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MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



LARDNER'S Cabinet Cyclopoedia. 71 Vol.2. BIOGRAPHY. Longman 



and Co. 



IT was in our last number only we noticed the preceding part or volume of 

 this valuable work ; and now we have its successor placed before us for the 

 like purpose. We have ever looked upon Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Library in the 

 light of a " Godsend ;" destined to enlighten and improve the great human 

 family, the which, if properly made use of, might serve the purpose of self educa- 

 tion, were there no other book or books to be found on the face of our planet 

 save the Bible that priceless tome containing innumerous evidence of heavenly 

 wisdom and human folly. The present volume contains biographical outlines of 

 the lives of some of the most eminent literary and scientific men of Italy, Spain, 

 and Portugal ; and we shall feel disappointed if it fail to give less satisfaction, if 

 not pleasure and delight, than its precursors. 



STANPIELD'S Coast Scenery, Parts 5 and 6. Smith, Elder, and Co., 



Cornhill. 



THIS work proceeds with extraordinary eclat. The engVavings are of the first 

 class. Part 5 contains Portsmouth Harbour ; the Semaphore at Portsmouth ; 

 the Arched Rock, Isle of Wight, and Havre-de-Grace. Part 6 contains Rye Old 

 Harbour, Blockade Station; Powderham Park, Exmouth ; Hamoaze, Plymouth; 

 and Eastcliff, Hastings; and it must be confessed they are equally beautiful and 

 attractive. 



LOUDON'S Arboretum Britannicum. Nos. 9 and 10. Longman and Co, 



HERE we have another peculiarly well managed and skilful work, which is pro- 

 gressing with deserved success. Botanists, of all other persons, must, we think, 

 feel highly indebted to Mr. Loudon for his pains-taking labours in this interesting 

 branch of science. We are at a loss to know how, in the name of bookselling, 

 the part or number, with so great a quantity of engravings, are produced for he 

 small sum of 2s. 6d. We cannot make it out. 



Architectural Magazine. Nos. 19 and 20. Longman and Co. 



THIS is a very ably conducted publication. Already (we speak advisedly 

 upon the subject), the advantages to be derived from this work have proved of the 

 utmost utility to builders and the students and others belonging to this profession, 

 nay, even to the more humble class of artizans namely, the working carpenter 

 and mason. 



The Conquests of Florida, under Hernando de Loto. By THEODORE 

 IRVING. 2'vols. post Svo. 



MR. CHURTON, the enterprising publisher, seems bent on affording us an early 

 aud plentiful supply of new and valuable books, with which to beguile the 



