550 MONTHLY REVIEW OF LITERATURE AND ART. 



be particularly cautious in using opera glasses, lest a previous party 

 should have used it afflicted with opthalmia. We much doubt whe- 

 ther any one labouring under that distressing complaint would en- 

 counter the glare of light in a theatre, or if they did, derive any benefit 

 from the use of an opera glass. 



THE CURIOSITIES OP LITERATURE. NEW EDITION. MOXON. 



PREFACED, as a Cockney scholar declared, by a capiital head of the 

 well-known author, and beautifully and correctly printed. This 

 edition bids fair to be a public favourite. We trust that when the 

 six volumes are completed, Mr. Moxon will give us D'Israeli's other 

 works, not forgetting that powerfully- written one The Genins of 

 Judaism. 



MACKENZIE ON PILES AND PROLAPSUS. EFFINGHAM WILSON. 



THIS treatise, plain and intelligible, should be read by all who 

 suffer with the above painful diseases. Numberless works, both 

 ancient and modern, have been written on the subject, recommending 

 various modes of treatment, but none appear to have been written by 

 any one who had himself been a sufferer, till Mr. Mackenzie, whose 

 work is really practical, being the result of ten years' suffering. 

 Numbers who suffer from these distressing complaints are deterred 

 from seeking medical assistance, from the idea that the operation is so 

 painful, that the remedy is worse than the disease all such should 

 read this work. Mr. M. not only professes, but does affect his cures 

 without the horrible operations of either excision or ligature. We 

 recommend all who suffer with these complaints to read Mr. M.'s 

 W0 rk they will then need no recommendation of ours to consult him 

 personally. 



PAXTON'S MAGAZINE OF BOTANY. ORR & SMITH. 



A VALUABLE and useful work to the Gardener and Botanist, taste- 

 fully illustrated, and written so as to afford information. 



THE ARCHITECTURAL MAGAZINE. LONGMAN AND Co. 



THE name of Mr. London appearing upon the title-page of this 

 new periodical, speaks more in its favour than anything we can say. 

 It is a work that has been long wanted, and from its admirable ar- 

 rangement and the valuable practical information it contains, cannot 

 fail to meet with success. 



THE ROYAL PARISIAN PASTRY COOK. MASON. WEST-STRAND. 

 Pastry is to the culinary art what poetry is to literature, the artist 

 may leave the " dull reality," and wander over the " flowery fields," 

 erecting temples of most sweet fabric, and anon with fairy-like in- 

 genuity creating " wimpling brooks" of barley-sugar and wind-mills 

 of white sugar candy Within the dull limits of a three foot three 

 pasteboard what glorious imaginings have been embodied, what 



