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has made in this edition, both with regard to arrangement, and, in some re- 

 spects, of system, entitle it to be considered a new work. 



Although we must in justice own that there were several German Gram- 

 mars in circulation, of a very respectable degree of merit, before that of Mr. 

 Bernays' had existence, yet we have no hesitation in stating that, in our 

 opinion, not one of them is for a moment comparable with the one now 

 before us. 



We cannot too highly praise the excellence of matter and the luminous 

 arrangement that distinguish this Grammar. The dictionary of the prefixes 

 and affixes, so discouraging from their difficulty to the beginner, are inva- 

 luable to the German student. 



We can honestly recommend Mr. Bernays' German Grammar as by far the 

 best at present in existence, and as tending to simplify and elucidate the 

 peculiar difficulties of the language in a much more clear, satisfactory, and 

 brief manner than it has hitherto been effected. 



ENCYCLOPEDIA OF COTTAGE, FARM, AND VILLAGE ARCHITECTURE. BY J. C. 

 LOUDON. PART IX. LONGMAN AND Co. LONDON, FEB. 1833. 



THIS part is quite equal in utility and interest to either of its predecessors : 

 it is careful, clear, and admirably illustrated with upwards of 200 very neat 

 engravings by R. Branston. Among the subjects treated on are malt-houses, 

 limekilns, cider-houses, poultry-houses, dwellings for farm servants, country 

 inns, public-houses, and country schools, with their fittings up respectively. 

 It also contains the commencement of Villa Architecture, which, in two more 

 parts, will conclude this highly valuable and important work. 



THE WIZARD OF THE NORTH ; THE VAMPIRE BRIDE ; AND OTHER POEMS. 

 BY THE HON. HENRY LIDDBLL. BLACKWOOD, EDINBURGH ; AND CADELL, 

 LONDON. 1833. 



WE have perused almost every line of Mr. Liddell's poems, and have met 

 with a few which we shall not quickly forget ; but not with one worthy of 

 remembrance. He is bad enough in his choice of subjects, but in his treat- 

 ment of them he is worse : he is parenthetical without being illustrative ; 

 discursive out of poverty rather than profusion of idea ; and when he recurs 

 to his theme, common-place, cold, and tedious. From the " Wizard of the 

 North," all that we learn is that the author has not forgotten his school- 

 books, nor the characters in the Waverley novels ; that he has a most sen- 

 sitive abhorrence of a Scotch mob, and " London's rabble throng ;" is en- 

 dowed with sufficient taste to admire Walter Scott, and with enough loyalty 

 to applaud Wellington. " The Vampire Bride" is written in the worst 

 style of Southey's worst ballads ; the fable of the " Fox and the Rose" is 

 unadulterated trash, and the lines " to the ship Barham, which took out Sir 

 Walter Scott in 1831," might as well have been addressed to the ship Hip. 

 popotamus which brought in Jack Styles in 1832. In the " Recess," the 

 author, in depicting the joys of winter, expatiates upon the pleasure of 

 sending " the glowing shot" through " the pheasant's painted throat ;" and 

 on sundry other sports, which, he says, " may sure beguile the Stoic to a 

 transient smile :" the Stoic may be beguiled with infinitely less trouble if he 

 will keep by him the poems of the Hon. Henry Liddell. 



It is the author's intention, as he states in the preface, to devote the profits 

 of his work to the purposes contemplated by the committee of noblemen and 

 gentlemen, admirers of the late Sir Walter Scott, for establishing some per- 

 manent memorial of his genius and virtues. This reminds us of an Irish 

 drysalter, who gratified his charitable propensities by bequeathing a particu- 

 larly bad debt to some benevolent institution. 



