164 CRITICAL NOTICES OP NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



A Companion to the Medicine Chest ; or plain directions for the 

 employment of the various Medicines ^ with the properties and doses 

 of such as are more generally used in Domestic Medicine j by John 

 Savory. London : J. Churchill. 1836. 



This very useful little manual is entirely divested of scientific 

 phraseology, and may be safely consulted, in cases of emergency, by 

 persons residing at a distance from their medical adviser, more par- 

 ticularly where delay may be productive of fatal results. We cor- 

 dially coincide in the judicious advice set forth in the preface, " not 

 to place too much confidence on books of domestic medicine, espe- 

 cially in such cases as are of a serious nature, but always to have 

 recourse to the advice of an able practitioner, as early as it can be 

 obtained.'* 



A portion of the work, and that not the least useful and impor- 

 tant, is devoted to clear directions for counteracting the effects of 

 poisons ; for restoring suspended animation ; and for disinfecting 

 apartments, and checking the progress of contagious diseases. 



Lectiones Latinae ; or Lessons in Lati?i Literature. Selected from 



the most celebrated Latin authors. In four parts. By J. Row- 



botham, F. R. A. S. Wilson, Royal Exchange. 

 L'Echo de Paris : a Selection of Familiar Phrases. By M. A. P. 



Lepage. Second Edition. Wilson, Royal Exchange. 

 Cherville's First Step to French ; indispensable to, and in harmony 



with, all French Grammars. By F. M. De Cherville. Wilson, 



Royal Exchange. 1836. 



These are well-adapted books for schools and young beginners 

 of the Latin and French languages, and appear to be put together 

 with a due regard to the end for which they are designed. Row- 

 botham's Selections are made with scholastic care, and cannot fail, 

 with very slight attention, to remove the difficulty of acquiring the 

 language, of which so many students complain. The lessons are 

 divided into four parts: — the first part contains, at Section I., the 

 original Latin, and at Section II., an interlinear translation, both 

 literal and free, in the same line : the second part contains, at Sec- 

 tion I., the original Latin, with a poetical translation on the oppo- 

 site pages ; and at Section II., the English order of construction is 

 given, with what may be termed a literal translation, but which is 

 sufficiently free to convey an idea of the author's meaning. The 

 third part is, in some respects, similar to the second, with the ex- 

 ception of there being no poetical translations. There is also an 

 excellent introductory grammar. This book must greatly facilitate 

 the study of the Latin language ; and when well known, we have 

 no doubt, will be considered an indispensable auxiliary to the classi- 

 cal student. 



Lepage's Echo de Paris is too well known and estimated to make 

 a comment necessary. It has now reached a second edition, which. 



