342 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 



A BRIEF STATEMENT, SHOWING THE EQUITABLE AND MORAL 

 CLAIMS OP THE MARITIME OFFICERS OF THE EAST INDIA COM- 

 PANY TO COMPENSATION. BY CHARLES P. GRIBBLE, CHIEF OF- 

 FICER IN THE MARITIME SERVICE OF THE HON. EAST INDIA COM- 

 PANY. LONDON, 1834. 



IT would appear from this pamphlet that the East India Company 

 has sought to pass over the claims of the meritorious officers in its 

 service to a compensation, which to all the other branches of that 

 princely establishment is to be awarded on so liberal a scale. 



We were not before aware that this was the case. We had thought 

 that the maritime officers were dissatisfied with the scale of compen- 

 sation, not that they had just reason to complain of its being alto- 

 gether withheld. 



It hardly required the pamphlet of Mr. Gribble to prove the jus- 

 tice of the claims put forth by the respectable body of men whose 

 cause he has briefly, but strongly, advocated ; and we trust that the 

 exertions on the part of the proprietors, to which he alludes, will be 

 successful in a cause, which appears not only just in itself, but indis- 

 pensable to the maintenance of the character of the Company, 



SKETCHES OF THE STATE OF THE USEFUL ARTS, &c. ; OR, THE 

 PRACTICAL TOURIST. 2 VOLS. BY ZACHARIAH ALLEN. BOSTON, 

 1833. 



THESE admirable volumes, written by an American, and published 

 in that country, comprise a tour in Great Britain, France, and Hol- 

 land, made by the author with a view to examine the state of the 

 useful arts in Europe. The result is a vast mass information of the 

 utmost value and importance to America, and exceedingly interesting 

 and instructive to ourselves. 



Mr. Allen is not of those, who, laudably anxious to procure, in the 

 first instance, and afterwards to exhibit, facts, conceive it neces- 

 sary when they are obtained that they should be stripped of all ex- 

 traneous verdure, in order to keep them dry ; on the contrary, he 

 has contrived by a pleasing admixture of the utile and the dulce to 

 blend the two so intimately, and, at the same time with so much feli- 

 city, as to leave nothing to be desired on either score. 



Our author has made himself personally acquainted with almost 

 every part of our trade and manufactures of the slightest importance; 

 and has set down what he saw during his practical tour with the 

 most commendable exactness ; and in a fair, honourable, and candid 

 spirit which cannot be sufficiently praised. 



We look upon the tone of these volumes as of happy augury, and 

 as a gratifying evidence that the miserable prejudices, on both sides 

 of the Atlantic, are at length confined to those from whom the world 

 has no right to expect anything better, namely, the knaves and fools. 



We earnestly recommend to the perusal of our readers the work 

 before us. There is no book with which we are acquainted that 

 conveys so much information respecting English manufactures, and 

 the extent of English industry and capital, as these modestly entitled 

 sketches, drawn by an American for the enlightenment of his own 



