Retrospect of Doviestic Literature—Medicine, Ke. 
Martyn. As it is, we shall give here 
only a general commetidation, reserviig 
it for a more extended notice at another 
time. It is a work which we conceive 
no library of importance ought to be 
without, 
MEDICINE; SURGERY, &c. 
Tn Medicine and Surgery, although we 
have no works of primary consequence to 
notice, several have been published of a 
smaller kind, which reflect great credit 
On their authors. 
Among the first, though not among tlie 
largest, we place the expostulatoty “ Let- 
ter to Dr. Moseley, on his Review of the 
Report of the London College of Physicians, 
on Vaccination,’ by M. ¥.C. writtenin a 
sober, argumentative style, with great 
knowledge and great ability. 
_ Another paimphlet, of a similar ten- 
dency in its main object, will be found in 
Mr. Murray's. ‘* Answer to Mr, High- 
more’s Objections to the Bill before Parlia- 
ment, to prevent the spreading of the Infec- 
tion of the Small Pox ;”’ with an Appendix, 
containing some interesting communica- 
tiobs trom foreign niedical practitioners, 
on the progress and efficacy of vaccination. 
“'The Pharmacopeia of the King’s and 
“Queen's College of Physicians, in Ireland: 
translated into English, with Observations, 
‘Indexes, &c. &c.” by Mr, Morrison ; 
«ill be found highly creditable, as well to 
the translator, as to the learned body 
that produced it. Altogether perhaps a 
Pharmacopeia, is net & proper subject of 
criticism, % vi 
Mr. Russriv’s “ Treatise on Scrofula,”’ 
appéars to have been originally composed 
for the instruction of students in surgery, 
Tn it, the principal facts connected with 
the history of this interesting disease are 
collected and arranged; with: great care 
and great pérspicuity ; though, as far as 
we have observed, withoutany large por- 
tion of novel intelligence. “The arrarige- 
ment of the chapters is as follows: 
Chap. 1. Hereditary nature ofscrofala. 
Chap. 2. Symptoms and appearance 
ef scrofula.’ 
Chap. 3. Prognosis. 
Chap. 4. Proximate cause and nature 
of scrofula. 
Chap. 5. Occasional causes, 
Chap. 6, Method of cure. 
Climate. 
Of particular medicines. 
Tonics. 
Specifics, 
luriates of barytes and of lime. 
Local treatment of particular 
symptoms. 
Mowrurx Mac., No. 180, 
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CHEMISTRY, 
Under this head we have only to -no- 
tice Mr. Nicuotson’s “ Dictionary of 
Practical and Lheoréticul Chemistry, with 
its application to the Arts and Manufac- 
tures, and to the cxplanation of the Pha- 
nomena of Nature:” which, though 
formed on the basis of the dictionary in 
two volumes quarto, published several 
years since, by the sate author, is in 
effect an entirely new work; the articles 
being’ either considerably enlarged, or 
entirely re-written, and in every instance 
being adapted to the improved state of 
chemical science. The Appendix coh- 
tains, 1. The Bakerian lecture, on some 
new phenomena of chemical chinges 
produced by electricity, particularly the 
decomposition of the fixed alkalis, and 
the exhibition of the netw substances 
which constitute their bases; and on the 
general nature of alkaline bodies; by 
Humphrey Davy, esq. sec. R.S:M-R-LA, 
2. Tables of chemical compounds, 
3. Table for ,reducing the degrees of 
Fahrenheit’s, Reaumur’s, and Celsius’s, or 
the centrigade thermometer, to edcli other 
respectively. The? plates which adorn 
the work are twelve in number, and ‘tlie 
whole:may be recommended as « body of 
chemical knowledge, aliké useful to the 
proficicnt and the student. 
POETRY. 
Of Mr. Wesrat’s “ Poems,” we pre« 
fer the Descent of Orpheus; the Mar- 
riage of Ignorance; and the Odes de- 
scriptive of the Character of the Works 
of some of the greater Puets. The Mar- 
riage of Ignorance, and the Character of 
Shakspéare we shall transcribe. 
THE MARRIAGE OF IGNORANCE. 
«¢ When Ignorance on her leaden throne 
Sat calm, and joyless, and alone, 
Wrapt inthe web of sloth, ? 
No thought inform’d her sullen breast, 
No vice disturb’d her gloomy rest, 
No virtue woke her wrath.: 
At length a friend had:power to move 
The datk uncultur’d mass to love, 
(Already near allied); ‘ 
?Twas he who came like science dress’: 
In starry crown, and storied vest, 
’Twas unrelenting Pride. 
No more content or calm shesatey 
But urg’d to action by her mate, 
.Wide o’er the world they. fly; 
Where’er their mingled yenom spreads, 
The young Arts hide their lovely headsy 
And Taste and Genius die. 
In vain the sacred so) 8 of soul J 
Would soar beyond their proud controul, 
And grasp the wreath of fame ; 
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