The Sun.
London, England, 1834-03-28 00:00:00

CABINET ANNUAL REGISTER. LONDON, 1834.

We have just dipped into this work, and are
much pleased with whatlittle we have been enabled
to glean of its contents. It is of a very compre-
hensive character, being a record of all the political
events of the last year, foreign and domestic ; and
containing besides an abstract ofpublic acts passed
within the same period ; a chronicle of casual-
ties, and some well-digested biographical no-
tices of eminent and remarkable persons de-
ceased. In a work of such an extensive,
miscellaneous nature, a few trilling errors
are, of course, to be expected, and accord-
ingly we find, under the head " Chronicle
of Events," &c., a statement to the effect, that
Sir J. Jeffcott was tried last August, at the
Exeter assizes, for the murder of Dr. Hennis.
Now, it happens, that the learned judge was
tried only a fortnight ago, and acquitted. This
slip will, of course, be corrected in a future
edition. Among the biographical notices is
one of the late Mr. Smith, keeper of the prints
in the British Museum, and author of that ec-
centric, well-known publication, the " Life of
Nollekens," from which we quote an amusing
anecdote :
" In Mr. Upcott's album Mr. Smith wrote a playful account
of himself, in which is the following paragraph :—` I can boaqt
of seven events, some of which great men might be proud of—
I received a kiss, when a boy, from the beautiful Mrs. Robin-
son—was patted on the head by Dr. Johnson—have frequently
held Sir Joshua Reynolds' spectacles—partook of a pot of porter
with an elephant—saved Lady Hamilton from falling, when the
melancholy news reached her of Lord Nelson's death—three
times conversed with King George the Third—and was once
shut up in a room with Mr. Kean's lion.' "

Of all these seven events of which Mr. Smith
boasts, we envy him only one—the kiss from
Mrs. Robinson, the " fair Perdita," as she was
styled, whose fate it was, after having be-
witched the Prince of Wales and half the no-
bility, to die neglected, broken-hearted, and
half-starved, in London I It is something to
have been kissed by such a woman, even
though one may happen to have been a boy at
the time. A man is seldom so young, but that
he can relish the fragrance of a lady's lips.

ENCYCLOPcEDIA OF GEOGRAPHY. LoNGmAN AND

CO. LONDON, 1834.

This work is not a mere technical, superficial
manual of geography—as might be surmised
from its title—like those of Guthrie, Pinkerton,
or Evans, but of a most comprehensive, elabo-
rate character, comprising not only a complete
description of the earth, but exhibiting also its
relations to the heavenly bodies, its physical
structure, the natural history of each country,
together with details (which must have cost a
world of research) of the industry, commerce,
political institutions, and civil and social state of
all nations. The editor of this comprehensive
production is Mr. H. Murray, a gentleman well
known for his various scientific acquirements,
who has been assisted on the occasion by some
of the most eminent mathematicians, astrono-
mers, botanists, and mineralogists of the day.
That no attraction may be wanting to the work,
it is, we perceive, to be illustrated by eighty-
two maps, drawn expressly by Sidney Hall, and
upwards of a thousand wood engravings. The
first Part is now lying before us, and contains a
mass of valuable practical information, such as
we should have deemed it scarcely possible to
have condensed within the limits. The en-
graved specimens of old Arabic and Venetian

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