3 i 4 Encyclopedia of Arch itcclure. 



nothing more than a publishing monopoly, doing more effectually what had 

 been before begun by Constable and by Phillips ; that is, lessening the price 

 of all books. We differ from our reviewer respecting the Library of En- 

 tertaining Knowledge, which we think has done much good, and more espe- 

 cially the natural history volumes. Our objection to the Penny Magazine 

 is, that it seems studiously to avoid the subject of bettering the moral and 

 political condition of the people, contenting itself with simply amusing 

 them. Were the good of the people the main object of the Penny Magazine 

 there is a very clear and straight-forward road for effecting it j but, if this 

 road were once to be taken, the work would no longer be patronised by 

 the Useful Knowledge Society. A penny magazine of knowledge, really 

 suited to the people of this country, remains to be produced. In short, in 

 this, as in all things else, those who want help must help themselves ; and a 

 magazine, for the good of the people, must emanate from the people. — Cond. 



London, J. C, F.L S. &c., with the assistance of J. Robertson, J. Perry, 

 R. Varden, S. Thomson, J. Rowe, and other Architects : An Encyclo- 

 paedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture, &c. Part I., containing 

 twelve lithographic plates, and upwards of 100 engravings on wood. 8vo. 

 London, 1832. Price 10s. To be completed in 8 additional Parts, at 

 5s. each, so as to form one 8vo volume, similar in page and type to the 

 Encyclopaedias of Gardening and Agriculture. Price 21. 10s. 

 We insert the title of this work in our Catalogue, more for the sake of 

 recording the period of its appearance, than for either entering into the 

 details of its contents, or recommending it to our readers. Having said 

 thus much, were this Encyclopaedia entirely our own production, we should 

 stop ; when, however, it is considered that we are only one among several 

 who are engaged in it, we may be perhaps permitted to add, that, to the 

 general reader, and to the lover of landscape scenery, it will be found by 

 far the most interesting work of the kind that has ever been published ; at 

 least we and our coadjutors are ambitious to render it so. We have 

 perfect confidence in the beauty of the designs furnished by them, and we 

 hope not to be behind in the literary department. One great object that 

 we have in view is, to instruct ladies in the study of architecture, and 

 especially in the improvement of cottages ; well knowing what they have 

 effected for floriculture and landscape gardening, as noticed in our intro- 

 duction to the work before us. They will find, from this work, that the 

 study of architecture, as an art of design and taste, is as suitable to them 

 as the study of floriculture or landscape-gardening ; and, being of a more 

 definite nature than the latter, is much easier. 



To our American and Australian friends we hope to furnish a most 

 valuable book ; and to all country architects, surveyors, builders,, and land 

 stewards, one which they will find as indispensable to them as the Ency- 

 clopedia of Gardening and the Gardener's Magazine are to the gardener 

 who wishes to keep pace with the progress of improvement in his art. 



Such are the objects of our ambition : it is for the readers of the work 

 to say how far we have succeeded in Part I., and to send us their criti- 

 cisms, hints, and assistance in every form, with a view to Part II., and the 

 succeeding Parts. 



Kay,Jas. Phillips, M.D., Manchester : The Moral and Physical Condition 

 of the Working Classes employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Man- 

 chester. 8vo, pp. 74. London, Ridgway, 1832. 



This is a most interesting pamphlet ; and it has been duly appreciated by 

 the most philosophical of newspaper editors, and, in truth, the master-spirit 

 of the daily press, as far as fundamental principles are concerned, — the 

 editor of the Morning Chronicle. We notice the work, to recommend it 

 to those who have leisure to attend to such subjects; and because it has- 



