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difTerent insfruments. The subject lias been treated in such a plain and compre- 

 hensive manner, as to merit the approbation of parents and teachers generally. 

 The work has been favourably received by her Majesty, who at all times manifests 

 a great desire for the spread of education. 



An Essay on tlie Turnpike Roads of the Kingdom, and the Practicability 

 of Uniting them with the Department of the General Post Office, &c. 

 &c. &c. By Robert Fuge, of Bishop's Tawton, Devon, etcetera, 

 etcetera, etcetera. Hurst, St. Paul's Church Yard. 



An Essay, indeed ! Why the pestiferous blockhead who was guilty of wasting 

 ink and paper to indite, and the means to pay for the prmting of such a 

 lot of stuff and nonsense as we have placed before us in this well-typographed 

 pamphlet, in the absence of even a mechanical knowledge of grammar, much 

 more the adaptation of its positive rules — would, we feel assured, be guilty of 

 setting the Thames on fire. We shrewdly suspect, moreover, that the proper name 

 of our stupid essayist is Fudge, and not Fuge. We cannot help commenting upon 

 the barefaced quackery of this road-side doctor, (who, it is quiie evident, was 

 driving at " place'' while he impudently pretended to a knowledge of digging and 

 delving on the highways and by-ways of the Post-Office department,) as demon- 

 strated by the dedication to his Grace the Duke of Richmond, the late Postmaster 

 General. It is scarcely necessary for us to add, that the " matter," such as it 

 will be found — supplied by this unamiable rusticof the old school, is wholly with- 

 out interest; disowns every thing like common sense; contains no argu- 

 ment ; and is one unconnected jumble of ignorance and sliallow pretension. 



Elegy written in a Country Church-yard. By Thomas Gray. Illustrated 

 by Wood Engravings. John Van Voorst, Paternoster- row. 



This magnificent book is dedicated to Samuel Rogers, Esq., one of our best and 

 favourite poets, and a munificent patron of the arts, &:c. 



On the merits of the poem itself we dare not speak. Fame has said enough for 

 the gifted man who produced it. The great improvement, however, that has 

 taken place in the art of Engraving on Wood, as well as its general adoption — in 

 some measure superseding the use of copper and steel — led to the present 

 '* effort" to apply this mode of embellishment to a poem of such catholic celebrity, 

 and which appeared to afford the greatest scope for the talents of the artist. The 

 work is beautifully printed. 



Tales of the Glens. With Ballads and Songs. By the late Joseph 

 Grant. Fraser and Co., Edinburgh ; and Henry Wasbbourne, Lon- 

 don, pp. 288. 



Avery interesting little work, calculated to amuse and instruct at the same 

 time. It has been said, with what degree of truth we will not stay to determine, 

 that the uneducated man, who strives to mount the ladder of literary fame, must 

 expect the sternest opposition of the learned and refined, who consider liis ap- 

 pearance in their ranks an invasion of their dearly-bought rights and privileges. 

 The author before us was of the humbler class of society : his mind naturally 

 active — and not without genius, lie thought constantly, no doubt, of the treat- 

 mentofChalierton,Kirke White, and lastly, of Burns, his gifted fellow-countryman, 



" Who walked in glory and in joy. 

 Following his plough upon the mountain side." 



Mr. Grant (now dead), however, does not appear to have had any pretensions to 

 the rank of Hums. 



