The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-02 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICES,

Facts on Ajjricalture. By W. Dixon.
" Serum est Cavendi tempus in mediis malis."

In recommending

rusal of this admirable brochure at

this particular season of excitement on the corn laws, we are
animated by an anxious desire for calm and dispassionate

he author does not profess at present

" to enter into an

iation of the legislative enactments

by which the traffic in corn is now regulated, because in an
essay like the present, adequate justice could not be rendered
to those numerous interests involved, which their acknow-
ledged importance would imperatively demand," yet Mr.
Dixon supplies abundant testimonies, not only of the 'vigi-
lant regulations of other countries as China, Sweeden,
Prussia, Spain, and Denmark, to secure by their fiscal regu-
lations an adequate supply of the staff of life to their own
people from their own soil, but also furnishes irrefragable

arguments to pro

the close connexion of agricultural with

national prosperity, thereby demonstrating " that it is the
overnment to guard and promote the interests

duty of every

of agriculture

The statistical information, relative to the annual produc-
tion and consumption of grain which the work exhibits, is
drawn from sources of unquestionable validity ; this valuable
1, together with the official tables and parliamen-
its which are abundantly supplied in the ap-
em of essential untility, in comprehending the
gs of t

tary docume

now engrossing subject, and evinces
spirit of deep research in the author,
has been rewarded by a vote of thanks from the Central
Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

several 1

at the sarr

;ricultur

AY LWARD. Liverpool.
This is a monthly publication, appearing on the 15th. It
work, but evidently one that will do
It appears to deal in broad facts, and avoids useless
The accounts given by it of the State of South
Australia are very encouraging. It will be useful to those
The price is only three halfpence.

South Australian News. No. 1

is a very unpretendir

disquisitions

intending to emigrate

The British Miscellany and Chessplayer's Chronicle.
London : Hastings, Carey•street.

lie of chess has latterly become a far more general

amusement than heretofore ; it numbers among its votaries
the highest, and the most learned in the land, but is no

longer exclusively an aristocratic game, witness the great in-
crease in the number of the provincial chess clubs. Several

attempts hay
Franc(

been made, both in this country and in

to establish a chess periodical, but after a brief ex-
istence they have invariably failed, yet the want of such a
work is universally felt and acknowledged. Of late, the only
public medium of communication for the chess world has
been Bell's Life in London, and this is objectionable to
many on account of the connection of this paper with the
vulgarities of the prize ring, and the peculiar and corre-
sponding style in which the articles upon chess are written.
The new periodical, of which the first five numbers lie upon
our table, appears well calculated to occupy the vacant sta-
tion of a chess player's chronicle ; we understand that it
is edited by Mr. Staunton, one of the strongest of the Lon-
don players. Each number gives some selected unpublished
games and problems, and a commencement has been made
in republishing the brilliant games between the lamented
Mr. Donnell and De la Bourdonnais, wilh valuable notes.
We heartily wish success to this undertaking, and if it con-
tinues to be as well conducted as all the five numbers which
1 us, it cannot fail to obtain the patronage of