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nerally agreed on that we are only surprised to find our author de- 

 parting from it. 



The Synopsis of the Birds of Australia is to extend to six or eight 

 quarterly parts, and the work will, we doubt not, be supported in 

 the manner its merits so richly deserve. 



The Naturalist's Library. Conducted by Sir W. Jardine, Bart. 

 Ornithology, Vol. VII. — Birds of Western Africa. By W. 

 Swainson, Esq., A.O.G., &c. Edinburgh ; Lizars — London : 

 Highley. 1837. 



This, too, considering the limits which must necessarily be at- 

 tended to in this series, and the popular complexion of the under- 

 taking, is a work of no small value. The Ornithology of Western 

 Africa has scarcely received a greater share of attention than that 

 of Australia, though equally deserving the investigation of the na- 

 turalist. We are glad to find Mr. Swainson intends to give us ano- 

 ther volume on the same subject, and feel confident that it will be 

 executed in the same careful and philosophic manner so conspicuous 

 in all the writings of that gentleman. Above thirty species are 

 figured — not a few of which are new — the engravings being by 

 Lizars, from drawings by the author. These illustrations are, at 

 least, equal to those in any of the preceding volumes. Mr. Swain- 

 son's introduction is so interesting and beautiful that had we not 

 elsewhere fThe Naturalist, vol. ii., p. 109) freely extracted from it, 

 we should have presented our readers with various extracts from it ; 

 but we prefer our readers to peruse the whole volume. This book 

 opens with a plate and remarkably interesting memoir of Bruce, the 

 African traveller, by Andrew Crichton, Esq., author of the History 

 of Arabia. 



FINE ARTS. 



MUSIC. 



John Sebastian Baches Grand Studies for the Organ. Cramer &Co. 



The instrumental works of this greatest of all composers are now 

 at length beginning to attract some portion of that attention and 

 admiration which they so well deserve ; but his vocal masterpieces 

 are, by some unaccountable fatality, entirely unknown to the pub- 

 lic at large, and even to a great majority of the professors of this 

 country. At some future time we will, as far as in us lies, endea- 

 vour to dispel some portion of the cloud of ignorance and prejudice 



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