1825.], 
rectness, and finished in the highest style 
of typographical execution. 
Improvements in Civil Architecture, prov- 
ing the necessity, utility, and importance 
of aperfect System of Ventilation, to render 
Wood equally durable as Walls, by new, 
cheap, and simple Methods, without Dimi- 
nution of its Strength or Beauty; also some 
Collective and Useful Remarks by Eminent 
Architects, §c. Sc. &c. By Joun Bur- 
RIDGE, Patentee of Ventilating Bricks, &c. 
§c.—We have already taken so much no- 
tice of Mr. Burridge’s very useful inven- 
tion in another department of our work; 
(No.412, Sup. p. 625), thatlittle remains for 
us at present beyond the announcement of 
the pamphlet before us. The title-page suffi- 
ciently explaining its object ; and certainly 
one more universally important to building 
proprietors than the prevention of dry rot 
cannot well be pointed out; nor could any 
invention, tending to preclude the proba- 
bility of the recurrence of that fatal disease 
in the timbers of future buildings, have 
been more opportune than at this time, 
when thousands, and tens of thousands— 
we might perhaps haye said hundreds of 
thousands of new houses are rising, with 
almost magical celerity, in and around our 
extending metropolis; and when our ex- 
panding streets, and long lines of new or 
renoyated public buildings, are conducting 
upon plans of such magnificence, as ought 
to be accompanied with a solidity and dura- 
bility, that should record to distant centu- 
Ties the spirit and the ¢aste of our genera- 
tion. The introductory remarks, on ‘ Ter- 
ra Firma Dry Rot,” are, therefore, recom- 
mended, and indeed the whole pamphlet, 
to the attention of all builders, and pro- 
jectors of buildings. The pamphlet is de- 
dicated to Dr. Birkbeck, of whom it is 
truly said— 
“If the indefatigable zeal and deep interest you 
have uniformly and successfully manifested for the 
extension of British Commerce, in the promulgation 
of general knowledge of the arts and sciences, be the 
best step in human power to promote the active in- 
dustry, and, consequently, the universal happiness 
of mankind, posterity will record your name in her 
sacred annals, and look back with delight to the 
origin of patriotic institutions, conferring endless 
blessings on millions yet unborn.” 
A Revision and Explanation of the Geo- 
graphical and Hydrographical Terms, and 
those of a Nautical Character relating 
thereto; with Descriptions of Winds, 
Storms, Clouds, Changes which take place 
in the Atmosphere, &c. By Joun Evans, 
Lieut. R.N. 12mo.—So long ago as. in 
the month of March (vol. lix. p. 118), 
mention of this useful little work was made 
by one of our correspondents; and, at the 
_ same time, a short critical notice of it was 
committed for insertion among the articles 
_ of our Review of Literature—by what acci- 
dent, probably éxcess of matter, it missed 
insertion we know not. It is now, ae- 
cording to our system of prompt notice, 
Domestic and Foreign. 
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rather out of date- But though authors 
have fair warning, that all the favour they 
can expect at our hands, by sending copies 
of their works, is, that they shall be no- 
ticed according to their merits: yet so 
much we think is due to them, that they ~ 
shall not be thrown by in silence—though 
-sometimes, perhaps, the authors may wish 
they had been so. We think it, therefore, 
right to say now, though more briefly, 
what we meant to say then, that this is a 
useful publication, not less so for lying in 
small compass; and that we perfectly agree 
with Lieut. Evans, that in navigation, as 
in all other arts and sciences, it is of high 
importance that there should be a perfect 
uniformity in the use of the same terms by 
persons of the same nation, as the only 
means of avoiding dangerous mistakes. To 
this desirable end the present Revision 
and Explanation may essentially admi- 
nister. 
The Dance, Pythagoras, Plato’s Dream, 
and other Poems. By S. Barun, Author 
of “ The Loves of the Devils,” “ Rape of 
the Lips,” &c. &c. 12mo. Poems ?—other 
poems! No, indeed, Mr. S. Baruh, not 
poems—rhymes, indeed, they are, though, 
sometimes, queer ones, but not even 
metres. Those who attempt to write 
verses, if they have no ears to scan, can 
generally count their fingers; S. B. can- 
not even do this—or, if he can, he heeds it 
not—half a foot too much, or half a foot 
too little, he deems, perhaps, of no impor- 
tance in such verses as his—they are des- 
tined for eternity, he seems to imagine, and 
therefore the feet they move on may be 
like eternity—of which the half is equal to 
the whole. But Mr. B. tells us that he has 
been praised, and, therefore, he writes again ; 
«« But, when you're prais’d for verses half a score, 
You're tempted oft to write a dozen more.” 
We wish he had been contented with a 
dozen—if it had even been a baker’s dozen, 
we might have got through them without 
actually yawning; but 134, not lines, but 
pages !—it is really too much for patience. 
But by whom can he have been praised ? 
Not by reviewers, that is clear; for he is 
in a mighty passion with them, and lam- 
poons them in such verses as these— 
*© The half-starv’d, crack-brain’d, miserable gar- 
reteer, 
And the commanding potent reviewer ” 
That is re-view-eer, we suppose, by license 
of poetic prounciation, or verse-mouth, as 
Dr. Southey would call it :—re-view-cer / 
But why not? As Mr. B. had annihilated 
a syllable in one line, why should he not 
create one in the other? But by whom, 
then, have his “‘ Loving Devils,” and 
“* Ravished Lips,” &c. &c. been praised? 
Not by the ladies, delightful as lovings and 
lip-ravishings may be to them,—that is 
equally certain: for he lampoons them, 
also, most grossly—tells them that “ their 
Silly tongues deform their pretty faces ;” 
and that 
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