1825.] 
of the second is but 42s., and the minimum 
20s. The third presents the alternatives 
£2. 12s. 6d., four guineas, and ten guineas, 
for the single volume; and to how many 
volumes it may extend, it is not easy to 
foresee. We find eight guineas, ten 
guineas, twelve guineas, thirty-two pounds, 
among the prices of the superb editions of 
the other individual works enumerated in 
the catalogue. This may give some of our 
simple readers, who look into books only 
for the information they can derive from 
them, some idea of the expense at which 
the /wrury of a literary taste is sometimes 
to be indulged. Ofthe works immediately 
in review, it is scarcely necessary for us to 
do more than to speak of the style in which 
they are got up. If the information they 
contain should ever come into a form to 
render them accessible to the generality of 
readers, it will then be time enough to ana- 
lyze their contents in ovr utilitarian mis- 
cellany. The papery, of course, is beautiful, 
and the typographical execution elegant 
throughout ; and the embellishments of the 
first and second (the former especially) 
are splendidly picturesque. A happier archi- 
tectural subject, indeed, for pictorial embel- 
lishment than the Cathedral Church of 
Wells, could not easily be selected or 
imagined. 
portions, and tasteful richness of embel- 
lishment (with the exception only of Litch- 
field—that perfect gem of the venerable 
species of semisaracenic architecture to 
which we have given the name of Normo- 
Gothic!) itis the most exemplary of al! our 
ancient religious edifices—the most entire 
and congruous in its structure, and unu- 
sually complete in preservation. The view 
of it from the gardens on the south-east, 
though a little too dark in the engraving, 
is really a delightful picture; the other 
views of it (exterior and uiterior) are equally 
beautiful in execution and effect ; and the 
: é€ye of taste will find no little gratification in 
_ dwelling on the minuter representations of 
the detached parts. 
The embellishments are fewer, and upon 
a smaller scale, in the second article ; 
- and the subject is somewhat less interest- 
-ing; but the execution is not inferior. The 
remaining work has no attractions in a 
picturesque, but is much more valuable in a 
professional point of view. Ithas seventy- 
two engravings, it is true; but none of 
them are mere embellishments. They con- 
sist of plans, eleyations, sections, and archi- 
tectural and perspective sketches, from 
which the builder may derive instruction, 
but the ordinary beholder little gratification. 
Tt is, in fact, an architectural work, and 
cannot, therefore, be too diligently studied 
by those who are connected with, or in- 
terested in the practical progress of the art: 
~—at this time especially, when such large 
sums of the public money are expending 
(and Wisely, if tastefully and judiciously ex- 
penfling) on architectural improvements ; 
*Monyrury Mac. No, 410. 
Domestic and Foreign. 
In the beauty of parts and pro-. 
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while the art itself, both in the principles 
that should regulate its grand proportions, 
and the taste and congruity that should 
regulate its detail, appear so little to be 
understood. 
Sydney Papers; consisting of a Journal of 
ihe Earl of Leicester, and. Original. Letters 
of Algernon Sydney. Edited, with Notes, 
by R. W. BLENcOWE, A. M., 8v0,—Collec- 
tions like the present are to be regarded as 
among the most valuabie, because the least 
suspicious, of the documents of history. 
Written mostly without any view to pub- 
lication—the familiar intercourse of rela- 
tives and confidential friends, or memo- 
randa designed for family record—there is 
little temptation for fabrication and dis- 
guise ; and they let us into the heart and 
motives of the actors, and the real springs 
of interesting and important events. The 
journal which forms the leading article of 
this collection, is that of Robert, the second 
Earl of Leicester; who was nephew to 
Sir Philip, and father to Algernon Sydney. 
The epoch to which they refer is, therefore, 
one relative to which curiosity ean never 
be satiated; and we need scarcely say, that 
what is added to the correspondence pre- 
viously before the public, of the great and 
stainless martyr of liberty, if it does not 
augment, still further confirms, the high 
reputation of a patriot, already justly pre- 
eminent in the estimation of the wise and 
good. : 
Geographical Memoirs of New South Wales. 
By various Hands. Edited by BARON FIELD, 
esq., F-L.S., late Judge of the Supreme Court 
of New South Wales, &c. 8vo.—The miscel- 
laneous composition of this yolume, from 
the observations of various individuals, 
diversified in their pursuits, and extended 
accordingly to such yarious objects of 
science, phenomena, natural history, cus- 
toms and habits of the natives, produce and 
capabilities of the soil and climate, &c., ren- 
ders it at once an amusing and instructive 
addition to the yet scanty information which 
we are in possession of, relative to this 
incipiently-important region of British colo- 
nization. With respect té the habits of the 
natives, ip particular, the work is rendered 
especially valuable, from. the, information 
derived from three Englishmen, met with 
by Captain King and Mr, Oxley, in their 
expedition to Moreton Bay ; and who, 
havmg been wrecked on Moreton Island, 
had been. obliged to reside among the 
natives for a considerable time (by whom 
they had been treated with grest, kindness), 
and to assume the customs and habitudes 
of their quondam associates. 
Narrative of a Second Visit to Greece; 
including Facts connected with the Last Days 
of Lord Byron, Extracts from Official Docu- 
ments, &c. By EpwAaRd BLAQUIERE, é59. 
Author of “ The Origin and Progress of the 
Greek Revolution,” 4c. 8vo.—As (if we can 
accomplish the wished-for arrangement, we 
shall probably have occasion to make free 
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