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find from what quarter they came, nor did I ever see a 

 specimen of them, or hear any account of them." 



The Parents Cabinet of Amusement and Instruction is a 

 work published in monthly numbers, at 6d. each, which 

 deserves notice in this Magazine, from several of the numbers, 

 of which ten are published, containing subjects of natural 

 history. The subjects are those which youngsters most 

 usually encounter, as caddis worms, dragon flies, whirligig 

 beetles, &c; and of these, and the process of their transform- 

 ation, woodcuts are given. Into the other subjects, also, 

 woodcuts are introduced. " The object of the conductors of 

 this work is, to provide a periodical supply of instructive 

 reading for young people, in so attractive a form as to be, 

 at the same time, a source of amusement." We think they 

 succeed, and have no doubt that they find that they do : we 

 only object that their numbers are not cheap at 6d. each; for, 

 although woodcuts are introduced, the Catholicism of their 

 work would enable them to sell more of it for money. 

 . Of The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, a part, on 

 " Vegetable Substances used in the Arts," is to be published 

 on September 1., and another part on October 1. These 

 two additional parts complete this subject. On March 1. 

 1834, one part, and on April U 1834, another part, on " The 

 Faculties of Birds," are to be published : they will complete 

 the subject. At each of the following dates, October 1., 

 November 1., and December 1., 1834, a part, on "Birds," is 

 to be published. 



Monographia Generum Aloes et Mesembryanthemi, Iconibus 

 illustrata, by the Prince de Salm Dyck, is being prepared for 

 publication by Messrs. Arnz and Co., of Dusseldorf. There 

 is to be a monograph on the aloes, and another on the 

 mesembryanthemums ; but both works are to be published 

 together, in half-yearly numbers. Each number of the 

 work on aloes is to contain lithographs of 24 species, 

 and its price, with the prints uncoloured, is to be 10 francs; 

 with them coloured (only one leaf and some petals), 20 francs. 

 Each number of the monograph on mesembryanthemums is 

 to contain prints of 36 species; and its price, with the prints 

 uncoloured, to be 15 francs, with them coloured (some leaves 

 and petals), 30 francs. Subscribers can, at their expressed 

 request, be supplied with copies with the prints completely 

 coloured. It must be gratifying to botanists to perceive that 

 the prince has at length resolved to give us the benefit of 

 that intimate acquaintance with the above most interesting 

 genera, with which his extensive cultivation of living plants 

 of them have enriched him. The prospectus states that, 



