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ness's marriage with Lady Augusta Murray, the author informs us, that it had 

 been ludicrously observed by a contemporary writer, that "soon afterwards 

 Lady Augusta became pregnant and returned to England ; his Royal ttighness 

 did the same." 



As a pleasant abridgement of historical and biographical information, we may 

 safely refer the reader to this work when he has neither time nor inclination to 

 consult more ample authorities. 



AN INTRODUCTION TO PERSPECTIVE, PRACTICAL GEOMETRY, DRAWING AND 

 PAINTING, &c. &c. BY CHARLES HAYTER. 



As a work of scientific rules, and of great utility in facilitating the acquisition 

 of an accomplishment now very generallypursued, not only by the higher ranks, 

 this very full and accurate treatise will be found deserving the attention both of 

 students and of proficients in the art. Besides unfolding the principles on a 

 regulated scale, illustrated with numerous plates, it contains a new and complete 

 explanation of the mixture of colours, with full and practical directions for their 

 use in miniature, crayons, and oil painting. These directions, moreover, are 

 given in a series of pleasing and familiar dialogues between the author's chil- 

 dren, and in instruction by letters to his pupils ; while the whole is as properly 

 adapted for the instruction of mere professional students, and of ladies. 



The many advantages which are thus held out in a single volume, must in- 

 deed have been sought for at considerable sacrifice of time and expence, in a 

 variety of scattered treatises, published without the object which the author of 

 this work seems to have had in view. That he has executed his varied and 

 arduous task in a manner creditable to an artist, entitles him to the thanks and 

 encouragement of every student and lover of the art ; and more particularly of 

 those who are without enlarged means, and find it difficult in the outset to mas- 

 ter elementary difficulties, and to become acquainted with the true principles of 

 design. 



LARDNER'S CABINET CYCLOPEDIA. A HISTORY OF "THE ITALIAN REPUB- 

 LICS." BY J. C. L. DE SISMONDI. 



THE celebrity already obtained by the author of the present work, no less on 

 the continent than in this country, by his extensive and laborious researches 

 into the histories of various nations, presents of itself a sufficient guarantee for 

 the style in which it was likely to be conducted. It would have been difficult 

 to fix upon any one writer, every way so adequately prepared to treat the sub- 

 ject in a masterly and comprehensive manner, whose previous studies had 

 brought him acquainted with its minutest details, and whose enlarged and phi- 

 losophic views rendered him equal to the severest duty of luminous order and 

 compression. The author of the " Italian Republics," in sixteen volumes, a 

 work abounding in lengthy detail and interesting episode, has shewn that it is 

 also possible for a talented and enterprising mind to comprize the same subject 

 in a single volume. If compared with some of the best works in the present 

 series, the productions of some of the most popular and distinguished writers of 

 our times, that of M. Sismondi will be found to rank in the very first class. 

 Nor is it only as an able historian and sound reasoner that he here appears to 

 advantage ; as the enlightened advocate of a great and fallen people, he appeals 

 to the free nations around him in their own language, reminding them of what 

 Italy was the first to achieve in the career of national independence, how she 

 stemmed the might of the Ottoman, desolating the west, of the grand impulse 

 and example she gave the world in its march towards civilization, and of the 

 crimes, both of her native and foreign oppressors, which despoiled her of the 

 honourable name, independence and the advantages which she was the means of 

 conferring upon the nations around. 



In the rapid recital of her revival, her struggles, and her misfortunes, the 

 writer preserves the interest arising out of the splendid actions and vicissitudes 



