rine of Arragon would never, we very well know, have dressed herself as a young Moresco girl to give audience to the legates. As a fancy engraving it is a pretty plate, but as reviewers we cannot forget that we are discussing the Shakspeare Gallery and not a mere book of beauty.

The derangement of the hair and the costume of Cassandra is in keeping with the character. The face is that of a frightened baby; but certainly the Cassandra of Shakspeare possesses not the magnificent dignity of the Cassandra of Eschylus or Sophocles. The head is prettily engraved.

Virgilia, the wife of Coriolanus, is the beauty of these numbers: it is impossible to imagine features and figure more beautifully expressive of the dignified yet feminine wife of the great Roman, than in this lovely design; it is happily touched, by Hopwood, although nothing but the head is finished. We cannot give unqualified praise to the other plates. Mrs. Page is as much too young for the mother of "sweet Anne Page," as Mrs. Ford is too old in the preceding number-there is evidently a mistake in the lettering of the characters. The engraving, by Holl, is spirited, though not very highly worked; the cap of the Norman districts, worn by Mrs. Page, is not in good keeping with the close coif really worn by the English ladies in the days of Shakspeare, or the wimple and coverchief, supposing the costume of the middle ages was adopted as consistent with the reign of our fourth Henry. The face of Hero is prettily engraved, but the arms and figure are in bad drawing. The Abbess, in the Comedy of Errors, is scarcely worthy of

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The outline of Silvia is spoiled by the ungraceful disposition of the back of the veil, and by the hands being three sizes too small the engraving and design are very pleasing. The design of Cordelia is good, if finished; it would have been a beautiful thing, but Mote has turned it out of his hands incomplete in every part. We should like to send all our English artists to school, for the purpose of learning how to draw hands and arms. It is true that most English ladies have spoilt their hands by piano practice, and their wrists and arms by dumb-bells, or

In the tenth number of Mr. Bell's British Quadrupeds, the details relating to the four-legged animals are finished with that of the sheep; there we find some very interesting particulars relating to the original type of these creatures, which remain wild in Corsica, under the name of Musmon. Mr. Bell's scientific knowledge has induced him to class the cetacea, such as whales, porpoises, &c. not only as mammalia, but as quadrupeds. It is true that his scientific reasons are unanswerable, but we think that his work would have illustrated, in a more elegant and complete manner, the beautiful gradation which connects the chain of created beings by evident links, if he had made the cetacea succeed seals instead of sheep; for seals are evidently beast-fishes, which make a better link between finny and footed creatures than the water-abhorring sheep. Thus would the work have begun with the winged quadruped, the bat, and ended with the finny quadrupeds, the cetacea, and beautifully displayed the links which blend the animals of the earth with those of air and water. The eleventh number conducts us through the cetacea, and finishes the whole: it contains, likewise, an elegant title-page, and the index, both English and Latin. It is, in a word, a very complete and highly useful publication.

A History of British Birds, by William Yarrell, F.L.S., Secretary to the Zoological Society. Illustrated by woodcuts. Parts I. & II.-Van Voorst. A WORTHY and welcome companion to Bell's British Quadrupeds. The wood

cuts are in the very first style of art. The gyr-falcon, by Thomson, is capital; the figure is first-rate in design and execution. The peregrine and the osprey are nearly as fine: the vignettes, illustrative of falconry, are truly characteristic.

The letterpress is every way deserving Mr. Yarrell's scientific reputation. The history of the buzzard kite, who took it into her head to hatch and bring up chickens, illustrated as it is by the spirited vignette which represents her finding them, is at once extraordinary and amusing: the illustrations are beautiful.

Finden's Ports and Harbours of Great Great Britain, Parts 7 and 8.-Tilt.

EXMOUTH and Sidmouth are exact resemblances of those places, and the merit of identity atones for the want of masterly drawing of Exmouth. The rocky and cavernous scenery of Tintagel and Ladram are desirable features here, because they break the sameness of the succession of ocean views; yet we cannot say that Harding has done the same justice to his share of this beautiful work which preceding artists have; there is a want of depth of perspective in his caverns and rocks, a hardness, with careless handling of the distance; the rainbow is not aerial, and is a failure. Duncan's view of Brixham is good; it is certainly the best in Number Seven.

The plates are well illustrated by the letterpress, in which most of the scenes are fully described.

No. 8 is one of great beauty; the views are nearly perfect in design and engraving. The present more than redeems all imperfections in the former number. For instance, what can be more beautiful or more true than the scene of Cromer, by Creswick? the effect of light and the aerial tint is magnificent. Hastings is most truly depicted by Howse; Budleigh, partly by Harding, has some of his mannerisms in the waves in the fore-ground, but it is a good and striking design: the sky is touched with grandeur of style; Ramsgate is a spirited design, by Cooke; we like the foamy breakers against the pier, but we want more force in the near waves. In Weymouth, the artist was

the least fortunate; the trees in the second distance are too harshly toned.

The Weather Almanac for 1838.

By

P. Murphy, Esq.-Whittaker & Co. ALTHOUGH We are most unwilling to encourage compilations in the shape of "human" prophecy, yet the experience of an able gentleman, brought to bear upon probabilities, is at least a fair foundation for a respectably-written almanac, and the author thus sets forth that knowledge in the preface: "The sources of meteoric action in the atmosphere are various: the state of the weather, at any time, is not the effect of any one individual cause or agency, but is rather the result of the combined action of different causes; the principal of which are, the influence of the season, the influence exercised by the particular locality, and finally, that exercised by the moon ;these, properly speaking, being esteemed the three arms of meteoric action in the atmosphere, as connected with the weather and its changes." The adaptation of such minute knowledge from past seasons, in the same way as the multitude (and ourselves amongst the number) calculate upon the equinoxes to be more than usually boisterous periods of the year, may enable a shrewd man to be, at times at least, tolerably accurate; and if judgment be brought to the use of the weather-tables, the other suitable remark, "that many influences, superior to that of the moon, may combine at particular periods to retard the events, or perhaps hasten them," the candid reader will take the succession of events to arise from some noted change; as, for instance, if the table on the first of a month, and for several days after, exhibit the word "rain," should it be "fine" on the first, and even the second or third, the time for a succession of rainy days is only deferred in which the succession of declared events is to occur. We should like to have a faithful juxta-position account of two years, and such a record, if it gave tolerable proof of accuracy in the results prognosticated, then the author would have strong claims to great favour. Mr. Murphy's scientific meteorological notices at the end cannot fail to be read with interest. The almanac exhibits fair pretence, much of utility,

and no arms, legs, hands, &c. quackery. We like, too, the insertion of the day of the year, as well as that of the month, the phases of the moon, &c.

Sketches in London. Part 2.-Orr & Co. WE are not enabled to speak of the first number, not having seen it; but the second before us is embellished with humour and propriety, companions who should always travel together. The second chapter commences with prisons and Queen's Bench; and, as none of our readers, we hope, have any personal knowledge in the matter, they may, in London Sketches, inform themselves of what is enacting on the Surrey side of the water, confirming the saying, "that one half of the world knows not how the other half lives."

THIS very interesting and fertile subject for historian and artist is very beautifully embellished. The first plate is "The Library, Trinity College." The next, "The Great Court, Trinity College;" from which place many of the houses of parliament prize competitors evidently took more than a hint. The artists are, J. A. Bell, designer, and Mr. J. Le Keux himself, the engraver. There are also wood-cuts of the cycloidal

bridge and the statue of Edward III. This number is sufficient to gain the work great popularity. We shall defer our comments on the letter-press until we have seen other numbers.

Hints to Mothers, for the Management of Health during the Pregnancy, and in the Lying-in Room; with an exposure of popular errors in connection with those subjects. By Thomas Bull, M. D., Physician-Accoucheur to the Finsbury Midwifery Institution, and Lecturer of Midwifery and on the Diseases of Women.-Longman.

It will not be required from us to enter minutely, in our columns, into the merits of this work, neither to make extracts which cannot be suitable, from the nature of the subject, for the eyes of

readers of every age, class, and sex, by whom we know our publication has the honour of being perused. We have quoted at the head of this article, in justice to the clever Doctor, who has written in a plain, simple, extremely useful, and much-wanted work, the several claims which he has to attention, to have his book on this most important of all subjects admitted into the hands of heads of families peculiarly circumstanced.

Dr. Bull is clear and distinct in his instructions, and we are glad to see he opposes the very popular doctrine of the necessity of blood-letting during preg nancy, unless under circumstances of admitted necessity. We heartily wish this little book success in the quarter where it is intended to be useful.

DANCE OF THE LAWYERS ON CAN

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DLEMAS DAY.-It is not many years since the judges, in compliance with ancient custom, danced annually on Candlemas-day; and that nothing might be wanting for their encouragement in this excellent study (the law), they have very anciently had dancings for their recreations and delight, commonly called revels, allowed at certain seasons; and that by special order of the society, as appeareth in the 9th of Henry VI., there should be "four revels that more," &c. And again he says, "Nor were these exercises of dancing merely permitted, but thought very necessary, as it seems, and much conducing to the making of gentlemen more fit for their books at other times; for by an order made on the 6th of February, 7 Jac., it appears that the under barristers were by decimation put out of commons for example's sake, because the whole bar gave offence by not dancing on the Candlemas-day preceding, according to the ancient order of this society, when the judges were present; with this, that if the like fault were afterwards committed, they should be fined or disbarred."

The original song of "Mad Tom," first published in 1650, was in high favour in the time of Charles I., and probably, says Mr. Chappell in the Musical World, turned into a dance, expressly for the gentlemen of the legal profession.

Whilst the song of a nation ascends from the ground

Victoria for England, and God bless the
Queen!

to appoint Mr. John Weippart, harpist The Queen has been graciously pleased in ordinary, and Messrs. Holmes, of Regent-street, shawl-manufacturers, to Her Majesty.

Her Majesty and H. R. H. the Duchess of Kent, have forwarded 1,200 florins to Germany, for the relief the inhabitants of Schleitz, nearly the whole of which town has been destroyed by fire.

September 28.--The Queen, accompanied by her royal mother, inspected, in the Home Park below the North Terrace, both the regiments of Guards, Horse and Foot, stationed at Windsor, and the portion of the regiment of Lancers which formed Her Majesty's escort. The Queen arrived on the ground a quarter before three o'clock, mounted on a grey charger. Her Majesty wore a blue riding habit and a cloth cap with a deep gold border. The Queen was accompanied by her august mother, and attended by Lord Hill, Commander of the Forces, the Hon. Col. Cavendish, chief equerry, and Lord Arthur Paget, equerry in waiting. Her Majesty rode in front of and between the ranks of the troops afterwards went through a numtroops, who were formed into line. The ber of evolutions. At half past four the Queen and the royal party retired, and, Her Majesty having changed her horse, rode out through the Great Park.

September 29.-Her Majesty and her royal parent took their accustomed ride.

September 30.-The Queen Dowager visited Her Majesty. H. R. H. the Princess Mary Augusta of Saxony, attended by the Countess Detreutstein and the Saxon Minister, arrived from town on a visit to Her Majesty. In the afternoon Her Majesty took her usual equestrian exercise.

October 1, Sunday.-The Queen at tended divine service this morning in St. George's chapel, accompanied by H.R. H. the Duchess of Kent. The Rev. Mr. Canning preached from the eighth verse of the third chapter of Philippians. The anthem was Handel's "Hallelujah chorus." The musical service was Boyce's in A. and the chant Massey's. Her Majesty wore a sea-green silk trimmed with deep black lace, and a pale pink satin bonnet. In the afternoon Her Majesty took a carriage drive. Both the bands of the Guards were in attendance on the Terrace, and afterwards Her Majesty walked on the Terrace, to the great gratification of a numerous assemblage of her subjects. At the royal chapel, St. James's, an impressive sermon was preached by the Rev. Dr. Foord Bowes, chaplain in waiting, from the fifth chapter of the Epistle of St. John, and the eleventh and twelfth verses.

October 2.-The Queen and H.R H. the Duchess of Kent rode out on horseback this afternoon in the Park. The Rev. Dr. Musgrave, the new Bishop of Hereford, had an audience with Her Majesty.

October 3.-In anticipation of the fatigue attendant on the removal of the Court to Brighton, Her Majesty did not leave the Castle.

October 4.-The Queen took her departure from Windsor Castle for Brighton precisely at ten o'clock, in a carriage and four, accompanied by her august mother the Duchess of Kent, and escorted by a party of Life-Guards. At every place through which Her Majesty passed, the greatest enthusiasm was shown by the people. Triumphal arches were erected at various places on the road; villagers and peasants assembled in the fields and greeted Her Majesty with loud huzzas. At Reigate two triumphal flower arches were erected. The yeomen of the parishes of Crawley and Ifield assembled on horseback with white staves to receive and accompany Her Majesty to Crawley;

and when Her Majesty arrived there and was changing horses, the Rev. Mr. Lewin addressed Her Majesty in the following gratifying speech:

"We, of the humble villages of Crawley and Ifield, wish to manifest our loyalty and affection to our Sovereign; an abundant harvest has enabled us to give a dinner to our poor, to mark the commencement of your reign, and which we all pray may be one of peace, happiness, and prosperity, and fill up some of the most glorious pages of British history."

The Rev. Mr. Lewin, who has been nearly fifty years rector of the parishes of Crawley and Ifield, then presented Her Majesty with a splendid bouquet, which was condescendingly accepted by Her Majesty. The Rev. Mr. Lewin and the Rev. Mr. Scott, his curate, and the committee and gentlemen, then proceeded to superintend the table on which a dinner was laid out for 800 poor.

A rustic arch was thrown over the road near Albourn. The children of Hurstperpoint were also ranged with bouquets to welcome the Queen, and after Her Majesty passed, they were regaled with buns and beer. A crown and star were on either side of the arch.

This is a fair specimen of the general appearance of joy exhibited along the whole line of road, in welcome of Her Most Gracious Majesty. Upon arriving at Brighton, there was a scene of the highest interest. The nature of the preparations was not indeed either extravagant or costly, but far more suitable to the place, and to the character and period of life of the royal visitor. These consisted of triumphal flowerarches, and vast collections of flowers elegantly displayed, and bouquets of flowers worn by the fairer sex, whilst the authorities of the town, supported in a most praiseworthy manner by a peaceably-disposed and loyal population and elegant visitors, gave a character to the whole, which was attractive and soulabsorbing, though neither magnificent nor grand. Her Majesty was highly delighted, and testified, in the most generous condescension, the hearty and dutiful welcome with which Her Majesty's presence was hailed.

There were various arrangements of a minor nature, to which we are unable to