316 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



Rosamond Gray's Recollections of Christ's Hospital, &c. &c. By 

 CHARLES LAMB, Author of " The Essays of Elia," E. Moxon. 



THIS is a delightful volume, as is every thing which Charles Lamb ever 

 wrote. Besides the articles mentioned in the title-page, there are various 

 others full of that smooth and pleasant manner for which the author was so 

 remarkable. The papers on " The Tragedies of Shakspeare," and on 

 " Shakspeare's Contemporaries," are not only beautifully written, but show 

 the intimate acquaintance which Mr. Lamb possessed with our elder dra- 

 matic writers, and the sound judgment which marks his criticisms. 



Minor Morals for Young People. Illustrated in Tales and Travels. 

 By JOHN BOWRING. Part II. \\hittaker & Co. 



THIS is an excellent little volume, breathing from beginning to end the 

 kindliest spirit towards the young. It is equally to be commended for its 

 intellectual merits and its sound morality. One wonders how a mind like 

 Dr. Bowring's, which is accustomed to grapple with some of the abstrusest 

 subjects in philosophy and legislation, could adapt itself to the capacities of 

 children. Yet so it is. Every thing in the volume is plain and familiar. 

 The wood-cut illustrations will be a great recommendation of the book in 

 the estimation of children. 



Some Considerations on the Political State of the Intermediate 

 Countries between Persia and India, with reference to the 

 Project of Marching an Army through them. By E. STIRLING, 

 Bengal Civil Service. Whittaker & Co. 



THIS pamphlet is a highly interesting subject, and one which is particu- 

 larly so at a time like the present, when Russia is meditating some bold 

 scheme for her further aggrandisement. The author comes to the conclu- 

 sion that the moral and physical obstacles to a successful invasion of India, 

 on the part of Russia, are too formidable for the latter power attempting it. 

 The pamphlet contains many useful and interesting documents ; but we have 

 not had time to examine it with sufficient care to form an- opinion as to how 

 far his views are correct. 



The Mining Review, and Journal of Geology, Mineralogy, and 

 Metallurgy. No. VII. Simpkin and Marshall, 1835. 



AMONG the original papers is a valuable article on Mining Companies by 

 Mr. English, the talented editor of the Review, who applies the following 

 remarks to the mines of Cornwall : " The importance and magnitude of the 

 copper-mines alone may be gathered from the simple statement, that within 

 the past ten years no less a sum than 8,053,263 13s. has been realized by 

 their produce, amounting to 1,346,847 tons of ore ; and it is a matter of 

 notoriety that there are mines now working which yield from 30,000 to 

 50,000 per annum profit to the proprietors, while many, discontinued after 

 yielding immense profits, have been subsequently resumed and are now 

 attended with* equal, and in some instances with increased success/' This 

 prosperity is chiefly owing to improvements in machinery, and more particu- 

 larly in the power of steara-engines. The mines themselves are so rich that 

 with all the disadvantages that attended the old system of working them, 



