5 FEBRUARY 1831, page 18

We Have Been Greatly Pleased With The Bengal Annual. In

exterior it is a tall, yellow, Hindoo-looking volume ; meagre in body, clothed in bilious green, and of a jaundiced complexion ; altogether giving one the idea of a literary......

We Have Received A Splendid Little Book, Bound In Crimson

silk, entitled the Royal Register. It was some time before we could exactly make out what this calendar meant to chronicle : we at length made it out to be a regular Royal......

Fine Arts.

BRITISH INSTITUTION. THE unfavourable impression which we received from our first cur- sory glance (on Saturday last) at the pictures now exhibiting at this Gallery, has been,......

The Foreign Quarterly Review Has Just Made Its...

its customary store of learning and industry. The present number contains several articles of considerable value ; indeed, there is not one which we are not very glad to have.......

We Regret To Find, And Equally Regret To State, That

Mr. But.- WER'S satirical poem of the Siamese Twins is a complete failure. As a poem, it contains passages which alone might be admired, but which are so lugged in with other......

Mothers And Daughters Is, Without Even The Exception Of Max-

well, the best novel of the season, as far as the season has gone, and will always remain an admirable specimen of the fashionable school. It is a faithful, exact, and withal......

The Quarterly Review Of Agriculture Has Also This Week Made

its appearance above the soil. It contains a great deal of useful information. We always receive this work with pleasure, if it were only, which it is far from being, for Mr.......