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use of the rotations of cropping. On clays. On loams, sands, and gravels. 

 On lands pared and burned. Observations on them, and on preparing the 

 various soils, and altering crooked ridges. Draining. Arable and grass 

 lands. Soiling. Permanent pastures not required. Farm buildings. De- 

 scription of two plans of farmeries. Dwelling-house. Cottages. Improve- 

 ments much wanted in them. Soiling of different kinds of stock. Small 

 sheds in pasture fields. Gloucestershire example farm. Such farms neces- 

 sary. Director required. Qualifications requisite. Practical skill essential. 

 Failures from unprofessional and ignorant practitioners. General acquire- 

 ments requisite. Expensive seminaries not generally useful. Increasing 

 knowledge will dispel the jealousy and acrimony so adverse to improvements. 

 Ireland. Causes of the backward agricultural state. Remedies." 



In conclusion, we most strongly recommend this work as one of the best 

 which has appeared in the course of the present century on the subjectsof 

 which it treats. 



Art. II. Catalogue of Works on Gardening, Agriculture, Botany, 

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

 which are considered the most interesting. 



The Cowthorpe Oak, from a Painting by the late George William Fothergill, 

 from accurate Sketches made on the Spot, expressly for this Work. Drawn 

 on Stone by William Monkhouse. With a descriptive Account, by Charles 

 Empson, Author of " Narratives of South America," " Antiquarian Mis- 

 cellany," " Scenery of the Andes," &c, containing such Historical Me- 

 morials, Local Particulars, Botanical Characters, Dimensions, and various 

 Information as could be obtained on the Spot relative to this most 

 famous Oak, " the Glory of England and the Pride of Yorkshire." 4to 

 pp. 18, 1 lithograph. London, 1842. 



There is a great deal of curious matter brought together in these pages, but 

 we are sorry that we cannot commend the lithograph, which is totally de- 

 ficient in the characteristic touch of the oak. Let the reader compare it with 

 any of Mr. Strutt's engravings of oaks, or with any of the oaks in Lewis's 

 Portraits of British Forest Trees, reviewed in our Volume for 1838. 



The true Principles of Pointed or Christian Architecture ; set forth in two Lec- 

 tures, delivered at St. Mary's, Oscott. By A. Welby Pugin, Architect, and 

 Professor of Antiquities in that College. 



Mr. Pugin is known among his professional brethren as a great enthusiast 

 in Gothic architecture, in which it is universally allowed he has a thorough 

 knowledge, and an excellent taste. The work before us is not his first pro- 

 duction, for he is the author of Contrasts, in which the modern degeneracy of 

 architectural science and taste, and the great superiority of the Gothic style 

 over the Grecian, are enforced by architectural caricatures. The object* of 

 the present work is the same, but the author has set about it in a more 

 moderate, and consequently more effective, manner. In short, his taste as an 

 author has been improved, though it is yet far from being good. Notwith- 

 standing this, we do not know any work on Gothic architecture that is so 

 likely to improve the taste of the general observer, because the arguments are 

 all such as every one can understand, and they are well illustrated by numerous 

 and beautiful engravings. The following points are what the author en- 

 deavours to enforce and illustrate. 



1. That all the ornaments of pure pointed edifices were merely introduced 

 as decorations to the essential constructions of those buildings. 



2. That the construction of pointed architecture was varied to accord with 

 the properties of the various materials employed, as shown by ancient ex- 

 amples of stone, timber, and metal construction. 



