visit it to travel on its rivers, and to ex- Not at all,' said he, my body and my plore its forests. He had so long written head appear to hold no communion. upon English scenery, that there was no- The pain of my body, blessed be God, thing new for his mind to enjoy-every- never reaches my mind.' After some thing had lost its freshness, and nothing further conversation, and some inquiries would give him greater delight than to respecting Dr. Chalmers, he remarkedmove among new objects, that he might The Doctor must have suffered exceedhave the luxury of new thoughts. While ingly at the strange conduct of our once there his daughter came in; a dark-eyed, dear brother-labourer in Christ, Mr. Irving. black-haired little miss, of about fifteen, Never can I describe how much it has to hand a letter and say- Pa, is there any wrung my bosom. I had watched with astoanswer?' and passed away like a dream. nishment and admiration the wonderful and After considerable more conversation on rapid development of his powers. Never American characters-Webster, Everett, was such an astonishing advance of inteland one or two others, I departed. As I lect as between his first and second went through the entry, I noticed a fish-volumes of sermons-the first full of Galing-rod in the corner, which quite reminded me of Blackwood.'' After visiting Abbotsford, Mr. Maclellan set off for London; of which, as well as of Paris, and Rome, and the many celebrated persons and places he visited, he gives a very interesting account; but we must be sparing in our extracts. We were much pleased with the following picture of domestic piety, in the family of the Rev. Daniel Wilson; who had then been recently appointed to the bishopric of Calcutta. licisms, and Scolicisms,, and all other cisms: the second discovering all the elegance and power of the best writers of the Elizabethan age. And then so sudden a fall, when his mighty energies made him so terrible to sinners! Of the celebrated Puffendorf, he said, His mind is like some mighty volcano, red with flame, and dark with tossing clouds of smoke, through which the lightnings play and glare most different classes of England, he remarked, awfully.' Speaking of the state of the We are in a dreadful state! Care, like a foul bag, sits on us all. One class pres"Breakfasted with the Lord Bishop of ses with iron foot upon the wounded Calcutta. Found a farewell party of about heads beneath, all struggle for a worthless twenty ladies and gentlemen. Soon after supremacy, and all, in their endeavours to I entered, a chapter was read, and the rise to it are shackled by their expenses. Bishop read his remarks upon it from his Happy, happy are you, to hold your birthnote-book as he proceeded. They breath-right in a country were things are different! ed a very humble and scriptural spirit. After this he made a most excellent prayer. It was minute and specific, touching every thing very closely, and bringing them, [the persons present, we presume] directly up for the Divine blessing, and notice, and favour." We now come to his interview with one of the most celebrated literary men of our time-a man noted for powers of conversation altogether unrivalled. 66 his room. Walked to Highgate to call on Mr. Coleridge. I was ushered into the parlour, while the girl carried up my letter to She presently returned, and observed that her master was very poorly, but would be happy to see me, if I would walk up to his room, which I gladly did. He is short in stature, and appeared to be careless in his dress. I was impressed with the strength of his expressions, his venerable white locks, and his trembling frame. He remarked that he had, for some time past, suffered much bodily anguish. For thirteen months, seventeen hours every day had he walked up and down his chamber. I inquired whether his mental powers were affected by such intense suffering. VOL. X. You, at least at present, are [not we pre- Of all the men whom I have ever met, the most wonderful in conversational powers is Mr. Coleridge, in whose company I spent much time. With all his talent and poetry, he is a humble and devout follower of the blessed Jesus, even as 'Christ crucified.' I wish I had room for some of his conversation. When I bade him a last farewell, he was in bed, in great bodily suffering, but with great mental vigour, and feeling a humble resignation to the will of his Heavenly Father. Before I left him, he said—' I wish, before you go, to give you some little memento to call up the hours we have passed together.' He requested me to hand him a book from his bookcase, with pen and ink. Then, sitting up in bed, he wrote a 2-c few lines and his name-kindly and most | rapidly accumulating there, without the undeservedly expressing the pleasure he had had in my company. He will not live long, I fear; but his name and memory will be dearer to the ages to come than to the present." kindly influences of religion and education; long lines of forest are laid prostrate, and these rude elements are gradually settling into thicker masses. When time has compacted these fierce materials more closely, if all does not redden into fire, and blaze into a volcano, it will be because religion and intelligence have reached every hamlet, to diffuse their blessed harUnder any cir Coleridge is so naturally associated with Wordsworth and Southey, that we must here give our author's interview with the two latter, though it took place about a twelve month subse-mony.'- Wordsworth. quently: cumstances, I think you must divide. I trust "Visited Mr. Southey, at Derwentwater. I had scarcely touched the bell, when Mr. Southey himself came to the door, and ushered me into the library. Mr. Wordsworth and his son were there. Mr. S. took me by the hand, and put into it the little piece of poetry, which he had promised me the night before. Mr. W. then said you are from Boston. You know some of my friends there-Profes-Southey. Yes; nor do I think you sor T-r,' &c. Yes,' said Mr. S., 'We're well acquainted with Boston; but Maclellan] will be the worse for it; your we'll not fly there in the revolution. No, that dismemberment, if it come at all, will country is so wide.' Maclellan. we'll stand by the interests of our country not come for many years. At present, to the last!' I hope, however,' said I, your prospects are not so dark as to de- notwithstanding the affairs of South Ca mand that alternative to fight or fly. Is rolina, the feeling is strongly against it. there not sufficient conservative spirit conceive there are many influences which The individual restraints are few; yet I abroad?' I hope so,' said Mr. Words- will bind society to order in their present worth; but could things be worse than they condition, for a period, at least. Yet, if are? See the present ministry-reckless of everything-pushing every thing to the change you speak of should occur, it crisis! Men without principle, at war with would be a division of the country into Lords, Commons, rights of property; in three parts, with the same government as short, with everything that conflicts with at present, certainly in two of them. But I should rather fear, from the turbulence their own interest ?'-Southey. Rather acting with sustained bad principles. of an ungovernable democracy (if it ever Wordsworth, Do you know, by the way, an unflinching, cruel, but wily despotism; comes to that fearful height) the rise of Professor Mc., of New York?'-Maclellan. By reputation only. He has and then, perhaps, a series of anarchies, terhigh respect with us.'-Southey. Deciminating in a government something like dedly so.'- Wordsworth. Yes I hold the present, adapted to the contingencies a him in high esteem. His political opinions are most valuable. I have scarce ever met with a person whose views were so judicious and sagacious. I had much conversation with him. He understands the policy of England well. He wrote me a very interesting letter before he sailed, in which he spoke of the condition of England, and his own happy county.'-Southey. Ah, but the elements of disorganization are not at work here alone. The spirit of democracy, I fear, will at length run to its worst, and most unmanageable form with you.-Maclellan. 'Perhaps so. The elements of evil are fast accumulating in the west. The vagrants of continental Europe are fixing themselves there; the venturous, the wild, and the profligate of the east are pouring into those forests; people are We conversed also on the of things.' poor laws, and had a long conversation downward tendencies of present changes, on the present state of England; on the and on the power of conservative principles, if brought out.' 'Scotch haggis' on the table, which was the subject of much merriment. It was partly concealed in a napkin; 'too much swaddled,' as the Doctor observed. He wished to see it in its native beauty, its sonsie face unhid;' and he quoted Burns's song to this prince of the pudding race.' "Often, often will the recollection of In the evening several other gentlemen Edinburgh, be recalled, with a thousand and ladies came in. Some of the gentle-pleasant remembrances! I can never for and that must be," was spoken at last; and the following passage, written on board the vessel which conveyed our author from Scotland, will form an appropriate close to the foregoing interesting series of conversations. men were called upon for Irish songs. They certainly appeared rather ill, timid, and singular, as coming from theological students. Indeed, after one, there was an awful pause, and the better part of the students certainly looked very ill at ease. A gentleman beside me remarked, -'Don't you think those are very strange songs?' Very singular taste.' said I. "Quite a mixture of the mirth and savageness of the people, it strikes me.' I had afterwards some conversation with Dr. Chalmers on Foster [author of the celebrated Essays on Decision of Character']. 'Do you not think, sir,' said I, that his style combines much that is philosophically accurate, with not a little of mystical grandeur?'' Quite so,' replied the Doctor; the excellence of the first belongs to the finish of his mind; the fault, if it be a fault, of the last, belongs to the deficiency of our language !' ་ "At Dr. Chalmers's. The Doctor cannot conceive how a country can do without an established church. On this subject, which is at present the great matter of debate and controversy, we have to keep clear of each other. The Doctor expressed himself strongly on the importance of " fellowships" in the Scotch universities, when well bestowed; and mentioned the laughable nature of some of those in the universities of England; the warden of Cambridge, for instance, has his coach and four, with butter, and bread, and beer, to his full,' and nothing to do. Now,' said the Doctor, I would have the fellowships well guarded; so that they should fall to men of genius and acquirement. They would place such men on an easy and respectable vantage ground; where they could exercise their abilities, without being hampered with professional duties. I would have them fixed in a happy retirement, where there literary labours, in the course most peculiar to their genius should be uninterrupted! He illustrated his views by a reference to Adam Smith. He was rewarded. But how? He was set to work his weary pen over the common concerns of customhouse clerkship. Thus his talents were frittered away, and the splendid work which he had proposed to perform was lost to the world for ever!"" But "farewell, a word that has been, get the kindness of Dr. Chalmers, when, the last affectionate farewell, thanking me after breakfasting with me, he bade me for a little note of kindness I had written and esteem. Nor can I forget the sense to him as a testimony of my gratitude of unworthiness which overpowered my mind when his last benediction was spoken you! A hundred interesting friendships over me God bless you! God bless are now for ever terminated, except in memory; the interchange of language, and courtesies, and smiles, has ceased; and my heart feels all the bitter loneliness of separation!" in this volume, we regret we cannot Having found so much to interest us speak in terms of unmingled commendation. The style is not such as we should have expected from a theological student, who had spent all his life in literary pursuits. It is involved and turgid; often not very clear, and sometimes not very correct. We have taken the liberty, as we went along, to notice such alterations (some of them placed within brackets) as seemed requisite to smooth the way for our readers. Nor has the printer performed his task to our entire satisfaction. There is some confusion in the dates. Thus, at page five, 1832 is misprinted for 1833; and at page sixty-four, 1833 for 1832. Two or three of the errata marked in the table are not to be found in the places indicated. The title is very ill arranged, and is printed in capitals of too small a size. The type is good, but the paper is of very indifferent colour. Altogether, the getting up of the volume is such as would not do for a London publisher. THE GOSPELS HARMonized, with Notes, EXPLANATORY, EXPERIMENTAL, AND PRACTICAL, forming a complete Commentary on the Four Evangelists. Chiefly by ADAM CLARKE, L.L.D. arranged from the best authorities, by SAMUEL DUNN, with a map and portrait. 8vo. p.p. 518. London --Simpkin, Mason, and Tegg. WE have every reason to believe that this volume is destined to become a THOUGHTS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF J. S. Hodson, 112, Fleet Street. favourite with Christians of all denomi- | the Gospel narratives-and what Chrisnations, and we are glad to find that its tian reader is not?-will find in this sale has already exceeded the first thou- volume ample food for long and profitsand. The Harmony has been arrang-able meditation in the study of that ed from the best authorities-such as "record which God has given of his Macknight, Lightfoot, Doddridge, Gres- Son." well, and Townsend-and all the events of the Evangelical History are given in their Chronological order. The Notes and reflections have been selected from the writings of about seventy Divines; but chiefly from the valuable Commentary of the late Dr. Adam Clarke, who considered that his Commentary would not be complete without a regular Harmony of the Gospels, in which the whole Text should be inserted with some additional Notes. The whole work forms a complete Commentary on the four Evangelists, and is divided into two hundred and thirty-two sections of convenient length for the closet, the family, or the school. "To adopt any plan of arrangement," says Mr. Dunn, "that shall be altogether free from objection, is perhaps impossible. If the contents of the four Gospels be arranged in parallel columns, as Michaelis and others have done, the reader will have before him at one view, where the same transaction is mentioned by the Evangelists, what they have in common, and what is peculiar to each; but confusion, more or less, cannot fail to be produced in his mind. If the contents are so interwoven as to form one unbroken narrative, some passages must be left out, and the reader is placed pretty much at the disposal of the harmonizer. If every text is preserved, by placing the passages rejected from the continuous history at the end of each section, as in Townsend's Arrangement, however satisfactory it may be to the laborious and inquiring student, to readers in general, and especially for the purposes of family worship, it must be found very inconvenient. Every method of harmonizing the Gospels which I have examined has both its advantages and its disadvantages. In the present Harmony I have endeavoured to have as many of the former, and as few of the latter, as possible." The manner in which Mr. Dunn has arranged his materials, which explain and illustrate the text, is equally creditable to his talents and understanding; and to every reader who is interested in 66 By this," he remarks, "it is not designed to send physicians, and have them attached to missionary stations, to attend to the wants of the missionaries themselves, and to the heathen immediately in their neighbourhood. This, as need scarcely be said, is now the case with every important station. It is meant that these men should be unmarried, generally itinerant, and left to the providence of God to direct to their fields of labour. Perhaps the most striking illustration in modern times of the class of labourers proposed, may be found in the person and work of the missionary Gutzlaff. By tracing his eventful labours in China, and noticing his indebtedness to medical skill for his success in that nation, the idea of raising up a band of itinerant medical missionaries has gained favour in the hearts of many. In all subsequent remarks, the reader will please to refer to that individualas he appeared on his voyages to the north-eastern coast of China-for an embodying of the kind of labourers pro- | and in common with all the objects of posed.' nature, animate and inanimate, to exert an influence upon others. He educes from the text a threefold division of the subject. Our author after stating his plan, offers some arguments in favour of it, drawn from the commission which Jesus Christ gave to the twelve apostles and seventy disciples-compares the plan proposed with that generally pursued by missionaries-offers some facts and opinions illustrative of his plan from the operations of missionaries in Ceylon, Siam, Orissa, Sumatra, &c., and concludes by showing the various incidental advantages to be derived from the adoption of it by the church. It appears to us that the obvious and instructive facts brought forward by the writer of this treatise, ought to receive some consideration from the Christian public, as it is adapted alike to shorten the gloomy reign of superstition and heathenism, and to hasten forward the light and liberty of the Gospel dispensation, not only by "preaching the kingdom of God," but likewise by "healing the sick." DENTS. "He (St. Paul) speaks of gifts of different kinds; this will offer me an occasion ties connected with your peculiar studies. for speaking of the duties and responsibiliHe speaks of different administrations, or offices; this will offer me an occasion for speaking of the duties and responsibilities connected with the practice of your profession. He speaks of Divine operations; this will lead me to speak of the means whereby you are to gain continual help for fulfilling these and all other works which God may appoint for you." All this strikes us as very much forced and overstrained. The division itself is good; but its connection with the text is not obvious. Arrangement, however, is a minor point, and we therefore hasten to place the author in a more favourable light, by extracting the following passage. We hope the appeal it contains will not be lost on any medical student may THE RESPONSIBILITIES of MEDICAL STU-into whose hands it fall. London Darton and Clarke, Holborn Hill. form. "The duty and responsibility of stuthe importance and dignity of the subjects dents is [are] increased in proportion to upon which they are called to reflect. Now surely there are not more than one or two classes at the most, who have higher and nobler themes to engage their attention, than the medical student. A whole world of wonders and mysteries is daily brought under his notice. He must contemplate the strangest piece of mechanism in the world; one compared with which every other that men have ever looked upon, is like a mere child's toy. If he sets about examining any one-the smallest portion of this machine, he is lost amidst the multitude of springs and valves which seem necessary to its movements, and each of these portions is connected with each other portion; and new relations and affinities between the parts, are continually unfolding themselves to him, and the whole that these form, is more wonderful than all [any of] these parts. He has constant opportunities of observing this machinery and taking it to pieces; and then where he has done so [and when he has done so] new marvel is presented to him--he finds that all its nice contrivances, all its intricacies and complications, can serve no purpose whatever, unless there be something else present there, which he had no instruments for taking to pieces [or rather for detecting]. There was that which set all this machinery in motion. There were The text, which, though an eloquent passage, we cannot think very appropriate to the occasion, is taken from 1 Corinthians xii. 4, 5, 6: "Now there are diversities of gifts; but the same Spirit. And there are differences of admi-a nistrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all." The preacher, in his exordium, dwells on the innate selfishness of man, who is yet compelled, in spite of himself, |