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PART. IT. 
REVIEWS. 
Arr. I. Silva Britannica; or Portraits of Forest Trees distin- 
guished for their Antiquity, Magnitude, or Beauty. Drawn from 
Nature by Jacob George Strutt. Imp. 8vo. London, published 
by the Author, 8. Duke Street, St. James's. 
We should be sorry to be accused of puffing, or deemed 
chargeable with being lavish in bestowing praise, where the 
same is not justly due. We can, however, without scruple, 
conscientiously assert that this is, in our judgment, really one 
of the prettiest and most elegant books we have ever seen. 
Our opinion of Mr. Strutt, and of his merits as an artist and 
man of taste, is already known to our readers, from the re- 
marks we made in a former Number, when his Delicie S ylva- 
rum passed under our review. We ued ourselves of that 
opportunity to make incidental mention also of his previous 
work, the Sylva Britannica. The pen was scarcely laid aside, 
and the ink was only drying on our paper, when, behold ! 
forth issues from the same source another Silva Britannica, 
the larger work having produced a little one. Whether Mr. 
Strutt has duly consulted his own interest in putting forth 
this second, and comparatively small, edition (which will be 
likely, we think, to interfere with, if not entirely to supersede, 
the sale of the former one), is no business of ours; and we 
shall not stop to enquire. Should it be thought that the pub- 
lications in question are in some respects too dissimilar to 
bear exactly the same name; it may be urged, on the other 
hand, that they are in essentials far too much alike to justify the 
imposition of a different one. As some little confusion, how- 
ever, perhaps disappointment, may occasionally arise between 
the booksellers and their customers, from the circumstance of 
the name and title of the parent having descended unimpaired 
to the offspring, we shall proceed to point out in what re- 
spects they agree, and in what they differ. 
The work, then, in imperial octavo, whose title stands at 
the head of the present article, is, in fact, a smaller edition of 
