HARRIET (11rs. or Miss?) MARTINEAU'S Traditions of Pale.i , tide is a
very superior peribrmance, and one we ought in,t to discuss in a few lines. It is the production of a mind thoroughly imbued in New Testament lore ; and though apparently the work of no great effort, we are mistaken if it be not the production of a great deal of thought.
The two coetributions to SC:Q11CO which this week grace our library, are far superior in their degree of excellence to any literary -production which at present solicits our notice. The Dissertation of Prol:ssor LE.;L1E is a luminous view of the progress of science during the last century : it is the coup (hell of a peret master of his subject. Its analysis of the essential contributions made by each individual to the general stock of science, is admirably clear and discriminating ; and the biographical sketches, which form, as it were, another division of the work, affording a running commentary on the text, are full of a condensed interest. True science radiates from every point of this latest work of the s...,:taions
handler of heat. .
Mr. HERSCHEL'S work is also a preliminary discourse. It far surpasses in value any other portion of the Cabinet Cyclopredia, or any similar work, that has come under our notice. In expounding the nature mid character of philosophical reasoning, the author has given us a nearly perfect example in his own exposition. This is one of those works that the experienced eye tan almost instantly pronounce classical. Dr. LARDNER is worthy of eternal honour in having put Mr. HEasetrar, on a task for which he was so eminently lilted. If the term beautiful might be applied to a treatise on the elements of Natural Philosophy, and on the manner of conducting philesophical inquiry, it is strictly applicable to this almost invaluable little book.
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