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should be put into the hands of every mathematical student as a preparatory 

 exercise ; they are admirably adapted to facilitate the passage of the ' pons 

 asinorum,' which, in nine instances out of ten, the pupil passes without 

 knowing how. 



THE LAST GIFTS OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS. PAINTED BY A. COLIN. 

 ENGRAVED BY G. H. PHILLIPS. 



THE unfortunate Queen, whose beauty appears to be considerably marred 

 hy grief, is seated in the midst of her weeping friends and attendants, on the 

 eve of her execution, and is distributing among them various tokens of her 

 regard. This engraving possesses a richness of surface peculiar to the best 

 examples of the mezzotint style, and the chiaroscuro is very effectively 

 managed. 



HEADS AFTER THE ANTIQUE. DRAWN ON STONE BY B. R. GREEN, No. I. 

 LONDON : ROWNEY AND Co. 



WE are not quite satisfied with the details in these drawings. In the 

 Jupiter the eyes are too undecided in form, and the shadows are cut up with 

 lines. More force of effect, and a greater strength of expression, might have 

 been given to the whole family Juno, Apollo, and Diana. The general 

 air and character of these heads is, however, preserved, and the half tints 

 are clear and freely handled. 



THE BYRON GALLERY. PART VI. LONDON : SMITH, ELDER AND Co. 



THE engravings are very creditably executed. In the Maid of Athens from 

 CHALON, the light is thrown over the subject with much spirit, though the 

 character of the head is rather namby-pambyish. Mr. RICHTER, or his en- 

 graver, seems to fall short of a desirable expression in the countenances. 

 In other respects, we commend this part as worthy of its predecessors. 



PORTRAITS OF THE PRINCIPAL FEMALE CHARACTERS OF THE WAVERLEY 

 NOVELS. LONDON : CHAPMAN AND HALL. 



THIS part contains the Fair Maid of Perth, Edith Plantaganet, and 

 Fenclla, from designs by C. LANDSEER, HART, and H. HOWARD, R.A. The 

 engravings are spirited and carefully finished, nor is there wanting beauty of 

 character in the heads. The drawing of the first-mentioned portrait is 

 executed with much taste for form, a rare quality among English artists, 

 whose passion for colour is apt to lead them astray from correct outline. 

 Appended to this number is a beautiful plate, by LE KEUX, of Dryburgh Abbey. 



SONNETS. BY EDWARD MOXON. LONDON. 



THE attractive-looking livraison before us is printed for private circulation 

 only. A copy of it has, however, been forwarded to us in our critical 

 capacity, and courting, as it consequently does, the exercise of our function, 

 we shall deal with it as we should do with a work regularly published. 



The author is a bookseller and publisher, of whom many kind things are 

 said, and we have good reasons to believe deservedly. He sparkles as a 

 planet of some consideration in the Cockney system. He has several satel- 

 lites some, brilliants of rather fine water and some, twinklers as any one 

 may see who visits his boutique, between the hours of two and four when, 

 to confess the truth, it is a most pleasant literary lounge. Even in the hot- 

 house of Cockaigne there are many flowers, the reverse of contemptible, 

 though in an exotic state but which had they bloomed . on the bosom of 



