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of political economy, not so much as it regards the writing of a book, as to the study of the science, if we may call by that name the vague and inconclusive reasonings usually thus designated. The merchant, or the agriculturist, who studies political economy, must not confine his views, therefore, to what belongs to his own avocations. He must escape as far as he can beyond the little circle of his personal affairs, and extend his reasoning to the multifarious pursuits of other men, and the influence which these have over the general wealth and happiness of the community, and of the

world.

Mr. Read seems to us to have acted in conformity with these views. We recollect that his first pamphlet on the subject, called forth not a little of the sneering wit of Ricardo's disciples; who deemed it impossible that a Scotch bleacher could discover flaws in their favourite systems; but Mr. Read's pamphlets have now grown into a goodly volume; and, so far as we understand the matters discussed, (Political Economy being, at best, rather incomprehensible,) he seems to have brought forward arguments which are likely to puzzle the Ricardoists to find replies. Mr. Read, indeed, has evidently investigated the subject with a great deal of originality and independent thinking. Political economy has, hitherto, been confined to the production and distribution of wealth, whereas Mr. Read carries it a step further, and begins by investigating the right to wealth or property. This innovation evidently gives a more definite and important object to the science, and causes it to assume a form altogether novel. We cannot, at present,spare room to detail any of Mr. Read's views or reasonings; but those who are desirous of seeing the principles of Ricardo, Macculloch, and Malthus, dissected with no sparing hand, will find this book well worth perusing. It is not, indeed, well written, and is encumbered with notes which ought to have been worked into the text, but it is plain and generally intelligible, and that is a great deal more than can be said of most books on Political Economy.

ART. XIV.-History of France and Normandy, from the Accession of Clovis to the Battle of Waterloo. By W. C. Taylor, A.B. Whittaker, Treacher, and Co. London; 1830.

It is impossible not to feel that a vast and important improvement has lately taken place in the means of instructing the rising generation. Science is rendered intelligible to the infant capacity, and history is literally turned into a Reading Made Easy. We think Mr. Taylor is entitled to the praise of having assisted in bringing about this useful change; and, if we wanted any proof of his ability to succeed in an object of such vast moment, we should find that proof in the very agreeable work before us. Like a man of sense, he professes to offer the attractions neither of novelty of subject, nor of elegance of style; all he is anxious to accomplish, is an accurate history, and simple and comprehensible narrative. We congratulate Mr. Taylor on his success. No child who has almost learned his letters that can misunderstand the text of this history, and yet in vain do we look for a single sentence which can be called tame or vulgar.

ART. XV.-Stories of Travels in Turkey. 12mo. Hurst and Chance. London: 1830.

Two of the most beautiful engravings that we have any where seen, except in an expensive Annual, meet the spectator at the threshold of this pretty

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little work, to sooth him, and to turn his critical bile, if he have any, into the sweetest milk of human kindness. The object of the author of this work, is to form a plain and popular narrative of those facts which modern travellers have established, respecting the history and the present condition of European Turkey. Personal prejudices, feelings, and predilections on the part of authors, very often distort those statements which would otherwise be soluble. The author of this work has produced a castigated version, as we may call it, of the principal results of their labours, and has, in this manner, furnished the precedent of an exceedingly valuable system, of making the treasures collected by enterprising travellers serviceable to the ordinary occasions of education.

ART. XVI.-A new Supplement to the Pharmacopaias of London,
Edinburgh, Dublin, and Paris, forming a complete Dispensatory and
Conspectus, &c. By J. Rennie, A.M.,
By J. Rennie, A.M., A.L.S. 8vo. Baldwin and
Co. London: 1829.

WE are happy to find that a work which, for its ingenuity, its comprehensiveness, and accuracy, deserves so well the patronage of the profession, has arrived at a second edition,-a goal, the attainment of which is a pretty fair criterion of the merits of any literary performance. Although this 'Supplement, a title which the modesty of the author has conferred on a very copious and substantial Pharmacopæia, is intended as a work essentially of reference for the mature professional man, yet it is so perspicuous, and so rudimental, that we only wonder how it should not become a familiar class book to the student. The author is evidently well acquainted with the world he has written an elemental work, for so we may call it, in which he has not taken it for granted that the young reader is already well acquainted with the subjects of which he treats. For the country practitioner, we cannot imagine a production more indispensable. It is what no other work, that we are acquainted with, is, a convenient medical cyclopædia, embracing, in a brief and cheap compass, the best and soundest information on any subject which a miscellaneous practitioner is called on to consider in the course of his professional labours.

ART. XVII.-A Manual of the Economy of the Human Body on Health and Disease. 8vo. pp. 417.-Edinburgh, Daniel Lizars, 1830. WE only wish that we could always see attempts to popularise professional subjects placed in the hands of such sensible and judicious compilers as the author of this work. We have had from time to time no small number of dietetic publications poured in upon us, of various merit, and we own that we took up this Manual under a strong persuasion that very little novelty could be found in its pages. We were, however, very agreeably disappointed. The works of which we have had such an abundance, have been confined to mere injunctions as to the choice of food, and to some general reasons that ought to operate with the patient, why he should adopt a particular regimen in preference to any other. We own we were not fully alive to the deficiency which all these books were chargeable with, until we saw that deficiency supplied by the author of this Manual. We have here then for the first time in a popular form, a very lucid and admirably correct explanation of the structure and functions of the human body, and the

general economy of the human system. This exposition will have the effect in some measure of shewing the rationale of those prescriptions, which under other circumstances were adopted in perfect ignorance by the unprofessional public, and consequently it will tend to produce a more general and willing submission to the jurisdiction of medicine. We are strongly impressed with the opinion that nothing will more certainly contribute to extend the practice of the sound physician, than judicious works like the present, which is calculated in the first place to remove the prejudices against which too often the physician has to contend; and in the next place, the uninformed public is in a better condition of ascertaining those stages of illness, when the superior knowledge of a medical man ought to be appealed to. We think this a very sensible and most valuable work.

MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE.

Connected with Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts. Dr. Bowring and Mr. George Borrow are about to publish The Songs of Scandinavia, containing a selection of the most interesting of the Historical and Romantic Ballads of North-Western Europe, with specimens of the Danish and Norwegian Poets down to the present day. Dr. Bowring is also about to publish the Bohemian Anthology.

The Family Cabinet Atlas is announced for immediate publication.Constructed upon an original plan, it will furnish the information of the larger and more expensive Atlases, in a clear and accurate manner, and yet be smaller than any one hitherto published.

The first Number of a New Quarterly Review, confined exclusively to the subject of Mining! was to make its appearance this month.

The Rev. George Croly is engaged in a History of the Jews.

The annual meeting of the Proprietors of the London University was held on the 24th ult. when a full exposition of the affairs of that institution was made. The total capital in shares and donations amounted to 163,4627, 10s.; the expenditure for the year ending 31st December, was 133,6077. 10s. The number of students enrolled for the present session amounts to 596, of whom 224 have entered for branches of general education, 106 for law only, and 256 for medical classes only. Several of the speakers who attended the meeting complained of the apathy manifested by the Dissenters in general towards the University.

The justly celebrated Mr. Sheldrake has in the press a Treatise on the Prevention and Cure of Spinal Curvature, and its Consequences; on the Cure of Malformations of the Hands and Feet, and on the Cure of other Defects of the Extremities that are occasioned by debility or discase.

The Hunterian Oration, in honour of the celebrated John Hunter, was pronounced at the College of Surgeons, on the 15th of February, by Mr. Guthrie. We are happy to learn that the difficulties which prevented the formation of a catalogue to the Hunterian Museum, now in the College, and which arose from the loss of the MSS. connected with the different articles, are on the eve of being overcome; and that the part of the catalogue, which relates to natural history, is almost ready for the press. The osteological part of it is in a similar state of forwardness; and all that relates to the morbid anatomy is almost completely printed.

Perhaps there are persons who may be interested in knowing, that the first volume of the Marquis of Londonderry's Narrative of the War in Germany was written by Mr. Gleig. The second volume, just published, the No le Lord declares, is from his own pen.

The late destruction of the English Opera House by fire, has deprived the Beef-Steak Club of a place of rendezvous. This is very singular. Most of the first persons in the realm belonged to it. Its meetings are held by session, the steak is dressed in the room where the members assemble, and a tremendous fine imposed for non-attendance, or want of punctuality. Five guineas a minute, or so, is the rate of fine, and expalsion punishes the third offence of this kind.

The French seem to think, that they are never to have enough of Napoleon. Two more works respecting him are in preparation: one by M. Pons, who was with Buonaparte at Elba; and the other by M. Thiers, embracing the history of the consulate and the empire.

Mr. Jacob has in a state of forwardness a work on the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals.

Mr. Moore is engaged in a Life of Petrarch, between whom and Lord Byron this poet has shewn that many singular analogies exist.

A curious work, entitled Revelations de Faits Importars, is announced at Paris, by M. Morin. He was a Conducter of Police in 1814, and may, probably, have some strange mysteries to disclose.

The Life of Robespierre is to form one of the amusements of the spring at Paris.

The Rev. Hyde Cassan, author of some political pamphlets, has announced the Lives of the Bishops of Bath and Wells from the earliest times.

Samson, the guillotine man during the revolution in France, who has been for some years dead, is soon to figure once more as the subject of an extensive memoir. We happen to know, from a French correspondent, that when the present Mr. Samson was applied to to lend his assistance in completing the memoirs of his father, the sensitive Jack Ketch of Paris, was absolutely melted into tears! Old Samson was a man of education and attainments; his "dreadful trade" by no means hardened his character, for it is to him that France owes the abolition of that horrible system of torture, which used formerly to be employed to extort confession from supposed criminals.

One of the greatest singularities of modern times, is the publication of a newspaper in Egypt! It is now about ten months in existence. The press at which it is printed belongs to the Viceroy of Egypt at Cairo, and is only a vehicle for the ordinances and decrees of Government.

The Baron de la Bergorie has published, at Paris, a very curious work on the state of Agriculture in ancient Greece, from the time of Homer to Theocritus.

A bookseller at Zwickhau has published a pocket edition of the popular writers of various countries, translated. This pocket edition consists of only two hundred and fifty volumes, each volume sold at sixpence !

A descriptive account is shortly expected of the Coins of the French Revolution. The announcement of such a work will call to mind Dr. Kelly's curious chapter on these coins, in his admirable work, the Cambist.

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MONTHLY LIST OF RECENT PUBLICATIONS,

BRITISH AND foreign.

ARTS AND SCIENCES.

Davenport's Supplement to the Amateur's Perspective, 4to. 15s. bds. Conversations upon Chronology and Ancient History, 12mo. 10s. 6d. bds. Iconology, by W. Pinnock, 12mo. 8s. hf-bd.

Transactions of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India, vol. i. royal 18mo. 6s. cloth.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of Madame du Barri, vol. i. royal 8vo. 6s. cloth.

Bieland's Anatomy, by Knox, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.

Medico-Chirurgical Transactions, vol. xv. part 2, 8vo. 10s. 6d. bds.

Marshall's Summary of Vaccination, 8vo. 4s. 6d. bds.

England on the Kidneys, 8vo. 5s. 6d. bds. Murray's Manual of Experiments illus

trative of Chemical Science, 12mo. 5s. Reece's Medical Guide, 12s. bds. Sandwith's Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology, 12mo. 7s. 6d.

Christison on Poisons in relation to Medical Jurisprudence, Physiology, and the practice of physic.

Paterson Clark's new system of treating the Teeth, 8vo. pp. 199.

Synoptical Chart of Diseases of the Ear, by Curtis.

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