An Embellished Chart of History and Chronology. 1 Vol.

By FRANCES HARRIET LIGHTFOOT.

Perhaps one of the most striking phenomena of modern times is the general insurrection of female intellect. On all sides the ladies are escaping from mental bondage, and, by the production of works of merit, asserting their right to be considered useful, as well as ornamental, parts of the creation. The compiler of the work before us has added another name to the list of enterprising female writers. Her ingenuity and industry have placed before the public a Chart of History and Chronology, which has the rare merit of conveying a great deal of useful knowledge in a simple and attractive form. The materials for the work were taken, as the Preface informs us, from preceding writers. The plan, however, is original. It presents us with a series of coloured columns, representing every state upon record from the disembarkation of Noah down to the present time. We perceive almost at a glance, the order in which communities and empires successively arose out of the chaos of depopulation that followed the flood. The grand epochs of foreign conquest or domestic trouble, the establishment or overthrow of dynasties and forms of government, are clearly marked; and, by running the eye perpendicularly down the pages of the Chart, we have a connected view of the affairs of cotemporary states at any given period of time. In short, while looking over the sheets, the reader is enabled to assign a local habitation to each name of antiquity, and to become, as it were, an eye-witness of those mighty changes in the religious and political aspect of human affairs, which it has required a space of five thousand years to accomplish. To the student this work will prove a valuable auxiliary, and as a book of reference we are not acquainted with any modern compilation that can be compared with it. Voluminous tables of remarkable persons, memorable events, and other matters connected with the subject, but not mentioned in the Chart, are bound up with the work, and render it complete.

The Continental Annual and Romantic Cabinet, for 1832; with Illustrations by SAMUEL PROUT, Esq. Painter in Water-Colours in Ordinary to his Majesty. Edited by W. KENNEDY, Esq. Smith and Elder. This is an Annual of the larger size, and of most surpassing beauty in the embellishments. It is sufficient but to name Mr. Prout to imply, in the exercise of the peculiar walk of art in which he excels, that such a work as the present is all the most fastidious critic can wish in the department for which Annuals are most noted. The Cathedral-Tower of Antwerp is the first embellishment, engraved by Floyd; and it is impossible the graceful Gothic tower of that celebrated building could be shown to more advantage, with the romantic edifices piled between it and the spectator. The frontispiece-vignette, ornamented with great beauty by Topham, exhibits a Roman Column now existing at Igel, near Treves; the sculptured details of which are very beautifully brought out. The Hôtel de Ville, at Brussels, is a charming exhibition of light and shade; the edifices standing out in all that breadth and boldness for which Prout's style is remarkable. The View in Ghent places us there at once, so finely are the details made out by the graver of Kernot. The View in Nuremberg is excellent in effect; and that in Metz, backed by the fine Cathedral, highly in character. The Porta Nigra at Treves, in deep shadow, as mourning for Roman glory long past, is a most striking object, charmingly engraved. But what shall we not say of Dresden ?-it is a perfect bijou, a gem of art both in drawing and engraving; and the same may be said of the Port and Lake of Como. The Place of St. Antonio, Padua, is highly characteristic of Mr. Prout's pencil. The buildings on the left hand are finely and boldly sketched; they are picturesque, and are therefore subjects of all others which exhibit the power of Mr. P.'s hand best-broken, bold masses of architectural light and shade. The City and Bridge of Prague form a singular group of objects very novel in effect. Rouen Cathedral, denuded so recently of its beautiful spire, is a charming facsimile of the building and one of the towers of the noble old front. The details here are admirable in keeping. The Church of St. Pierre at Caen, engraved by Carter, is a beautiful specimen of elaborate ornament. These embellishments must rank high in art. Mr. Prout has attained an excellence in this species of drawing, which the engraver has admirably preserved. What is good must make its way; and the Continental Annual, we think, cannot fail to meet success, because it merits it. Mr. Kennedy has composed thirteen stories, on subjects existing in the respective countries to which the engravings relate. These are very good in their way, but there is an obvious want of a less forced connexion between the plates and the stories, which strikes the reader forcibly. It is difficult, however, to avoid such a circumstance; and Mr. Kennedy has got over the obstacle as well perhaps as it was possible for any one to do it, circumstanced as he was with respect to them, The literary part is full of romantic incident. Mr. Prout, however, is the soul of this work, which must prosper as long as sound sense and discrimination exist among the buying public.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling. By HENRY FIELDING: with a Memoir of the Author, by THOMAS ROSCOE, Esq. Vol. I. Cochrane and Co.

This volume of Roscoe's Novelists is remarkable for a portrait of Fielding, of which the following history is given:" In regard to the portrait forming the frontispiece to the foregoing memoir, it has been engraved from a sketch taken by Hogarth, from memory, subsequent to the author's decease. It is known that Fielding, during his lifetime, had an invincible objection to permitting any likeness of himself to be taken by the eminent portrait-painters of his time. Upon the publication of a new edition of his works after his decease, Hogarth was applied to, (as having been long intimate with him,) to supply a portrait of the author, but he is said to have regretted that he could not sufficiently recall the features of the celebrated novelist from mere recollection. Garrick, who happened to be present, on witnessing the evident disappointment of the applicant, instantly exclaimed: If you will reach me one of his wigs, I think I can give you a likeness of our friend Fielding;' and throwing his features into one of those inimitable expressions which forcibly recalled the idea of the original he had seen, he presented a singular resemblance of Fielding. Hogarth, now reminded of his friend, instantly drew the sketch from which the present engraving has been made, and is here given in place of the spurious and pretended likeness which has been suffered too long to disgrace the numerous editions of the author's works."

Cruikshank's embellishments are capital. The first, "The Battle Royal in the Churchyard," displays the very soul of the author. The heroine, Molly Seagrim, is excellent; and the faces of the vanquished speak, in most comic characters, the terrors of the fray. The face of Square, discovered in Molly's apartment, is exquisitely pourtrayed; while we will defy the Royal Academicians to give with such truth as Cruikshank's the figure of Squire Western and his rage in character and in energy of drawing it is worthy of Hogarth. The affrighted Sentinel is as good. No embellishments of Fielding and Smollett can approach in a distant degree these truly clever works of Cruikshank's."

The Amethyst, or Christian's Annual for 1832. Edited by RICHARD HUIE, M.D., and ROBERT KAYE GREVILLE, LL.D. Edinburgh, W. Oliphant.

This is, to us at least, a new Annual, designed for the class denominated evangelically religious. There is both prose and verse, written by ministers of religion, and by several authors well known in the literary world, who see no reason why a work of a decidedly religious character should not be offered to those whose feelings and sentiments are exclusive upon sacred topics, and to whom much that is in the other Annuals is uninteresting, or of a nature not deemed sufficiently sober and precise. This work is very neatly printed, and has an engraved title. The matter consists of well-written pieces on sacred subjects. Mrs. Opie, Mr. James Montgomery, and Bernard Barton, number among the contributors.

St. Michael's, Crooked Lane. Smith and Elder; and Arch; Cornhill. This work is intended to trace the History of the Church and Parish,' of which not only is there scarcely any thing in print, but which have been supposed to furnish nothing for it; though connected as they are with the ancient Saxon market of East Cheap, and from the numerous Roman antiquities lately excavated, there is every reason to suppose the spot densely populated in the Roman times, and, as such, of higher origin than any other in the metropolis. Its remarkable appropriation in after-times to the business of the Stock-fishmongers, connected it with the names of Sir William Walworth and a host of eminent citizens of that trade. Its church, at that time, was collegiate, magnificent, and full of splendid monuments. The well-known Boar's-Head Tavern, more than perhaps any other circumstance, contributed to give it a general interest, and must, as long as the name of Shakspeare lasts; nor is it less in point of note, that the centre of the parish now forms part of one of the greatest improvements known to modern times-the grand approach to the New London Bridge; the excavations for the construction of which have been a fertile source of discovery, and contributed more than any of late years to illustrate the ancient metropolis.

It is editing by Mr. Herbert, the City Librarian, who has manifested great industry and research in consulting the most original authorities. This gentleman is already known to the public through several topographical works illustrative of the metropolis.

December, 1831.-VOL. II. NO. VIII.

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Remarks on the Condition of Hunters, the Choice of Horses, and their Management; originally published in a Series of Letters to the Sporting Magazine. By NIMROD. 1 Vol. 8vo. M. A. Pittman.

The Letters of which this volume is composed, made some noise a little while ago in the Sporting Magazine. The writer, under this anonymous name of Nimrod, proved himself one of those sensible spirits who, in horse-management, (as with clever men in every thing else,) was not afraid to innovate on established usage. The consequence was, he attracted much attention from brother sportsmen and jockeys, who, no doubt, considered many of his opinions heterodox. They could admit nothing contrary to established usage, were for letting what was well (well, in their view) remain as it was, and viewed Nimrod little better than a heretic in the art of managing horses. The latter, however, was in many respects a reformer, and a sturdy one too. He was not to be made believe that common sense and his own experience, or, as he would call it, " demonstration," were not worth a rush, to what custom alone had sanctioned in equestrian matters; and he set his opponents to the rout by the pen, and showed his antagonists that their feet were groggy, their wind broken, in short that they had not a leg to stand upon. We cannot enter here into the arguments, pro and con, for dry or green food, for hot or cold stables, or for the merit of this or that mode of veterinary treatment; but we can safely say, knowing a little about horses, though not sportsmen, that what Nimrod advances is consonant to truth and reason, and that we have no book in the language which treats of the horse, in which there is more good sound sense, practical knowledge, or recommendations more worthy of observance. This work of Nimrod's will do much to alleviate the situation of the hunter, if properly attended to: it will show the master, as well as the groom, that he has been heretofore mistaken in points of the animal's treatment; and finally, it must convince the sportsman that ill-judged usage of the noble animal he rides, not less than that which is cruel, tends to the misery and waste of the animal's life. Nimrod is a clever fellow, of sound judgment, and plain, honest English feeling; and his book is the reflection of such a mind.

A Memorial presented to the Medical and Surgical Officers of the Worcester, Salop, Birmingham, Gloucester, and Hereford Infirmaries, &c. Pp. 8. Renshaw and Rush.

We have been much edified with the perusal of this pamphlet. It appears that the medical gentlemen who attend the county infirmaries in some of the places mentioned in the title, have been in the habit of exacting large fees from students who wished to see the practice of medicine and surgery in the said establishments. These fees have been, in some cases, exorbitant; and Mr. Hebb, a surgeon at Worcester, has thought it a fair subject of remonstrance, that public charities should not be accessible for public ends, without fees exacted according to professional " etiquette and decorum." The correspondence of the medical men, or rather of the secretaries of the establishments for them, is amusing. It seems the practice does not prevail in some of them; in others it is enforced. We can only say that, wherever it does prevail, it is most unjustifiable; and it will take more than the eloquence of any provincial Sangrado to make it bear even the semblance of propriety.

LIST OF NEW PUBLICATIONS.

THEOLOGY.

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8vo. 15s. Vol. II. 8vo.

125.

The Sunday Library. By the Rev. T. F. Dibdin. 6 vols. 8vo.
A Concise View of the Succession of Sacred Literature, Vol. II.
Sermons and Prayers for Families. By the Rev. J. R. Beard.
Christianity a Divine Revelation, &c. By the Rev. R. Broadley. 1 vol. 8vo. 12s.
The Works of the Rev. Robert Hall, Vol. II. 8vo. 12s.
Andrew Fuller's Works, Vol. I. 8vo. 14s.

Bishop Maltby's Sermons. 8vo. 10s. 6d.

MEDICINE, SURGERY.

Elements of Anatomy, General, Special, and Comparative, &c. By David Craigie, M.D. 4to. 12s.

A London Manual of Medical Chemistry, &c. 10s.

Professor Davis on the Diseases of Women and Children, Part I. 4to. 2s.

Le Fevre on Cholera. 8vo. 6s.

Neale on Cholera Morbus. 8vo. 8s. 6d.

NOVELS, TALES.

Cameron; a Novel. 3 vols. 8vo. 1l. 11s. 6d.

Roscoe's Novelist's Library; with the Illustrations of Cruikshank.-Tom Jones, Vol. I. 5s.

Newton Forster; or, the Merchant Service. By the Author of "The King's

Own." 3 vols. post 8vo. Alice Paulet; a Sequel to

3 vols. 8vo.

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Sydenham." By the Author of "Sydenham."

Romance of History. 3 vols. 8vo.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Dictionary of Biography. By R. A. Davenport. 12s.

The British Critic-Quarterly Theological Review and Ecclesiastical Record, No.

XX. 6s.

The Continental Annual for 1832. 8vo. 14s.

Adventures on the Columbia River. By Ross Cox, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo.
Heath's Picturesque Annual for 1832. 8vo. 1. 1s.

The Keepsake for 1832. 1. 1s.

Valpy's Classical Library, No. XXIII.-Plutarch, Vol. I. 18mo. 4s. 6d.
Nimrod's Remarks on Hunters. 8vo. 15s.

Wallace's Treatise on Geometry, &c. 1 vol. 5s.

Rough Sketches of the Life of an Old Soldier. By Lieut.-Col. Leach. 8vo. 12s. Historical Memoirs of the House of Bourbon. 2 vols. 10s.

Encyclopedia Metropolitana; 4th division, Vol. VII. 4to. 21. 2s.

Burke's Dictionary of the Extinct, Suspended, and Dormant Peerages of England.

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Memoirs of the Duchess d'Abrantes. 2 vols. 8vo. 11. 8s.

The Edinburgh Cabinet Library, No. V. 12mo.

The Geographical Annual for 1832. 8vo. 18s.

Lives of the Italian Poets. By the Rev. H. Stebbing, A.M. Second Edition.

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Poland under the Dominion of Russia. By Harro Harring. 1 vol. 8vo. 9s.

The Parliamentary Pocket-Book. 1 vol. 8vo.

Foreign Quarterly Review, No. XVI. 6s.

Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the Years 1828 and 1829. By a German Prince. 2 vols. 18s.

The French Family Library, Vols. XIV. XV. and XVI. 3s. 6d. and 4s. 6d.

Mechanism of the Heavens. By Mrs. Somerville. 8vo. 1l. 10s.

The Quarterly Review, No. XCI. 6s.

A Collection of Authentic Accounts of Plagues and Pestilences which have occurred in Various Parts of the World. 1 vol. 12mo.

A Familiar Compendium of the Law of Husband and Wife. By a Solicitor. 1 vol. 8vo. 8s.

A Dictionary of Quotations, &c. By Hugh Moore, Esq. 8vo. 12s.

An Essay on the Elective Right and the Rejected Bill. By George Condy, Esq. 3s. 6d.

Chess: New Variations on the Muzio Gambit. 1s. 6d.

An Introductory Lecture delivered at King's College, London, Oct. 17, 1831. By J. Austin, B.A.

The Daughter of the Air; a Mythic Tragedy. By Dr. E. Raupach. Translated from the German.

LITERARY NEWS.-WORKS IN PROGRESS.

Mr. F. Arundale, a young architect, who is just returned from Italy, where he has been pursuing his professional studies, is preparing for publication a work on the Edifices of Palladio; consisting of Plans, Sections, and Elevations, with details of his most admired Buildings, from drawings and measurements taken at Vicenza and Venice by the author. The first Number, containing ten plates, engraved in the ablest manner, in folio, will appear on the 1st of January.

Charles Swain, author of Metrical Essays, has nearly ready for publication, The Mind, a Poem, in two parts, with other Poems; embodying a second edition of The Beauties of the Mind, a poetical sketch.

The Jew, a Novel, in 3 vols. is nearly ready.

In a few days will be published, the second edition of Europe in 1830-1, or, The Romance of Present Times; being a series of tales comprising the history of the late Revolutions on the Continent.

Mr. Berry is about to commence publishing in January next, to be continued monthly, a Genealogical Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland; illustrated with very superior engravings of the arms, crests, and supporters, of each Peer.

The Domestic Chemist, comprising Instructions for the Detection of Adulterations and Poisons, forming Vol. II. of The Polytechnic Library, is nearly ready. The brief Memoir of the Rev. Robert Hall's Life, attached to his Works, including a Sketch of his Literary Character, will be from the pen of the Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh, LL.D. M.P., and will be accompanied with a Sketch of Mr. Hall's Character as a Theologian and a Preacher, by the Rev. John Foster.

The principal Memoirs in the Sixteenth Volume of The Annual Biography and Obituary, will be those of Sir Robert Cavendish Spencer; Henry Mackenzie, Esq.; Brigadier-General Walker, Bombay Army; Robert William Elliston, Esq.; Sir William Johnstone Hope; Archdeacon Parkinson; Lord Viscount Torrington; John Jackson, Esq. R.A.; Lieut.-Governor Browell; John Abernethy, Esq.; Mrs. Siddons; Sir Edward Berry; Dr. Mackie; Rev. Robert Hall; Sir Murray Maxwell; Thomas Hope, Esq.; Earl of Dundonald; Archdeacon Churton; Mr. N. T. Carrington; Sir Joseph Sydney Yorke; William Roscoe, Esq.; Charles Goring, Esq.; Rear-Admiral Walker; Andrew Strahan, Esq.; Earl of Northesk; William Hamper, Esq.; James Northcote, Esq. R.A.; Thomas Greatorex, Esq.; Earl of Norbury; Captain Peter Heywood, R.N.; Mr. Chessher; &c.

Observations made during a Twelve Years' Residence in a Mussulmaun's Family in India; descriptive of the Manners, Customs, and Habits of the Mussulmaun People of Hindoostaun in Domestic Life, and embracing their Belief and Opinions : by Mrs. Meer Hasan Ali,--will shortly appear, in 2 vols.

A New Volume of Sermons, by the Rev. Dr. Arnold, of Rugby, is in the press, and nearly ready for publication.

Picturesque Memorials of Salisbury; a Series of Etchings and Vignettes, from Drawings by a young Artist, and comprising Views of interesting Buildings, and other remains of antiquity, in that city and neighbourhood; edited, with descriptive Notices, by the Rev. Peter Hall, M.A., will shortly appear.

The Shakespearean Dictionary; being a complete Collection of the Expressions of Shakespeare, in Prose and Verse, from a few words to fifty or more lines: to each extract is prefixed an appropriate synonyme, and the whole is arranged in alphabetical order.

A new edition of Four Years in the West Indies; containing a full and authentic Account of the late dreadful Hurricane in Barbadoes, St. Vincent, and St. Lucia; illustrated by lithographic sketches.

Selections from the Edinburgh Review; comprising the best Articles in that Journal, from its commencement to the present time; with a Preliminary Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes. Edited by Maurice Cross.

Mr. R. Hanway is preparing a History of the Representation of England, drawn from Records; and of the Reform of its Abuses by the House of Commons itself, without the aid of the Statute Law.

Letters from France, Savoy, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Holland, and the Netherlands, by George Downes, A.M. 2 vols. post 8vo.

A new edition, corrected, of Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, with six etchings by Brooke, complete in 1 vol. foolscap 8vo. is ready.

A new edition, being the fourth, of the late Dean Graves's Lectures on the Four Last Books of the Pentateuch, designed to show the Divine Origin of the Jewish Religion, chiefly from internal evidence, is in the press.

The Algerines, or the Twins of Naples, a novel, will shortly appear.

Mr. James Boyle, author of a Treatise on Moxa, will shortly publish an Account of the Fevers and other Diseases prevalent on the Western Coast of Africa; together with the Medical Topography of that Coast.

Dr. James Hope is writing a Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels.

The Time's Telescope, for 1832, is to be much increased in its attraction. The Astronomical Department is to be again written by Mr. Barker; while the portion devoted to Natural History, or the Appearances of the Seasons, is, for the first time, to be from the pen of Professor Rennie.

Mr. Thomas Pringle (editor of Friendship's Offering) will shortly publish The Emigrants, and other Poems. This volume, of which the scenery is chiefly African, is to be beautifully illustrated by characteristic engravings, in wood and in copper, by the first artists.

Luther's Table-Talk; consisting of Select Passages from the Familiar Conversations of that godly, learned man, and famous Champion of Divine Truth, Dr. Martin Luther; 1 vol. 12mo. is in the press.

Select Essays on Various Topics, Religious and Moral; by Henry Belfrage, D.D. are nearly ready.

The Rev. Mr. Stewart's Narrative of his Visit to the South Seas, in the United States Ship Vincennes, in 1829-30, is to appear in a few days, comprising scenes in Brazil, Peru, Manilla, the Cape of Good Hope, St. Helena, the South Sea Islands, &c., and will contain the most recent account yet published of the Christian Missions to those remote but highly-interesting portions of the globe.