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NOTICES.

The Law Review and Quarterly Journal of British and
Foreign Jurisprudence. London : Owen Richards,

194, Fleet-street.
This is the first number of a publication which appears
to us to be excellent in its design, and calculated to be of
extensive usefulness not only to the profession but to the
Public at large. The articles are ably written, and em-
brace a number of highly interesting subjects, amongst
which we may mention one on the Joint Stock Companies
Regulation Acts, one on Legal Education, and an article
styled " Recent Regulations in Conveyancing Forms."
The sketch of the career of Baron Abinger is well
written, arid does justice, and no more, to the eminent
lawyer in question. This publication should be extensively
circulated.

Fisher's Colonial Magazine. London : Fisher, Son, and

Co:, Newgate-street.

Contains several highly interesting articles, amongst
which the best are those on " Indian Emigration" and
" The System of Colonial Crown Land Granting." The
proprietors deserve infinite credit with every friend of
colonial interests for the liberality and pains with which
they provide them with information, and advocate their
and the country's best interests.

Chambers's Edinburgh Journal.. New Series.

This publication, of which the numbers for November
are before us, supports the character of its predecessors.

New Sporting Magazine. London : Office, 24, Norfolk-
street, Strand ; R. Ackerman, 191, Regent-street.
An excellent number, full of information upon sporting
"natters and amusing matter for the general reader. The
two engravings are quite gems.

The New Monthly Belle Assemble. 21, Norfolk-street,

London.

Contains its usual interesting variety of light literature,
poetry, &c., with the fashions of the season, and a beau.
tifully executed frontispiece.

Abbotsford Edition of Waverley ; Part 69. Robert
Cadell, Edinburgh ; Houston and Stoneman, London.
The present part continues the novel of Peveral of the
Peak, and contains in the frontispiece a beautiful steel en-
graving of W. Leitch, of Peak Castle, Derbyshire. The
wood illustrations are of a high order of merit, and the
type, paper, and general getting up of the number, fully
maintain the standard of those previously published.

The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin : Curry and
Co. ; London : \V, Orr and Co„
Contains some articles of a very high order of excel-
. lence, amongst which we notice particularly one on the
English and Irish Universities, from which some extracts
will be found below ; an examination of the lectures of
Father Cooper, wh,se fallacies and dishonesty are well ex-
posed, and a critical notice of Eugene Sue's writings—the
latter beautifully written, and containing sentiments of
great truth and justice. Mr. Lever's story, the Nevilles
of Garretstown, is continued, and increases in interest.
By the bye, we are happy to observe that this admired
writer is about to re-enter the field of authorship with a
new serial tale, to appear monthly, with the magazines.

The Medical Times. Carpae, London.
Through the politeness of the editor, the second part
has been sent to us for our notice. Its technical objects,
as being medicine, and the elaborate discussion of the
various subjects relative thereto, will not be apt to com-
mend themselves anywise to the general reader, except
to the curious in such matters. In the eyes of the regu-
lar professionals, its ability of conduct and valuable mine
of current notices of scientific discoveries, as well as its
temperate articles, are now, we believe and hear, largely
appreciated, and our public opinion in physic cannot
have great weight in adding to the reputation of its pages.
But the convenient readable shape (being brought out in
4to, like the Athencrum, and in close columns) makes it
attractive in garb. The editor is anxious to add a new
fact to ophio,ogy, which ere this will have been revised,
no doubt. We consider it like a phrenological organ
hatched since Spurzheim could affix his inzprimatis, voted
by the lesser lights as "unestablished." In the article
of Saturday, 30th November, it says, "As the boa•con-
strictor sounds his rattle," &c., " so does Brodie pub-
licly apprise us of danger by a confidential communica-
tion." Only imagine the boa and the crotalus horridus
contending like children for the rattle—
" Pleased with a rattle,
Tickled with a straw."

The Mysteries of Paris. London : Chapman and Hall.
We have received Part VI. of the " only English edi-
tion authorised by M. Eugene Sue," of this extraordinary
work. The story is continued not only with unabated but
with increasing interest. The characters, including the
good and the vicious, are vividly drawn, and the reader is
held in delightful anticipation and suspense of the denoue-
ment of the mystery that hangs about them, and which
shall reward the one, and shall deal retributive punish-
ment to the other. The author is evidently gifted with
strong powers of imagination ; and it is his highest merit
that in drawing from the resources of fiction, so natural
are his portraitures that we feel convinced that such things
may be, and that he has wrought up a narrative of proba-
tions, sufferings, virtues, and crimes, that are stamped
with the vraisemblarice of real Parisian and French life.
There are humorous illustrations interspersed throughout
the work, designed by French artists, with so much taste,
boldness of outline, and keeping, that the several charac-
ters, in varied situations and guises, are throughout readi-
ly recognised. This translation, we should add, has been
carefully revised by the author, and all that can possibly
be deemed unacceptable to the most delicate English
reader has been rejected, while the intense interest which
has given the work such universal popularity in Europe
and America is preserved. The typographical depart-
ment is, moreover, accomplished in the clearest and best
style of the art.

The Library of Travel. Chapman and Hall, London.
Part VIII. of this truly interesting, and, in many points,
useful work, has just appeared, and in the judicious Selec •
tions and condensations from the writings of distinguished
travellers, British as well as foreign, fully bears out all
that was announced in the prospectus, in reality " fusing
together their multifarious narratives, carefully preserving
the general spirit of the originals, and at the same time re-
jecting their many repetitions and superfluities, and using,
as well as they may be able, a wholesome discretion, to
the exclusion of whatever seems trivial, false in substance
or in colouring, or otherwise objectionable." The present
number is in continuation of " Egypt and Nubia," and is
by J. A. St. John, Esq., the celebrated author of works
on Egypt and Greece. There is a fearful and painfully
interesting account of the massacre of the Memlocks; an
excursion to the pyramids, with a full description of those
extraordinary and stupendous monuments of antiquity,
together with a narrative of a perilous adventure in explo-
ring the interior chambers of one of them. The celebrated
Sphinx is also described, with accompanying illustrations.
A journey across the desert to Fayoum is also graphically
portrayed, followed by a visit to the vast and wonderful
(because artificial) lake, or rather sea, of Moeris. We
have elsewhere quoted a few passages from this number.

The Polytechnic Review. Mortimer, London.

The numbei of this literary and scientific work for the
present month is, on the whole, one of the most interest-
ing we have yet perused of the series, though we venture
to suggest that more variety could be imparted, were the
several articles on proximate topics scattered over several
numbers, in place of occupying so many pages of
one publication. We have here, for instance, a
communication on the Parlby and Congreve Rockets,
by Major Parlby himself; another (in continuation)
on projectile Weapons of War and Explosive Com-
pounds, and another on Concussion Shells—all good in
themselves, but to the general reader presenting a degree
of sameness of subject that renders each less inviting.
The recent experiments, however, of Captain Warner,
and his high assumption of the destructibility and range
of his marine projectile, and the exorbitance of his de-
mand from the government for his secret, if they will pur-
chase it—have excited so much public attention to explo-
sions, that our objection will, perhaps, not be generally sub-
scribed to. In Dr. Scofferns paper (the second enume-
rated) there is a sketch of the history of gunpowder, with
an elaborate exposition of its manufacture—from saltpetre,
sulphur, and charcoal—the purifying of these several in-
gredients, their admixture, &c., to the operation of
" graining," and finally to glazing. Tables are also given
of the exact composition of gunpowder—miners, fine
shooting, and common shooting powder. There is an ar-
ticle on railway improvements, comprising an account of
Kollman's Patent Locomotive Engine, in which a great
desideratum appears to be attaintd in ascending inclines,
and passing along curves with ease and safety. The sug-
gestions for a new Safety Lamp, in lieu of Davy's, (not
always to be depended on,) will be read with interest by
those connected with mining operations. An article on
the drama, by James Hime, M.A., evinces much taste
and talent in dramatic literature. Amongst the reviews,
there is a paper explanatory of the monster telescope,
erected by the Earl of Rosse, explaining the ingenious
manner in which his lordship accomplished the successful
casting and polishing of his speculum—the largest in the
world. By this instrument he has been enabled to see ap-
pearances in the moon, which were before invisible. A
notice is also given of an apparatus (with diagrams) of a
self-registering wind and rain guage. The present num-
ber concludes the volume for the half-year. We give a
few extracts elsewhere.