cloying it with the sweets of literature alone. For those who are fond of sipping of all, and feasting upon nothing, who love "catches, and the ends of old songs," better than sterling wit, we advise to read the chefs-d'œuvres of authors, in preference to applying to the original sources from whence they spring.

As au humble follower of Ivanhoe, Robin Hood has made his appearance before the public, furnished with A Collection of all the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English Outlaw; to which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life. As this illustrious personage is nightly seen gracing the boards of all our theatres, ad vivum, "with forest spear and garb of green," it cannot be an unreasonable supposition that these ancient testimonies to his thieving prowess, should meet with the signal regard and favour both of the managers and audience. They form the most complete and authentic history of his proceedings that has yet been written, as they are a collection of the numerous collections, of the numerous old antiquaries from the poet Drayton to Mr. Joseph Ritson and Sir Walter Scott. Though there are rather too many of them to be "familiar in our mouths as household words," as Mr. Ritson poetically observes, they are still interesting as elucidations of the national spirit, and peculiarities of a race of men who are now nearly extinct.

DAVID CAREY, esq. has recently published a collection from the living poets, entitled-Beauties of the Modern Poets, being Selections from the Works of the most popular Authors of the present day, including many original pieces, never be fore published. To this there is prefixed an Introductory View of the Modern Tem. ple of Fame, as a sort of inspiring prospect, we presume, for the yet unfledged offspring of Parnassus. As there is very little art or judgment required to extract some tolerably good poetry out of the voluminous works of contemporary genius, we have no hesitation in saying that it is well selected; but how far this habit of condensing the matter held as copyright by others, may be agreeable to book-law, and booksellers, is rather a more doubtful point. There is, however, no such dearth of literary genius, that we need seriously to quarrel about it. Mr. J. RONDEAU, of Clayhill Academy, Enfield, has lately published an amusing little volume, called Humorous Recitations in Verse; with Pride and Prejudice, or Strictures on Public Schools. pretending to any of the higher honours of the lyre, there is a simplicity and unaffected ease in these little offerings to youth, which cannot fail of engaging the attention, and informing the minds of the young people for whom they were written. During va

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cations, how can the leisure moments of pupils be so happily employed as in perusing pages in which utility and amusement are blended together? The attempt of the author to render them inseparable, has in this little work been apparently suc cessful,

A Review of the Colonial Slave Registration Acts, in a Report of a Committee of the Board of Directors of the African Institution, has just been published by order of that Board. It contains the result of enquiries of the committee to whom it was referred to examine the acts passed by the legislatures of the different colonies in the West Indies, for a Registration of slaves in those colonies, and to report their opinion thereon to the Board. It appears, that in the course of this examination the committee appointed has detected many defects, and other very objectionable clauses in different acts which are pointed out, though without carrying the investigation to a conclusion. The three classes of provisions, however, into which the subject was originally divided, have been fairly and with sufficient fullness reviewed, clearly establishing the utter insufficiency of the laws as substitutes for the register bill. In addition to this they are stated as not at all adequate in themselves to the objects proposed. It may, says the committee, be clearly foreseen, that they will not even supply that grand and unfortunate defect in our colonial policy, so long strangely suffered to exist, the want of an accurate periodical census of the slave-population. Much less can laws like these effectually exclude a clandestine slave-trade, prevent the imposition of illegal slavery, and produce that salutary despair of any future foreign supply which would most effectually promote the humane treatment of the plantation slaves, and their consequent preservation and increase. It is an excellent Report.

A Geological Primer in Verse, &c. So the public is already again greeted with a satirical, facetious, but ambiguous production of the new Poetico-geologico school, meant we presume (if it really pretends to any meaning) as a witty exposure of "the harsh and crabbed terms of deep Geology," of which so many ingenious, but contradictory systems have been lately broached. Our poetical and anonymous coal-heaver (the right name for Collier) has laid the train of his wit so deep and darkly, that it seems to have called forth even his own admiration of it. The author of King Coal's Levee, has the rare merit of attempting an entire revolution in poetry, and of placing himself at the head of a new school, which may be styled par excellence "the unideal." This though spoken in jest is not without some degree of truth, as it really leaves after its

perusal

perusal a very indefinite feeling of its merits. This personification of still life in earth and metals, animating the elements, and conveying instruction by fi. gures of speech, is little less ridiculous than the methods resorted to by Von Feinagle in mnemonics: to impress the object on your mind, he turns it into absurdity; and this species of wit, is certainly as entertnining as it is easy and unintelligible.

A Poetical Geognosy on Feasting and Fighting, must undoubtedly be extremely amusing to those who love enigmas and charades, who love to read and to guess, to guess and to read again, till the meaning becomes fainter and fainter, till they necessarily pronounce the inventor a very Edipus, and the expounder a deuced clever fellow, and lay down the book quite

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The first number of a new Gazetteer, intended to be completed in twelve monthly parts, is just published, containing an alphabetical arrangement of the colonies and colonial establishments of

Great Britain. It is composed with the view of compressing into one volume, the various information relative to the British dominions abroad, and will prove highly valuable and interesting to emigrants, colonists, factors, and all mercantile and military men connected with the colonies. We believe it is the first publication upon this plan, that has yet appeared, and will prove useful to agents of the East India Company, as an index of our different possessions in that part of the world.

Mr. CHARLES ALDIS, Surgeon, and a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, has recently published his Observations on the Nature and Cure of Glandular Diseases, especially those denominated Cancer, &c. and on the too frequent use of mercury; a work which claims the notice of medical men, particularly in re gard to the treatment of glandular diseases, in which the author strongly recommends the strengthening in opposition to the debilitating system. It is well known, that very active medicines of quick operation, produce some powerful effects, whence they acquire a certain degree of popularity, which often leads to dangerous consequences, as in mercury and digitalis. Far from dissuading, however, the actual use of them, Mr. A. admits of their importance in extreme cases. There is much information and sound reasoning in the hypothesis which he adopts.

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MONG the prevailing disorders of the present period, hooping cough holds a prominent place. This is always a tedious, and often-times an intractable malady; and the rationale and management of it have recently been made more complicated and difficult, by the conjunction of the complaint with other inflammatory and eruptive affections-or rather, perhaps, it ought to be said, by the rapid transition from one of these diseased states to another-thus the scarcely convalescent from measles has been frequently visited by hooping cough, and vice versa. In these cases one of the main objects of the medical practitioner is to guard against pulmonary inflammation; for when either one or the other of the above visitations terminates in death, the lungs or their investing membranes are almost invariably found to be especially implicated with the diseased agency. But let the young Physician, on the other hand, be aware that hooping cough may establish itself, and that, too, with no trifling force, as a mere spasmodic affection; and that, if his sole indications of treatment be drawn from inflammatory -notions, he may often produce the very disorder he is anxious to relieve and remedy. That species of action, which is

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named spasm, when occuring on parts endowed with much vascularity, very commonly superinduces the absolutely inflammatory state; and inflammation, when thus occasioned, is not seldom of the most severe kind. It is questionable, whether visitations of the nature now alluded to, may not occasionally have been consequent upon these depletory and debilitating processes which, however loudly ealled for at the actual commencement of inflammation, are often worse than inefficient when had recourse to, as preventive measures. On the other hand, we must in all cases of hooping cough be careful to preserve the frame free from every source of artificial irritation. It is of the greatest consequence to counteract all tendency to derangement in what are called the first passages; of so much moment indeed is it to be watchful against the intrusion of stomach irritation, and so conspicuously beneficial do merely stomachic medicines in many cases prove, that some theorists have supposed this important organ—the stomach, to be the actual residence of the disease in question, or rather that it is upon this part the virus first impinges, and that the pulmonary affections are consequential and sympa

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