532 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE. 



the prevalent superstitions of the lower and middle classes of society, as 

 is desirable to make his work complete ; or he might have added a very 

 curious list of charms and divinations respecting ciiticular affections. The 

 book, however, contains much information, which will be found both 

 amusing and instructive. It wants revision. 



Arboretum Britannicum. No. IV. Encyclopaedia of Gardening. 

 No. XVII. Architectural Magazine. No. XIV. Longmans, 

 London. 

 Able continuations of Mr. Loudon's very popular works. 



The Electors' Manual. By JAMES OOPPOCK, Esq. Buck, 



London. 



This is a very able analysis of the law of elections, and ought to be 

 placed in the hands of every elector. Political associations, and every 

 person interested in the purity of election, and anxious to enable consti- 

 tuencies to preserve their own inalienable rights, cannot do better than 

 aid in the diffusion of this little work. It is so simple and clear, that he 

 ** who runs may read." 



Encyclopaedia Britannica. Part LX. Adam and Charles Black, 



Edinburgh. 



A worthy companion of the parts which have preceded it. Every 

 article has been carefully written ; and every one may be taken as a text 

 for the subject on which it treats. 



History of England, Vol. XV. Being the Second Vol. of the 

 Continuation from the death of George the Second in 1760. By 

 the Rev. T. S. HUGHES, B.D.A. J. Valpy, M.A. London. 

 . Small octavo. 



The second volume of Mr. Hughes' History fully bears out the opinion 

 we pronounced upon the first ; and he has fairly taken his position on 

 the same elevated ground as the predecessors in whose footsteps he is 

 treading. He handles his subjects with great ease : his style is lucid and 

 easy, his acquaintance with facts extensive and minute ; his deductions 

 logical and philosophical, and his tone impartial and manly. And they 

 had well need to be so as his present volume brings him to the American 

 war of independence, and to the forerunners of the French Revolution, 

 events which acted powerfully upon public opinion in England, and 

 called forth the energies of some of her most distinguished statesmen. 



The struggle between George III., the great Whig aristocracy, and the 

 democratic movement headed by Wilkes, is well told, and does honour to 

 Mr. Hughes' independence. The details are well worthy of very careful 

 reading, as there are more points than one that bear forcibly upon the 

 present day. His remarks upon the debate in 1772, regarding subscrip- 

 tion to the thirty-nine articles of the Church, are calm and temperate : 



" For some time past the important subject of subscription to the arti- 

 cles of religion had occupied men's minds, and formed a fertile source of 

 controversy and ill-will: systems established at early periods of the 

 reformation were thought by many honest inquirers to be tainted with 

 errors and inconsistencies arising from the prejudices and disputes which 

 then prevailed ; and it seemed extraordinary, that those who so long ago 



