The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-02 00:00:00

THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE.

man and Co.
This periodical is exclusively addressed to engineell'
architects, and persons employed in one or other of the
various trades branching out of the sciences of Engineering
and Architecture, such as masonry, carpentery, painting,
plumbing, glazing, furnishing, and a number of others"
Among such persons it deserves to have, and doubtless
has, a very extensive circulation.

THE METROPOLITAN.
The " Note Book of an IriSh Barrister" contains 3
Sketch of Sir William Smith, late Baron of the xhe.-
quer in Ireland, who, it may be remembered, in his c;
treme old age, distinguished himself as a Tory of a wor
decided cast than even Lord Eldon, if that were P°551191;
We have no other fault to find with this sketch than that I_
is too diffuse, and that here and there the writer alludes.°
matters of which it is clear lie knows nothing--as for 10;
stance, where he calls Carnot a " sanguinary buteher;o
We suppose he refers to the great French Republictril'e
connection with the notorious Committee of retl
Safety ; but Carnot could not have avoided that cone%
without great and perhaps lasting detriment to the inter the
of France ; and as it was, he was the only one of td,
Reign of Terror whose hands were not stained with bloc
and who always, even in the face of the greatest pets Le,
dangers, advocated the cause of mercy. .‘ A Village
gend" is a pleasing poem, whose great merit is its simple
city, from the pen of William Hewitt. In the artT.e
called " Mems. in the Mediterranean," we find a g raaP,Sf..
description of a religious procession in Palermo. tilts
hours" is a light showy essay in which, however, occurs t?
nonsensical opinion, " Geniuses are proverbially indolOtbe
Now the case is just the reverse. The Number, on
whole, is an amusing one.

NICHOLAS NICKL EBY. there
This Number is not quite so good as the last ; still p
are dainty bits in it, such as none but Boz could Sertb.-tutit
to us. The whole of the journey to York is good;a`;:,-, of
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this point the interest begins to flag, chiefly by re
the introduction of two very irrelevant legends, the first ',-
which, namely, the " Five Sisters," should have becOrbe
punged, for it is wholly unworthy of the author.
" Baron of Grogswig" is much better, but he has no bu'ls
ness where he is. The last chapter in the Number f
capital, and we foresee that we shall reap a rich harYesft
fun from the domestic sayings and doings of Mr. and 1‘,1.r:0
o
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Wackford Squeers. The illustrations are by PI iz' -
" Start for Yorkshire" is the best.

TOWN AND COUNTRY MAGAZINE.
There is a picturesque engraving in this Number
" View in the Hague Wood," which in richness of foli3f
or'
and in sylvan varieties of gentle hill and dale. is not lins' in
thy to vie with'some of our most favoured .landsclffssed
Windsor Forest. We had no idea that Holland poss°oo,
any scenery half so beautiful. Among the literary cod
tents we find a brace or two of cleverish tales in prose,' oor
a covey of wild sonnets, which are far too extatic to suit
sober temperament.

SPORTING MAGAZINE. 110/
There arc two engravings in this Number, one of vv•t of
will be regarded with some interest, for it is a Pnr,trwallich
" Theron," the favourite charger of her Majesty, and .11 11
she is frequently in the habit of riding. The animalnd
meek. and pacific in the extreme—quite a lady's horse',- 005
is robustly and symmetrically made. Of the vrod
sporting articles in the Number, that which we have °-
shift to
the most intelligible, and have therefore made a -few
get through, is the " Hunting Club," in which oCOur a
clever sketches of character.

NEW MONTIZLY BELLE ASSEMBLES'
dY"
This Magazine is well calculated to take with dit
readers, for it is full of tales of sentiment and flower). to
ties in which susceptible hearts describe die lacerated scat
of their affections, in every second line. To our tlitok'
however, the most entertaining—because the least ger'in
mental—article is, `° Notes during a Short ResidcnO
Paris," which give evidence of an observant nature.

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ECLECTIC REVIEW.
A Periodical of the old school, something after the f 4"
t d
shion of the " Monthly Review," which is vbolly devote,
to the grave, sober notices of new publications. There!
a quaker-like decorum and seriousness about it, which Is
.
amusing by reason of its novelty, in these brisk and bust
ling literary times. The present Number is temperately
and—in its notice of Sir E. Coke's Memoirs—learnedly
written.

On Saturday, two men were taken into custody by
Finn, the constable, on suspicion of horse stealing, they having vc.ite
them two horses which they were offering much below their value' Iti
men, having undergone an examination before the magistrates, were Fe4tt
at large on their recognizanees, as no case could he made out again'
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them, and the horses were put into a field adjoining the town, until the a
owners could be ascertained. On Monday night both the horses, and
another animal also grazing in the close, were stolen, and the men were
nowhere to be found.—Derby Reporter.