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London, England, 1835-04-18 00:00:00

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tion of the one " On the approaching Comet,
displays much ingenious scientific speculation, afford
little or no scope for comment.

LONDON REVIEW.—No, I.
Simpkin and Marshall, London.

The London Review, of which the present is n'
first number, is a sort of Quarterly Tait, advocati',lg
Reform to an equal extent, and in the same staunci3,
unflinching spirit. In its philosophical tone, it it
wholly utilitarian, like the Westminster ; and like thB
celebrated Review, brings over4nuch dogmatism t
its task. The first article is devoted to the " State f
the Nati6n," but instead of confining itself to the eee'
sideration of our' present condition and how it Ingo
be bettered, busies itself with a thousand estra.:
neous matters. , The last part of this essaY hie
the best, for it bears more directly on its subject.
writer is no. enthusiast.He does not anticiPOetri
storming of the Treasury Bench by the Radical s led
some years to come yet ; but recommends them to loci
themselves in readiness ; and by all means to o°l
" a partial union with either of the parties. of the 31°.
derates." This is bad advice. If the Radicals keel:,
sternly aloof from the Whigs, so far from pronl°6.%
Reform, they will only retard it, and thereby bli
another trium‘h to Toryism. Just now it is theirdt?ty a
to coalesce with the Whigs--always bearing in bi
tit
that 11144 tint they who come round to that part', th
that pdrty which comes round to them. " New S'uld
Wales" is certainly not the happiest subject that Caw,
have been selected for the first number of a Bevie
The subject is too hackneyed, all that is known of
The folt
having been told a hundred times already.

lowing may perhaps amuse : of
" Nature has not been bountiful in affording the meausiip,
existence in Australia. The vegetable kingdom liardlY
coed'
plies anything. There is not an eatable fruit which ex ere
the size of a "cherry ; and the only nutritive roots whichigge
known, are those of the ferns and some bulb. The 0111 Y --n0
animals are the emu and the kangaroo, both of which strehate
becoming rare, from the‘constanttsdestruction of them by ore
ing. Fishing, indeed, might afford more abundant and
constant supplies. But the rudeness of the instruments' ill
of the manner of fishing practised by the natives, frequell,o
render this resource insufficient : during the winter men neat
Van Diemen's Land ; during the storms which are in the
on the coast of New Holland; and from the emigration 000
fish, this last means of support sometimes fails, and fach
rages dreadfully. The- natives are then reduced to su
state of meagreness, that they seem like so many skeletons,
ready to fall down from inanition. The condition of the Faye
tives in the interior is, if possible, still worse. The"' kind
constant war on the frogs, lizards, serpents, and various
001
(
of grubs, particularly a large species which, is found ir.rt of
the branches of the Eucalyptus. Even spiders form ltrdes
their disgusting- repasts : in some cases these miserahle,',c of
are obliged to live upon certain herbs, to gnaw the vano. sect
particular trees, and even to make use of a paste, C 0 0f the
of ants and their larvw, mixed with the pounded l'Ots
fern. Nothing but the most hideous famine, could have sug
gested the idea of such a food." the
" Municipal Corporation Reforms" canvasse-pe
subject in an enlarged and searching spirit. the
writer is no half-and-half Reformer. He goes
•
whole hog." In the Essay on " Recent Spa" si.h the
terature" we have an interesting account °,,,"
poems and tragedies of Martinez de la ',co
the present Prime Minister of Spain. It is a er.140
sign of the times to see a poet at the head of a'd be
in the Peninsula. °tie would imagine he we'll hes,
always writing sonnets to the moon in his dis Pat: the
Luckily, however, M. de la Rosa is a 0'
the
world, as well as a votary of the muses. Fr°ra fie
specimens adduced by the Reviewer, we are by
as
el' means impressed with a lofty sense of his caPa1,111(1
a poet. His verses are but tame comtnon-place,s'aro,
his tragedies full of patriotic clap-traps, like pii
" South America" is another of those trite °roe
which we would gladly have seen postponed to soil
future number. It is not of immediate or ge'lc,re
interest. We know already quite as much as wewir
to know, about the Pampas ; and as for " the clia'
chos," who can be interested in the customs alld ezet
racters of savages ? The criticism on " Ebejille
Elliott" is penned in rather too laudatory a veil' aced
is unquestionably a poet, but no more to be o°l4thav
with Byron—as the Reviewer would insinuate"--, big
a mole-hill to a mountain. The best passages `,,,,110;
poems are the descriptive ones. True, he has 531.1."-Acfe
but it is coarse and clumsy, with a rough, jabbed is so
that does not cut, but mangles. The "Ballot
the
article in the novel form of a dialogue, and enf°'-s, of
necessity of the experiment with much cogent}

argument.

,ASS

AN ESSAY ON THE NATURE OF DIS-rhjiii
By A. GREEN, L.L.B. Simpkin and Marsh
This is a very curious tract. The theory °
author is that all diseases are generated by iv°lll's'a
that all contagious distempers are communicate
foll°
..-
their passing from one body-to another. -eatecer
mg extract may be regarded as the basis of w"
is advanced in these pages :
" It is very probable that no part of the body 15 wee
from the intrusion of vermin, of some species or other' oorin
several species may vary in size, from that of the larg,„e caPo
often found in the intestines, to that of the anienalcun
ble of penetrating into the minutest vessels. Worms °-051'.'
siderable size have been known to exist in the blood %tooolii'f
and even in the heart. Such instances may be urlo,c% su
but they prove the possibility of living beings existi°' lofBOtr
situations. Warmth is so favourable to the existence.ti ever,
°
malcules, that we cannot suppose them not to abound I ft to
part of the body, where there is a place of residenceds
receive them. Thb lymphatic vessels, the various g'l3l'o, olsl,
cavities of the body', and even the sheaths of the nery 01.'5;
be the residence of different species of these minute cre.es of (
and may be subject to the intrusion of some varicti3 sf °
noxious character. It is difficult, indeed, to subject 111r0,0:
these creatures to observation ; for even in them but
they are only observable while alive, and in motion; is, die'
death of the animal whose body they inhabit, theY?re cal`
Every analogy, however, leads us to infer, that they h‘l"Y:r
ble of existing in every vessel and interstice of tTb -
Whether they are ever of any use we do not kc°,,w.nefiti,9,l';',
place of residence may be given them for their own,L'e
not for the benefit of the animal in whose body trle),ratt°-:e
Perhaps all that we can hope of them is, that in ro'
may be harmless. When they are otherwise, they t
the source of a great variety of diseases. that
"I think we may with great probability surrnigc.'„
diseases which admit of being communicated from en„"re
to another, by contagion or infection, are of this nati" tP,
are the effect of some species of animalcule observab te; se°o;
eye. Some species are communicated only by contacthio,
only by contact with such parts as have the skin ver
ecY •es °rile
where the cuticle has re:noved. Other sp l
oo t
communicated at a considerable distance. In these cim 05%
animalcule may be driven by the breath, or more pro ha
anal Pe
fly. We see that animalcules can swim in liquids, and 3Tr °f
leads to the inference that some species of them rllay.i)..israg/9$
animalcules, then, constitute what is termed the re' 'r t
disease. They may abound generally through ti s'bor
whole district, or they may be confined to within a /-o,oy t,t
distance of the body from which the proceed, or theY ith°
communicable only by contact, or not even by contact to soll!,c
the previous removal of the skin. They may attach et,
persons and not to all. They may affect some Per,,s°lOotibew:
severely than others, as some persons suffer more tvatfecteav
by the venom of poisonous insects. They may be ;t,
the weather, for most animalcules are affected 1).7
ba
changes. They may vary with the climate. Theycte
periodical returns. They may have all the chars
monly belonging to the miasmata of disease."

CO W PER' S POEMS. Baldwin. .London' -
edit',
We have just seen a prospectus of a now e," 'by Dr'
Cowper 's Works, which is to be superintende" °
Southey. No one can be better qualified for scoltP
task. He has feeling, judgment, taste—every ipt°
in short, that should enable him to enter heartily
the merits of the " bard of Olney." Thew°rl;OCC
perceive, will extend to twelve volumes, aoU 1, e:,ll
the correspondence of Cowper, together w'r-iiiteLl
translation of Homer. Each volume Will be P
in the
.11est type, and be embellished with tsce
gravings by some of our most popular artists.
03„ as
trust it will succeed, for the writings of suet'3
Cowper cannot be too widely diffused.
The last St. Peters&
contains an interesting articleu, t. 'e—trol the draini,,rlg,.:ol,l
marshy ground in the neighbou.ialli of St. Fetrs'rriiii-Or'l.
the labours of an Englishman inamed- :Wheeler.
of tbe P-
lAvalesxacnodminenced in 1818, in consequenee
Alexander having witnessed the highlycultivateti
rteighbourho'od of Londnno
gl fig 'cultural I:6ltibael