186 Samouelle's Entornological Cabinet. 



amidst a refreshing coolness, the mild moon arises in calm 

 and silent grandeur, and diffusing her silver light over the 

 dark forest, imparts to every object a new and softened aspect. 

 Night comes ; — nature sleeps, and the ethereal canopy of 

 heaven, arched out in awful immensity over the earth, and 

 sparkling with innumerable witnesses of far distant glories, 

 infuses into the heart of man humility and confidence, — a 

 divine gift after such a day of wonder and delight ! " 



Art. IV. Catalogue of Works on Natural History ^ lately published^ 

 tvith some Notice of those considered the most interesting to British 

 Naturalists. 



SwAiNSON, W,, F.R.S. &c., and Richardsoji, John, M.D. 

 F.R.S. &c. : Fauna Boreali- Americana, or the Zoology of 

 the Northern Parts of British America. Part II. containing 

 the Birds, illustrated by numerous Plates and Wood-cuts. 

 4to, nearly 600 pages. London, Murray, 1831. 4/. 45. 

 This seems a superb production, on which more hereafter. 



Rennie, J"., A. M. : Notes of a Naturalist ; in Time's Tele- 

 scope for 1832. 8vo. London. 95. 



A wreath of pleasing quotations, with a good proportion of 

 poetical ones, interspersed by some original remarks, and 

 distributed into 12 monthly chapters; all form a pleasing, 

 instructive, and appropriate appendage to Time's Telescope; 

 and it is pleasing to see Natural History at every turn re- 

 ceiving adaptation to the business and bosoms of all. The 

 engraved device, including the title of " Notes of a Naturalist," 

 is elegant and appropriate ; in short, we think, exquisitely 

 tasteful: it is a chain disposed in an ellipsis of miniature 

 pictures, each including some pleasing and well exhibited 

 object of nature. 



Samouelle, G., A.L. S., Author of the " Entomologist's useful 

 Compendium," and other works : The Entomological Ca- 

 binet, or Natural History of British Insects. In Monthly 

 Numbers, with coloured Plates. Foolscap 8vo. 25. 6d, 

 Numbers I. and II. have appeared. 



In the pages of this elegant periodical it is the author's in- 

 tention to apply the results of thirty years' extensive research 

 and observation to the illustration of the orders, the families, 

 the genera, and, lastly ,'^itie species, of British insects ; and in 

 such a way as to render his work a " hand-book to the juvenile, 

 a text book to the tyro, and a magazine to the scientific." 

 How well he is able to effect this desirable object, the pub- 



