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    expense of the army ; but the broader question , of the necessity for war and its evils is hardly meddled with . We know that the church , qua church , is not the nest of a phcenix peace , —let Rathcormack

    witness it . Neither is there wothing but ; murder and blood in battle . The writer , however , does not seem to see thus much . Though the moral is feebly handled , ( or rather reached at , but not reached , ) the narrative is not without

    interest Peter Parley ' s Wonders of the Earth , Sea , and Sky . Edited by the Rev . T . Wilson . Darton and Clarke , pp . 336 . Mr Parley has acquired too

    much reputation as a popular instructor of the young to need any very urgent recommendation on our part . The little volume before us bears no date , and we are not certain whether it is new or

    old . But new or old , it is a very pleasant and a very valuable little book for its class of readers . Mr Wilson , the editor , very judiciously objects to the union of comprehensiveness and brevity , which is so often attempted in works written for young people . The utmost such books can teach is

    classification ; but we must know things before we can classify them . The selection made in the present volume is well calculated to illustrate its comprehensive title , without confusion . The matter is not

    altogether new ; but the more obscure subjects of geology and fossil zoology , and the tribe of zoophytes , are explained with unusual

    clearness . Finderis Ports arid Harbours of Great Britain * Part VIII . Chdrl ^ Til t . TriE present number contains Ramsgate , a spirited design , with fishing-boats entering the harbour

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    during a smart gale ; Hastings , tocr fragmentary an 4 sidelong % yi ^ w of the place , if it is to be the only one ; Weymouth , a pretty view * but also too partial , a group 6 r trees intercepting great part of it 5

    Budleigh Salterton , a bleak place , with a good effect of distance though the cliffs at the back seem made of fine straw , owing to the harshness of parallel lines ; and Cromer , an effective sketch , a little mannered in its black-and-white

    ness . The letter-press forms an interesting and useful commentary on the plates , which altogether are an improvement on the last number .

    The Miscellaneous Works of Dp Adam Clarke , LLJ > . F . K . 8 , Vol . XI . Detached Pieces . T , Tegg and Son . ' There are some curious papers irt the present volume of Dr Clarke ' s works . Among them may be reckoned the " St Lencio , " an account

    of an amateur colony , and code of laws , established some years back by the King of Naples : a fine specimen of rather well-meaning , shallow , dogmatical , despotic ? quasi philanthropy . The royal legist classes the payment of taxes among

    the sacred duties ; and inculcates A divine respect to his own person , as the living representative of God on earth . And this impious round of assumptions Dr Clarke contemplates " without one cause of pain , ' * excepting the non-recommenaatiou

    of the scriptures to popular use I That is to say , Dr Clarke regrets that the people of Naples are not a dissenting protestant population ; but as for any political rights they

    may or ought to have , he no more cares than if they were so many sheep * The account of Ry mer a Feeder ^ is highly interesting . The learned Doctor was more in his element here , than among the ethical stu-

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Oct. 1, 1837, page 295, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1836/page/70/