trait is the autograph signature of the illustrious individual; and in the memoir of Perceval, the hunters for autographs will find a facsimile of the concluding prayer of Bellingham's petition.

The biographical illustrations are concise, lively, and pleasing; embodying in a small compass extensive and accurate information; leaning of course to panegyric, without being servile or adulatory; and in short, excellently adapted to the purpose of the publication, of which they will form a popular feature.

The memoir of Perceval derives an additional interest from the fact, that Mr. Jerdan was an eye-witness of his assassination, being imme diately behind the unfortunate premier when he fell.

Art. VIII. Counsels to a newly-wedded Pair; or, Friendly Suggestions to Husbands and Wives: a Companion for the Honey-moon, and a Remembrancer for Life. With an Appendix, containing Extracts on the subject of Marriage, from the Writings of several Christian Divines. By John Morison, Author of an Exposition of the Book of Psalms", &c. 32mo. pp. 126. Price 1s. 6d. bds. 2s. 6d. silk. London. 1830.

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WE willingly afford the aid of our hearty recommendation to these counsels of Christian friendship, the brevity and conciseness of which will give them a far better chance of being listened to, than could be hoped for in respect to a lengthened treatise. The extracts are from the writings of Dwight, Archbishop Leighton, Jay, Cecil, Scott, Wardlaw, Paley, and the Author's larger work on the Reciprocal Obligations of Life.' The volume is certainly multum in parvo, and will, we doubt not, be found a very useful and suitable little present to young married persons.

Art. IX. Leonora; or the Presentation at Court. Being the first of a Series of Narratives called Young Ladies' Tales. 2 vols. 12mo. pp. 473. London. 1829.

THESE Volumes contain a tale of slight structure, written in a style somewhat deficient in ease, and not remarkable for high finish, but fraught with excellent feeling and sound instruction. There is too, an uncommon interest about the management of the story, which will render it attractive to young persons; while its decided and urgent inculcation of high and consistent moral principle, give it fair claim to a place in an educational library. The good are rewarded, the repentant made happy, the selfish are entangled in their own snare, and all this is brought about in an unforced and gratifying manner.

Art. X. The Cabinet Cyclopedia. Conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner, LL.D. F.R.S. L. and E. M.R.I.A., &c. Assisted by Eminent Literary and Scientific Men. Vols. I. to III. Price 6s. each. London. 1830.

WE must confine ourselves, on the present occasion, to a bare notice of this very attractive and useful series of publications, which bids fair to rival in popularity any cyclopædia, or library that has hitherto been projected. The first volume of a History of Scotland, by Sir Walter Scott, (to be completed in two volumes,) commenced the series. This has been succeeded by Vol. I. of a History of Maritime and Inland Discovery, extremely well written, by an accomplished countryman of Dr. Lardner's, whose name will hereafter be better known to the public. Each of these works, when completed, will claim a distinct notice. The third volume, in the course of publication, is Vol. I. of Domestic Economy', by Michael Donovan, Esq. M.R.I.A., &c. This volume contains the History and Mystery of Brewing, Distilling, Wine-making, Baking, &c.; and we shall make room for an extract or two by way of specimen,

"Service-berry Spirit. The highly ornamental tree, the pyrus aucuparia, or mountain ash, affords clusters of scarlet-red berries, which have a remarkably acerb and bitterish taste. Yet they resemble the grape in containing sugar and natural yeast, in due proportions to produce a perfect and spontaneous fermentation. Having expressed a quantity of their juice, I left it to ferment; and when the wine was perfect, it was distilled, and an excellent brandy was obtained. The quantity of brandy afforded by the berries cannot now be certainly ascertained; but I am almost sure, that one gallon of the juice produced half a pint of spirit, which was moderately strong. It is very probable that the service-tree might become a very valuable one, if all its properties were known. It is a beautiful tree: its timber is valuable; and its berries, beside being beautiful, are capable of affording an excellent brandy.'

Method of producing the Effects of Age in New Wine.-It has been lately found that the mellowness which age gives to wine, may be attained in a very short time by a simple contrivance. Sommering put four ounces of red Rhenish wine into a tumbler in winter; its mouth was tied over with moist bladder, and the tumbler placed in the shade. In eighty-one days the wine was reduced to one-half, was in high preservation, had crystals of tartar floating on its surface, and others on its bottom; it was, of a darker colour than before, but was brighter and finer than ordinary; its smell was stronger and more enticing; its taste, although stronger, more spirituous, and more aromatic, was yet milder, more grateful, and more mellow than ordinary; it was found to contain one-half more alcohol than similar wine which had not been so treated in the tumbler. Thus the bladder had permitted the evaporation of water, but had prevented that of alcohol; hence the strength of the wine and the deposition of the acid salts. Sommering, therefore, proposes that wine should be kept in bottles

not corked, but tied over with soft bladder, in which state it will in twelve months become as mellow as in twelve years in the cask. The shallower the vessel, and the wider its mouth, the sooner will the effects be produced.

These facts have in substance been confirmed by M. St. Vincent. He states from long experience that by closing bottles of wine, by means of parchment or bladder instead of corks, we may attain in a few weeks the good effects of many years.'

'Method of Preserving Meat and Fish by Wood Vinegar.-It has been ascertained that pyroligneous acid in its unpurified state possesses the remarkable and useful property of preventing the putrefaction of animal substances, and even of checking putrefaction when begun. It has been always known that smoked provisions keep better than those which have been dried, an effect which seems to depend on the impregnation of pyroligneous acid, which they receive from the smoke; for it is turf smoke that is employed, and turf by distillation in close vessels affords pyroligneous acid. The following account is given by Mr. Ramsay of experiments made by him:-A number of herrings were cleaned on the 10th July, 1819, and, without being salted, were immersed for three hours in distilled pyroligneous acid (sp. gr. 1012). When withdrawn, they were softened, and not so firm as when first taken out of the common pickle. They were hung up in the shade. July and August were very hot months; but the herrings had no sign of putrefaction about them, but had a very wholesome smell combined with that of the acid. One of them being broiled, tho empyreumatic smell was very strong. The rest, in six months, were in complete preservation.

'It was afterwards found that the period of immersion had been too long. If the fish be simply dipped in acid of specific gravity 1012, and dried in the shade, it is sufficient for their preservation; and such herrings when broiled are very agreeable, and have not the disagreeable empyreuma of the former.

A number of haddocks were cleaned, split, and slightly sprinkled with salt for six hours; then, being drained, they were dipped for about three seconds in pyroligneous acid, and hung in the shade for eight days. On being broiled, they were of an uncommonly fine flavor, delicately white, and equal to the highly-esteemed Finnan haddock. Herrings were cured in the same way as the haddocks. After being dried in the shade for two months, they were equal in quality and flavor to the best red herrings. The fish retained the shining and fresh appearance which they had when taken from the sea.'

Sir James Mackintosh is to furnish a History of England for this Cyclopedia, in three Vols.; Moore, a History of Ireland, and a Life of Petrarch; Dr. Southey, the Lives of the most distinguished Admirals; the Rev. Connop Thirlwall, a History of Greece; Mr. Montgomery, the Lives of the Poets; and in short, Dr. Lardner seems to be the very Duke Wellington of Editors, and to have formed a Cabinet (Cyclopedia) uniting all the strength of the literary commonwealth -except ourselves.

ART. XI.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.

In the press, a New Latin Class Book, containing the Proverbs of Solomon, arranged under distinct heads, and placed in parallel lines with an Intermediate Latin Version, consisting of the nominatives, first persons, and other roots of the nouns, verbs, &c. The Work is intended to form a course of Exercises on the several rules of the Latin Grammar.

The Third Volume of Dr. Nuttall's Interlinear Translations of the Works of Horace, containing the Satires, is nearly ready for publication..

The following Works will be ready for Publication early in the present Month.

1. Notices of Brazil in 1828-9. By the Rev. R. Walsh, LL.D., ' M.R.I.A., &c. &c.

2. The Three Histories. The History of an Enthusiast; The History of an Enervé; The History of a Misanthrope. By Maria Jane Jewsbury.

3. Chronicles of a School-Room, or Character in Youth and Age. By Mrs. S. C. Hall.

In the Press, Travels in Russia, and a Residence in St. Petersburg and Odessa, in the years 1827-9. By Edward Morton, M.B., Member of the Royal College of Physicians. 8vo. with Plates.

The Political Life of the Right Honourable George Canning, from his Acceptance of the Seals of the Foreign Department, in September 1822, to the Period of his Death in August 1827, together with a Short Review of Foreign Affairs subsequently to that Event, by his late Private Secretary, Augustus Granville Stapleton, Esq., is nearly ready for Publication. In 3 Vols. 8vo.

Dr. E. J. Seymour, one of the Physicians to St. George's Hospital, has in the Press, Illustrations of some of the Principal Diseases of the Ovaria, their Symptoms and Treatment; to which are prefixed, Observations on the Structure and Functions of these Parts in the Human Being and in Animals. In 8vo. with 14 Lithographic Engravings.

Mrs. A. T. Thomson, Author of " Memoirs of Henry VIII." is engaged on a work entitled Raleigh and his Times, which it is expected will be ready this Spring.

Mr. Britton's History and Antiquities of Bristol Cathedral, with Eleven Engravings and one Woodcut, is nearly ready. Also the Fifth Number of his Picturesque Antiquities of the English Cities.

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Preparing for publication, Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels. By Eliza Flower.

The Fourth Part of Rickards's India is now in the press, and will complete the subject, entitled, "The Revenue Systems of India under the East India Company's Government, as tending to perpetuate the degraded condition of the Natives."

Colonel James Welsh, of the Madras Army, has now in the press, a Journal of Occurrences and Events, during a residence of nearly Forty Years in the East Indies; to be illustrated with nearly 100 Plates.

The Sixth and concluding Part of Captain Grindlay's Views in India, is nearly ready for publication, and will contain, with the usual number of Plates, a general Index to the whole Series.

Mrs. Bray, Author of "De Foix," "The White Hoods," "The Protestant," &c. &c. has a Novel in the press, intitled, "Fitz of FitzFord," founded on a popular and interesting Legend of Devonshire. To be comprised in Three Volumes.

Preparing for publication, Italy. By the Editor of the Modern Traveller. To be comprised in Three Volumes.

Shortly will be published, the Juvenile Repository of Moral and Religious Stories, with a Recommendatory Preface by the Rev. John Campbell. By the Editor of "Affection's Offering." Demy 18mo. embellished with finely executed wood Engravings.

In the press, in 1 Volume, small 4to. The Devotional Testament, containing Reflections and Meditations on the different Paragraphs of the New Testament: intended as a help for the Closet and for Domestic Worship. By the Rev. Richard Marks, Vicar of Great Missenden, Bucks.

Shortly will be published, Sermons on Several Occasions, By the Rev, Henry Moore, Assistant for some years to the Rev, John Wesley, A.M., and now a Member of the Methodist Conferenee: with a Memoir of his Life, and Christian Experience, from his birth to the first conference held after the death of Mr. Wesley,

In the press, Sermons on Various Subjects. By the Rev. Joseph Edwards, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge; Curate of Wattisham, Bricett, and Little Fenborough.

Preparing for publication, Family Sermons. By the Editor of the Christian Observer.

In the press, Letellier's Grammar, translated from the French. With numerous additions and explanations for the use of the English Pupil. By Constant Coffyn, a native of France, and Translator of "Bichat's General Anatomy;"" Hutin's Physiology;"" Magendie on the Nerves," &c.; and teacher of the French Language at the Lambeth Academy.