MONTHLY RK.VIIiW OF LITERATURK. 5^87 



Arboretum Britannicum ; or, the Hardy Trees of Britain. Nos. 25 & 26. 

 These numbers are quite equal to any that jircccded them. 



The Magazine of Health. Bv a Practising Physician. No. I, for 

 February, 1836. Charles Tilt. Fleet Street. 



This fresh and vigorous effort, if we do not greatly err, will prove deservedly suc- 

 cessful. It was a work much desiderated : and in introducing a new number mio 

 the already large family of cheap ])eriodicals, the Proprietors plead that there is 

 none of a popular character on the important subject of human health ; or, at 

 least, none that can be regarded as of competent authority, or which has not lost 

 casie, by becoming, in some way or other, the vehicle of quackery. 



The Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and of the Physical Sciences, 

 with the Animal Kingdom. By Baron Cuvier. Conducted by Capt. 

 Thomas Brown, F.L.S., &c. Part I. Smith, Elder, and Co. C'ornhill. 



A WORK which promises to become of considerable importance ; and, from our 

 inspection of the part now before us, we think well of it. The size of the volumes, 

 when completed, will be outrageously large; and we have no doubt will operate 

 against the sale of the work in parts. 



Finden's Portrait and Landscape Illustrations of Lord Byron's Life and 

 Works ; with an Account of the Subject of each Engraving. By 

 W. Brockkdon, F.R.S. London, John Murray, Albermarle Street. 

 Parts 1 and 2. 



Mr. Murray's fame, as a publisher, is proverbial : and, if we are not greatly 

 deceived, this '' splendid effort" to crown the undying iminortality of Byron with 

 a xoieath so illustrious — the which Mr. Finden has for the most part supplied — 

 will not diminish — but add to a reputation so richly won — so magnificently 

 merited. InNo. 2, we have, amongst others, a finely executed landscape en- 

 graving representing the course of the Tiber, in the vicinity of Rome — • 



" Dost thou flow, 



Old Tiber, through a marble wilderness ?" 



which is really beautiful. The work must find its way to every drawing-room 

 and private library in the kingdom. 



Landscape-Historical Illustrations of Scotland and the Waverley Novels, 

 from Drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Professor, R.A., &c. The 

 Descriptions by the Rev. G. N. Wright, M.A., &c. Fisher, Son, 

 and Co., London and Paris. No. 1. 



It must be truly gratifying to the patrons and true lovers of the liberal arts, to 

 perceive the growth — the daily emanations of a heaven-directed press — of popular 

 and useful publications : and there are none that we have yet seen that can e.vceed 

 the one before us: and we feel quite sure, the [jublic will side with us when we 

 say to the spirited publishers, to whom we ar.e mainly indebted for such 

 superior editions of our most eminent authors, poets, and novplists — pro- 

 ceed with unabated energy — and may the best success crown tliis hund-ome 

 undertakin;;. 



