The Sun.
London, England, 1828-06-07 00:00:00

THE PUFFIAD, A SATIRE.-LONDON, 18287

There is a smart flippancy about this satire,
which eertair.ly does not want power, that with some
may excite attention, perhaps even admiration. To
our tastes, however, it is far too general, too in-
discriminate, too coarse in its invective. It is
easy to call one man a dunce; another a mini-
skull, a third a quack, a fourth a puffer, and so on
—the only thing to he apprehended is, that such
appellations may recoil with more justice on the head
of him who makes them, that on those to whom they
are applied. In every instance where the author
lays aside these stilted and elaborate puerilities, he
uniformly rises in intelligence and talent ; and it is
from a consciousness that he possesses both these
last in no ordinary degree, that we here warn him
how he wantonly shipwrecks them, in a vain at-
tempt to rival Churchill in coarseness, or Johnson
in pomp of diction. The one is not strength, nor is
the other argument.

CASES OF MENTAL DISEASE.
ST A. MONLF,ON, Sr. D. LONDON, 1828.
Dr. Morison, in this instructive little volume, has
detailed a variety of cases of insanity, in every stage
of the disease, from The first incipient symptoms of
aberration, down to the last and closing evidences
of confirmed lunacy. Each stage he has illustratc,
by cases which came under his own personal obser-
vation, has pointed out the remedies (these also are
the results not of theory but of practice), and caii-
didly given us the instances in which such remedies
were ineffectual. Altogether the book is a service-
able addition to those who have made insanity the
leading feature in their medical studies.

CANCER INSTITUTION—ANNUAL REPORT.
We have just seen the First Annual Report of the
Cance
samerlnstitutio time
Institution rlcoetteb-;t.N.r.
reiet,Pßarlro, and
Bloomsbury,
established
pleased to find that out of 12 patients discharged,
five are perfectly cured. The names and address of
these individuals are given in the report, so that
those who are inclined to be sceptical have a ready
opportunity of satisfying themselves. We earnestly
recommend this Institution to the notice not merely
of the benevolent, but of every class of society.-To females, in particular, its advantages will be suf-
ficiently obvious : to them it appeals with far more
earnestness than to the other sex. Donations and
subscriptions in aid of the Institution are received by
Messrs. Coutt9 and Co. Strand.

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MUSIC.

MUSICAL MANUAL, or TECHNICAL DIRECTORY.

By THOMAS BUSBY, Mug. Doe.—Loxnom, PM.
A work similar to the present was a desideratum.
It will not fail to materially aid amateurs in the road
to technical proficiency. By this Manual of Dr. Busby
a cloud of errors will vanish before the eyes of the
student. The extent and powers of the human voice
.in its several provinces, as well as those of instru-
ments in general, may, by the help. of this volume,
be distinguished even by those who are but little in-
formed en the science. All the musical terms, both.
ancient and modern, are brought to a focus, and pre-
sent the most perfect collection of instructive matte:
of its species. The favourable reception of the work
has already given flattering assurances of its sticce.-.
—Le Furet de Londres.