rity, the value would have been incalculable, in forming the habits of youth, and teaching them, with the splendours of ancient eloquence, the tone and action which, history informs us, produced such powerful impressions on their auditors. FINE ARTS. Illustrations of Kenilworth. In seven prints, from designs by Leslie, engraved by Heath, Scott, Engleheart, Romney, and Rolls. Evo 16s. 4to. 11. 4s. India paper 11. 10s. the immediate vicinity of "buildings and palaces" that gardening is desirable. The author justly considers that among other blessings which this delightful branch of agriculture has bestowed on the city of London, may be reckoned "that of its being a preventive of pestilence and the plague, from the circumstance of its making cleanliness a matter of profit in this immense metropolis; from whence the soil is so carefully removed to manure the ground occupied by gardeners in the environs, which are now calculated to exceed six thousand acres within twelve miles of London, that are con The Rabbit on the Wall, engraved stantly cultivated for the supply of the markets from Wilkie, by John Burnet. 14. 1s. proofs 31. 3s. with fruits and vegetables." The author's account of the introduction of A Voyage round Great Britain. By different fruits into this country, and of the W. Daniel, A.R.A. Vol. V. royal 4to. 28 coloured plates. 71. 10s. GEOGRAPHY. An Essay on the Geography of North Western Africa. By T. Edward Bowdich, Esq. In this essay Mr. Bowdich shews much learning joined to his topographical research. He has proved himself in possession of so much industry and penetration, that it is only fair to give him credit for all the corresponding qualities necessary for a traveller and negotiator. HISTORY. A History of Madeira, with 27 coloured engravings. Imperial 8vo. 21. 2s. Malay Annals: translated from the Malay language. By the late Dr. J. Leyden, with an Introduction by Sir T. 8vo. S. Raffles, F R.S. 10s. 6d. HORTICULTURE. Pomarium Britannicum; an Historical and Botanical Account of Fruits known in Great Britain. By Henry Phillips. 8vo. This interesting work has peculiar claims on the attention of the public, not only from the agreeable nature of its subject, but also as being the first attempt in our language to treat that subject historically. It has been justly ob served by Lord Bacon, that "a garden is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handy-works." The same profound and elegant writer observes, that "a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection." To this perfection, we trust, we are rapidly arriving in this country. Such an interesting work as this before us, is admirably calculated to turn the attention of the rich, and direct the ingenuity of the refined, to a pursuit so favourable to health and tranquillity, so beneficial to the labouring classes, and so ornamental to the country in general, as the cultivation of garden-ground, on whatever scale it may suit the convenience of the parties concerned in it to adopt. It is more peculiarly in varieties into which they have been extended by subsequent ingenuity and cultivation, particularly the apple, will be found extremely interesting; as are also his remarks on the affinities and antipathies of certain trees and plants for each other. It is well known that the ancients believed in the existence of sympathy between plants, and that they therefore planted rue near their fig-trees, which was said to make the fruit sweeter; and that the rue not only grew more luxuriantly, but more bitter, by being thus neighboured by the fig-tree. Mr. Phillips accounts for this and other instances of a similar nature, on the simplest principles; observing, that as trees and plants will naturally draw juices from the earth most congenial to their nature, the rue may exhaust the earth of those properties suitable for the nourishment of bitter plants, and leave the fig-tree to thrive from a soil which the former has qualified by consuming the particles of the earth that are pernicious to sweet fruits. Of the fig itself we are informed that its cultivation is greatly im proved in this country of late years, though the relish for it is as yet confined only to the refined palates of the higher orders of society. At Tarring, near Worthing, there is an orchard of fig-trees, where the fruit grows on standard trees, and ripens as well as in any part of Spain. These trees are so regularly productive as to form the principal support of a large family. Although the orchard does not exceed three quarters of an acre, it contains upwards of 100 trees, from which the proprietor gathers about 100 dozen per day during the season, estimating each tree to produce him about 20 dozen. We could make many interesting and curious extracts from this volume, did our limits permit; but as that is not the case, we can only remark, that the general reader may resort to it for amusement, the horticulturist for much valuable instruction, and the housewife for many agreeable additions to her receipts, under the heads of preserves and made wines. JURISPRUDENCE. Hammond's Digest of Chancery Reports. 2 vols. royal 8vo. 11. 18s. Hancock on the Laws of Pestilence. 8vo. 8s. MEDICINE, SURGERY, &c. A Statement of Facts tending to establish an Estimate of the true Value and present State of Vaccination. By Sir Gilbert Blane, Bart. pp. 18. Sir Gilbert Blane observes, that although Englishmen have so much reason to be proud of the inestimable discovery of the Cow-Pox, yet so besotted have they hitherto been, that they have known neither how to appreciate it, nor how to avail themselves of it. In almost every country it has been received with more gratitude. In Peru it was instantly adopted, in consequence of a flash of conviction from the light of evidence, which conviction was fully justified by the immediate disappearance of the Small-Pox from the whole region. Essays on Hypochondriasis, and other Nervous Affections. By John Reid, M.D. We are glad to see this elegant writer again before the public. His work has received in this edition many valuable augmentations. The observance of human nature is an inexhaustible subject to a reflective mind; and where that observance is combined, as it is in this production, with both scientific and metaphysical research, the result must be every way interesting. Medical topics are seldom attractive to the general reader, because they are seldom discussed by those who are equally skilled in the functions and properties of both mind and matter, and their relative effects on each other. Physicians are not always philosophers, and philosophers are seldom physicians. Dr. Reid affords a happy instance of the union of both characters. His Essay on the "Power of Volition" is full of that wisdom which is applicable to the purposes of common life; that on "Excessive Study" well deserves attention in the present day, when reading appears to be resorted to, rather for excessive excitement, than to nourish reflection; and that on "Intemperance" ought to be read with earnest consideration by all who are addicted to seeking excitement of a grosser nature. The whole work is indeed well worthy the attention of the reflective and the unhappy-to both these the deep tone of thought and feeling which it breathes, will render it singularly interesting; while the elegance of its language, the justness of its images, and the curious nature of many of the anecdotes by which its theories are illustrated, cannot fail to make it equally pleasing to those who read merely to gratify their taste, or amuse their imagination. A Familiar Treatise on Disorders of the Stomach and Bowels, Bilious and Nervous affections, with an attempt to correct the most prevalent errors in Diet, Exercise, &c. Being an exposition of the most approved means for the improvement and preservation of health; also a refutation of the arguments urged by Sir Richard Phillips against the use of animal food, &c. By George Shopman, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. MISCELLANEOUS. Remarks on a Bill now before Parlia ment to amend the General Laws for regulating Turnpike Roads, &c. &c. By Benjamin Wingrave, General Surveyor of the Bath Turnpike Roads. 1s. 6d. The author of this pamphlet deprecates the proposition of abolishing weighing-engines, as a means of regulating the tolls of heavy carriages, aud proportioning them to the number of horses instead; justly observing that it is holding out a premium to avarice and cruelty to overload the cattle, and removing the fairest test that can possibly be given of the degree of pressure on a road, and consequently of the quota that ought to be paid towards its maintenance by waggons, and other ponderous vehicles of that description. He likewise refutes the idea which has lately been advocated, that roads can ever be made permanently good, without a solid foundation being laid for them; shews the inconvenience resulting from having recourse To statute labour towards keeping them in repair, and altogether suggests a variety of important hints on the subject of his pamphlet, evidently the result of much experience, and accurate observation. Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline, and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders. 2s. The subject of this report is one of the most interesting that can occur in civilized society, and it is discussed in these pages with equal humanity and judgment. The situation of hapless orphans, exposed by the pressure of want to the almost irresistible temptations of vice, is feelingly pointed out; and a most salutary asylum for these unfortunate objects recommended in the Temporary Refuge. The advantageous effects arising from a proper introduction of hard labour, rigidly enforced, in the reformation of individuals, and the suppression of crime in general, are clearly manifested, and the blessed and salutáry exertions of the visiting societies in different parts of the kingdom, particularly the female ones, in reclaiming the abandoned, and comforting the afflicted, are set forth in the terms of admiration and gratitude they deserve. The exertions of Mrs. Tatnall, the wife of the gaoler at Warwick, to which the excellent internal management of that gaol is chiefly attributable, are mentioned with the warmest approbation. It is delightful to see other countries imitating the example set them by England in her humane and charitable institutions. At p. 127, an affecting account is given of the establishment of ladies' committees, in Russia, for the purpose of visiting the prisons; and at Geneva, New York, Paris, and many other places, we rejoice to find the public attention turned towards that truly Christian duty, as important in a political as in a moral point of view, "to convert a sinner from the error of his ways, and save a soul from death." Residents and Non-Residents; an Essay on the Elective Franchise. By Arthur Kelly, Esq. This is an exceedingly dispassionate and well-written Essay, treating chiefly on the original and common-law right, in residents, and grounding its statements and reasoning on actually existing documents. The author looks upon the expenses granted to out-voters, as one of the strongest holds of corruption; and exposes, in a forcible, yet temperate manner, the abuses that have arisen in modern times from the innovations made in the ancient doctrine of residence. 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By John Davy, M.D. F.R.S. Volume V. in Two Parts, of the Personal Narrative of M. de Humboldt's Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent. Translated by Helen Maria Williams. 11. 4s. NOVELS, ROMANCES, &c. Rambles of My Uncle. 12mo. 3s. 6d. A very poor imitation of Sterne, as out of date in its fashion as it is uninteresting in its execution. Letters from Wetzlar, written in 1817, developing the authentic particulars in which the Sorrows of Werter are founded. By Major James Bell. There is certainly abundance of truth in the remark of Schlegel, that "we live in a critical and enquiring, but by no means an imaginative age." The happy days are passed when poets and romance-writers might rove in the fields of fancy, unchecked by the vulgar limits of geography and chronology; presenting at one view the manners and characters of far different ages, bringing together islands and continents which nature had intended to remain for ever separate, and dazzling the eyes of their delighted auditors by that blaze of genius which allowed no time for cooler criticism to find out any discrepance in its rays. Thanks to the labours of modern critics, and to the pressure of modern times and cares of real life, we have nearly done with fiction, in the present day. We hear, indeed, continually of works of fiction, but, by a strange sort of anomaly, only such of them are sought after with any avidity, as profess, or are imagined to be connected with matter of fact. A novel, however just in its general delineations, however beautiful in its descriptions, or affecting in its sentiments, will be read without interest, or rather not read at all, so long as it has only its merit as a composition to recommend it. But let the most paltry work be published, with a judicious insinuation that it cannot be understood without a key, and lo! how eagerly the key is sought for! how im patiently applied, to open the casket which is supposed to contain the precious treasures of private scandal and individual caricature! Nor is this passion for reality confined to those minor productions, wherein it may be supposed to be fed by the amiable hope of finding subjects of censure in the conduct of those around or above us; its deadening influence hangs like a millstone round the neck of works of far loftier description. Even the author of the "Tales of my Landlord" is not excused his share of tribute at the shrine cf probability-his most beautiful and touching passages are overlooked to remark on some much more admired, though less admirable, proof of the accuracy of his general statements, and the fidelity of his portraits; and when any trifling incorrectness, in a chronological or topographical point of view, does accidentally occur in his powerful writings, he is immediately corrected and set to rights by some grave gentleman or other, among his million readers, who quote time and place, and assign reasons for their wise conjectures, with as much solemnity as if they were quoting precedents, or drawing up legal instru ments. In thus confounding the province of the novelist with that of the historian, it ap. pears to us that we gain no more by the melange, than we should by exchanging the fine originals of our most admired masters for the curious mosaics of some patient monk. The merit of a work of fiction is neither in its imitation of past, nor in its connexion with present times; but in its power of touching the human heart by its delineations of human nature in its general features, and delighting the imagination by pictures of the sublime and beautiful. We should scarcely thank the modern tourist who would tell us wherein Mrs. Radcliffe's route across the Pyrennees, in "The Mysteries of Udolpho," which has charmed so many youthful fancies, may be incorrect; nor do we ever find a key wanting to unlock our risible muscles, when we read the novels of Smollett or Fielding, although we are ignorant who might be meant by the principal performers in their ever-interesting delineations of life. We have been led into these reflections by the perusal of "Letters from Wetzlar," wherein are developed several well-authenticated particulars relative to certain facts, on which it appears the celebrated novel of "The Sorrows of Werter" is founded. These particulars will be found interesting to persons who are disposed to like those fictions the best which have least fiction in them; though, for ourselves, we deem it a matter of exultation to think that we have en joyed all the luxury of woe, in the sympathy excited by the impassioned feelings and disastrous fate of Werter, long before we were called on to make up our idea of him from the "two single gentlemen rolled into one," who, we find, supplied to Goethe the model of his hero. These two were the author himself, and a young man of the name of Jerusalem, with whom similarity of pursuit brought him accidentally acquainted. The information which the present work affords, was obtained by Major Bell, during a residence of several months on the spot; and he communicates it in a style equally pleasing and unassuming. The Hermit's Cave. By Zara Went worth. 4 vols. 17. Fears and Cares. By E. D. 3 vols. 16s. 6d. Abelhamar: an Eastern Tale H. Donovan. 2vo. 4s. VOL. III. NO. IX. Carr. 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