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    cations , except those of very great weight , are forwarded by the mail coaches at a trifling expense ; so that persons who reside in the provinces may receive them with the greatest possible rapidity . If at a moderate rate per pound weight new works could be forwarded from Londou by our mail

    coaches , individuals who reside at a distance from the large towns to which parcels of newly-published books are sent , or even in those towns , —for it does not answer the purpose of a bookseller to have down one or two books in a parcel for a single customer , —would in such an arrangement nnd a great accommodation . An additional hundred weight to each of the mail coaches would be no

    drawback upon their speed or safety ; and all new works of immediate interest might be thus circulated throughout the country . As in France the regulation alluded to was made exclusively in favour of literature , a method of preventing deception has been adopted . Persons sending books , are required to leave them open at the ends , a band with the address upon it being simply placed round the centre .

    Antediluvian Botany . —At a recent sitting of the Acade * mie des Sciences , M . Adolphe Brongniart read a very singular paper , entitled , General Observations on the Nature of the Vegetation which covered the Surface of the Earth at the various Epochs of the Formation of its Shell . " According to M . Brongniart , vegetable fossils , studied in the order of

    their creation , indicate the existence of three grand periods , during each of which vegetation has preserved the same essential characters , while its characters are totally different when it passes from one of those periods to another . The first , or most ancient period , comprehends the space of time which elapsed between the earliest deposit of earthy layers of sediment , and the deposit of the formations

    of coal ; which latter may be considered as resulting from the destruction of the primitive vegetation of the globe . The antiquity of the layers in which the vegetables belonging to this earliest period are found , proves that life began on earth with the vegetable kingdom . During the whole of that period , only animals destitute of vertebrae existed on the spots of arth which were uncovered ; and it is

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    doubtful whether there were any fishes in the sea . After this period , we begin to nud a new vegetation , quite different from the former , and which continued until the period of tha chalk deposits Duriug that period , it does not appear that there were any rnammiferous animals on the earth , which was inhabited by monstrous reptiles , endowed by nature

    with the power of flying and swimming . The third period is that during which have occurred the last deluges of which our earth has been the scene , with the intervals which have allowed the propagation of many kinds of animals now lost , as well as of those still existing . The fossil remains of trees , such as the American fern-tree , to the luxuriance of which warmth and moisture are necessary , belonging to the first of the

    abovementioned periods , are of extraordinary size , being above double the height of that of the trees of the same species now growing ; from which circumstance M . Brongniart infers , that at that period the temperature of the globe was much higher , and the general , humidity much greater , than at present . The paper contains a great many curious and interesting details , iuto which we have not space to e uter .

    A complete edition of the works of Professor Reid has appeared in Paris , with Some fragments of Royer Collard . The History of the Rise and Progress of the Mahomedan Power in India , from its commencement in the year 1000 till 1620 , translated by Lieutenant-Colonel John Briggs , late resident at Satara , from the Original Persian of Mahomed Kasim Astrabady , entitled Ferishta , —is about to be published .

    Tales of the Wars of our Tunes , by the Author of Recollections of the Peninsula , will be published about Easter . An allegory is announced , entitled a Geographical and Historical Account of the Great World , with a Voyage to its several Islands , Vocabulary of the Language , &c . ; illustrated by a Map . At Erlangen , in Bavaria , a new edition is announced of the complete works of Luther , and also of Melancthon .

    The Bishop of Lincoln is preparing for publication , Some Account of the Writings and Opiuions of Justiu Martyr .

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    J 50 Literary Novelties .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page 150, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/78/