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pared with the Cost of Sickness. Employers' Influence on the Health of Work- 

 people, by Means of improved Habitations. The Employers' Influence on the 

 Health of Work-people. Effects of public Walks and Gardens on the Health and 

 Morals of the lower Classes of the Population. — VII. Recognised Principles 

 of Legislation and State of the existing Law for the Protection of the public 

 Health. General State of the Law for the Protection of the public Health. State 

 of the special Authorities for reclaiming the Execution of the Laws for the Pro- 

 tection of the public Health. State of the Local executive Authorities for the 

 Erection and Maintenance of Drains and other Works for the Protection of 

 the public Health. Boards of Health, or public Officers for the Prevention of 

 Disease. — VIII. Common Lodging-houses the Means of propagating Disease 

 and Vice. — IX. Recapitulation of Conclusions. 



In the appendix is an article by the Reverend Thomas Whateley, of Cookham, 

 Berks, on small Farm Allotments, which that gentleman entirely disapproves 

 of, as tending to produce desultory habits in the labourer. We wish that, in 

 this article, the distinction had been pointed out between cottage or small farm 

 allotments, and cottage gardens, which, when not larger than ■§- or £ of an 

 acre, as we recommend, can never interfere with the occupier's duty as a la- 

 bourer or mechanic. Many persons denominate cottage allotments those small 

 portions of ground in ploughed fields, not above -^ or -Jg- of an acre, which are 

 sometimes let to cottagers to grow potatoes and vegetables. No one will 

 deny that these add much to the comfort of the cottager, though, as we have 

 shown in the Supplement to the Encyclopedia of Cottage Architecture, they are 

 far inferior, in this respect, to a garden round the cottage. Still we should be 

 sorry to see these allotments withheld when nothing better can be obtained, 

 and it is this fear that has induced us to point out the difference between the 

 cottage allotments of Mr. Whateley, and those usually denominated such. 



The Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, and Manufactures, illustrated with Eleven 

 Hundred Engravings. By G. Francis, F. L. S., Author of " The Analysis 

 of British Ferns," " The Little English Flora," " The Grammar of Botany," 

 &c. 8vo. London, 1842. 



This is a remarkably cheap book, having come out in \\d. numbers, and the 

 entire volume costing only \2s. The nature of the work will be fully under- 

 stood by the following extract from the preface : — 



" The attention of the author of this Dictionary of Arts and Sciences has 

 been directed to three objects. — The first, to explain briefly, but plainly, all 

 the terms used in architecture, civil engineering, practical mechanics, manu- 

 facturing processes, the mathematics, the fine arts, and the experimental 

 sciences. The second, to give the origin, properties, and application of all 

 chemical substances ; and the third, to record and describe all the apparatus 

 and machines employed in natural philosophy ; and also those numerous in- 

 ventions and contrivances of a mechanical jiature, which our periodicals and 

 galleries of art abound with, but which are known comparatively to a very few 

 persons, though often of the most essential value to the community ; illus- 

 trating each article with woodcuts, wherever such could in any way whatever 

 lead to the better understanding of the subject." 



Art. III. Literary Notices. 



Sowerby's Illustrated Catalogue of British Plants, arranged according to the 

 natural orders, with references to Lindley, Smith, Hooker, &c, will be com- 

 menced Nov. 1st, and he continued in monthly numbers. 



The Gardener and Practical Florist will appear on Sept. 3d, and be con- 

 tinued weekly. 



