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think on what is in store for a future generation of the working classes, but 

 ultimately wept when I thought on their present state." The above extract 

 from a letter received from an extensive landed proprietor in the Highlands 

 of Scotland, well known for his active benevolence and the ameliorations 

 which he has introduced on his estates, induced us to glance at Mr. Morgan's 

 work, and tliough, from having perused most of Mr. Morgan's other works, 

 we were aware of the general nature of its contents, yet we were gratified in a 

 very high degree by the details. The author, as remarkable for benevolence 

 as for the peculiar elegance of his mind, examines the subject of spiritual, 

 intellectual, and physical improvement, and under the latter he treats of 

 churches, schools, and dwellings. Houses for the poor are recommended to 

 be built in squares, with all the various adjuncts mentioned in our Encyclo- 

 pcBclia of Cottage ArcJiitecture, p. 244. Societies of young men for the pro- 

 motion of moral reform, on the princi|)le of those established at New York 

 and other towns in America, are recommended to be formed, and the rules 

 and objects of the American Societies given. The declaration to be signed is 

 as follows, and we most ardently wish that every head gardener would get 

 such a declaration signed by the young men under him, and every country 

 gentleman by his indoor servants. 



" We, whose names are subscribed, believing that licentious conversation, by 

 unnaturally exciting the passions, and familiarising the mind with vice, is the 

 worst enemy to morality, and that some measures for effecting a reformation 

 are highly necessary, do voluntarily agree to abstain from all such conversation, 

 and to discountenance it in others." (p. 44.) 



After discussing various schemes of education and moral and physical im- 

 provement, the author thus concludes, " When it is recollected that His Royal 

 Highness the late Duke of Kent devoted great attention to plans similar in 

 principle to those now recommended, it may be presumed that the Queen 

 would derive peculiar pleasure in advancing those truly Christian measures 

 which her royal parent, the illustrious patron of benevolent institutions, with 



so much kind condescension and ability commenced It would be an act 



of royal grace and favour, inestimably dear; and, while it is calculated 



to promote the industry, health, comfort, intelligence, and morals of the 

 people, will conduce, under the blessing of Almighty God, in an eminent 

 degree, to advance their spiritual improvement." Unhappily for the ful- 

 filment of these wishes, Her Majesty is only Queen. 



Art. VIII. Literary Notices. 



The Farmer's Almanac, and Calendar, for 1841 ; by Cuthbert W. Johnson, 

 Esq., and William Shaw, Esq. ; will appear in November. 



The Lady's Magazine of Gardening, by Mrs. Loudon ; No. I. with coloured 

 plates, to be published by Smith, Fleet Street, will appear on the 1st of 

 January, 1841. 



The Gardener's Annual Register; containing an epitome of the improve- 

 ments in garden and agricultural botany, rural architecture, and in horticulture, 

 floriculture, arboriculture, and landscape-gardening, made during the year 

 1840 ; will appear on the 1st of January, 1841. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. General Notices. 



Experiments with a Liquid obtained from Bones. — I have tried one or two 

 experiments with the bottle of hqu.d obtained from a distillation of bones, 

 which you sent me. It would have been first highly desirable to have ascer- 

 tained its properties by chemical means. In the absence of this inform- 



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