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of the footmen of their Graces of Devonshire and Buccleugh. Captain Dela- 

 ware is a frank unsophisticated sailor ignorant of the world and its ways, 

 and an honest good fellow. Sir Sidney (his father,) a ruined and haughty 

 old baronet, is precisely what such a person would or should be, and the 

 daughter, Blanche, is an amiable girl, but like most amiable girls, tame. 

 Harding, an accomplished villain, is also an advocate for the equal distribu- 

 tion of property, (or as the author terms it a leveller,) and from the disse- 

 mination of his liberal opinions the writer induces the perpetration of such 

 crimes as murder and robbery. This is bad, and must leave on the mind of 

 every reader, of whatever party he may be, an impression that the author 

 has, so far as regards this character, deviated from the high tone of honour 

 and impartiality which pervades his work. With this solitary exception, we 

 have no fault to find with it : on the contrary, it has our highest commen- 

 dation. 



THE MAID-SERVANT'S FRIEND. BY A LADY BROUGHT UP AT THE FOUND- 

 LING. LONDON : ONWHYN. 



THIS is a most valuable little work, containing, as it does, a perfect code 

 morale, for the young maid- servant, as well as regards her duties to herself 

 as her employers, the latter cannot, setting aside philanthropy, and with a 

 view to self-interest only, do better with the amount of its price (one shil- 

 ling only) than purchase it to place on their kitchen and hall tables. The 

 National Guardian Institution will, doubtless, patronize it. So excellent are 

 its precepts, that we most confidently and cordially recommend it, not only 

 to the parents, masters, and mistresses of maid-servants, but to the latter 

 themselves. 



SHARPE'S PEERAGE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE. Two VOLS. LONDON : 

 JOHN SHARPE, PICCADILLY. 



WE hail these volumes with sincere pleasure, and doubt not that if it be 

 true in the literary as in the moral world, that merit ever meets with its re- 

 ward, they must soon supersede all their predecessors. A vast deal of care 

 has been bestowed upon the compilation : collateral descents are rendered 

 admirably clear by a novel arrangement in the typography ; the arms are 

 particularly, well drawn and engraved, but very badly printed. Although the 

 type comes clear and even, so much has been taken from the overlays above 

 the cuts, (if indeed the blocks have ever been brought type-high), that the 

 impression, in a vast number of cases, is gre) T , rotten, and imperfect : lions 

 are coolly deprived of their legs, and tigers of their tails, without the least 

 remorse ; nay, more : heraldic man himself is often " curtailed of nature's 

 fair proportions," and made to wield clubs without hands, and clamber up 

 escutcheons without feet. This cutting and maiming should not be ; for no 

 man works sharper or clearer than the artist, S. Williams, who possesses 

 that great advantage for a wood-engraver, namely,being, or having been, him- 

 self a practical printer. With this draw-back, the work is entitled to un- 

 qualified approval, and we give it our most hearty recommendation. 



THE TEETH, IN RELATION TO BEAUTY, VOICE, AND HEALTH. BY JOHN 



NICHOLLES, SURGEON-DENTIST. 



THE object of Mr. Nicholles in this volume appears to have been two-fold 

 to produce a work of science, and also to form a sort of domestic treatise, 

 which might teach those unacquainted with medicine so much at least of the 

 dentist's art as would enable them to attend to the teeth without the con- 

 stant necessity of professional assistance. In both he appears to have suc- 

 ceeded. The facts, elicited by the experience of others, are here arranged 

 and simplified, and new and important doctrines, the result of his own prac- 



