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romance, the effect of which is to excite the passions 

 and disease the imagination. The work is full of in- 

 terest, variety, and most valuable information : it wants 

 but one thing, viz : Mr. Wightwick's lecture on 

 Shakespeare. 



Those who are fond of elegant writing, imbued with 

 thought and learning, and devoted to the exalted cause 

 of improving the mind of man, will find the " feast of 

 reason" in the Rev. R. Lampen's address on the open- 

 ing of the Athenaeum. 



Mr. Prideaux's paper on the geology of our neigh- 

 bourhood, is full of the keen observation and careful 

 reasoning of that philosopher ; it will please the stu- 

 dent of physics. 



The naturalist will find much information, which 

 may be probably new to him, in the valuable commu- 

 nications of Drs. Leach and Moore. 



The antiquarian will find that the Rev. S. Rowe has 

 opened a field for investigation, which we have hitherto 

 neglected because it happens to be close at hand : his 

 account of some researches made concerning the an- 

 cient British remains on Dartmoor, is exceedingly 

 interesting, and has the advantage of being illustrated 

 by the valuable pencil of Colonel Smith. 



Those who are fond of the imaginative will find 

 something to please and instruct them in a paper on 

 Persian poetry, by that laborious linguist the Rev. N. 

 Howard : and should there be any who are anxious 

 to learn the surprising, the beautiful, the poetical, of 

 scientific investigation, they will find it in Mr. Harris' 

 paper on the " Laws of Electrical Accumulation. 1 ' 

 Let them not be startled at the title, we can assure 

 them that the only difficulty they will meet with will 

 be to accustom themselves to the extreme simplicity 

 of the detail ; it is to be understood as easily as that 

 two and two make four. 



A very useful paper by Dr. Blackmoore, on tin 

 and progress of particular mortal diseases, and on dis- 

 ease generally in our own immediate neighbourhood, 

 will be found not only interesting to the medical stu- 

 dent, but also to the general reader. 



