Assigned ferroneously, he thought.] to the same author. as The Whole Duty of Man, were written by Bp. Fell and Dr. Alles tree.... As to what Bp. Fell says in a folio edition at Oxford, in which all these books are comprised together, where he mentions the author as lately dead. It was generally understood to be meant of Dr. Allestree, who was then lately deceased. . . . Of Dr. Allestree's writing there is a folio volume of sermons, which may be compared with these treatises."—Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, "He was a person richly furnished with all variety of rich and solid learning, requisite to recommend them with the greatest advantage to the more intelligent world for one of the most eminent. divines of our age."— Wood's Athen. Ozon. Allestree, Thos. Funeral Hdkf. and three sers.,1691. Allestry, Jacob, 1653–1686, author of several pieces in the Examen Poeticum; one of the many poetical victims to dissipation. Allet, Thos. Sermon on the Funeral of H. Clements, with the Christian Support under the Loss of Friends, 2 Sam. xii. 22, Lon., 1720. Alley, Sir Geo., M.D. 1. An Essay on a Peculiar Eruptive Disease, arising from the Exhibition of Mercury; Illustrated with Cases, taken at the Westmoreland Lock Hospital, Dublin; Dubl., 1804. 2. Observations on the Hydrargyria, or that Vesicular Disease arising from the Exhibition of Mercury, Lon., 1810. Alley, Jerome, b. 1760. Political and religious works, Lon., 1778-1806. Alley, Peter. The Tears of the Muses, Lon., 1794. Alley, William, D.D., 1512?-1570, consecrated Bishop of Exeter, 1560, translated the Pentateuch for Archbishop Parker's Bible. He was educated at Eton; thence, in 1582, he went to King's Coll., Camb., where he took the degree of B.A., and removed thence to Oxford. He wrote a Hebrew Grammar, and was author of the Poor Man's Library; being Rhapsodies of Prælections on 1st Epist. St. Peter, 2 vols. fol. Lon., 1571. "He was a person universally learned, especially in Divinity and in the Tongues, preached almost every Holyday, and read a lecture every day while he lived at Exeter."-Wood's Athen, Oxon. "He became lecturer in St. Paul's; I say lecturer, which name, though since it hath sounded ill in some jealous ears, as infected with faction, was an ancient office founded in some cathedrals, to read divinity there; and this Master Alley's learned lectures (according to that age) are extant in print. . . . He lieth buried under a fair marble in his own cathedral."-Fuller's Worthies. Alleyn, J. Episcopacy the Great Bond of Union, Ephes. iv. 11-13, 1701. Unanimity in the Truth a Necessary Duty, with the Means of Acquiring it, Rom. xv. 5, 6, 1707. Alleyne, J. Leg. Decrees of Marriage, &c., Lon., 1774. Allibond, John, D.D., died 1658, son of Rev. Peter lads: : a Book for New Englanders, 1850. A contributor Allingham. Mathematical works, &c., Lon., 1710-14. Other pieces, pub. Lon., 1803-05. Allingham, W. Poems, Lon., 12mo. Music-Master, &c.; new ed., 1857, 12mo. Allington, John. Sermons, pub. Lon., 1655-78. Allison, B. Con. to Amer. Trans., v. 87, 1800; ib., 87. Allison, F., 1705-1777, Presby. minister in Phila. Serm. on Eph. iv. 7, 1758. Allison, P., of Pa., d. 1802. Treatises on Liberty, &c. Allison, R. The Ps. of Dauid in Metro, &c., Lon., 1599. Allison, T. Voyage from Archangel in Russia, in 1697, &c., Lon., 1699. See Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels, vol. i. Allix, Peter, 1641-1717. This eminent divine and profound scholar became so completely Anglicised, and reflected so much credit upon the land of his adoption, that we are willing to make an exception in his case, as we have done in some few others, and give him a place in our register. He was born at Alençon in France, and stationed in the principal church of the Reformed at Charenton near Paris. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in 1685, drove him to England, where he became the pastor of a French congregation in conformity with the Established Church. He was profoundly versed in Hebrew and classical literature. His works are very numerous. Reflexions on the Books of the Holy Scripture, &c., Lon., 1688. "These Reflections are not in the form of a continued commen tary on the Bible; but take up what may be called the spirit of it, under distinct heads, chiefly with a view, as the title expresses it, to establish the divine origin of Christianity. They were pub lished in French about the same time [1687] that they appeared in English. They were also translated into German, and published at Nuremberg in 1702."-ORME: Bibl. Bib. "These Reflexions have always been held in great repute for the plainness and erudition with which they are written."-Bishop WATSON. The Judgment of the Ancient Jewish Church against the Unitarians, Lon., 1699. "It affords much curious and interesting information on those passages of the Old Testament which have been supposed to conthe ancient Jews were not strictly Trinitarians, they were firm tain the doctrine of the Trinity. He successfully shows, that if believers of a plurality in the Godhead."-ORME. "It is not remarkable for accurate statement or judicious reasoning."-DR. SMITH. "A noble storehouse of arguments to confound the Jews by had preceded him. Anthony Wood gives him a high cha-proving that Jesus Christ is the Messiah; and at the same time to racter as a scholar and a divine: This worthy Doctor, who was a Buckinghamshire Man born, and lately the chief master of the Free School joyning to Mazd. Coll., was a most excellent Latin poet and philologist, and hath published Rustica Academicæ Oxoniensis nuper Reformata de scriptio: una cum comitiis ibidem, 1648 habitis. 'Tis a Latin poem, and was twice printed in 1648. He died at Bradwell in Glouces tershire, (of which place he was rector,) an. 1658." Of the above satire-now very rare-on the Parliamentary Visitors, a MS. Key is referred to in Wood's Fasti, by Bliss, ii., 69. "A Latin poem of exquisite humour, twice printed in 1648; reprinted in 1705, fol.; and again with an Hudibrastic translation by Edward Ward, in the fifth volume of Somers's Collection of Tracts. A very curious copy, with a complete Key in MS., is to te found in Wood's study, No. 423."-LOWNDES. Allibond, Peter, 1560-1629, father of the preceding. "An ingenious man in the opinion of all who knew him, was born at Wardenten, near to Banbury in Oxfordshire, where his uame and family had for some generations lived, became a student of Magd. Hall in the beginning of 1578, aged 18 years or thereabouts, took the degree in Arts, travelled for some time beyond the seas, and, on his return, became Rector of Cheyneys in Bucks, where, continuing many years, did much improve the ignorant with his sound doctrine. What he hath written I know not, nor translations which he hath made, only these two from French into English: 1. Comfort for an Afflicted Conscience, wherein is contained both consolation and instruction for the sick, &c., Lon., 1591, Oct., written by Johu de L'Espine. 2. Confutation of the Popish Transubstantiation, together with a Narration how that the Mass was at sun times patched and pieced by sundry Popes, ke., Lon., 1592. And a translation from Latin into English, entitled The Golden Chain of Salvation. Lon., 1604, qu., written by Harman Renhe "- Wood's Athen. Ozon Allies, T. W. 1. Church of England Cleared from the Charge of Schism, Lon., 8vo. 2. Journal in France in 1845, 48, 8vo. 3. Name and Office of St. Peter, 8vo. Royal Supremacy, 8vo. 5. See of St. Peter, 8vo. 6. Sernons on Romans, 8vo. 4. put all the Free-thinkers to silence."-DR. WOTTON. "Of no great value. It is too brief to be satisfactory, either to the critic or the lover of practical exposition.”—ORME, Diatriba de anno et Mense Natali Jesu Christi, etc., Lon., 1710. Math. Con. to Phil. and Irish Soc. "In this Latin tract, Allix endeavours to show that the Messiah was born not in winter, but in the spring."-ORME. Allman, Wm. Trans., 1814, &c. Allnut, A. C. Poverty, and other Poems, Lon., 1801. Allnut, G. S. Practice of Wills, 12mo. Allnut, Z. Treatises on Navigation, Lon., 1806-10. Allot, Robert, is believed to have been the compiler of a very curious and valuable volume of early poetry, which had a large share in the remarkable development of BIBLIOMANIA which characterized the first quarter of the present century. England's Parnassus; or the choycest Flowers of our Modern Poets, with their Poeticall compa. risons. Descriptions of Bewties, Personages, Castles, Pal. laces, Mountaines, Groues, Seas, Springs, Rivers, &c. Whereunto are annexed other various discourses, both pleasant and profitable. Imprinted at London, for N. L., C. B., and T. H., 1600. Of Allot's history nothing is now known. We find a surmise in Brydges' Restituta, (vol. iii, 234,) that he was the Robert Allot who was Fellow of St. John's College in 1599. With regard to the Parnassus, as it "has preserved portions of many scarce poets, whose very names, without such care, might have probably sunk into oblivion, it must ever rank as a book both valuable and curious." Wood seems to have attributed this collection to Charles Fitz-Geffrey : "He hath also made, as 'tis said, A Collection of choice Flowers and Descriptions as well out of his, as the works of several others, Allin, Abby, of Pomfret, Connecticut. Home Bal- the most renowned Posts of our Nation: collected about the be ginning of the reign of K. James I; but this, tho' I have been many | years seeking after, yet I cannot get a sight of it."-Athen. Ozon. "It is valuable not only on account of its variety, but also on account of its intrinsic worth as a Compilation pretty ingeniously executed."-Watt's Bib. Brit. A copy is priced in the Bib. Anglo-Poetica £20, and one was sold in the Roxburghe sale, (3171,) for £21. Having been reprinted by Mr. Park in the Heliconia, "the reprints have pulled down the prices more than one peg."-Dibdin. "We have often pored over Allston's pages to admire the grace and delicacy of his English poetical style. This book is equally remarkable for its rich and harmonious prose. The nice selection of epithets, the faultless arrangement of the members of the sentences, and the rhythmical cadence to which thought and expres sion seem to move united, combine to make it one of the most finished works in American literature."-Vol. liv. 397. Mr. Allston was distinguished for his conversational powers and amiability of deportment, as well as for artistic genius and literary taste. "His tongue wrought on his "Had the editor of this curious volume, besides citing the names of his authors, added the titles of the works from which he culled associates and acquaintances like an enchanter's spell, bis specimens, an infinity of trouble would have been saved to preventing their taking any note of time; and the small subsequent research; yet the deficiency has served, in a peculiar hours would be close upon them before they had thought manner, to mark the successful progress of modern bibliography. of retiring." See Lectures on Art, and Poems, by WashWhen Oldys wrote his preface to Hayward's British Muse, which was first published in 1738, he complains grievously of this omis-ington Allston, edited by R. H. Dana, Jr., New York, sion, observing that most of Allot's poets were now so obsolete 1850, 12mo. that not knowing what they wrote, we can have no recourse to their works, if still extant.' Since this sentence was written, such has been the industry of our literary antiquaries, that almost every poem which Allot laid under contribution in forming his volume. has been ascertained, and rendered accessible to the curious inquirer; and so far from the writers being obsolete, after nearly eighty years have been added to their antiquity, we may venture to affirm that, excepting about half a dozen, they are as familiar to us as the poets of the present reign."-Drake's Shakspeare and His Times. Allwood, P. Literary Antiquities of Greece, &c. Lon., 1794. 12 Lectures on the Prophecies, &c., Lon., 1815. Allyn. See ALAN and ALLEN. Almon, Mr., and T. Dawkes, Phil. Trans., Abr. ix., 95, 1745. Almon, and Debrett. Parliamentary Register, 1743-74, Lon., 11 vols. 2d Ed., with additions, Lon., 1792, 7 vols. Almon, John, 1738-1805, combined the three professions in London, of Bookseller, Author, and Editor. The contributors to England's Parnassus were the fo!- He pub. a number of political tracts of a violent character, lowing: 1. Thomas Achelly. 2. Thomas Bastard. 3. George Chapman. 4. Thomas Churchyard. 5. Henry Constable. 6. Samuel Daniel. 7. John Davies. 8. Thomas Dekkar. 9 Michael Drayton, 10. Edmund Fairfax. 11. Charles Fitz-Geffrey. 12. Abraham Fraunce. 13. George Gascoigne. 14. Edward Gilpin. 15. Robert Greene. 16. Sir John Harrington. 17. John Higgins. 18. Thomas Hudson. 19. James, King of Scots. 22. Thomas Lodge. 23. Gervase Markham. 24. Christopher Marlowe. 26. Christopher Middleton. 28. Oxford, Earl of 29. George Peele. 30. Matthew Roydon. 31. Sackville, Lord Buckhurst. 42. William Weever. "Robert Allot is a joint sonneteer with E. Gilpin before Mark ham's 'Devereux,' 1597. They were probably friends, and though Gilpin's name occurs in no other book, he is not unfrequently quoted in England's Parnassus. This affords some slight confir mation that Allot was the compiler of it."-Collier's Poet. Decameron. Oldys has taken to task the judgment of the editor in his selection of authors and extracts; but Warton, a far higher authority, declares that, "The method is judicious, the extracts copious, and made with a degree of taste." Allott, R. Sermon before H. of Commons. Fast-Day, 1806. Allston, Washington, 1779-1843. This distinguished artist was the author of a number of poetical and prose compositions. He was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, and entered Harvard College in 1796. In 1813 he published in London, a volume entitled, The Sylphs of the Seasons and other Poems, which seems to have passed unnoticed in the multitude of works issuing from the London press. The principal portion of the contents of this volume had been perused and much admired in MS. by Mr. Allston's friends in Boston. The volume is made up of quite a number of poems, the largest containing between six and seven hundred lines. "Mr. Allston's versification is peculiarly easy, and seems thrown out with as little effort as it is read. With all his ease, however, he is always musical, and we have only to object to a loose line here and there.... Our author's language is all good, but is not strictly the poetical language; and we should think that he had not been a wide and constant reader of the old English poets. . . . We would advise our readers to make themselves acquainted with it. They certainly will find it worthy their pride, in the general poverty of literature in our country."-North American Review, vol. v. 365. The Romance of Monaldi, which had been written twenty years before, and intended as a contribution to Mr. Dana's Idle Man, was published in 1841, anonymously. Monaldi is a graduate of the Othello school, infuriated by jealousy, and determined himself to become a murderer, because he imagines his wife to be unfaithful. The Rev. Dr. Griswold remarks with reference to Mr. Allston's style: "All the specimens that I have seen of his prose indicate a remarkable command of language, great descriptive powers, and rare philosophical as well as imaginative talent."" The North American Review speaks in high terms of he literary character of Monaldi : some of which he is supposed to have written. Anecdotes of Lord Chatham, 1792, often reprinted. Biographical, Literary, and Political Anecdotes, 1797. "This work, though partial, is interesting, as containing many curious particulars of the political characters and contests of the day."-LOWNDES. Almond. Mistery of Godliness, Lon., 1671. Almond, R. English Horseman, &c., Lon., 1673. Alsop, Ann. Letters to Rev. T. Edmonds, Lon., 1801. Alsop, Anthony, d. 1726, was elected from Westminster to Christ Church, where he became censor, M.A., 1696, B. D., 1706. Fabularum Æsopicarum Delectus, Oxon., 1698. Antonii Alsopi Edis Christi Olim Alumni Odarum libro duo, 1751. He made use of the Sapphic numbers in his familiar correspondence, in which "he showed a facility so uncommon and a style so natural and easy that he has not been unjustly esteemed inferior only to his master Horace."-Nichols's Literary Anecdotes. Concerning the notable controversy on the Epistles of Phalaris we shall have more to say hereafter. See BENTLEY, DR.; BOYLE, CHARLES, EARL OF ORRERY, &c. Alsop, Benj. Theolog. Works, Lon., 1675-90. Alsop, Geo. The Character of the Province of Maryland, Lon., 1666. A rare work. Serms., &c., 1669-70. Alsop, John, 1776-1841, brother of Richard Alsop, and a poet of some taste. See specimens in Everest's Poets of Connecticut. Alsop, N. Sermons, pub. Lon., 1682-90. Connecticut, was a poet of some note. He was the prinAlsop, Richard, 1761-1815, a native of Middleton, cipal of the "Hartford wits," including Theodore Dwight, Echo, pub. in a vol. in 1807. He translated several pieces Hopkins, Trumbull, &c., who wrote the satire entitled The from the French and Italian, and wrote a Monody on the favour, and was published at Hartford, Conn., in 1800. Death of Washington, which was received with great Connecticut. Edited Captivity and Adventures of J. R. See Duyckincks' Cyc. Amer. Lit.; also Everest's Poets of Jewett among the Savages of Nootka Sound, 1815. Alsop, Vincent, d. 1703, an English Nonconformist minister, pub. some Theolog. Works, Lon., 1679-98, the principal of which was a witty reply to Sherlock, entitled Anti Sozzo, a Vindication of some Great Truths opposed by W. Sherlock, &c., 1675. "Sherlock's Discourse concerning the knowledge of Jesus Christ, tending to Socinian views, and marking the low divinity of the times, produced two valuable replies-the one above by Alsop, and the other by Edward Polhill, both in 1675. South also published animadversions."-BICKERSTETH. "He had a flowing fancy, and his wit was excellent." "A second Alsop for polemic skill."-DUNTON. Alston, Chas., 1682-1760, an eminent botanist and physician, "is to be looked upon as one of the founders of the celebrity of the Edinburgh School of Medicine, acting in concert with Monro, Rutherford, Sinclair, and Plummer." He wrote a number of works on Medicine and Botany, pub. Edin. 1740-54. Dr. John Hope gives him a character worthy of the imitation of every physician and instructor of the young. "As a man, he was candid, upright, and sincere; learned in his profession, and humane; as a professor, communicative, and know ing no greater pleasure than to form the minds of his pupils In such a manner as to render them able in their profession, and useful members of society." Alston, J. W. Treatise on Painting, Lon., 1804. Altham, Arthur, or perhaps Michael. Vindication of the Ch. of England, against the Ch. of Rome, &c., 1686; and other controversial works. Althan, Roger, D.D. Sermons, pub. Lon., 1712-32. Alton. Sermon on Mark iv. 9, Lon., 1767. Alton, John D'. Dermid, &c., a Poem, Lon., 1815. Aluredis, Alredis. See ALFRED OF Beverly. Alves, Robt., d. 1794, a Scottish Poet and miscellaneous writer. His principal work is the Sketches of the History of Literature, &c., Edin., 1794. Alvey, Thos. A Medical Work. Lon., 1680. Alynton, Robt. Libellus Sophistarum, Lon., per W. de Worde, 1525, 4to. Dibdin notices five editions of this work; three by W. de Worde, and two by Pynson.-Typ. Antiquities. Amand, Geo. St. A work upon Parliament, Lon.1725. Ambler, Chas. Reports of Chancery Cases, &c., Lon., 1790. "This vol. consists of cases in Lord Hardwicke's time, with a few later determinations in the Court of Chancery, and fills up the time between Lord Hardwicke and Lord Thurlow."-LOWNDES. Ambrose, Isaac, d. 1664. In 1641 he joined the Presbyterians, having been one of the King's preachers. He pub. a number of practical religious works, Lon., 164962. He has many devout and admirable thoughts; borrows from Bishop Hall. "The Ministration and Communion with Angels is a devotional and edifying work, but sometimes fanciful.”—BICKERSTETH. Looking unto Jesus, 1658. "Very experimental and practical, and deserving a devout perusal." Ambross, Miss. Life of Miss Catley, &c., Lon., 1790. Amerie, Robt. Chester's Triumph in Honour of her Prince, as it was performed upon St. George's Day, 1610, in the foresaid citie, Lon., 1610, 4to. Sold in Dent's sale for £7.10. Rhodes, £8.12. Ames. The Double Descent, a Poem, Lon., 1692. Ames, Edwd., Bp. of Cork and Ross. Pub. sermons on 2 Sam. xv. 11, and on Heb. xii. 14, Lon., 1682. Ames, Fisher, 1758-1808, born in Dedham, Massachusetts, was a leading statesman during the administration of General Washington. Rev. Dr. Kirkland published some of his essays, speeches, &c. in 1809. He was elected President of Harvard College in 1804, but his ill health obliged him to decline the post. His speech in relation to the British Treaty, delivered in 1796, has been much commended. He drew his eloquence from the best source. "I will hazard the assertion," he remarks, "That no man ever did or ever will become truly eloquent, with out being a constant reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language." The Works of Fisher Aines; with a Selection from his Speeches and Correspondence, edited by his Son, Seth Ames, 2 vols. 8vo. with portrait, 1854. "We congratulate the public on possessing the works of one of so elevated a genius and so puro a fame, in a form which must satisfy the most fastidious taste.”—Christian Examiner. "These volumes, as was the man, are an honour to our country; and they will be extensively read by old men and young men, especially those in political life and of the legal profession. The numerous letters in the first volume are rich in information relat ing to the origin and early history of our government."-Norton's "It is a very substantial addition to the political literature of the country."-W. C. BRYANT. Gazette. Ames, Joseph, 1689–1759, an ironmonger in London, gained deserved celebrity and commendation by his excellent Typographical Antiquities; being an Historical Account of Printing in England, with some Memoirs of our ancient Printers, and a Register of the Books printed by them from the year 1471 to 1600; with an Appendix concerning Printing in Scotland and Ireland, to the same time, Lon., 1749. The Rev. Mr. Lewis, who had been collecting materials for a History of Printing in England, urged Mr. Ames to undertake the task. The latter was unwilling to accede to this proposition, doubting his competency, and being aware that Mr. Palmer was occupied with the same design. Mr. Palmer's work, The General History of Printing, &c., appeared in 1732, and so much disappointed the expectations of those conversant with the subject, that Mr. Ames determined to take the matter in hand. It should be stated that Mr. Palmer did not live to complete his book. The portion relating to the English printers was written by George Psalmanaazar of" Formosa" celebrity: the Scotch and Irish printers were not noticed at all. Mr. Ames had most valuable aid in his undertaking. The good rector of Margate, who had originally urged bim to the task, laid his "auld warld" collections at his feet The enthusiastic John Anstis, Garter King-at arms, that "boast of heraldry," who had devoted his days and nights to poring over the dusty scrolls of antiquity, "Their ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did now unroll" to the edification and vast delight of our learned man of iron. That prince of literary baronets, Sir Hans Sloane, permitted him to labour in his library and rest in his garden; where, after dining on 50,000 books and 3500 manuscripts, he could gather his dessert from luscious fruittrees, weighed down with their golden burden. Lord Orford's library was at his command, and the erudition of many friends, ready to supply knowledge, to correct error, and to suggest improvement. Mr. Ames himself had been amassing literary treasures for a quarter of a century. We can imagine with what gratification, after the traffic of the day, he closed his doors at twilight's first haze, and left his iron for his books. Surely Dr. Johnson was right when he said that the happiest life in the world is that of a man of business with a taste for literature! Always in his library, he might tire even of his books; but obliged to be much apart, like a true lover, he leaves them with regret, and hastens to them with delight. In 1749 the Magnum Opus made its appearance. For the times, it was a good book; and its reception was truly gratifying to the author. It told pretty much what was then known; but, better still, it set literary miners to work, and by their researches much more was made known. Ames modestly declares, "I do also ingenuously confess, that in attempting this History of Printing I have undertaken a task much too great for my abili ties, the extent of which I did not so well perceive at first.... I have at least cleared away the rubbish, and furnished materials towards a more perfect structure." Doubtless much of its merit was owing to our friendly Garter, who tells Ames: "Use no ceremony in commanding any thing in my power, (1737.).... You may without any apology command me, for I have thought it my duty to assist, as far as it is in my power, all who oblige the public."-ANSTIS. Ames would put down his questions on a folio sheet, and Anstis wrote out answers for him. Mr. William Herbert, another literary man of business, was so fortunate as to obtain from Sir Peter Thompson, Ames's own copy of his work, interleaved with a great number of his MS. additions and notes. Herbert zealously devoted himself to preparing a new edition of the Typographical Antiquities. He published volume 1st in 1785, volume 2d in 1786, and volume 3d and last in 1790. This was a considerable advance upon the original work, but much was yet required to make a complete History of British Typography. The great objections to Herbert's volumes are their dry technicality and catalogue stiffness. His accuracy and laborious perseverance cannot be too much commended; but we want more in a book than precision and faithfulness. We want a volume which can be read-not merely consulted. Now of all Englishmen who have ever lived, there never was a man better suited to make a dry study attractive, and a learned subject plain, than Dr. Dibdin of Roxburghe memory. This magician could with his pen dress up a begrimed, uncouth-looking volume in more attractive style than could Grolier's binder with his most cunning tools. He could convert "Belindas" and "Almasas" into BIBLIOMANIACS, and make a dry catalogue of old English poetry more attractive than the last novel. It was but necessary for him to apply the epithets "excessively rare," or "exceedingly curious," and the neglected Caxton in your garret would buy you a year's clothing for your household, and the old family Bible would defray your Christmas festivities. We shall have more to say of him in his place. Now, Dr. Dibdin, so exactly fitted to give us a well-digested, accurately arranged, and withal readable and attractive, History of British Typography, undertook the task. Our zealous editor gave no less than £42 for the interleaved Ames we have referred to, and set manfully to work to let the world see what could be done in this department. In 1810 the first volume appeared, supported by a most respectable subscription, headed by Geo. III., the Dukes of York and Kent, and eighteen public libraries. The 2d volume was published in 1812, the 3d in 1816, and the 4th in 1820. See ANGELL, JOSEPH K. Ames, Samuel. Ames, (Amesius,) Wm., 1576-1633, a learned Puritan divine, was educated at Cambridge, under Dr. Perkins. His strictness gave offence to some in authority at his college, and he took the post of chaplain in the English church at the Hague. Afterwards he accepted the divinity chair at Franeker in Friesland, which he filled for twelve yours. His works, principally casuistical and controver- | sial, attracted great attention. He wrote chiefly in Latin. Explicatio Utriusque Epistolæ St. Petri, Amsterd., 1625, 1635. The same in English, Lon., 1641. "It is not a critical work, but it gives a very accurate analysis of the two Epistles, and deduces doctrinal observations from them. The theological writers of that age, and especially the Puritans, were generally more remarkable for the accuracy of their logical reasoning, than for their critical or philological speculations."ORME: Bibl. Bib. "The productions of Ames are not void of merit, considering the times in which they were written."-MOSHEIM. "This work deduces doctrines and practice with much clearness. Ames's are valuable writings, both on practical and controversial subjects."- BICKERSTETH. He wrote against Dr. Burgess, Fresh Suit against Ceremonies, &c., Lon., 1633. "Remote from danger, he hath spoken freely against the ceremonies of the English church." Lectiones in Omnes Psalmos Davidis, Amst., 1635; Lon., 1647. "Many excellent thoughts in this exposition."-BICKERSTETH. "Ames was a judicious and solid divine."-ED. LEIGH. Amesbury, Joseph. 1. Deformities of the Spine Chest, and Limbs, Lon., 1840, 4to. 2. Fractures of the Trunk and Extremities, 2 vols. 8vo. Amhurst, Nicholas, 1706-1742, was connected with Pulteney and Bolingbroke in the management of The Craftsman. He was expelled for libertinism from St. John's College, Oxf., and in revenge satirized his Alma Mater in his Oculus Britanniæ, Lon., 1724; and the Terræ Filius, or the Secret History of the Universities of Oxford; 1726. He pub. some other works. Amner, John. Sacred Hymns, &c., Lon., 1615. Amner, Richard, 1736-1803, a dissenting minister, remarkable as being made a literary butt by Geo. Stevens, and as making a theological butt of himself, by his Essay on the Prophecies of Daniel, had charge of a congregation at Cosely, in Staffordshire. Whilst stationed at Hempstead, Stevens wrote some immoral notes on Shakspeare, and subscribed them with Amner's name: this was a trick exactly suited to George's spirit of malignant fun. But as Amner survived this unkind attack, in an unhappy moment he committed suicide by publishing some theological crudities which have perhaps received more notice than they deserve. T. H. Horne thus belabours poor Amner: An Essay towards the Interpretation of the Prophecies of Daniel, &c., Lon., 1776: "The author adopts the exploded and untenable hypothesis of Grotius, (who has been followed by Le Clerc and others,) that all the prophecies of Daniel terminated in the persecution of the Jews by Antiochus Epiphanes. This work (which is noticed only to put the unwary reader on his guard against it) was reprinted in 1798, with some other tracts, tending to show that certain passages of Scripture, which clearly announce a future resurrection, relate to nothing more than a mere temporal deliverance. An exposure of some of this author's erroneous notions may be seen in the British Critic, O. S., vol. xiii. p. 290-295." "It is sometimes ingenious, but not successful."-ORME: Bibl. Bib. Amory, Thos., 1701-1774, an English Presbyterian minister of Arian sentiments, pub. a number of theolog. works, 1724-66. "He was much conversant with ethics, natural and experimental philosophy, and the best ancients, especially their moral writings." -Biog. Brit. Ferard, Treatise on the Law of Fixtures, Lon., 8vo; 2d Amos, Wm. Agricultural Works, Lon., 1794-1810. Amyand, C. Med. Con. to Phil. Trans., Lon., 1708-46. "A short but very pretty copy of verses to Drummond of Haw thornden."-H. WALPOLE. "The beautiful and sweetly plaintive sonnet referred to by Lord Orford, and the interesting letter which accompanied it, must be considered as ornamental to this or to any publication."-Purk's Walpole's R. & N. Authors. Ancram, Earl of. Description of some Improvements in the Arms and Accoutrements of Light Cavalry. Trans. Ed. R. Soc. N. 245., 1805. Anderson, Adam, 1692-1765, for forty years connected with the South Sea House, was author of the Historical and Chronological Deduction of Trade and Commerce. First ed. in 2 vols. fol., 1762; 2d ed. in 1764; 3d ed., vols. 4to; 4th vol. by a new hand, 1787-9; and 4 vols. 4to, 1801. and valuable a treasure of real knowledge, collected with indefatig Anderson, Alex., a native of Aberdeen, Prof. in the University of Paris. Supplementum Apollonii Redivivi, Paris, 1612, 4to; Supplemento, Paris, 1615, 4to. Ad Angularium Sectionum Analyticen Theoremata, &c., Paris, 1615, 4to; Vindiciae Archimedis, Paris, 1616, 4to. Exercitationum Mathematicarum, Dicas Prima, Paris, 1619, 4to. All these works are very scarce. Anderson, Alexander, M.D., d. 1813. Account of a Bituminous Lake or Plain in the Island of Trinidad; Phil. Trans., 1789. The State of some of the most valuable Plants in his Majesty's Botanic Garden in the Island of St. Vincent; Trans. of Soc. for the Encouragement of Arts and Manufactures, 1798, vol. xvi. The bread-fruit tree of Otaheite is described in this paper, for which he received the silver medal. Other papers, on Cinnamon, Clove-Plant, &c. Anderson, Ant. Theolog. works, Lon., 1573-81. Anderson, C., M.D. Works on Mineralogy, Lon., 1809-10. Anderson, Christopher, pastor of a Baptist church in Edinburgh from 1808 until a few months before his death, in 1851. 1. On the Services and Design of the Do2. His Amory, Thos., 1691-1789, a humorous writer, pub-mestic Constitution, 1826; last ed., 1847, 3vo. lished several curious works, Lon., 1755-56. He seems to have intended a portrait of himself in The Life and Opinions of John Buncle, Esq., 1756-66, 2 vols. "John Buncle is the English Rabelais. The soul of Francis Rabelais passed into John Amory, the author of the Life and Adventures of John Buncle. Both were physicians, and enemies of too much gravity. Their great business was to enjoy life. Rabelais in tulges his spirit of sensuality in wine, in dried neats' tongues, in Bologna sausages, in Botorgas. John Buncle shows the same symptoms of inordinate satisfaction in bread and butter. While Rabelais roared with Friar John and the monks, Joha Buncle gossiped with the ladies, &c. &c."-Hazlitt's Round Table, vol. i., p. 151. Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain, 1755. "We are thankful for the opportunity we have met with of forming an acquaintance with an author who is, at the same time, a deep scholar and a good gentleman."-Retrosp. Rev. vi. 100, which see. 2. Gems of Latin 4. Amos. Panasophia Prodromus, Lon., 1639. torical Sketches of the Ancient Native Irish, 1828; last ed., 1846, fp. 8vo. 3. The Annals of the English Bible, 1845, 2 vols. 8vo; 2d ed., with Historical Index, 1848, 2 vols. 8vo; 3d ed., 1855, 2 vols. 8vo. By far the best book on the subject. See Cotton's Editions of the Bible, &c., ed. to 1852, x., xi., 1, n., 39, n., &c. 4. Singular Introduction of the English Bible, 1849, 8vo. See Life and Letters of Rev. Christopher Anderson, by his Nephew, 1854, 8vo. Anderson, D. Fergus II., 1810. Acc. of Canada, 1814 Anderson, Sir Edmund, d. 1605, was Chief Justice of the Common Pleas in the reign of Elizabeth. Resolutions and Judgments in all the Cases and Matters agitated in all the Courts of Westminster, in the latter end of the reign of Q. Elizabeth, Lon., 1653. Reports des Principales Cases, &c., Lon., 1664. "He. by his indefatigable study, obtained great knowledge in the Municipal Laws. . . . In 1586 he sate in judgment on Mary Queen of Scots.... being then a learned Man of the Law."-Wood's Athen. Oxon. Anderson, G. M. Abbey of St. Denis, 1812. Anderson, Geo. Remonstrance against Lord Boling. broke's Philos. Religion, address. to Mallet, 1756. Anderson, Geo. Trans. of Arenarius, Lon., 1784. Anderson, Geo. On Grapes; Trans. Hort. Soc., 1817 Anderson, Henry. The Court Convert. Anderson, Henry. Poemata, Amst., 1637. Anderson, Henry. Serm. on Ps. lxxiii. 25, 1685. Anderson, Dr. Henry J., Prof. Mathematics, &c. Columbia Coll., N.Y., 1825-43. 1. Geology of Lieut. Lynch's Expedition to the Dead Sea. 2. Geological Reconnoissance of Part of the Holy Land, 1848; pub. by U. States Government. Anderson, J. S. 1. Addresses, Lon., 12mo. 2. Cloud of Witnesses: Discourses on Hebrews, 2 vols. 8vo. 3. Life of Moses, 12mo. 4. History of the Church and the Colonies, 2 vols. 8vo. 5. Memoir of Mrs. Chisholm, 12mo. 6. Sermons at Lincoln's Inn, Michaelmas, 1850, 8vo. 7. Sermons on Elijah and John the Baptist, 8vo. 8. Sermons on Various Subjects, 8vo. Selections from his Correspondence with General Wash. ington, in which the causes of the present scarcity are fully investigated, Lon., 1800. Anderson, Jas. Work on Yellow Fever, Edin., 1798. Anderson, Jas. Con. to Ann. of Med., 1799. Anderson, Jas. Chain Bridge, Queensferry, 1818. Anderson, Jas. 1. Ladies of the Covenant, Lon., 1851, 12mo. 2. Ladies of the Reformation, 2 vols. p. 4to, 1854-56. Anderson, John. Theolog. Works, Glasg., 1711-14. Anderson, John. Sound at Elsineur: the Duties, 1771. Anderson, John, M.D., 1726-1796, "an English physician, was professor of Natural Philosophy at Glasgow for 41 years. Five editions of his Institutes of Medicine (Glasg., 1786) were pub. during his lifetime." Mr.Biog. Univ. He also pub. Observations on Roman Antiquities discovered between the Frith and Clyde, Edin., 1800. See an amusing account in Boswell's Life of Johnson, of a tea-party at Glasgow, where Professors Reid and Anderson, Johnson and Boswell, and the Messieurs Foulis discussed their bohea together. Anderson, J. W. The manner pointed out in which the Common Prayer was read in private by the late Garrick, 1797. The incident which gave rise to this publication is no doubt known to many of our readers. See an excellent paper on the proper "reading of the Common Prayer," Spectator, No. 147. See CULB, RICHARD. Anderson, Jas. Ane godly Treatis calit the first and second Cumming of Christ, with the Tone of the Wintersnyeht, 1595, Edin., be Robt. Smith. Another ed. was printed at Edin. by Andro Hart. Anderson, Jas. A General History of the House of Yvery, Lon., 1742. Written principally by the first Earl of Egmont; privately printed; edited by J. Anderson. "Dear and covetable is the possession of a PERFECT COPY. It has long been accounted a crack article in the most finished collection. A perfect copy runs hard upon twenty guineas."-DIBDIN. Royal Genealogies, or the Genealog. Tables of Emperors, Kings, and Princes, from Adam to these times, folio, Lon., 1732. "The most useful and valuable work of the kind, and probably the most difficult and laborious one ever undertaken by author or printer."-Moule's Scottish Bibliotheca Heraldica. Anderson, John. Med. Works, Lon., 1787-95. Anderson, John. Account of a Mission to the East Coast of Sumatra in 1823, &c., Lon., 1826. "It was one great object of our author's mission to create a de sire among the people for British and Indian manufactures; and in this to a certain extent he seems to have succeeded. . . . Java and Sumatra have given birth to two very excellent books, every way worthy of them-the one on Java, by Sir Stamford Raffles; the other on Sumatra, by Mr. Marsden."-Quarterly Review. Anderson, John. Chronicles of the Kirk; or Scenes and Stories from the History of the Church of Scotland from the Earliest Period to the Second Reformation. "Its gracefulness and brevity give it much adaptation for its purpose."-British Quarterly Review. Anderson, M. Ten Discourses on Moses, Lon., 1834. Anderson, Patrick. Jesuit. Ground of the Catholic and Roman Religion in the word of God, 1623. Anderson, Patrick, M.D. The Colde Spring of Anderson, R. Rud. of Tamul Grammar, Lon., 1821. Anderson, Jas., 1662-1728, a distinguished antiquary, gained great credit by his Historical Essay showing that the Crown of Scotland is Imperial and Independent, in answer to Mr. Atwood, Edin., 1705. Atwood's book was burnt by the common hangman, whilst Anderson, surrounded by admiring high dignitaries, received the thanks of the Parliament of Scotland, delivered by the Lord Chancellor. So much for being on the right side! Moreover, Parliament encouraged the rejoicing champion of the "Imperial Crown" to undertake the publication of a col-nery, Lon. 1660-96. lection of the Ancient Charters of Scotland, with fac-similes of the seals of the Scottish Kings. £300, and afterwards £1050, (the latter it is said was never paid,) were voted to him for this purpose. This work, Selectus Diplomatum et Numismatum Scotia Thesaurus, &c., was not published until 1739, eleven years after the author's death. Thomas Carte-the laborious, faithful, ill-used Thomas Carte, whose devotion to his historical labours put even Dr. Mangey to the blush-writes in 1736: "They are printing on copper-plates Mr. Anderson's Collection of the Seals of the Kings of Scotland; the price is great, being six guineas."-Nichols's Literary Anecdotes. The plates were engraved by Strutt. "It is a work of extreme rarity and great value."--WATT. "A highly valuable and useful work. The introduction by Ruddiman was afterwards inadequately translated, and published with notes."-LOWNDES. Collections relating to the History of Mary, Queen of Scotland, Edin., 1727-28, 4 vols. 4to. A friend of mine once bought a copy out of sheets, and bound the work in black morocco, with blood-coloured insides! Such was his order to the binder; and poor George Faulkener was that binder."-DIBDIN. Anderson, Jas. The Constitution of Free Masons, &c., Lon., 1723. Discovery of their Ceremonies, Lon., 1725. Anderson, Jas. Sermons pub., Lon., 1714-20. Anderson, Jas., M.D. Med. Works, Lon. and Madras, 1788, &c. Anderson, Jas., LL.D., 1739-1808, published many works upon agriculture, Lon., 1771-1802. He was a practical, as well as theoretical, farmer, having 1300 acres under cultivation in Aberdeenshire. He qualified himself for usefulness by attending the chemical lectures of Dr. Cullen, whose friendship was of great advantage to him in his pursuit of general knowledge. In 1790 he commenced the pub. of The Bee, (1790-94, 18 vols.) consisting of Essays Philosophical and Miscellaneous. Dr. A. wrote those marked Senex, Timothy Hairbrain, Alcibiades, and many others without signatures. "Complete sets of this valuable periodical work, in which Dr. Anderson received material assistance from men of taste and learning, are of rare occurrence. It was printed on three papers, coarse, common, and fine."-LOWNDES. Anderson, Robt. Theolog. works, Lon., 1834-46. Anderson, Robt., M.D., 1751-1830, best known as the editor and biographer of the British poets, was educated at the University of Edinburgh, in which city he resided for the last forty years, devoted to literary pursuits. Life of Samuel Johnson, with Critical Observations on his Works, Lon., 1795. Life of Dr. Smollett, Edin., 1803. The Works of the British Poets; with Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, 1799, 13 vols. He edited the works of Dr. Moore. "He also made numerous contributions to various publications, but more through his fondness of literature than any love of money. His correspondence with literary men was extensive, by whom he was held in the greatest esteem, not more for his talents than the frankness of his temper, and the warmth of his heart." for a number of interesting letters between Bishop Percy See Nichols's Illustrations of Literary History, vol. vii., and Dr. Anderson. The correspondence was commenced by the Bishop as follows: "Your edition of the Poets of Great Britain does so much honour to their biographer and critic, that every friend to literature should assist his candid and ingenious labours; this, I hope, will serve as my apology for addressing a letter to you, without a more regular introduction." "To good old Anderson, the poets and literature of the country are deeply beholden."-Quarterly Review. The following notice of some of Walter Scott's early essays in literature will interest our readers: "Au ingenious friend here wished to avail himself of the oppor tunity to submit to your lordship's inspection one or two of his compositions in the style of the ancient Scottish ballad, in testimony for his high respect for your character, and of his gratitude to the editor of The Reliques,' upon which he formed his taste for ballad-thinking and expression. The name of my friend is Walter Scott, Esq."-Anderson to Percy. Anderson, Rufus, minister of Wenham, Mass. 2 Serm. on the Fast, 1802. Letters on Baptists, 1805. Anderson, Thos. Con. to Medical Com., 1774, &c. Anderson, W. Mercantile Correspond., 12mo, N. Y. Anderson, Walter, D.D., d. 1800, for fifty years minister of Chirnside, in Scotland. The History of France, 1769-75-83, Lon., 5 vols. 4to. "In that genius, that natural discernment, that knowledge of the world, which are so absolutely necessary to the historian, he is surprisingly defective."-New Cat. of L. English Authors. "A heavy compilation of very little value."-Rose's Biog. Dict. |