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Assassination of L. S. Dentatus, painted by B. R. Haydon. Drawn on the wood and engraved by his pupil, WILLIAM HARVEY.

THIS is not only one of the largest (143 ins. by 114) but altogether the finest wood engraving that has ever appeared. The indefatigable and able engraver of this splendid work of art was one of the most promising pupils of the ingenious Bewick, of Newcastleupon Tyne, who has now been in London some years practising his art, and studying in the best schools in the metropolis. The art of wood engraving is of ancient date, but the Germans were the first who brought it to perfection. Albert Durer, Schaufelien, Burgmair, and other able masters of the German school, drew the designs upon the blocks and left the cutting to the ordinary engravers. So do most of the present day, except that the engravers seldom draw, but procure the designs to be drawn upon the wood for them. In this instance Mr. Harvey made the drawing himself, which was so fine that our only lecturer on this art, and one of the best line engravers of the day, said it was so good

it was almost a pity to cut it up by engraving. For wood engravings in general we have to say "it is on wood,” or "it is well for wood," "it is spirited," and so on- -but really this engraving is so fine, so exquisitely drawn, both in expression and anatomy, the textures of fur, metal, leather, flesh, hair, &c. are so wonderfully marked, that it is fine art, and not engraving per se of any kind that we admire. The collector, the genuine lover of art, the veritable amateur, will, we are sure, hasten to procure fine impressions from this unique work of art which sets the British school of wood engraving above any in the world.

The Rabbit on the Wall, painted by DAVID WILKIE, Esq. R.A. and engraved by J. BURNETT.

A beautiful and effective print in the line manner of engraving, in Mr. Burnett's best manner, of his friend and countryman's well known picture of a young man amusing some children with forming a shadow from his hands on the wall of the shape of a rabbit. The admirers of Wilkie must be pleased in having this print to add to their port folios.

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Whole length of NAPOLEON (two sizes) painted by GERARD and engraved by LUPTON.

The admirers of this extraordinary personage, whose fortunes and destiny have agitated the four quarters of the globe, have here an opportunity of gratifying their inclinations at two prices, both of a good print and a faithful likeness of the illustrious emperor in his imperial robes of state.

PORTRAIT OF HIS MAJESTY, immediately after his coronation, by Sir T. Lawrence, President of the Royal Academy, in his coronation robes, seated in St. Edward's chair, with the crown of England on his head, and the sceptre in his hand, as he appeared enthroned in the Abbey. The picture, which is of great magnitude to admit the various concomitants, is already far advanced, and probably will be the most successful from the pencil of the president. It promises far to excel in magnificence and splendor the famous picture of the POPE by the same artist, belonging to his MAJESTY; when finished it is intended to present duplicates of it to various corporation halls in the United Kingdom.

Messrs. WILDE, PUGIN, and STEPHANOFF are engaged in preparing splendid views of the coronation.

A Portrait of Sir Walter Scott, is just published, from an original sketch by Mr. Slater.

A series of twelve Illustrations for Crabbe's Poems, and another series of six for Moore's Lalla Rookh, will be published in a few days. They are from designs by Corbould, and were originally engraved for a periodical work.

It is reported that the Royal Academicians have liberally determined to form a collection of the finest works of the old masters, which are to be placed in the painting room of the Royal Academy for the improvement of the students.

A new institution, established for the encouragement of the fine arts, was opened at Glasgow on Monday the 6th of August. The rules and regulations, as far as regards the disposal of the works in the gallery, are similar to those of the British Institution.

The Royal Irish Institution have offered 500 guineas premium for the best picture of his Majesty's landing in Ireland.

The Beauties of Mozart, Handel, Pleyel, Haydn, Beethoven, and other celebrated Composers, adapted to the words of popular Psalms, and Hymns, for one or two voices, by an Eminent Professor.

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HIS collection of adaptations comprises more than eighty articles, occupies one hundred and sixty-four pages, in horizontal octavo, and is accompanied with appropriate symphonies, and an organ, piano, or harp part. The compiler's object in this publication, according to the professions expressed in his preface, was to apply to the most popular of the psalms, a more elegant and fascinating style of music; for which purpose he had selected a variety of detached strains of melody, from the above and other distinguished masters, among whom we find the name of the tasteful, original, and ever-charming Pæsiello. This design was meritorious, and though not executed with uniform success, is far from being destitute of meaning and effect, and of promising to prove useful and gratifying to the lovers of sacred music. We, however, cannot refrain

from observing that the accent has not always been sufficiently attended to, and that in some instances, it is positively falsified.

To the vocal part of the work we find prefixed nine preludes, in as many different keys, (all in the major mode) the whole of which are abstracted from the justly-celebrated work of Sebastian Bach; and form a considerable and acceptable portion of the publication before us. Viewed altogether, the contents of this volume are of a description to sanction our approbation, and to admit of our recommending the undertaking to the notice of the public. Numbers 1, 2 and 3, of a Selection of the most admired Waltzes, for the Piano Forte, by J. Monro. 2s.

Mr. Monro dignifies this little work with the appellation of La creme des Waltzes, to the justice of which, though we are not unaware of its subjection to the charge of vanity, we are by no means unwilling to subscribe. The pieces are selected with judgment, are dilated, ornamented, and filled up with taste and science, and the preludes, one of

which is prefixed to each of the compositions, are proportioned in length, and adapted in style, to the melodies they introduce. As practices for those young musicians who have not made any great advancement in the art of execution, we think these waltzes will prove attractive and useful; in the character of exercises, we are justified in giving them our recommendation. "Dear, dear! the thought's enchanting," an admired Ballad, written by Mr. F. Wyman, Composed, with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte, by George Frederic Harris. 1s. 6d.

This little ballad is written with a degree of delicate humour, and is set with an appropriate ease and playfulness. The accompaniment is simple, yet busy and ingenious. Both by the writer and the composer, the production is evidently meant as a trifle; but it is a pleasing trifle, and gives satisfactory evidence of the abilities both of the poet and the musician. It will not fail to attract the lovers of light and airy composition.

Her Most Gracious Majesty Queen Caroline's New Waltz, Composed and Arranged with variations for the Harp or Piano Forte, by J. Monro. 28.

The passages of which this waltz is constituted, are of a pleasing cast, and well linked together. The appended variations (five in number) are of progressive volatility and difficulty, and calculated to lead forward the finger of the young practitioner. Regarded as a divertimento, Mr. Monro's composition is certainly worthy of commendation; and as an exercise ranks among those best calculated to promote the power of free and facile, if not of brilliant execution.

"No dearer moments e'er can flow," a song Composed by John Barnett. 1s. 6d.

If this song, the words of which are written by Mr. Hippolitus Poignand, is not of the first description, in point

of beauty of melody, neither is it without some claims to our approbation, on account of its truth and propriety of expression. The passages, perhaps, are in some instances, too sombre, but the general effect is appropriate and interesting. Of Mr. Poignand's poetry we cannot speak very flatteringly, though we would by no means entirely deny its possession of merit.

Le Carnival, a familinr Divertimento for the Piano Forte, Composed by J, C. Nightingale, Organist of the Foundling Hospital. 28.

This divertimento consists of three movements, the first of which is original, the second founded on "Fresh and strong the breeze is blowing," from INKLE and YARICO, and the third on “Come let us dance and sing,” from the same opera. The variety which distinguishes this production, gives it, in our opinion, much and forcible attraction. The movements are ably arranged, and succeed each other with an effect that manifests the judgment of the composer and compiler. Of the merit of the two borrowed airs, we need not speak. It is a long while since they first spake for themselves. The Zodiac, a Series of Favourite Songs, written by J. Richards, esq. adapted to Airs of the most admired Country Dances and Waltzes, Arranged with an Accompaniment for the Piano Forte, or Harp, by J. Monro. 1s. 6d.

This little publication, founded on the idea of taking up as subjects, the remarkable or characterising day of each month, as New Year's Day, St. Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, &c. &c., is appropriately and happily diversified, and marks the taste and ingenuity of the selector. We find among the assembled melodies some of the most justly admired, and if they are not all modern, the least new are in one sense of the word, too good ever to be old.

CCURRENCES are hourly presenting

OCCURRENCES are hourly presenting

pages, which prove the impossibility of establishing those universal propositions in medicine that are admissable and applicable in other sciences. We are daily taught, too, in the school of experience,

that the naming of a disease, and the pointing out its appropriate or specific remedy, is the conception of a something in the medical art which equally eludes the grasp of ingenuity, and bids defiance to the labour of industry.

Who that reads Dr. Hamilton on purga

tive medicines, and Mr. Abernethy on disorders of the digestive organs, would not, giving credence to these authors, and they are both "honourable men," who would not suppose, that preserving the first passages clear and the chylopoietic functions in consistent action, is to ensure health and cure disease? But alas! it is not so. At this moment, two violent affections of a convulsive kind, are under the reporter's care, in which the cathartic and chylopoietic plan of treatment has been unavailingly instituted, and which, having refused to yield to the force of medicinals, founded on these views, are giving way before the tonic system of treatmenta system which is set at naught by our modern heroes in the fields of gastricity. St. Vitus's Dance is the disorder in one of the instances alluded to, and the remedy is five grain doses of the oxyd of zinc. The other is a very curious example of epilepsy; the subject of which is taking small and gradually augmented doses of the nitrate of silver. Now what must be considered remarkable in the rationale and treatment of disordered states is this, that two other cases, not only nosologically identified with the preceding, but apparently calling for the same remedial management, would on the contrary, prove perhaps curable by an application of the cathartic or chylopoietic -the Hamiltonian, or Abernethyan principles. So much for the truth of extravagant and excluding dogmata. Derangements in the stomach and bowels have recently been numerous. This is what we expect at this season, but during the last ten or twelve days, they have been more than ordinarily prevalent among children. It ought ever to be recollected, that although astringents are often required for these ailments, such should not be given without a careful regard to the condition of the secreting organs. Lock up injudiciously and you will induce organic disease. It is surprising, under these circumstances, how much good will be effected by one or two grain doses of calomel preliminary to, or in alternation with, the cretaceous mixture. There is another medicine, highly valuable when appropriately administered in these

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maladies, but which demands discernment and experience to justify its adoption. Practitioners, perhaps, are in general too fearful of opium, from such injurious consequences having been attendant upon its popular and fearless employment: but one or two drops of laudanum, given to a child who is suffering from intestinal or teeth irritation, will occasionally even prove the preservative of life, by preventing those derangements of vital organs to which these irritations so readily lead; and it is even at times expedient almost to suspend sensibility, that is, to put it out of harm's way, till the storm of disease has passed With respect to the objection to these plans and practises, on the score of their interfering with nature, it may be re.. plied, that all institutions for the restoration of health imply such interferenceand it is only then, that we deviate from propriety when we dash at disease without care or consequence.

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Before concluding, the writer will take the liberty of presenting the following curious statement, extracted from a letter by Mr. Fitch, of Ipswich. "Jeremiah Goldsmith, aged between 60 and 70, called on me about the 1st of July, at which time he was so violently affected with rheumatism, as to deprive him of the use of his side, and prevent his walking without great difficulty. I engaged him to collect Colchicum seed for me, and between the 7th of that month and August 1st, he brought at different times, nearly 500lbs. weight. Observing each time he came a gradual improvement in his walking, and that he appeared more free from pain, I questioned hinr as to the cause; his answer was that he had taken no medicine, but attributed it to his occupation in shelling the seed, as during the employ, he daily found himself improving, and the same circumstance occurred to him the previous year when engaged in the same business."

D. UWINS, M.D. Bedford Row, Aug. 20, 1821.

*The seed may be procured by applica tion to Mr. Fitch at a reasonable rate.

N the most forward districts, wheat harvest commenced about the 13th inst. but generally, it will be full ten days later, and in the north, September will rather be the harvest month. The quantity of straw is said to be large in most parts, but from the spring and early part of the summer being unfavourable, and the subsequent beating down of the corn by the rains, the wheats have received considerable damage, and, it is now said, will not prove an aveMONTHLY MAG. No. 358.