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draught are shown. " True economy of heat, and salubrity, 

 alike require vivid combustion of the fuel, with a somewhat 

 brisk draught inside of the chimney, and a corresponding abs- 

 traction of air from the apartment. Wholesome continuous 

 ventilation, under the ordinary circumstances of dwelling-houses, 

 cannot be secured in any other way." Clay. Cloth binding, in 

 which the author says : " Nothing places in so striking a point 

 of view the superior taste, judgment, and resources of London 

 tradesmen over those of the rest of the world, than the exten- 

 sive substitution which they have recently made of embossed 

 silks and calicoes for leather in the binding of books. . . . This 

 new style of binding is distinguished, not more for its durability, 

 elegance, and variety, than for economy and despatch. . . . The 

 reduction of price is not the least advantage incident to the new 

 method, amounting to fully 50 per cent upon that with leather." 

 The humblest gardener has a library of some sort, and he will 

 here learn how he may give it a very handsome appearance, and 

 great durability, at half the usual price per volume. Coffee, 

 which most gardeners use more or less, and which Dr. Ure 

 prefers (having tried most of the new modes), when made from 

 the coffee biggin, with a perforated tin plate strainer. " The 

 useful and agreeable matter in coffee is very soluble ; it comes 

 off with the first waters of infusion, and needs no boiling." 

 Colza, the rape of France and Belgium. Concrete. Cider. 

 Earths. Evaporation. Expansion. Ferment. Fermentation. Fibre, 

 vegetable or lignine. Filtration, in which different modes of filter- 

 ing water, both on a large and small scale are described and 

 illustrated by figures. Flame. Flax, in which Bundy's machine, 

 and all the new processes for breaking and preparing, are de- 

 scribed in detail. We consider it unnecessary to repeat our 

 commendations of this work. 



Art, V. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agricidture, Botany, 

 Rural Architecture, fyc, lately published, with some Account of those 

 considered the more interesting. 



Home ; or The Months ; a Poem for Domestic Life. By John Player, Author of 



" Fancy's Child." 12mo, pp. 174. London,' 1838. 



This work has been sent us, we suppose, on account of the notices of 

 gardens and plants which it contains under every month, and the object of 

 which is to promote " the union of devotional sentiment with sensibility to the 

 beauties of natural scenery." 



Mental Philosophy : A Popular View of the Nature, Immortality, Phenomena, 

 and Conduct of the Human Mind. By Robert Mudie. 12mo, pp. 348. 

 London, 1838. 

 Many of our readers are acquainted with the vigorous, eloquent, and yet 



lucid style of Mr. Mudie. Circumstances, he says have compelled him to 



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