THE ANALYST, No. I. 



Contents. — On the Arch — Mysteries of Memory — Lees's Lecture on the Affinities 

 of Plants with Man and Animals — Stanzas — Biographical Sketch of the Westfaling 

 Family, Rudhall, Herefordshire ; by Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, K. H Transac- 

 tions of the Provincial Medical Association — Monumental Inscription — On the 

 Connexion of Meteorological Appearances with Changes in the Temperature and 

 Weather, by Edwin Lees, Honorary Curator of the Worcestershire Natural 



History Society — To E * * * — Introductory Observations on the Fine Arts 



Cursory Remarks on the first Exhibition of Paintings at the Worcester Athenaeum — 

 Reviews of Prints and Illustrated Works — Critical Notices of New Publications- 

 Foreign Critical Notices— List of New Publications — Literary Intelligence 



Facts relating to Natural History — Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical 



Association — Agricultural Report — Preferments, MarriageS|J^irths, and Deaths 



List of New Patents — Meteorological Report. 



CONTENTS.— No. II. 



Historical Memoranda of Ribbesford, in the County of Worcester— Sonnet : by 

 Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart,— The Feathered Tribes of the British Isles— The 

 Byrons — The Page, a Ballad — On the Arch — The Evening Star — Illustrations of 

 the Natural History of Worcestershire — Hastilude Chamber, Goodrich Court — 

 Love — Anecdote of Michael Johnson — Crepu ; or, Is it Possible ? A Tale of 

 Blood — On Re-visiting a Favourite Scene in Winter — Transactions of the Medical 

 and Surgical Association — Optical Experiment — Reviews of Prints and Illustrated 

 Works — Critical Notices of New Publications — Foreign Criticul Notices— New 

 Publications — Literary Intelligence — Biographical Memoir of the late S. T. Cole- 

 ridge — Preferments, Marriages, Births, and Deaths — Meteorological Report. 



*'Thls is another literary novelty, and a remarkable one too : remarkable 

 no less for the talent that it displays, than for the singularity of its birth-place. 

 It is a Magazine printed at Worcester, and we assume, from what we now see 

 of its pretensions, that it must very shortly become — if it be not already — the 

 Magazine of the Midland Counties. 



" Of course some allowance is to be made for a first attempt to produce a 

 literary work of high character in the provinces ; for however rich and appro- 

 priate the soil, and considerable the natural advantages, it is next to impossible 

 that the cultivator, whatever his skill, can at once fully develop all the availa- 

 ble resources : but speaking as very niggards in our indulgence, we must award 

 the meed of much praise to the ' Analyst.' The least we can say of it is, that 

 it looks as if it were grown in the highly Cultivated parterre of the JVletropolis — 

 that possessing the rare qualities of an exotic, it exhibits the hardiness of an 

 indigenous plant. 



*' The contents of the present number are an Historical Notice of considera- 

 ble local interest ; an able review of Mudie's ' Feathered Tribes of the British 

 Islands,' with copious extracts from the Work ; a piece of smart satire on the 

 maudlin sentimentality which is the ficngiis of the Byron School ; a learned 

 communication on the ' Arch ;' an elaborate review of * Illustrations of the 

 Natural History of Worcestershire,' by Dr, Hastings ; an antiquarian commu- 

 nication on ' Armour ;' a rich and deeply-toned narrative of romantic interest, 

 entitled * Crepu, or is it possible ?' &c. &c." — 3forni7iff C/iroiiicle. 



" A new magazine, printed and published in Worcester, in which we recognise a 

 very chaste spirit and considerable ability. The subjects are well chosen, and 

 treated with power and refined taste." — Atlas. 



"This is a new periodical, which, though published in London, is adapted more 

 immediately to the meridian of Worcester and the midland counties. The first 

 number is seldom a fair criterion by which to judge of publications of this descrip- 

 tion ; but the present holds forth hopes of future excellency ; it contains the germs 

 of talent and sound criticism. The paper of Dr. Milligan on Phrenology is very 

 interesting:, and we shall be curious to know what answer the phrenologists will 

 give ; for It seems calculated to make sad havoc in their science.''^ — Brighton Herald. 



"This is a literary adventure of high promise, and we hail it as a star of 

 honour to the Midland district of this intellectual country. The first number of 

 this undertaking is a production of no common order, especially from a provincial 

 press. Its literary contents are equal to the more aspiring Metropolitan Maga- 

 zines. The critical notices are characterised by elegance, appropriateness, and 

 brevity ; the scientific papers, and miscellaneous communications, of a most 

 useful and attractive nature."— W'cnofcA: Advertiser. 



"It caters aptly for the public taste, — we can have no doubt of ' The Analyst's* 

 eventual success." — Sun. 



« A clever literary aiid scientific journal, published at Worcester, and which will 

 tend to give that part of England some of the advantages which have hitherto been 

 confined to tlie metropolis. What a change does this mark between the present 

 time and fifty years ago, when there were only two booksellers' shops between Lon- 

 don and Y oik." '—•Courier. 



