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"As for originality," said Byron, "all pretensions to it are ridiculous;" 

 and Moore once observing him with a book full of marks, asked him what 

 it was. "Only a book," he answered, "from which I am trying to crib, 

 as I do whenever I can, and that's the way I get the character of an 

 original poet." 



Emerson ^ays that an author is original in proportion to the amount he 

 steals from Plato; and Seneca complains that the ancients had compelled 

 him to borrow from them what they would have taken from him if he 

 had been lucky enough to have preceded them. 



There is a passage in the poem entitled "A Summer Day" I should like 

 to quote, ("unum e multis") of the "right sort," on pages 128-9, be- 

 ginning with "The Queen;" but I have no more space, and refer my 

 readers for their satisfaction to the volume itself. 



P. S. — I must draw attention to the short one entitled the "Swallow," 

 not only for its intrinsic merit, but on account of the coincidence, unde- 

 signed, between it and my account of the Martin in my "History of 

 British Birds." 



Manual of the Land and Fresh-water Shells of the British Islands; with 

 Figures of each of the kinds, by William Turton, M.D. New Edition, 



■ with Additions. By John Edward Gray, Ph. D., F.B.S., F.L.S., 

 F.B.Q.8., V.P.Z.S., and Ent. Soc, etc. London: Longman, Brown, 

 Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1857. 



This edition of the work before us comes down to the recent date 

 just mentioned, and, in fact, almost deserves the name of a new work. 

 It is of a convenient size for carrying about in the pocket. It contains a 

 description of every British species, with a coloured figure of each, and 

 indeed more than one of several. It is a work which no conchologist or 

 collector of British Shells can do without. 



The Geologist. Vol. L, No. I., January 1st., 1858. A popular monthly 

 Magazine of Geology. Price One Shilling. London: Simpkin and 

 Marshall. Kenilworth: Walter T. Parsons. 



This is a new Magazine on the interest of Geology, and one which 

 seems likely to do good service to that study. It includes — :1st., a leading 

 article, by the Editor; 2nd., Geology considered with reference to its util- 

 ity and Practical Effects, by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, M.A., etc.; 3rd., 

 Abstract of a Notice of a New Genus of Crinoides; 4th., On Bone-beds 

 and their Characteristic Fossils, by the Rev. W. S. Symonds, F.G.S.; 5th., 

 The Common Fossils of the British Rocks, by S. J. Mackie, Esq., F.G.S., 

 etc.; 6th., Foreign Correspondence, by Dr. T. L. Phipson, of Paris; 7th., 

 Review, Memorial of Andrew Crosse. I remember a friend of mine 



