KNO that they recommend, in a most fascinating manner, all that is good and great; and, secondly, they are in a high degree calculated to form the taste and excite a spirit of literary enthusiasm." Drake's Essays, vol. v. 365. "The style as well as the matter of the Essays has long been universally admired. In speaking of them to the publisher, Dr. Johnson expressed himself in terms of high panegyric, and predicted the future reputation of the author."-Annual Biog, and Obit., vol. vi. 2. Liberal Education, 1780, 8vo; many eds.; last printed in vols. iii. and iv. of his Works, 1824. 3. Elegant Extracts in Prose, 1783, 8vo. 4. Do. in Verse, 1790, Svo. 5. Elegant Epistles, 1792, 8vo. Reprinted. An ed. of the Extracts in Prose and Verse, and the Epistles, prepared by James G. Percival, the American poet, was 6. Winter Evenpub. at Boston, Mass., in 6 vols. 8vo. ings, Lon.. 1788, 3 vols. 12mo. Reprinted in vols. ii. and iii. of his Works, 1824. 7. Serms., (23,) 1792, 8vo. Twentyeight serms. are printed in vol. vi. of his Works, 1824. As a preacher he will long be remembered: his matter was always excellent."-Annual Biog, and Obit., vol. vi. 8. Personal Nobility, 1793, 12mo: reprinted in vol. v. 9. Family Lectures; or, Domestic of his Works, 1824. Divinity, 1791, 8vo, containing upwards of 180 serms, by ministers of the Church of England. Reprinted. A selection, with addits., was pub. in 1795, 2 vols. 8vo. Extensively circulated in 4. Treatise "The observations of Dr. Rush concerning the multitude of dis Dr. Leonard Koecker, now practising dentistry in Phila Kæppen, Adolphus Louis, Prof. of History and "For other bodies of hortatory divinity. the ordinary reader will do well to procure the last edition of Dr. Knox's Family tures."-Dibdin's Lib. Comp. 10. Chris in Philosophy, 1795, 2 vols.12mo; 1798,12mo. Also separately, Reprinted in vol. vii. of his Works. 1838, 12mo; 1855, fp. 8vo. "Mr. Knox has brought together a good deal of information on the great deficiency of Christian doctrines, and the evil consequences of it, and presses powerfully the importance of seeking divine teaching."-Bickersteth's C. S. 11. Nature and Efficacy of the Lord's Supper, 1799, 12mo. Highly commended by Bishop Horsley, who was a great admirer of Knox's religious works, and recommended them for perusal as containing most attractive delineations of the pure spirit of Christianity. "The Reverend Dr. Knox, master of Tunbridge School, appears to have the imitari aveo of Johnson's style perpetually in his mind; and to his assiduous, though not servile, study of it, we may partly ascribe the extensive popularity of his writings."-BosWELL: Life of Dr. Johnson. "The celebrated Vicesimus Knox is a man to be praised as often as he is named, for his literary accomplishments, and yet more to be respected for the rare independence of mind which he ever displayed, and his steady adherence, through the worst of times, to the cause of liberty."-Edin. Review. See Lon. Gent. Mag., 1828, Pt. 1, 295, 337: and the Knox, William. Paper in Med. Com., 1785. Knox, William, 1789-1825, a native of Roxburgh, His talent then showed itself in a fine strain of pensive poetry, called, I think. The Lonely Hearth, far superior to that of Michael Bruce, whose consumption, by-the-way, has been the life of his verses."-SIR WALTER SCOTT: Diary, Dec. 8, 1825; ubi supra. Koecker, Leonard, 1785-1850, a native of Bremen, Hanover, the son of a Lutheran minister, emigrated to America in 1813, and practised dentistry in that country until 1822, when he removed to London and continued bis business until within a short time of his decease. "He was a man of scientific acquirements and elegant tastes, and had a thorough knowledge of several languages." 1. An Essay on the Devastation of the Gums and the 2. On the Treatment of Alviolar Processes, Lon., 1821. 3. Principles of Denuded Nerver of the Teeth, 1821. Kohler, D., Lutheran pastor, Kutztown, Penna. Kohr, Lutheran pastor, Wythe county, Virginia. Kollock, Henry, D.D., 1778-1819, a native of New "One of the most ornate yet vehement orators whom our country has produced."-Dr. James W. Alexander's Life of Dr. Archibald Alexander, N. York, 1854, 359. "Dr. Kollock was one of the most distinguished, eloquent, and Mc Dowell, D.D., Phila., 1855, p. 11. popular preachers of the day."-Fifty Years a Pastor; by.John And see Cambridge General Repository, i. 135. Kollock, Sheppard K., D.D., a brother of the preceding, was b. 1795, at Elizabethtown, N. Jersey, gradu1. Biography of Rev. ated at Princeton Coll, 1812. 2. Ministerial Character. Henry Kollock; also edited an edition of his Serms., Savannah, 1822, 4 vols. 8vo. 3. Best Method of delivering Sermons. 4. Eulogy on Edmund M. Mason. 5. Discourse on the Guilt and Consequences of Duelling. 6. Treatise on the Perseverance of the Saints. 7. Pastoral Reminiscences, N. York, 1849, 12mo. This work has been translated into French and published in Paris. König, Charles, 1774-1851, Keeper of the Mineralo He edited, in gical Collections in the British Museum, a native of Brunswick, settled in London in 1800. conjunction with Dr. John Sims, The Annals of Botany, Lon., 1805, 4to, contributed papers to Trans. Linn. Soc., 1803, and to Phil. Trans., 1814, and pub. the first number of an intended work never continued,-Icones Fossilium Sectiles. See Lon. Gent. Mag., Oct. 1851. Konig, Sigismund, M.D. Med. Com. to Phil. Trans., 1681. Koops, Mathias. 1. Map of the Rhine, 1776, fol. 3. French Nation, 1798, 4. Historical Account of the Substances which have 2. National Debt, 1796, 8vo. 8vo. been used to describe Events and to convey Ideas from the earliest Date to the Invention of Paper, 1800, 8vo. Printed on paper remade from old printed and written paper, and the appendix "made from wood only." Mr. Joel Munsell, of Albany, New York, has recently "printed, for presentation only," an interesting little work, entitled A A new ed., with addits., was issued in 1857. Chronology of Paper and Paper-Making, Albany, 1856, Koster, Henry. Travels in Brazil, Lon., 1816, 4to; In French, 1817, 2 vols. 8vo. 8vo, pp. 58. "There is, perhaps, no part of the Christian world with which 2d ed., 1817, 2 vols. 8vo. the English public are so little acquainted as Brazil, both as to its The general spirit of the book, history and its present state. . . . plain, straightforward style of our best travellers than the mo indeed, is excellent, the manner more resembling the good, old, dern fashion of fine periods, and the matter for the most part equally curious and amusing, presenting a faithful picture of ♥ 1045 very interesting stage in the progress of society."-ROBERT SOUTHEY: Lon. Quar. Rev., xvi. 344-387. Also reviewed in Lon. Month. Rev., 1xxxvii. 122; Phila. Analec. Mag., ix. 487. See KIDDER, LANIEL P. Koster, John T. Two tracts on Bullion, 1811. Krauter, Philip D. Theolog. tracts, 1780, '88, '90. Krauth, Charles Philip, D.D., b. in Montgomery county, Pennsylvania, in 1797, was formerly President of Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg, and is now (1857) a professor of theology in that institution. 1. Oration on the German Language, 1832. 2. Inaugural Address, 1834. 3. Address, Feb. 22, 1846. 4. Human Life; a Baccalaureate Address, 1850. 5. Discourse on Henry Clay, 1852. Dr. Krauth edited the Lutheran Sunday-School Hymn-Book, was from 1826 to '31 associate editor of the Lutheran Intelligencer, pub. at Frederick, Md., and has been for the last seven years one of the editors (Prof. M. L. Stoever, of Penna. College, is now his colleague) of the Evangelical Review, pub. at Gettysburg. He has contributed to the pages of these periodicals, and also to the Lutheran Pulpit, the Linnæan Journal, and the Biblical Repository. Krauth, Charles Porterfield, b. at Martinsburg, Virginia, 1823, son of the preceding, is now (1857) pastor of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church at Pittsburgh, Penna. 1. The Pastoral Office; a Farewell Discourse, Balt., 1845. 2. The Transfiguration; an Exegetical Homily, Gettysburg, 1850. 3. Popular Amusements; a Discourse, &c., Winchester, 1851; 2d ed., 1852. 4. The Bible a Perfect Book; a Discourse, Gettysburg, 1851; 2d ed., 1857. 5. The Sunday-Service according to the Liturgies of the Churches of the Reformation, 1853. 6. A Discourse occasioned by the Burning of the old Lutheran Church, Sept. 27, 1854. 7. Benefits of the Pastoral Office, 1854. 8. The Old Church on the Hill; a Discourse, Winchester, 1854. 9. The Former Days and These Days; a Thanksgiving Discourse, Pittsburgh, 1856. 10. The Lutheran Church and the Divine Obligation of the Lord's Day, Gettysburg, 1857. Mr. Krauth has been a contributor to the Evangelical Review, the Mercersburg Review, the Lutheran Observer, Linnæan Record and Journal, the Western Continent, Methodist Protestant, Missionary, Winchester Republican, Saturday Visitor, Adams Sentinel, St. Croix Avis, (D.W.I.,) and other periodicals. He has now in press (in Phila.) a trans. from the 6th edit. of Tholuck's Commentary on the Gospel of St. John. Krebs, Rev. John M., b. 1804, at Hagerstown, Md., ordained pastor of the Presbyterian Church, Rutgers St., N. Y., 1830. 1. The Johnson Club, 1826, 18mo. 2. A Review of an Appeal to the Christian Public, &c., 1827, 12mo. 3. The Purpose and Success of the Gospel, 1833, 8vo. 4. Righteousness and National Prosperity, 1835, 8vo. 5. The Providence of God in the Calamities of Men, 1835, 8vo. 6. The Leader Fallen, 1841, 8vo. 7. Merciful Rebukes, 1841, 8vo. 8. Man not Made in Vain, 1842. 9. A Prosperous Journey, 18mo. 10. The Reciprocal Relations of Physicians and Clergymen, 8vo. 11. The American Citizen, 1851, 8vo. 12. The Presbyterian Psalmist, pp. 368, 1852. 13. Psalms and Hymns used by the Presb. Church U.S.A., (by six compilers.) We have before us a list of many other publications by the same author. Krieg, David, M.D. Cobalt; Phil. Trans., 1704. Krohn, Henry, M.D. Med. treatise, 1791, fol. Kroll, Adam. Commercial Dictionary, Lon., 8vo. Krotel, G. F., pastor of Trinity (Lutheran) Church, Lancaster, Penna. 1. Trans. of C. F. Ledderhose's Life of Melar.thon, Phila.. 1855. 2. Who are the Blessed? or, Meditations on the Beatitudes, 1856. Krum, J. M. The Missouri Justice, St. Louis, 1845, 8vo. Knill, Rev. R. The Flag-Sergeant; or, the Life, Adventures, &c. of J. Wooley, Phila., 32mo. Kunze, John Christopher, D.D., 1740-1807, a native of Saxony, pastor of the Lutheran congregation of St. Michael's and Zion's Churches, Phila., 1771-84, and of the German Lutheran Church in the city of New York, 1784-1807, was Prof. of Ancient Languages in Columbia College, (New York,) 1784-87 and 1792-95. See Dr. 1046 Hazelius's Hist. of the American Lutheran Church, 1885 1842. 1. Ein Wort für den Verstand und das Herz, 1781, 8vo. 2. Geistliche Gedichte, 12mo. 3. Serms. of L. Vor Buskirk, 1797. 4. Lutheran Hymn and Prayer Book, in English, 1795. 5. Hist. of the Christian Religion and of the Lutheran Church. 6. Eclipse of June 16, 1806. Kurten, Philip. Art of Manufacturing Soaps, &c., Phila., 1854, 12mo. Kurtz, B., D.D., editor of the Lutheran Observer, Baltimore. 1. Religion for Children, 1821. 2. Address on Temperance, 1824. 3. Why are you a Lutheran ? 1843. 4. The Serial Catechism. 5. Infant Baptism, &c., 1848. 6. Lutheran Prayer-Book, 1852. 7. Theological Sketch-Book. 8. Prayer in all its Forms, 1852. Dr. K. has also pub. a number of occasional serms., &c. Kurtz, J., D.D., Lutheran pastor, Baltimore, 17641856, editor of Gemeinschaftliches Gesangbuch, Balt, 1817. Various articles in the Evangelical Magazine. Kyd, Stewart. 1. Law of Bills of Exchange, &c., Lon., 1790, Svo; 3d ed., 1795, 8vo; 1st Amer. ed., Bost., 1798, 12mo. 2. Law of Awards, Lon., 1791, 8vo; 1799, 8vo; 1st Amer. ed., Phila., 1808, 8vo. 3. Law of Incorporations, 1793-94, vols. 8vo. 4. Assessed Taxes, 1799, 8vo. 5. Income Act, 1799, 8vo. 6. Acts rel. to Assessed Taxes, 1799, 8vo. Kyd, Thomas, one of the immediate predecessors of Shakspeare. 1. Cornelia; a Tragedy, trans. from Garnier, 1594, '95, 4to. 2. The First Part of Jeronimo, 1605, 4to. This is an introduction to the next piece. 3. The Spanish Tragedy; or, Hieronimo is Mad Again, 4to. The oldest ed. known is that of 1599; but there is supposed to have been an earlier one, or perhaps more than one. Other eds. were printed in 1601, '02, '03, '10, '11. '15, '18, '22, '33. Ben Jonson made addits. to the ed. of 1601, and new addits. to that of 1602. It was greatly ridiculed by Shakspeare and other writers of the day. See Brydges's Phillips's Theat. Poet. Anglic., 205-206; Biog. Dramat.; Collier's Hist. of Eng. Dramat. Poet.: Drake's Shakspeare and his Times; Schlegel's Lects. on Dramatic Lit., Black's trans., Lon., 1846, 457; Hallam's Lit. Hist. of Europe, 4th ed., 1854, ii. 174, 174, n. Kydermynster, or Kidderminster, Richard, d. 1531, Abbot of the Benedictine Monastery at Winchcombe, Gloucestershire, 1487, wrote Tractatus contra Doctrinam Lutheri, 1521, and a history of Winchcombe Mo nastery, &c. See Bliss's Wood's Athen. Oxon.; Wood's Annals: Dodd's Ch. Hist. Kyffin, Maurice, a minor poet temp. Shakspeare, wrote The Blessedness of Brytaine, &c., 1587, 4to, and some other pieces. See Watt's Bibl. Brit. Kyle, Thomas. Fruit-Trees, Edin., 1785, 8vo. Kynaston, Francis, 1587-1642? educated at Oriel College, Oxford. 1. Trans. of Chaucer's Troilus and Cresside into Latin, Oxf., 1635, 4to. Eng. and Latin on opposite pages. The Troilus and Cressida of Chaucer is the most beautiful diary of love ever written."-HARTLEY COLERIDGE. 2. Constitutions of the Museum Minerva, Lon., 1636, 4to. 3. Leoline and Sydanis; an Heroick Romance of the Adventures of Amourous Princes: together with sundry Affectionate Addresses to his Mistresse under the Name of Cynthia, 1642, 4to. See Athen. Oxon; Faulkner's Hist. of Chelsea; Ellis's Specimens; Cens. Lit., vol. ii. Kynaston, John, 1728-1783, Fellow of Brazennose College, 1751, gained considerable reputation by his oration De Impietate C. Cornelio Tacito Falso Objectata, &c., Lon., 1761, 4to, for an account of which, and of another publication of his in 1741, 8vo, respecting a family diffi culty, see Chalmers's Biog. Dict. See also Nichols's Poems; Lon. Gent. Mag., vol. lx. Kynwelmarsh, Anthony, was the author of some poetical pieces pub. in The Paradise of Dainty Devices, 1576. Kynwelmarsh, Francis, brother of the prec ding. also wrote some poetry pub. in The Paradise of Dainty Devices, 1576, and assisted Gascoigne in his trans. of 'he tragedy of Jocasta from Euripides. Kyttes, G. The Unluckie Firmentie. L. xxi. 603, xxiv. 810, xxxi. 207, 208. Labatt, Samuel R., M.D., of Dublin. An Address | 464, 468, 472; Blackw. Mag., xix. 703, 706, xx. 883, 885, to Medical Practitioners on Vaccination, Dubl., 1805, 8vo. Labelye, Charles. Westminster Bridge, 1751. Laborie, P. J., LL.D. The Coffee-Planter of St. Domingo, with an Appendix, 1798, Svo. A valuable performance: the author's knowledge of the French colonial system under the ancient governments is accurate and profound."--Lon. Month. Rev. Labutle, R. French Grammar, 1784, '90. Lacey, Henry. 1. Discourse for Domestic Use, Lon., 1813, 2 vols. 12mo; 1818, 12mo. "His discourses are mostly practical and hortative: his style is elegan but simple; his emphasis is distinctly strong: his pero rations, naturally deduced, are sometimes deeply affecting."ONESIMUS. 2. Principal Events in the Life of Moses, 1815, 12mo. Lacey, J. Military Architecture, 1672, fol. Lacey, James M. Farm-House; a Tale, &c., 1809. Lacey, William. On Chillingworth, 1639, 4to. Lackington, James, bookseller, London. Memoirs of Himself, Lon., 1791, 8vo. In German, Hamb., 1795, 8vo. 2. Confessions and Letters, 1804, 12mo. In his later years the author endeavoured to suppress both of these volumes. They are very curious. Lackington's Autobiography and Confessions were recently repub. in 1 vol. 12mo; also in 18mo. Lacy. Lects. on Peter's Vision, &c., 1738, &c. Lacy, Capt. Modern Shooter; new ed., Lon., 1846, 8vo. Lacy, Benjamin. Serms., 1706, '20. Lacy, James. Theolog. treatise, Lon., 1704, 8vo.. Lacy, John. Wyl Bucke, his Testament, Lon., 4to. Of this poem a new ed. was pub. by Joseph Haslewood. Lacy, John, d. 1681, an actor and dramatic author, wrote the following comedies: 1. The Dumb Lady, 1672, 4to. 2. The Old Troop, 1672, '98, 4to. 3. Sir Hercules Buffoon, 1684, 4to. 4. Sawney the Scot, 1698, 1708, 4to. See Biog. Dramat.; Dodd's Ch. Hist. Lacy, John. Theolog. treatises, &c., Lon., 1707, '08, '14. Lacy, John. Universal System, Lon., 1779, 8vo. This is an astronomical work. Lacy, Joseph. Use of Tobacco, &c., 1729, '33. Lacy, Thomas. Selections in Prose, 1797. Lacy, Willoughby. Descrip. of the Garden of Islewarth, 1794, 4to. Ladd, Joseph Brown, 1764-1786, a native of Newport, R.I., murdered in a duel at Charleston, S.C., was the author of a number of poetical and prose pieces, of which a collection, with a life of the author, was pub. by W. B. Chittenden in 1832, N. York, 12mo. See HASKINS, MRS. ELIZABETH. Ladd, William, 1778-1841, a native of Exeter, N. Hampshire, editor of The Harbinger of Peace, pub. An Essay on a Congress of Nations for the Adjustment of International Disputes without resort to War. The world will have to come to this at last; and why should more lives be sacrificed in unholy strife ere that happy day arrives? Ladnar. Farmer's Guide, &c., 1764, 8vo. Laing, B. Ecclesiastical Divisions in Scotland. Edin., 1852, 12mo. Laing, Mrs. Caroline H. Butler. The Old Farm-House, Phila., 1855, 12mo. Laing, David. Paper in Ed. Med. Ess., 1731. Laing, David. 1. Hints for Dwellings, Lon., 1800, 4to. 2. Plans, Elevations, &c. of Buildings, 1818, imp. fol. Laing, David. 1. Select Remains of the Ancient Popular Poetry of Scotland, Edin., 1822, sm. 4to, 8 Pts. in 1 vol. 108 copies printed, part of which were destroyed by fire Nov. 1824. 2. Various Pieces [42] of Fugitive Scotch Poetry, &c., 1823-25. p. 8vo. 4 Pts. in 1 vol.; 72 copies printed. 3. Early Metrical Tales, 1826, 12m; 175 copies printed. 4. Historie and Life of James the Sext, &c.; edited for the Bannatyne Club by D. Laing, 1825, 4to; 52 copies printed. 5. John Spalding's Hist. of the Troubles and Memorable Transactions in Scotland and England; edited by D. Laing for the Bannatyne Club, 1828, 2 vols. 4to. 6. The Poems of William Dunbar, 1834, 2 vols. p. 8vo. See Blackw. Mag., xxxvii. 287-318. 7. The Seven Sages, in Scottish Metre, by John Rolland of Dalkeith; edited by D. Laing for the Bannatyne Club, 1837, 4to. 8. Miscellany of the Wodrow Society; edited by D. Laing, 1844, 8vo. Mr. Laing has edited several other works: see BAILLIE, ROBERT; KNOX, JOHN. Laing, David. 1. Serms., Lon., 1841, r. 8vo. 2. On the Book of C. Prayer, 1844, 18mo. 3. On the Bible, 1848, 18mo; 1854, 18mo. 4. Oneness of Providence, 1855, 18mo. Laing, Rev. Henry, LL.D. Greek and English Lexicon to the New Testament, Lon., 1821, 8vo. "It is a convenient work for all who wish to read the New Tes tament in the original without making any further progress in the language."-Brit. Rev., xxii. 409–410. Laing, Henry. Descriptive Catalogue of Ancient Scottish Seals, Edin.; privately printed by the Maitland Club, 1850, 4to. Only 150 copies printed for sale. "An esteemed work,-the only one that fully treats on the subject. It gives an interesting though brief account of the art of engraving and the use of seals, as well as descriptions of abov 1200."-Lon. Notes and Queries. Laing, John. Voyage to Spitzbergen, 1815, '18 '20, 8vo. Laing, Malcolm, M.P., 1762-1818, a native of Orkney, a member of the bar, has already been noticed by us as editor of the last vol. of Henry's Hist. of Great Britain, 1785. He also edited the Life of James VI., pub. in 1804, and gave to the world two important works of his own. 1. Hist. of Scotland from the Accession of James VI. to the Reign of Q. Anne, 1800, 2 vols. 8vo; 1804, 4 vols. 8vo; 1819, 4 vols. 8vo. This may be considered a continuation of Dr. Robertson's History. In his Prelim. Dissert. on the participation of Mary Queen of Scots in the Murder of Darnley, (first prefixed to the ed. of 1804,) Mr. Laing exhibits a laboured argument in proof of the guilt of Queen Mary. La Fevre, Minard, Architect. 1. Beauties of Mo- Mary, after an impartial and dispassionate perusal of Mr. Laing' Laidlaw, William, was the author of some fugitive poems which elucidated the enthusiastic commendation of Christopher North. See Noctes Ambrosianæ, May, 1828; Blackw. Mag., xxii. 787. Laine, Peter. French Grammar, 1655, 8vo. Laing, Alexander. The Thistle of Scotland; a Collection of Ancient Ballads, with Notes, Aberd., 1823. Laing, Major Alexander Gordon, 1794-1826, an eminent African traveller, a native of Edinburgh, was murdered by the Arabs on his return towards the coast from Timbuctoo. Travels through the Trinannee, Kooranko, and Soolima Countries to the Sources of the Ro kelle and Niger in 1822, Lon., 1825, 8vo. See Chambers and Thomson's Biog. Dict. of Eminent Scotsmen, 1855, vol. iii. 336-345; Lon. Quar. Rev., xlii. 451, 458, 459, "His merit as a critical inquirer into history, an enlightened collector of materials, and a sagacious judge of evidence, has neve: been surpassed. If any man believes the innocence of Queen examination of her case, the state of such a man's mind would be a subject worthy of much consideration by a philosophical ob server of human nature. In spite of his ardent love of liberty, no man has yet presumed to charge him with the slightest sacrifice attained the art of full, clear, and easy narrative was owing to the of his historical integrity to his zeal. That he never perfectly peculiar style of those writers who were popular in his youth, and may be mentioned as a remarkable instance of the disproportion of particular talents to general vigour of mind."-SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH: Edin. Rev., xliv. 37. "I have just finished a careful perusal of your Dissertation on Mary, and I think myself bound to profess my shame for having ever doubted the atrocious guilt of that princess. Hume and Robertson are undoubtedly too mild. The original documents them selves cannot be read without conviction. Whoever doubts the genuineness of the long letter from Glasgow, or of Haubert's confession, must either be incorrigibly prejudiced, or altogether unac customed to the examination of evidence. If she were tried before me, I should certainly direct a jury to find her guilty."-SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH: Letter to Laing, 28th July, 1807, in Mackintosh's Life. "The ardour of Mr. Laing in the cause of liberty is not disgraced by democratic coarseness or theoretic refinement. His enquiry into the controverted question of Mary's participation in the death of Darnley is minute without tediousness and acute without so phistry.”—DR. PARR. "A work which will be found often contributing to explain and lustrate the reign of Charles the First, but absolutely necessary In considering the reign of Charles the Second."-Prof. Smyth's Lects. on Mod. Hist., Lect. XIX.. q. v. "It is work particularly rich in illustrative notes."-Dibdin's Lib. Comp. Charles James Fox, a warm friend of Laing, considered this history a work of great value. It has been regretted that so able a historian should not have given more of the results of his investigations to the world. "Laing was most acute and ingenious."-SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH. "Whether I consider his sagacity in explaining causes, his clearness in relating facts, his vigour in portraying characters, or his ingenuity in unfolding and enforcing principles, I shall ever find reason to lament that the continuation of Hume's History was not undertaken by a writer so eminently qualified as Laing was for a work so arduous and so important."-DR. PARR. 2. The Poems of Ossian; containing the Poetical Works of James Macpherson, in prose and verse, with Notes and Illustrations, 1805, 2 vols. 8vo. The object of the notes and illustrations is to prove the dishonesty of Macpherson, whom the critic handles without gloves: "Had Macpherson forged a fifty-pound note and got the cash from Laing, he could not have been treated more unworthily: he is looked upon as a highland Catheran, who has made a descent on the Lowlands and marched away with much bestial.""-ALLAN CUNNINGHAM: Biog, and Crit. Hist. of the Lit. of the Last Fifty Years. See MACPHERSON, JAMES, M.P. Laing's work elicited answers from Mr. McDonald and the Rev. Mr. Graham. See Blackw. Mag., xlvi. 701; Chambers and Thomson's Dict. of Eminent Scotsmen, 1855, iii. 345-349; Lord Cockburn's Memorials of his Own Time, 1856. Laing, Samuel, of Rapdale, county of Orkney; younger brother of the preceding, and father of Samuel Laing, M.P., has obtained an extensive reputation as one of the most intelligent and philosophical travellers of the day. 1. Three Years' Residence in Norway, 1834-36, Lon., 1836, 8vo; new ed., 1852, 2 Pts. 12mo, and also in 1 vol. "In talent, acquirement, sound thinking, and good writing, Mr. Laing belongs to the same small class of travellers as Arthur Young and Alexander Humboldt: every sensible reader will rise from the perusal of his book with a conviction that, next to Humboldt, he is the first of living travellers."-Lon. and Westm. Rev. 2. A Tour in Sweden, in 1838, 8vo, 1839. "A very able, earnestly-written, and really instructive work."— Lon. Month. Rev. And see Lon. Athenæum, 1839, 179. 3. Notes of a Traveller in France, Prussia, Switzerland, &c., 1841, 8vo; 2d ed., 1842, 8vo; new ed., 1854, 2 Pts. 16mo. "These Notes embody more information, more instruction, more thought, and more entertainment, than twenty of the average octavos that annually profess to teach and amuse us with the incidents and the conclusions of travel. The tone of the author is admirable, on account of its manliness, independence, and fearless expression; and there is not a passage in the book that does not supply food for thought and strong suggestive points."-Lon. Month. Rev., Feb. 1842. See also Brit. and For. Rev., xvi. 586; Eclec. Rev., 4th ser., xi. 384. 4. Hours in Norway: Poems, 1841, 12mo. 5. Atlas-Prize Essay on National Distress, 1844, 8vo. Condemned by the Athenæum, 1844, 793. 6. Heimskringla, or Chronicle of the Kings of Norway; trans. from the Icelandic of Snorro Sturleson, 1844, 3 vols. 8vo. who desire to know more of Sturleson's great work will Those find a table of its contents in B. Quaritch's Catalogue Raisonné of Books. London, Feb. 12, 1857, p. 28. See also Eclec. Rev. and Athenæum. 7. On the Schism from the Church of Rome, &c., 1845; 2d ed., 1846, fp. 8vo. This refers to the exhibition of the Holy Coat at Treves in the autumn of 1844,-visited by a million and a half of people. See Athenæum. 1845, 1014. 8. The Social and Political State of the European People in 1848 and 1849; being the Second Series of Notes of a Traveller, 1850, 8vo. See North Amer. Rev., lxxi. 479; KAY, JOSEPH, No. 2, in this Dictionary. 9. Observations on the Social and Political State of Denmark, 1852, 8vo. Blackw. Mag., x. 728. See Laingæus, Joannes, a Scotsman. 1. De Vita, Moribus, et Gestis Hæreticorum Nostri Temporis, Par., 1581, Svo. 2. De Vita et Moribus Theodori Besa, Par., 1585, 8vo. Laird, F. C., Lieut., R.N. See HOWARD, GEORGE. Laird, Macgregor, and Dr. R. A. K. Oldfield. Expedition into Africa, 1832-34, 2 vols. 8vo. See LAUDER, RICHARD, Laisne, T. Grammars, Lon., 1811-14. Laity. Directory of the Church Service for 1797, '98, 1801, 3 vols. Lake, Arthur, D.D., d. 1626, a native of Southampton; Perpetual Fellow of New College, Oxford, 1589; Fellow of Winchester College about 1600; Archdeacon of 1048 Surrey, 1605; Dean of Worcester, 1608; Bishop of Bath "He made the great trust committed to him the chief care and whole business of his life."-WALTON. Lake, Col. Atwell, C.B. 1. Kars, and our Captivity in Russia, Lon., 1856, p. 8vo; 2d ed. same year. See Lon. Athenæum, 1856, 951, 1857, 626. 2. An Histo rical and Military Account of the Siege of Kars, Lon., 1857, 8vo. "The defence of Kars will be an ever-memorable event in the annals of war. The names of General Williams and his gallant comrades, by whom this glorious defence was made, will be crowned with honour. Here we have a complete history of the siege."Lon. Lit. Gaz. "A military study of rare value, and should become a class book in military schools. This narrative is solid and auther tic, and illustrated by a variety of important documentary matter."Lon. Leader. "The contents are valuable; the narrative is copiously supplied with despatches of military importance, and is illustrated with effective drawings from Mr. Simpson, the Crimean artist."-Lon. Times. But see Lon. Athenæum, 1856, 951, 1857, 626. Those who take an interest in this subject should read A Narra tive of the Siege of Kars, by Humphry Sandwith, M.D., Lon., 1857; Kars and Erzeroum, by Lieut.-Gen. W. Monteith, 1857; A Narrative of the Defence of Kars, from the German of George Kmety, 1857. for a full and good account, in fact, of the Russian war,-we "For a full account of the whole course of proceedings in Asia, would refer our readers to Messrs. Chambers' cheap and very excellent Pictorial History of the Russian War."-Lon. Gent. Mag, July, 1857, 34 n. q. v. Lake, Edward, D.D. Serms., &c., 1662-1705. Lake, Eliza. Wheel of Fortune, 1805, 3 vols. Lake, John, D.D., Bishop of Sodor and Man, 1682, trans. to Bristol, 1684, and to Chichester, 1685; deprived for not taking the oaths, 1689. 1. Serm., Ps. ii. 6, 1670, 4to. 2. Funeral Serm., Rev. ii. 10, 1671, 4to. 3. Serm., John v. 12, 8vo. See A Defence of Bp. Lake's Profession, &c., 1690, 4to. Lake, John. 1. House of Morville; a Drama, 1812, 8vo. 2. The Golden Glove; a Comedy, with Poems, 1815, 8vo. Lake, John N. Serms., &c., 1781-1802. Lake, William, 1787-1805, a native of Kingston, Times, Lon., 1852, 8vo. "Neither a party nor a superficial production."-Lon. Economist. Lamar, L. Q. C. Compilation of the Laws of Georgia from 1810 to 1819 inclusive, Augusta, 1821, 4to. Athenians, by Augustus Boeckh; trans. from the 2d GerLamb, Anthony. The Public Economy of the mended in Grote's Greece, &c. See LEWIS, Sir Geores man ed., with Notes and Index, Lon., 1857, 8vo. ComCORNE WALL, Bart., M.P. Lamb, Lady Caroline, 1785-1828, the daughte Lamb, (now Lord Melbourne,) gained some reputation by of the Earl of Besborough, and wife of the Hon. William three novels and her knowledge of languages. 1. Glenarvon, 1816, 3 vols. 12mo. Glenarvon is supposed to represent Lord Byron. 2. Graham Hamilton, 2 vols. p. 8vo. 3. Ada Reis, 1823, 3 vols. 12mo. Lady Caroline also composed many poems. A biographical notice of her ladyship and a notice of her works will be found in The Annual Biography and Obituary for 1829. tive of London, was the son of John Lamb, clerk, servant, Lamb, Charles, Feb. 18, 1775-Dec. 27, 1834, a na &c. to Mr. Salt, a bencher of the Inner Temple. After an early education at the school of Christ's Hospital, and a brief engagement in the South Sea House under his brother John, Charles was so fortunate as to obtain a permanent situation in the accountant's office of the East March, 1825,-retiring on a pension of £450 per annum. India Company, which he held from April, 1792, until year is connected at once with the most mournful and A domestic tragedy which occurred in his twenty-second most pleasing recollections which cluster around the name of the author of Elia. Mary Lamb (Bridget Elia) in a st To see the sun to bed, and to arise."" "So far as I was left at leisure, by a more potent order of poetry, to think of the John Woodvil at all, I had felt and acknowledged a delicacy and tenderness in the situations as well as the senti ments, but disfigured, as I thought, by quaint, grotesque, and mimetic phraseology."-De Quincey's Recollections of Charles Lamb. "The passages which we have already quoted are, we trust, sufficient to justify our opinion of the age of the present drama. We might have selected many other passages of equal antiquity. The whole is indeed almost uniformly venerable, and will be justly appreciated by all who are desirous of possessing a complete specimen of the drama in its state of pristine rudeness."-MR. BROWN: Edin. Rev., ii. 90–96. of Insanity, in the month of September, 1796, suddenly | of the forest has a truly antique air, like a passage in Heywood or Shirley: deprived her mother of life: she was proved to be in an ansound state of mind, and by a righteous verdict confided to her brother (by ten years her junior) for safe keeping. How faithfully the tender brother fulfilled this duty,-how anxiously he watched over his patient,-his by the double right of nature and legal obligation,-is familiar to those who know the least of his history. He now abandoned all hopes of union with one to whom he was deeply at'tached, and nerved himself to the discharge of his fraternal and filial duties: "I am wedded, Coleridge," he writes to his most dearly loved friend, "to the fortunes of my sister and my poor old father." The father died shortly after his wife had been summoned in so awful and sudden a manner to her account. Mary Lamb enjoyed her brother's affectionate guardianship until his eyes were losed in death, and survived him thirteen years, dying May 20, 1847. To great amiability of disposition she added considerable literary taste, and composed, in conjunction with her brother Charles, four juvenile works, viz. 1. Mrs. Leicester's School; or, the History of several Young Ladies, related by themselves, 1808, 12mo. 2. Tales from the Plays of Shakspeare, 1807, 2 vols. 12mo; 10th and last ed., 1855, 12mo. Mr. Charles Knight, in his ed. (1844, 2 vols. 18mo) of this popular work, has added to each Tale a few Scenes from Shakspeare. "One of the most useful and agreeable companions to the understanding of Shakspeare which have ever been produced. The youthful reader who is about to taste the charms of our great bard is strongly recommended to prepare himself by first reading these elegant tales, which in a short compass, and adopting as much as possible the language of the great original, give each plot and story in a most impressive manner. Even those who are familiar with every line of the original will be delighted with the pleasing and compendious way in which the story of each play is here presented to them."-Lon. Quarterly Review. 3. The Adventures of Ulysses: intended as a Companion to the Adventures of Telemachus, 1808, 12mo; last ed., 1845, med. 8vo. This work is also ascribed exclusively to the pen of Charles Lamb. 4. Poetry for Children; entirely original, 1809, 2 vols. 12mo. For further information respecting Lamb's sister we must refer the reader to Talfourd's Final Memorials of her brother. Charles Lamb's first appearance before the world as an acknowledged author was in 1797, when there appeared in a small 12mo vol. a number of poems by Coleridge, Charles Lloyd, and our author. Lamb's share in this literary copartnership occupies twenty-eight pages, "within which space," says his biographer, "was comprised all that Lamb at this time had written which he deemed worth preserving." In the next year the blank verse of Lloyd and Lamb, which had been contained in the vol. just named, was pub. in a thin 12mo, under the title of Blank Verse, by Charles Lloyd and Charles Lamb. The vol. met with but little favour from the Monthly Reviewers: "After a contemptuous notice of The Mourning Muse of Lloyd, Lamb receives his quietus in a line:- Mr. Lamb, the joint author of this little volume, seems to be very properly associated with his plaintive companion.'" To this vol. succeeded-1. Rosamund Gray and Old Blind Margaret, 1798, 12mo. Very favourably reviewed in the Lon. Monthly Review for August, 1800. "For mere pathos, however, all that Lamb has ever done falls far short of his beautiful tale Rosamund Gray. I remember when I first read it, many years ago, I had been very ill and dispirited, and, after resorting to book after book in vain for amusement, I took up the little story. Its simplicity attracted me at once: it opened upon my then fevered imagination with all the freshness of a vernal landscape, and its deep and unpretending pathos won my heart."-Recollections of Lamb. 2 John Woodvil, a Tragedy; with Fragments of Burton, &, 1802, 8vo. John Woodvil-an imitation of the style of the English dramatists of the age of Elizabeth-was offered to Kemble for the stage, and rejected. "Godwin's catastrophe had probably rendered him [Kemble] less solicitous to encounter a similar peril,-which the fondest admirers of John Woodvil will not regret that it escaped. While the occa nional roughness of its verse would have been felt as strange to ears as yet unused to the old dramatists whom Lamb's Specimens had not then made familiar to the town, the delicate beauties en shrined within it would scarcely have been perceived in the glare of the theatre."-SIR T. N. TALFOURD: Sketch of Lamb's Life. "Mr. Lamb's John Woodvil may be considered as a dramatic 'ragment, intended for the closet rather than the stage. It would Bound oddly in the lobbies of either theatre, amidst the noise and glare and bustle of resort; but there where we have treasured up our hearts' in silence and in solitude it may claim and find a place for itself. . . . The defective or objectionable parts of this production are imitations of the defects of the old writers: its beauties are his own, though in their manner."-Hazlitt's Lects. on the Dramat. Lit. of the Age of Elizabeth, Lect. VIII» q. v. Mr. Hazlitt remarks, on another occasion, "There is much that is exquisite, both in sentiment and expression, in Lamb's play; and the following description of the sports This contemptuous notice, from which we have extracted the above half-dozen lines, elicits the censure of Sergeant Talfourd in his Sketch of Lamb's Life. 3. Mr. H; a Farce, 1806; not printed at the time. This piece was unsuccessful at Drury Lane Theatre, although Elliston played the principal character; but it had a great run at the Philadelphia theatre, with Mr. Wood as the hero. 4. Specimens of English Dramatic Poets who lived about the time of Shakspeare, with Notes, 1808, cr. 8vo; often reprinted; last ed., 1854, p. 8vo. A second series of Specimens was pub. by Lamb in Hone's Every-Day Book, under the title of the Garrick Papers. "He carries us on through whole scenes by a true, unerring motion. His was a poetical mind labouring in poetry."-Disraeli's Amenities of Literature: The Predecessors and Contemporaries of Shakspeare. "A selection in which are displayed the utmost judgment and taste. The critical notices are extremely valuable, and above any praise of mine."-SINGER, in his ed. of Chapman. "It was only by slow and imperceptible degrees that they won their way to the apprehensions of the most influential minds, and wrought out the genial purpose of the editor in renewing a taste for the great contemporaries of Shakspeare."-SIR T. N. TALFOURD: Sketch of the Life of Lamb. It is much to be regretted that a collection disfigured by so many indecencies ever won its way into public favour; and no man confers a benefit upon society by "renewing a taste for the great contemporaries of Shakspeare" so long as he renews at the same time a taste for their abominable obscenities. But we have already said enough upon this fruitful theme in our lives of BEAUMONT, FRANCIS; COLLIER, JEREMY; CONGREVE, WILLIAM; FORD, JOHN. Mr. Macaulay (see his Essays, Lon., 1854, iii. 8-12, and Edin. Rev., Jan. 1841) properly, but too tenderly, rebukes Lamb's sophistical apology for the shocking literary immoralities of the early English dramatists. But no one since the days of doughty old Jeremy Collier has better handled this subject than Christopher North, in his Hour's Talk about Poetry. We give a brief extract: "It is satisfactory to know that the good sense and good feeling and good taste of the people of England will not submit to be be laboured by editors and critics into unqualified admiration of such enormities. The Old English Drama lies buried in the dust with all its tragedies. Never more will they move across the stage. ... But the monstrosities we have mentioned are not the worst to be found in the Old English Drama. Others there are that, till civi lized Christendom falls back into barbarous heathendom, must for ever be unendurable to human ears, whether long or short,-we mean the obscenities. That sin is banished forever from our literature. The poet who might dare to commit it would be immediately hooted out of society and sent to roost in barns among the owls. But the Old English Drama is stuffed with ineffable pollutions, .... and we cannot, for our part, imagine a Family Old English Dramatist." Neither Holland House nor the Edinburgh Review can make men permanently overlook the glaring defects of the Old English Drama apart from Shakspeare. Its extravagance, its conceits, its indecency, its constant delineation of profligate characters, has exquisite occasional beauty. Real excellence needs no bolstering, blinded men, and blinded them justly, to its vigour, its variety, its Holland House is not required to keep Milton or Pope afloat; the fame of Homer is greater than it was a thousand years ago; every successive generation is charmed by the delicacy of Virgil's taste and fascinated by the vigour of Dante's conceptions."-SIR ARCHI BALD ALISON: Essays, Polit., Histor, and Miscell., Edin. and Lon., 1850, iii. 118: The Romantic Drama: originally pub. in Blackw. Mag., Aug. 1846. 5. Works in Verse and Prose, 1818, 2 vols. 18mo. This collection includes nearly all that Lamb had then written. 6. The Essays of Elia, 1823. 7. The Last Essays of Elia, 1833. Often reprinted; best ed., (separately pub.,) 1853, 12mo. The Essays were originally pub. as fugitive pieces in the London Magazine, &c. "They are carefully elaborated; yet never were works written in a higher defiance to the conventional pomp of style. A sly hit, a happy pun, a humorous combination, lets the light into the intricacies of the subject, and supplies the place of ponderous sen tences. Seeking his materials for the most part in the common paths of life, often in the humblest,-he gives an importance to every thing, and sheds a grace over all."-SIR T. N. TALFOURD Sketch of the Life of Lamb. "The prose essays under the signature of Elia form the most |