Let us, however, not repine: there is a process of creation going on within our ken a creation as far transcending the production and arrangement of mere physical atoms, as mind transcends matter, for does not the poet well and truly say, "Books, we know, Are a substantial teorid, both pure and good." And have we not here, in the heart of our metropolis, the great manufactory where these worlds" are fabricated? Viewed in this light, Paternoster Row becomes a theme, duly to expatiate concerning which, but its original form also; and we of these | gical education they receive? They have never the premium upon which I hereby engage and latter ages can only contemplate the five or six been able to encounter infidels on their own bind myself immediately to accept. thousandth edition through which it has passed, ground. Hume, for instance, though by no We cannot, say the economists, have enough with prodigious "alterations" indeed, but with means a profound scholar, was confessedly su-without a superfluity; and repletion is on all comparatively few "corrections" and "im-perior to nine-tenths (perhaps to the whole) of hands confessed to be better than starvation. provements." the ministers of the kirk in his time. With us, On this principle I advocate the multiplication the very reverse of this has been the case: our and redundancy of books, seeing they are not clergy have always occupied the highest ranks only, as the ancients called them, the physic of in learning and science; and the consequence the mind, but also its food-nutriment and is, that no one in England can avow himself medicine combined; and therefore the vendors an infidel, and retain a decent place in literary of them are cooks and apothecaries in one, or, society for his infidelity would be instantly to speak more elegantly, they unite the culiattributed to its true cause, ignorance. nary and pharmaceutic arts. As cooks have Let knowledge, therefore, be diffused over the latterly become literary characters and written earth as widely as the atmosphere. But it may books, let not this allusion be deemed disbe perverted: undoubtedly; but are we to be paraging; nor the former one, wherein bookdeceived by the trite sophism of arguing from sellers were likened to accoucheurs-for close the abuse against the use? It is to be re- and apt is the similitude. "Fer opem, Juno gretted that so many excellent men should Lucina," was the cry of the young ladies in "Would tire Briareus with his hundred hands." have employed so pointless and brittle a Rome; and "Fer opem, Murray vel LongI, therefore, who have but two, can only glance weapon. To read some late publications, one man," ," is the cry of the pregnant author in at a few scattered particulars. would suppose it to be the serious opinion of London. The straits to which unhappy bards Observe the names of the Row and its ad- not a few eminent individuals, that the increase were reduced in those times when publishers arencies: Paternoster, Ave Maria, Amen. and spreading of knowledge must be fatal to the did not exist, may be found most ludicrously This heathenish Latin may be thought to sa- Protestant faith and the British constitution; detailed in the dialogue concerning the causes vour of popery, therefore let us place ourselves and that the only sure and firm-set basis on of the corruption of eloquence, usually ascribed under the protecting shadow of Messrs. Bible- which they can rest is general ignorance. to Tacitus. The toil and trouble of an author and-Crown Rivingtons, the literary midwives Even if the first most preposterous assertion in collecting an audience to hear him recite half the establishment. The unpretending, were true, the last is decidedly erroneous; for his production, and the immense difficulty of anadorned appearance of the publications exhi. a state of utter ignorance is by no means a wringing a few sesterces out of them when bited in their windows is a striking type and state of security. Mr. Coleridge admirably the recitation was over, are very faithfully and assurance of quiet and sober orthodoxy. Turn observes" a bad government, if the people be very humorously depicted; though the writer now to the neighbouring head-quarters of educated, will fall by them; if they be not edu-of the dialogue by no means considers it as any schism, and contrast the plain but wholesome cated, it will fall with them."* joke, having probably been the suffering party as their tenements. Let us once more, as the Irish orator said, return to our subject before we leave it. The termination of Paternoster Row is as replete with moral as its beginning and middle; for when you emerge from its narrow and dusky precincts into the breadth and brightness of Cheapside, and, looking to your right and left, observe the toy-shop at one corner, and the quack (I beg pardon) patent medicine ware viands of the church with the highly seasoned The transition is easy from these remarks to himself. But conceive the plan adopted now. messes of the tabernacle: not only the pen, Knight and Lacy's establishment: what a con-a-days: the bellman sent round to announce but the graver is enlisted in the cause of dis-trast between their light and slender pamphlets, that" Sir Walter Scott intends to read a new sent, and neither tract nor treatise lacks its and the ponderous, over-grown folios of Baynes novel at the Freemason's Tavern. Plates held appropriate wood-cut and engraving; and yet and Ogle. Judging from the difference in at the door to receive contributions!" Thanks this display is equalled, if not surpassed, by size between our volumes and those of our fore- to the press, an author has the whole world for that of the catholic bookseller at the very next fathers, we might suppose ourselves stunted an audience now! door. The witty biographer of the three bro- and degenerate. But the fact is not so; we thers informs us, that Jack, notwithstanding have not lost in absolute, for we have gained in all his efforts, was often mistaken for Peter; specific gravity. Our weight is as great, our and truly natural may the mistake be deemed, bulk only less; we are not diminished, but if their persons resembled each other as much condensed. We have learned the art of castMany a worthy methodist ing an aged father of the flock into a cauldron, has, I doubt not, found himself, before he was and there transmuting him into a young and ware, gazing intently on St. Peter firmly vigorous lamb. In the number, too, of our seated on a rock, and vainly assailed by the productions we completely outdo our ancestors. waves of heresy; and many a catholic has been The fecundity of the press is inconceivable; house at the other, you cannot fail to be betrayed into contemplating a fearful portrait but it must be acknowledged that many of her powerfully reminded by these repositories of of the Beast with seven heads, a hieroglyphic offspring are still-born, many die in the birth, infantine and adult imbecility, that all is which has lately been removed from the win- and many survive not their infancy. It is very vanity,-excepting, of course, the essay which dow, in consequence, it is said, of a malicious desirable that literary bills of mortality should concludes with this admonition. report, that it was a caricature of the greatest be compiled; so many books published last frm in the Row, with the other proprietors of year on such and such subjects; so many arthe Literary Gazette, added to make up "the rived at a second edition; so many at a third, Number." &c.; and so many expired in the first (causes THESE concerts commenced their annual series Bat this is a digression. The sacred appel- of decease need not be specified, lest repeated on Monday the 25th of February, upon the old lations of these streets are emblematical of the charges of murder should be brought against plan, with mostly the old performers and old dose alliance which should subsist between the Literary Gazette). If correct tables upon pieces. But as these things of old are eminently learning and religion. Knowledge confers this plan were to be drawn up for each of good, nothing disparaging is intended to be power, but power is twofold-it may be good, the last twenty years, I have no doubt that said of them, though they have not prompted it may likewise be evil, and infinite is the the results would approximate so nearly, as to our immediate notice. If it, however, be true, cerruption which ensues when splendid talent enable us, by means of the calculus of pro- as has been remarked, that the enthusiasm for wilfully forgets (alas, that we have seen ex-babilities, to compute the chance of any given these performances is rather on the decline, the amples in our own days !) that "Spirits are finely touched But to fine issues." The Scottish Presbytery have in their late Address deplored the growth of infidelity, and attributed it, without scruple, to the diffusion of literature. But supposing that literature has been the occasion (it never can be the a) of the scepticism which they say prevails in Scotland, may we not ask whether this evil has not been mainly owing to the notorious deficiency of the Scottish clergy themselves in erudition, owing to the very superficial theolo MUSIC. A. D. THE PHILHARMONIC CONCERTS. work succeeding, without the slightest re- want of novelty just alluded to might well ac- Yet this highly gifted author talks elsewhere about learning being plebeified, if the populace should be educated. He might just as well have said that virtue would be plebeified, if the common people were all to turn honest and temperate. by Kreutzer and De Beriot. He is a native of this country, a pupil of Kreutzer, Lafont, and the late Kiesewetter. As a solo performer he appeared here for the first time, and his success was complete. His playing reminded us strongly of Kiesewetter, even in a certain trickery of bowing, in which that great master indulged. In the second concert, on the 10th of March, the symphonies and overtures of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven, were excellent; and the same must be said of Beethoven's violin quintett in C, by Messrs. Mori, Watts, Moralt, Lyon, and Lindley. Respecting Mr. J. B. Cramer's concerto on the pianoforte (strangely enough by himself and Mozart), there was not that unanimity of opinion which we have witnessed on former occasions. According to our judgment, he was as elegant as ever, but certainly less effective. A greater failure than the scena, "Per pietà," by Madame Klingner, a German lady, was perhaps never heard. The third concert, on the 24th inst., opened with Beethoven's magnificent sinfonia in C minor; and the enthusiasm with which the whole audience expressed their delight, more than balanced the disappointment they had to endure from Onslow's quintett, played by Messrs. Weichsel, Watts, Oury, Lindley, and Dragonetti. Much of this disappointment is certainly to be charged to Mr. Onslow, other wise an excellent composer; but some part of it also to Messrs. Weichsel and Dragonetti, who were occasionally out of time. Miss Childe, from the Royal Academy of Music, was deservedly received with the most encouraging applause. Madame Puzzi gave less satisfaction, especially in the trio "Cruda sorte," with Miss Childe and Mr. Braham. Minstrel Knight, by Dussek, is one of the DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE. 66 his appearance until long after the time specified, his reception at first was far from cordial: however, Mr. Bishop having made his apology, by stating that Signor De Begnis had no intention of neglecting his duty, and that his tardiness on the present occasion was owing to some mistake, he was most enthusiastically hailed CHANGES of Otellos, Tancredis, Crociatos, and from Il Barbiere, and the third, and encored in three successive pieces,-two occasionally Clemenzas, which have formed the giving directions to the Orchestra," which he a Composer chief varieties of the past season here, offer little for criticism, and our notices have consequently Pasta and Mademoiselle Brambilla sang the duet sung with great spirit and animation. Madame been brief. The silly fuss made by the parti- of "Questo cor ti giura amore," by Rossini, into the discussion of the very important points sang, " Deeper and deeper still," from Jephtha, sans of Pasta and Velluti has not tempted us exquisitely, and were encored. Mr. Braham at issue between them: the public must, we with much pathos; and the popular song of think, be sick of the frivolous subject, which "Nelson" in such a spirited style, that it was The malignity of some of the many paragraphs, the ballad of O softly sleep, my baby boy," has absolutely filled many newspaper columns. enthusiastically encored. Miss Shirreff sang however, deserves reprobation; such, for in- with her usual sweetness and expression. At stance, as one which has gone the round of the the end of the first part of the performance, Journals, announcing that " Madame Pasta will Monsieur Vogt, from Paris, played a fantasia shortly appear in a new opera, La Sposa Infion the oboe, in which the air "Sweet home" dele, composed expressly for her by Richeraud," was introduced with great taste and execution. the insinuated slander of which must disgust every candid mind. In the dancing department there has been a after Easter. Laporte is now at Paris con- abandoned. DRURY LANE. here with success. COVENT GARDEN. We must not forget to mention the orchestral performances, which, generally speaking, have gone very well at these concerts: the overture to Euryanthe and Romberg's overture had a remarkably fine effect on Wednesday. GRIMALDI, senior, the best actor, perhaps, that ever contented himself with the name of last Monday week at Sadler's Wells. He was Clown upon the English stage, bade it farewell far superior to the best performers in his line that we ever saw; for, besides the extravagant powers of feature and muscle which are not uncommon in the tribe, he possessed a rich fund of genuine comic humour, and a ready wit to apply it. Such matters as the oyster crossed in love, were, in his hands, irresistibly not years, is the cause of removing one from the dramatic scene, who has contributed so largely to the innocent amusement of the public. THE MELODISTS CLUB This Musical Society, for the encouragement of native melody and ballad compositions, has announced a OBI, or Three-fingered Jack, has been revived laughable; and we regret to hear that ill health, grand concert for next month; and also the design of giving medals for the best productions in that style which it is its object to cultivate. On Thursday next, it is stated, the Duke of Sussex will attend the ordinary monthly meet ing, as a visitor. His Royal Highness's taste in music makes this compliment both an honour to the members, and an act of condescension well calculated to increase the prosperity of the Institution. NEW PUBLICATIONS. tute. 1 ON Saturday an apology was made for Mr. Kean in Othello, and the part was undertaken by Mr. C. Kemble, whose conception and execution of it as a whole, from beginning to end, gave the crowded audience no cause to regret their cheerful acceptation of him as a substiThe play-bill for Thursday is a droll example of hotch-potch. It announces, in the usual way, Othello to be acted (" to-morrow"), Thalia: a Selection of Favourite Pieces for the and gives the list of the dramatis personæ,Spanish Guitar, by the most eminent Com-Othello, Mr. Kean; Iago, Mr. Young; Cassio, posers. Selected and Fingered by T. Eulen- Mr. C. Kemble;" but, as if this were not suffistein. Nos. I. to VI. W. Davis. cient, there appears on the same bill, after the MR. EULENSTEIN's extraordinary perform-characters of the farce, a reiteration of the ances on the Guimbard, or Jew's-harp, have ex-leading part, viz. "The public is most recited very general admiration; but though his spectfully informed, that Othello will positively exquisite tones and modulations of sound on be repeated to-morrow. Othello, Mr. Kean; that instrument shewed that his ear was fine, lago, Mr. Young; Cassio, Mr. C. Kemble." his taste perfect, and his skill in music great, Assurance being thus made doubly sure, it it was not so manifest that he was a sweet really happened that the public did not meet composer of original pieces, as well as an ele- with any disappointment. gant arranger of the ideas of others. The present publication, however, of which six monthly parts have appeared, affords abundant On Friday last, Madame Caradori Allan graced proof of the latter: we have never heard any the oratorio of the evening; and between the selections better adapted to the guitar (of first and second part, Mons. Labarre played which instrument Mr. E. is an accomplished a fantasia on the harp, in which he introduced teacher), fitter for the hand of learners, or the airs, " My lodging is on the cold ground," more pleasing in themselves. Their variety is and "St. Patrick's Day;" the variations upon at once considerable and delightful: Guiliani, Carulli, Diabelli, Dussek, and Weber, are the principal contributors; and they shine in all the changes of march, anthem, air, romance, waltz, ballad, minuet, rondo, and country dance, excellently arranged. The ORATORIOS. VARIETIES. Geognosy. Professor Engelhardt, of the University of Dorpat, has lately made a geognostic journey among the Oural Mountains, during which he has examined with the greatest care the various and extensive mines of iron, copper, gold, &c. with which that lofty and extensive range of hills abounds. Hippopotamus.-The head of one of these mighty animals, well preserved, with the skin upon it, is to be seen in St. James's Street. Though curious as an article in a museum of natural history, we are afraid it is insufficient for an exhibition. The forms of the teeth and tusks, however, by which the food is submitted to an operation like grinding, are worthy of remark. Costume of 1828.-The First Lord of the Treasury and Premier attended the levee on Thursday, in the dress of a Colonel of the Guards, with white duck trowsers!! We observe, from the Bristol Mirror, that a new Altar-piece has been painted by Mr. King for St. Thomas's church in that city. The subject is the conviction of St. Thomas; and the moment of time which the painter has embodied is that of the incredulous apostle expressing his belief in the identity of Christ, by the energetic exclamation of, " My Lord and my God!" The picture is very large, and contains twelve figures, arranged in three groups. "We On Wednesday, Signor De Begnis was an- hope," says the editor, after describing the work, nounced in the bills; but as he did not makel" that the example thus given by the vestry of which he performed with astonishing execution St. Thomas will influence other parishes, so | cannot elucidate this proposition; but as soon LITERARY NOVELTIES. Hebrews, Vol. 1. 8vo. 148. bds.-The Barn and the Steeple, Part 1. royal 4to. 17. 118. 6d.; coloured, 21. 2s.-Soane's 12mo. 4s. 6d. bds. Horsfield's Lepidopterous Insects, Designs for Public and Private Buildings, royal folio, 31. 38.; India, 57. 58. bds.-Twenty Plain and Practical Sermons, 12mo. 58. 6d. bds.-Dying Sayings of Eminent Christians, 12mo. 68. bds.-Practical Survey of the Faculties of the Human Mind, 12mo. 2s. 6d. bds.-Appendix to Churchill on Acupuncturation, 12mo. 3s. 6d. sewed.Earl of Shrewsbury's Reasons for Not. Taking the Test, &c. 8vo. 98. bds. March. Thursday. 20 Friday 21 Thermometer. Barometer. From 34. to 53. 29.45 to 29.14 51. 40. 29.06 29.04 34. 45. 29.23 29.24 Natural Vitrifications. It is well known, that on the highest mountains tubes of vitrified matter have been found, the exact mode of the production of which has hitherto been undiscovered; but which natural philosophers have the world of letters. It is said that the elegant author of in general ascribed to the effects of lightning many popular works had recently amused himself with METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL, 1828. falling on a sandy soil, and melting and vitrify writing a small volume entitled Familiar Epistles from ing the sand to a greater or less depth. All Captain Rock to his Majesty the King; that this volume was printed; and that the whole impression (5000 copies) doubt on the subject is now removed, by similar was put into the flames on the eve of publication, in contubes having been seen instantly formed in sequence of a legal opinion signed by a certain eminent barrister and statesman, to this effect: "there is libel in places where lightning has fallen. M. Fiedler, every sentence, and sedition in every page:"--no, not the a young German philosopher, has collected whole impression; for, strange to say, this story comes to us several in Germany, which he has presented, copy now in the possession of an eminent wit and critic of from Edinburgh, where our informant saw and perused a through M. Arago, to the French Academy." the north countrie." Our friend adds, that the supThey are remarkably large: one is above nine-pressed work is as remarkable for its wit as for its wickedteen feet long. It is difficult to conceive how late cabinet excited, in particular, his highest admiration, ness. Captain Rock's account of the breaking-up of the the discharge of an electrical cloud can melt and that chapter, he says, might be, and ought to be, given and vitrify a mass of sand so dense. A similar to the public. effect could scarcely be produced by the most intense furnaces. Prevailing wind N. and S. W. Generally clear; frequent hail storms. CHARLES H. ADAMS. Longitude... 0 3 51 W. of Greenwich. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. Lockhart has nearly completed his Life of Robert Burns, for Constable's Miscellany; and for those who are At the conclusion of the first quarter of 1828, we already in possession of the best editions of the poet's beg particularly to suggest to our new subscribers the exMonument to the Memory of George III.-style, is also preparing. Both editions are to be embel- year, if they wish to preserve perfect volumes of the works, a small impression in octavo, in Ballantyne's best pediency of making good their preceding Nos. for the A meeting of the subscribers to this monument lished with a full-length portrait of Burns, engraved by Literary Gazette. The constant increase of its circulation has been summoned to the Thatched House, for Miller after Naysmith. soon absorbs the extra provision made by the publisher in The proprietor of Robson's Views of English Cities has anticipation of that demand; and to avoid disappointnext Wednesday; when it is proposed to ap- announced his intention of destroying some of the copper-ments to our friends on the one hand, and the great expropriate the fund which has been realised. plates, after 800 impressions on small paper are worked. pense of many reprints on the other, is the object of the Though not adequate to the grand original value of the whole work, protect the property of the ori- occasionally (once or twice in a twelvemonth, perhaps) a This is certainly a laudable procedure to preserve the present notice. We observe from advertisements, that design, it is sufficient, we understand, for an ginal subscribers, and secure the credit of the artists and complete set of the Gazette gets into the market at an adernament to the metropolis, and a grateful proprietor. vanced price; and that volumes from the earliest period tribute to our revered king. at which they can be got, are always in request; and under these circumstances we are desirous to impress upon our recent subscribers the advantage of securing what they want as early as possible. Mr. Britton announces a continuation of this publica- Steelyard.—A new steelyard has been invented in France, which is said to possess greater accuracy than the description of that machine hitherto in use. One of the improvements in the new invention, is the ease with which it can be verified. which are marked on the long arm of the beam, begin from a zero point; that is, from a point at which the travelling weight places the machine in exact equilibrium, when no weight is attached to the short arm of the beam. This enables the most ignorant persons to judge at once of the correctness of its con struction. the subject is very trite. The Manchester Lines to an Infant are pleasing, but The work alluded to by a Constant Reader, dated "India House," was reviewed in our No. 558. Melton Mowbray.-L. L. D. is either very ignorant of the actual state of affairs at the Melton," or he is attempting to mislead us. We do not say that many men of fair repute have not joined in these sports; but we assert, that the general bearing of the system is one of notorious profligacy and base gambling. How well this is understood by the best informed may be surmised, In the Press. A Narrative of Memorable Events in when we find the Bench refusing to relieve a husband Paris, during the approach of the Allied Armies, and from his frail wife, because his Meltonian career has their occupancy of that city, being extracts from the placed him out of the pale of legal redress. But Melton is not the only source of the corruption which disgraces so Journal of an English Détenu, who made notes of every day's occurrences: also an Account of Napoleon's Journey many in the upper classes of society: the common laxity, to, Residence at, and Return from, Elba.-Knight's Mo- not merely in morals, but in honour, is fed by many dern and Antique Gems, from drawings by C. Vining, &c. causes, and prevails over a circle far too wide for one with appropriate Mottos and Quotations to each subject. poison-spring. We should, from our observations on life -The first part of the Bibliographer's Manual, being an and passing manners, be tempted to assert, that truly Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, published in gentleman-like feeling is rarely to be found except in the Travels. The celebrated traveller Edward or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Inven- middle ranks-in individuals of good descent, though of Rippel is on the point of setting out for Abys-tices, Collations of the rarer articles, and the Prices at fessions. If the nicer sense of honour reigned in the tion of Printing; with Bibliographical and Critical No-small fortunes, in the army and navy, and in some prosinia, with the purpose of exploring those parts which they have sold in the present century. By William higher ranks, we should have fewer examples of men which have not hitherto been visited by any Thomas Lowndes.-The Theocratist, a monthly publica- submitting to parliamentary insults, and other similar tion, whose object is to maintain the essential Relation evasions, which souls, lowered by a familiarity with the European. The senate of Frankfort, by an which subsists between Religion and Politics. The turf, the hell, and the effeminacy and vice of fashion, Well might unanimous resolution, has granted him 1000 Boarding-school and Teacher's Directory; or the Ad- bear with such contemptible fortitude. forins of annual income for the ensuing seven dresses of the best London Masters in every department Burke say, "The age of chivalry is gone!" but it was not of Education, and of the principal Finishing and Prepa- till now that the age of swindling and truckling so fully or eight years, as well in acknowledgment of ratory Seminaries for Young Ladies and Gentlemen in superseded it. his former services, as to enable him, agreeably and near the Metropolis.-Country Stories, Scenes, and to his wish, to continue his scientific travels Characters, forming a third series of Our Village: by Mary Russell Mitford.-Foscari, and Julian, Tragedies: and researches. by the same.-A new edition of Kitchiner's Art of InviTo the Editor of the Literary Gazette. gorating and Prolonging Life.-A new edition, with additions, of a Dissertation on the Passage of Hannibal over SIR,-It was only on Friday that we were informed of, the Alps, by the Rev. J. A. Cramer, M.A., and H. L. Wick- and late on Saturday evening, before we saw, your Notice ham, Esq.-A Work, in parts, under the general title of to Correspondents in the Literary Gazette of the 15th India, and embracing the most important topics con- instant, accusing us of" impudent imposition" in giving nected with that country, by Mr. Rickards.-A Complete an extract as from the Literary Gazette of the 2d of History of an Action at Law, with Observations, proving February, concerning the Novel of Uncle Peregrine's the present Practice of the Courts of Law to be Absurd, Heiress." We plead guilty to the mistake of printing dent of Lincoln's Inn. -Moral and Sacred Poetry, se- the paper we meant to refer to, and which paper we enclose Expensive, and Unjust, &c. &c.: by T. Mayhew, Stu- Literary Gazette instead of Literary Chronicle, which was lected from the Works of the most admired Authors, to you, marking the critique from which we made the Ancient and Modern, by Thomas Willcocks and Thomas extract: but we totally disclaim any idea of imposition Horton.-The Harp of Judah; a Selection of Pieces re- indeed, we should be very weak to attempt it, as it could lating to the Jews: with other Poems on the subject of be contradicted immediately. The concluding paragraph different Religious Societies. A Volume of Miscellaneous of your notice, if referring to us, we totally deny, in the Prose Tales, and Sketches of Society and Manners; to be most explicit terms. entitled Waifs and Strays; or, Scenes of Life and Shades We are, Sir, your most obedient servants, of Character. A. K. NEWMAN and Co. Leadenhall Street, 24th March, 1828. * It gave us great pleasure to receive the foregoing statement, especially as our original impression had been strengthened by meeting with a repetition of the advertisement in question in the Globe and Traveller. although, as it respects ourselves, Messrs. Newman and Co.'s explanation is perfectly satisfactory; we confess that we doubt whether it will be thought so by those who may have purchased Uncle Peregrine's Heiress, in consequence of being, however unintentionally, led into the error of believing that it was a work which had been favourably noticed in the Literary Gazette. Russia. — The University formerly at Abo has been transferred to the new capital of Finland, Helsingfors; and is to bear the name Alexander's University." Greek Coining. There are at Hydra and Spezzia between twenty and thirty regular manufactories of false money, which are not only tolerated, but supported by the members of the government. They coin Spanish dollars, as well as paras, and all kinds of Turkish money; and this false coin is made an object of traffic with the Maltese and the Ionians, who carry it into Egypt and Turkey, there to sell it again, or to circulate it fraudulently by means of their agents. Foreign Journal. Flying-A writer in the last Number of the Mechanic's Magazine has given a curious paper on the means of flying, through the agency of machinery. He proposes to give men the power of impelling rotatory wings, and imitating beetles, rather than birds, in their means of flight. Without the diagrams, we LIST OF NEW BOOKS. 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