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SON, of the University of Glasgow, who, in recording the wonderful incidents and effects on society which marked the progress of Chemistry-in telling of the strange lives of its early students, (the 41chemists and others,) and in describing at full the useful labours and discoveries of more recent professors, has written a book which, while it is characterized by scrupulous truth, and by practical information in every part, possesses much of the attraction of romance. The remaining volumes of those hitherto published, are occupied by the HISTORY OF CHIVALRY AND THE CRUSADES, by G. P. R. JAMES, Esq.; AND FESTIVALS, GAMES, AND AMUSEMENTS, ANCIENT AND MODERN, by Mr HORACE SMITH, which latter is just issued to the public. Of the charm of the former subject in an ima ginative point of view, and of its great utility in illustrating the an nals of European nations, it is needless to speak; while as regards the present author's treatment, the numerous readers of" Richelieu" and" Darnley" have, no doubt, from its first announcement, formed high expectations, which, it is hoped, have now been fulfilled. To these, many other original works, of a class which seems, of especial right, to belong to an English National Library, will immediately succeed; among which may be mentioned the HISTORY of the ROYAL NAVY of ENGLAND from its first existence; and that of the BRITISH ARMY and its SERVICES. Such are the principal features of the National Library as far as it has already proceeded; and such the nature of some of those works in preparation. And in conclusion, the Proprietors trust they shall not be accused of unjustifiable pride in expressing their belief, that, in the progress o their undertaking, they shall be the means of publishing, at a price accessible to the public at large, a body of Literature deserving the praise of having instructed many, and amused all; and, above every other species of eulogy, of being fit to be introduced, without reserve or exception, by the father of a family to the domestic eircle. Sold by BELL and BRADFUTE, No. 6, Bank Street, Edinburgh. Literary Gazette, |
