94 MONTHLY RI'.VIl.W OF LITERATURE. 



the volume abounds, are graphic and entertaining. It is altogether a pleasant 

 work, and will be found a very agreeable companion to sea-side visitors. 



The Cotton Manufacture of Great Britain. By ANDREW URE, M.D. 



2 vols. 8vo. C. Knight. 



IT has long been a disgrace to a people whose rank as manufacturers is the 

 highest in the world, that no systematic history of this part of nationalusefulness 

 has appeared to enlighten them. We hailed Mr. Baines's elegant volume on 

 the cotton manufacture ; but we look on the present volumes with increased 

 pleasure, as they appear to be only the precursors of others that shall form 

 together a satisfactory account of the whole factory system. Without calling 

 down on Dr. Ure the scurrilous anathemas of the Edinburgh reviewer, we 

 may be allowed a wish that he had not limited so narrowly the term factory. 

 The same abilities which have done such ample justice to the clothing- 

 factory system might be advantageously applied to the illustration of other 

 branches of national industry. Many extracts might be made that would 

 highly interest the reader ; but as it is our intention to present him with a 

 history of this mighty branch of manufacture, in an article expressly devoted 

 to the subject, we forbear, and bid him farewell ; assuring him that the 

 perusal of Dr. Ure's published volumes will afford him much enjoyment, 

 and contribute a large addition to his stock of knowledge. Mr. Baines's 

 and Dr. Ure's works deserve a distinguished place in the library of every 

 gentleman who values as he ought the true and characteristic points of his 

 country's greatness. 



THEATRICAL INTELLIGENCE. 



DRURY LANE. Mr. Balfe's new Opera of " The Maid of Artois," 

 in which the whole operatic strength of the company, including the 

 unrivalled Malibran, was rendered available, attracted an audience 

 that filled the salle even to overflowing. 



The libretto of the opera was by no means calculated to raise in 

 the estimation of the public a species of literature which has fallen 

 into, we are sorry to say, deserved contempt. Any thing now is con- 

 sidered good enough to serve as a frame-work to support the weight 

 of the music, and in the present case the burden was not a very heavy 

 one. 



The plot, if it may be called a plot, is soon told. The Marquis de 

 Chateaux-Vieux (Phillips) has carried off and detains against her will 

 Isoline (Malibran), without, however, offering her any violence. He 

 endeavours to win her consent to a union which her affection for 

 Jules or Montanjon (Templeton) renders utterly repugnant to her 

 feelings. Jules meanwhile has wandered in search of his lost, and, 

 as he supposes, faithless mistress, struggling with the ills of penury 

 and want. Entrapped by a serjeant of the Marquis's regiment, he 

 discovers the abode of Isoline, scales the balcony of her apartment, 

 and, convinced of her truth and constancy, is about to fly with her 

 when they are interrupted by the marquis. Reproaches and defi- 

 ance pass between the recruit and his colonel, and swords are drawn. 

 The Marquis falls, apparently mortally wounded, and Jules is dragged 

 off to confinement. The next act opens in Guiana, where Jules is 

 suffering the penalty of his offence in servitude and bondage, under 



