44i Monthly Rcvieiv of TMeraliire, [Oct. 



utilit)' is never so soon lost sight of, as when the attention is contracted to single 

 points. But that the higher departments are really neglected in England, must 

 be denied, as long as we have Mr. Babbage himself, and such men as Ivory and 

 Herschel. With all Mr. B.'s admiration for France, he cannot be blind to the 

 fact that science is more widely diffused among us — that it has here more culti- 

 vators, and admirers, and so more patrons in effect. Looking to the learned 

 societies of England, and the costs of association with them, the " Foreigner" of 

 the pamphlet cannot forbear a smile at the thought of six hundred Frenchmen 

 out of thirty-two millions, being found willing or able to pay twelve hundred and 

 fifty franks, or £50 a-piece, for the promotion of science ! The pamphlet is pub- 

 lished by Faraday — himself a distinguished cultivator of science, and worthy of 

 being, as he is, the successor of Davy. 



London Pageants, by J. Nichols and Son. 



The volume embraces an account of fifty-five royal processions and entertain- 

 ments in the city of London, commencing with Henry IIL in 1236, and closing 

 with George IIL in 17C1, to the exclusion of the receptions of foreign sovereigns 

 and thanksgiving-processions to St. Paul's, which were found to be "too nu- 

 merous to mention." The details are taken almost wholly from contemporary 

 writers, and will at least gratify the city, and a few inquirers into forgotten 

 matters. A second division of the book has a bibliographical list of Lord 

 Mayors' pageants, that is, of publications descriptive of the annual shew at 

 the inauguration of the Lord Mayor of London, with some historical notes re- 

 lative to that august ceremony, still more gratifying to the citizens than the 

 former. The indefatigable compiler has added some account of a succession of 

 city laureates, to the number of fourteen. 



In the account of a pageant in honour of Edward VI., occurs a song, which 

 contains most of the sentiments of the modern " God save the King," and which 

 seems to have escaped the notice of the many persons who have at various times 

 investigated the history of that national anthem, as Mr. Nichols styles it. 



Plain Rules for improving the Health of the Delicate, preserving 

 THE Health of the Strong, and prolonging the Life of all. — By 

 Wm. Henderson, M.D., of Perth. 



Dr. Henderson has been himself a great sufferer, and, like Dido of old, was 

 thus taught to sympathise with his suffering brethren. From his childhood he 

 experienced the thousand ills the dyspeptic is heir to, and some of them to a 

 most intolerable degree. The particulars are of so extraordinary a caste as to 

 have required some courage to detail them. It was this early suffering, however, 

 that prompted him to turn to medicine, with a resolution to study disease in its 

 sources, and ransack nature for remedies. For years and years his success fell 

 short of his hopes ; and at last, as the proud result of all his efforts, to mere 

 accident was he indebted for the precise composition of ingredients which he 

 pronounces to be nothing less than a specific for all "stomach complaints." 

 The final object of the book is, of course, to herald the said specific to the ac- 

 ceptance of the world ; and, indeed, his " Stomachic Vegetable Elixir" has 

 qualities, if one-half of them be real, to conciliate every body that has a stomach 

 within him. It is perfectly safe — it may be taken by eivry one, of whatever age, 

 sex, or condition, at all times, at home or abroad, in doors or out, — a "family" 

 medicine, in short, as handy as the whisky-bottle in Ireland. All may benefit, 

 and some may more than benefit, especially females, the literary, and the seden- 

 tary. It has, besides, some qualities of a rarer kind — an agreeable flavour — a 

 power of abiding on the stomach when nothing else will — a perpetuation of effi- 

 ciency, for it never loses its power, and, still more marvellous, the same quantity 

 always produces the same effect. No matter again how you take it ; you may 

 use it as sauce for mutton or fish, or mix it with your claret ; — it will improve 

 both, never oppress the stomach, never fail in its salutary efi'ects on the bowels, 

 and never cost more than four and sixpence a pint, stamp included. Dr. 

 Henderson has himself continued the daily use of it for twelve years, to the 



