song to which we have already alluded-" The Wedding Bells," the music of which is exceedingly pretty. THE WEDDING BELLS. How sweet the music of those bells, They strike the charmed hour, Each note but seems to mourn, My childhood fondly knew, The journal must so well recommend itself, that we need not say another word in its favour. It has our best wishes for its success. AET. XIII.-Anthologia Sacra ; or Select Theological Extracts, on Subjects Doctrinal, Practical, &c. By the Rev. B. Gilpin, and W. H. Valpy, Esq. 1 vol. royal Svo. London Valpy. 1832. THE plan and execution of this work will, we are confident, recommend it to every British family, whether at home or abroad, who desire to possess the best possible description of the truths of the Christian religion, and the most eloquent counsels and exhortations to practise it. Selections are made from what may be called the modern fathers of the church, and are arranged under the three general heads of doctrinal, practical, and experimental. So that a reader who is interested in sifting any questions which may be referred to any of these categories, will have an opportunity of perusing the explanations and remarks which the most exalted genius, the deepest learning, and the most sincere piety could suggest. The selections are made in general with an impartial spirit. ART. XIV. History and Antiquities of the Cathedral Church of Hereford, illustrated by Engravtngs, &c. ByJ. Britton, F. S. A. 4to. London: Longman & Co. 1831. WE scarcely have taken up a publication of Mr. Britton's, for a long time, without encountering in the preface, a complaint either of the general neglect with which his works are treated, or of some illiberal conduct which he has met with in the course of his most valuable pursuits. We regret to say, that in the present instance a grievance of the latter sort has occurred, to put his good temper to the test. On application to the Dean of Hereford cathedral, for permission to survey the church and examine its archives, Mr. Britton expressed a hope that his reverence and the clergy would patronize an undertaking in which they were so deeply interested. The Dean, who, we suppose, had a very natural fear about him, as to the stability of his revenues, flatly told the antiquarian not to trouble himself about Hereford cathedral, for that he was quite sure (and no one could doubt his authority) that the publication which Mr. Britton had in view, so far from compensating him for his losses, would only plunge him still deeper into expense. The laity, however, of Hereford were roused to indignation, and they prevailed on Mr. Britton to prosecute his labours. The result is now before us, and we are happy to say, that neither the frowns of the Dean, nor his inhospitable and unkind treatment of the meritorious stranger, have in the slightest degree embarrassed the pen or the pencil of Mr. Britton-for his long drawn aisles, his pointed windows, and his matchless perspectives, preserve all the majesty and melancholy beauty of his former representations of cathedral structures. The history which he gives of the cathedral is as copious, as erudite, and as interesting as he usually makes this part of his illustrations. ART. XV.- Dictionary of Quotations from various Authors, Ancient and Modern. By Hugh Moore, Esq. London: Whittaker & Co. 1831. THIS dictionary is so much the more valuable than that published by Mr. Macdonnell, inasmuch as it includes, in a revised form, all the quotations which that gentleman had collected, together with a great many more that have been gathered by the labours of the author himself. The translations are, in every instance where we have tested them, perfectly correct; and the explanations which occasionally accompany them are necessary, and at all times useful but there is one omission in both dictionaries, which is, to our minds, so great an imperfection, that we wonder how it should have escaped two such practical men as Messrs. Macdonnell and Moore. The deficiency we speak of is, that of marks over the syllables, to de note their respective quantities. Mr. Moore may take it for granted, that whoever wants to know the English of a Latin word, will also be very much obliged by being told. how to pronounce it. ART. XVI.-On Indigestion and Costiveness, with Hints, &c. By Ed. Jukes, Surgeon. MR. JUKES deserves the esteem of his country for the valuable invention, which he claims, of the stomach pump. The nature of the volume before us, however important to the best interests of society, is still not exactly susceptible of a public explanation. But Mr. Jukes proposes a very simple remedy for a very serious class of complaints; he enforces his plan by the soundest arguments, and some coloured plates in the work, will very familiarly set before the eyes of his readers the anatomical process, by a knowledge of which he seeks to render his system of treatment intelligible to all. ART. XVII. Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the choice of Horses, &c. By Nimrod. 8vo. pp. 503. THIS work consists of a collection of papers which appeared in succession, a few years ago, in the Sporting Magazine. They exhibit a perfect acquaintance with the management of horses, in all their diversified employments-and that, too, as the result of long experience, the best teacher of science. The style is very lively, and sometimes very humourous; and to those who, condemned to the smoke of a city, have a yearning for country delights, this book would be a source of very great amusement. It abounds with pointed and welltold anecdotes; and, upon historical matters, it exhibits a very extensive acquaintance with learned works. ART. XVIII.—Popular Lectures on the Vertebrated Animals of the British Islands. 8vo. pp. 96. Birmingham Wrightson. 1831. THIS pamphlet contains the substance of a brief series of Lectures which were, at a recent period, delivered at a Mechanics' Institution in Birmingham. We have read the whole of these Lectures with the greatest pleasure; and we strongly recommend them to the perusal of those whom the curious science of animal physiology can in the slightest degree interest. We lament extremely to observe the desponding tone, in which the author speaks of the manner, in which his oral lectures were received. A man devoted to such sublime studies as he is engaged in, should be above the influence of such vicissitudes as those to which life is ordinarily subjected. lastly, of having given a degree of attraction to the science, which cannot fail to multiply the number of its votaries. This work, although very acceptable, and very well suited to the youthful mind, is still well worth the attention of all to whom the subject of Geology is still a novelty; for here they will find the elements of that most interesting branch of knowledge, developed in a manner that is calculated to encourage them to a further prosecution of its phenomena. plates by which the work is illustrated are numerous, and are executed in the most perfect style of modern engraving. Those who desire to combine in their new year's presents the valuable with the beautiful, will find it their interest to look after the very attractive work which we have now described. The ART.XX.-David, a Poem. Large 8vo. pp. 32. London: Longman and Co. 1831. THERE is in this poem one most meritorious quality, which we most earnestly hope will form a precedent for future bards of equal pretensions with the one before usto wit, the agreeable brevity of its dimensions. The plot of the metrical piece is founded on the scriptural account of the balmy effect of the music of David's harp on the heart of Saul, when it so chanced that the "evil spirit from God was upon Saul." In disdaining the trammels of rhyme, and in carrying out his meaning over an extensive surface of hexameter verses, the author has shewn a very decided preference for the manner of Milton. But in every other respect, the attempt of the modern bard to resemble his most illustrious prede cessor is not attended with that success which either he himself would desire, or we should wish him to attain. Most heartily do we hope, that in these verses, some portion of the community may find a source of amusement, or, peradventure, of intellectual profit; for to us, we must candidly declare, the book is a sealed volume, just as novel to our senses and to our apprehension, as the retrograde periods of the Hebrew style. ART. XXI.-The Biblical Annual; containing a Fourfold Fourfold Translation of the Book of Ecclesiastes, with Notes. 12mo. pp. 93. London: Hamilton. 1832. WE really cannot divine the meaning of the author, either in publishing this small volume, or in giving it the name which he has placed in his title-page. It con sists of translations of the Book of Ecclesiastes in four forms of English style; the one being the common version, the other an interpretation from the Hebrew; and the third and fourth being translations from the Greek and Latin; all, however, being versions very nearly alike, of the same original passages. If piety be the motive which has led to the compilation of this work, we readily forgive the editor; but sincerely do we pray, that literary zeal may in future be directed by a judgment more experienced than he seems to possess. which has been anonymously flung into the market, with a view, we suppose, of trying how far such periodicals would succeed amongst us. It is destitute of those luxuries of the graphic art, that constitute the chief attractions of those yearly works which now abound in this country, its only pretence to attraction on the score of illustration, being a frontispiece of rather indifThe letter-press, ferent merit. however, in some respects compensates for this deficiency; for as a source of varied and highly attractive amusement, the Chameleon yields to no annual publication of the time. Poetry and prose mingle in pleasing diversity in this work; and from the serious to the gay, the reader is transferred with a skill of arrangement, which materially contributes to his pleasure. ART. XXIII.-The Family Topographer, being a compendious Account of the antient and present State of the Counties of England. Vol. I. Home Circuit. By Samuel Tymms. 12mo. pp. 224. London: Nichols. 1832. THE plan of topographical description which is developed in this volume, appears to us to answer all the objects for which such a description can be intended; at the same time that it is compiled in strict reference to the homely but useful principles of economy. The author successively describes the situation and extent of each county-its ancient state-its interesting remains -present condition and history. A list of the natives is next given, who, by their talents, their virtues, or their crimes, have conferred on their names an honourable or an ignominious distinction. The counties included in the home circuit L form the subject of illustration in the present volume; and the art of compression which the author possesses, has enabled him to comprehend, in a very small compass, a very interesting quantity of valu able and agreeable information. We sincerely hope that such an amount of encouragement will be bestowed on this work, as to stimulate the proprietors to an uninterrupted continuation of the numbers. MISCELLANEOUS Honey. In a Treatise on Bees, recently published by a Scotch gentleman, it is calculated, that the pasture of Scotland would maintain as many bees as would produce on the average 4,000,000 pints of honey, and 1,000,000 lbs. of wax. Three times the amount of each, he considers to be no unreasonable estimate of what the three United Kingdoms would yield. Taking the price of honey at 5s. the pint, and the wax at 1s. 6d., the income arising from the industry of bees alone in this country, would amount to more than three millions and a half sterling per annum. The March of Newspapers.-A newspaper has just been started in Turkey, under the immediate sanction of the Sublime Porte. journal is divided into two sections; one of which is to contain the official intelligence, the other is to be devoted to articles of a miscellaneous nature, comprehending the whole circle of Arts and Sciences. The name of the editor,rather an inconvenient one, we confess, for one that has to carry on a large correspondence, is Sheckzade Esseid Mehmed Essaud Effendi. Contagion. Whilst the cholera is said to rage in Sunderland, Wales is the seat of typhus fever, and Sussex of the small pox. Ship's Bottoms.-The great problem which puzzled the mind of the first chemical philosopher of modern times, namely, a suitable covering of metal for ship's bot INTELLIGENCE. toms, has at length been solved. Zinc is the metal employed. Sheets of it are steeped in tallow, in which a small portion of verdigris is mixed. It has been found, by practical experiment, that no adhesions of sea-weed, shells &c. take place on the outside of the sheeting. The Taret.-Mr. Brunel, the engineer of the Thames Tunnel, lately informed the Royal Academy of Sciences in Paris, that the machine called the Shield, employed by him for boring, was first suggested to his mind by the examination of the small insect the Taret, which carries on its head a sort of shield, that enables it to resist the action of the waves, and to perforate large sticks of timber under the water. Durham College.-The Bishop and Dean and Chapter of Durham, are about to found a College in some part of that diocese, for the education of youth, and especially of those destined for the church. Appalling truth.-It has been clearly proved before committees of the House of Commons, that young women in Ireland run about, or remain shivering in the most wretched hovels, in a state of absolute nudity: and that the inhabitants of whole districts have been driven by want, to the sea side, where they may gather weeds, and to the fields, where they may collect manure and garbage, to obtain a temporary, but disgusting respite from the torments of starvation. New Hot Bed.-At a late meet |