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expected, when we hope to present our 
readers with a farther analysis of this 
most curious and interesting undertaking. 
Wemust, not, however, close our present 
observations without adverting to the cir- 
cumstance of two gentiemen devoting the 
hours of honourable leisure to so arduous 
an undertaking. The taste and execu- 
tion which Mr. Riddell has shewn in the 
composition of the Print deserve the high- 
est eulogium. 
MEDICINE. 
Dr. Herpman’s “ Discourses on the 
Manegement of Infants and the Treat- 
ment of their Diseases,” will be found one 
of the most valuable works im this class: 
peculiarly useful to considerate mothers. 
The large proportion of the human race 
who dieim infancy, as wellas the prevalence 
not only of mistaken notions but absurd 
practices in the first treatment of children, 
are too notorious to be enlarged on here. 
Tn the second of the two Discoarses, the 
Diseases of Infants are industriously 
traced to their severa! sources, their pre- 
gress accurately delineated, and such 
motes of treatment as are wernt by 
a faithful adherence to the Jaws that re- 
gulate the animal economy clearly point- 
ed out. 
Another creditable volume will be 
found in Mr. Burys’s “ Practical Cbser- 
vetions on the Uterine Hemorrhage, with 
Remarks an the Management of the Pla- 
centa.” 
: POETRY. 
Foremost in this Class we place “ Rich- 
mend Hill,” by THE AUTHOR OF THE IN- 
pian ANTIQUITIES; it 1s a descriptive 
znd historical Poem, in two Cantos. lus- 
trative of the principal objects viewed 
from that beautiful eminence. The Pre- 
face relates almost exclusively to the mag- 
mifcent palace which was tounded here 
hy Henry VII. and the celebrated monas- 
tery founded by Henry the Fifth; at the 
time when Richmond had the name of 
Steen: the particulars relating to both of 
which are taken from authentic docu- 
ments, for the most part deposited m the 
British Museum. 
The first Canto of the Poem is descrip- 
tive of scenes and objects surveyed in the 
immediate vicinity of Richmond Hill: 
whence we shall transcribe as a specimen 
those lines which relate to the ancient 
monastery. 
«* But not in splendid palaces alone, 
The pomp of Britain’s scepter’d lords was 
shown— 
Sacred to Heav’n, that, o’er the anointed head 
‘Its adamantine shield in battle spread ; 
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Retrospect of Domestic Literaturé—Medicine, Ke. 
In SHEEN a stately fabric met the sight, 
Of oid, the hoary anchorite’s delight ! 
And near, amid the groves for ever green, 
Richly endowed a costly fane was seen. 
In antique grandeur rose the spacious pile, _ 
And richest sculptures deck’d each cleister’d. 
isle 5 
On the proud roofs, in air sublimely rais’d, 
The eye with pain, yet still with rapture, 
gazed. 
High tower’d the gothic arch 3 and through 
the dome, : 
Dark clustering columns shed a twilight 
gloom :— 
Save when yon fervid orb’s pervading rays 
Lighted the pictur’d window’s crimson blazewe 
While from the lofty walls, suspended wave 
The spoils of war, and banners of the net 
Statues of saints, for suffering worth renown'd, 
In massy silver seem’d to breathe around 5 
Unbounded wealth the gorgeous shrine o’er= 
flow’d, 
That with the richest gems of Asia glow ae 
For many a pilgrim, from its distant shore, 
To that famed shrine his hoarded treasure 
bore. 
Refulgent shone the storied roofs—array"d, 
Tn all the blended pomp of light and shade; 
While gold and azure charm’d the wond’ring 
eyes, 
And che-ubs floated in cerulian skies ! 
A master’s hand had sketch’d the bold de- 
sign, 
The fire of genius mark’d each glowing line 5 
Devotion’s brightest symbols fam’d above 
The dazzling wonders ‘of Redeeming Love: 
The star whose light, by eastern sects adored, 
Its hallow’d blaze on humble Bethlem pour’d; 
The Dove, resplendent with the silver wings, 
That hov’ring paused o’er . Jordan’s Sacre 
springs ; 
And settling on the Saviour’s lowly head, 
Bright as a thousand suns, its glory shed! 
Al! that in faith transports, in virtue charms, 
All that in guilt the shudd’ring soul alarms 5 
Heav’n’sradiant visions, bursting on the sights 
The dark, drear horrors of Cimmerian night, 
kixtatic raptures—agonizing woe— 
By Fancy’s daring pencil taught to flow, 
On the proud roofs, in brilliant tints pourtray’d, 
Or on the breathing walls, the eye survey’d; 
While from the rich illumin’d windows 
beam’d, 
As the meridian blaze unbounded stream’d, 
With all the rainbow’s varied beauty bright 
Flow’d the rich torrent of refle&ted light—— 
Full on the altar flam’d the fervid ray, 
And ope’d a gleam of heav’n’s eternal day. 
With transport warm’d, with sacred awe op- 
* — press’d, 
Alternate -passions heaved the throbbing 
breast.”” 
The second Canto is deanugiae of 
scenes and objects surveyed ata distance 
from Richmond Hill; and contains what 
Mr. Maurice terms the AWFUL OBITUARY 
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