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We confefs our deficiency in rural knowledge, when we are affured that it is a general, and not a provincial, name, for the wicker frame or basket, under which the parent fowl is ufually confined, to prevent her from leading her young brood too far from home. So delufive are books, that no dictionary, even profeffedly on family affairs, nor the very copious vocabulary of Dr. Afh, nor the provincial Gloffaries of Grofe, have noticed this word; for the interpretation of which, the learned must go to the poultry yard. A Correfpondent informs us, that the "Outlines of English Hiftory" (fee p. 81) were written by Mrs. not Mifs Rowfe; and that the price is 3s. 6d. To another lady, from whom we have received an ex. planatory Letter, we will fay, without naming her again in public, that we are truly concerned, if we can be thought to have treated her with any degree of harfhnefs. We have been used to meet with civility, and certainly always mean to pay it, particularly to Ladies. LITERARY LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. Our Readers will learn, as we ourfelves do, with par ticular fatisfaction, that Dr. Charles Burney is proceeding with his new Metrical Divifion of the Choral Odes of Eschylus, and not lefs pleased to know that he has made confiderable progrefs in an Abridgment of Bishop Pearfon's excellent work on the Creed for the Ufe of the upper Forms in Schools. The Rev. T. F. Dibdin has almoft completed an Englif variorum edition of Sir Thomas More's Utopia.-The first English edition of this work, in 1555, is very little known, but it will form the basis of the prefent work, whieh will alfo contain notes, illuftrative of the manners and fentiments of the Times. It will be printed by Bulmer, in two volumes octavo, and there will also be a fmall impression in one quarto volume. 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"Le blâme qui ne paffe point les termes de l'equité, decille les yeux de l'Homme que l'amour propre lui avoit fermé, et lui. faiffant voir en quoi il s'eloigne de la fin qu'il s'etoit propofée, ou des moyens qu'il a dû employer pour y parvenir, le fait revenir de fes égaremens, lui redonne le courage, et le remet en état de réaffir." BAILLET, Tom. 1. p. 30. ART. I. The prefent State of Turkey, or a Defcription of the Political, Civil, and Religious Conftitution, Government and Laws, of the Ottoman Empire; the Finances, Military and Naval Eftablishments; the State of Learning, and of the liberal and mechanical Arts; the Manners and domeftic Economy of the Turks, and other Subjects of the Grand Signor, Sc. &c. Together with the Geographical, Political, and Civil State of the Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia From Obfer vations made, during a Refidence of Fifteen Years in Conftantinople and the Turkish Provinces, by Thomas Thornton, Efq. 4to. 468 pp. Price 11. 1s. Mawman, 1897, X b WHILE fome writers defcribe the modern Turks as a people degenerate, and widely different from that va- : liant race of warriors who planted an Afiatic nation of Muffulmans in one of the fairest territories of Christendom; : and while others affirm, that they are the fame in habits and opinions, and capable of as great exertions as their ancestors, wanting only proper chiefs; the remarks of fo refpectable and well-inforined an author as Mr. Thornton must be peR culiarly' BRIT. CRIT, VOL, XXXI, MARCH, 1808, culiarly acceptable at this moment, when the Ottoman Empire in Europe appears furrounded with dangers, and tottering on the verge of diffolution: prefenting a melancholy contraft to its former fplendid and triumphant ftate, which (two hundred years ago) induced that excellent historian, Knolles, to exclaim: "If you confider its beginning, progrefs, and uninterrupted fuccefs, there is nothing in the world more admirable and strange; if the greatness and luftre thereof, nothing more magnificent and glorious; if the power and ftrength thereof, nothing more dreadful or dangerous: which, wondering at nothing but the beauty of itfelf, and drunk with the pleafant wine of perpetual felicity, holdeth all the rest of the world in fcorn."> A refidence of more than fifteen years at Conftantinople, and at Odeffa, on the Black Sea, frequent excurfions to the Turkish provinces on the Afiatic Coaft, and the islands of the Archipelago, a knowledge of the language, and a familiar acquaintance with the foreign minifters and their interpreters at the Porte, muft have furnished Mr. T. with fuch opportunities for original obfervation, as rarely fall to the lot of travellers who vifit the Levant: and that he has not fuffered many of thofe opportunities to escape him, we are inclined to believe, as the volume before us contains a body of information that feems the refult of diligent research, and befpeaks its author to be perfectly converfant not only with his immediate fubject, but with mankind in general. It proves alfo, that he relied not altogether on his own perfonal inquiries, but examined with minute, and indeed critical attention fuch works of preceding writers as could yield inftruction or fuggeft remark. On fome of thofe productions he has beflowed due praife of many, he expofes and corrects the errors, and reprobates the wilful mis-ftatementą of facts. "I have not fought controverfy," (fays Mr. Thornton, preface, p. xii.) but I felt it my duty not to avoid it; and I fhall acknowledge the propriety of reproof only when it is demonftrated that any remark could be omitted without injury to truth. My perfonal acquaintance with feveral of the modern travellers has neither feduced me into undeserved praife, nor provoked me into bitterness."' This work is divided into nine chapters; the first of which exhibits a general view of the manners, arts, and government of the Turks. Their natural character feems to be compofed of contradictory qualities; of bravery and pufillanimity. activity |