628 Literary Notices. 



" This building, consisting of twenty-nine rooms, with its collection of 

 paintings, has been generously and liberally thrown open by Her Majesty's 

 command, without charge or any restriction of numbers, for five days of the 

 week, from ten to four o'clock in the winter, and to six o'clock in the summer, 

 and on Sundays after two o'clock : the number of visitors has also greatly 

 increased, and the propriety of their demeanour has fully warranted this 

 accommodation. It is pleasing also to observe that those attendants who 

 formerly received fees for admittance express as much satisfaction at the 

 change of system as the public do, who paid them formerly, not unfrequently 

 with reluctance and complaint. To the better feeling now produced must be 

 ascribed the absence of any injury to the pictures, such as is mentioned by 

 Mr. Grundy, the keeper of the pictures, to have taken place a short time 

 before the free system was established. The number of visitors to the palace 

 in 1839 was 116,000, and in 1840, 122,339, mostly of the working classes. 

 The admission of the public on Sunday afternoons, sometimes to the number 

 of 3000 persons, and their exemplary conduct in the palace and gardens, is a 

 peculiar and important feature. The state of the apartments, of the turf, 

 and of the unfenced flower-beds in the garden, where such numbers spread 

 about at will, is certainly a strong proof of the good disposition and improved 

 conduct of the crowds which frequent it, and requires no other comment than 

 a reference to the very small establishment of attendants. There is a notice 

 put up in the garden in the following words : — ' What is intended for public 

 enjoyment the public are expected to protect;' and j'our Committee again 

 call the attention of the House to the satisfactory result of placing confidence 

 in the people." 



The Journey-Book of England. — Derbyshire. With twenty-three engravings 

 on wood, and an illustrated map of the county. Small 4to, pp. 150. 

 London, 1841. 

 A useful and entertaining work, very neatly got up, and very cheap. 



A Developement of the Princijjles and Plan on which to establish Self-supporting 

 Home Colonies ; as a most secure and profitable hwestment for Capital, and an 

 effectual Means permanently to remove the Causes of Ignorance, Poverty, and 

 Crime ; and most materially to benefit all Classes of Society, by giving a right 

 Ap2)licatio)i to the noiv greatly misdirected Powers of the Human Faculties and 

 of Physical and Moral Science. By Robert Owen. 4to, pp. 138. London, 

 1841. 

 Mr. Owen, we imderstand, has obtained possession of land in Hampshire, 



where he is about to give a practical illustration of his doctrines. We hope 



he will meet with no obstruction, because it is most desirable to see w^hat his 



system is capable of effecting. 



The Farmer'' s Almanack and Calendar for 1842. By C. W. Johnson, Esq., 

 and William Shaw, Esq. Small 8vo. London. 

 A very useful book for the farmer, at the moderate price of 1*. 



Art. IV. Literary Notice. 



The Guide to the Conservatory, by Richard Bainbridge, Flower-Gardener to 

 the Right Honourable Lord Wenlock, Escrick Park, Yorkshire, is preparing 

 for the press, under the patronage of the Right Honourable Lady Wenlock, 

 Lady Milner, Mrs. Garforth, &c. &c. Price to subscribers, Gs.; to non-sub- 

 scribers, Is. — This work is written expressly as a pocket companion, and is 

 particularly recommended to the young gardener, amateur, Szc. Its general 

 feature is brevity with comprehensiveness : at the same time it comprises a 

 practical treatise on a select list of the most choice and admired plants of the 



