THE

ECLECTIC MAGAZINE

OF

FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

JANUARY TO APRIL, 1847.

W. H. BIDWELL, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED AT 120 NASSAU STREET.
1847,

S. W. BENEDICT,

Ster. & Print., 16 Spruce St., N. Y.

INDEX TO THE ECLECTIC MAGAZINE.-VOL. X.
FROM JANUARY TO APRIL, 1847.

517

Milnes, R. Monckton, Dublin University Mag., 218
Marquis of Montrose and the Covenanters,-
Quarterly Review,

Metternich, Prince,- Howitt's Journal,
Manners, Lord John,-Fraser's Magazine,
Man of Impulse,-People's Journal.

564

564

POETRY Hope for All-Honor to the Plough, 137; Il Penseroso and L'Allegro-Evening Time Oh, Steal not thou my Faith away, 138; Family Picture, 139; St. Mary Magdalene The Strife and the Repose, 283; A Woman's Shortcomings "Where shall I turn to forget, and be at Peace?" Woman's Morn, Noon, and Evening, 284; Beauteous Night-Thought and Deed, 426; Truth is at the Bottom of a Well-Alone-Give me thy. Hand, 427; Oh, to be Young-The Angel-Watch, or the Sisters, 428; The Children-The Dead Maiden, 570.

Quinet's Vacations in Spain, Westminster
Review,

R.

Revolution of 1688 and William IIL, British
Quarterly Review,
Rosicrucian, the, a Tale of Cologne,—Dublin
University Magazine,

59

145

389

MISCELLANY: Opening of Runic Barrows in Sweden,--Preaching to Deaf and Dúmb,-Liberality of Louis Philippe, 78; British View of American Education-Vital Statistics of Europe, 140; National Debt and Finances of Mexico-Lord Eardly -Economy, 141; Death of a Russian Navigator Anecdote of the First Lord Holland-Thunder and Justice-Anecdote of George the FirstValuable Invention, New Life-Boat-Hot and Cold Blast-Iron-Death of Michelet, 142; Death of the Swedish Poet Tegner-Establishment of an English Journal in Rome-Angling-Wellington and Father Mathew-New Work by KohlThe Poet Freiligrath-Scraps from Punch, 143; Recent English Publications-Memorial of the battle of Flodden Field, 144; An Irish College Examination, 170; Welsh Triads, 182; Tricks on Travellers, 187; Wife and Children of Thomas Hood, 229; Statistics of Bookselling-North British Review, 252; The Little Match Girl, 285, Intemperance of Great Men-The Contributors to "Punch"-The Father of the French BarMeditations of the "Old Duke," 286; Poles in Siberia-Samuel Warren, Author of "Ten Thousand a Year"-Miss Martineau-The Poet Moore -Influence of Railroads on the Weather, 287; Monument to Shakspeare-Joseph BonaparteCleopatra's Needle--British Literary Intelligence, 288; A Learned Turk-Statue to Mrs. Siddons, 356; A Lively Little Wife, 375; A Young Savant -a Characteristic Note-a Tribute to a Poet, 385; Anecdote of Sydney Smith, 400; the Late Thomas Hood, 429; The Human Skin-General Tom Thumb at Court, 430; Characters of the English, Scotch and Irish, 431; Railroad Mania in Germany-Literary Sycophancy, 432; Too much Anxiety-Effect of Light upon Health, 472; Rubens and Vandyke, 563; Rembrandt, 569 Eugene Sue and the Unknown-Rogers and Thiers, Adolphe,-Dublin University Magazine, 104

Chantrey, The Bard and the Sculptor-Titian-
Peel and Byron at School, 571; Queen Victoria
and Thomas Campbell-Alexander Dumas
Lord Erskine's fondness for punning-Low Birth
-Milton's House in London--Anecdote of Sir
Henry Fanshawe, 572.

P.

S.

Schlosser's History of the Eighteenth Cen-
tury, Eclectic Review,

Spain, Vacations in,-Westminster Review,
Serialist, advice to an intending,-Blackwood,
Spanish Marriages,-Blackwood,
Stuarts in Italy,- Quarterly Review,
Schiller's Joan of Arc,-English Review,
Sidney, Sir Philip, and Hubert Languet,
English Quarterly Review,

T.

38

59

65

171

197

357

503

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THE

ECLECTIC MAGAZINE He was born in Constantinople and FOREIGN LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART.

till a vey interesting Ston

JANUARY, 1847.

From the London Quarterly Review.

CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY.

Socratis Scholastici Ecclesiastica Historia Libri septem ex recensione Henrici Valesii.
Oxonii. 1845.

pire. Many circumstances on which we
most desire information must be deduced
rather from hints and allusions than from
distinct statements, and we often have to
pick from the venerable rebukes of the an-
cient pulpit orator and scriptural commen-
tator, or from petty prohibitions in the
Imperial Code, what we cannot collect from
historians, who are either too concise, like
Socrates, or too verbose and unphilosophi-
cal, like Eusebius.

WE are indebted to the University press of are aware of that domestic training and
Oxford for the reprint of this important character of her citizens which hastened
contribution to ecclesiastical history. Soc- the ruin of the Eastern Church and Em-
rates is justly entitled to high estimation.
Pursuing the narrative from the period with
which Eusebius had closed, he especially
applies himself to the varied fortunes of
the Church of Constantinople. In that
city he had been born and educated, and
subsequently followed the legal profession,
and was thus peculiarly qualified to record
the events of which the capital had been
the scene.
It is not, however, our purpose
to touch, in this article, on his ecclesiastical
details, but to avail ourselves of detached
facts which he presents in illustration of the
domestic condition of the seat of the east-
ern empire. We do not wish to encroach
on the province of the historian, whether
secular or religious, but to present our
readers with some sketches of the private
life of Constantinople, such as it was in the
first century of their capital and the fourth
of the Christian era. That city abounds in
matter of the deepest interest to all who
speculate in the history of man; but few
VOL. X. No. I.

1

The foundation of Byzantium is assigned to the third year of the 30th Olympiad, 657, B.C. Megara and Argos had the good fortune to share in the work, and long received all filial reverence from their illustrious colony. It subsequently fell into the hands of Darius, the Ionians, and Xerxes, and reclaimed its dubious freedom or dependence by the siege sustained from But Pausanias and the Lacedæmonians. perhaps he rendered a more important service by the increased population which he