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whom they may be said to degrade on all sides. 

 We shall not here proceed further, as a very slight 

 sketch is all that the limits of this little work can 

 afford. We will conclude our necessarily brief 

 and imperfect notice of this admirable system by 

 observing, that no one who supposes the Quinary 

 System, or any part of it, to lead to atheism, can 

 rightly understand its principles. — As well might 

 it be affirmed that the science of Phrenology tends 

 to materialism. 



Cwn/pendium of British Ornithology, by J. At- 

 kinson. London. 1820. 8vo. 10s. 6d. 



A work of no use at the present day. The sys- 

 tem is the Linnsean, and the descriptions are short. 



Natural History of the Birds of New South 

 Wales, by W. J. Lewin. London/ 1822. Thin 

 folio. 



We do not possess this work, but, according to 

 the first Ornithologist of the present day, the plates 

 " are of permanent value," and the work of course 

 useful. 



Compendium of Zoology, being a Description of 

 more than 300 Animals. New Edition. London, 

 1818. Sm. 8vo. 



This volume is entirely compiled, and ranks very 

 low even as a compilation, being full of the most 

 flagrant errors, of which the following may be taken 

 as a sample : — " The Hedge Sparrow is a smaller 

 variety of the bird above described [the House 



