MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATUHE. 399 



merous Exercises in prose and verse. Ancient Geography : Various Countries 

 of the Roman Empire. English : The first four Books of Milton's Paradise 

 Lost critically read and passages committed to memory. Elementary Science 

 by Mr. Wood: General properties of bodies, cohesion, attraction, gravitation, 

 laws of motion, mechanical powers, mechanical properties of fluids, specific 

 gravity, mechanical properties of air, general effects of heat, chemical attraction, 

 compound parts of atmospheric air, component parts of water. Arithmetic : 

 Vulgar and Decimal Fractions; Extraction of the Square Root. Geometry: 

 The First Book of Euclid's Elements. 



SIXTH CLASS. 



Latin: Horace's Books, 3d and 4th of the Odes and Epodes. Virgil's 

 Georgics. Livy. Greek: Sandford's Homeric Exercises. Homer's Iliad. 

 Zenophon's Anabasis. Euripedes Medea. Greek Testament, John and Acts. 

 Exercises in Prose and Verse. Greek and Latin. Ancient Geography: His- 

 pania, Gallia, Britannia, Germania, Vindelicia, &c., Italia, Sicilia, and Graecia, 

 to the end of Grsecia Propria. English : Shakspeare read and critically ex- 

 amined. Irving's Elements of English Composition read and explained. 

 Arithmetic : Frequent revisals of the Rules taught in the Fourth and Fifth 

 Classes. Geometry: The first four books of Euclid. Algebra: As far as 

 Quadratic Equations. French : The Pupils belonging to this Class are taught 

 French in two divisions, attending three hours a-week. Levizac's Grammar ex- 

 plained. Cours de Litterature read and translated. 

 SEVENTH CLASS. 



Latin : Horace. Epistles and Ars Poetica. Cicero. The Orations. Livy. 

 Tacitus. Greek: Homer. Xenophon's Anabasis. Sophocles. Herodotus. 

 New Testament. Luke's Gospel. Exercises in English, Greek, and Latin, 

 prose and verse. Geometry : First Six Books of Euclid. Trigonometry, as 

 applied to Surveying and Navigation, Mensuration, and Algebra. French : 

 Levizac's Grammar. Cours de Litterature. Plays of Moliere, Racine, &c., 

 read and translated. 



We are glad to see that religious education is not altogether neglected in 

 the Edinburgh Academy. Whatever may be said about the introduction of 

 religion into university education, we are quite sure that in a school the in- 

 culcation of moral and religious habits is absolutely necessary. There are 

 several specimens of Greek, Latin, and English composition, annexed to this 

 report, that are highly creditable to the young men as well as to their in- 

 structors. 



The Tailors (or " Quadrupeds/') a Tragedy for Warm Weather. 

 In Three Acts. Illustrated with Original Designs by R. Cruik- 

 shank. With Introductory Remarks by R. RYAN. Finch, Cornhill. 



THIS reprint is beautifully " got up;" the illustrations by Cruikshank are re- 

 plete with humourous combinations of the grotesque. 



Ryans' preface is hit off with considerable tact, and, besides giving an ac- 

 count of the riots at the Haymarket Theatre concerning this piece, it contains 

 a brief life of Foote, and the following graphic description of John Reeve, 

 the fidelity of which portrait all will acknowledge. 



" The next representative of Abrahamides, of any note, in London, was 

 John Reeve, who, as a performer of burlesque tragedy, is entitled to the ap- 

 pellation of a leviathan ; ' none but himself can be his parallel ;' naturally re- 

 dolent with every variety of broad humour and whimsical fun, he unites each 

 physical requisite necessary to the embodying of all his droll and ludicrous 

 imaginings. Those who have not witnessed his performance of mock tragedy 

 can have but a faint idea of the grotesque. His huge rolling eye, his broad 

 ungainly figure, assisted by stage costume, and the succession of absurdities 

 he illustrates in his deportment, must be seen to be appreciated. He is the 

 Gillray, Rowlandson, and Cruikshank of his art combined presenting the 

 lights and shades of caricature, with a fidelity, richness, and breadth equal to 

 all three of these children of Apelles." 



