604 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 



affording the most recent view of slavery and society in the West Indies, 

 our extracts have been unusually copious, are appended some certificates of 

 the author's character, for the purpose of giving weight to his statements. 

 One of these certificates, in which he is declared to be " a highly respectable 

 young man, of unimpeachable integrity," is signed by several inhabitants of 

 his native place, Heckmondwicke ; all of whom are described in the testi- 

 monials appended, from the Incumbent and Curate of the adjacent church, as 

 being highly worthy of credit. 



OBSERVATIONS ON IMPEDIMENTS IN SPEECH. BY RICHARD CULL. 

 LONDON. RENSHAW AND RUSH. 



This publication, pompously addressed to T. J. Pettigrew, Esq. F. R. S. 

 F. S. A. F. L. S., &c. &c., is for the most part an impudent and barefaced 

 compilation from the " Observations on Impediments in Speech," recently 

 published by Mr. Poett, and " The Art of improving the Voice and Ear." 

 From among the pilfered passages which we detect in every page, the fol- 

 lowing are hasty selections, 



" At the root of the tongue lies a " At the root of the tongue lies a 

 small bone, which, from its resem- small crescent-shaped bone, or rather 

 blance to the Greek v (u-psilon), is somewhat in the shape of a horse- 

 called the hyoid or u-like bone : to shoe, which, from its resemblance to 

 this bone is attached a long cartila- the Greek letter v, is called the hy-oid 

 ginous tube, which extends to the or u-like bone. From this bone the 

 lungs, forming a channel for the con- tube of the windpipe takes its rise, and 

 veyance of the air to and from the proceeds downwards to the lungs. 

 lungs, constituting breathing." Cull, Art of Improving, &c. p. 9. 

 p. 5. 



" Various have been the remedies " Some of the proposals I have al- 



suggested for its cure. Some have luded to, were to speak with the teeth 



proposed speaking in a singing tone ; closed ; others in a whisper ; others 



others with the teeth closed." Cull, in a half-singing tone." Poett, p. 



p. 25. 38. 



" The interior of the larynx is " The larynx is lined internally 



lined by a very sensible vascular and with a very sensible vascular and 



mucous membrane, which is a con- mucous membrane, which is a conti- 



tinuation of the membrane of the nution of the membrane' of the mouth." 



mouth." Cull, p. 6. Art of Improving, &c. p. 12. 



" A predisposing cause of stammer- " A predisposing cause of the dis- 



ing may exist in a general nervous ease exists in numerous individuals ; 



debility, to which may be added, per- namely, a debility of their nervous 



haps its most fertile source, the un- energy : but imitation, in eighty 



checked manifestation of the imita- cases out of a hundred, is positively 



tive faculty." Cull, p. 18. the exciting cause."- Poett, p. 29. 



We had marked several other parallel passages, but, doubtless, those above 

 given will be sufficient to enable the reader to form a proper estimation of 

 the merits of Mr. Cull ! 



ANTI-SLAVERY REPORTER FOR FEBRUARY, 1833. 



The February number of this periodical contains a most interesting digest 

 of the evidence taken before the Committee of the House of Lords, in the 

 recent Session of Parliament. This committee would appear to have con- 

 sisted of a very decided majority of Peers interested in colonial property ; 

 and the final report is, accordingly, vague, undecided, and unmeaning. 

 The first witness examined, was the Duke of Manchester, who professed 

 himself favourable to a continuation of the present system ; though, after 

 having held, for a period of eighteen years, the valuable office of Governor of 

 Jamaica, he now admits to the committee his ignorance of the most marked 



