through life, aided, we trust, by higher hopes, enabled him to settle down, in the bosom of his daughter's family, into his usual habits and pursuits. We find by a letter to Colonel Montagu, dated 1809, that he had then completed the reconstruction of his original work, with a view to a second edition. Some difficulties had occurred on the part of the booksellers, and it was postponed for the time. In 1811 he had revised, and largely augmented with notes and observations from this the ornithological part for M. Pennant's British Zoology, of which a second edition was published by his son, Mr. D. Pennant. But although he had thus drawn upon his own work, he had never relinquished the idea of republishing it himself entire, and had continued to add daily to his stores. With the desire of withdrawing his mind from the painful events to which we have alluded, as well as with the hope of pecuniary advantage to him, his friends now pressed him to print by subscription the work which he had prepared. Accordingly, in 1821, he commenced the publication of the General History of Birds, and it was completed, in ten volumes, in about two years and a half. It was not likely, from the very nature of the undertaking, that he would add materially to his reputation by this late effort, but it was a curious and interesting spectacle, to see a man who had attained the 82nd year of a laborious and harrassed life, busily engaged in editing a work which demanded so large a space of time for its completion; and those who have witnessed him during that time, retouching the copper plates, with a steadiness of hand which is supposed peculiar to the prime of life, will not easily forget their admiration. He lived nearly fourteen years after the termination of this task, without sorrow or suffering, beyond that which he has in his correspondence described as the great evil of old age-to become the survivor of those whom he had valued and loved in life. He was already a widower for the second time, and his only remaining child, Mrs. Wickham, died in the beginning of 1835. During this year he felt, for the first time, the failure of his eye sight. Infirmities gradually increased; but he was an active and cheerful man stillhe took his daily walk alone-he scorned the assistance of an arm-and if any one was happy enough to ask for information on any subject which his library could illustrate, neither the distance of the room, nor the weight of the folio, deterred him from going himself to gratify his inquirer. His end was rapid, but not unexpected-not the effect of disease, but of exhaustion- the taper burnt fairly out. Four days before his death he exhibited an unusual vivacity, and sprightliness almost unnatural; this was followed by a sudden failure of understanding-then of appetite-and he fell into a deep sleep of many hours duration, in which he expired without a pang, on the 4th of February, 1837. His remains are deposited in the Abbey Church of Romsey. Dr. Latham was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1775. He was the originator of, and took a prominent part in the formation of the Linnean Society, of which he was also a fellow from the beginning: and he became a member of the Society of Antiquaries in 1793. The celebrated composer, Zingarelli, the author of Romeo e Giulietta, died lately at Naples, aged 87. He was chief director of the Royal Academy of Music of that capital. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. In the Press, Temples, Ancient and Modern; or, Notes on Church Architecture. By William Bardewell, Architect. 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