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New Prints.

WILKIE'S picture of " The Spanish Mother," exhibited at Somerset House two or three years since, has been engraved in the line manlier by BAIMBACH; who appears to have bestowed......

A Selection Of Games At Chess, Played In London By

the late Alexander 11I'Donnell, has been published by Mr. WILLIAM GREENWOOD WALKER, Secretary to the Westminster Chess Club, where the games were played. The volume includes the......

Fine Arts.

PLAN FOR GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGEMENT OF ART. IT is superfluous at the present time to use any arguments to prove the necessity of national patronage of fine art, and the expediency......

The Third Part Of Mr. Bell's History Of British Quadrupeds,

not only sustains the reputation of the former specimens, but adds to them. There is the same scientific knowledge, the same mas- tery of the subject displayed ; and the......

The First Book Of Arithmetic, For The Use Of Schools,

is pub- lished under the direction of the Commissioners of National Edu- cation for Ireland. It proceeds to the extraction of the cube root and duodecimal multiplication; to......

The Design Of Mr. Parker ' S Progressive Exercises In...

Reading, is chiefly to exercise the young reader upon pauses, and to introduce them to the practice of modulation and inflection of voice. The arrangement is good ; the examples......

The Training System Adopted In The Model Schools Of The

Glas- gow Educational Society, combines the distinguishing features of many systems; including those of Bent., LANCASTER, PESTA.. LOZZI, WILDERSPIN, OBERLIN, and even OWEN. The......

The Meadow Queen Is A Familiar Introduction To The Study

of Field Botany, for the use of children ; who are interested, by means of a well-devised story, interspersed with some simple and very pretty verses, in acquiring a knowledge......

Besides These Publications, Several Others Have Dropped...

the close of the week, which must stand over for further examination. Amongst them is the Reverend Dr. BUCKLAND ' S Geology and Mineralogy Considered with Reference to Natural......

Wilkie's Popular Picture Of " The Penny Wedding" Has Given

an extensive celebrity to a national custom now become obsolete. The Penny Wedding derived its name from the, circumstance of each of. the guests contributing his "penny fee" to......

The Half-length Portrait Of Lord John Russell, By Gsoaos...

TER, engraved in mezzotint by BROMLEY, is a very characteristic and life-like resemblance of the hero of Reform. Notwithstanding the serene expression of the face, however, Lord......