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position, assisted by an eye, evidently of keen observation, a taste for 

 scientific pursuit, a love of the beauties of nature, and a relish for the 

 wild sports of the East (not abated by his clerical function), has fitted 

 him to illustrate the veracious and beautiful drawings by Daniell. A 

 little dryness, a shade of pedantry, an occasional inflation, and a tinge 

 of romance in the episodes too nearly allied to the Leadenhall press, are 

 more than atoned for by the detail and fidelity of his accounts, features 

 of importance not to be too highly appreciated. 



Want of space precludes our engrafting on our pages several delightful 

 extracts we had marked for insertion ; we must, therefore, refer 

 the reader to the volume itself, with an assurance that expectation will 

 be fully gratified. Of the plates it is our duty to speak, and we regret 

 that we have neither time nor space to do detailed justice to their extreme 

 beauty : it must suffice to say that they are worthy of the highest admi- 

 ration of the connoisseur. 



The binding of **the Oriental" Can essential consideration in the 

 Annuals) is an olive-green morocco, enriched with appropriate and 

 fanciful devices impressed in gold, &c. &c. 



FOREIGN CRITICAL NOTICE. 



Le Cam4leon, Journal non Politique ; compile a Paris par A. P. Barbieux, 

 ancien Professeur au College de Canterbery a Bath, &c. &c. 

 Paris : Jules Didot Taine j Londres : H. Hooper, 13, Pall Mall 

 East. 1834. 



Parts II. and III. of this periodical have been forwarded to us, and we 

 observe with extreme pleasure an improvement in the spirit of the whole ; 

 the small specks and flaws to which we directed the editorial attention in 

 our first notice have been entirely removed. A more invaluable melange 

 cannot be imagined, nor a more delightful and desirable medium of 

 assisting the student in the acquisition of the French language. Grace- 

 ful, pathetic, striking, or beautiful fictions ; brilliant sketches of society ; 

 biographical notices, brief but accurate, and touched in with the spirit of 

 a master ; travelling memoranda ; critical references to literature, 

 science, and the arts ; moral and philosophical essays ; notices of natural 

 history, &c. &c, — in fact, a snatch of every thing that contributes to the 

 refinement, elevation, and improvement of the mind will be found in the 

 numbers before us. We learn with sincere pleasure the distinguished 

 success which has attended this laudable undertaking, and while we 

 congratulate the editor upon the just reception which has been given to 

 his captivating little periodical, we warmly and fearlessly recommend 

 ** Le CameJeon" to the perusal and patronage of our readers. 



Wigs. — ^The full-bottomed wigs, which were worn here in the days of 

 Addison and Pope, were first contrived by the French barber, Duviller, 

 to conceal the Duke of Burgundy's hump-back, and so became fashion- 

 able : for it is always a rule with courtiers to ape their king, or prince of 

 the blood. We, then, imported all our fashions from France. 



A wig, notwithstanding its importance, is not always a protection from 

 physiognomical insult. Lavater and his son visited Bonnet : Lavater 

 started up all on a sudden, tore oft' the wig from Bonnet's head, and said 

 to his son, look, Henry, wherever you can behold such a head, there 

 learn wisdom ! 



