362 Literary and Miscellaneous Intelligence. 



Andrew Bifielow, Medford, Massachu- 

 setts. Small 8vo. 6s. 



Extracts from a Journal, written on the 

 Coasts of Chili, Pern, and Mexico, in the 

 Years 1820-1821-1822; by Captain Basil 

 Hall, R.N. Author of a Voyage to Loo 

 Ciipo. 2 vols, post 8vo. with a chart, 

 II. Is. 



Travels in Brazil, in the Years of 1817- 

 18-19, and 20; undertaken by the com- 

 inand of his Majesiy the King of Bavaria ; 



[May i. 

 Discovery of a North West Passage from 

 the Atlantic to the Pacific; performed in 

 the Yeais 1321-22-23, in his Majesty's 

 Ships Fury and Hecla, under the Orders of 

 Capt. W. E. Parry, r.n. F.n.s. illustrated 

 by numerous plates. 4to. 4l. 14s. 6d. 



The Wonders of Elora ; or the Narrative 

 of a Journey to tiie Temples and Dwel- 

 lings excavated out of a Mountain of 

 Granite, and extending upwards of 

 a Mile and a Quarter in Length, at Elora 



by Dr. John Von Spix, and Dr. Charles in the East Indies: with General Obscr 



Von Martins. Vol. I. and II. 8vo. with vationit on the People and Country; by J. 



^plates. 24s. B. Seely, Captain in the Bombay Native 



Journal of a Second Voyage for the Infantry, Stc. with plates. Bvo. 



VARIETIES, LITERARY AND MISCELLANEOUS; 



Including Notices of Works in Hand, Domestic and Foreign. 



WE felicitate llic public on the pros- 

 pect of a speedy escape of its judg- 

 ment from the thraldom of the Edinburgh 

 and Quarterly Reviews. 'J'hose per- 

 versions of criticism, of which readers 

 liave long been the dupes, it is now in 

 their own power to remove, by adopting 

 substitutes wliich are provided of supe- 

 rior quality, ant! at even a ciicaper rate. 

 We allude to the recent appearance of 

 the Westminster and Universal 

 Bf.vie.vvs, in which readers of critical 

 Essays will find talent, principle, inte- 

 grity, and good sense. In addition to 

 these valuable Essay-Reviews, it is also 

 our duly to draw public attention to 

 the notice of a Monthly Critical 

 Gazette, a cheap Review, in good and 

 able hands, which engages to perform 

 the desirable and imjiortant duty of no- 

 ticing everi/ tttw book witkoiit exception, 

 and in a few weeks after its appearance. 

 Such a feature steadily maintained, 

 ^vith fair ability and hones ly in its exe- 

 cution, must render it in circulation the 

 Aaron's rod of Reviews. To ensure 

 notice, currency, and success, the pro- 

 jectors announce a design fo give away 

 5000 copies of the first Number to the 

 booksellers; and the public will thus be 

 able to judge of its gencial merits with- 

 out being obliged to pay for their 

 curfosily. 



Mr. Bullock, with his usual discri- 

 niination, taste, and public spirit, has 

 opened in Piccadilly a most attractive 

 Exhibition of Mexican curiosities, an- 

 cient and modern. It brings that inte- 

 resting country, its history, and produc- 

 ticjns, ui^der ll»e eye of every observer, 

 with no more trouble than a morning's 

 lounge in his s()iendid rooms. One of 

 these is appropriated to historical and 



religious relics, and the other fo natural 

 productions and to modern Mexico, in 

 all flic ways which claim the attention 

 of the philosophical enquirer. We have 

 not room Ibis month to give the details, 

 but, as Mexico is so interesting a sub- 

 ject at this time, we propose in our next 

 Number to give place to an original 

 article, founded on Mr. Bullock's 

 materials. 



The great increase in the number of 

 artists, since the fonndation of tlic 

 Royal Academy, having rendered the 

 rooms of that valuable national school 

 inadequate as a place of exhibition for 

 the iiunierous works of art annually sent 

 for that purpose, a large body of arli'sts 

 Lave been induced to form themselves 

 info a Society, for the erection of an ex- 

 tensive gallery for Ihe ainnnil exhibition 

 and sale of the works of living artists of 

 the United Kingdom, in the various 

 branches of painting (in oil and wafer 

 colours), sculpture, architecture, and 

 engraving ; and their first exhibition 

 oj)rned a few days ago with 754 subjects. 

 'I'he Gallery, which is entered by a 

 handsome Doric fa(;adc, in SuH'olk- 

 strcet. Pall Mall East, consists of a 

 suite of six rooms, well proportioned, 

 and severally adapted fo the various de- 

 partments of art. It is, in truth, a 

 most fascinating display, with every 

 luxury of light, space, and elTect. We 

 cannot enter into disquisitions on par- 

 ticular objects, when above a hundred 

 ckefs-d^ceuvres of modern art claim en- 

 comiums, not only from our want of 

 space, but because all persons of taste : 

 will judge for themselves ; and to those 

 who are precluded by distance, descrip- 

 tions, however vivid, would be inade- 

 quate. It is however due to merit fo 

 4 state. 



