PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
THE principal work of the week is Lieutenant BITE NEi'S Narra- tive if a Voyage on the Indus and Travels into Rokhara. This, however, is a week of " song that charms the sense ; " and even eloquence, or something more important than eloquence—new faets, pleasantly told—must yield to sounds; not to mention that it came sotnewhat too late to admit of adequate perusal awl consi- deration. It may however be said, that the work has two great leading divisions. A voyage up the Indus, for the purpose of a complete survey of that river, which has borer yet been attempted; the avowed object being a diplomatic visit to the court of Lahore, with (delicate attention !) "a present of some horses" from the King of England. The author's success in this important mission, and the new tribes he met on his way, raised his ambition or excited his locomotive organs, and induced a wish to traverse regions yet unexplored. Lord WILLIAM' BENTINCK acceded to his wish. With every assistance of the Government, but in a private capa- city, he started to Bokhara, traversed the country of the Toork- muns and the Khorasan, jomnied amongst the Toorkmuns of the Caspian, awl finally reached Persia. It may be added, that his scientific and historical observations are kept distinct from his personal narrative; an advantage to both parts. The three volumes are got up with all the typographical taste and graphic elegance which distinguish the publications of MUR- RAY: but there is one vital omission. The titlepage tells us " with a Map." An "advertisement" says the Map is to be got sepa- rately of Mr. ARROWSMITH. This is an improvement upon the itinerant company : it is not only playing Hamlet and leaving out the Prince of Denmark, but it is directing us to cross over the way, where, for an additional fee, we may listen to the hero of the tragedy. Whatever is announced on the titlepage should be found in time book,—especially such an essential as a map is to a book of travels.
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