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divine conception realized, like the fourteen lines of a sonnet what 

 a world of minds may not be shown within its narrow limits. O rare 

 M. Careme, we dared not trust ourselves with thy pages, until after 

 a well ordered elaborate repast else should we incontinently have 

 left our occupation and have sought the realization of thy shadowing 

 forth at Jarrins or Vereys or some other feeble imitators of thy per- 

 fectability ! We are bold to (say that the sins of M. Careme are 

 neither few nor small. Many a contented John Bull has he seduced 

 from his legitimate roast beef and his compound of flour and fat 

 y'clept pudding to make him miserable by the tempting delicacies of 

 of Croustades a la Moderne and many a dame has he rendered un- 

 happy for life by his Macarroons soiiffils with almonds d' avelines au 

 sitcre. 



M. Careme' s work is perfect in its kind, and we have excellent 

 authority for saying so ; but as we cannot say more in praise of it 

 than he does himself, we will transcribe his advertisement to the 

 volume. 



" This work, if I may be allowed the presumption of saying so, is 

 absolutely new, and will throw additional lustre on our national 

 cookery so long and so justly esteemed by foreigners. It was al- 

 ways valued and encouraged by the French nobility, the delicacy of 

 whose taste rendered them so truly capable of appreciating fine- 

 flavoured and excellent dishes ; and to this cause, especially, may be 

 attributed the well-known fact that our modern cookery has become 

 the model of whatever is really beautiful in the culinary art. It has 

 for ever eclipsed all that the sensual nations of antiquity were able 

 to devise towards promoting the luxury of the table ; and the art of 

 French cookery, as practised in the nineteenth century, will be the 

 pattern for future ages." 



THB REVOLUTIONARY EPICK, BY D'ISRAELI THE YOUNGER. 

 MOXON. 4to. 



WE would refrain at present from making any remarks on a quarto 

 volume of an Epick Poem, of which merely the first part is before us. 

 We may assure Mr. D'Israeli that we have read his work, and that 

 when we had done so we flew to Blackmore with an avidity unknown 

 before. We have perused Settle, Shad well, Centiivre, and Behn . 

 but never such stuff as this. Since Mr. D'Israeli has changed the look 

 of his name, and revived old spelling, can he not change his style 

 and write a new <f Arthur," in four-and-twenty books ! He is now 

 fit for anything he has been tried and has not been found wanting! 



THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA, PARTS XLVI, XLVII, XLVIII. 

 BLACK, EDINBURGH. 



A CONTINUATION of Professor Napier's magnificent undertaking, 

 which promises, when completed, to be the most perfect, as it is un- 

 doubtedly the best conducted of its many rivals. The plates are 

 beautifully and minutely executed, and highly creditable to the artists 

 employed on the work. 



