392 Miscellanies. 
‘Each lecture is arranged under important and attractive heads; 
these are referred to in a copious index; while the most difficult 
scientific terms are explained in a glossary; so that he who runs 
may read.”—Brighton Herald, (Eng.) paper, March 31, 1838. 
The present work, like others of the same author, is distinguished 
by a reverent spirit towards the Author of nature, who appears to be 
sometimes forgotten by those who investigate his works. Dr. Man- 
tell’s volumes will leave a happy moral and religious impression upon 
the minds of young persons ; and thus science, in this department, as 
well as in others, will be seen to be the handmaid and ally of revealed 
religion, 
It is an interesting fact, that among the fine writers of the present 
day, several of the geologists hold a very high rank, and their works, 
although devoted to science, are also an ornament to literature. Who 
can write better than Sedgwick, Buckland, Lyell, Greenough, Dau- 
beny, Murchison, De La Beche, and Mantell, and many more geolo- 
gists who might be named! 
There is but one painful impression left on the mind, in closing Dr. 
Mantell’s delightful volumes. He informs us that this is his farewell 
to science,* as he must henceforth be devoted to the practice of an 
arduous profession, and for this purpose he has already left the clas- 
sical fields of his own geological domain—Tilgate forest and Brigh- 
ton cliffs and the Chalky Downs of Sussex—to plant himself in a sub- 
ies village,} as a practising surgeon. 
e were thus plaintively reminded of Blackstone’s touching fare- 
wall to the Muses, when he was about to enter the gloomy halls of the 
_ courts of law; and still more forcibly, of the struggle of Garrick be- 
tween Comedy and Tragedy, as portrayed by the magic pencil of Rey- 
nolds—each rival sister wooing him with admitted and almost prevail- 
ing claims and attractions. fs the present contest between surgery 
and geology, each striving to appropriate to itself an honored votary, 
we dare avow, that our loyalty is, at all hazards, engaged in favor of 
geology; and if a transatlantic republican might dare to waft in the 
western breeze a whisper that, perchance, may cross the ocean and 
reach the ear of the youthful, lovely, and excellent British Queen, it 
would be, that a man who has honored the British nation, and delight- 
ed the scientific world by his beautiful researches, might be made easy 
to pursue the bent of his own glowing and gifted mind, and thus 10 
work onward in — until the work of life is done! 
* At least, as a lecturer. 
Siskin ee, near London, distinguished as the former residence of 
many great and good men, mo whom were the Thorntons, father and sons, 
Lord Teignmouth, and Wilbe 
