94 Notes of the Month on [July, 



closed his anxieties ; illness, more of the minxl than body, brought him 

 to the verge of the grave, and the blow was given by an apoplectic 

 stroke a few days since. After a short interval of speechlessness and 

 insensibility, he expired. The stage has to lament in Terry a very able 

 performer, society an individual of very varied and general acquire- 

 ments, and his friends a cheerful, active, and kind-hearted man, extin- 

 guished by a cruelty wliich is now, as it deserved to be, its own 

 reward ! 



We much regret that from having accidentally lost sight of the book, 

 we had not an opportunity of already expressing our opinion of the Rev. 

 W. Farquhar Hook's re-publication of a " Friendly and Seasonable Ad- 

 vice to the Roman Catholics of England." The work is manly and 

 intelligent, it treats of the principal points of the question clearly and 

 forcibly, and its selection and notes do honour to Mr. Hook's judgment 

 and literature. We should also observe on the cleverness with which 

 the printing department has been attended to. The work is highly cre- 

 ditable to ]\Ir. Langbridge's provincial printing office. 



The Society of Arts has extended its researches, and several pairs of 

 really novel candle-snufFers were produced at its last anniversary. But 

 let us take, en passant, their own panegyric. 



" His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex in the chair. Twenty-five 

 prizes in gold and silver medals and money, Avere awarded. Amongst 

 the most interesting of the cases which merited the Society's rewards was 

 Dr. Dowler's musical instrument, called the Glossophone. This instru- 

 ment is much smaller than the cabinet piano-forte, and partakes of the 

 character of that instrument and the chamber organ. Another interesting 

 case was that of Lieut. Williams, R.N. The gallant officer having lost 

 an arm in the service of his country, turned his attention to the forming 

 of a pair of oars, to be worked by one hand, and has succeeded. IModels 

 of the oars were produced, and the mode of working them pointed out 

 to his royal highness and the assembly. The next invention, which 

 attracted particular attention, was the repeating stop for a naval sextant, 

 by ]Mr. T. Reynolds. The inventor is quite a j'outh, engaged in the 

 West-India trade. By this invention observations can be made with 

 certainty at sea dui'ing the night and in thick fogs, without the loss of 

 time in repeating each observation before the succeding one can be 

 taken, as in the old method. A variety of other persons received prizes. 



" His royal highness congratulated the Society upon the good it had 

 performed, and was likely to perform ; and the meeting then separated." 



We certainly can have no objection to any number of persons meeting 

 for any purpose, (not disorderly), whether for playing at quoits, dislocat- 

 ing their own bones at _£,ymnastics, or providing for the employment of the 

 faculty, by drinking London-made champagne, sitting out three French 

 farces in one night, or listening to a parliamentary debate. We have no 

 right to dictate to other men's tastes ; and if any living being desires to 

 see his royal highness of Sussex more than once in his existence, or desires 

 to hear him speak at all, we cannot help them — there is no law for taste ; 

 but we should be deeply indebted to any philosopher, whether black- 

 smith or bookworm, to inform us of any one particle of that good, which 

 his royal highness declared the Society of Arts to liave done. As to 

 what they are " likely to perform," we are entitled to our personal 



