Third, and are made well acquainted with his son, the Black Prince, in a domestic way; in which, we must confess, that he appears very amiable. We are presented with a brilliant tournament, in which, John of France, and David of Scotland, are quite at home at Windsor, and appear very respectable characters. The greatest fault we have to mention, is, that the story ends unhappily, when it might as well end happily as not. But there is no accounting for the variety of tastes, or for the caprice that will prevail in works of fancy. This performance dispatches to their long homes all the characters one cares any thing about. Upon the whole, however, this little work is prettily executed; and not to be meanly appretiated amongst the fraternity to which it belongs.

MISCELLANEOUS.

ART. 26.—Introduction to the Memoirs of Prince Eugene of Savoy. To which are added, Notes, Historical, Biographical, Military, &c. London, Colburn, 1811, 8vo.

WE exhibited, in an Appendix of our last series, a copious account of the French edition of the memoirs of Prince Eugene of Savoy, when they had but just begun to be known in this country.

Many particulars relative to the family of Prince Eugene, to his friends or enemies, are collected in the present pamphlet, which may therefore serve as an amusing appendix to the English translation of the memoirs of the prince.

ART. 27.-School Virgil; whereby Boys may acquire Ideas as well as Words, Masters be saved the necessity of any Explanation, and the Latin Language obtained in the shortest time. By Robert John Thornton, M. D. Member of the University of Cambridge, and of the Royal College of Physicians, &c. London, Rivington, 1812, 8s. pp. 623.

WE have seldom met with a school-book, which contains a greater diversity of matter than the present. The editor, anxious to provide for a variety of tastes, has made an assemblage of the gay and the serious, the light and the solemn, the amorous and the devout. The ingenious doctor may almost say, with Juvenal, Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira voluptas Gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.

ART. 28.—Narrative of a Passage from the Island of Cape Breton across the Atlantic Ocean, with other interesting Occurrences, in a Letter to a Friend. By John Luce. London, Forsyth, 1812, 8vo. 2s. 6d.

Mr. LUCE has, in this pamphlet, exhibited an account of one of those extraordinary and hair-breadth escapes, which tend strongly to impress the minds of those who experience, and those who read them, with solemn notions of a superintending provi-, dence. We shall not mention any of the introductory nor more

extraneous parts of Mr. Luce's narrative; but shall give a brief sketch of the distresses he experienced and the perilous situation from which he was finally rescued. Mr. Luce sailed in a schooner from Arichat, Cape Breton, for Europe, on the 4th of December, 1799. On the 10th, this small vessel was overtaken by a storm. The sea rose to an uncommon height. The masts were brought into the water, and the vessel soon became filled with that ele ment, and was prevented from sinking only by her cargo cơnsisting principally of casks of oil. Mr. Luce and Mr. Briard were the only persons on deck, when the ship was thrown on her beam ends. In about three quarters of an hour, the main-mast broke in the deck and the fore about four feet above, which, caused the vessel to recover her equilibrium. Of the seven persons who were below, five now started up through the companion and sky-light;' but the other two men were drowned in the cabin. The five who escaped, had found means to keep their heads above water whilst the vessel was on her beam ends. Mr. Luce and his six surviving companions were now, in the depth of winter, floating on the wide Atlantic, seven hundred miles from land, in a vessel full of water, and kept from sinking only by her cargo of oil. They had no place whereon to lie down, and none upon which to sit, except the tafrail.' They saved some of the ropes, with which they barricaded the decks, and secured themselves, by ropes to the tafrail,' from being washed off the deck into the sea. When they had protected the decks 'fore and aft with ropes, they made an attempt to rid the vessel of water by means which Mr. Luce suggested to his fellow-sufferers, though, he says, with small hopes of success. Their success, however, in some measure, exceeded their expectations. Their satisfaction was inexpressibly great when they first perceived that the water was lowered, as it proved the hull was not hurt. Hope now inspired fresh vigour, and they redoubled their exertions. Soon after this, a vessel appeared in the haze at a distance. It proved to be an American ship on her way to Boston, the captain of which endeavoured to prevail on Mr. Luce not to venture any farther in his frail bark; but Mr. L. thinking, that as her hull was entire, he could yet take her safe into port, refused to listen to the friendly suggestions of the American captain. But his crew, though they had previously promised to remain, now determined to quit the wreck; and all, with the exception of Mr. Briard, the master, went on board the American. Mr. Luce was therefore left in this deplorable situation to make his way to Europe with only one associate of his perils and his toils. The water was still above the cabin-floor. On examining their stock of provisions, they found three hogsheads of water, two four pound pieces of pork, besides a joint of fresh beef,' but plenty of salted and pickled fish, which they were, for some time, obliged to eat raw, till they had found means of kindling a fire. They worked hard at the pump, and

cleared the vessel of water. They at last were fortunate enough to discover some flints and steels, and, what they little expected, a magnetic needle, amongst the rubbish on the bottom of the cabin floor. On the 12th, they had the pleasure of obtaining a light. They could now kindle a fire to dress their fish, and in other respects felt a great change in their situation. When the fifteenth sun rose,' says Mr. Luce, we had the pleasure to see the bowsprit securely fixed as a jury-mast, and a sail hoisted on it.' Each revolving day brought on now the same thing to do, to steer, to fetch water from the hold, to dress our fish, aud tend our sail, employed the whole of the day. On the 26th of January, or forty-one days since they were upset,' they descried the joyful sight of land. This proved to be the Dursey island. Two Irish boats came along side with twelve men in each. They towed the vessel for some time, but, as the night set in, the author says, that they got entangled between the rocks and the island, and a storm seemed coming on. No intreaties could prevail on the crews in the boats to remain longer with the vessel. Mr. Luce and his companion were landed on the Dursey island. Our author and his faithful associate in adversity experienced a very humane reception at this place.

The words addressed to me,' says Mr. Luce, by one of the boatmen, on my entering the house, have often come to my recollection; they were word for word as follows:-" This being Sunday, we were going to church when we first saw your vessel; judging, by her appearance, that some one might be in distress, we left the church and repaired to our boats. I hope we have done as meritorious an act before God as if we had attended our devotions.'"

We suppose, that these men were Catholics, but whether Ca tholic or Protestant, they showed, that they were not deficient in the true spirit of Christianity.

ART. 29.-On the Education of Daughters: translated from the French of Abbé Fenelon, afterwards Archbishop of Cambray. London, Darton, 1812, price 2s. 6d.

THE translator of the present volume presents it to the public with some diffidence, as she has rendered it almost literally into English Her excuse for so doing, is, that she was so much struck with its usefulness and the beauty of its style in the original, that she was unwilling to change the French idiom for the English. We must beg leave to dissent from the translator in this point, as, if her version had been more animated, the work would have been more agreeable to the English reader. Fenélon is well known for his judicious opinions on education; and the translator has some claim to our thanks for publishing this useful tract at the moderate price of half-a-crown.

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