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Review Of New Publications .
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
A Vie-xo of Hindoostan . 2 -vols . 4 / 0 . zl . 12 s . 6 d . boards . White . MR . PENNANT , the author of the work before us , has been some time occupied in preparing a work , which he has entitled ' Outlines of the Globe . ' It w . ts his intention not to have suffered the appearance of any part of the work before his death , but the intercession of friends , impatient of delay , prevailed upon him to retract his resolution , and oblige their wishes
with the ' View of Hindoostan , ' forming the fourteenth and fifteenth volumes of the great undertaking . The work is a compilation from the best geographers and travellers ; these , however , are enlarged upon by many communications of considerable value . Kouli Khan , a bold adventurer , annexed the provinces of Sind to the Persian Empire , and the Indies consequently became the western boundary of Hindoostan . The eastern streams of the Sind come from the neighbourhood of Little Thibet , _ where the Ganges rises , and these rivers include what may be called the Peninsula of Hindoostan , in extent 1400 miles from north to south .
Mr . Pennant has been indefatigable in his researches , and made a valuable collection of" every thing relative to the topography , the commerce , the customs and manners of the natives of " Hindoostan . The naturalist will rind ample pleasure in the perusal of these volumes , the historian will be gratified m reading the different accounts of places once conspicuous for particular scenes of action ; and the traveller , who has frequented this part of the world , will , no doubt , trace the paths which he has trodden with great delight . — Amusement
is combined with information all the way through , and the whole is calculated to enlarge the mind . . Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in behalfof'Women . % vo . 6 s . boards . Johnson . [ CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 192 . ] Of the abilities of the sexes a parallel is drawn in the first classes of society .
_ ' Queens may , at all events , be fairly stated against Kings , and I believe will lose little by the comparison . For of thousands of Kings who have reigned , how few have come down to posterity with credit of any sort , in Propoition to their number 1 whereas , of the few females who have , been permitted to wield the sceptre , most of them , nay , nearly all of them , have made themselves remarkable , in a degree that would have signalized men precisely in the same situation , and under the same circumstances ; otherwise ie
« argument falls to the ground . ' p . 3 6 . A general comparison is made in page 40 . ' Female excellence in common lite is , above all , open to the decisions of comu . on sense and daily observab ° n ; it is not , perhaps , therefore , the less likely to be judged without pre Jiuhce . I wish , then , that my readers , of all denominations , would look around the circle of their acquaintance , and examine , and recoiled ! in their 0 "' ii minds , the characters and conduct of the individuals of both sexes , who VOL . XI , yy
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Review Of New Publications .
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS .
A Vie-xo of Hindoostan . 2 -vols . 4 / 0 . zl . 12 s . 6 d . boards . White . MR . PENNANT , the author of the work before us , has been some time occupied in preparing a work , which he has entitled ' Outlines of the Globe . ' It w . ts his intention not to have suffered the appearance of any part of the work before his death , but the intercession of friends , impatient of delay , prevailed upon him to retract his resolution , and oblige their wishes
with the ' View of Hindoostan , ' forming the fourteenth and fifteenth volumes of the great undertaking . The work is a compilation from the best geographers and travellers ; these , however , are enlarged upon by many communications of considerable value . Kouli Khan , a bold adventurer , annexed the provinces of Sind to the Persian Empire , and the Indies consequently became the western boundary of Hindoostan . The eastern streams of the Sind come from the neighbourhood of Little Thibet , _ where the Ganges rises , and these rivers include what may be called the Peninsula of Hindoostan , in extent 1400 miles from north to south .
Mr . Pennant has been indefatigable in his researches , and made a valuable collection of" every thing relative to the topography , the commerce , the customs and manners of the natives of " Hindoostan . The naturalist will rind ample pleasure in the perusal of these volumes , the historian will be gratified m reading the different accounts of places once conspicuous for particular scenes of action ; and the traveller , who has frequented this part of the world , will , no doubt , trace the paths which he has trodden with great delight . — Amusement
is combined with information all the way through , and the whole is calculated to enlarge the mind . . Appeal to the Men of Great Britain in behalfof'Women . % vo . 6 s . boards . Johnson . [ CONCLUDED FROM PAGE 192 . ] Of the abilities of the sexes a parallel is drawn in the first classes of society .
_ ' Queens may , at all events , be fairly stated against Kings , and I believe will lose little by the comparison . For of thousands of Kings who have reigned , how few have come down to posterity with credit of any sort , in Propoition to their number 1 whereas , of the few females who have , been permitted to wield the sceptre , most of them , nay , nearly all of them , have made themselves remarkable , in a degree that would have signalized men precisely in the same situation , and under the same circumstances ; otherwise ie
« argument falls to the ground . ' p . 3 6 . A general comparison is made in page 40 . ' Female excellence in common lite is , above all , open to the decisions of comu . on sense and daily observab ° n ; it is not , perhaps , therefore , the less likely to be judged without pre Jiuhce . I wish , then , that my readers , of all denominations , would look around the circle of their acquaintance , and examine , and recoiled ! in their 0 "' ii minds , the characters and conduct of the individuals of both sexes , who VOL . XI , yy