184 New Books. -^Royal Society, 



being well calculated to initiate young people into a know- 

 ledge of the subject of which it treats.' The favourable re- 

 ception jt has had with the public, justifies the opinion we 

 gave of the former editions. The present one has fresh 

 claims to praise. We have examined it with some degree 

 of care, and are happy to find that the author's industry has 

 .kept pace with the discoveries that have been made in this 

 interesting and useful branch of knowledge. Parents and 

 teachers will derive assistance from this work, in their efforts 

 to impress upou young minds, along with what is highly 

 amusing and gratifying to an inquisitive pupil, some ideas 

 of t tat power, wisdom and goodness whi"h pervades the 

 universe — an aim of which the author seems never to have 

 lost sight throughout his pages. 



Review of Publications of Art. Nos. 1, 2, and 3, 

 The above is the title of a quarterly publication confess- 

 edly written as a successor to The Artist, a periodical work 

 which has now ceased, and from which we recently pre- 

 sented the readers of the Philosophical Magazine with some 

 interesting Essavs. 



The editors of the Review now before us have ably taken 

 tip the functions of their predecessors in The Artist, and it 

 is but justice to give it as our opinion, that hitherto their 

 labours have been distinguished by sound judgement, and 

 more than common critical acumen. Their zeal for the en- 

 couragement of the imitative arts is evident from the in- 

 trepid manner in which they discharge what they conceive 

 to be their duty, in censuring the tendency of modern artists 

 to flatter the prevailing prejudices of fashion at the expense 

 of true taste and sound judgement. 



XXXII. Proceedings of Learned Societies. 



ROYAL SOCIETY. 



J. his society assembled after the summer vacation on 

 Thursday, Nov.ioth, 1808, the right hon. Sir Joseph Banks, 

 president, in the chair. The secretary read a summary of 



M. de 



