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vage tribe, with whom he had been reared from a period of infancy, of which he had no recollection, forcibly recalled to our memory the adventures of Psalmanazer. We have now read the work, and it is but justice to say that all our scepticism has vanished. The narrative is natural and unaffected: it tells no tale that can be reckon ed extraordinary; and recounts nothing of his early years that could have been beyond the comprehension of a boy. There appears no motive for deceit; and the observations are thronghout,modest, rational, and, we may say, philosophical. Only a hundred and thirty-four pages are devoted to his personal adventures; the remaining three hundred and twelve being wholly occupied in an account of the "Manners and Customs of the several Indian tribes located west of the Mississippi." Mr. Hunter left the Indians in 1816, when, according to his own belief; he was about nineteen or twenty years of age. His previous adventures are merely a history of the combats and migrations of the different tribes among which he lived; the chances of war having tranferred him from one to another. These things are recorded from memory, and the record is seemingly accurate. The second and principal part of the volume partakes more of compilation, In his account of the topography of the country and the manners of the tribes; his recollection has been evidently assisted by subsequent enquiries, and conjoined with the information received from other travellers. In editing the work, he acknowledges that he has been assisted by his friend Edward Clark, both "with interrogations respecting some of the subject matter, and the revisal and arrangement of the Manuscript." Of the extent of that assistance we are ignorant, but we know that an interesting and instructive book has been produced by their joint co-opera. tion. Some parts must certainly have been added by Mr. Clark: for instance, the speech of an Indian Chief, which Mr. Hun ter heard when he was a young boy, is here given at great length, and in the first person. This exactitude of recollection is endeavoured to be accounted for, from the effect which the speech produced; but the following paragraph looks extremely like an interpolation from the Fables of Esop. "Brothers, the white people are like poisonous serpents: when chilled, they are feeble and harmless; but invigorate them with warmth, and they sting their benefactors to death." From other parts of the volume, we are assured that the Indians are not accustomed to take serpents into their bosoms. We do not, however, wish to cavil: because, as we have already said, we are persuaded that in all essential particnlars the work is sufficiently faithful.

The Antiquities of Free-Masonry, by GEORGE OLIVER, Vicar of Clee, &c. is a

very pompons and very foolish book. It is adorned with maps of Egypt, Canaan, and Jerusalem, besides a large one of "Europe, Asia, and Africa, shewing the dispersion and settling of nations by the descendants of Noah," according to the tenth chapter of Genesis; and it pretends to trace the history of Masonry from the creation of the world to the dedication of Solomon's Temple. The author tells us in his preface, that he has long felt a serious desire to defend the institutions of masonry against envy and prejudice; and, that since that duty had been impressed upon his mind, he had preached and printed five Sermons in his official capacity of Provincial Grand Chaplain for the county of Lincoln, the tendency of all of which was chiefly directed to that point. But those sermons, it seems, were not sufficient; and, therefore, this work was undertaken to expose "the pure principles of the science, as it actually existed in the primitive ages of the world." What that science is, we are as much at a loss to know, having read his book, as we were when we opened it. Neither are we bettered by the following definition of masonry, which he says is contained in an ancient manuscript, in the hand writing of King Henry the Sixth: “Yit beeth the skylle of nature, the undeistoudynge of the myghte, that ys hereynne; and its sondrye werckynges, sonderlyche, the skylle of rectenynges, of waightes and metynges, and the true manere of faconynge at thynges for mannes use, headlye, dwellynges, and buildynges of all kyndes, and al oder thynges that make gudde to manne.--Maconnes havethe alweys, yn everyche tyme, from tyme to tyme, communycatedde to mankynde soche of her secrettees as generallyche myghte be usefulle; they hanethe kepe backe soche alleine as shulde be harmfulle yff they comed yun euylle hanndes." How many such secrets may be in the possession of the reverend author we know not, but sure we are that he has revealed nothing in this volume that can be possibly of the slightest use to mankind. This we would have pardoned had the book been amusing, but it is as dull and uninteresting as it is stupid and superstitions.

The Flora Domestica, or the Portable Flower-Garden, which professes to give directions for the treatment of plants in pots; is a compilation that has a probable chance of a successful sale. The plants treated of are about 200, which, with their varieties, might, as far as their culture is concerned, have been discussed in the space of forty pages. The remaining 350, are made up in part of botanical descriptions and remarks, but chiefly by "illustrations from the works of the poets." The poets however whom this author has chosen to illustrate his work, are seldom those who have taken their stand in

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the temple of Fame; they are chiefly recent or living authors, and, belonging to a peculiar class, are probably the friends of the writer. We find Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats, John Clare, Horace Smith, Barry Cornwall, and Leigh Hunt, in almost every page; but, strange to tell, although the book is a Flower-Garden, the name of Dr. Darwin is never once mentioned. The Poppy serves to introduce a puffing panegyric on the "Confessions of an Opinm-Eater;" and Tobacco gives us the fol lowing verses by Charles Lamb.

"For thy sake, Tobacco, 1
Would do any thing but die,
And but seek to extend my days
Long enough to sing thy praise."

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