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submit to a daily tooth-ache or an eternal cold ; and some extraordinary direc- 

 tions, did, we confess, stagger us. Ladies may, however, find, some very 

 valuable recipes and much useful information in this book. 



WYLD'S GENERAL ATLAS. LONDON : WYLD. 1832. 



WE have tested these maps in several instances, and have found them gene- 

 rally correct they are also clearly delineated. The volume is sufficiently large 

 for ordinary use, and portable enough for the portmanteau or the pocket. 



LANDER'S EXPEDITION TO THE NIGER. FAMILY LIBRARY, No. XXVIII. 

 LONDON : JOHN MURRAY. 1832. 



FROM the earliest ages to the present time, the course and termination of the 

 River Niger have been doubted, disputed, and guessed at ; and the discovery 

 has at length been made by our enterprising countrymen, Richard and John 

 Lander. The former, it will be recollected, accompanied the late lamented 

 Captain Clapperton in his fatal expedition, and was perfectly well qualified, 

 both by natural aptitude, and previous experience, to undertake the present 

 expedition. 



It is impossible to foretell, or to calculate the advantages that may accrue to 

 this country, from a commercial intercourse with the numerous towns and 

 villages situated on the banks of this mighty river. 



The journal is written unaffectedly, but at the same time with sufficient 

 correctness. 



THE DOOMED. IN 3 VOLS. LONDON : SMITH, ELDER, AND Co. 1832. 



THIS is nothing more than the imaginary adventures of " The Wandering 

 Jew," over again. We have had so many " Undying One's" " Doomed 

 One's," and " Wandering Jews," that a sedentary Christian is almost driven 

 out of his senses by them. After some broken introductions, the tale opens on 

 the shores of the Ganges, where the hero becomes the object of a Hindoo girl's 

 affection, who, with her father, carries on the thread of the narrative for a 

 volume. A few centuries after, he meets with Richard Coeur de Lion, whose 

 sister falls in love with him ; and a few other characters are introduced in no 

 very entertaining manner. A short time after this (a century or two) we find 

 him in Scotland, where he contracts a sentimental union with a Scotch girl, who 

 dies on the disclosure made to her, that her husband will in all probability, live 

 for ever. There is no delineation of character in this novel but the course of 

 the tale is sometimes broken in upon by occasional gratuitous combats, carried 

 on and concluded without any ostensible reason. At the same time, there is 

 a wiidness and a want of connection that may, perhaps, please the incorrigible 

 romance reader. 



HISTORY OF SWITZERLAND. DR. LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPAEDIA. 



LONDON : LONGMAN, & Co. 1832. 



IT would be impossible to do justice to this work in the limits to which our 

 notices of new books are necessarily confined. So far as we are competent to 

 judge, the materials are compiled from the most authentic sources historical 

 facts are candidly and fairly stated ; and the author displays throughout, a calm 

 and philosophical spirit, ever tending to the advancement of liberty, 



POPULAR ZOOLOGY. LONDON: JOHN SHARPE. 1832. 



WE trust that none of our country friends will fail, on their visit to the me- 

 tropolis, to spend at least a long day at the Zoological Gardens, one of the most 

 rational, instructive, and cheapest exhibitions ever opened to the public. To 

 those who have personally inspected this menagerie, this work will be found 

 interesting; and to those whose pleasure is yet to come, it will serve as a per- 

 fect guide. The descriptions are concise, yet sufficiently minute; and are 

 enlivened throughout by characteristic anecdotes. 



