emir, besides a more modern history, anonymous. Of the
Ottoman History I know every event, from Tangralopi, and
afterwards Othman I., to the peace of Passarowitz, in
1718,--the battle of Cutzka, in 1739, and the treaty between
Russia and Turkey in 1790.

"_Russia._--Tooke's Life of Catherine II., Voltaire's Czar
Peter.

"_Sweden._--Voltaire's Charles XII., also Norberg's Charles
XII.--in my opinion the best of the two.--A translation of
Schiller's Thirty Years' War, which contains the exploits of
Gustavus Adolphus, besides Harte's Life of the same Prince.
I have somewhere, too, read an account of Gustavus Vasa, the
deliverer of Sweden, but do not remember the author's name.

"_Prussia._--I have seen, at least, twenty Lives of
Frederick II., the only prince worth recording in Prussian
annals. Gillies, his own Works, and Thiebault,--none very
amusing. The last is paltry, but circumstantial.

"_Denmark_--I know little of. Of Norway I understand the
natural history, but not the chronological.

"_Germany._--I have read long histories of the house of
Suabia, Wenceslaus, and, at length, Rodolph of Hapsburgh and
his _thick-lipped_ Austrian descendants.

"_Switzerland._--Ah! William Tell, and the battle of
Morgarten, where Burgundy was slain.

"_Italy._--Davila, Guicciardini, the Guelphs and
Ghibellines, the battle of Pavia, Massaniello, the
revolutions of Naples, &c. &c.

"_Hindostan_--Orme and Cambridge.

"_America._--Robertson, Andrews' American War.

"_Africa_--merely from travels, as Mungo Park, Bruce.

"BIOGRAPHY.

"Robertson's Charles V.--Caesar, Sallust (Catiline and
Jugurtha), Lives of Marlborough and Eugene, Tekeli, Bonnard,
Buonaparte, all the British Poets, both by Johnson and
Anderson, Rousseau's Confessions, Life of Cromwell, British
Plutarch, British Nepos, Campbell's Lives of the Admirals,
Charles XII., Czar Peter, Catherine II., Henry Lord Kaimes,
Marmontel, Teignmouth's Sir William Jones, Life of Newton,
Belisaire, with thousands not to be detailed.

"LAW.

"Blackstone, Montesquieu.

"PHILOSOPHY.

"Paley, Locke, Bacon, Hume, Berkeley, Drummond, Beattie, and
Bolingbroke. Hobbes I detest.

"GEOGRAPHY.

"Strabo, Cellarius, Adams, Pinkerton, and Guthrie.