1824.] 
useful: employment or trade, by the prac- 
tice of which they may earn’ their lveli- 
hood, when they areagain thrown upon, the 
world. Nor is this all. They, at the 
same timeyiare;instracted in the principles 
of religion, in the knowledge of their duty 
both te God and man. With this view, the 
service of onr church is regularly adminis- 
tered twice oneach Sabbath, and once on 
every other day of the week. Can any 
One receive the very mention of such an 
éstablishment, without applauding the mo- 
tive? Can he hear of such a deed, with- 
ont the wish, and an effort, we trust, to up- 
~ hold and increase its utilty?” 
Cruise’s Narrative of a Ten Months’ 
Residence in New Zealund, is necessarily 
interesting, as rela¢ing to islands so consi- 
derable, and so important in the geogra- 
phical position, The independence of the 
SouthAmericans will tend to increase their 
importance ina political point of view. 
The object of the. voyage was to bring to 
England, for the use of our dock-yards, a 
quantity of the beautiful straight trees 
called. kaikaterres and cowries, some of 
which grow 100 feet without a branch, and 
others jess in height are forty feet in girt. 
It is impossible to follow the author 
through his Narrative, which, however, is 
interesting for its incidents and informa- 
tion, and is the best modern account that 
has appeared of these islands, 
Mr, Tuomas Retp's Travels in Ireland, 
followed by sketclies of the circumstances 
and. condition of the people and country, 
merit general perusal in England and 
Scotland, and the special attention of onr 
statesmen and legislators. Mr. Reid’s 
facts will be the more credited, because he 
is not.a party man; but, we are sorry to 
say, they confirm all that we have read 
and heard of the deplorable state of the 
population, and of the wicked policy of 
which, this otherwise fine country is the 
victim. ‘The work very properly. com- 
mences with a brief history of Ireland, by 
which the reader is enabled to trace effects 
to their causes, The author liberally 
quotes Mr. Wakefield as authority, and 
confirms our opinion of that gentleman’s 
great work; but his own book, as more 
succinct, is likely, as it deserves, to obtain 
more general circulation. 
A very useful little manual for medical 
students has just made its appearance 
under the title of the Pupil’s Pharmacopwia, 
which is a translation, word for word, of 
the London Latin Pharmacopeia, and may 
be read either in English or Latin, as the 
original text is printed, and the translated 
word is rendered in italics. Remarks are 
intvoduced on the chemistry of the combi- 
nations sa) path the doses of medicines 
are inserted ; and foot-notes are appended, 
teaching the antidotes to be had recourse 
to, in cases of accidental or designed 
poison. 
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Literary and Critical Proémium. 
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541 
_ Mr, Exrcg has published an interest- 
ing volume; entitled) Practical Observations 
in Surgery, in which he opposes the recent 
statements of Sir Astley Cooper respecting 
the impossibility of union to any effect 
after fractures of the neck of the thigh 
bone within the capsule of the joint. Itis 
always more or less useful for the dogmas 
of high authority to be called in’ question, 
since there is a tendency in’ the humau 
mind to receive implicitly doctrines pro- 
ponnded by men of ‘acknowledged capa- 
city; and, in the ‘present’ instance, the 
attention of the junior members’ of the 
profession will be summoned to ‘a sort of 
independent exercise, which might’ not 
have been the case but for the able stric- 
tures of Mr. Earle. No one, after read- 
ing the book before us, will doubt the 
surgical tact or the literary ability of its 
author ;. but here and there, we must say, 
friendly as we are to opposition, that a 
party spirit is too conspicuous in the criti- 
cisms of Mr. E. upon the doctrines and 
sentiments of his justly-celebrated’ an- 
tazonist. sgh er 
The Dublin Problems, or Questions to 
the Candidates from the Gold Medal from 
1816 to 1822. ‘This volume is curiotis, as 
exhibiting the spirit of modern’ university 
instruction; and, in that respect, merits 
reference to a committee of parlianient. 
Pedantry accumulated on pedantry, and 
sustained by pride, is abusing public confi- 
dence, and the modern university-courses 
call for the special revision of qualified 
authorities. 
Dr. SHEARMAN, president of the 
London Medical Society, has published a 
small volume on the subject of debility as 
leading to chronic diséase. This produc- 
tion we think very well timed in the pre- 
seut day, when the views of pathologists 
are too much directed towards vascular 
conditions as explicatory of every thing, 
The whole is neatly written and ably 
argued; and, if there are controvertible 
points introduced, so much the better for 
the thinking reader. Pha 
Mr. Natuan’s History and Theory of 
Music is a very pleasing and interesting 
volume, displaying much knowledge of the 
subject on which it treats, and 'considera- 
ble powers even in literary composition ; 
in respect, however, to this latter ‘quality, 
we find more of talent than taste; more of 
natural ability than acquired correctness ; 
and, in the event of the book reacliing, as 
it deserves, to a second edition, we advise 
the author, prior to publication, to submit 
it to some friend for correction, on whose 
knowledge and fidelity he can rely for 
pointing out inaccuracies. We were par- 
ticularly gratified with the chapter in the 
resent work, which treats of Expression 
in Music ; and the whole book,we repeat, 
deserves approbation, 
The Associated Society of Apothecaries 
and 
