1825.] 
ball or dress party?” that the ladies there 
* exhibit all the taste of our Gallie neigh- 
bours,”’ and “surpass on such occasions that 
of our fair countrywomen !” that “the Rus- 
sian ladies, at the same time, are not hand- 
some,” and that they “ pay so little atten- 
tion to their personal appearance through- 
out the morning, that their -hair is gene- 
rally seen in paper, and the body inele- 
gantly enveloped in a loose robe, sans cor- 
set,’ &c. All this, and much more, is 
evidence, certainly, only at second-hand— 
hearsay, not actual observation; and for the 
picturesque, at least, we look for the criti- 
cism of the eye, not the rumours of the ear. 
Lambeth and the Vatican, or Anecdotes 
of the Church of Rome, of the Reformed 
Churches, and Sects and Sectaries. 12mo. 
3 vols.—Without entering in any degree 
into the consideration of any controversial 
views by which a high churchman may, or 
may not, have been influenced in making 
this collection, we may safely recommend 
it to the lovers of light reading, as an 
amusiye repertory of curious anecdotes, 
from which some information may be gleaned 
without intense application or mental la- 
bour. We will instance but one anecdote, 
which may throw some light on the trade 
and mystery of religious book.-making. 
** Dr. Drelincourt’s Discourse on Death is a book 
of great credit among vulgar enthusiasts: but when 
Drelincourt first published it, he was so totally dis- 
appointed in its sale, that he complained to Daniel 
Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, &c. of the injury 
he was likely to sustain by it. Daniel asked him if 
he had blended any thing marvellous with his pious 
advice’; he said he had not: ‘ If you wish to have 
your book sell,’ said Daniel, * I will put you in the 
way:’ he thensat down and wrote the story of the 
Apparition, which is to be found at the beginning 
of Drelincourt’s work, and which is alleged as a proof 
of the appearance of ghosts to be as authentic as the 
affair of the Witch of Endor. The story will be 
looked for in vain in the first edition.” 
The Pocket Annual Register of the His- 
tory, Politics, Arts, Science and Literature of 
the Year 1824. 16mo.—There are two de- 
scriptions of readers to whom this little 
and well-executed volume will be accept- 
able—those who, from choice or neces- 
sity, confine their inquiries to a general 
and superficial view of annual occurrences ; 
and those who havirg explored, as they 
presented themselves, the more ample 
sources of the various topics of information 
to which this brief manual refers, may wish 
to refresh and methodize their remem- 
branee by a connected sketch, to which 
the floating memoranda of facts and half- 
effaced impressions may more readily ad- 
here. ‘The work is fairly what it professes 
to be, an Annual Register—differing from 
the works usually published under that title, 
only in brevity and compression. It is ably 
and judiciously compiled ; contains all the in- 
formation which could well have been com- 
‘pressed into so small a compass, and, as 
far as public principles can be concerned in 
80 brief an epitome, bears a stamp of libe- 
rality accordant with the spirit of the age. 
Domestic and Foreign. 
451 
Desultory Suggestions for Preservation from 
Shipwreck, and other Dangers of the Sea, &c. 
4to.—Mr. Egerton Smith (Editor of the 
Liverpool Mercury), in his dedication of 
this very useful pamphlet, to the Presi- 
dent and Committee of the Liverpool 
Humane Marine Society, has so briefly 
stated its object, that we cannot do better, 
we believe, than quote his own words— 
«« The publication I have now the pleasure to de- 
dicate to you, was undertaken in consequence of a 
resolution passed in one of your committee meetings 
2 few months ago, when you did me the honour to 
request that I would collect together, in a separate 
work, some of the various practical suggestions for 
the preservation of life and property at sea, which 
had appeared from time to time in the periodical 
journals with which I am connected. I trust that, 
in the performance of the very humble task assigned 
me, I shall be so fortunate as 40 render the following 
pages acceptable to you, and serviceable to those for 
whose use they were intended. This work has been 
printed in its present form, in order to admit of being 
bound up, or deposited in a ship’s common log-book, 
where it will always be at hand for reference in cases 
of emergency, 
We urgently recommend it to the use thus 
suggested. An appendix is added, con- 
taining an 
«« Account of the patent life mattress; also, Hints 
on the Fumigation of Ships, Methods of preventing 
Thirst in a warm climate, and the Effects of wearing 
and sleeping in Wet Clothes.” 
Some important Advice to the World ; or, 
the Way to prevent and cure the Diseases in- 
cident to the Human Frame; demonstrated 
and based upon Principles agreeable to Na- 
ture, and suiled for all Climates and Consti- 
tulions ; wiih an Account of the Author's own 
Case. By J. Morison, Gent. Not a 
Doctor. 12mo. Price 6s.—Alas, for the 
College of Physicians! Why have they 
built their new and splendid mansion—-their 
temple of science and conviviality in Pall- 
Mall East? Lo! here is a six shilling sw- 
persedeas of all their guinea and five guinea 
fees, their prescriptions, their pharmaco- 
peias, and their diplomas. Shut up, ye 
schools of anatomy! Ye professors of phy- 
siology, pathology, and materia medica, 
henceforth be dumb! Be closed, ye multi- 
tudinous volumes of the disciples of Escu- 
lapius, from the Greek of Hippoerates and 
Galen to the plain English of Aberne- 
thy! Moulder, ye folios, quartos, and oc- 
tavos, unopened, on your musty shelves ! 
Nor a Docror—out-doctors all; and in 
one little pocket duodecimo, prevents and 
cures all diseases, of all climates, and all 
constitutions. By the disclosures of some 
new nostrum ?-—some patented or unpa- 
tented specific ?~- some new Bishop of 
Cloyne’s tar-water 2—No such thing: this 
little book, at any rate, is no advertisement 
for a quack medicine. Is it by regimen, 
diet, aliment, that all this is to be effected ? 
No: eat what you please —‘ all food is 
alike’—‘ Soup, fish, fowl, flesh, vege- 
tubles, pickles, salad, fruit, any thing nature 
produces,” &e, “the stomach digests the 
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