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Fine Arts' Exhibitions. 



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exquisitely clear and natural they look 

 moist, and full of motion. No e'dition 

 pf Sir Walter Scott's romances will, to 

 our taste, be complete, without these 

 illustrations. The descriptions of the 

 great novelist will henceforth lose their 

 identity without the guiding light which 

 art has thus pleasantly shed upon them. 

 The portraits that form the sixteenth 

 number of the " National Portrait Gal- 

 lery of Illustrious and Eminent Person- 

 ages of the Nineteenth Century," are 

 those of Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, the 

 Earl of Fife, and Sir Thomas Le Breton. 

 They are executed in the same careful 

 and satisfactory manner that distin- 

 guished those that have already been 

 published, and are upon the whole well 

 entitled to their respective niches in the 

 national gallery of portaits. Lord Lynd- 

 hurst's portrait, however, though cleverly 



engraved, and an excellent likeness as to 

 feature, is deficient in a peculiar expres- 

 sion of eye that invariably lightens up 

 the countenance of the Chancellor. 

 There is a pensive character, an air of 

 fatigue and discomfiture, an ambiguous 

 attempt at a smile playing about the 

 face, as though he felt anxious to get his 

 wig off and to put on his nightcap. The 

 whole aspect wants a dash of life it is 

 not sly and cunning enough. The wig 

 however does wonders for it in the way 

 of gravity. Earl Fife's is a very good 

 stiff Scotch portrait, and was once more 

 like him than it is at present. The por- 

 trait of Sir Thomas Le Breton, a gentle- 

 man of whom we know nothing more 

 illustrious than that he is Bailly of the 

 Island of Jersey, is from a painting by 

 Sir Thomas Lawrence ; it is easy, simple 

 and animated. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS AND NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



WORKS IN PREPARATION. 



The distinguished American Novelist, 

 Cooper, has a new production in three 

 volumes in the press, under the attractive 

 title of The Water Witch." New Edi- 

 tions are preparing of his popular novels of 

 the " Prairie," and the " Borderers." 



A very useful work is in the press, by 

 Mr. Elmes, the Architect. It is a new 

 Topographical Dictionary of London, in 

 which not only every street and passage, but 

 every church, public office and building 

 throughout the metropolis and its environs, 

 will be carefully and particularly described, 

 and its locality distinctly pointed out. 



Mr. Murray's Natural History of Poisons 

 is nearly ready. 



Mrs. S. C. Hall, the Author of Sketches 

 of Irish Life, &c. is preparing for the press 

 a volume, entitled, " Anecdotes of Birds." 



An Authentic and Impartial Narrative 

 of the Events which took place in Paris on 

 July 27, 28, and 29, with an Account of 

 the Occurrences preceding and following. 



Lady Ribblesdale's Portrait, from Mrs. 

 Carpenter's truly elegant oil-painting, will 

 form the Seventieth of the Series of the 

 Female Nobib'ty, and will appear in La 

 Belle Assembled in October next. 



Mr. Boaden, the biographer of Mrs. Sid- 

 dons, &c., is busily engaged on the Life 

 and Memoirs of Mrs. Jordan. 



The Rev. John Kenrick has just com- 

 pleted an Abridgment, which will shortly 

 be published, of his Translation of Lumpt's 

 Latin Grammar. 



LIST OF NEW WORKS. 



BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY. 



The Life of Lord Byron. By John 

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Life and Reign of George the Fourth, 

 with an Historical Account of the House of 

 Brunswick. By H. E. Lloyd, Esq. 8vo. 

 18s. 



Memoirs of His Serene Highness An- 

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Memoirs of the late Captain Hugh Crow, 

 of Liverpool ; comprising a Narrative of 

 his Life, with Descriptive Sketches of the 

 Western Coast of Africa, &c. 8vo. 6s. 6d. 



History of Northamptonshire, Part III. 

 (completing the First Volume.) By George 

 Baker. Large paper, 6. 6s. Small paper, 

 3. Gs. 



Military Reminiscences, extracted from 

 a Journal of nearly Forty Years' active 

 Service in the East Indies. By Col. James 

 Welsh. In 2 vols. 8vo. 36s. 



Private Correspondence of Sir Thomas 

 Monro, forming the Third Volume of his 

 Life. 8vo. 16s. 



The Boscobel Tracts, relating to the 

 Escape of Charles the Second, after the 

 Battle of Worcester. 8vo. 



The Eighth Volume of Dr. Lingard's 

 History of England. 4to. Which will bring 

 down the work to the Revolution. 



Dr. Lardner's Cabinet Cyclopaedia, Vol. 

 IX. Outlines of History, fcp. 6s. 



An Historical Sketch of the Danmonii, 

 the Ancient Inhabitants of Devonshire and 

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CLASSICAL. 



An Abridgment in English of Bos on 

 the Greek Ellipses. By the Rev. Mr. 

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Select Orations of Demosthenes, with 

 English Notes. By E. H. Barker, Eq. 

 12mo. 8s. 6d. 



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