142 - Notices respecting New Books. 
with anecdotes, and concludes with some observations on: Sui- 
-cide, which place that crime in a new point of view, considered 
as frequently resulting from a slow and often unperceived sort of 
insanity. 
Mr. William Phillips, of Tottenham, has pay a small 
work on Astronomy for those unacquainted with the Mathema- 
tics. He therein mentions that a work on Meteorology is forth- 
coming from the pen of Mr. Luke Howard. 
Several more works from Dr. Spurzheim are expected from 
Paris in the course of a short time to be published in England. 
Decorative Priiting.—It is now some time since Mr.Wilham 
Savage issued Proposals for publishing Practical Hints on De- 
‘corative Printing, illustrated with fac-similes of drawings printed 
in colours by the type-press.. The preparations for this singular 
and unique publication are, we are happy to say, in a state of 
great forwardness. We have seen some of the embellishments, 
imitations of water-colour drawings, so close as not to be a 
stinguished from real drawings. They are produced by the ap- 
plication of various tints by means of a succession of blocks, so 
managed as to produce all the gradations of light and shade, 
without the least harshness or confusion. By this means the 
finest drawings may be multiplied to an inconceivable extent—a 
desideratum which promises to be of the greatest advantage to 
science, especially in all the different departments of natural 
history; putting it within the power of a traveller, at a compa- 
ratively small expense, to lay before his readers correct repre- 
sentations of the various objects with which it may be desirable 
_ to illustrate his work. But these, though important objects, are 
in one sense but secondary in Mr, Savage’s work. . He not only 
shows by his own specimens that all this is practicable; but he 
gives the necessary instructiens to enable others not only to ex- 
ecute and apply. the different blocks, but to prepare all the va- 
rious inks and tints necessary for these and for every species of 
Jetter-press printing. On this point the instruction, to be com- 
muuicated is most important, as he has brought to perfection 
the art of making printing-inks without the least particle of oil 
entering into their composition, or any thing that can sink into 
the paper, or spread from the impression and discolour the paper. 
This is an object of the greatest value; for numerous publica- 
tions, on which every degiee of ditbention has been bestowed by 
the printer, are often rendered of comparatively little value, in a 
short time, by the discoloration of the paper occasioned by the 
spreading of the oil, We are sorry to observe that Mr. Savage 
has limited his impression to what we consider as too smalla 
number for a work of so much value, 100 large (imperial 4to), 
and 250 small (demy 4to): for, as the blocks are all to be de- 
stroyed 
