The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-01 00:00:00

LITERARY NOTICES,

Ireland, its Scenery, Character, &c. By Mr. and Mrs. S

C. Hall. How and Parsons, London

No. XI. of this splendid work is now before us, and is as
beautifully illustrated and as interestingly penned as any of
the preceding numbers, which have already conferred a high
reputation of the accomplished and deeply observant authors.
The present part contains the conclusion of the description
of Kilkenny, and the first portion of that of Tipperary. There
is an interesting account of the Irish Loan Societies, esta-
blished (like our benefit societies) in accordance with parlia-
mentary regulations. It appears to have been highly bene-
ficial to borrowers of small sums, and though the amount

charged as interest is inconsiderable, out of an amount of
£1,164,016 circulated in small loans amongst 463,730 indi-
viduals (in the whole 32 counties) only £360 18s. Bd., or about
qin the pound was lost. The descriptive department, il-
lustrated with fine wood engravings, embraces the Round
Tower of Kilree ; the ancient town of Kells, now a poor vil-
lage, but still containing the ruins of many churches and
castles ; and the town of Callan, recently falling into decay,
but, latterly much improved, and which also contains some
striking remains of ancient grandeur, including the ruins of
St. Catherine's Abbey. These are in Kilkenny. Tipperary
affords a still more prolific field for the graphic powers of our
author

whose narrative is pleasingly interwoven with anec-

dote and tradition

The description of the most important

and thriving town in the count
and elegant church, an

—Clonmel—with its ancient

its agre

le sylvan walks in the im-

mediate vicinity, thou

'let', is highly interesting. Tra-

vellers and tourists will also feel interested in the account
given of Mr. C. Bian
ago,

ii, a native of Milan. who, some years
sign of running a public car, that by

" conceived t

conveying the r

!ss expense than the

I white, little dreaming that it contain 4 the bodie

9 crowded together

of millions I
wins. wore

above facts, numerous other minutia are recorded, of para
mount importance to the medical man and general observer

The various new microscopes are enumerated and described
as soon as they are offered to the public, and hints to micro-
scopists on cultivating plants for showing the circulation of
the sap, together with a contrivance for effectually burning
common oil in the Argand lamp, &c., form an interesting
feature in the work. The reports of the proceedings of the
London and Dublin Microscopical Societies are regularly
given, and the whole is illustrated by wood cuts, drawn by
Joseph Dinkel, the artist who executed the drawings for
M. Agassiz's splendid work on fishes, &c.
In conclusion, we feel it incumbent upon us to recommend

strongly the Microscopic Journal to the notice of the scien-
tific public. A sheet appears regularly every month, sewed
in a wrapper. for sixpence, which may be transmitted by
post. We should hope that, after the completion of the first
volume, Mr. Cooper would increase its size, as it is his in-
tention to do, " in accordance with the progress of micro-
scopic science," as mentioned on the wrapper.