plications, and demurrers in turn of the curls, knotty points in the twist of the tail, the length of a chancery suit in the depth of a full bottom; and a Serjeant's black coif, as much as tells us that the law is a sort of blister plaster, and never to be used but in desperate cases."

About the close of the 17th Century, Perukes were made to represent natural curls of hair, but in such a stream, that ten heads would not have furnished an equal quantity, as it flowed down the back, and hung over the shoulders half way down the

arms.

"Louis the XIVth's Wig was so enormous, that he was said to rob the heads of all his subjects to cover his own; and such was the use of hair in England for such compositions, that in 1700, a young country girl got sixty pounds for her head of hair, and the grey locks of an old woman, after death, sold for fifty pounds, as did Wigs in common for forty pounds.

"In 1720, or thereabouts, it became fashionable to tie one half of it on the left side into a club, as is represented in the Vig nette of the Title page, which professes to give the real model of Linnæus's Wig.

"Between 1730 and 1740 Bag Wigs came into fashion, and such as were plaited into a Queue, though till 1750 the long flow. ing Perukes maintained their ascendancy.

"In 1763 the use of Wigs in general began to decline, in so much that there was a petition from the master Peruke makers, of London and Westminster, to the King, in which they complain of the influx of French hair dressers. P. viii.

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The New Conspiracy against the Jesuits detected and briefly exposed: with a short Account of their Institute, and Observations on the Danger of Systems of Education, Independent of Religion. By R. C. Dallas, Esq. 98...

A Sermon preached in Lambeth Chapel, at the Consecration of the Honorable and Right Reverend Henry Ryder, D.D. Lord Bishop of Gloucester, on Sunday, July 30, 1815. By Christopher Wordsworth, D.D. Dean of Bocking. Published by the Command of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury. 2s. 6d.

Ecclesiastical History of the Britons and Saxons. By the Rev. John Daniel, C.A. D.A. and Præs. 75. 69.

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LAW.

A Treatise on Conveyancing, with a View to its Application to Practice, being Series of practical Observations, written in a plain familiar Style. By Richard Preston, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Vol. II. Part II, 125,

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The Biographical Dictionary, Vol. XXIV. Edited by Alexander Chalmers, F. S. A 125.

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LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Nichols has at length completed his laborious History of Leicestershire, by an Appendix of Additions and Corrections; a Series of elaborate Indexes; a general Map of the County; and several additional Plates.

Proposals for a new History of Northamptonshire, brought down to the present period, have been issued by Mr. George Baker, of Northampton, who have devoted several years to collecting materials for the work.

Mr. W. Woolnoth is preparing for publication A History and Description of Canterbury Cathedral, to be elegantly printed in Royal Quarto, and illustrated by twenty highly finished Engravings, from Drawings by T. Hastings, Member of the Royal Liverpool Academy.

Mr. W. Monck Mason intends publishing by subscription a History of Ireland on a very extended plan. The first portion will contain the History of Dublin and its Environs, and will be comprised in three quarto volumes.

WORKS IN THE PRESS.

Des. Erasmi Rot. Concio de Prero Iesv Olim Prononciata a Prero in Schola Iohannis Coleti Londini Institvta in qua Prasidebat Imago Poeri Iesv Docentis Specie. Editio Nova.

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The Student's Journal, arranged, printed, and ruled for receiving an account of every day's employment for the space of one year.

A Biographical Dictionary of living Artists, by Mr. Cham

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Time's Telescope for 1816, being a complete Guide to the

Almanack.

THE

BRITISH CRITIC,

FOR NOVEMBER, 1815.

ART. I. A Letter to the Bishop of Gloucester on the Subject of the British and Foreign Bible Society. By Thomas Gisborne, A.M. Second Edition. Cadell and Davies: 1815. We have ever been disposed to consider Mr. Gisborne as a worthy and a well meaning man, though certainly not as a theologian of the highest order. His sermons, with a very few exceptions, we have held to be both creditable and useful publications, and what they wanted in brilliancy of talent to be fully made up in goodness of intent. We have long known him to have been attached to the interests of a peculiar party, and zealously to have advocated the cause of the Bible Society, our respect however for his motives still continued undiminished; how far however his character, either as a Christian or a man, can be raised in the estimation of ourselves or of the public by the sentiments and spirit of the pamphlet before us, we shall leave it for our readers to determine.

Mr. Gisborne has the means undoubtedly of enforcing attention in a certain circle, far beyond those which ordinary authors are allowed to possess; but we very much doubt whether with all these powers at his command his present publication would fairly have gone through a single edition, had it not been addressed to a prelate, whose recent elevation has been the object of so much public discussion. With his name in the title page it emerges from the froth and foam of an auxiliary anniversary, and acquires a sort of substance, which obtrudes itself upon our attention. We would not judge with harshness the offensive trash which too often issues from very worthy and respectable men at these Bible Associations; the vanity of selfapprobation, the intoxication of popular applause, the motley and discordant groupe from whom that applause is to be extracted

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