Panoplist and Missionary Magazine. Boston, 1815. 8vo. Pinkerton, Robert: Present State of the Greek Church in Russia; translated from the Sclavonian of Platon, late Metropolitan of Moscow. With a Preliminary Memoir on the Ecclesiastical Establishment of Russia, and an Account of the Sects of Russian Dissenters. New-York, 1815. 12mo. Prideaux, Humphrey Old and New Testaments Connected in the History of the Neighbouring Nations, from the Declension of Israel and Judah to the Time of Christ. Charlestown, Mass., 1815. 4 vols. 8vo. Priestley, Dr. Joseph: History of the Early Opinions concerning Jesus Christ, compiled from Original Writers; proving that the Christian Church was at first Unitarian. Birmingham, 1786. 4 vols. 8vo. Scott, John Luther and the Lutheran Reformation. New-York, 1833. 2 vols. 12mo. See, in Biography, Bower's Life of Luther. Shuckford, Samuel: Sacred and Profane History of the World Connected, from the Creation of the World to the Dissolution of the Assyrian Empire, &c. Philadelphia, 1824. 2 vols. 8vo. Sismondi, J. C. L. Simon de : History of the Crusades against the Albigenses in the 13th Century. Boston, 1833. 12mo. In French there are also Benoist's "Histoire des Albigeois et des Vaudois," Paris, 1691, 2 vols. 12mo, and de Brez's "Histoire des Vaudois," Lausanne, 1796, 2 vols. 8vo. Rosetti's late important book, "Sullo Spirito antipapale che produsse la Reforma," London, 1831, 8vo, connects all these persecutions with the existence of an early sect of reformers in Italy, to whom Dante belonged. See also Mills, below. Smedley History of the Reformed Religion in France. NewYork, 1833. 3 vols. 18mo. Southey, Robert, Poet Laureate: The Book of the Church. Boston, 1825. 2 vols. 8vo. Against this Charles Butler wrote his vindication of Catholic history, entitled "The Book of the Roman Catholic Church." London, 1825. 8vo. Southey replied by his Vindicia Ecclesiæ Anglicane, London, 1826, 8vo; and Butler rejoined by "A Letter to the Right Rev. C. J. Blomfield," &c., London, 1826, 8vo, and by his "Vindication of the Book," &c., and an Appendix to the same in the same year. Stackhouse, Rev. Thomas: History of the Bible. London, 1733. 2 vols. folio. Stone, W. L. Matthias and his Impostures. New-York, 1835. 12mo. (Family Library.) Turner, Sharon: Sacred History of the World. Wilberforce, William: A Practical View of the prevailing Religious anity. With Introductory Essay, by Daniel Wilson. Philadelphia, 1835. 12mo. Willison, John: See a brief History of the Church of Scotland at the end of his "Sanctification of the Sabbath," in THEOLOGIANS, Dogmatical, &c. Winslow, Miror: A Sketch of the principal Attempts to Propagate Christianity among the Heathen. Andover, 1819. 12mo. CHAPTER LXXIV. History of Knighthood and other Orders. Chivalry and the Crusades. Constable's Miscellany, vols. 50, 1, Polygraphs. Clark, Hugh History of Knighthood. London, 1784. 2 vols. 8vo. James, G. P. R.: History of Chivalry. (Family Library.) New Knights of Malta. Constable's Miscellany, vols. 63, 4, Polygraphs. Mills, Charles: The History of Chivalry and Knighthood, and its Times. Philadelphia, 1826. 8vo. Scott, Sir W. Essay on Chivalry, &c. Works, vol. 6, Polygraphs. Masonry. Cross, Jeremy L.: The True Masonic, or Hieroglyphic Monitor. Fellows: An Exposition of the Mysteries, or Religious Dogmas and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, Pythagoreans, and Druids. Also, an Inquiry into the Origin, History, and Purport of Freemasonry. New-York, 1835. Hardie, James: The New Freemason's Monitor, or Masonic Guide. New-York, 1819. 12mo. 8vo. Knapp, Samuel L.: The Genius of Freemasonry; or, a Defence of the Order, containing some Remarks on the Origin and History, the Uses and Abuses of the Science: with Notices of other Secret Societies in the United States. Providence, R. I., 1828. 12mo. Mounier, J. J.: On the Influence Attributed to Philosophers, Freemasons, and the Illuminati, on the Revolution of France. London, 1801. 8vo. On the Aim of the Order of Freemasons; translated from the German. Albany, 1825. 12mo. Proceedings of the Anti-Masonic Convention, held at Philadelphia, Sept. 11, 1830, embracing the Journal of Proceedings, the Reports, the Debates, and the Address to the People. Philadelphia, 1830. 8vo. Stone, William L.: Letters on Masonry and Anti-Masonry, addressed to the Hon. John Quincy Adams. New-York, 1832. 8vo. Smith, William: Ahiman Rezon; Abridged and Digested as a Help to all that are or would be Free and Accepted Masons. Philadelphia, 1783. 8vo. Town, Salem: A System of Speculative Masonry. Salem, N. Y., 1822. 12mo. CHAPTER LXXV. HISTORY. Personal, or Biography. Abrantes, Madame la Duchesse d': Memoirs of her Life. NewYork, 1832. 8vo. Adams, Hannah: Memoirs written by herself, with additional Notes by a Friend. Boston, 1822. 12mo. Aikin, Dr. John: Lives of John Selden and Archbishop Usher; with Notices of the Principal Englishmen with whom they were connected. London, 1812. 8vo. Selden's Table-talk has been reprinted in this country (Boston) in 12mo. Wood's Athna Oxonienses contains a copious account of him. A new life has appeared by Johnson, London, 2 vols. 8vo. Of Usher, a life was published by Dr. Richard Parr, his chaplain, along with the collection of his letters. London, 1686, folio. Another, by Thomas Smith, was prefixed to the Geneva edition of his "Annales V. et N. Testamentorum," 1772, folio. Alden Collection of American Epitaphs and Inscriptions, with Autobiography: A Collection of the most Instructive and Amusing Lives ever published, written by the Parties themselves, with Brief Introductions and Compendious Sequels, carrying on the Course of Events to the Death of each Writer. London, 1828. 31 vols. 12mo. Vol. 1-Colly Cibber, Comedian. 2-David Hume, Willian Lilly, and Voltaire. 3 and 4-Memoirs of Marmontel. 5-Adventures of Robert Drury. 6-George Whitfield and James Ferguson. 7-Mary Robinson and Charlotte Clarke. Vol. 8-Lord Herbert and Prince Eugene. 9 and 10-Augustus Von Kotzebue. 11-Captain John Creichton, William Gifford, and Thomas Ellwood. 12-Lewis Halberg. 13-James Hardy Vaux, a Swindler and a Thief. 14 and 15-Edward Gibbon. 16 and 17-Benevenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist. 19-Theobald Wolf Tone. 20 and 21-Margravine of Bareuth, sister of Frederic the Great. 22-George Bubb Doddington. 23 and 24-Goldoni. 25, 26, 27, and 28-Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police. 29, 30, and 31-Madame du Barri. Baird, Robert: Memoirs of the Rev. Joseph Sandford. Philadelphia, 1836. 12mo. Bas, Charles W. Le: Life of John Wiclif. New-York, 1832. 12mo. See, also, a life in Fox's Martyrs. There is an old one by Dr. Thomas James, entitled An Apology for John Wickliffe. Oxford, 1608. 4to. Another by John Lewis (the historian of the translations of the Bible). Oxford, 1820, 8vo, with additions. Barnum, H. L.: The Spy Unmasked; or, Memoirs of Enoch Crosby, alias Harvey Birch. New-York, 1828. 8vo. This has no sign of anything like authenticity about it. It is an attempt to fix the identity of a character in a novel (Cooper's Spy) with a person known only in very vague local tradition. Barrington, Sir Jonah: Personal Sketches of his Own Times. Philadelphia, 1827. 8vo. 8vo. Benger, Miss: Memoirs of the Life of Anne Boleyn, Queen of Hen- Philadelphia, 1833. 12mo. 12mo. with an Historical and Critical Account of his Writings. Edinburgh, 1810. 2 vols. 4to. To Charles Knight's edition of Fairfax's translation of the Jerusalem Delivered (Windsor, 1817, small 8vo) he prefixed Lives of Tasso and Fairfax. A life is also prefixed to Wiffen's translation of the same poem. The discovery, in 1836, of the secret correspondence between Tasso and the Princess Leonora of Este has thrown a new and very noble light upon his long-supposed insanity. It proves that he was loved in return; and renders his feigned madness and his total silence a rare instance of romantic gallantry and fidelity. Blair, Adam: Some Passages in his Life. Boston, 1822. 12mo. Boaden, James Life of Mrs. Siddons; interspersed with Anecdotes of Authors and Actors. Philadelphia, 1827. 8vo. : Memoirs of the same, by Thomas Campbell. Bombet, L. A. C.: Lives of Haydn and Mozart; with observations 12mo. on Metastasio, and on the Present State of Music in France and Italy. Translated from the French. Providence, 1820. 12mo. This is much esteemed as a piece of musical biography, and the only English work on Haydn or Mozart. Of Metastasio Hoole published a partial translation (18 plays). London, 1800. 3 vols. 8vo. Beloe printed (privately) in 1823 a translation of his Canzonettes. See FINE ARTS, MUSIC. Bond, Alvin: Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Pliny Fisk, late Missionary to Palestine. Boston, 1828. 12mo. Boswell, James Life of Dr. Samuel Johnson; with Notes of Malone. Bellows Falls, Vermont, 1824. 5 vols. 12mo. The same, including a Journey to the Hebrides, by the same; with Additions and Notes, by J. Wilson Croker. Boston, 1822. 2 vols. 8vo. These memoirs present, on the whole, the best literary and critical history of the time to which they relate. Croker's edition imbodies the notices from Mrs. Piozzi's, Hawkins's, and the other lives of Johnson. Bowen, Henry L.: Memoirs of Tristram Burgess; with Selections from his Speeches and occasional Writings. Providence, 1835. 8vo. Bower, Alexander: Life of Martin Luther; embracing an Account of the earlier Progress of the Reformation. Philadelphia, 1824. 8vo. Besides many Latin lives, there are other English ones, as that of Brerely (Saint Omers, 1624, 4to), and that of Thomas Haynes. London, 1648, 4to. The latter is esteemed. The Table-talk of Luther (his Tisch-reden) has also been Englished, under the title of "Colloquia Mensalia, or Divine Discourse at his table, translated by Captain Henrie Bell." London, 1652, folio. For the singular history of this book, see a notice in the Retrospective Review, vol. V., p. 283. There is a good criticism of his works in the same journal, vol. X., p. 180. To a London edition of thirty-four of his sermons (1815, 8vo) a translation is attached of Melancthon's life of him. See, in Ecclesiastical History, Scott. Bray, William Memoirs of John Evelyn, comprising his Diary from 1641 to 1705, 6, and a Selection of his Familiar Letters. To which is subjoined, the Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nichols also between Hyde (Lord Clarendon) and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France in the time of Charles and the Usurpation. From the original MSS. London, 1827. 5 vols. 8vo. The diary contains, in the earlier part, a journal of his travels on the Continent-chiefly in Italy. Brewster, Sir David: Life of Sir Isaac Newton. (Family Library.) New-York, 1831. 18mo. There is another popular biography in the Library of Useful Knowledge; also, a life, by Fontenelle, translated. London, 1728. 8vo a memoir from original MSS. in the possession of the Earl of Portsmouth, by Edmund Turnor, in his History of Grantham. London, 1806. 4to. The lately published Memoirs of Flamstead disclose some particulars of his private conduct, which are less advantageous to him than one would have wished. British Nepos; or, Youth's Mirror: being Select Lives of Illustrious Britons. London, 1798. 12mo. British Statesmen, Lives of. Philadelphia, 1832. 12mo. M |
