NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



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these objects, it will extinguish the 

 inflammatory efforts of all those fire- 

 brands who may exert a malicious ac- 

 tivity in struJ'gling to kindle the 

 flames of dissension among its mem- 

 bers, as the sure means of consum- 

 mating the degradation of an honora- 

 ble and benevolent profession. 



6. — A First Grammar of the Latin 

 Language, designed for Schools or 

 private tuition ; bv the Rev. W. 

 Butler, M. A. Head-Master of the 

 Grammar School, Nottingham: 12mo. 

 Nottingham and London, 1837; pp. 

 128.— Mr. Butler's object, in this lit- 

 tle work of his, is to supply what he 

 considers to be a desideratum both 

 with schoolmasters and private teach- 

 ers — a " First Gramjiar of Latin, 

 at once plain in language, accurate and 

 precise in definitions and rules, and 

 sufficiently comprihinsive in its plan," 

 to guide the pupil in translating, 

 parsing, and scanning, as usually 

 practised in schools. Mr. B.'s book 

 will supply the Desideratum indicated 

 by him : his plan is good, its execu- 

 tion highly meritorious. 



7. — Recreations in Retirement; by 

 an Old Tradesman ; F2mo. Notting- 

 ham and London, 1837 ; pp. 348. — 

 These are very agreeable Recrea- 

 tions : their characteristics are mo- 



desty, sincerity and benevolence : they 

 shew a considerable range of reading, 

 well chosen and well digested. The 

 author has evidently cultivated li- 

 beral principles, through the right 

 process of observation and reflection: 

 he is an intelligent friend of civil and 

 religious liberty ; he execrates slavery 

 as an intolerable and inhuman abo- 

 mination ; and he denounces republi- 

 can government as an unnatural sys- 

 tem, tending inherently to piactice 

 the worst kinds of cruelty and des- 

 potism. The Old Tradesman's sub- 

 jects are forty-one in number, and 

 deserve every encouragement, both 

 on account of their objects and their 

 intrinsic merits. 



9. A History of British Quadru- 

 peds, including the Cetacea, illustrat- 

 ed bv nearly 200 wood-cuts, by Tho- 

 mas 'Bell, F.R.S., 8vo., London, 19.37; 



No. xi., pp. xviii, 526 Mr. Bell's 



History of British Quadrupeds is 

 now complete, and it forms a contri- 

 bution to British Zoology wherein 

 the graphic fidelity of the figures, the 

 beauty and aptness of the vignettes, 

 and the perspicuous accuracy of the 

 history, have never been surpassed. 

 An analytical account of this admira- 

 ble volume shall have a place in a fu- 

 ture No. of this journal. 



