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derly employed in nursing the naked in- 
fant, who is reclining on her lap, and with 
its head and eyes turned towards her, 
seems to repay (he parent’s solicitude by 
a fascinating smile of infantine joy. A 
reciprocal endearment is manifested in 
both figures. 
“ Ti it were fashionable for mothers to 
superintend the nursing and education of 
their own children, the former would be 
properly and laudably employed, whilst 
the latter would derive from it very es- 
sential advantages. For when intrusted 
to hireling nurses, and_ illiterate menials, 
children too generally acquire vulgar 
habits, and vicious propensities, which 
by the other mode would not merely be 
obviated, but useful and important les- 
sons of rectitude and emulation, would 
be inculcated. No period of life is so 
critical to the human being as infancy : 
then ideas are planted, sentiments are 
excited, and prejudices are acquired, 
which no subsequent lessons can eradi- 
cate. The grateful mind is like a pure 
sheet of white paper ; every spot and blot 
disfigures it, and is absorbed; whilst the 
ecihlly written precept is indelibly 
ixed, 
3 Mis education forms the infant mind, 
Justas the twig is bent, the tree’s inclin’d. 
Por. 
Childcen, like tender osiers, take the bow, 
And as they first are fashion’d, always grow. 
PRior. 
4++- Thou art fair, andat thy birth, dear doy ! 
Nature and fortune join’d to make thee great ; 
OF natore’s gifts thou may’st with lilies 
boast, 
And with the half-blown rose. 
SHAKSPEARE, IN Kine Joune 
_ This picture was originally painted on 
board, but has been transferred to can- 
vas. It passed from the cabinet of M. 
de Seigpeley, into that of M. de Mon- 
tarsis. Thence to M. Rondé, jeweller to 
the King of France, who sold it to the 
Duke of Orleans. It has been engraved 
two or three times, and a print from itis 
intended to ornament. “The British 
Gallery of Pictures.” 
JURISPRUDENCE. 
In Mr. Annesvey’s “ Compendium of 
the Law of Marine Insurances, ‘Bottomry, 
Insurance on Lives, and Insurance against 
Fire ;” we have a very useful epitome, in 
which a systematic distribution is framed 
of the general principles of each title, 
supported by references to the authorities 
establishing those principles. It is pre- 
ceded by a summary account of the pro- 
gress of navigation and commerce, 
¢ 
Another useful work will be found in 
Mr. Hararson’s “ Practice of the High 
Court of Chancery,” edited by Me We 
LanD: although the very nature of a 
court of equity admits of less perfection 
in such a work than that of almost any 
other court. 
BIOGRAPHY. 
The former works of Dr. Zoven have 
been received with such distinguished 
favour by the public, that we shall not 
hesitate to place the ‘* Memoirsof the Life 
and Writings of Sir Philip Sidney,” first 
the class of Biography. The opening 
chapter extends from the birth of Mr. 
Philip Sidney in 1554, to the commence 
ment of bis travels in 1572. His family, 
his parents, his conduct both at sehool 
and atthe University, with a letter of 
instruction from his father fill the out- 
line. In the second chapter we accom- 
pany him from bis arrival at Paris in 1572, 
to his return into England, in 1575. 
Having escaped the massacre of the Pro- 
testants he proceeded from Paris on his 
travels through Germany, Hungary, [ta- 
ly, and Belgium. At Frankfort he be- 
came the intimate friend of Hubert Lan- 
guet, whose character Mr. Sidney after- 
wards celebrated in the Arcadia, At 
Vienna he obtained instructions in. the 
manly and martial exercises: and at Ve- 
nice it is supposed he was not unknown 
to father Paul Sarpi. At Padua we find 
him acquaipted with Tasso; and at Hei- 
delbery with Ursinus. He formed at 
one time the design of travelling evem 
to Constantinople, but was dissuaded 
from his intention by Languet. In the 
third chapter we have the particulars of 
his life from bis return into England, to 
his return from his embassy into Germa- 
ny in 1577: where prudence, judgment, 
and dexterity were eminently shewn in 
the most important points of political 
concern; and this before he had arrived 
at the twenty-fifth year of his age. In 
the fourth chapter we arrive at a still 
more important period of his life, occu- 
pying the space between his return from 
Germany, and his appointment to the 
government of Flushing. In this chapter 
we find him exhibiting the strongest 
proofsof his attachment to literature and 
science. Ilis letter of advice to his bro- 
ther, Mr. Robert Sidney, on bis travels ; 
his letter to the queen on her intended 
marriage with a French prince ; the com- 
position of the Arcadia; and of the 
Defence of Poesy; his design of accom- 
panying Sir Francis Drake in a voyage to 
America; and the offer to him of the 
, crown 
