on education. This most efficient agent, active as it has been, has hitherto been limited in its operations, and biassed or checked in its progress. Men have been educated. Man should be so-and this he cannot properly be, till all the powers and attributes with which he is entrusted, are clearly understood, judiciously brought into action, and thus made subservient to this great purpose. A solid basis for general education, founded upon such principles as shall tend to the moral, the intellectual, and the religious improvement of man, can alone ensure to society that long-desired condition under which individual liberty shall be equalized, and the sacred law of order inviolably maintained.'

The Mechanics of Law-making. By Arthur Symonds, Esq. Lond. 8vo. pp. 400. If we are desirous of finding a comparison for a verbose, encumbered, tautologous composition, we liken it to an Act of Parliament. Ought this to be a true comparison? Ought the law to adopt a style which in an ordinary composition would be denounced as full of sins against the proprieties of language? Ought the rule of every man's conduct to be concealed in a perplexed labyrinth of words, the mazes of which can be but doubtfully threaded even by professional persons? Ought it not rather to resemble a clear, pure stream, the very bottom of which may be seen by every one? Mr. Symonds's object is to simplify the phraseology of the Statute Law, and his volume contains a scheme for bringing about this very desirable end. We cannot follow him through his details, which are entirely practical, but we recommend his work to the serious consideration of all persons who are in any way concerned in the mystery of Law making. Some of his proposed machinery is probably liable to objection; but as a whole, his book is calculated to be eminently useful.

favours which Nature affords to her admirers even in the most ungenial situations.

Little Fables for Little Folks, is a pretty little book, illustrated with very well-executed cuts. The fables are selected from the old stock, and related in familiar language, suitable to the infantine reader.

Account of the Labourer's Friend Society for bettering the condition of the Labouring Classes, particularly in allotting to them small portions of land, established at Wallington in Surrey, in the month of July 1835. By Nicholas Carlisle, Esq, F.R.S. &c. &c.-This is an exposé of the plans of the above Society, whose governing motive evidently is that of rendering the agricultural labourer at once industrious and independent. When men can be stimulated by the exercise of their own resources to become economists of their time, to desert the village alehouse for the cultivation of their small allotment of land, held at a fair but not onerous rent, an essential national benefit is conferred.

The husbandman is no longer the villein or slave of the soil, according to the obsolete terms of feudal bondage; he becomes a shareholder in the great aggregate of agricultural produce; he has a personal interest in all those better ties which unite the body politic, which make men good neighbours, moral and religious characters, and loyal subjects. The rules of this Society seem admirably calculated to secure its benevolent purposes from abuse, and we can conscientiously recommend them to the attention of those public-spirited persons who may desire to establish similar institutions in other districts. Indeed we hope that the day is not distant when we shall see them adopted throughout the land.

An Inquiry into the origin of Copyhold Tenure. By George Beaumont, Esq. 8vo, pp. 72.-Upon arriving at the conclusion of this Inquiry, we could not help exclaiming, almost involuntarily, "What can Mr. Beaumont mean?" Fortunately we turned the page, and found an Appendix, at the commencement of which we were told that his "doctrine" is "that manors were originally the districts of a certain extent occupied by the subject Romans and Britons, who chose, or were permitted to reside in a Saxon kingdom in the enjoyment of their possessions, but subject to a land-tax." Now, if any reader, emulating our heroic perseverance, should actually peruse the "In

quiry," but happen to miss the Appendix, we defy him to explain what the book is about. In this respect it is a literary curiosity; and as we have no doubt the author intended it to be, it is an admirable satire upon those antiquarian writers who mystify their subjects by a palpable obscurity of style. There is something very happy in the idea of writing a long "Inquiry," which nobody can understand, and adding an Appendix to tell the poor bewildered reader what the author meant. Mr. Beaumont intimates, that if any one should ask "of what service his Inquiry will prove?" it will be well to delay making any reply until "the origin of all the ruling decisions in abstruse points of copyhold law shall have been satisfactorily proved to be correctly stated in our Text Books and Reports ;" and when that correctness has been proved, Mr. Beaumont wittily adds, "In that case I should answer that there was no utility in this inquiry." This is admirable. We quite agree with Mr. Beaumont.

The French Language its own Teacher, Part 2, by René Aliva, appears to be a useful school-book; the grammatical explanations of the reading lessons are very good. It contains a new system of French conjugations.

Rapin's Life of Alfred the Great, translated into French, with a vocabulary and dictionary of genders, by N. Lambert, is a good reading book for beginners.

We recommend The Essentials of French Grammar, by the Rev. J. Macgowan, to the pocket of the student; it contains much in a small space.

Private Thoughts on Religion, &c. By Bp. Beveridge. Edited by Rev. H. Stebbing. (Sacred Classics.)-There is no name more venerable among those who have adorned the doctrines of the Church of England, by the sanctity of their lives, or explained and enforced them by their learning and eloquence, than that of Bp. Beveridge. This treatise, one of the most interesting among the Bishop's works, has therefore been judiciously selected for publication, and a very good practical Introduction of the Editor has conferred an additional value on it.

The Life of the Rev. David Brainerd, Missionary to the North American Indians. By Rev. J. Pratt.-A very interesting and most instructive little volume, which was highly valued by Henry Mar

tyn and by all who have perused it with attentive and pious minds. It appears that in 1823 there were 471,417 North American Indians, from the eastern shores of the Mississippi to the west of the rocky mountains. The name of Brainerd will hereafter rank with those of Elliot and Schwarz, and, we trust, with many others now less known, who are dedicat ing their lives to the great work of scattering the bread of life on the distant and desolate waters of the earth. We have no room to abridge a work, which ought to be read in all the fulness of its inte. resting narrative; for its minutest details are full of spiritual information, and every letter of the book seems to point as it were to distant and unconverted regions, and admonish the reader, "Go and do thou likewise."

The Angler in Ireland, or an Englishman's Ramble through Connaught and Munster. 2 vols.-A book which may be of advantage to Piscator, and direct him to where the fattest salmon and largest bull-trout resort; but we are afraid that any other information will be sought in vain. We kept a sharp look-out for facts which would delight naturalists, but they were all lying at the bottom of such deep bottles of poteen, that we could not fish them up. We learn, indeed, at p. 53, that there are no minnows in the Irish streams, nor moles among its animals, nor nightingales among its birds, nor snakes among its reptiles, and that pheasants and jays were formerly unknown. The author also says, that he caught a trout of about four pounds weight, with a deep gash down its side, which had been inflicted by the talons of a brother angler, the eagle. He also remarks on this bird of Jove: "disturb him how and when you will, the eagle never shows any symptoms of fear; but slowly leaves the spot invaded by man, rising and rising above you, without any perceptible movement of his out-stretched pinions." "I have often," says the author, "watched the way of the eagle in the air for a considerable time together, and never could perceive him once flap his wings to his side. His movements seem to be entirely governed by the inclination of the huge wings and tail to the wind; in the same way as a ship is propelled by the action of the breeze on its sails." Of the terrific ignorance of the common peo. ple in Ireland, a curious story is told in vol.i. p. 188: a botanist on the hills of Cunnemara was with difficulty rescued from death, being suspected of having been sent into the district to propagate the cholera!

A Treatise on Isometrical Drawing. By T. Sopwith. Isometrical Drawing has been too much neglected by architects and landscape gardeners. Yet it has advantages over common perspective in many respects. This work is most ably executed, and very handsomely got up; and we have no doubt will draw the attention of the public and of scientific men to the subject. We have had occasion often to regret the want of such plates in plans of gardens and scenery; which can never be so clearly or fully represented in any other manner.

Recollections of the Eighteenth Century. By the Marchioness of Crequi. 2 vols.The editor of this work had the misfortune to fall in the way of a sagacious bloodhound of a reviewer;* who kept doggedly on his track till he overtook him in a Parisian cemetery, and stripped him of his stolen spoils. In other words, he proved that Mad. de Crequi, the pretended author of these Memoirs, is a fictitious personage, formed of an Anne Le Fevre d'Auxy, who was born in 1700, and a Renie Charlotte de Troulay, born 1715. From this duality, the editor has extended the life of our lady from 1700 to 1803, for the purpose of exciting astonishment that one and the same lady should have been presented to Louis XIV. in 1713, and to Buonaparte in 1801; but as she quotes books that were never published till 1817 (as the Memoirs of the Marquis de Dangeau), we cannot believe that her mortal thread was cut during the peace of Amiens; and we are anxiously looking in the Journal de Paris, in hopes of hearing of her presentation to the court of the patriotic successor of Charles the Tenth. Should she amuse her hundred and twentieth year by writing any more Memoirs of her early life, which we hope she will, we would humbly advise her, if her eyes still retain their lustre, to correct the press herself; to change her editor, translator, printer, and compositor, et hoc genus omne, down to the lowest demon's smallest imp; and further, we beg her to recollect if she may not by mistake have post-dated the period of her nativity; and by such a mistake, whether we do not lose many interesting anecdotes of Cardinal Richelieu and Anne of Austria?

Siege of Vienna, from the German of Madam Richler. (Library of Romance, Vol. xiii.) Such novels as the above, however spirited and clever in some of the details, are so totally inconsistent in

*See Quarterly Review, No. cii. p. 391.

their design, and imperfect in their execution, as to afford but little rational pleasure to readers. We warn our young friends most seriously against forming a taste for novel-reading, a taste which is too easily acquired, too fondly indulged, and too reluctantly relinquished. There is scarcely any thing which tends so much to weaken the mind, to impair the taste, and to give false and dangerous associations to the imagination.

Life of Prince Talleyrand. 2 vols.This book is one of the wretched fabrications which are constantly going on in Paris but it is too indecent, too mendacious, and too dull, to answer the sordid purpose for which it was intended. It is only fit to lie by the side of Madame de Crequi and Harriet Wilson.

Octavia Elphinstone, a Manx story, and Lois, a drama. By Miss Anna Tablant. 2 vols. To say that the story of Octavia Elphinstone was not a work of talent and knowledge, would be contrary to truth; but it is not sufficiently clever to pay the trouble of the perusal in these steam-boat and rail-road days, when we can bestow only minutes, where our ancestors cheerfully gave hours or weeks. The story is good in parts, but very defective as a whole. The great fault lies in the disproportion of the different parts; the introductory being infinitely too minute and particular for the measure of the remainder; and the cliff scene we wholly repudiate.

The Christian Expositor, or practical Guide to the Old and New Testament. By Rev. George Holden, A. M. We can safely recommend this work, as one that in a small compass contains much valuable information brought together in a critical and scholar-like manner; nor have we the slightest doubt of its being gratefully received by the great body of Scriptural readers.

Historia Technica Anglicanæ, &c. By Thomas Rose.-Mr. Rose may be quite assured that he is in error in his use of the word Anglicane, and we advise him to correct it in his next edition. As a Memoria Technica, we have no doubt but that his book is carefully executed; we only pause before we can give our assent to the advantage of forcing such histories into the memory of young people. For, after all, what is gained is only a number of names learned by rote, affording no exercise to the mind, no instruction to the reasoning powers, and placing facts and circumstances in the room of

motives and principles; but if it is thought necessary to get at the fruit, by first cracking the shell in the manner here prescribed, we think Mr. Rose's book is better arranged than most of his predecessors, whose deficiencies he has supplied, and errors corrected.*

Lives of eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus. By W. Macgillivray. 12mo. This is too abridged a work to afford due information on the subjects on which it treats. The author has not availed himself of the sources of information within his reach; nor does he appear to have studied with care and attention the great original treatises which can alone afford the knowledge which he is to impart to his readers. We have lately read with great attention the entire works of Pliny the naturalist, in the original lanFrom his work we pronounce guage. that Mr. Macgillivray has not done the same. If he has, we are ready to enter the lists.

*We will tell Mr. Rose one fact, which he does not seem to be aware of in his account of the Druids :-that their sacred missletoe was a very different plant from the missletoe of our trees and orchards. We do not know that this fact has ever been observed by the historians of our British trees; but the fact is so.

FINE STAINED GLASS AT HORNSEY CHURCH,

MIDDLESEX.

The many splendid specimens of the art of Glass Staining with which several ecclesiastical buildings and noblemen's mansions have been embellished by Mr. David Evans of Shrewsbury, have completely disproved assertions made some years since, that the powers of this ancient art had formerly extended beyond the hope of future emulation. The mystery of this beautiful art, once considered as entirely lost, has been effectively revived by Mr. Evans, who has recently given additional proof of his taste and talents, in a magnificent window erected in the Church of Hornsey. This production, for general beauty of character, imposing dignity, and richness and depth of tone in colouring, stands unrivalled by any previous efforts in glass staining, and entitles the artist to the highest rank in this class of his profession.

This splendid window, displaying all the rich and mellow tints of the finest specimens of the old masters, consists principally of two tiers of lights, contain

Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare before Sir Thomas Lucy.Among the original productions of Shakspeare, hitherto unknown to the world, the author of the present volume (W. S. Lander?) which abounds in a most recondite vein of wit, gives a song, of which the two concluding stanzas are as follow:

"Some tell us the merman Can only speak German, In a voice between grunting and snoring; But Catharine says, he had learnt in the [our tars,

wars

The language, persuasion, and oaths of
And that even her voice was not foreign;
Yet when she was ask'd how he manag'
to hide

[tide, The green fishy tail, coming out of the For night after night above twenty; "You troublesome creatures," old Catharine replied,

"In his pocket-wont that now content ye?"

The Atlas of Ancient Geography, by J. C. Russell, seems admirably suited for schools. A very copious Index of the Places, with their latitudes and longitudes, enables the reader to consult with ease the map in which each place is to be found.

ARTS.

ing eight full-length figures, drawn in an easy and natural attitude, and with peculiar fidelity and intelligence of outline. At the same time a remarkably expressive boldness of character, unusual in the generality of modern attempts of glass staining, pervades the whole figures, which are relieved in their respective niches by a rich grey back-ground.

In the upper tier:

St. Matthew is clothed in a blue vest, over which is thrown a crimson robe, lined with white; he holds in his right hand a Greek MS. in his left a halbert.

St. Mark, a venerable figure, the sober tint of whose vestment is well contrasted with the rich crimson of St. Matthew; he bears an open Gospel.

St. Luke appears attentively writing on a tablet with an ancient style; he is attired in a gold vest, over which is a rich blue mantle lined with purple.

St. John is characterized by a mild and pleasing serenity of countenance; he holds a golden chalice in his left hand, and in his right a closed volume. He is clad in a brilliant green, over which is a fine crimson mantle.

In the lower tier:

St. Peter possesses much gravity of expression; he holds his symbol, the keys, in one hand, and a book in the other, hav ing green flowing drapery lined with yellow.

St. James is a particularly fine figure, having a visage full of noble simplicity. perfectly characteristic of the doctrines contained in his beautiful epistle; he has a blue vest and gold drapery, with his insignia, a club in one hand, in the other the Holy Scriptures.

St. Jude, bearing his Epistle, has a look of persuasiveness. His drapery, is of deep purple, with an elegant robe of light yellow, thrown in beautiful folds over his right shoulder.

St. Paul is rich in colouring, and commanding in attitude; penetration, and firmness are depicted in his countenance; he sustains his emblem, a sword, in his left hand, his right being uplifted in the act of exhortation, and his finger pointing towards Heaven.

The figures stand on rich gothic pedestals, surmounted by canopies of the most delicate crocketed tabernacle work.

The three principal compartments within the pointed arch of the window are filled with designs of "The adoration of the Shepherds," from Guido; "The Wise Men's Offering," by Rubens, the colouring of which is very rich; and in the apex is "The Annunciation," from Carlo Maratti. These subjects, with the ornamental designs that occupy the minor portions of the tracery, harmonize beautifully with the figures below.

In three of the side windows of the Church are shields encircled by ancient mantling, &c. containing the armorial bearings of the Bishop of London, Lord Mansfield, and C. W. Towers, Esq.

H. P.

We have been highly pleased with a Panoramic picture of the Capture and taming of Wild Elephants on the Island of Ceylon, painted by WILLIAM DANIELL, R. A. and now exhibiting at the room of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, at Pall Mall East. In the first place the natural scenery of the country is excessively beautiful, an expanse of mountain, and highly diversified surface, with rich forests, a river, and the distant ocean. The animating scene of entrapping and capturing a numerous herd of elephants, which attracts visitors from all parts of India, is exhibited in all its several parts, together with the various discipline which the gigantic brutes have afterwards to undergo before they can be reconciled to the yoke. Their struggles not unfrequently terminate fatally. The most remarkable trees of the country are also accurately depicted, as flourishing in their natural habitat. It is altogether a scene

full of interest and information. The original drawings were made by Mr. Samuel Daniell, brother to the painter, during a residence of several years in Ceylon. In the ante-room are several small pictures of interesting subjects derived from the East, painted by the same accomplished artist.

NEW HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.

Mr. C. J. RICHARDSON, pupil of Sir John Soane, has published a most useful and elaborate Plan on a scale of 20 feet to an inch, of the Parliamentary and other public Buildings, adjacent to Westminster Hall, from a recent Survey. It is well calculated, as it was intended, to supply the necessary information for the proper consideration of the proposed New Houses of Parliament.

On one very large Sheet is contained as many various objects as would make a respectable volume.

The Buildings are shewn as they existed before the fire 16 Oct. 1834.

The Plan of St. Stephen's Chapel is restored, so far as the remains indicate; showing by different tints what are now standing, and what have been removed.

The Speaker's state dining-room was within the Crypt of St. Stephen's Chapel. The bases of the Columns in this room are about 3 feet higher than the ancient ones, which are buried 3 or 4 feet.

Around the Map are elevations of all the Buildings connected with Westminster Hall and St. Stephen's Chapel; of the latter, Hollar's View, 1647, is obviously incorrect; the same, as left by Sir C. Wren, drawn by P. Sandby, 1755; and lastly, all the modern creations by Sir J. Soane. This useful Sheet will be invaluable to the artists who are con tending for the large prize in the Archi. tectural Lottery; and will be very valuable in the Portfolio of the Antiquary.

Three perspective Views of the Parliamentary and other public Buildings, as they now exist, with the surrounding Scenery, have also been published by Mr. T. LARKIN WALKER, Architect. These useful Plates are drawn in outline by S. Russell, a pupil of Mr. Walker, and lithographed. They consist of

1. A View of Westminster Hall, the Law Courts, &c. from the N. W.

2. A View of the King's Entrance from the S. W.

3 A View of the Parliament Buildings from the Thames.

These desirable views are taken from the points specified by the Sect Committee for rebuilding the Hous of Parliament in their 29th resoluti n; and pointed out in the plan furnished to Architects by the Office of Woods and Forests.