THE ECLECTIC REVIEW. MDCCCXXXII. JANUARY- -JUNE. THIRD SERIES. VOL. VII. Φιλοσοφίαν δὲ οὐ τὴν Στωικὴν λέγω, οὐδὲ τὴν Πλατωνικὴν, ἢ τὴν Ἐπι- CLEM. ALEX. Strom. L. 1. LONDON: HOLDSWORTH AND BALL, 18, ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-YARD. 1832. CONTENTS. ACLAND'S Illustrations of the Vaudois, in a Series of Views 97 542 Anti-Slavery Reporter Appeal, An, to the Clergy; shewing the necessity of a Reformation in the present Art in Nature, and Science Anticipated Bacon's Examination of certain Passages of Scripture, which have been appealed to Biblical Series of the Family Cabinet Atlas Brenton's Sermon on the promiscuous use of the Burial Service Burder's (Dr. H. F.) Four Lectures on the Law of the Sabbath Calabria, during a Residence of Three Years Carlile (Rev. J.) on Scriptural Education in Ireland Davies's Ordinances of Religion Practically Illustrated and Applied Cunningham's (Rev. J. W.) Political Duties of the Ministers of Religion Drummond's (Dr.) Letters to a Young Naturalist Dudley's Two Letters Addressed to a Friend in Wales, on the Constitution of the Innes's Liberia; or the Early History of the American Colony of Free Negroes on Keightley's Mythology of Ancient Greece and Italy King's Comparative Claims of the British and Foreign Bible Society calmly Morison's (Dr.) Sermon on the Christian Pastor Visiting his Flock Narrative of Events connected with the late Disturbances in Jamaica Neander's History of the Christian Religion and Church during the Three First Prison Discipline, Eighth Report of the Society for Improving Pritchard's Eastern Origin of the Celtic Nations Report (Annual) of the General Union for Promoting the Observance of the Saturday Evening. By the Author of "The Natural History of Enthusiasm Scott's (Rev. J.) Trinitarian Bible Society Luther and the Lutheran Reformation Sibree's Expostulatory Epistle to the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry Simeon's Sermons on the Offices of the Holy Spirit Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics. (Lardner's Cyclopædia.) Whately's (Dr.) Introductory Lectures on Political Economy Wilks's (Rev. C. S.) Bible Society Question Considered Wilson (Rev. D.) on the Divine Authority and Perpetual Obligation of the Lord's THE ECLECTIC REVIEW, FOR JANUARY, 1832. Art. I.-1. Introductory Lectures on Political Economy, being Part of a Course delivered in Easter Term, MDCCCXXXI. By Richard Whately, D.D., Principal of St. Alban's Hall; Professor of Political Economy in the University of Oxford. 8vo. pp. 238. Price 7s. London, 1831. 2. Lectures on the Elements of Political Economy. By Thomas Cooper, M.D., President of the South Carolina College, and Professor of Chemistry and Political Economy. Second Edition, with Additions. 8vo. pp. 366. Price 10s. 6d. Colombia, S. Carolina. Hunter, London. 1831. 3. The Working-man's Companion. The Rights of Industry: addressed to the Working-men of the United Kingdom. By the Author of "The Results of Machinery." § 1. Capital and Labour. 18mo. 1s. sewed. London, 1831. NEXT to Theology in importance, is that science which, next to Theology, is in the most unsatisfactory state, its very name operating on multitudes of readers as a mental scarecrow; -we mean of course, Political Economy. As to its importance, its paramount importance in relation to man's secular interests, there can be no question. The subjects of which it undertakes to treat, embrace the constituent principles of society, the objects of all sound legislation, the means and conditions of national prosperity and of individual advancement. Its aim is to ‘analyse the transactions and dealings that take place between men < who are combined in a political community, with a view to deduce from facts and consequences the true philosophy of commerce'; taking that word in its widest sense, as comprising all the exchanges that take place in society, and the principles of fiscal legislation. As usually defined, political economy would seem VOL. VII.-N.S. B |