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they rise at moderate distance, down with them, before they begin their evolutions. When they cross, be sure to fire well forward, and (if you possibly can) select a windy day for this amusement; as snipes then usually lie better, and, on being sprung, hang against the wind, and become a good mark." P. 80.

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ART. XVIII. The Magic of Wealth; a Novel in three Volumes.
By T. S. Surr, Author of a Winter in London. 12mo.
Cadell and Davies.

1815.

THOUGH evidently a hurried and hasty production, this is a novel with no ordinary degree of merit. There is much insight into character, with a very fair share of humour. The story is tolerably interesting, but rather improbable; this circumstance however is rather in its favour. The hero is mighty mysterious. for the two first volumes; till at last he turns out to be a protegee of the Jesuits, whom he considers still to be at the bottom of all the mighty movements in the political world; and although their order was nominally abolished by Ganganelli, yet that their influence still continues unabated. The education of the hero in the Vatican, and his sudden mission to Naples, forms a wild and interesting story: it does not blend however with English scenery and manners; we wish therefore that Mr. Surr Irad made a separate tale out of this part of the work; with a little pains such a history might be rendered exceedingly amusing. As a specimen of Mr. Surr's powers in the humourous, we shall present the reader with the opening of the tale.

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"Peter Perryman, of Cheapside, London, haberdasher, milli ner, and lace-man, was of slender form, and sallow countenance ;. rather more than five feet high, and about thirty six years old.

"Each week-day morning, ere Bow Church clock struck nine, Peter had constantly received the last touches of the barber's comb, had wiped the powder from his jessamine cheeks, and formed the rose of muslin beneath his chin. Then, ere the pow dering gown was changed for the smart blue frock, or the red morocco slippers gave place to the tasselled Hessian boots, it was the custom of this Grand Monarque des Modes, to strut for half an hour, up and down the shop. There, with all the majesty of millinery power, he issued forth the order of the day to several pretty girls, and girl-like boys, his female and effeminate apprentices, exciting emulation in each breast to measure ribands faster than their fellows.

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At one time he would slyly sow the seeds of avarice in their young minds, by hinting-

That when they to the ladies made their court,

While simp'ring, they should snip an inch too short.

Then shifting the subject of his counsels from the science of attack to that of defence, with deep sagacity he would put them on their guard against the ambuscades of well-dressed shop-lifters, forged notes, and counterfeit Bank tokens.

"One morning, while Perryman was thus parading and haranguing, his oration was interrupted by the appearance of a dirty lad, who enquired which was Mr. Perryman's shop..

"This is the shop, and I am Mr. Perryman. What do you want with me, boy? Who are you? Where do you come from?"

"I'm Boots at the Spread Eagle, Grace-church-street, Sir, Here's a letter for you.'

"A letter!-Spread Eagle !-A letter for me!'

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Yes, Sir; & gentleman that comed in just now, in the Yarmouth coach, sent me off with it.'

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"Bless me! very odd!' said Mr. Perryman, taking the letter between his finger and thumb; for the boy had soiled it not a little with his shoe-blacking hands. Perceiving, however, that it was really addressed to him, he drew forth from the pocket of his white dimity waistcoat a shining pair of finger-forceps, clipped the paper round the wax, unfolded the envelope, and read thus:

The person referred to in the enclosed letter, waits for Mr. Perryman at the inn, to which the bearer will conduct him.'

"In the superscription of the letter Mr. Perryman instantly recognized the hand-writing of a very useful acquaintance, resident at Brussels, through whose ingenuity, combined with his own, it sometimes happened, that French laces, gloves, and fans, found their way into Cheapside without the customary ceremonials of the officers established by government to superintend the arrival of all foreign fineries. Eagerly therefore he tore open the letter, which he flattered himself was the harbinger of some new stroke of illicit success'; but was surprised to read " Vol. I. P. 1.

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ART. XIX. Display. A Tale for Young People. By Jane Taylor. 12mo. pp. 214. 6s. Taylor and Hessey.

1815.

BEING a full and true account of the conversion of two young ladies to the party; one of whom having no religion before, was somewhat the better; and the other, being of a devotional turn of mind, was somewhat infinitely the worse for the change. The party however will consider Mrs. Taylor as a zealous but

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rather an indiscreet friend, as she has in this very tale most unwittingly, but most unequivocally exposed all the little and low arts of which such sort of families resort, to make converts of their neighbourhood. We particularly admire the very tender and gentle manner in which Mrs. Taylor expresses her disapprobation of a private conventicle, which one of the heroines is in the habit of attending, before she is converted to the school of a more delicate and accomplished fanaticism.

Well had it been for Elizabeth if she had made as good use of these meetings as many, as most of those did who frequented them. But unfortunately, she only imitated what was not worth imitating. She soon acquired a facility in using the phrases current among these poor people, and even caught something of their particular looks and gestures. Those peculiarities, which while they too easily pass among some as signs of grace, among others, are with as little discrimination, concluded to be the symptoms of a canting hypocrisy; but which are, in fact, often, most often, the genuine and natural expressions of earnest sincerity, uncontrolled by the delicacy which teaches the educated to conceal their feelings.

But, truly, the least agreeable excrescences which are produced by earnestness in religion, are more reasonable, and ought to be less offensive, than that finished air of indifference which too often characterizes politer worshippers.

"When a poor Christian turns the key upon her comfortless dwelling, and sets off with her lanthorn and her Bible, to spend an hour in thinking and hearing of a place where there will be no more want, it is not surprising if she be more deeply interested and affected than those, who leave a comfortable drawing-room, an intelligent circle, or some interesting pursuit, and whose joy unspeakable' it costs them, perhaps, little effort to conceal." P. 58,

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ART. XX. Treatise on the Construction of Maps. Alexander Jamieson. 8vo. 187 pp. Plates. 9s. Law, 1814.

To those who are desirous either from professional engagements or private inclination to make the science of map-making their study, this will be found a valuable work. The several projections of the sphere are accurately described, and the principles on which they rest, are laid down in a scientific and useful manner. Upon the practical construction of maps the readers will find much useful information, and will be enabled the more easily to detect the errors which are too often to be found even in the best of maps of distant countries.

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MONTHLY LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.

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A Letter to the Right Rev. Thomas Burgess, D.D. F.R.S. and F.A.S. Lord Bishop of St. David's, containing Remarks on his Lordship's Introduction to the Doctrine of the Trinity and to the Athanasian Creed. By a Clergyman of the Church of England. 3s.

The True Spirit of the Church of England considered, in a Charge to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Norwich. By the Rev. H. Bathurst, L.L.B. Archdeacon of Norwich, &c. Delivered at his primary Visitation in May 1815. 4to. 3s. Messiah's Advent; or, Remarks on the moral Tendency of the Doctrine of Christ's Manifestation in the Flesh. By Samuel Chase, M.Ă. 8vo. 10s. 6d. The Indecency and Unlawfulness of Baptizing Children in Private, without Necessity, and with the public Form, seriously recommended to the Consideration of both the Clergy and Laity of the Church of England. By the Rev. Martin Strong, M.A. first printed in the Year 1692, republished in 1815. By the Rev. James Drake, A.M. 1s.

A Letter to Philo, in Answer to his Objection against an Essay against Faith and Werks. By the Author of that Essay, the Rev. James Beresford, Rector of Kidworth, late Fellow of Merton College, Oxford.

2s.

Sermons on Subjects chiefly Practical, with illustrative Notes, and an Appendix, relating to the Character of the Church of England, as distinguished both from other Branches of the Reformation, and froin the modern Church of Rome. By the Rev. Johu Jebb, A.M. Rector of Abington, in the Diocese of Cashell. 8vo. 10s.

A Serious Address to the Clergy of the United Kingdom on the Duties of the pastoral Office, in a Visitation Sermon, preached in the Parish Church of St. Paul's Covent-garden, May 19, 1815, before the Archdeacon of Middlesex and his Clergy. By the Rev. W. Gurney, A.M. Rector of St. Clement Danes, Strand, &c. 1s.

The Reciprocal Advantages of an Union between Church and State: an Assize Sermon, preached at Stafford, March 16, 1815, by the Rev. Robert Crockett, M.A. of Brazen Nose College, Oxford, and late Rector of Marlow, in Craven, Yorkshire. 28.

Discourses on the Evidence of the Jewish and Christian Revelations, with Notes and Illustrations. By Sir Henry Moncrieff Wellwood, Bart. D.D. 8vo.

12s.

The Church in Danger: a Letter to the Earl of Liverpool, &c. By the Rev. Richard Yates, B.D. F.S.A. Chaplain to Chelsea Hospital, Rector of Ashen, &c. 8vo. 5s.

A third Address to the Persons calling themselves Unitarians, on Mr. Belsham's Inaccuracies, on the false Foundations of Unitarianism, and on the Means employed to Support it, recommended to the perusal of Unitarian Societies. 6d.

A Letter to the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Norwich, ou some Passages in the Reports of two Speeches said to have been addressed by his Lordship, in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, to the Church Missionary Association and Auxiliary Bible Society. By Robert Forby, M.A. Rector of Fincham, Norfolk. 3s.

A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, at the Visitation of Archdeacon Illingworth, on the ist of May, and afterwards on the 2d of June, at the Visitation of the Bishop. By George Scobell, D.D. Rector of Brattleby, &c. &c. 1s.

A Parochial Vicar's Remarks on Mr Belsham's Letters, which were addressed to the Bishop of London, and which animadverted on his Lordship's Charge. delivered in the Year 1814.

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Lectures on Ecclesiastical History, to which is added an Essay on Christian Temperance and Self-denial, by the late George Campbell, D.D. Principal of Marischal College, Aberdeen, with some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author. By the Rev. George Skene Keith, Keith Hall, Aberdeenshire. 2 Vols. 8vo. 11. 15.

Memoirs,

MEDICAL.

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Memoirs of Military Surgery. By D. I. Larry, M.D. Chief Inspector General of the Medical Department of the French Armies, &c. Containing the Practice of the French military Surgeons during the principal Campaigns of the late War abridged and translated from the French, by John Waller, Surgeon of the Royal Navy. Part I. 9s.

Observations on the Use of Caustic Alkali in Scrophula and other Chronic Diseases. By Joseph Brandish, Surgeon to H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex, &c. 3s.

Minutes of Cases of Cancer and of Cancerous Tendency, successfully treated by Mr. Samuel Young, Surgeon, with a prefatory Letter addressed to the Governors of the Middlesex Hospital, by Samuel Whitbread, Esq. M.P. 5s. The Hunterian Oration, delivered at the Theatre of the Royal College of Surgeons, on Feb. 14, 1815. By Sir William Blizard, Knt. F.R.S. &c. 4to. 6s.

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A Tour through some Parts of Istria, Carniola, Styria, Austria, the Tyrol, Italy, and Sicily, in the Spring of 1814. By a young English Merchant. 8vo. 7s. Letters from Portugal, Spain, and France, written during the Campaigns of 1812-13-14. addressed to a Friend in England: describing the leading Features of the Provinces passed through, and the State of Society, Manners, Habits, &c. of the People. By S. D. Broughton. 8vo.

125.

NATURAL HISTORY.

Hortus Jamaicensis; or, a Botanical Description (according to the Linnæan System) and an Account of the Virtues, &c. of its indigenous Plants hitherto known, as also of the most useful Exotics. By J. Lunan, 2 Vols. 4to. 21. 12s. 6d.

The Festival of Flora, a Poem, with Botanical Notes. 2s. 6d.

An Introduction to Entomology; or Elements of the Natural History of Insects. By the Rev. William Kirby, B.A. F.L.S. and William Spence, Esq. F.J.S. Vol. I. 8vo. 18s.

BIOGRAPHY.

Memoirs of the Life of the Rev. Richard Price, D.D. F.R.S. By William Morgan, F.R.S. 6s.

Memoirs of eminently Pious Women of the British Empire. By the Rev. S. Burder, M.A. A new and enlarged Edition, with eighteen Portraits. 3 Vols. 8vo. 11. 16s.

An Authentic Account of the late Mr. Whitbread, consisting of Facts and Anecdotes relating to his latter Days and Death, developing the Causes which led to that deplorable Event. With the genuine Report of the Inquest, now first pube Jished, taken in Short-hand. By Francis Phippen, the only Reporter present at the sitting of the Inquest held in Mr. Whitbread's House. Including a brief Memoir of his Life. Illustrated by a fac-simile Engraving of his Hand-writing and Autograph, from a Document in the Possession of the Publisher. 8vo. 18. 6d.

Tributes of the Public Press, to the Memory of the late Mr. Whitbread; being the Memorials and Characters of that eminent Man, which have appeared in the different Journals since his lamented Death. 8vo. 1s.

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General View of the Political State of France, and of the Government of Louis XVIII. with some Remarks on the Declaration of the Allied Powers. 3s.

- An Inquiry into the present State of the British Navy, together with Reflections on the late War with America, its probable Consequences, &c. By an English

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Reasons for establishing a Registry of Slaves in the British Colonies; being a Report of a Committee of the African Institution: published by Order of that Society. 3s.

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