64 CRITICAL NOTICES OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



The Gardener*s Magazine, and Register of Rural and Domestic Improve' 

 ment, for July, 1834. Conducted by J. C. Loudon, F.L.S., H. S., 

 &c. The Encyclopcedia of Gardening, Part 8 ; and The Architec- 

 tural Magazine for July, by the same Author. Longman and Co. 



These works, so creditable and honourable to the intelligence and 

 industry of Mr. Loudon, have this month the same fund of amusement 

 and utility as distinguish all his former productions. Too much praise 

 cannot be awarded to Mr. Loudon for the multiplicity of interesting and 

 really useful works which he superintends with so much advantage to 

 the public. If these three Magazines were all which he edits, they 

 would be a monument of his jindefatigable application — but it is well 

 known that he is otherwise an author of celebrity, as his Encyclopaedia 

 of Agriculture, Encyclopaedia of Plants, and Magazine of Natural His- 

 tory, will abundantly testify. 



A Catechism of Gardening, in which the most useful Culinary Plants in 

 cultivation, are enumerated ; and the easiest methods of Manage- 

 ment and Culture are familiarly described. Intended for the use 

 of Village Schools and Cottagers. Written originally for the 

 ** British Farmer's Quarterly Magazine.'* By an Old Practitioner. 

 12 mo. London, 1834. 



In this work, Mr. Main appears to have greatly improved on the many 

 tracts which have been published on the same subject. This is not only 

 a useful but a cheap publication, and excellently adapted for its avowed 

 purpose. It is very evident from the arrangement of this catechism 

 that it is the wish and intention of the benevolent and intelligent author 

 to extend a knowledge of horticulture to all those classes of society 

 which the practice of it is sure to benefit — and we sincerely trust that it^ 

 will produce the results anticipated. 



Dr. Calcotfs Grammar of Music. Hurst, London. 



We have here before us an old work of lasting merit in a new form. 

 Several other more voluminous publications have appeared since this 

 first came on the stage ; but for conciseness and practical utility tlie 

 " Musical Grammar'* may always be consulted with advantage by the 

 student. The subject is divided into four parts, viz. : — Notation, Melody, 

 Harmony, and Rhythm. The last of which we particularly recommend to 

 the study of all practical musicians and singers, being a most essential, 

 but, at the same time, neglected branch of musical education, without 

 a knowledge of which all music, however perfectly executed in other 

 respects, must be deficient in expression. 



Manual Labour, versus Machinery, exemplified in a speech, on moving 

 for a Committee of Parliamentary Inquiry into the condition of half 

 a million Hand-loom Weavers, in reference to the establishment of 

 Social Guilds of Trade ; with an Appendix — containing Affidavits of 

 General Distress, Rates of Wages and Prices of Provisions for a series 

 of years, and a Demonstration of the Efi*ects of Heavy Taxation on 

 Human Industry, when subjected to competition with Untaxed 

 Machinery. By J. Maxwell, Member for Lanarkshire. Cochrane 

 and M'Crone. 1834. 



A very important speech on moving for a Committee of Parliamentary 

 Inquiry into the condition of half a miUion hand-loom weavers, was 



