23 AUGUST 1828, page 11

"a German Paper States That A Dr. Von Mayerly Has

lately invented a pair of boots made of block tin, and surrounded by a hollow body, by means of which he can pass over the most rapid river, lie has lately ex- hibited his......

Literary Spectator.

TIIE author of the work on the Social Life of France and Eng- land* is said to be a lady: indeed we can collect the fact front indications in the volume itself: male or female,......

We Have Been Amused With A French Mother's Advice To

her daughter, given in evidence in a law proceeding. There is much that is sensible in her admonitions, as well as much that is trifling ; and the drollery consists in the......

Taste For Music.

DR. ARNOTT, in his extremely useful work, " The Elements of Physics," goes very unnecessarily out of his track of instruction to utter the following galimathias on music. "......