the Ot'homi. Both are monosyllabic; in both we discover the same paucity of distinct syllables; in both gutturals and nasals abound; and in both, the sense in many cases depends solely on the intonation and quantity of the vowel. In the appendix are 1. A vocabulary of the Ot'homi language. 2. A list of compound words. 3. Examples of the modes and tenses of verbs, with their compound imperatives. 4. Some phrases for the purpose of showing how the class to which a word belongs. is determined by its place. 5. The Lord's Prayer, with a grammatical commentary and a shorter version. We add the last. Two petitions seem to have escaped the author's notice. Yo sna t' ha' Domine meus Pater To wi bu'i Qui tu habitas Hén-tsi Extensionem incircum (coelum) Da-ma ka ni hùn Dicent sanctum tuum nomen Da-di ni hne Exequatur tui voluntas Ha'i he hén-tsi Terrâ (in) et coelo Ma hmén ta pa Meus panis quaeque tempus Sa da he ni Placeat (si) da nos nunc Ha pu ni ma t'ha'i he Et parcere germinare mea debita nos (nostros) Ha yo ho he ga so tso'di Et cave ne consentire nos labi provocari exequi. III. MISCELLANEOUS AMERICAN AND ENGLISH WORKS. I.-The Writings of George Washington; being his correspondence, addresses, messages, and other papers, official and private; selected and published from the original manuscripts; with a life of the author, notes and illustrations. By Jared Sparks. Vol. X. Commencing the correspondence official and private from the beginning of his presidency to the end of his life. Boston: Russell, Shattuck & Williams, 1836. pp. 563. We take pleasure in repeatedly calling the attention of our readers to this splendid and truly national work. It is worthy of the honored name whose virtues and services it commemorates. The care and taste apparent in the mechanical execution are a good index of the skill and completeness every where exhibited in the labors of the editor. Mr. Sparks's zeal and ability, expended in illustrating the revolutionary history of the country, are above all praise. Nine volumes of the papers have been issued. They are to be succeeded by two additional volumes of the same nature. The series will be closed by a life, written anew, with the advantages derived from many hitherto unrelated facts and from fresh sources of illustration. The aggregate of all the volumes will be about 7000 pages, large octavo. The capital invested considerably exceeds that embarked in the American Encyclopedia, which was stated to have been 80,000 dollars. 2.-Permanent Temperance Documents of the American Temperance Society, Vol. I. Boston: 1836. pp. 514. This volume is divided into five parts called Reports. They are in truth, however, the developments of principles in the Divine government, illustrated by facts which occur in Providence. They are very apposite proofs of the doctrine so profoundly set forth by bishop Butler, in his Analogy, that punishment according to the common course of nature follows a violation of the laws of God. The first part of this volume shows that it is immoral to drink alcohol; the second, that it is immoral to manufacture, vend, or furnish it, to be drank by others; the third, that the making or continuing of laws which license men to sell ardent spirits to be used as a beverage, and thus teaching the community that the drinking of it is right, and throwing over it the legislative sanction and support is also immoral; the fourth exhibits those principles of the divine administration, which the above-mentioned practices violate; and the fifth shows the manner in which alcohol, when used as a beverage, causes death to the bodies and souls of men. It is unnecessary for us to add any words of commendation for these reports, which are already known, and working out their appropriate results all over the world. 3.-Essays, Thoughts and Reflections, and Sermons, on various Subjects. By the Rev. Henry Woodward, rector of Fethard, in the diocese of Cashel, Ireland. London, 1835, 8vo. This volume consists of two parts-a series of Essays some of them originally published in the Dublin Christian Examiner, and twelve pulpit Discourses, three of them preached for public charities in Dublin. The work is said to have had an extraordinary popularity, the first edition having been sold in one month. It is evangelical in its character, and contains many striking thoughts powerfully and beautifully expressed. 5.-The History of the United States of North America from the plantation of the British colonies till their Revolt and declaration of Independence. By James Grahame, Esq. London, 1835, 4 vols. In 1827, Mr. Grahame published a work in two volumes entitled, "The History of the Rise and Progress of the United States of North America, till the British Revolution in 1688." The first and second volumes of the present publication may be considered as a second edition of that work, greatly altered and amended. The third and fourth volumes are new, and continue the history of the older American States, and also embrace the rise and progress of those which were subsequently founded, till the revolt of the United Provinces from the dominion of Britain, and their assumption of national independence. Mr. G. declares the present work to be "the fruit of more than eleven years of intense meditation, eager research, of industrious composition, and solicitous revisal. In the collection of materials for the composition of this work, I have been obliged to incur a degree of toil and expense, which in my original contemplation of the task, I was very far from anticipating. Many valuable works illustrative of the history and statistics, both of particular States, and of the whole North American commonwealth, are wholly unknown in the British libraries. After borrowing all the materials which I could so procure, and purchasing as many more as I could find in Britain, or obtain in America, my collection proved still so defective that in the hope of enlarging it, I undertook a journey in the year 1825 from London to Göttingen; and in the library of this place I found a richer treasury of North American literature, than all the libraries of Britain could at that time supply. I am also indebted to the private collection of various individuals in England and France." These volumes of Mr. Grahame, thus conscientiously prepared, we trust will be speedily brought out in a worthy style in this country. It is unquestionably the best history of the United States which has appeared. Mr. G. is ani mated by a religious spirit, which does not, however, obtrusively appear. He has given a thorough, impartial, and truly liberal view of the origin and history of these States, and has laid the people of this country under lasting obligations of gratitude. The style, without any pretension to great refinement, is good English and well adapted to the subject. 5. Some account of the Writings and Opinions of Clement of Alexandria. By the bishop of Lincoln, London, 1835. In the preface to his second edition of his work on Tertullian, the bishop of Lincoln remarks, "In the Introduction to the present work I have stated, that the object which I proposed to myself in my Lectures on the writings of Tertullian was to employ them, as far as they could be employed, in filling up Mosheim's Outline of Ecclesiastical History. My persuasion has always been, that a good ecclesiastical history of any period will never be composed, until the works of each writer, who flourished during the period, have been examined; and the information which they supply arranged under different heads. I did not mean to propose Mosheim's arrangement as the best which could be devised; I followed it because his history is that which is in most general use among the theological students in this country. I deem it also most essential to the successful execution of such a plan, that the testimony of each author should be kept as distinct as possible." Among the earlier fathers, there is none whose writings will more amply repay the labor bestowed on them by the classical student, on account of the numerous quotations from the Greek poets and philosophers, and the numerous allusions to the customs of heathen antiquity, which they contain, than Clement of Alexandria." ARTICLE X. SELECT LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. UNITED STATES. A Translation of Olshausen's Commentaries on the New Testament has been undertaken at Princeton, N. J.-Crocker & Brewster, Boston, have in preparation a new edition of Schmidt's Greek Concordance of the New Testament. It will be comprised in one volume octavo, with corrections and a thorough revision. The Glasgow edition, in two very inconvenient volumes, is now the only one to be procured in the country. Russell, Shattuck & Williams, of Boston, have in press, the Select Orations of Edward Everett, to be comprised in an octavo volume. It will not include his Congressional Speeches. Henry Wheaton, LL. D., American minister at Berlin, has in press, Elements of International Law, with a sketch of the history of the Science.-A_new and very elaborate catalogue of the library of the Andover Theological Seminary is nearly ready for the press.-Gould & Newman, Andover, have in press, Lectures on Eloquence and Style, by the late Pres. Porter, 8vo. LABRADOR. Capt. Back has greatly extended the previously understood limits of Great Slave Lake, and ascertained it to be one of the longest of those magnificent sheets of water which distinguish North Ameri ca. He has determined the existence and relative position of a series of other lakes which extend from it nearly in a north-east direction to the sea-the waters of which, for the first 150 miles, drain to the south, afterwards to the north and east. He has discovered to the source and followed to its termination the stream of a large and often rapid river, which traverses many of these lakes, and of which only the name had before reached us on Indian report. And he has thus found the sea ninety miles south of where Capt. Ross believed that he had struck on the American continent. His line of coast discovery east and west of this position was necessarily a short one, but of great importance. GREAT BRITAIN. In the press, Narrative of a Residence in Kürdistán, and on the site of Ancient Nineveh, with a journal of a voyage down the Tigris to Bagdád, with maps, a plan of Nineveh, and other illustrations, by the late Claudius James Rich, resident at Bagdád.-The complete works of Bentley, the great classical scholar, by Alexander Dyce, with critical conjectures, etc.-The complete works of Dr. Chalmers, to be issued at Glasgow in quarterly volumes, includVOL. VII. No. 22. 64 |