new. NORWAY. Views of Wild Scenery: and Journal. By EDWARD PRICE, Esq. 4to. pp. 90.-There is a character about these landscapes at once striking and Their aspect is not only widely different from the sunny climes of the south of Europe, from which our painters have lately derived so many subjects, but they surpass in dreary grandeur the wildest scenes of our own Scottish highlands. Their principal features are the giant cloud-capped mountain, clothed with bristling firs, and enveloped in eternal mists; the rushing cataract, and the gloomy forest; rocky vallies, and watery plains, dark with brooding tempests. Such is Norway; a country composed of alternate fi-elds, or mountain ranges; and fi-ords, which are inland gulphs, or marine lakes. The views are twentyone in number, executed in mezzotinto, and their artistic effects are exceedingly beautiful. They clothe a barren clime in robes of velvet, studded with sparkling diamonds. A lively and interesting journal of Mr. Price's tour is included in the volume. The Brutal Husband, by Richter, is a capital print recently published. A sturdy cobbler is being baited by two female viragos; whilst his injured Nell is displaying at once her corporal injuries, and her personal beauty, to a gloating old Justice, whose wrinkled wife is grievously scandalized at her indelicacy, not without manifest symptoms of jealousy. Some grinning neighbours fill up the back-ground. STAINED GLASS. In the course of the past month the Eastern window of Trinity Church, Coventry, has been enriched with a beautiful window of stained glass, which for beauty of design and splendid colouring, is not to be excelled by any work of a like nature in the kingdom. The upper compartments comprise a series of armorial bearings, consisting of the Royal Arms, and those of the Diocese, the Bishop (Dr. Ryder), the Arms of the City, and those of the Archdeacon (Rev. W. Spooner), the Vicar of the Church (Rev. W. F. Hook), the Rectorial Arms, and those of the Recorder of the City (Earl Craven). In the centre of the window is an emblem of the Holy Trinity, and the apex is terminated by a Dove. The lower divisions of the window, consisting of six compartments, are filled alternately with rich Mosaic patterns of elaborate workmanship; the whole vieing, in richness and mellowness of colouring, with the finest specimens of ancient stained glass, and reflecting the highest credit on the taste and talents of Mr. David Evans of Shrewsbury, by whom it was designed and executed. The window was raised by a subscription, assisted by donations from the Vicar of the parish and his personal friends. H. P. THE LOUVRE GALLERY. According to the new Catalogue of the Gallery of Paintings at the Louvre, it contains 1,358 pictures of the French, Flemish, German, Italian, and Spanish schools. Of these there are 352 of the French school, by 82 masters; 525 of the Flemish school, by 155 masters, and 481 of the Italian and Spanish schools, by 228 masters. Of the French school there are seven paintings by David, 22 by Lebrun, 46 by Lesueur, 16 by Claude Lorraine, 10 by Mignard, 39 by Poussin, and 31 by Joseph Vernet. Of the Flemish and Dutch schools there are 18 by Philip de Champagne, two by Vandyck, 10 by Hans Holbein, seven by Jordaens, 17 by Rembrandt, 43 by Rubens, 14 by Teniers, and 14 by Wouvermans. Of the Italian and Spanish schools there are 20 by Albano, one by Michael Angelo, 32 by the Caracchis, 3 by Corregio, 14 by Domenichino, one by Guerchino, 22 by Guido, six by Julio Romano, 10 by Leonardo da Vinci, 12 by Paul Veronese, two by Primaticia, 15 by Raphael, five by Salvator Rosa, six by Tintoretto, and 22 by Titian. Seventy-three pictures have been changed this year. ROME. Great exertions are at present being made, with a view of restoring somewhat of her ancient splendour to the city of Rome. The interests of the Fine Arts, as well as of Archæology, are engaged in this undertaking. The great Basilica of St. Paolo is, it is said, to be restored by Luigi Poleti, while the excavations of Monte Catillo, at Tivoli, will be carried on under the direction of the Chevalier Clement Golchi. At the same time it is in contemplation to cut away a portion of Monte Pincio, in order to render the approaches to Rome more pleasant. Four colossal statues from the chisels of Guaccherini, Baini, Laboureur, and Sthocchi, are destined for the interior of the Basilica of St. Paolo, and one of equal size has been ordered by the Pope from the Chevalier Fabris, for the purpose of being placed in the Church of St. Francesco di Paolo. The same artist is also commissioned to restore the tomb of Tasso, and the mausoleum raised in honour of Pope Leo XII. Tenerani, who lately finished the monument of the Marquis of Northampton, is engaged upon a statute of Alphonso Liguori, which is destined for the interior of the Basilica of the Vatican. Professor Rinaldini, who has just completed a Psyché and a Pucelle d'Orleans, which have won for him "golden opinions," is engaged on a monument in memory of the Count di Cini, to be placed in the Church of Giesu Maria. The Chevalier Sola, the Director of the Spanish Academy established at Rome, is at present engaged in casting a bronze bust of the immortal Cervantes-Silvagni is reviving the famous fresco in the Church of San Gregorio-M. de Kessel has given the finishing touch to a colossal group representing an episode of the Deluge and lastly, Signor Cornelius, the director of the Academy of Monaco, has completed an extensive series of cartoons of the Last Judgment. The whole of these works will remain in Rome. ETON COLLEGE. Mr. Bridge, of Ludgate-hill, has received orders from His Majesty for a splendid ornamental piece of plate, representing an exact model of the Chapel of Eton College, with the arms of Henry the Sixth, the founder, and " H. R." on one side, and the present Royal Arms, with " W. R." on the other. This superb present is intended for the College, and will be given to the Provost and Fellows by His Majesty, with the express desire that it may be used every year at the Eton anniversary dinner in London. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. New Works announced for Publication. A second volume of Mr. SHARON TURNER'S Sacred History of the World. A Review of the Chandos Peerage Case, adjudicated 1803, and of the Pretensions of Sir Samuel Egerton Brydges, Bart. to designate himself, per legem terræ, Baron Chandos of Sudeley. By G. F. BELTZ, Esq. Lancaster Herald. A volume of Sermons. By the Rev. T. ARNOLD, D.D. The Autobiography of a Dissenting Minister. Madame Pichler's tale of the "Siege of Vienna." (Library of Romance.) The fifteenth and concluding volume of Mrs. BRAY'S Historical Novels, being the completion of The Talba. The Country Town, forming the fifth number of the series of Treatises on Domestic Economy. By the Rev. CHAS. B. TAYLER. Lives of the Poets, from Chaucer to Coleridge. By ALLAN CUNNINGHAM. The volumes will appear periodically, illustrated with portraits. A Translation of Andrienne's Narrative of a Captivity in the Fortress of Spielberg. By Mr. Roscoe. History of Evesham, its Benedictine Monastery, Conventual Church, existing Edifices, Municipal Institutions, &c. By GEORGE MAY. Archery and Archness. By ROBIN HOOD. The Domestic and Financial Condition of Great Britain, preceded by a brief Sketch of her Foreign Policy, and of the Statistics and Politics of France, Russia, Austria, and Prussia. By G. BROWNING. Sir WILLIAM GELL'S work on the Topography of Rome. Portraiture of Belgium and Holland. By PRYSE L. GORDON, esq. author of a Guide to Italy, &c. A new volume of Poems. By Mr. WORDSWORTH. Researches on Diseases of the Brain, &c. By J. ABERCROMBIE, M.D. F. R. S. E. Cases of Tic Douloureux, and other forms of Neuralgia. By J. SCOTT, Esq. A Treatise on Physical Optics: in which 300 Phenomena are stated and explained, on the Principles of Gravitation, &c. &c. Domesday Book for Warwickshire, with a Translation, by WILLIAM READER, of Coventry. Observations on the Preservation of Hearing, and on the choice, use, and abuse of Ear-Trumpets, &c. By J. H. CURTIS, esq. The Christian Keepsake, and Missionary Annual. By the Rev. W. ELLIS. Fisher's Drawing-room Scrap Book for 1835, with Poems. By L. E. L. Heath's Picturesque Annual. Friendship's Offering for 1835. The Comic Offering. By Miss SHE RIDAN. The Van Diemen's Land Annual and Guide, for 1834. Mr. KLAUER KLATTOWSKY has the following works in the press-The German Prose Reader, No. 1. containing "Undine"-The German Dramatic Reader, No. 1. containing Kotzebue's comedy, "Die deutschen Kleinstädter"-The German Dramatic Reader, No. II. containing Werner's tragedy, "Der 24ste Februar The German Poetic Reader, No. 1. containing " Lyricks"-with explanatory notes, and a translation of the most diflicult words and phrases. A New Edition of BENT'S London Catalogue of Books, from the Year 1810 to December 183 elusive. BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE PROMO TION OF SCIENCE. thanks, eloquently dwelt on the advantages that must result from the union of the minds of Europe. The fourth Annual Meeting of this Association commenced at Edinburgh on After dinner the meeting was formally Saturday, Sept. 8. The President of the commenced in the Assembly Rooms, meeting was Sir Thomas Brisbane; the which its proprietors had fitted up with Vice Presidents, Sir David Brewster and great taste, and placed at the disposal of the Rev. Dr. Robinson, Astronomer- the Association. There were present in Royal of Armagh: the Secretaries, J. the rooms about twelve hundred members Robison, Sec. R. S. Ed. and Professor and four hundred ladies. A little after Forbes. The following were the Sec- eight o'clock Professor Sedgwick came tions into which the business was divided: forward and addressed the meeting, ex-1. Mathematics and Physics; 2. Che- patiating on the advantages of an associamistry and Mineralogy; 3. Geography tion of this nature. Distinguished men and Geology; 4. Anatomy and Me- from various parts of the continent and dicine; 5. Natural History; and, 6. of this kingdom, were congregated here, Statistics. The great hall of the Uni- who would mutually enjoy each other's versity Library was thrown open every conversation. This was one advantage morning at ten A. M. as the general ren- of philosophic unions; but there were dezvous of the members; and the differ- many other circumstances which pointed ent sections met simultaneously at eleven out the use of that Association. What in the class-rooms of the University. The was man alone? He could not be evening meetings were held at eight said to have power over even brute o'clock in the Assembly Rooms, George matter; but, when associated with his Street, when the subsidiary rooms were fellow-creatures, he gained power as he devoted to lectures, and the exhibition of gained knowledge. This was the great experiments, models, &c. The tickets good which arose from association, for issued to the members gave them access there was a power derived from concento all the principal public institutions of 'tration quite different from that which Edinburgh. A committee had been sitting a man possessed when acting by himself. during the preceding week; and as the It was said the greatest philosophic disinhabitants applied, and distant members coveries had been achieved in private; arrived, they were enrolled in the list of but it would be found that the sparks the Association. In this manner, at which kindled them originated from four o'clock on Saturday 455 names were mingling with the world, and having inon the books, including such distin- tercourse with men of kindred spirits. guished foreigners as Professor Arago, These associations were said to be danof the French Institute, Professor Moll, gerous in their tendency, but he denied of Utrecht, Dr. Jacobson, Dr. Vlastas, that the investigation of truth could ever from Greece, M. de la Rive, of Geneva, be injurious to mankind: this was a libel MM. Andifreddie, Berardi, and others. on the God of nature, because it would The enrolment of members proceeded all merely establish and bring out that which the early part of Monday, and at half-past was true, and instead of impugning any of five ordinaries were opened at the Hope- the grander truths, rather corroborate toun Rooms and Fadeuilhe's Café. At them in the end. Before concluding, he the former about 350 persons sat down made some complimentary remarks on the to dinner. Mr. Sedgwick, the Presi- fame which Edinburgh had always enjoyed dent of last year, was in the chair, Sir as a seat of learning and science; and T. Brisbane, the President elect, on his then begged to resign into the hands of left, Lord Greenock on his right, and one who had been placed at the head of Arago, Dalton, Murchison, Buckland, science in this city,-who had kindled up Daubeny, and other men of eminence, near around. After dinner Mr. Sedgwick informed the company that it had been agreed to omit speech-making at these repasts; he, however, proposed "the King," as a toast, which was drunk with volunteer applause. He then gave "Prosperity to the British Association," and dwelt upon the benefits to science which he anticipated from its continuance and efforts. His third and last toast was a very proper compliment to M. Arago, the Astronomer-Royal of France; who, in returning GENT. MAG. VOL. II. Among other instances which merely marked the valuable scientific results which sprang out of meetings like this, the Professor noticed the observations on Aurora Borealis which had been made since the last meeting, in consequence of the discussion of the subject. A fine arc, which appeared this autumn, had been observed by several members in different parts, and its altitude ascertained to be above forty miles. This, he thought, settled the long-disputed question. 3 G the light of science at the antipodes, and who had fought the battles of his country. Sir Thomas Brisbane then took the chair, and briefly addressed the meeting. Mr. Robison, one of the Secretaries, gave an account of the arrangements which had been made for the accommodation of the members, and the general order of the business of the week; and Professor Forbes gave an outline of the different subjects under discussion, mentioning the names of the individuals by whom the reports in their respective departments were drawn up. The follow ing abstract of his address, will serve as a proper introduction to the proceedings of the sections. "The character of the Association, (he said.) may be considered as unique. It is not to be confounded with those numerous and flourishing institutions which have sprung up, especially of late years, for the simple diffusion of scientific truths. Such diffusion does not, properly speaking, include any attempt at extension or accumulation; and has sometimes had the opposite tendency. A greater display may indeed be attained, and a more commodious application to the useful and the elegant purposes of life; but for actual increase of the stock which may hereafter be fashioned with ease and expedition by the hands of a thousand artificers, we must recur to the miner toiling in his solitary nook, and to the labourer who painfully extracts some precious grains from the bed of the torrent. "The migratory Scientific Associations of Germany and Switzerland—to which we gratefully acknowledge that our British one owes its rise- embrace only one class of the objects to which we have alluded as characterising this body. Their aim was simply to promote the intercourse of scientific men, and to diffuse a taste for the prosecution of science. Such was proposed to be the character of the body this day assembled--an imitation of the foreign meetings having been suggested by some individuals engaged in scientific pursuits, amongst whom Sir D. Brewster was conspicuous; but for the original idea, and the much more signal merit of bringing that idea to bear, of establishing a permanent Society -of which these annual re-unions should simply be the meetings, but which should, during the intervals of these public assemblies (whilst to the eye of the world apparently torpid and inactive,) be giving an impulse to every part of the scientific system, maturing scientific enterprise, and directing the labours requisite for discovery for this we are indebted to the almost single-handed exertions of Mr. William Vernon Harcourt. Το turn from the professions to the acts of the Association, we shall find gratifying proof that these sanguine anticipations were not chimerical. The second volume of Reports has amply justified the expectations with which it was hailed; and whilst the first was chiefly occupied with reports upon great and leading divisions of science, we have here several happy specimens of a still greater division of labour, by the discussion within moderate limits of some particular provinces. Thus Mr. Taylor has treated of one particular and most interesting question in geology -the formation of mineral veins. On the connection between metalliferous veins and terrestrial magnetism we have a report by Mr. Christie, including the very interesting direct observations of Mr. Fox of Falmouth. Mr. Christie's theory of the diurnal variation of the needle is likewise intimately connected with the actual constitution of our globe. Natural History forms a more prominent subject in this volume than in the last; though the reports of Professor Lindley "on the principal questions at present debated in the Philosophy of Botany," and of Dr. Charles Henry "on the Philosophy of the Nervous System," refer only to particular departments of widely extended subjects, which are again to be resumed in more general reports, undertaken for the present meeting,-that by Mr. Bentham, on Systematic Botany, and by Dr. Clarke, of Cambridge, on Physiology in general. One of the points for inquiry, particu larly insisted on by Professor Lindley, that of the influence of the chemical nature of soils, and of the excretions of plants, was taken up at an early period of the existence of the Association, by one of its most zealous supporters, Dr. Daubeny, and in reference to the review by Dr. Henry, of the labours of European physiologists, we may quote, as a national honour, the discoveries of our distinguished associate, Sir Charles Bell. Two distinct reports on the theory and practice of Hydraulics, have been drawn up with remarkable perspicuity, and within a small compass, by Mr. Challis and Mr. Rennie; both these gentlemen promising to continue their valuable labours,-Mr. Rennie, on that part of his subject which relates to the motion of fluids in open channels, and Mr. Challis, on the theory of Sound, and the intimate constitution of liquids. When, in addition to these reports, we shall have received that undertaken by Mr. Whe well upon the mathematical theory of Magnetism, Electricity, and Heat, we shall undoubtedly possess the most complete outline extant, of a department of knowledge entirely of recent date. In the science of Hydraulics, indeed, some progress in theory has accompanied the increase of practical information, at least since the time of Newton; but in the other strictly practical report of the present volume, that of Mr. Barlow, on the very interesting subject of the strength of materials, little or nothing has been done of much theoretical importance since the days of Galileo; and the Association may claim some credit for having brought into general notice the ingenious investigations of Mr. Hodgkinson of Manchester. One report, and that the longest which has ever been printed by the Association, remains to be mentioned,-it is by Mr. Peacock, on the present state of Mathematics. When we consider the vast extent of the subject, and the extremely limited number of persons, even in the whole of Europe, capable of undertaking it, we must consider the production of a work of so much labour as the present, which as yet is incomplete, but which the author has promised to resume, as the best trophy to which we can refer in proof of the entire efficiency of the Asso ciation. "Were these Annual Reports the only fruits of the labours of this Society, there would be no reason to complain. But yet more specific results of its impulsive action on science may be quoted. The questions suggested by the reporters, and others recommended for investigation, have met with ready attention from several individuals capable of satisfactorily treating them. Professor Airy has himself investigated, from direct observation, the mass of Jupiter, suggested as a desideratum in his report on Astronomy. Hourly observations of the thermometer in the south of England have, in two instances, been commenced; and we are assured that the same desirable object is about to be attained by the zeal of the Committee in India, where the Association has established a flourishing colony. A series of the best observations, conducted for ascertaining the law which regulates the fall of rain at different heights, has been undertaken at the suggestion of the Physical Section, by Messrs. Philip and Gray, of York, which have been ably discussed by the former gentleman, in last year's Report, and have since been continued. "A regular system of auroral observation, extending from the Shetland Isles to the Land's-end, has been established under the superintendence of a Special Committee, and specimens of the results have been published. Observations on the supposed influence of the aurora on the magnetic needle, have likewise been pursued in consequence of this proceeding. The conditions of terrestrial magnetism in Ireland have been experimentally investigated by Professor Lloyd. An important inquiry into the law of Isomorphism has been undertaken by a Special Committee, which has likewise reported progress; and an elaborate synopsis of the whole Fossil Organic Remains found in Britain is in progress, under the hands of Professor Phillips. Many specific inquiries are besides going forward, under particular individuals, to whom they were confided; whilst it is not to be doubted that numberless persons, many of them perhaps new to the world of science, are at this moment pursuing investigations recommended in general terms in one or other of the publications of the Society. To others the Association has not scrupled to commit a portion of the funds at the disposal, for the purpose of pursuing objects which required an outlay which might be deemed unreasonable by individuals. Among the most important of these is the collection of the Numerical Constants of Nature and Art, which are of perpetual recurrence in physical inquiries, and which have been confided to the superintendence of Mr. Babbage. When objects of still more peculiar national importance presented themselves, the Association has fulfilled its pledge, of stimulating Government to the aid of science. Five hundred pounds have been advanced by the Lords of the Treasury towards the reduction of the Greenwich Observations, at the instance of the Association; and more recently the observations recommended by the Committee on Tides have been undertaken by order of the Lords of the Admiralty, at above 500 stations on the coast of Britain. Individuals, as we have said, have been stimulated by the influence of the Association; but so may nations and great bodies of men. Its published Proceedings have found their way into every quarter, and are tending to produce corresponding efforts in distant lands. Our reports on science have produced some very interesting counterparts in the literary town of Geneva; and America has taken the lead in several departments of experiment recommended by the Association. The formation of a Statistical Section at Cambridge was the prelude to the establishment of a flourishing Society, which acknowledges itself the offspring of this Institution, and which promises, by a |