The whole of this valuable work, displaying the country in lively colours, is evidently written for the laudable purpose of arresting the rage of emigration. The author calls upon such as still retain the smallest infection of this kind of mania, to turn his observations in their minds, ere they quit their own fire sides. They will receive, particularly those valuable classes of people, agriculturists, mechanics, and labourers, much information respecting the country, on which their delusive hopes may have been fixed. The information respecting the gypsum, or plaister of Paris, found in Nova Scotia, and the bare-faced smuggling carried on by the Americans on the north coast of Ireland, are worthy the attention of the government of this country.-To those who may wish for an opportunity of comparing the progress of architecture in America, with its progress in other countries, or to contemplate the face of nature on the other side of the Atlantic, the elegant aqua-tinta plates which embellish this work will be no slight acquisition. Mr. Janson, we understand, has a second volume in contemplation : some interesting extracts from the one now before us will be found in our succeeding pages:

After Mr. Janson's work, should any of our readers sigh for the pleasures of emigration, we recommend to them a perusal of Boulton's Sketch of his Majesty's Province of Upper Canada; the object of which is to prove, that that province is the most favoured spot on earth; a spot, where English laws, and English habits exist in all their original purity! Why, says he, should we prefer the United States to one of our own colonies, where land is cheaper, and the soil better? Why condescend to live as strangers in the former, when we may enjoy the rights of citizenship in the latter ?—Mr. Boulton's work is not addressed to the factious politician; but he observes, that, if the object of an emigrant be, to find a coun-try, where he may turn his industry to most advantage on a small capital, or even on no capital at all,

Canada is, of all places in the world, the best suited

to his purpose.

Three additional volumes of the modern and contemporary Voyages and Travels, announced in our last, as conducted by the editor of the Flowers of Literature, have made their appearance, and a fourth is in the course of publication. The three last volumes of this collection, which has experienced unprecedented success, contain the following original works and translations :-Pouqueville's Travels through the Morea, Albania, &c. to Constantinople ; Mangourit's Travels in Hanover; Fischer's Journey to Montpellier; a Tour in Spain and Portugal; a Tour in Ireland; Durand's Voyage to Senegal, &c. Depon's Travels in South America; a Tour in Wales, &c.; Sarytschew's Voyage of Discovery to the North East of Siberia, &c.; Fischer's Travels to Hyeres ; Reuilly's Travels in the Crimea, &c.; a Tour through the Island of Rugen; Helme's Travels in South America; and a Voyage to India, China, &c. also, analyses of the following:-Carr's Travels round the Baltic; Turnbull's Voyage round the World; Kotzebue's Travels in Italy; and Carr's Stranger in Ireland.

tion.

WRITERS ON THE FINE ARTS.

less do arms than arts assist the plan,
Those may defend, but these embellish man ;
These softly draw him nearer to his kind,
And mark distinct his seraph form of mind."

PRATT.

It certainly is true, that "neither poetry, painting, nor statuary, presents us with any model of perfecNature herself is not perfect. Homer conceived his heroes in the fervour of a pure imagination ; Phidias beheld no earthly form from which he could mould his image of Jupiter; Zeuxis drew his Venus

from a combination of selected beauty." From this combination of selected beauty must every artist copy, who wishes to obtain celebrity, or that the elegance and gracefulness of his productions should be admired. For some years past, our artists appear to have been, though rather in a slight degree, aware of this; to which, in a great measure, their progressive improvements may be ascribed.

At a period when the arts are improving, it can excite no surprize that their cause should be advocated and promoted by literature. Amongst several writers who have recently come forward on these subjects, Mr. Prince Hoare, by his Inquiry into the requisite Cultivation, and present State of the Arts of Design in England, holds a distinguished place. Indeed, every amateur must thankfully conimend him for the task which he has executed, and for his handsome manner of executing it. He contends that the fine arts are important to the fame of a nation; that the cultivation of public taste has a favourable influence on the morals of a people; that public authority should patronise the arts; that religion, and manufactures, should call in the arts to their assistance; and that the commemorative power of the arts should be called into exercise, and monuments be erected to our great men.-The manner in which Mr. Hoare discusses these points is highly interesting.

Mr. Bell, who is at once a skilful anatomist and a respectable master of design, has produced a very elaborate and valuable work entitled Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting. The object of these essays is, to enforce and illustrate the necessity of anatomical studies to the artist, and to the critic of art. Mr. Bell justly regards anatomy as the grammar of that language, in which the arts of design address the eye.

Various works have appeared upon architecture, &c. into the merits of which the nature of the FLOWERS OF LITERATURE will not permit us to enter;

and Mr. Hoare has successfully commenced a periodical publication; devoted entirely to the

arts.*

MORALISTS AND WRITERS OF ESSAYS.

"Fame, heav'n, and hell, are thy exalted theme,
And visions such as Jove himself might dream;
Mer sunk to slav'ry, though to glory born;
Heav'n's pride when upright, when deprav'd its scorn.'

TICKELL.

The writer, who exercises his talents for the promotion of morality and virtue, is ever entitled to the warmest praise; for, as Addison has justly observed,

Morality gives a greater perfection to human nature, by quieting the mind, moderating the passions, and advancing the happiness of every man in his private capacity."

With the view of removing an obnoxious object from our table-and uot out of any compliment to the work-we first notice Styles's Essay on the Character, immoral, and Antichristian Tendency of the Stage. This performance is written in the genuine spirit of old Jeremy Collier; and, from the falseness, of its data and inferences, and the unchristian-like, detestable, but almost contemptible illiberality of its doctrines, we willingly consign it to that oblivion which it must inevitably find.

From so nauseating a treatise, we turn with much pleasure to Mrs. West's Letters to a young Lady. Mrs. West may truly be denominated a moral writer. Her Letters to a young Man have now been some years before the public; and we are happy to find that the present performance will rather increase than diminish her well-acquired fame. The female

* The Artist.

character is of so much consequence to the well-being and almost to the existence of society, that we cannot feel too grateful to this lady for her exertions. In these volumes, we find the conduct and characters of women so admirably discussed, in almost every point of view, that we recommend them most cordially to every female who is desirous to enjoy the esteem of the virtuous, and to every parent anxious for the welfare, happiness, and honour of his child. Miss Hamilton's Letters to the Daughter of a Nobleman are entitled to almost equal praise.

A work, of the nature of Gambier's Introduction to the Study of Moral Evidence, had long been a desideratum in literature. This performance, which merits the attention of every sensible reader, is divided into five chapters on the nature of moral evidence, wherein it differs from demonstration; on the different kinds of moral evidence, with observations on the weight of each; general directions relating to moral reasoning; special directions relating to each kind of moral evidence; and on the kind of evidence of which different subjects admit.

Mr. Brewer's Hours of Leisure have afforded us considerable amusement. This gentleman, ardently attached to literature, from his earliest youth, has visited three quarters of the globe, and has studied men and manners in various countries; consequently, may be supposed to have acquired much useful and agreeable information. A perusal of his book, which consists of four-and-twenty Essays, and some other pieces, will prove the correctness of this supposition. His Trip to Margate, his Absent Man, and his Observations on the Stage, are particularly deserving of praise; and, on the whole, his Hours of Leisure will be found fully to answer the purpose for which they appear to have been intended-that of amusing and instructing the reader.