2-No. V. of the Edinburgh Cabinet Library. Polar Seas and Regions. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.

4 The Works of Lord Byron, with his Letters and Journals, and his Life. By Thomas Moore, Esq. 14 vols. J. Murray.

5-The Pilgrim's Progress. W. Kidd.

6-The Anatomy of Drunkenness. By Robert Macnish. Glasgow: W. R. Phun.

7-Nights of the Round Table. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd.

8.—The Album Wreath. R. Willoughby.

1-Biography, astrology, natural history, and calendarial information, are here condensed in a singular manner, and embellished with extraordinary plates in great number; many curious papers, illustrative of the cometary system are highly interesting, and the volume affords abundant means of entertainment: we shall give

extracts.

2-A third edition, revised, and with some valuable additional matter, has just made its appearance, and we are tempted to borrow a paragraph from our fellow-labourer of the Atheneum, who thus announces it:

"This is as it should be. Here is consolitary evidence that trade criticism is now powerless. This volume was published at the moment when the Juvenile and National Libraries were first brought before the public. The National' is dead, and the rickety Juvenile,' the worst series of volumes that ever disgraced literature, though five times noticed in the Literary Gazette within one month, did not survive three; while the Polar Seas and Regions,' one of the cheapest and neatest volumes of our time, dismissed in one-eighth of a column in the Gazette, as interfering with the presumed interests of the proprietors, has arrived at a third edition. If any one desire to see the bold daring of trade criticism, let them compare the reviews of the Juvenile' and the Polar Seas' in the Gazette, and judge by the result."

The only fact we desire to add to this exposure is, that Wm. Jerdan, Esq., was the editor of the Juvenile Library and also of the Literary Gazette in which it was praised, such an instance of literary modesty should be held up to the admiration of those who read because the Gazette praises.

We ought, however, to observe that the additions are important; viz, an interesting communication from Dr. Rafu (p. 67); a defence of the author's views in regard to the voyages of John Cabot, &c. (p. 122 to 188); an account of the preservation of part of the crew of the John, of Greenock, and their wintering, &c. (p.444 to 453); and a summary of the whale-fishery of 1831, (460 to 463).

3.-These poems comprise a few readable verses, better described by the word pretty, than by any other we can think of.

4-The first volume of this beautifully printed work has appeared, and fully justified the expectation of those who nevertheless calculated largely on Mr. Murray's taste. The edition is said to have been undertaken to drive from the market the gawky French volume which professed to contain all Byron's poems, and which has been smuggled in great plenty into this country, to the manifest injury of the London trade. To whatever cause, however, its appearance is assigned, it is a valuable addition to our literature and within the reach of every reader. It has two beautiful engravings worth the price of the volume.

5.-This work, publishing in numbers, deserves notice, it will have strong recommendations, viz. its cheapness and its embellishments, which, when complete, will amount to one hundred.

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6.-Not one of the most inviting titles for a lady, yet the book contains singularly interesting remarks on various habits which engender the vice of inebriety, and prove that drunkenness can be produced by numerous means which ladies may call innocent. A dose of ether, a few drops of lavender or laudanum, a pill of opium or of camphor, is the same in spirit, and as pernicious in effect, as the poor man's dram.

7.-A prettily got up volume of moral tales for the younger branches; a sort of continuation to a small work, entitled "The Diversions of Hollycot; or, the Mother's Art of Thinking," but complete in itself, and given to us with a promise of a second series, which will be as acceptable as the first.

8.-This periodical is novel, and as Albums are fashionable, we may add popular. Music, poetry, and prose are neatly printed on tinted leaves, with appropriate borders, and here and there we have blank pages for drawings or MSS. The editor's reading has not been very extensive, for he has given us some good things of the old English authors and ascribed them to modern writers, little dreaming that fashionable scribblers appropriate the "good things" of their predecessors, without compunction or acknowledgment. We, however, like the idea, and hope the projectors may anticipate competition in the manifold improvements of which it is capable.

Mr. Bulwer's book for the admirers of the Newgate Calendar, Eugene Aram, has been already praised in the in which he has sufficient interest to command admiration, and we fear that had the author been any thing short of an M.P. of the reform school, it would have remained unread even by the class who delight in perusing the annals of crime, and whose tastes are depraved enough to admire the life of a murderer.

Romance and Reality is a sort of partnership concern, which by arrangement, as (if the world belie her not) was the case in a former little work, L. E. L. is to have the credit (?)

As the lady's friends have, however, remonstrated with us for our bearing towards her writing, we have answered them elsewhere, and shall devote a page or two to the notice of a work which judging from the extracts published by her admirers we should say could only disgust a reader of ordinary attainments.

QUINTUS SERVINGTON. A Tale.-The London publishers of this work, Messrs. Smith and Elder, are remarkable for the neatness and taste with which their works are generally turned out, and we were somewhat puzzled to observe that there was an unusual coarseness of material and execution in the three volumes before us. This, however, the title-page explained. It is the first book ever printed in Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land, and, as such, is a curiosity and really creditable to all the parties engaged.

FEMALES OF THE PRESENT DAY, CONSIDERED AS TO THEIR INFLUENCE ON SOCIETY. By a Country Lady.-A very sound, serious, and sober lecture for our wives, sisters, and daughters, assuming that they are more worldly and less sensible than females of former years, whereas they are more enlightened, their minds more expanded, their judgment more acute; and that while those of the last century would hardly venture into company, lest they should meet naughty people and bad advisers, the fair of the nineteeth century mix with the world and have sense enough to avoid the one and firmness enough to reject the other.

We are indebted to Mr. Strong, of Albion College, Brook Green, for permission to copy the drawing of the beautiful variety of tulip, which embellishes our present number. Mr. Strong has the largest and, perhaps, the best collection in this country, and raised the variety called Strong's Princess Victoria from seed. We shall devote a paper to Tulips and give other varieties in the April number.

COSTUMES OF ST. JAMES'S

FOR 1832.-No. II.

PUBLISHED IN NUMBER XIII. OF THE ROYAL LADY'S MAGAZINE, AND ARCHIVES OF THE COURT OF ST. JAMES'S.

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