21 MARCH 1840, page 18

Mr. Lowndes's Sketch Of The Law Of Copyright. When Mr.

Sergeant TALFOURD first introduced his Copyright Bill, he not only claimed an inherent right of' perpetual property for the author from nature, but from the common law; thus......

Colonel Thompson's Theory Oi Parallels.

THIS is not a revision of an old work, but proposes a new demon- stration, taken from a region in geometry where the solution of the problem has perhaps never been looked for......

Mackay's Rope Of The World, And Other Poems.

" THE divine art of poesy" does not flourish in this age. Its de- cay is not confined to England, or any particular country. If we look all over Europe, we find it almost dead ;......