testant churches, and especially to that church which formally and explicitly adopts them among its standards." These homilies, not having been in general circulation for many years, will doubtless be acceptable to the orthodox, pious, and inquiring Churchman. An eloquent SERMON, by bishop Horsley; several valuable ESSAYS, DISQUISITIONS, and EXTRACTS, succeed; together with REVIEWS OF NEW PUBLICATIONS; SELECTED POETRY; LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL INTELLIGENCE; a list of NEW PUBLICATIONS; RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, both FOREIGN and DOMESTIC; and a GENERAL VIEW OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS in Europe. The intended statement of DOMESTIC political occurrences, is necessarily omitted, the proposed limits of the magazine having been considerably exceeded by the preceding rich variety of interesting matter: but the editor states it to be his "intention to give such a detail in the next and future numbers of the work, commencing that detail with the first day of the present year, and so to continue furnishing his readers with a retrospect at once concise and lucid, that will assist the memory in referring to the past events of this great and growing empire." We shall conclude these brief and condensed remarks, by a short comment upon that part of the PROSPECTUS which relates to the Articles of the church of England, adopted by the protestant episcopal church in America. It supposes that the private opinions of the English reformers were Calvanistic, although they did not introduce them into the authoritative institutions of the church. This will be considered by some readers as a mistake; and the proof adduced in support of it, by referring to documents of the reign of queen Elizabeth, irrelevant. If the binding authority of the articles and the liturgy were in question, doubtless they rest at present in England on the thirteenth of that queen, when they were reenacted, after having been set aside in the reign of Mary. But, when a question is raised concerning their sense, and recourse is had to opinions less authoritative, they should be such as are found in Edward's reign, and not in Elizabeth's; at which period, those concerned in framing the Articles and Lturgy were no longer living. The writer of this article is of opinion, that if a complete and candid investiga tion of the subject from such documents were made, it would be found, that far from being framed according to the system of Calvin, they were studiously modled after the Lutheran in opposi tion to the Romish tenets of that day; the system of Calvin being then little known and less regarded in England. SELECTED POETRY. ROKEBY, A POEM-BY WALTER SCOTT, ESQ. THE very rapid glance which we have been able to obtain of a part of this new and beautiful offspring of the muse of Scott, has not qualified us for an examination of its character, or even a description of its features; and we must therefore reserve any details till our next number, when it will have issued from the American press. The poem is founded on a wild story, the scene of which is laid in the north of England, during the civil distur bances in the time of Cromwell, and is embellished with all the incidents of feudal war, of chivalric gallantry, of romantic affec tion, and of bloody vengeance, on which the genius of Walter Scott has so often dwelt with poetical enthusiasm. It opens with the description of Oswald Wycliffe's anxious suspence, as he was waiting the return of a soldier whom he had bribed to assassinate his kinsman, Philip of Mortham. THE Moon is in her summer glow, But hoarse and high the breezes blow, On Barnard's towers, and Tees's stream, VOL. I. Then sorrow's livery dims the air, By fits the plashing rain-drop fall, Those towers, which in the changeful gleam The sounding scourge and hissing snake; Bear witness to his mental woes, Beside a sinner's restless bed. Thus Oswald's labouring feelings trace Strange changes in his sleeping face, With which the moon-beams tinge the Tees. There might be seen, of shame the blush, There anger's dark and fiercer flush, While the perturbed sleeper's hand SS Relaxed that grasp, the heavy sigh, He woke, and feared again to close He woke, to watch the lamp, and tell, Or listen to the owlet's cry, Or the sad breeze that whistles by, Or catch, by fits, the tuneless rhyme The character of Oswald's son, Wilfrid, an amiable youth, a poet, and the unsuccessful lover of Matilda, contains a lively picture, which none but a poet could have drawn, of the danger of indulging to excess the enthusiastic dreams of poetical sensibility. But Wilfrid, docile, soft, and mild, Was Fancy's spoiled and wayward child; From every stern reality, Till, to the visionary, seem Her day-dreams truth, and truth a dream. Wo to the youth whom Fancy gains, Is soft, contemplative, and kind; More wouldst thou know-yon tower survey, |