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had taken ten lessons from an older playmate, could have crossed, lightly as 

 a cork ! Many a gallant admiral would feel less alarmed at being exposed to 

 a broadside, than at being precipitated into a brook a fish-pond would have 

 more terrors than the field of battle, for the hero of Waterloo. Surely this 

 ought not to be the case where water solicits us on all sides where swim- 

 ming is the most simple of all the arts acquired by man. It may be learnt 

 sufficiently for the preservation of life, in any of our inland streams, within 

 a month, and he must be a poor mortal indeed who, after one summer's prac- 

 tice, could not swim a mile, or half that distance, with one of his own weight 

 clinging to his back." " Its schools/' according to the writer, " are our 

 ponds, our brooks, our canals, or rivers, and our seas ; its great professor 

 is the FROG, a creature which for ages past has taught the human tyro 

 gratis." 



Not only do we agree to all this but we are inclined to go further, and 

 maintain that in the army, much of the time that is devoted to the drill-ser- 

 jeant might be more profitably employed in teaching the soldier the simple 

 secret of crossing a river without the aid of a boat or bridge, and thus plac- 

 ing him on an equality with those continental troops who are regularly dis- 

 ciplined to pass streams, under the weight and impediment of their clothes 

 and accoutrements, and holding their arms and ammunition in one hand 

 above their heads. 



Of the style in which our author maximizes the following is a fair speci- 

 men -."As to the time when. The morning forever! Be at the river-side 

 before the bee has done snoring strip while the lark, preparing for his first 

 flight, shakes the dew from his dappled back before the trout has taken its 

 matinal snack. Heed not the trash which old women male and female 

 babble about waiting until the waters are warmed by the rays of the summer 

 sun attend to us, and bathe in the grey dawn." 



A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON STAMMERING AND NERVOUS AFFECTIONS OP 

 SPEECH. BY JOSEPH POETT, SENIOR M.R.C.S. FOURTH EDITION. 

 LONDON : HIGHLEY. 



THIS work will be read with intense interest by all those who happen to 

 be affected with impediments of speech, affording as it does, the consoling 

 assurance that the misery under which they labour, may not only be alle- 

 viated, but, except in some extreme and very unusual cases, wholly removed. 

 Mr. Poett seems to be a perfect master of the subject on which he treats : on 

 this point, the certificates appended, from known and respectable parties, of 

 cures which he has performed, are quite conclusive. Among those who, 

 from personal observation, attest his skill and success, are the Marchioness 

 of Ormonde, Lady Dufferin, Mr. Crampton, the Surgeon General of Ireland, 

 Dr. Prendergast, the Rev. S. F. Fox, Mr. Budd, the bookseller, and Mr. 

 Greenwood, present Head Master of Christ's Hospital. 



LITERARY NOTICES. 



WORKS IN THE PRESS, OR RECENTLY PUBLISHED. 



The Judgment of the Flood. A Poem. By John A. Heraud, Author of 

 " The Descent into Hell." 



Demetrius, a Tale of Modern Greece. In Three Cantos, with other poems. 

 By Agnes Strickland. 



In a few days will appear an Abridgement of the Rev. Gilbert White's 

 " Natural History of Selborne," with the omission or alteration of such 

 passages as are unadapted for the perusal of children and young persons. 

 The contents of this edition, which is embellished with numerous en- 

 gravings, have been arranged by a lady for the use of her own children. 



British Colonial Jurisprudence. The Sketch of a Complete System of 



