whether taste and grace are actually things which may be learnt in the schools, but we do think that awkwardness and clumsiness are things which we may be taught to avoid, and if this be not the same thing, which we know it is not, they work something towards the same end-they make way for the presence of elegance by clearing the ground of awkwardness. All the varieties of the waltz are described in this little book, and those whose hearts are light enough to allow their heels to be so too, cannot do better than study the " Amateur." Photographic Manipulation; containing Simple and Practical Details of the Most Improved Processes of Photogenic Drawings, the Daguerrotype and Calotype. Illustrated with Cuts of the various Apparatus.

The Photographic art, that really exquisite and beautiful wonder, by which the sun, as well as lighting all things upon earth, has been turned into its painter, actually pencilling with its own beams the loveliness which it both looks upon and displays-this exquisite art, in its different departments, has Mr. Palmer here proffered to the world in this little pamphlet, not only describing the results but the details of the process, and thus putting it into the power of the curious and ingenious to experiment upon it. For travellers we consider this triumph of modern days to possess the highest possible value. With but a trifling addition to their usual luggage, they may bring over calotype drawings of every interesting spot which they have passed through, taken with a rapidity that seems to mock at the ordinary medium of manipulation, and with an accuracy that distances any other agency. To those who wish to acquire competency in this delightful and valuable conjunction of art and science, we recommend this little work as supplying an able means.

Palmer's Patent Glyphography; or Engraved Drawing.
Edition.

Second

This very clever adaptation of electrotyping deserves to have its capabilities investigated. We think it likely to become highly useful in pictorial illustration, one of its strongest recommendations being that the artist's design in due time becomes transformed into the actual plate, and so vigour is not lost, and expense is saved; two points of merit which deserve to be noted. The second edition of this little pamphlet, which is in fact a prospectus furnished with specimens of Mr. Palmer's processes, proves that it is gaining ground in popular

attention.

NEW MUSIC.

I Dreamt of the Hero who Conquered for us. A Song. The Poetry by MRS. EDWARD THOMAS. Dedicated, by special permission, to the Right Hon. the Earl of Wilton. The Music composed by CHARLES EDWARD HORN.

Mrs. Edward Thomas, whose poetical productions have so often and so deservedly been welcomed by us, has here presented us with a happy thought in her happiest manner. The lines are musical, and the music is good. What more is necessary to render both popular?

JOHN WEIPPERT's Royal Highlanders, and Indian Quadrilles, and his celebrated Medley Country Dance.-To such as are acquainted with Weippert's arrangement, little need be said; suffice, all that attention, sound judgment, and musician-like feeling could dictate, will be found in these pages; they are simply arranged, and within the compass of every juvenile performer; consequently their popularity is stamped.

We have before us a Portrait by Lynch, and lithographed by Day, of one MR. WHITE, who designates himself "The Irish Melodist," illustrator of Irish Minstrelsy, author of the Boudoir Lyrics. Here we have another specimen of grandiloquence-" The Irish Melodist." We would modestly ask this superseder of Carolan, Connallon, Lyons, O'Caghan, with numerous others, if he ever wrote an Irish melody, or if he purposes the following" When Youth's bright days are o'er"—" Oh! tell me not of those Bright Days"—and, "Come away, Love?" If these are specimens of Irish melody, we know nothing of the matter, for more contemptible specimens of bardic melody never disgraced a nation; besides, who, professing a grain of modesty, would pompously style himself the melodist of a country. Did Rossini, the founder of a school, assert himself the melodist of Italy? Did Beethoven, the greatest writer of the world, did he trample upon the heads of his compeers, and vauntingly put himself forth the melodist of a country? Why even Moore, and Bunting, who both spent their lives in collecting and arranging the bardic songs of their country, even these labourers would blush to hear themselves named by the side of bards whose dulcet strains ornament the country from John O'Groats to the Land's End. This bombastic assumption may serve to gull the Americans, but with Englishmen and manners a little less puff is required.

LITERARY NEWS.-WORKS IN PROGRESS.

A third edition of Dr. Macpherson's "NARRATIVE of the War IN CHINA" is in the press, and will be shortly ready. This edition will comprise additions recently transmitted, and illustrative plates, one of which is a portrait of the Doctor, in the costume of a Chinese Mandarin. Dr. Macpherson's narrative appears to be highly estimated at the scene of action, which is, perhaps, one of the best reasons for its being similarly received in England.

Our readers will doubtless remember the animated Naval Sketches which appeared in our pages, descriptive of important scenes in the history of Nelson. These Sketches were written by Lieut. Parsons, R.N., who now commands one of the North American mail steamers. At the urgent request of many of his friends, he has revised and printed them in a separate volume, under the title of "NELSONIAN REMINISCENCES-LEAVES FROM MEMORY'S LOG. The volume is just ready, though not in time for our present reviews. We intend ourselves the pleasure of referring to it in our next number.

A new Drama is in the press, of which report speaks highly, entitled, "THE EARL OF LEICESTER."

"THE MEMOIR OF DR. CARTWRIGHT," the inventor of the power loom, is, we understand, nearly completed.

A Satirical Poem, from the pen of a gentleman, is in the press, entitled "Monomania," which ably ridicules the idea of men of eccentric notions being incapable of incurring the guilt attached to the commission of serious crimes.

"THE BURGOMASTER OF BERLIN," from the German of Haring, is proceeding.

The author of " POEMS BY VIATOR" has made some additions to his interesting work, of which we have had the pleasure to speak in our review department.

A new edition of that elegant and popular work, "THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS," is nearly ready.

NEW PUBLICATIONS.

The Amnesty, or the Duke of Alba in Flanders, an Historical Novel. By C. F. Ellerman. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21s.

Friend or Foe, a Novel. By Miss E. Pickering. 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d.

Rose of Woodlee. By Maria Bainbridge. 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d.

Marmaduke Wyvil, or the Maid's Revenge. By the Author of " Oliver Cromwell." 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d.

Rambles in the Isle of Wight, during the Summers of 1841 and 1842. By John Gwilliam. 12mo. 6s.

By John

The Pictorial History of the Jews and Natural History of the Holy Land.
Kitto. With 500 engravings on wood. 1 vol. imperial 8vo. 17. 11s. 6d.
The Progress of the Nation. By G. R. Porter, Esq. 3 vols. 1l. 4s.
Ben Bradshawe, the Man without a Head. A Novel, in 3 vols. Post 8vo. 1l. 11s. 6d.
Agnes De Tracy, a Tale of the Times of St. Thomas of Canterbury. By the Rev.
J. M. Neale. Fc. 8vo. 4s.

The Foil, an Historical Poem. By Robert Hughman. 12mo. 5s.

A Diary of the Times of Charles the Second, by the Hon. Henry Sidney. Edited, with Notes, by R. W. Blencowe, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 28s.

King Eric and the Outlaws. 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d.

Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry. By W. Carleton, with illustrations by Phiz, &c. Vol. I. 8vo. 14s.

King Henry the Second, an Historical Drama. By the Author of Essays written during Intervals of Business. 12mo. 6s.

Poems. By H. H. Methuen, Esq., B.A. Fcap. 8vo. 4s. 6d.

Legendary Rhymes, and other Poems. By Mary Anne E. Charnock. Fc. 8vo. 6s. 6d.
Tales of the Colonies, or the Adventures of an Emigrant. 3 vols. post 8vo. 31s. 6d.
The Charcoal Burner, or the Ruins in the Black Forest. Square, 2s. 6d.
The History of Etruria, Part 1. By Mrs. Hamilton Gray. Post 8vo. 12s.

The Closing Events of the Campaign in China. By Capt. G. G. Loch. Post 8vo. 8s. 6d. Steam Voyages on the Seine, the Moselle, and the Rhine. By M. J. Quin. 2 vols. post 8vo. 21s.

Memoirs of the Marquis of Pombal. By J. Smith, Esq. 2 vols. 8vo. 21s.

The History of Gustavus Vasa. Royal 8vo. 1s. 6d.

Poems, by A. J. B. Hope, Foolscap 8vo. 3s.

July 1843.-VOL. XXXVII.-NO. CXLVII.

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MONTHLY METEOROLOGICAL JOURNAL.

Kept at Edmonton. Latitude 51° 37′32′′ N. Longitude 3′51′′ West of Greenwich. The mode of keeping these registries is as follows:-At Edmonton the warmth of the day is observed by means of a thermometer exposed to the north in the shade, standing about four feet above the surface of the ground. The extreme cold of the night is ascertained by a horizontal self-registering thermometer in a similar situation. The daily range of the barometer and ther mometer is known from observations made at intervals of four hours each, from eight in the morning till the same time in the evening. The weather and the direction of the wind are the result of the most frequent observations. The rain is measured every morning at eight o'clock.

Morning generally clear, afternoon showery.
Rain with thr. & lightg, in mng., sunsh. in aftern.
Generally clear.

Generally cloudy; afternoon showery.

,245 Showery.

S. by W.
S.W. & N.
E.b.N.& E.bS,1
S. by W.
S.W.

Showery; distant thun. at 3 P.M., evng. cloudy.
Raining gen. during morng., aftern. gen. clear.
Morning and evening clear, afternoon showery.
Morng. cloudy, showery, noon, aftern. sunsh. at
[times.

Morning showery, otherwise generally clear.
Mug. rainy.; sons. in the aft.; evng. showery.
Generally cloudy; sun at times.

Morning clear; light showers afternoon.

Sunsh. at times during morning, aftern, showery.
Morn. cloudy, showery from 10 A.M., to 4 P.M.
Cloudy; showers afternoon.

8 48-62

29,41-29,29 S. & S. W.

,315

,075

Rain early in morn. otherwise cloudy & bois-
Showery.
[terous.

Do.

11:48-64
12 47-57

29,97-staty. N. W. & N.
29.95-29,92 N. & N. b. E.

,2

,045 Misling rain generally during the day.

Morning cloudy, raining generally after noon.
Generally clear.

Clear.

THE COMMERCIAL RELATIONS OF THE COUNTRY. We regret to be obliged to state that there has been little improvement in our manufacturing interests since our last notice. The Colonial market has flagged, in consequence of the felt want of a money medium. The unfavourable reports respecting the probable harvest have had the effect of keeping the wheat market firm, and at the same time of enhancing the value of free foreign corn. In sugar the demand remains firm. coffee the prices are fairly sustained. In tea, although the market has been somewhat dull, yet fair prices have been realized. Other things appear to us as nearly stationary.

In

MONEY MARKET.-The season having been so unusually wet has had the effect of casting some gloom over the prospect of the approaching barvest, and this, added to the political state of excitement in Ireland, and the religious differences in Scotland, have operated unfavourably on the Stock Exchange. The supposition having prevailed that without some favourable change in the weather, English money must be exchanged for foreign grain. The Consul speculators have become extremely cautious in their measures, the doubt prevailing whether these securities will retain even their present prices, and this apprehension has had the effect of inducing holders to throw their capital into other descriptions of securities. The present settled state of the weather will, however, have a speedy effect on the state of the Money

Market.