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lectiiral Magazines, contain a fund of information, and may be 

 consulted with advantage by the respective classes for whom they 

 are designed. In the latter publication 3Ir Fox's Essay on the 

 construction of skew arches^ is deserving the attention of practical 

 men. In the formation of the London and Birmingham railway, 

 the bridges intersecting the canals and roads, have been constructed 

 on this improved principle; as the substitution of the oblique arch, 

 for an arch of much larger dimensions required for the common 

 square bridge, is attended with a considerable saving of expense. The 

 publication of the Arboretum Britannicum is now drawing to a 

 close, and we would advise all who are interested in the science of 

 arboriculture, to secure copies of this cheap and valuable work 

 previous to the issue of the 24th part, as the price of each number 

 will subsequently be raised. 



The Elysium of Animals : a Dream: by Egerton Smith. London: 

 J. Nisbet, Berner's-street, 1836. 



This production, so highly creditable to the author, originally 

 appeared in a miscellaneous collection of pieces in prose and verse, 

 entitled The Melange, from which it has been detached and pub- 

 lished in a separate form, at the request of some benevolent men in 

 London, honourably distinguished for their exertions to improve the 

 moral character of the community, through the medium of a perio- 

 dical under the title of The Voice of Humanity. Mr. Smith has 

 most successfully exposed the wanton cruelty to which the brute 

 creation are subjected by the tyranny and caprice of the ignorant 

 and depraved; and we most earnestly wish to gee his humane 

 endeavours to mitigate the sufferings of defenceless animals followed 

 up by the publication of this interesting pamphlet, in the shape of a 

 class book to be universally adopted in schools. If children were 

 early taught the wickedness and inhumanity of inflicting unneces- 

 sary torture on the animal creation, the disgusting and revolting 

 scenes now so frequently witnessed would be comparatively of rare 

 occurrence. 



Thoughts on Physical Education, and the true mode of improving the 

 condition of man ; and on the study of the Greek and Latin 

 La?iguages, by Charles Caldwell, M.D. Edinburgh: Adam and 

 Charles Black. London : Longman and Co. 



From the cursory glance we have been able to bestow on this 

 Work, (which was only received on the eve of publication,) the sub- 

 ject of the first treatise— on Physical Education — appears to be 

 discussed in far too philosophical and able a manner to be dismissed 

 with the brief notice our present confined limits would necessarily 

 require ; we shall therefore revert to this production of the talented 

 writer in our next number. — In the second treatise, entitled — 

 Thoughts on the study of the Greek and Latin languages^ the author 



