Mr. CLISSOLD'S Funeral Sermon upon the Decease of Dr. Gaskin, will gratify all those who venerate the memory of that exemplary Divine. Health without Physic; or Cordials for Youth, Manhood, and Old Age, by an OLD PHYSICIAN, is little more than a reiteration of Old Parr's maxim, "Keep your feet warm through exercise, and your head cool through temperance; never eat but when you are hungry, nor drink but when nature requires it;" though not so briefly expressed. Our "Old Physician" indeed knows well how to make the most of his prescriptions, the table of contents alone to his duodecimo occupying no less than sixteen closely printed pages. The work is divided into XXXVII sections, and is occasionally enlivened by anecdotes, which will be found amusing, if FINE Engravings of Cathedrals, Hotels de Ville, &c. By John Coney. With Descriptions by Charles Heathcote Tatham, Esq. Numbers II, and III. Moon, Boys, and Graves. We rejoice at the progress of this work. The Second and Third Numbers fully justify the commendations we bestowed on the first portion in part i. p. 441. The spirit infused into his plates by the pencil and needle of Mr. Coney has not, we think, been exceeded by any other artist. In these representations, the benefits arising from the drawings and etchings being executed by the same masterly hand is everywhere apparent; and our only fear is, least the magnificent scale on which the work is produced, should preclude a very extensive patronage. In this we hope we are in error; as from the descriptions appearing in English, French, Italian, and German, the work is equally calculated to delight the admirers of the fine arts in all parts of the world. The descriptions are necessarily concise, but are very neatly compiled, and strictly illustrative of the views they accompany. The first plate in the Second Number is the north front of Rouen cathedral. With this we have been much delighted, not recollecting any former English print of it. Mr. Coney's delightful representation is almost equal to viewing the building. The view is taken from a court once occupied by the shops of the transcribers and calligraphists; and on each side are the walls of the archiepiscopal palace. Mr. Tatham has very properly borrowed the words of Mr. Dawson Turner, in his account of this building. The other plates in this Number are the Hotels de Ville at Brussels and Arras; and the well-known Palace of Justice at Rouen. The last is nearly in the same point of [Dec. they do not bear much upon the subject. A neatly and well-executed frontispiece in lithography illustrates the volume. The professed object of " Familiar Astronomy," by George Dowley, A.B. being to assist persons too far advanced in life for regular instruction, though anxious for casual information on this subject, it may to such individuals form an entertaining and useful addition to the library, explaining to them, in a clear and easy manner, the Planetary system, the position of the fixed stars, centrifugal force, cardinal points, eclipses, and various phenomena attendant on this sublime science, of which there are very few people, in this enlightened age, who would wish to be wholly uninformed. ARTS. view as the neat print of it by Mr. Pugin. The Hotels de Ville are magnificent specimens of this kind of public structures. That at Brussels has a most beautiful tower and spire the height of 354 feet. These views are particularly novel and interesting. The first plate in the Third Number is the Western front of the Cathedral of Rouen, 170 feet in width; "unquestionably," says Mr. Dawson Turner, "the most interesting building of its æra; it is so spacious, so grand, so noble, so elegant, so rich, and so varied, that, as the Italians say of Raphael, ammirar non si può che non s'onori.'" This warm eulogium will be warranted by looking at the print before us, and at the North Transept, already spoken of in the Second Number. To these may be added Mr. Cotman's view of the South Transept, which assimilates to the Northern Transept; and the minute yet brilliant view from the same point, by Mr. Lewis, so admirably engraved by H. Le Keux in Dr. Dibdin's Tour, 1st edit. The second view in the Third Number is the Cloth Hall, Bruges, which has a most elegant and lofty tower; and the third is the Hotel de Ville, Louvaine. It has 28 windows, divided into three stories, and is crowned by a gallery formed with much taste. It is flanked by four octagonal towers, very high, and the roof is pierced throughout with small windows. At the two extremities of the roof are two pyramids, like those which crown the four towers, but more elevated. The whole is one of the most splendid Gothic buildings in the Netherlands. The last print in the Number is the north-west view of the Cathedral of Amiens. We regret that the point of view selected had not been directly west, as this print does not do justice to the magnificent proportions of this cathedral. The west front is 150 feet in breadth, 132 feet high to the commencement of the towers, 210 feet to the summit of the north tower, and 190 feet to the summit of the south tower. The profusion of statues around the three portals is truly astonishing. Those who have not seen these superb specimens of architecture, will be able to form a most accurate idea of them from Mr. Coney's labours, to which we heartily wish all possible success. Outlines of the Ægina Marbles, drawn from the Statues at the Liverpool Royal Institution. By Edward Lyon. The public are under considerable obligations to Mr. Lyon for this work, which is very appropriately dedicated to John Foster and C. R. Cockerell, Esqs. to whose exertions the world is chiefly indebted for the recovery of these precious remains. The former gentleman presented casts of the statues to the Liverpool Institution; and the latter gentleman has favoured us with a valuable essay on them in Brande's Journal of Arts and Sciences. Our first feelings of admiration on looking at Mr. Lyon's very splendid and clever outlines were accompanied with regret, that the originals had been lost to this country through some awkwardness during the negociation, and that the Bavarian Government had obtained them for 6000l. which was less than the British Government was willing to give. For the present purpose, however, the faithful casts answer all that can be desired; and nothing can be better than the use made of them by Mr. Lyon. The first plate represents the temple restored. The second the arrangement of the figures on the pediment. The other 14 plates give the figures at large. The figure of Minerva, Plate 1111. and several of the others, are deserving of the deepest study of the young artist, though they are of the most remote antiquity, and supposed to be older than the age of Phidias. Great merit is due to the lithographer and printer, Mr. G. Smith, of Liverpool, for the handsome appearance of this publication. Characteristic Sketches of Animals. Drawn from the Life, and engraved by Thomas Landseer. Part I. Dedicated, by permission, to the Zoological Society. Moon, Boys, and Graves. The great success that has lately attended the Zoological Society, particularly since the formation of its highly useful establishment in the Regent's Park, has proved highly beneficial to the science itself, and been productive of many clever publications. Mr. Landseer's abilities in the correct representation of animals is well known, and in the present work he has exerted those 543 abilities so as to produce the most satisfactory results. The Plates in this Number consist of the Giraffe, the Bonassus, and the African Elephant, all drawn from those animals now exhibited in the Jardin du Roi at Paris; and the Thibet Dog, from the Zoological Gardens. collection, we can speak most favourably of From personal reticle has also an elegant vignette, representthe fidelity of the representations. Each aring the animals in characteristic situations; and into these vignettes Mr. Landseer has thrown much humour, approaching sometimes to caricature. One vignette represents a visit which the elephant paid Mr. Landseer, whilst employed in sketching the bonassus. "The artist's surprise in being suddenly involved in the proboscis of the elephant could be only equalled by the good humoured gentleness of the latter,—a gentleness that made the aid that was invoked quite unnecessary." The descriptions of each subject, which report attributes to John Henry Barrow, Esq. are very satisfactory. We must not pass without commendation the clever woodcut in the title, con sisting of an agonized tiger involved in the folds of the boa constrictor, drawn by Mr. Landseer, and engraved by Mr. Bonner. Britton's Picturesque Antiquities of the The Editor apologizes for a little delay in The fortunate Escape of King William the Third. Moon, Boys, and Graves. As William the Third was reconnoitring the army of King James, on the banks of the Boyne, a man and two horses were killed close by him; and the second bullet rebounding from the earth, grazed upon his right shoulder, so as to carry off part of his clothes and skin, and produce a considerable contusion. This accident he bore without the least emotion. Mr. Cooper has painted this transaction in a very pleasing manner, which is copied in mezzotinto by W. Geller (13 in. by 10.). King William is standing in the centre of the print, before a fine white charger; Lord Coningsby is on his right, staunching the wound with a handkerchief (which is still preserved, with a part of the coat, by the Earl of Essex, to whom this plate is dedicated); and the Earl of Portland, on horseback, is on the left hand of the king. We think the painter might, with good effect, have introduced into the back ground the river Boyne, with the army of James on its banks, as when the accident was observed by them, they shouted aloud for joy, thinking the king was slain. Fleming's Views on the river Clyde. No. 9 to 12. Moon, Boys, and Graves. Referring to our former reports of these Picturesque Views, in vol. xcvi. i. p. 542 ; vol. xcix. pp. 156, 449, we need say no more than that the artists keep up to the excellence displayed in their early Numbers. The prints in these parts are Cloch Lighthouse; Dunoon and Castle; Kelly-house; Innerkip and Ardgowan House; Skelmorlie Castle; Castle Toward; Rothesay; Millport; Largs; Kelburn-house; Eglinton Castle; and Dunnure Castle. We consider the view of the well-frequented and fashionable watering-place of Largs, with the happy infantile group in the fore-ground, one of the best plates in the series. The Third Edition of Lodge's Portraits and Memoirs of illustrious Persons proceeds with regularity in Monthly Numbers. Twelve have already appeared. Commendation of this universally acceptable work, excellent in every respect, having become unnecessary, all we shall add is, that the plates of this third edition equal, if not excel, those in the former editions. Mr. Thomas Atkinson is proceeding very satisfactorily with his Gothic Ornaments, selected from the different Cathedrals in England. The 11th and 12th Numbers contain Capitals, Bosses, Finials, &c. from the Cathedral of Ely. A Bracket from the Lady Chapel is one of the most elegant patterns we remember to have ever seen. Bonington's Works. Carpenter and Co. In vol. xcvi. ii. p. 642, appeared a memoir of this clever artist, who was cut off by a rapid decline. This work is intended to preserve copies of his Sketches and his finished subjects for the advantage of students and the gratification of prefessors and amateurs. They are executed in lithography, and the delineation on stone is entrusted to J. D. Harding, whose abilities have long [Dec. been appreciated by the public. The subjects published in the first Part consist of a study from nature of a Female Head, drawn from a pencil sketch in the possession of the Marquess of Lansdowne; Maternal Solicitude, from a sketch in seppia for a picture in possession of E. V. Utterson, Esq.; Charles V. visiting Francis I. after the battle of Pavia, from a drawing possessed by Clarkson Stanfield, Esq. the distinguished scene painter; View of the Place du Molard, Geneva, from a drawing possessed by P. F. Robinson, Esq.; and the Church of St. Saviour at Caen, in the same collection as the first named subject. Portrait of Charles Wilkins, Esq. LL.D. Moon, Boys, and Graves. An excellent likeness of the learned Librarian of the East India Company. It is from a painting by Mr. J. G. Middleton, and is admirably aquatinted on steel by J. Sartain, a rising young engraver. The print is eleven inches by nine. ROYAL ACADEMY. Dec. 10. The biennial distribution of prizes took place at the Royal Academy. The candidates were greater in number than in any preceding year. In the class of historical painting, the subject Venus entreating Vulcan to forge arms for Æneas, there were as many as nine candidates. In that of original models, the subject Ajar tearing Cassandra from the Allar of Minerva, there subject a design for a British Senate-house, were two; and in that of architecture, the there were three. There were seven copies in oil from a Virgin and Child, by Vandyke; 12 drawings and 3 models from the life; 13 drawings and 3 models from the actique, and 2 architectural drawings of the Banquetting-house, Whitehall. Prizes were awarded in almost every class, and were distributed in the following order. Gold Medals Historical Painting, to Mr. George Sinith; Original Model, Mr. Legrew; Original Architectural Design, Mr. Grellier. Šilver Medals: Copies in the Painting School, Mr. Clack and Mr. L. Smith; Architectural Drawings, Mr. King and Mr. Barnes; Drawings from the Life, Mr. Millington and Mr. Goblet; Model from the Life, Mr. Lucas; Drawings from the Antique, Mr. Macleish, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Warrens; Model from the Antique, Mr. Papworth. Copies of the Discourses of Reynolds and West were delivered with the gold medals; and with the first silver inedals in each class, copies of the Lectures of Barry, Opie, Fuséli, and Flaxman. The medals were awarded who, in conclusion, delivered an eloquent by the President, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and appropriate discourse on the subject of plause. painting, which elicited the warmest ap [ 545 ] · LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. Just Published, or nearly Ready for Publication. The first Portion of a History of NORTH DURHAM. By the Rev. JAMES RAINE. A View of the Scriptural Revelations concerning a Future State; laid before his Parishioners, by a Country Pastor. Sermons, Doctrinal and Practical, by CHARLES TOWNSEND, Perpetual Curate of West Bromwich, and Rector of Calstone, Wilts. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Ely, at the fifth Quinquennial Visitation of that Diocese, in July 1829. By the Right Rev. BOWYER-EDWARD, Lord Bishop of the Diocese. A Charge, delivered to the Clergy at the Visitation held in the Cathedral Church at Calcutta, June 20th, 1828. By the late Right Rev. Dr. James, Lord Bishop of Calcutta; with a Memoir of the time the Bishop lived in India, by E. JAMES, M. A. Prebendary of Winchester. A Grammar of the Egyptian language, by the Rev. H. TATTAM; with a Dictionary of the Ancient Egyptian language, by the late Dr. YOUNG. An Analysis of an unpublished History of Mexico, written by a Spaniard in the 16th century, has appeared in Paris. Essays on Political Economy, in which are illustrated the principal causes of the present National Distress. No. I. of Illustrations of Indian Zoology, consisting of coloured figures of Indian Animals unknown or not yet published; from the Collection of Major-Gen. HARDWICKE, F.R. S. &c. The LIId. number of Dugdale's Monasticon, which completes the body of the Work. An Index is forming upon an ample scale, by Mr. TAYLOR, Author of the Index Monasticus; it will form two parts, and be completed in March next. A posthumous Volume, by the late Mr. ALEXANDER BALFOUR, Author of " Campbell," &c. entitled "Weeds and Wild Flowers," prefaced by a Biographical Sketch of the Author. The Portfolio of the Martyr Student; containing an Introduction, Albert, the Apostate, the Roman Lovers, &c. The Lost Heir; a Novel. The mutual Recognition and exalted Felicity of departed Saints, in letters to a bereaved Friend. By ROBERT MEEK. Valence, the Dreamer; a Poem, by JOHN PHILLIPS, M. A. The Pensée, a Selection of original Poetry, by a Young Lady. Scripture Sketches, with other Poems and Hymns. By the Rev. THOMAS GREENGENT. MAG. December, 1829. WOOD, Lecturer at Cripplegate Church. Part II. of a Series of Subjects from the works of the late R. P. BONINGTON, drawn on stone by J. D. HARDING. Parts VIII. and IX. of ROBINSON'S Designs for Farm Buildings. Part IV. of WETTEN'S Designs for Villas in the Italian Style of Architecture. A Letter upon Prison Discipline; with a Plan to defray the expence of Prison Establishments, &c. By JOHN MANCE, Governor of the House of Correction, Petworth, Sussex. An Essay on the uses of Common Salt for Agricultural purposes, and in Horticulture, with experiments aud illustrations from the latest authorities. By CUTHBERT WM. JOHNSON. A History of English Gardening, chronological, biographical, literary, and critical; tracing the progress of the Art in this Country, from the invasion of the Romans to the present time. By Geo. W. JOHNSON. A System of Geography, for the use of Schools. By THOMAS EWING. Preparing for Fublication. The Protestant Instructor. By the Rev. EDWIN HARRISON, Vicar of Redbourne. On the Obligations of the Clergyman. By the Lord Bishop of Down and CONNOR. A Volume of Sermons, by the Author of the Living and the Dead. A General History of the East Indies. By Mr. C. MARSH. The Fourth Part of RICKARDS' India, entitled, "The Revenue Systems of India under the East India Company's Government." A Journal of Occurrences and Events, during a residence of nearly forty years in the East Indies. By Colonel JAMES WELSH, of the Madras Army. The Sixth and concluding Part of Captain GRINDLAY's Views in India. The Monopolies of the East India Company. By the Author of "Free Trade and Colonization of India." A new and enlarged edition of Mr. R. SWEET'S Hortus Britannicus. A prospectus of an interesting work has been issued at Paris, which will record the scientific researches made by M. C. BELANGER during his four travels in the East, ending with the present year; and also exhibit the extent of his collections in botany, zoology, and entomology. The ninth volume of Count SEGUR'S History of France, commencing with the reiga of Louis XI. is in the press. An English journal is proposed to be published at Pisa, under the title of "The Ausonian, or Monthly Journal of Italian Literature." A Manual of German Literature, intended for self-tuition." In two vols. By Mr. KLAUER KLATTOWSKI, author of The German Synoptical Grammar." Also, A Manual of Icelandic Literature, with an abridgment of Dr. Rask's excellent Swedish-Icelandic Grammar. Literary Recollections and Biographical Sketches. By the Rev. RICHARD WARNER, F. S. A. Mrs. BRAY, Author of "The Protestant," &c. has a Novel in the press, entitled, "Fitz of Fitz-Ford," founded on a popular and interesting Legend of Devonshire. Musical Illustrations of the Waverley Novels, by ELIZA FLOWER. Creation, a Poem, by W. BALL. A Poem, entitled, "Mount Sinai," by Mr. W. PHILLIPS. Mr. BUCKE's Epic Drama of Julio Romano, or the display of the Passions, accompanied by an Historic Memoir. The Rivals, a Novel, by the Author of the Collegians. Stories for young persons, by the Rev. E. MANGIN. A monthly publication at Perth, under the title of "The Perth Miscellany of Literature, Agriculture, Gardening, and Local Intelligence." A Compendium of Astronomy, and an Astronomical Dictionary. By R. T. LIMINGTON, Author of "The Companion to the Globes." CAMBRIDGE, Dec. 18. The subject this year for the Chancellor's prize medal in English verse is Byzan tium. The subjects for the prize compositions in Latin verse, are: for the Bachelors, Quantum momenti, ad studium rei Theologica promovendum habeat literarum humaniorum cultus? For the Under-graduates, Que sit forma Пohtuas ad Græciæ renascentis statum optimè accommodata? The subjects for Sir William Browne's prize medals are: for the Greek Ode llysst Laus; for the Latin Ode, Cume; for the Greek Epigram Ægrescit medendo; for the Latin Epigram, Spatiis inclusus iniquis. The Porson prize is the interest of 4001. stock, to be annually employed in the purchase of one or more Greek books, to be given to such resident Under-graduateas shall make the best translation of a proposed passage in Shakspeare, Ben Jonson, Massinger, or Beaumont and Fletcher, into Greek The subject for the Porson prize is Romeo and Juliet, Act 11. Scene 2, beginning "He jests at sears, &c. and ending verse. er be a Capulet." [Dec. THE ARUNDEL MANUSCRIPTS. The newspapers have been recently engaged in a discussion respecting the exchange of these MSS. by the President and Council of the Royal Society, for duplicates in the possession of the British Museum, The measure has been, in some instances, severely, and we think improperly, animadverted upon. The Arundel MSS. were obtained, after much intercession on the part of the well-known John Evelyn, in 1666, from Mr. Henry Howard, afterwards Earl of Arundel. He presented the Royal Society with the library of Arundel-house, to dispose of as their property," expressly “allowing the liberty of changing those that are double, or such as are not for the society's purposes, for others." The gift of these books and manuscripts was accompa nied with a request, that the donor's name might be inserted in each; and that whenever an exchange was made by the Society, of any of them for books better suited to their purposes, a similar inscription might be put also upon the new books procured in consequence. The manuscripts which form the Howard Arundel Collection at the Royal Society, exclusive of those in the oriental languages, amount to about five hundred and fifty. The more important consists of a Wyclif's Bible, in English, 2 vols. foliothe most superb manuscript of its kind known; a Greek Evangelistarium-an old and fine manuscript; a MS. of Pliny's Natural History, of the twelfth century; a Latin Psalter, with an interlineary Saxon version; a MS. of Thucydides; Froissart, in 3 vols.-fine, but mutilated; a good manuscript of the Homilies of St. Chrysostom, in Greek; a Greek Euclid; Gregory Nazianzen; and a Latin and Norman Psalter. There are numerous manuscripts of the classics, also in the collection, several of them of a good age, but a few nearly coeval with the art of printing; among these are Suetonius; various works of Cicero; various works of Boethius; two Virgils; a MS. of the Rei Rusticæ Scriptores; Thucydides; Justin; Diodorus Siculus; Lucan; Martial; Claudian; Horace; Terence ; Tacitus's Germany; Plautus; Macrobius; Juvenal and Persius; the Thebais of Statius; Hesiod; two Plays of Aristophanes ; the Hecuba of Euripides; Priscian; Vitruvius; Isidorus; and Diogenes Laertius; with a MS. of the Catholicon of J. Januensis. The English Chronicles are also a numerous class; viz. two copies of Geoffrey of Monmouth; Giraldus Cambrensis ; Whethamstede ; Eadmer; William of Malmesbury; William of Jumieges; Huntingdon and Trivet; Hovenden; Bede: Matthew of Westminister; the Polychronicon, &c. There are likewise various Abbey Registers and Rentals: as of Glastonbury, Newenham, the Hospital at Bury in Suffolk, St. Alban's, Christ Church, Canterbury, and St. John, Colchester. In |