292 British Boohs. 



the flowers been grouped so as to form a pyramid, they would have had 

 a better effect. The leaves, or what florists call the grass, should have been 

 imitated from nature. 



Banks, George, Esq. F.L.S. : The Plymouth and Devonport Flora; or, a 

 Description of Plants indigenous to the Neighbourhood of these Towns. 

 In 8vo Numbers, monthly. Is. each. No. I. was published March 27. 

 1830. 

 Greville, Robert Kaye, Esq. LL.D. F.L.S. F.R.S., and F.A.S.E. : ,4'lgae Bri- 

 tannicae ; or, Descriptions of the Marine and other inarticulated Plants of 

 the British Islands belonging to the order J'lgae, with Plates illustrative 

 of the Genera. London. 1 vol. 8vo, 19 coloured plates. 21. 2s. extra- 

 boards. 



This admirably executed work, of great interest to all who reside by the 

 sea-shore, and especially to ladies who delight in walking on the margin of 

 the deep,Ve shall review at length as soon as we can find room ; but, as we 

 shall have nothing but good to say of it, our review will consist chiefly of 

 extracts. 



Tyso, the Reverend Joseph, Wallingford, Berks : A select Catalogue for 

 1829 and 1830, of Choice Ranunculuses grown and sold for benevolent 

 Purposes. One sheet, which may be sent by post. 6d. 

 This Catalogue contains an astonishing number of names, which the 

 author says he has occupied himself for the last twenty years in selecting 

 from upwards of six hundred named sorts. For our opinion of the Cata- 

 logue we refer to Vol. V. p. 383. 



Law, the Reverend James Thomas, Chancellor of Litchfield and Coventry : 

 The Poor Man's Gardener ; or, a few brief Rules for regulating the 

 Allotments of Land to the Poor, for Potato Gardens. With Remarks, 

 addressed to Mr. Malthus, Mr. Sadler, and the Political Economists ; and 

 a Reference to the Opinions of Dr. Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations. 

 London. Rivington. 1830. 



Widely indeed does this author differ from us in his idea of the comforts 

 to which the poor are entitled ; from which the lesson which the poor have 

 to learn is, that they must take care of themselves. If clergymen, in addi- 

 tion to their spiritual duties, would attend a little more to the things of the 

 body, and instruct their hearers in matters of natural science and political 

 economy, as Dr. Chalmers does (p. 344.), and proposes to others, they 

 would do them much real service. By having their attention exclusively 

 directed to a world to come, they are diverted from their temporal miseries 

 here, and taught to linger on in suffering, as if it were a condition of their 

 existence, and a sort of penance to insure future happiness, instead of 

 exerting themselves to improve their worldly circumstances. 



Loudon, J. C, assisted by Mr. Elles, Mr. Pringle, Mr. Gorrie, Mr. Taylor, 

 and others : A Manual of Cottage Gardening, Husbandry, and Architec- 

 ture, &c. London. 8vo. Is. 6d. Charlwood, Great Russel Street, 

 Covent Garden. 

 Our readers have perused this work in our last Number (p. 139. to 



209.) ; we insert the title here merely because we have printed a few copies 



to be sold at cost, for those who choose to give them away to their poorer 



neighbours. 



Doyle, Mr. Martin : Hints originally intended for the small Farmers of the 

 County of Wexford ; but suited to the Circumstances of many Parts of 

 Ireland. Dublin. 18mo. pp. 100. 1 plate. 1*. Published at the espe- 

 cial desire of the North and South Wexford Agricultural Associations. 

 These Hints are written in a familiar style, for the perusal of farmers of 

 from 10 to 50 acres, or upwards ; whether the occupiers of such farms are 

 in a state to improve from them we have little means of judging. " In every 



