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from the age of six or seven to any period of maturity . We have little doubt that the writer will realise his wish , and afford the means of bettering and delighting numbers of his kind . The volume is
handsomely got up with numerous excellent and useful lithographic sketches . We have only two faults to find with it ; first , that ( in our copy at least ) a good many of the tissue papers are loose , from
careless stitching , and ( as they are necessarily retained , to defend the type from the black grounds of the lithographs ) prove very troublesome to the reader ; and , second , that the work is too short .
A History of British Quadrupeds , —ByThomasBell , F . R . S ., F . L . S ., Professor of Zoology in King ' s College , London . Illustrated by a woodcut of each species , and numerous vignettes , 8 vo . Part X .
A History of British Birds . — By William Yarrell , F . L . S ., Secretary to the Zoological Society . Illustrated by a woodcut of each species , and numerous vignettes . Part I . John Van Voorst .
We have seen but few of the numbers of Mr Bell ' s " Quadrupeds ; " but , from what we have seen , have learned to value the work highly . It is got up in a
style worthy of the first work of the series , with admirable cuts . The present number includes the commencement of the history of those most interesting brutes of the ocean , the cetacea .
The first number of the " Birds " contains some of the raptores , — eagles , vultures , and falcons . The woodcuts are spirited and highly finished , but the present ones strike us as hardly so finely executed as some in the " Fishes , " nor so soft
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as some in the earlier numbers 03 the " Quadrupeds . " The same plan of throwing iiii collateral information by means o 1 > lively vignettes is pursued in th «< new work . The entire series will
certainly form a most noble history of the native zoology . Narrative of Captain Jameu Fawckners Travels on thu Coast of Benin , West Africat Edited by a Friend of the Captain . Published for the Proprietor , by A . Schloss .
Captain Fawckner , as we are informed by a prospectus accompanying his volume , suffered severely by a fire at Plymouth , in which he lost the whole of his property . He had been , in earlier days , shipwrecked on the coast of Benin
was seized , together with his crew , by the natives , and obliged to endure many hardships . The people among whom he fell , with all the capriciousness and ferocity of savage
life , do not appear to have been destitute of kindlier feelings . To a flute , however , which the party happened to possess , they probably owed their safety on more than one occasion . The mate of the wrecked
vessel perished , and was interred by the side of Belzoni . ' The narrative of these mishaps of his ro buster days has been published by subscription , to aveitsome of the ills which have again visited the voyager in a less looked-for shape . It is very interesting , and we wish it every success .
A Philosophical and Practical View of the Social Bearings and Importance of Educationy in a Series of Essays , &c . By J . Antrobus . Longman and Co . ; Hatchard and Son .
The title of Mr Antrobua ' s work is calculated to mislead the reader ; it should have been called " The
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Critical Notices . 1411
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 1, 1837, page 141, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1834/page/69/
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