76 Monthly review op literature. 



" Introduction'' to our pages. This amusing writer says : — " In the hope of 

 benefitting some few of my fellow-men, and of thereby making a slight atonement 

 for my crimes, I record the events of a long life of self-indulgence, anarchy, 

 passion, and truculence, of which every minute has been a tempest, and every 

 tiiought a wouad. Now, the aches of my h°art are entombed in my breast, as in 

 a sepulchre of ice ; yet once tiiat breast was formed of fire, and burned, and raged, 

 until it perished, self-consumed." 



Hume and Smollett's History of England. With a Continuation. By 

 the Rev. T. S. Hughes, B, D. vol. 18. A. J. Valpy, M. A. 



This is a very superior edition of the history of our own country. The rev. editor 

 has hitherto done his work, with a masterly hand. We are glad to hear of its 

 increasing success. We may observe, by the way, that the volume now before 

 us contains two splendid engravings, in addition to 350 pages of excellent letter- 

 press. 



Thoughts in the Cloister and the Crowd. Henry Wix, 4 1 , Nev/ Bridge 



Street, Blackfriars. 

 Here we have a very amusing common-place book; and one, too, of a superior 

 order. This is evidently lUe protege of a man of learning and refined sentiment. 

 The work is very nicely printed. 



Stanfield's Coast Scenery. No. 6. Smith, Elder, and Co., Cornhill. 



This is a strikingly brilliant number of this justly popular work. The present 

 number contains four highly-wrought engravings — namely, a view of Calais Pier; 

 Hastings, from the sea; Dieppe, and Boulogne, upper harbour. 



Gilbert Gurnev. Bv the Author of " Savings and Doings," " Love and 

 Pride," &c. ' 3 vols. Whittaker and Co. 1836. 



Several of the sensible and graphic chapters (and they are all of a very lively 

 and talented description ; and can never fail, we think, of pleasing the literaturist, 

 even though they were read severally once a month, throughout tiie year) have 

 already appeared in print. Two of the incidents contained in them have been 

 dramatized: one on the French ; the other on tlie English stage. 



This circumstance, which has been noticed by one of the ablest and most impar- 

 tial of our weekly periodicals, (the Athenaium,) ha? arisen from the fact of the 

 editor's having, in society, frequently described the events, which actually occurred 

 many years since. He does not, however, think this a sufficient reason for omit- 

 ting tliem in his bundle of gleanings, from the late lamented Mr. Gurney's 

 " papers,"' m wliicii they stand originallj/ recorded. We had intended to extract 

 largely from "Gilbert Curney,'' but the crowded state of our pages prevents our 

 doing this at present. We shall, in all probability, give a scconf/ no/ice of this 

 woik, which, if we mistake not, will be thought deserving no ordinary praise. 



Visit to Alexandria, Damascus, and Jerusalem, during the successful 

 Campaign of Ibrahim Pasha. By Edward Hogg, M. D. 2 vols. 

 Saunders and Ottley. 



These are two delightful volumes, full of interest from the beginning to the end ; 

 and the vivid, though perspicuous, details the author enters into of the scenes 



