METEOROLOGICAL DIARY, BY W. CARY, STRAND.
From September 26, to October 25, 1835, both inclusive.
J. J. ARNULL, Stock Broker, 1, Bank Buildings, Cornhill,
late RICHARDSON, GOODLUCK, and ARNULL.
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 23, PARLIAMENT-STRLET.
GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.
DECEMBER, 1835.
NOTES ON BOSWELL'S JOHNSON....
MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.-Issue Roll of the Exchequer Greek letter of George Herbert-The Unicorn-Degrees of D.C.L. and LL.D.....
EARLY FRENCH AND NORMAN POETRY.....
The Syracusan Gossips.-" Virgilium tantum vidi."
"Life of Lord Keeper Guildford" and "Guy Mannering"
Historical Notices of the Cedars of Mount Lebanon and of England
MEMORIALS OF LITERARY CHARACTERS, No. XI.
Anecdote of Dr. Johnson-Lowe's Picture of the Deluge..
Adversaria, Historical, Biographical, and Literary.
LONDINIANA, No. II.-Excavation in Newgate Street..
The Holy Hand of St. Patrick (with a cut)..
Records of Stratford upon Avon
Ancient House at Ightham, Kent (with a Plate)
Questiones Venusinæ, No. VI.-Me or Te....
The Obelisk of Thebes
Beckford's Visits to the Monastery of Batalha
POETRY.-Lines to a Lady singing, 594.-The Glass of Champagne
RETROSPECTIVE REVIEW.-Tyrwhitt's" Epistle to Florio at Oxford”.
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.
Cowper's Works by Grimshawe, 601.--Arundell's Discoveries in Asia Minor,
604.-Conolly's Journey to the North of India, 605.-Roberts's Scenes of
Hindostan, 607.-Irving's Indian Sketches, 608.-Irving's Conquest of
Florida, 610.-Latrobe's Rambles in North America, 611.-Rabett's
Lateinos, 613.-Memoirs of Mirabeau; Warren's Introduction to Law
Studies, 615.-Winning on the Antediluvian Age, 618.-Kempe's Loseley
Manuscripts, 619.-Mathews's Hydraulia, 625.-Tracts on Medical Assist-
ance to the Poor,..
FINE ARTS-Royal Academy-Crosby Hall-New Publications.. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. New Publications, 633.-Learned Societies, &c.... ANTIQUARIAN RESEARCHES-Hoskins's Antiquities of Ethiopia........ 637 HISTORICAL CHRONICLE.-Foreign News, 641.-Domestic Occurrences, 642.-Theatrical Register, 644.-Promotions, &c. 645.-Marriages 646 OBITUARY; with Memoirs of the Countess of Antrim; Earl Nelson; Earl of Charleville; Lord Grey of Groby; Adm. Sir C. Tyler; Lt.-Gen. E. R. Cope; Major-Gen. Hepburn; Mr. Serjeant Sellon; Humphrey Osbaldeston, Esq.; William Grimaldi, Esq.; Abbé de la Rue; Don Telesforo de Trueba; Isaac Pocock, Esq.; William Motherwell, Esq.; Francis Goodwin, Esq.; William Say, Esq.; Mr. Heaphy; Joseph Bonsor, Esq. &c., &c. 647 DEATHS, arranged in Counties 665
Bill of Mortality-Markets-Prices of Shares,671—Meteorological Diary-Stocks 672 Embellished with a View of an ANCIENT HOUSE at IGHTHAM, Kent;
and a Representation of the HOLY HAND OF ST. PATRICK.
MINOR CORRESPONDENCE.
Issue Roll of Thomas de Brantingham 44th Edward III. Translated by Frederick Devon. 8vo. 1835.-We received this volume too late in the month to notice it in our present Magazine. Its contents, and the manner in which it has been translated and edited, involve a good many questions, and deserve very attentive consideration; and an article upon the subject shall appear in our next number.
We are compelled to postpone our critical notices of the ANNUALS for 1836; but they shall all receive due attention before New Year's Day.
Mr. HENRY ROBERTS observes," Had
your reviewer (p. 511) quoted the para-
graph from a contemporary Journal, in
reference to the architectural competition
for Fishmongers' Hall, instead of com-
menting on, and inviting attention to it,
I should scarcely have thought it neces-
sary to trouble you with a contradiction
of so barefaced and gratuitous a tissue of
falsehoods as is contained in the article
referred to; considering that the high and
honourable character of the distinguished
architect chiefly impugned, must have
prevented any one from giving it the
slightest credit; but as there is an am-
biguity in your reviewer's allusion, which
appears to me calculated to mislead, I
trust you will afford me, through the
same medium, an opportunity of giving an
unqualified contradiction to the whole,
and every part of the malicious statement."
Bishop Andrews.-Walton, in his Life
of George Herbert, states "that there
fell to be a modest debate betwixt them
two (Bishop Andrews and Herbert), about
Predestination and Sanctity of Life; of
both which, the Orator did not long after
send the Bishop some safe and useful
aphorisms, in a long letter written in
Greek; which letter was so remarkable
for the language and reason of it, that,
after the reading it, the Bishop put it into
his bosom, and did often show it to many
scholars, both of this and foreign nations;
but did always return it back to the place
where he first lodg'd it, and continued it
so near his heart, till the last day of his
life." If any of your readers can point
P.
out where the above letter can be found,
it will oblige
In answer to our Correspondent, p. 450,
on the Unicorn, J. M. begs to remark,
that when Mr. Logan observes, "The
existence of that noble animal has never
heen satisfactorily proved,"-it never
has been proved, or seen, or known at all.
He goes on to say,-"Some travellers
have averred that the race was not an
nor yet entirely extinct,
imagin
they either having caught a glimpse of the
creature, or heard of some one that did."
What can be more unscientific, more un-
like the language of a naturalist, than the
we know not." Caught a glimpse of the
above-"Some travellers;" who are they?
totally disbelieve it: indeed, we can aver to
It is true that
creature"-we never heard this fact, and
its utter incorrectness.
some of the natives north of the Cape
have said that there exists a species of
animal, of the antelope tribe, and sup-
posed to answer to the unicorn, among the
mountains in that part of Africa: but no
In some
such animal was ever seen.
caves (we believe in the Caffre country,)
were discovered rude drawings of some
native animals, among which was one
lope, or deer, with one horn; but this arose
representing the head of a kind of ante-
without doubt from the ignorance of the
artist: who, attempting to give a side view
of an antelope or deer, drew one horn
rude essays; and this explanation at
only, as children would do, in their first
once dissolves the mystery of the unicorn
But the subject wants no explana-
being found represented in the African
tion of this kind: it can be decided at
once on the principles of science. The
horn of the fabulous unicorn, which re-
quires for its basis or foundation a strong
layer of bone to support it, is absolutely
placed on the very suture of the skull,
which would give way instantly beneath
its violent pressure. Nature, who is ever
true and consistent in her principles,
would never have placed the instrument
of defence on a part which could not
have supported it, no more than she would
give the horse the power to kick, without
a powerful muscle in the thigh, which
would impart its effective influence to the
blow. The animal is entirely fabulous,
like the sphinx, the chimæra, and the
griffin. The long twisted horn which is
of the sea-unicorn. The fish possesses
commonly seen, is the weapon of defence
two horns, though they are seldom found
accidents.
perfect, being liable to be destroyed by
LL.D. of Cambridge is referred to p. 338, where we have already inserted his inquiries respecting Degrees in Law; and also to the Gent. Mag, for 1817 and 1818, vol. 87, ii. 200, 487-88, vol. 88, i. 306, 388, cussed. We may mention, however, that 496, where the subject was formerly disthe result of that discussion is rather to prove that D.C.L. is correct at Oxford, than to explain the authority or accuracy of LL.D. being used for the degree conferred at Cambridge.
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