Price 2s. 6d. Cadell and Davies. 1815.

IT is not necessary that we should characterize or recommend a publication that has obtained a circulation so extensive as Mrs. More's Sacred Dramas. As a work intended for young persons, aiming to exhibit the characters of Sacred History in an interesting light, and to insinuate religious instruction by the medium of dramatic narrative, it merits high commendation, and its tendency is, in our opinion, unexceptionable. The work is now brought under our notice by the recent additions. These consist principally of a fourth part to the Draina of "Moses "in the Bulrushes," in which Miriam is represented as describing, under prophetic inspiration, the future deliverance of Israel from Egypt, and the overthrow of Pharaoh and his host.

We are sorry we have no room to shew, by an extract, the happy finish which the Author has given to this production of her earlier years.

Art. XII. A Voyage to Abyssinia, and Travels into the Interior of that Country, executed under the Orders of the British Government, in the Years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an Account of the Portuguese Settlements on the East Coast of Africa, visited in the Course of the Voyage; a concise Narrative of late Events in Arabia, Felix; and some Particulars respecting the Aboriginal African Tribes, extending from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt; together with Vocabularies of their respective Languages. Illustrated with a Map of Abyssinia, numerous Engravings, and Charts. By Henry Salt, Esq. FR.S. &c. Royal 4to, pp. 580. Price 51. 5. Riving

tons. 1814.

(Concluded from page 236.)

IN passing near the mountain Devra Damo, one of those distinguished fastnesses, which, in the earliest periods of the Abyssinian history, served as a place of confinement for the younger branches of the reigning sovereign,' our traveller, himself a native of Litchfield, was very powerfully reminded of the author of Rasselas.

As the journey had hitherto, tended toward the south, at a time when the sun was proceeding northward, and yet every day. the climate was found more temperate, and the vegetation backwarder, Mr. S. concluded he must have arrived at a great height

above the level of the sea; and continually regretted an accident which had rendered his barometer useless for the purpose of ascertaining this fact.

Passing through a district under the command of a lady, the Ozoro Asquall, Mr Salt, with two of his friends, diverted his course from the road to make her a visit. Having lost her father, she was found exemplifying literally, if we rightly understand our Author, the scriptural mode of mourningin sackcloth and ashes' On such occasions, it is usual in this country, he says, to disfigure the person as much as possible, in proof of the sincerity of grief. Had Mr. S. found her, at his return, under a new course of these austerities, and the cause of it the death of her husband, the most squalid exhibition she could have made, would hardly have prevented some scepticism as to the depth of her sorrow. They found him at her house by sufferance, his proper district being at a considerable distance, and she choosing to reside in her own. He was a gentleman of very pro, er manners, and appeared to have been effectually disciplined to feel that he was in the company of his betters; still, however, not to such an unlimited extent but that his presence operated in some slight degree of restraint on her manners. was a marriage to which, when a widow, she had been reluct antly constrained by the Ras. But even when there has been no such compulsion or reluctance, Abyssinian ladies of rank, it seems, are accustomed to assume a superiority over their husbands; and they always retain their own estates after marriage, together with their maiden names.

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The party arrived, at length, at Chelicut, where the Ras was then residing, and till they could be introduced at court in due form, were accommodated at a burnt-down mansion on his beautiful estate there. During the interval, Mr. Salt's curiosity was highly gratified by the sight of some of the rare and famous Galla oxen with enormous horns, a species which Bruce had never been fortunate enough to see. He refutes Bruce's assertion, that this extraordinary size of the horns is a kind of dis

ease.

'I should not venture,' he says, 'to speak so positively upon this matter, had I not indisputably ascertained the facts; for the Ras having subsequently made me a present of three of these animals alive, I found them not only in excellent health, but so exceedingly wild that I was obliged to have them shot. The horns of one of these are now deposited in the Museum of the Surgeons' College, and a still larger pair are placed in the collection of Lord Valentia, at Arley Hall. The length of the largest horn which I met with was nearly four feet, and its circumference at the base, twenty-one inches.

It might have been expected that the animal, carrying horns of so extraordinary a magnitude, ould have proved larger than others

belonging to the same genus; but in every instance which came under my observation, this was by no means the case. The accompanying etching, which was copied from the original sketch (taken from the life,) may serve to convince the reader of this fact.' p. 259.

All due arrangements and formalities preceded the introduction at the court, then at Chelicut. Among the principal points, the dress had been judged so important by Mr. Salt, as to be prepared before his leaving England, in a rich and stately, and an altogether foreign fashion; for we may well believe what he says of the effect of our mode on the Abyssinians; as to the common European costume, I had formerly observed that it 'tended to excite a species of contempt and ridicule that occasionally became very unpleasant in its effects.'

Their reception by the Ras was in the highest degree both complimentary and friendly.

We were met by two chiefs, who in honour of the mission dismounted from their horses, and uncovered themselves to the waist as they came up to pay their compliments. The number of attendants increased every moment as we advanced to Chelicut, and, before we reached the gateway of the Ras's mansion, we found some difficulty in making our way. At length, with a great bustle and a confused

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clamour which on such occasions is reckoned honourable to the guests, we were ushered into the presence of the Ras. who were present stood up uncovered on our entrance. himself, who was seated on his couch, rose up with eagerness to receive me like a man meeting with a long lost friend; and, when I made my salutation, joy seemed to glisten in his eyes, while he welcomed me with an honest warmth and cordiality, that nothing but genuine and undisguised feeling could inspire.' He did not seem to have been much altered during my absence, and the pleasure which he evidently manifested at our meeting, was exceedingly gratifying to the whole of our party. He inquired with great anxiety respecting my health, and declared he had always felt a kind of presentiment that he should see me once again before he died.'

Such a reception could not fail to produce in our traveller, every imaginable predisposition to receive the evidence of the Ras's being a very superior man to what, in Mr. S.'s former visit, he had judged him to be. This judgement, pronounced in Mr. S.'s portion of Lord Valentia's work, is here referred to, in order to be revoked. It is after relating a number of the Ras's proceedings and exploits that he remarks,

From the preceding narrative of affairs it will appear, that on my former journey I had entertained an erroneous opinion respecting the character of the Ras, as, at that time, I conceived that he owed his elevation more "to his cunning than to his strength of charac"ter." In this I was undoubtedly mistaken; since he is distinguished still more for his intrepidity and firmness than by the policy with

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