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notice of a sporting fury : " There died in 1792, aged 78, Miss Mary Breeze, 

 who never lived out of the parish she was born in, was as good a shot as any 

 in the county, regularly took out a licence, and kept an excellent pack of 

 hounds. At her desire, her dogs and favourite mare were killed at her death, 

 and buried^n the same grave !" 



THE PLAYS AND POEMS OF SHAKSPEARE. VOL. V. LONDON : VALPY. 

 THE fifth volume of this neat, pleasant, and portable edition of Shakes- 

 peare, contains " All's Well that Ends Well/' "Taming of the Shrew," and 

 " The Winter's Tale," with upwards of a dozen outline illustrations from 

 the plates of Boydell. The talented editor (M. J. Valpy, M.A.) has adopted 

 the text of Malone : a brief historical digest is prefixed to each play ; 

 obsolete words are explained in a glossary, and the most striking passages 

 are carefully indicated, so that the edition may be characterized as being 

 peculiarly adapted for youthful readers. 



THE CABINET ANNUAL REGISTER, FOR THE YEAR 1832. LONDON : 

 WASHBOURNE. EDINBURGH : CADELL. 



THE second yearly number of this work is equal in every respect to the 

 first. It is compactly and cleverly got up. The title page is ornamented 

 with fine medallion portraits, after Wyon, of the King and Queen. The 

 volume is divided into fourteen chapters, to which is added an appendix of 

 public documents, lists, tables, &c. The first chapter treats of domestic 

 history ; the second of proceedings in parliament ; the third, of foreign history ; 

 the fourth, of Holland and Belgium ; the fifth, of Portugal, Spain, Italy, and 

 Greece ; the sixth, of Germany, Prussia, Austria, Russia, and Switzerland ; 

 the seventh, of the Colonies; the eighth, of Turkey, Egypt, and China; the 

 ninth, of America : the remaining are respectively headed Annual Obituary 

 and Biography, Trials, Law and Police, Accidents, &c. Chronicle of events 

 and occurrences, and Omnium for the year. The range of the work is there- 

 fore sufficiently wide, and it must be admitted that in most cases, the 

 compiler has done as much justice to his subjects, as the limits allotted to 

 each would permit. 



ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA. PART XXXVI. EDINBURGH : 

 ADAM BLACK. 



In this, the seventh edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, the supplement 

 to the former editions is incorporated, and the illustrative engravings are en- 

 tirely new. When complete, if carried on with its present excellence, it will, 

 assuredly, as the prospectus promises, form " the most valuable digest of 

 human knowledge that has yet appeared in Britain." 



The present part, with a number of minor miscellaneous papers, contains 

 important articles on the following subjects : COAL, COAL-TRADE, and 

 COLLIERIES ; COCHIN-CHINA, COHESION, COINAGE, COLD, COLOMBIA, and 

 COLONY. From the last mentioned article we select the following passages : 



" Under the ignorance in which Englishmen have remained of East India 

 affairs, it floats in the minds of a great many persons, that somehow or 

 other, a tribute, or what is equivalent to a tribute, does come from the East 

 Indies. Never did an opinion exist more completely without evidence con- 

 trary to evidence evidence notorious, and well known to the persons them- 

 selves by whom the belief is entertained. India, instead of yielding a tribute 

 to England, has never yielded enough to pay the expenses of its own govern- 

 ment. What is the proof? That its government has always been in debt 

 has been under the necessity of continually augmenting its debt, until it has 



