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The Edinburgh Review Has Appeared With Even More Than Its

accustomed quantity of state papers. We Wonder whether the country could go on without the Edinburgh and Quarterly Re- views. Have they not become part and parcel of the......

The Practical Baker Is Not Only What It Pretends To

be, but much more. There is a well-drawn up statement of all the che- mical phenomena attending upon bread-making and baking, and likewise a collection of very curious receipts,......

We Are Glad To Perceive, By Mr. Culverwell's Lucid Work

on Bathing, with reference to his establishment of medicated vapour baths, that the salutary practice of bathing is becoming more com- mon. We are thoroughly convinced, that......

A Little Book Called Odd Sketches, By Mr. Anderson Of

Edin- burgh, the author of a volume of verse entitled Poetical Aspira- tions, is a trifle of some promise. The author, we find, possesses humour, and sketches with breadth and......

Miss. Mitford Has Published A Miniature Of The Anzericart...

Three charming little volumes have just made their ap- pearance, as green, fresh, and beautiful as the first indications of spring, which are just now bursting from the......

The Journal Of The Royal Institution, This Quarter,...

than an average share of curious disquisitions. Among others, is a curious paper communicated by Dr. Mom. on the in- vention of the telescope. It contains some curious anecdotes......

Blackwood's Magazine, Which This Month Carries Double,....

paper from the "Diary of a late Physician." We would call the attention of persons not habitually readers of the Magazine to this series of papers. They look like truth, and we......

The German Manual Of Mr. Klauer Professes To Be A

work adapted for self-tuition. It mapbe so, but we confess we have some difficulty in mastering the plan on which it would recommend the learner to proceed. The first volume......

The Familiar Exercises On The First Book Of Coke—little-...

will be exceedingly useful to the law-student. In learning the elements of a science, it is absolutely necessary to make the foundation-work secure. This is only to be done by......

The Book On Chimnies Is Explanatory Of A Plan For

lining their brickwork with metallic tubes : an obvious improvement upon the present clumsy contrivance of conducting the smoke through thoroughfares pretty nearly as wide as......

To Mr. Berna.ys German Prose Anthology, Of Which We Have

already had to speak very favourably, we are glad to add his Poetical Anthology. The selection seems made with the same good taste that directed the choice of the prose......

The American Almanac And Repository Of Useful Knowledge...

Year 1831, published at Boston, and imporled by Mr. Rich, Red Lion Square, ought to be placed on the table of every club and public institution in the country. It abounds in......

The First Volume Of The Life Of George The -fourth,

which forms the second of Dr. LARDNERS Cabinet Library, is the only publication that has yet appeared at all worthy of the importance of the subject. It is a rapid and spirited......