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tice, are brought forward. Our author sets out with considering the teeth in 

 relation to beauty, and shews how the face is deteriorated or improved by 

 their colour, health, and position. He next proceeds to point out their con- 

 nexion with the voice, in a chapter replete with interest, though not so 

 strikingly original as most other portions of the volume. Something he 

 owes on this head to Sir Charles Bell, more to Richerand, and we even trace 

 him to the pages of Haller and Blumenback. The last section of this 

 chapter, which demonstrates the influence of the teeth upon the health, will, 

 we doubt not, prove valuable. The next chapter shews the structure of the 

 teeth, and the whole process of first and second dentition. Some portions 

 of this chapter will be practically useful to mothers ; the rest, by teaching 

 when and what teeth ought to be extracted to obtain the most perfect con- 

 formation of the mouth, will guard them against any errors of the dentist, 

 who, by a single blunder on this critical point, may prodnce irreparable 

 mischief. 



DEMETRIUS. A TALE OF MODERN GREECE, WITH OTHER POEMS. BY 

 AGNES STRICKLAND. LONDON : JAMES FRAZER. 



WE are disposed to think favourably of these poems upon the whole, 

 though we could point out a few errors. The versification is harmonious, 

 and occasionally nervous : we think, however, the wrongs of Greece too high 

 a theme for the present faculties of Miss Strickland. In her smaller poems 

 she displays much taste and feeling. 



THE TEA-TRADE OF ENGLAND, AND OF THE CONTINENTS OF EUROPE AND 

 AMERICA. BY R. MONTGOMERY MARTIN. LONDON : PARBURY, ALLAN, 

 AND Co. 



WE are somewhat late in our notice of this work, which is an ingenious 

 attempt to prop up the falling beast of Leadenhall-street. A mass of tables 

 and statistical documents have been furnished to the writer by the Company, 

 and these are here set forth with an ingenuity and dexterity which we regret 

 to behold employed in so bad a cause. Thus it is laboured at great length 

 to prove, from returns and calculations that the consumption of tea is rapidly 

 decreasing in the United States of America, and is rapidly increasing in 

 Great Britain ; from which Mr. Martin deduces the vastly superior manage- 

 ment of the East India Company to that of private merchants, in whose 

 hands the trade in tea is thus represented as dwindling away. It is, how- 

 ever, apparent, that numberless circumstances may occasion a decline in a 

 single branch of trade in a particular country, and the decrease of the con- 

 sumption of tea in America has been owing to causes which our author has 

 most carefully concealed from view. For many years the comparative im- 

 port duties upon coffee and tea have borne no just proportion in that 

 country ; for the United States, possessing no article of export suitable to 

 the Chinese market, the enormous drain of the specie of the States required 

 for the East India trade has induced legislative enactments for discouraging 

 the import of teas in preference to the coffees of the West Indies and the 

 South American States, with which countries a favourable trade is main- 

 tained by the exchange of corn, timber, provisions, and general agricultural 

 exports. In the late session of Congress the duties upon tea have again 

 been very considerably reduced, and the trade to China is now very rapidly 

 reviving in the United States. We notice this as one remarkable instance of 

 the deceptive nature of the work of Mr. Martin, whose labours are here so 

 strenuously employed to convince us of the folly of throwing off a load of 

 taxation of more than two millions per annum paid to the East India Com- 

 pany in the monopoly of the trade in tea. 



