1822.) 
dern English Garden; containing an 
easy description of all the plants which 
are cultivated in the climate of Great 
Britain, either for use or ornament, 
and of a selection from the established 
favourites of the stove and green- 
house; arranged according to the sys- 
tem of Linnzus, including his generic 
and specific characters, with remarks 
on the properties of the more valuable 
species; in two volumes, duodecimo. 
Dr. Irvine has made considerable 
progress in a new school-book on Ro- 
man Antiquities. 
An our notice of the late Mr. Perry, 
we mentioned his extensive library of 
eurious books, collected during along 
and active career. It has since been 
brought to the hammer; and, for the 
sake of his amiable family, we are 
glad the books fetched such high prices. 
Phe Mazarine Bible fetched the mode- 
rate price of 160 guineas. But we 
blush for the taste and intellect of a 
country, which could sanction the 
prices named beneath, for such mere 
rubbish in the form of books. We had 
hopes that the Bibliomaniacs, like the 
members of the Whip Club, had been 
shamed out of their follies. Other 
similar lists appeared, but we take the 
gems of a single day. 
Phillis and Flora, the sweete and 
civill contention of two amor- 
ous Ladyes, 1598++-+++++«+£11 11 0 
Peerson’s Mottects, or Grave 
Chamber Musique, containing 
Songs of Five Parts, some ful, 
and some verse and chorus, all 
fit for voyces and vials +++... 
Peyton’s Glasse of Time, in the 
two first ages, a Poem, 1620-. 
Passion of a Discontented Mind, 
a Poem, 1621 - “++ 3 4 0 
Picke’s Banquet of Pleasure, fur- 
nished with choyce Love-Po- 
sies, Songs, Satyrs, Epigrams, 
&c. 1639 eoeeeereroece secese G6 
Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1661 5 0 
Pasquil’s Palinodia, and his Pro- 
_ gresse to the Taverne, with a 
' Pleasant Pinte of Poetical 
Sherry, a Poem .....-- epee 
Pasquil’s Mad-cappe, thrown at 
the Corruptions of these Times, 
a Poem, 1626 --++++«+++e0+. 8 O 0 
Mr. Perry was a wise man in every 
sense, for, instead of buying land and 
houses, he speculated in articles in de- 
mand only among fools, aware that he 
should always enjoy a: competition in 
the number of his customers, suflicient 
to keep up the price of articles in de- 
mand by such persons, whatever might 
be the fluctuations of property esteem- 
ed by men of sense. 
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Literary and Philosophical Intelligence. 
437 
Speedily will appear, a work called 
Macrulean, a tale of the last century ; 
by P. Croiny, author of “the Cham- 
ber of Affliction,” &c. 
The Exhibition of the present year 
is not so interesting as usual. There 
is less history and landscape, and so 
much portrait, that the rooms forma 
kind of Vanity Fair. The same per- 
sons, too, are repeated till the specta- 
tors are nauseated with them; and 
though men in official stations, yet 
they are generally persons in no public 
estimation. Even the prominent pieces 
in history have no just moral charac-, 
ter, for the bribery and treachery 
which enabled the Prussians to ap- 
proach undisturbed, and gain the bat- 
tle of Waterloo, strip the affair of its 
poetic glory; and the Romans, even 
under the yoke of the Cesars, paid 
few tributes to the victory of Pharsa- 
lia. The subsequent deaths of Ney 
and Napoleon withered, too, the equi- 
vocal laurels which had been gained. 
It is worse therefore than weakness to 
continue to pay artists to emblazon 
this subject ; and yet Wilkie and others 
have prostrated their transcendant ta- 
lents at the shrine of wealth and 
power. At the same time, though the 
subjects may be impugned, yet in exe- 
cution we conceive the British School 
has arrived at its limit of perfection. 
Finer portraits in every quality of art, 
and more exquisite specimens of land- 
scape, never were produced in any 
age or country, than many of the pic- 
tures in this Exhibition ; nor must we 
omit to notice the Statuary, which is 
of the first order of merit, as well in 
busts as in groupes. 
An exhibition, calculated to convey 
unqualified pleasure, is that of Mr. 
Martin’s Pictures in Piccadilly. In 
design they are poetical, and often sub-~ 
lime, while they unite the perfection of 
execution, colouring, and harmony. In 
a word, they are among the best pic- 
tures ever produced by any British 
artist. 
The house at Weston, near Olney, 
in Bucks, so long occupied by Cow- 
per, and of which a view was given in 
our last, is, we learn, ima state of dila- 
pidation. It is occupied by paupers ; 
the garden, which the poet delighted 
to cultivate and adorn, is ruined, and 
the bust of Homer placed there by him 
removed. 
Memoirs of George Heriot, jeweller 
to King James 1. are in the press, 
with some account of the Hospital 
founded 
