$14 Literary Intelligence. 
The work will embrace a vast number of original anecdotes of 
the most celebrated characters of Europe and America during the 
last sixty years. It will be particularly interesting to artists and 
students of art, not only for the development of the principles 
which the president has followed im his long and splendid career, 
but for his critical opinions on the remains of ancient sculpture 
and the great paintings im France and Italy. Mr. Galt, having 
himself visited many of the finest collections both in this country 
and abroad, will interweav¢ in the narrative the observations of 
ingenious men, whem he has met with in the course of his tra- 
vels. No work equally comprehensive, relative; to the moral 
utility of the fine arts, and their actual state in the world at this 
time, has yet appeared. It will, besides, be as minute in the bio- 
graphical details as if it had been executed by Mr. West himself. 
Mr. Thelwall is preparing for the press, a Report of the re- 
sults of his experience in the Treatment of Cases of Imperfection 
of the Roof of the Mouth, Uvula and Velum Palati, and other 
defects and malconformations of the Elocutionary Organs. Cases 
of this description, the author observes, have hitherto been re- 
garded both by medical men and teachers of elocution, as totally 
incapable of relief: and though some ingenious dentists have 
attempted to supply the deficiences by artificial organs ; these, it 
is asserted, have not only been found very imperfectly to answer 
the purposes of speech and intonation, but at the same time, in 
a considerable degree, to be both inconvenient and dangerous. 
Mr. T. maintains that in every one of the cases which have been 
submitted to his management, —the details of which will form 
the bulk of this little volume,—he had been completely successful, 
without any application of artificial apparatus, not only in pro- 
ducing a perfect intelligibility of utterance, but also in removing 
the offensive peculiarities of voice resulting from such malcon- 
formations. To this will be subjoined, Reports of several Cases 
of Amentia, or tardy and imperfect development of the faculties. 
A considerable portion of this volume was intended to have ap- 
peared in a pamphlet announced about this time last year, in 
reply to the assertion of the Monthly Review, that Mr. T’s pre- 
tended discoveries were nothing more than the most exploded of 
poetical errcrs. Professional engagements having prevented at 
that time the prosecution of that work, the materials are now 
thrown into another form; and it may be interesting to inquire 
what connection tuere can possibly be between discoveries or 
principles by which such effects are to be produced, and any de- 
scription of poetical errors exploded, or unexploded. 
Tlie work will be addressed to Mr. Cline, by whom several of 
the cases to be detailed have been referred to the Author’s ma- 
nagement. , i 
