29 JULY 1837, Page 19

The Language of Birds is, in externals, a beautiful little

book, tastefully dressed in silk, and handsomely embellished with many coloured plates of the different songsters it notices. Its literary merits are pleasant variety and readableness ; an agreeable inter- mixture of prose and verse, which consists of the more popular descriptions of natural historians, numerous anecdotes of the fea- thered tribes, and selections from those poets who have commemo- rated their charms or their melodies in verse.