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accurate and truly artistical sketches which accompany the work 

 before us. 



" We learn from Mr. Smoult's excellent explanatory introduction 

 that the late Bishop James, in a letter to the Right Hon'ble S. R. 

 Lushington expressed himself perfectly charmed with the hills of 

 Ootacamund. " I have been racking my memory," he wrote, "for 

 some place to compare them with ; the closest resemblance I can 

 find is " Malvern" at the fairest season : but the extent and bold 

 variety give these a decided superiority. I have a fuller sense of 

 the enjoyment to be derived from air and exercise than I remember 

 to have ever experienced at any time or at any place." 



" Mr. Smoult's own share of the work is carefully and ably exe- 

 cuted. He has brought out a very valuable publication. It does 

 him great credit in every way. If Mr. Smoult should be a pecuni- 

 ary loser by this costly publication he will at all events have the 

 pleasant consciousness of having done a real service to his country- 

 men in India by calling their attention to the lovely and health- 

 inspiring locality of the Blue Mountains. This book may save 

 many a valuable life by its suggestions and the interesting informa- 

 tion which it will circulate through a community in which indivi- 

 duals are so often reduced to the alternative of an immediate change 

 of climate or a preparation for their final home." 



Natural History. 



Decandolle's Prodromtjs. Vol. XIV. Part. I. has lately 

 reached us. It contains the large order Polygonacece, by C. F. 

 Meisner, excepting the Sub-order Eriogonea, which are from the 

 pen of the laborious Mr. G. Bentham : Myristzcacece, by the 

 Author. Proteacece, by Meisner, and Penaacece, by Alph : De- 

 candolle. The Volume is a worthy addition to its invaluable 

 predecessors. 



Plantce India Batavce Orientales. 



A work under this title is now in course of publication by the 



