402 New Publications. 



" The brute creation are man's property, 

 Subservient to his will, and for him made. 

 As hurtful these he kills, as useful those 

 Preserves ; their sole and arbitrary king. 

 Should he not kill, as erst the Samian sage 

 Taught unadvised, and Indian Brachmans now 

 As vainly preach ; the teeming rav'nous brutes 

 JMight fill the scanty space of this terrene, 

 Incumb'ring all the globe." Somerville; Chase, b. iv. 



Mr Warton, the talented historian of English Poetry, a book- 

 ful Academic, and not a f^ccS-nThi xuvnys^wv, acquits the hunter of 

 the chase of barbarism, and acknowledges that " the pleasures 

 of the chase seem to have been implanted by nature ; and, under 

 due regulation, if pursued as a matter of mere relaxation, and 

 not of employment, are by no means incompatible with the 

 modes of pohshed life." But our space is exhausted, and we 

 must now leave our readers, to the dehghtful work itself, of 

 which by-the-by we observe only 250 copies are printed. 



2. Ornithological Dictionary of British Birds. By Colonel G. 



Montagu, F. L. S. Second Edition. By James Rennie, 

 A. M. Professor of Natural History, King's College, London, 

 he. 1 vol. 8vo. pp. 650. 1831. 

 The late Colonel Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary, we 

 always considered a good book of its kind, and regretted it had 

 been so long out of print. The zoological public will feel much 

 indebted to Professor Rennie for the present elegant edition, 

 which he has enlarged by many additions, most of them of a 

 popular and amusing description. We are decidedly adverse to 

 some of the scientific views and nomenclatural changes of the 

 Professor, and cannot refrain from noticing, that Mr Rennie, we 

 truly believe inadvertently, says, " that the descriptions of Liii- 

 nceus are dry, lifeless, marrowless, and unphilosopMcal.'" Much 

 might be said on this head, all indeed very much to the disad- 

 vantage of those who think so loosely and so unphilosophically. 



3. Synopsis Reptilium, or Short Descriptions of the Species of Rep- 



tiles. By J. Ed. Gray, F. L. S. &c. 1 vol. 8vo. p. 90. With 

 Plates. London, 1831. 

 We have much pleasure in recommending to the attention of 

 naturalists this interesting monograph, descriptive of the different 



