122 Don's Gardening and Botany. 



The partridges, francolins, quails, ortyxes, grouses, ptar- 

 migans, sand-grouses, the crowned cryptonix, the white- 

 spotted ortygis, the black-necked ortygis, the guazu, and the 

 tataupa are the subjects described and illustrated. 



The Memoir of Sir T. Stamford Raffles is of much interest, 

 in respect both to biography and to natural history. 



Purchas, Samuel, A.M., and Bagster, Samuel, jun. : Spiritual 

 Honey from Natural Hives ; or, Meditations and Observ- 

 ations on the Natural History and Habits of Bees. First 

 introduced to public notice, in 1657, by Samuel Purchas, 

 A.M. ; now modified and republished by Samuel Bagster, 

 junior. Small 8vo, 176 pages. London, 1834. 3s. 



Mr. Bagster has thus spoken of this work : — "In the 

 course of my researches, I bought a volume on bees, written 

 by Mr. Samuel Purchas, in 1657, at the end of which he has 

 annexed Meditations, drawn from similes of the bee, taken 

 from a multitude of olden authors, and collected by him. 

 They are so very excellent, that I have reprinted most of 

 them, and headed each meditation with a text of Scripture. 

 They are published in a separate volume, under the title of 

 * Spiritual Honey from Natural Hives.' As it corresponds 

 in size [with Mr. Bagster's work on The Management of Bees'], 

 the reader may bind the two together ; but, as it is exclusively 

 devotional, my publishers sell them separately, unless spe- 

 cially ordered." 



This second little volume, the Spiritual Honey from Natural 

 Hives, cannot but be desirable to those who delight to asso- 

 ciate sentiments of religion with natural objects. 



We regret that want of space in our last Number (p. 64-.) 

 obliged us to separate our notices of works so closely allied. 



Don, George, F.L.S. : A General System of Gardening and 

 Botany, containing a complete Enumeration and Descrip- 

 tion of all Plants hitherto known ; with their Generic and 

 Specific Characters, Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, 

 the Manner in which they are cultivated, and their Uses in 

 Medicine and Domestic Economy ; preceded by an In- 

 troduction to the Linnaean and Natural Systems, and a 

 Glossary of the terms used. Founded upon Miller's 

 Gardener's Dictionary, and arranged according to the 

 Natural System. In 4 quarto volumes. Vol. III. 4to, 

 867 pages, with numerous woodcuts, 31. 125.; or in monthly 

 parts, 6s. each. London, 1834. 

 For a notice of the first volume, see V. 74. ; of the second, 



VI. 65. The third volume, recently published, includes de- 



