"_Turkey._--I have read Knolles, Sir Paul Rycaut, and Prince Cantemir, 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.--Cæsar, 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. "POETRY. "All the British Classics as before detailed, with most of the living poets, Scott, Southey, &c.--Some French, in the original, of which the Cid is my favourite.--Little Italian.--Greek and Latin without number;--these last I shall give up in future.--I have translated a good deal from both languages, verse as well as prose. "ELOQUENCE.