19 JANUARY 1839, page 17

The Discovery Of Tile Vital Principle.

Tuts volume puz4ed us. At first we fancied it a joke, whose points were not very obvious to any save the author : but a recollec- tion of the expense of it thick octavo banished......

Publications Received.

BotiND boons. The Life of George Lord Anson, Admiral of the Fleet, Vice-Admiral of Great Britain, and First Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty previous to and during. the Seven......

Legend And Itomance.

It' we decide upon the nature of a particular class of works by the qualities they usually display,—and criticism, incapable of originating any thing, has no other means of......