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that the sources of the great rivers of the American continent have never been 

 visited. This is a palpable error ; their sources are all known in North, and 

 in some instances in South America. The head waters of the great rivers 

 are quite in the vicinity of one another, and only divided by trivial heights 

 of land. In his second edition, to which we have no doubt the general 

 merits of the work will carry it, we would advise Mr. Inglis to give a well-- 

 drawn map of the Tyrol. 



GALLERY OF THE GRACES. PART V. LONDON : C. TILT. 



THIS number is enriched with a free and tasteful engraving after CHALON, 

 entitled The Lady Adeline, in which a certain regal dignity, combined with airy 

 elegance, reminds one of the happiest graces of LAWRENCE. The action and ex- 

 pression of the head and disposition of the costume possess a charm which 

 can result alone from a creative and refined taste ; on this account we forgive 

 too close an approximation to modern fashion. Medora and Aurora, by F. 

 STONE, complete the part, which is by no means inferior to those which have 

 preceded it. 



A TREATISE ON THE PHYSIOLOGY AND DISEASES OF THE EYE : CONTAIN- 

 ING A NEW MODE OF CURING CATARACT WITHOUT AN OPERATION. BY 

 JOHN HAMILTON CURTIS. LONDON : LONGMAN AND Co. 



MR. CURTIS has long been favourably known to the public by his works 

 on the structure and diseases of the ear ; and many, we hope, will have cause 

 to rejoice that he has at length found time to turn his attention to that 

 equally complicated, and even more important organ the eye. In treating 

 cases of deafness, where the vision happened likewise to be impaired, Mr. 

 Curtis was struck with the fact, that while curing the deafness by constitu- 

 tional remedies, the defect in the visual organ was also frequently removed. 

 The consentaneous cure of two diseased organs by a treatment directed only 

 to one of them, led Mr. Curtis to a more minnte investigation of their con- 

 nection with each other ; and thence, through a chain of theoretical reason- 

 ings and practical experiments, to the important conclusion, that many 

 diseases of the eye some of them hitherto deemed incurable, and others not 

 even attempted to be cured but by the knife will yield to a judicious con- 

 stitutional treatment, assisted by mild topical applications. The author 

 supports his opinions by several cases, some of which are very interesting ; 

 but as our limits do not permit us to make any extracts, we must refer the 

 reader to the book itself, which will be the more acceptable to him, as it is 

 almost entirely free from professional technicalities. 



OLIVER CROMWELL. PAINTED BY DELAROCHE. ENGRAVED BY MAILE. 

 LONDON : C. TILT. 



The merit of this mezzotint is of a very high order. The unaffected 

 simplicity of treatment accords admirably with the deep solemnity of the 

 historical scene represented; Cromwell is lifting the lid of the coffin in 

 which the body of the recently beheaded Charles Stuart lies shrouded : he 

 gazes steadily on its dead features ; the impressive quiet of the composition 

 is not disturbed by any artificial effect. 



THE COTTAGE MUSE. BY T. NOEL. LONDON : HATCHARD AND SON. 



AN unpretending little collection of paraphrases from the most popular 

 texts of scripture, and not inappropriately termed " The Cottage Muse." 

 There are no sublime flights, and few appeals to the imagination ; but the 



