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He would even do well to apply the first spare sovereign he may wish to 

 spend to the acquisition of the four back volumes, and then, subsequently, 

 continue the work annually. In the present volume there are upwards of 

 100 pages on natural historv, and 30 besides on rural economy and garden- 

 ing. — ./. D. 



Bryan, James Butler, Esq., A Barrister in Dublin, and a landed Pro- 

 prietor : A Practical View of Ireland, &c. 12nio, Dublin, 1832. 

 This is a work of immense labour, and of sound practical views, well 

 deserving the attention of the legislature, and of all who take an interest 

 in Ireland. The author recommends the establishment of poor laws, and of 

 grand juries for the purpose of creating employment on public works, to 

 be paid out of county rates. If these are not granted, he says, there will 

 be a demand for the repeal of the Union from one end of Ireland to the 

 other. Mr. Br3an is also a powerful advocate for a National System of 

 Education, neutral with respect to religion, and consequently open to all 

 sects and parties. This we consider the only mode which can strike at 

 the root of all the evils which now affect the labouring classes in England, 

 as well as Ireland, by enabling the next generation to take care of them- 

 selves. The palliative for the evils which aflect the present race is em- 

 ployment-; and this Mr. Bryan provides for in Ireland by his grand juries, 

 as we would in England bv our National Road System. (See p. 97. and 

 Morn.Chron. Dec. 31. 183L) 



Braidwood^ James, Master of Fire Engines in Edinburgh : On the Con- 

 struction of Fire Engines and Apparatus, the training of Firemen, 



• and the method of proceeding in Cases of Fire. Svo. Edinburgh, 

 Bell and Bradfute, 1830. 



The firemen of Edinburgh are allowed to be the most efficient corps of 

 the kind in Britain, perhaps in Europe ; and this is the first and only work 

 on fire engines and firemen in the English language. It deserves the 

 attention of all insurance companies and the heads of municipal police 

 throughout the world. Being only indirectly connected with our subject, 

 we cannot spare room for details. 



Don, George, F.L.S.: A General System of Gardening and Botany j con- 

 taining a complete Enumeration and Description of all Plants hitherto 

 known ; with their Generic and Specific Characters, Places of Growth, 

 Time of Flowering, Mode of Culture, and their Uses in Medicine and 

 Domestic Economy. Preceded by Introductions to the Linna^an and 

 Natural Systems, and a Glossary of the Terms used. Founded unon 

 Miller's Gardener's Dictionar}', and arranged according to the Natural 

 System. In 4 vols. 4to. London, 1830. Vol. I. pp. 840, with nume- 

 rous wood-cuts, 3/. 125. ; or in Monthly Parts, 6*. each. 

 A book that has been long wanted, will be hailed with joy by numbers, 

 and will create a host of botanists in Britain. Of those who admire plants, 

 and who does not ? numerous are they who have hitherto been prevented 

 acquainting themselves botanically with plants, both by reason of the mul- 

 titude of books in which the required information existed, and of the unin- 

 telligible language in which these books are written. These inconveniences 

 are, by the book before us, now abolished. The amount of information 

 on technical and systematic botany previously existing in numerous books^ 

 in various languages, is here concentrated and exhibited in familiar English. 

 We hail the book, therefore, as a valuable instrument for promoting the 

 extension of botany, and the rapid and essential improvement of all those 

 already possessing some rays of botanic knowledge. It will be even valu- 

 able to proficients, for we are told that it comprehends, " besides all the 

 genera and species which have been published up to the present time, 

 descriptions of numerous jilants never before published, and derived chiefly 



