It also contains two early Productions by his Majesty and the late Duke of York. The Engravings are beautifully executed from Pictures by the following eminent Artists. Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.-The Child and Flowers. Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.-A Boy and Dog. R. Westall, R.A.-The Dreams of the Infant Shakspeare. Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.-The Portrait of a Lady. R. R. Reinagle, R.A.-View of Haddon Hall, with Hawking Notices of the Bijou. "We must say a few words about the Bijou,' and shall begin by admitting that its name is simply expressive of the volume to which it belongs. This present is its first appearance among the annuals, and whether we look to the exquisite style of its embellishments, or the high quality of its literary matter, we can have no hesitation in placing it far above all its competitors. We pronounce this unqualified encomium, in the perfect confidence that it will not be questioned by any one who has given but a cursory inspection to the finished excellence, in all respects, of the BiJou.'"-Courier, Nov. 2. "The Bijou' must certainly rank among the highest of its class. Lawrence, the patrician creator of beauty; Stothard, whose embellishments of Boccacio have caught the very sunshine of Italian skies; Pickersgill, with his dreams of oriental loveliness; and Wilkie, the inimitable,-only require to be named. The literary department stands equally high: the letter from Sir Walter Scott alone, written in that manly and simple style so peculiarly his own, must attract every reader; and Coleridge, the HE LITERARY SOUVENIR; or, TJUVIER'S ANIMAL KINGDOM. THE Edited by ALARIC A. WATTS. ** A few large paper Copies, with Proofs on India paper, "We do sincerely congratulate Mr. Watts on the high rank his beautiful volume must take in the annual show and competition of the year. It is not overrun by the minnows of literature which occupy too many pages in other works of the same class; nor is it so unequal in its filling up. The prose tales are almost all perfect of their kind; the plates are alone worth far more than the whole cost of the publication."-Literary Gazette. "In point of literary merit, the Souvenir' is still the first of "We are only able to glance at the Souvenir' whilst our ma. Price 198. wild, imaginative Coleridge, has unsealed his fountain of Poesy, FRIENDSHIP'S OFFERING for 1828, and exquisite is its flowing. The Subaltern has one of those annals of a soldier's eventful life, which no one records better; and Lockhart one of those fine old ballads whose spirit he catches so admirably in translation."-Literary Gazette. "A very slight inspection of the Bijou will serve to convince our readers that it is in no respect inferior to any gem of its class. The advertisements have made the public acquainted with the names of the writers who have contributed to the formation of this splendid literary wreath. Of the embellishments it is impossible to speak too highly; each is in itself a bijou. The Child and Flowers renders admiration mute; and we could look at the Sans Souci for a week together without any exhaustion of delight. We could point to single proof prints, worth the price of each whole volume, in which they form only a small integral part."Literary Chronicle. Published by W. Pickering, Chancery Lane, London; and sold by all Booksellers. Medical Jurisprudence.-3d edition, 8vo. price 18. tish Practice; intended for the Use of Magistrates, Coroners, 3d edition, greatly enlarged and improved, dedicated, by Printed for Thomas and George Underwood, 32, Fleet Street. embellished with Twelve Line Engravings, by the first Ar- By E. GRIFFITH, FLS. Commencing the Class AVES. Printed for Geo. B. 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TRAVELS in AMERICA, ITAL By the VISCOUNT DE CHATEAUERIAN Printed for Henry Colburn, 8, New Burlington Ar LONDON: Printed for the Proprietors, and Pav J. MOYES, Tock's Court, Ch AND Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, &c. This Journal is supplied Weekly, or Monthly, by the principal Booksellers and Newsmen, throughout the Kingdom; but to those who may desire its immediate transmission, by post, we recommend the LITERARY GAZETTE, printed on stamped paper, price One Shilling. No. 568. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1827. PRICE 8d. REVIEW OF NEW BOOKS. to children (with perhaps the exception of Sir that is in the door; and it lifted the latch The Christmas Box. London, Ainsworth. Walter Scott's more mature national ballad). gently, and a very pretty little boy, with long There are fairy tales, stories of knights and brown curled hair, but rather pale and sickly COME hither, come hither, all my good and giants, and, above all, an admirable history of in his appearance, came in. He did not look pretty little masters and misses; and I will the late war (from the pen of Mr. Lockhart), at me, but walked across the room very softly, give you the first peep into the most delightful adapted to the capacity of juvenile readers. as if he feared to disturb me; and he went into Christmas Box that you ever saw. What do But our best mode of exhibiting the character the room beyond mine, and I saw no more of you think of so great an author as Sir Walter of this Christmas Box will be by opening it him.' The lady, when she heard this, put her Scott, who has for years enchanted your and displaying some of its contents. The fol- handkerchief to her face, and went out of mammas and papas, and uncles and aunts, ay lowing simple narrative is enough to make the the room with her children. The major was and grandfathers and grandmothers what do publication a universal favourite in Scotland, sorry to see Mrs. Bell discomposed, but could you think of his writing a grand heroic ballad where it will be felt and understood. not understand the reason of it, until Mr. to adorn an "Annual," prepared expressly for Bell told him. I do not know (said he) who you, among the number of beautiful volumes, Little Willie Bell.-By Mr. Lockhart. this little boy could be; but about a year of the same kind, made for elder people, such "In Scotland, at every church door there is a ago we lost our only son, and what you as the Forget-Me-Not, the Souvenir, the Friend- stool and a broad pewter plate upon it, and every said brought back my poor little Willie to ship's Offering, the Amulet, the Pledge of one that goes to church is expected to put his mother's mind; for he had a pale comFriendship, the Bijou, and the Keepsake? For something into the plate, as he passes it, for plexion, and his hair was very fine, and my part, I think it extremely good and kind of the poor of the parish. Gentlemen and ladies hung in pretty curls over his neck. He was a him; and I am pleased to see many distinput in shillings and half-crowns, or more if beautiful child. These two old friends reguished individuals joined with him in the they be very rich; but working men and their mained silent for a little while, and then talked amiable task of producing a book fit to amuse wives, and any one that is not very poor in- of other matters. The major told Mr. Bell about and instruct you, my dear young friends and deed, would be ashamed to go by the plate the wars in America, where he had been for future readers. I observe among them Lady without putting in a penny or a halfpenny, to many years with his regiment: and Mr. Bell Charlotte Bury, who has just now read her sex help the old frail people, and the blind and told the major what had happened to others of so just a lesson on the silly and dangerous vice lame, who are not able to work and win money their schoolfellows, while he was so far away of Flirtation; Lord F. Levison Gower, a youth- for themselves. It is the custom of good ladies from Scotland. Mrs. Bell was in good spirits ful nobleman of the highest rank and most and gentlemen in that country to give each of again, when the gentlemen went to tea; and splendid fortune, but more eminent by his ta- their children a halfpenny or r penny, or more they were all very gay and happy the rest of lents and love of literature; Mr. Lockhart, the if they can afford it, every Sunday morning, to the evening. Next morning, after breakfast. accomplished author of many athetic and ex-put into the plate. And they do this, that the major took Mr. Bellide into the garden, quisite works in prose and verse; Mr. Theo- their children may learn betimes to think of and said- This is a very odd thing: this dore Hook, one of the wittiest men of this or the hard condition of poor, frail, blind people, morning I awoke very early, and presently the any other age; Mr. Charles Lamb, a sweet and how right it is for us to help them in their same little, thin, white hand appeared opening poet, imbued with all the simple charms of distress. I have told you these things, because the latch of the door. The pale boy with the ancient minstrelsy; Dr. Maginn, who combines if you did not know them, you would not be so long curled hair came in just as before, and profound learning with all the spirit of lighter well able to understand a story which I once walked through the room into the closet. I modern literature; besides other very clever heard told in Scotland. Long ago, there was was surprised, and got up and entered the writers; not to mention Mr. Ainsworth, the a good worthy clergyman in that country, closet after him. He was on his knees, scratchpublisher (who has shewn that he can contri- called Mr. Bell: he was very charitable and ing, as if he wanted to lift up one of the boards bute as well to the contents of a volume as he kind, and all the poor people loved him exceed- of the floor. I went close to him, and was can to its progress from the press); nor Mr. ingly. One Saturday an old schoolfellow, just going to touch his shoulder, when sud- Crofton Croker, the Editor, whose Fairy Le- whom Mr. Bell had not seen for many years, denly, I can't tell how, he contrived to disgends, and description of the South of Ireland, came to visit him. Mr. Bell was very glad to appear; and I found myself alone in the have so finely illustrated the superstitions and see his schoolfellow, and invited him to stay closet. After a little, I began to examine the feelings of that country. These seem to be, there for a few days; and he agreed to do so. board he had been scratching: I found it loose, and are, quite a host for a little Christmas Box And Mrs. Bell prepared the best bed-room in and lifted it, and here is a sixpence I saw lying like this; but perhaps it has another merit, the house for this gentleman, whose name was on the ground below it.' Mr. Bell looked very which will still further recommend it,-fifty Major Lindsay; and the major had ridden a grave when he heard this. He took the sixwood engravings, from the fertile pencil of that long journey, so he retired into the bed-room pence from the major, and seemed to be vexed excellent artist Mr. W. H. Brooke. I wish I to change his dress before dinner; and this with the story. While he was thinking how could get one or two of these to let you see, by took up some time. He was about an hour in it could be, the children came running out of way of sample, how ornamental and entertain- the bed-room by himself. They then dined, the house: Mr. Bell called to them, and, shewing they are!t and after dinner Mr. Bell asked for the child-ing them the sixpence, said, 'Come, my dears, ren, and they were brought into the parlour. can any of you tell me any thing of this? here The major was much pleased with the children, is a sixpence, which the major has found under for they were very quiet. There were three a loose board in the floor of the little closet that of them, all girls, Jane, Mary, and Susan. But is beyond his bedroom.' Mary and little Susan Jane was a good deal older than the others. shook their heads, and said nothing; but Jane, The major took Susan on his knee, and kissed the eldest, blushed; and her papa saw she knew her, and then he looked round, and said to something that she did not like to tell. Come, Mrs. Bell, These are fine little girls, but where Jane,' said he, speak the truth; and I shall is the pretty boy that came into my room while forgive you, whatever you have done.' 'InI was dressing! These are all the children deed, papa,' said Jane, it was not I that put we have, major,' said Mrs. Bell. I wonder the sixpence there.' Then who put it there?' who it could be, then,' said the major: I was sitting by my bedside, when I saw a little, thin, white hand put through the round hole Never having spoken in the first person before, we find it so very singular, that we must re-adopt our accustomed WE; which we do, to say very briefly, that this forthcoming Annual meets with our hearty approbation. It enters into no competition with others, but takes up an entirely new line, and is expressly addressed Since writing this, we have procured two of the cuts from the story of the Golden Ass, which, to shew that we are the best-natured critics in the world, we insert for the amusement of that happy class to whom this Review is principally addressed. The first represents the man transformed into the beast; and the second his regaining his original shape. . 6 said Mr. Bell. And then the tears came running over Jane's cheeks, and she said, 'Oh, papa, I think it was poor Willje: the Sunday before he died, you gave him a sixpence to put into the plate, and he had a halfpenny of his own, and he put the halfpenny into the plate, and kept the sixpence; but Willie did not tell me where he hid it.' Mr. Bell shook his head; and the major saw that the tears were standing in his eyes. He said nothing for some time; but at last the church bell began to ring, and then he gave the sixpence to Jane, and bade her put it into the plate the same morning. Major Lindsay stayed some days at Mr. Bell's; but neither he nor any body else ever saw any thing more of the little pale boy.' The Enchanted Ass and the Battle of the Frogs and Mice are equally well told, and not the worse for being founded on the classical authorities of Apuleius and (not) Homer. The subjoined playful effusion is not worthy of Mr. Hook. For variety's sake, we add the ballad already alluded to a stirring example of Sir Walter Scott.* The Bonnets of Bonnie Dundee. "James Grahame, of Claverhouse (pronounced Cla To the Lords of Convention, 'twas Claves who spoke, So each cavalier, who loves honour and e- slee, Come, fill up, &c. With sour-featured saints the Grass-market was pag'l These cowls of Kilmarnock had spits and had spears, vers), was created Viscount of Dundee by King James the Second, in reward of his distinguished military ser- As he rode down the sanctified bends of the Bow, vices. Bonny Dundee' was one of the handsomest and Each carline was flyting and shaking her pow: bravest of men-enthusiastic and melancholy of temper-But some young plants of grace-they look'd contem courteous and amiable in all the ordinary intercourse of life, and passionately beloved by his soldiers, for his skill Thinking luck to thy bonnet, thou bonnie Dandes and valour, and the patience with which he partook every hardship and privation of warfare; but capable of terrible severities when he thought the king's service un-would be promoted by them, and consequently abhorred by those against whom he fought,-as indeed his memory is execrated among their descendants to this day. Lord Dundee had served some campaigns in his youth under the command of William Prince of Orange: he is said to have saved the prince's life in the battle of Seneffe; and to have been deeply offended afterwards by the refusal of promotion in the prince's army. It was not wonderful, therefore, that when William took possession of the throne of Great Britain, this great soldier adhered to the cause of his old master and friend James the Second. He immediately went into the Highlands of Scotland, where he had great power among the wild tribes and their chieftains, and began to raise an army in the name of that unfortunate and misguided prince. The following song is descriptive of his leaving Edinburgh upon this errand. The Lords of Convention,' who had then the chief authority in Scotland, and the town's people of Edinburgh, who were generally attached to the cause of William, would fain have hindered him; but they durst not. He galloped boldly through the city, and in the course of a few weeks was at the head of a considerable army of Highlanders. King William's troops, under General M Kay, followed him into the highland country, and met him on the 16th of July, 1689, in the pass of Killykrankie, where Dundee totally defeated them. But he fell mortally wounded in the very moment of victory, and the loss of him so discouraged the Highlanders that they dis-Away to the hills, to the woods, to the rocks, persed themselves among their mountains, and in a short Ere I own a usurper, I'll couch with the fox: time the whole country was reduced to subjection and And tremble, false Whigs, though triumphant ye be quiet by King William's army. You have not seen the last of my bonnet and me." Come, fill up, &c. Cautionary Verses to Youth of both Sexes. My little dears, who learn to read, That very silly thing indeed Which people call a pun. Read Entick's rules, and 'twill be found It is to make the selfsame sound For instance, ale may make you ail, Or if to France your bark you steer, Should eat their meat when meeting. Thus one ripe fruit may be a pear, And yet be pared again, And still be one, which seemeth rare It therefore should be all your aim To speak with ample care; For who, however fond of game, A fat man's gait may make us smile, Who has no gate to close; The farmer sitting on his stile No stylish person knows. Perfumers men of scents must be; Some Scilly men are bright; A brown man oft deep read we see, A black a wicked wight. Most wealthy men good manors have, However vulgar they; And actors still the harder slave, The oftener they play. So poets can't the baise obtain Unless their tailors choose; While grooms and coachmen not in vain Each evening seek the Mews. The ayer, who by dying lives, A dire life maintains; The glazier, it is known, receives His profits from his panes. By gardeners thyme is tied, 'tis true, But time or tide won't wait for you If you are tied for time. Then now you see, my little dears, The way to make a pun; A trick which you, through coming years, The fault admits of no defence; For wheresoe'er 'tis found, You sacrifice the sound for sense, Upon this extract we have to observe, that its publication in the Literary Gazette is authorised, and the copyright reserved. No one can accuse us of illiberality in preventing, or even complaining of, the general use made by the periodical press of articles which often cost us dearly. We leave it to the good taste and discretion of our contemporaries to determine what ought to be considered our property, and what, on the other hand, they might fairly copy from us. He spurr'd to the foot of the high castle rock, Come, fill up, &c. The Gordon has ask'd of him whither he goes- There are hills beyond Pentland, and lands beyond Fort He waved his proud arm, and the trumpets were blo Come, fill up my cup, come, fill up my can, man. A Practical Treatise on Architectural Jurispru- ARTS AND SCIENCES. "An address has been received from Ah-be thoroughly imbued with a hatred of the tse-heang-ah, stating that some (Ha-să-kih) sovereigns on the continent. It is filled with Hassacks, headed by Chen-tae-le, had made an anecdotes most disgraceful to many of them, if inroad through one of the passes on the fron- true; but the spirit in which the author writes WE cannot more successfully consult the gratier of Ko-poo-to, and carried off a number of renders his authority very doubtful. We shall tification of the lover of astronomical science than by pointing out some of the principal cattle, having attacked and wounded the herds-next week look to some of the particulars. nebulæ visible in the heavens during the month, The officer, Chă-kîh-sang-ah, being dewhich appearances have excited the astonishspatched after the plunderers, had returned from ment of all who have beheld them, and sug= the pass of Hwuy-ma-e-la-hoo without any of gested some of the sublimest conceptions which them being seized, &c. &c. The Hassacks ever occupied the human mind, of the boundbeing near the pass of Tă-urh-pa-ha-tae, which less extent of the material universe, which adjoins the Russian boundaries, the seizure of every fresh discovery proves to be replete with these robbers is of the utmost importance. Of not merely suns beyond suns gloriously shining, late the Hassacks have every year made plunbut systems of suns, arranged in harmonious dering inroads. It is necessary that they be A CLEVER and useful abstract of the laws re-order, so inconceivably remote, as by distance seized and rigidly dealt with, in order to strike lating to buildings and house property of every to appear condensed into a faint light, like awe into foreigners, and make manifest the description, arranged in a simple and perspicu-minute clouds of various and mysterious forms. -nation's laws. How happened it that the offi ous manner, calculated to shorten the labours The first and principal of these is the Milkycer who was sent to seize the plunderers al- of architects, surveyors, and even lawyers, on way, which, when Aries is on the meridian, lowed such a length of time to elapse without questions of dilapidations, ancient lights, fix- traverses the heavens from the E. by S., and, apprehending even one of them? His remissIn fact it is a work passing the zenith to the W.N.W., continues tures, nuisances, &c. &c. ness has been excessive. The commandant which should be in the collection of every man its course through the nadir, completes its zone states that another officer, Tă-lang-ah, has possessing houses, or in any way concerned with of light, in which it is supposed our sun is since been despatched to exert himself in ap-buildings. The author says:-"I have en-placed, forming but a unit amidst the myriads prehending the offenders. Let Chă-kih-sang-deavoured to collect into one volume the sub-of stars of which it is composed, and sinking ah be still kept at Hwuy-ma-e-la-hoo, to exert stance of what lies dispersed in many, and to into insignificance if conceived to be beheld himself with the utmost diligence in seeking select from masses of promiscuous materials an from one of its own cluster, while, perhaps, for the plunderers. Should he again make analysed digest of cases connected with the juris- even this cluster sinks into a telescopic cloud evasive excuses he will be severely punished. prudence of the multifarious art of building that when seen from a neighbouring system. This When it is discovered through what pass Chen- have been argued and determined in our various idea is supported by considering our sun as tae-le entered, let the officer who so negligently courts of law and equity. The search after these placed in such a nebula as we find near guarded it be cashiered and reported. materials has produced other results than pre- Germinorum; this being of a form similar "The censor, Le-fung-chin, has presented cedents for the architect alone; they will be to the galaxy, and to a solar system in the an address, praying for the suppression of false found, I trust, equally important to his em- interior of this, the stars would be projected doctrines and opinions. The religious ritual of the empire is founded on the sacred books. ployers, to the beneficed clergy, to church- into a concave arch, those stars at the side and wardens, and to the whole community of house- nearest would appear as of a superior magniTo delude the people with unorthodox opinions holders, landlords, and tenants, of this opulent tude and brilliancy to the rest, analogous to the is a great contravention of the laws. Accordcountry." Arcturus, Sirius, Capella, &c. of our sidereal ing to the report of the censor, a fane has again Mr. Elmes has successfully performed his system. In Asterion, the north greyhound of been erected to the superstition of Woo-tung task, and brought together an abundance of Bootes, is a nebula, surrounded by three small at Lun-kea-shan, ten le (three miles) to the important decisions on almost every point on stars; and in the hind foot of Chara, the west of Soo-chow-foo. In the reign of Kang-which disputes are likely to arise, and blended southern greyhound, is another. Near the he the fane was destroyed and the idols burnt, much curious and amusing research; thus ren-right ear of the Great Bear are two nebulæ and for a long series of years the superstition dering it not only a book of reference and a very close together, one of which is elongated, has been suppressed; but the sacrifices are valuable index to the best legal authorities, but with a telescopic star at its extremity; the now offered as before. The witches place a one of considerable historical interest on these other, which is south, is round, and more conpretended confidence in the predictions of the subjects. spicuous. On the knee of Auriga is a mass of spirits, and promise a fulfilment of hopes and stars of a square form, 15 min. in diameter; desires; and the extension of their baneful there are two other clusters of a less magnitude practice is not confined to the jurisdiction of in its neighbourhood. Beneath the left knee Soo-chow-foo alone: it is, therefore, highly Vols. XII. XIII. of Hercules is a beautiful nebula; the central requisite to adopt rigorous measures for their restraint and suppression. Sun-yu-ting and XIV. XV. and XVI. Constable and Co. part is very bright, and surrounded with great Han-wan-ke (the governor and deputy) are Edinburgh; Hurst, Chance, and Co. London. nebulosity. Above the southern horn of the directed to enjoin all the officers of the subor- THIS excellent design continues to increase in Bull is a faint mottled light, resembling in dinate districts to destroy every trace of the interest and value as it proceeds; and we are glad form a comet or electrical brush. Below the superstition of Woo-tung. Let not the simple to find that its merits are rewarded by a corre- southern claw of the Crab is an oblong, com. people be permitted to offer sacrifices or to as sponding increase of popularity. The first of pressed cluster, in which 200 stars may be dissociate with the votaries of the superstition. the volumes above enumerated contains a cu- tinguished. Close to the Triangle, over the Let the magistrates issue instructions to all rious and instructive selection of phenomena of head of Aries, is a fine nebula, exhibiting a the heads of families to exercise a rigid control nature: the XIIIth and XIVth give us an uniform whitish light, its diameter 5 min., over their dependants. Let the whole system improved edition of Mariner's remarkable re- two-thirds of which the nebulosity is very of false worship, calculated only to delude the sidence in the Tonga Islands. But the last plain. In Perseus there are no fewer than uninstructed populace, with its burning of in- two volumes are possessed of still higher claims eight, and in Ophiuchus seven nebulæ; but cense, collection of subscriptions, &c. whenever to public attention. They consist of a History the largest and most remarkable (if we except it is discovered, be immediately followed up by of the Forty-five," by Robert Chambers, the Magellanic Cloud near the South Pole) is severe punishment, in order that the public author of the Traditions of Edinburgh; and that nebula in the sword of Orion, which is of morals may be improved and the hearts of men we must compliment the writer on the vivid a very irregular form, its nebulosity nearly set right. Khin-tsze." With these extracts, so illustrative of the peculiar manners, government, and customs of China, we close the book for a while. They are certainly a very odd people, and very oddly ruled. There are many typographical errors to correct in a second edition. Constable's Miscellany. picture he has drawn of that stirring and surrounding a part of great blackness, and Oh! when the soul, no longer earthward weighed, Those wondrous works our blindness now debars,- J. T. B. EXPEDITION TO THE SOUTH.-Lieutenant Foster, to whom one of the Copley Medals was adjudged last week by the Royal Society, has been appointed to the command of a vessel for the South Seas, to continue his experiments with the pendulum, and ascertain the longitudes, &c. of various stations in that part of the globe. ROYAL ACADEMY. what their legal advisers consider sufficient might have been rendered more in unison with evidence of his practice so as to satisfy a jury." the scene. Our correspondent further assures us, that, "notwithstanding the profession of Dr. Har- On Thursday, the competition productions far rison, in a letter from him to the late censors, the medals given by the Royal Academy were dated the 4th of August, and subsequently hung up in the rooms; and we are sorry to b published in several newspapers and other pe- serve that, though the number of students is riodical works, that he has furnished his greater than ever, there is a lamentable defi. solicitors, Messrs. Tennant, Harrison, and Ten- ciency of efforts in the higher branches of the nant, with instructions to give every facility to art. For the gold medals in painting and a legal investigation of (what he terms) the sculpture (the highest classes), there is not one assumed privileges of the College;an admis- specimen. Even in inferior lines, for silver sion of his having practised for one month medals, &c., there is little to attract attention (with the view of bringing the question to an OXFORD, Dec. 1.-On the 22d ult. the fol- immediate issue) has been refused by those lowing degree was conferred : LITERARY AND LEARNED. Master of Arts.-W. C. Townsend, Queen's College. On Thursday last, the 29th, the following degrees were conferred : Doctor in Divinity.-Rev. G. Masters, Magdalen Hall. Bachelor in Divinity.-Rev. W. St, Andrew Vincent, Christ Church, Grand Compounder. Masters of Arts, Rev, J. Jackson, Brasennose College; Rev. C. H. Earle, Trinity College. Bachelors of Arts.-P. Guille, Pembroke College; C. Greswell, Scholar, G. B. Hamilton, Exhibitioner, Corpus T. Hudson, J. Freeman, Trinity College; W. J. Chesshyre, Balliol College; E. Dudley, Worcester College: R. Grenside, Scholar, University College; J. Fox, Scholar, R. T. Vyner, Queen's College; W. Holloway, Lincoln College. College; R. B. Maurice, C. Saxton, Christ Church; G. Erratum in our last.-For Masters of Arts read Ba chelors of Arts. ANTIQUARIAN AND ROYAL SOCIETIES. gentlemen, when applied to by the solicitor of FINE ARTS. NEW PUBLICATIONS. National Golden Almanack for the Year 1828. Ir we have not to say redeunt Saturnia Regna, we may at least observe, that a golden age in regard to the Arts has sprung up amongst us. We not long ago noticed Mr. Cooke's Golden Gift, a collection of vases engraved in gold; and at a former period the splendid impression of the late Duke of York's Speech on the Catholic question. The latter, we believe, however, is like the former-a specimen of engraving: we THE attendance at both these Societies asw mean, that it is of gold leaf, inlaid or embossed unusually full on Thursday evening. At the by types upon the paper. But the extraordiformer there was no business of particular im-nary and beautiful example we have now before portance; but the latter was distinguished us is truly and absolutely printing in gold. from common nights of meeting by an ad- The liquid (somehow prepared) runs like the dress delivered by Mr. Davies Gilbert on ink commonly used, and produces an effect so taking the chair as President. It was brief, but appropriate; and delivered with a manly and philosophical simplicity, which struck us as being peculiarly suited to the station and the audience. Mr. Gilbert assured the Society of his best efforts to promote its prosperity. The annual address, as pronounced on the 30th, was read by Dr. Roget; and Capt. Sabine (whose addition should be R.A., not R.N., as printed in our last), the other new Secretary, read an astronomical paper. The routine occupied the Society till past ten o'clock, after which a number of gentlemen adjourned to the library, where refreshments were provided, and literary and scientific subjects were discussed by many groups in friendly conversations. COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS. pro IN our last No., in consequence of their having suffered the legal Michaelmas Term to elapse without bringing matters to an issue, we were induced to express an opinion that the College of Physicians had abandoned the secution of Dr. Harrison; and thus virtually opened the Profession to gentlemen hitherto excluded by their charter from practising as Physicians in London and within seven miles around. We are, however, desired by an esteemed friend, an eminent member of the College, to contradict this statement, and, of course, qualify our inference from it. He writes to us in these words: The College would betray the trust reposed upon them by the legislature, and would commit a civil fraud on the Licentiates from whom they have taken fees for admission, were they to forbear exercising the power given them by their charter, confirmed by parliament, in suing Dr. Harrison for the penalties to which he has rendered himself liable by acting as a Physician without a license, so soon as they shall have obtained Dr. Prout obtained the other. novel and gorgeous that it must be seen to be New Art.-The invention of which we have 4 Shooting Pony. A. Cooper. Engraved by THIS is an admirable engraving of a very is every thing; and the genius of Mr. Haydan Mr. Haydon's New Picture. -Opportunity has not lost one, to which he has unfortunately (except for the use to which he has turned it) been exposed. The newspapers some time since gave accounts of a sham election, attended with much mock ceremony, and not a little riotous ness, which was got up in the King's Bench prison, for the entertainment of its inmates, The freedom of the poll was, we believe, inter fered with by marshal law; not, however, be fore the scene had been so far prolonged as to enable our able painter to make a living and lively sketch of it, which he has transferred to canvass, and made a large picture in oil. This production is about to be exhibited at the Egyp tian Hall; and from the curiosity of the subject, as well as the talents of the artist, will, we have no doubt, excite much popular interest. JOSEPH PLANTA, Esq. F.R.S., the principul Librarian of the British Museum, died on Mon day last, at a very advanced age 84. Mr. Planta was a native of Switzerland, of which country he published a History, in 2 vols. 4ta He also published an Essay on the Runic or Scandinavian Language; and a Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Cottonian Library. It is told of him, in the Biographical Dictionary, that when the Emperor Alexander, on good over the Library, happened to remark, that tat Museum at Paris contained more curicies, he (Mr. P.) replied, "Your Majesty she consider, that we have nothing here but has been honestly bought and paid for," |