We have a shoal of the small fry of literature,
the technical Maga- zines, which require a decent dismissal.
There is the Gardener's Magazine; which contains an annual retro- spect of gardening and rural improvements in this country, and some notice of their progress abroad; and another interesting paper on laying out public gardens and promenades. The Farmer's Magazine has a sensible article on breeding horses ; showing the bad consequences of employing broken-down racers and worn-out cattle for that purpose.
The Christian Physician, following out Mr. BALLINGALL'S statement, gives a complete exposé of the atrocious system of employing unsafe ships, under the title of the "Drowning at Sea Society;"-showing that ships are built to sink, and that it is made the interest of the shipowner not only to employ unsafe ships, but to have them sunk ; though vessels might be built which would not founder or go to pieces.
The Repertory of Patent Inventions carries us into the manufactory; the Architectural Magazine to the builder's workshop; the Arboreta,* Britannicuna to the woods; the Manual of Entomology to the micro- scope; and the Florigraphia Britannica to the garden,—where we are sure to find The Parterre; but we cannot tarry in either place.
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