construction. We shall briefly describe each plate, as they pass in the publications; and then, by way of conclusion, give a summary of the whole display necessary to mark the standard of architecture in Charles's reign, and to evince the extraordinary genius of his servant Jones. Plate I. Colin Campbell's sett. General Plan. Contains six courts; "all the compartments are disposed for state or conveniency, those to the River being most proper for the summer season, and those to the West, or Park, for winter, having the South-west sun." All the forms are either squares or oblongs, excepting the circular stair-cases in the buildings at each angle of the four fronts. The principal front is towards the Park; dimension 725 feet, of which the Banqueting room, and a similar room right and left of the centrical mass, make a part. The apart ments of estate and offices are finely disposed, and on the most enlarged scale, bearing in our eyes the relative proportions of the Banqueting room. The Thames front is likewise 725 feet. The fronts towards Westminster and Charing Cross, about 615 feet cach. Plate II. Front next the Park. In seven divisions: centre ditto, two tier of columns Ionic and Composite in three divisions; three arched entrances; three windows above, with columns and pilasters heads with swaggs of fruit under the general entablature; pediment with a gudiron shield and statues upon it. Succeeding divisions right and left; rustic basement, the two stories above plain, with a block entablature dividing them. A second block entablature, with a blocking course, and balls set at distances over each pier between the windows. The still succeeding divisions, right and left, give the Banqueting room, &c. basement rusticated; second and third story (carried up internally in one height) two tiers of Ionic and Composite columns and pilasters; pedestals withbalusters support the windows of second story, which have pointed and circular pediments alternately. Windows to third story square-headed; grounds to each story rusticated. Heads and swaggs of fruit and flowers under upper entablature, finishes with a balustrade: statues on ditto. Concluding or angle division, right and left, basement rusticated; second story lonic columns and pilas ters, windows with a pediment in the centre and square-headed on each side; niches towards the angles. Third story; Composite columns and pilasters, three grand united windows, centre one circular-headed,balustrade in the dado, and niches on each side; compartmented parapet; balls set on the terminating lines. Above, ri es a circular cupola, with Composite columns and pilasters, round-headed windows to first tier, square-headed to second ditto; parapet, on which are statues; a dome is then, carried up, finishing with a plain circular lanthern and obelisk. The whole line of elevation exhi bits the utmost regularity and harmony of parts. PlateIII. Front towards the Thames. In thirteen divisions. Centrical di vision, two stories; first ditto, arch way, Doric columns, niches and compartments: second story, Ionic columns, circular-headed window in the centre, square, ditto on each side: balustrade dado. Pilasters and compartments are then carried up; in the centre compartment, statues supporting a shield: pediment, in which is a crown supported by angels in the clouds; statues on each side the pediment. Second division, right and left; plain windows with pedestals, balustrade parapet with balls. Third division right and left. First story; Doric columns and pilasters, plain dado and windows. Second story, Ionic columns and pilasters; three united windows, the centre one circular headed; balustrade dado. Above, Composite columns and pilasters: pediment, compartiments with basso-relievo's. Statues on the pediment and parapet. Fourth division right and left; continuation of second division. Fifth division, right and left; nearly similar to first division. Sixth divi sion, right and left; further continuation of second division. Seventh division, or angle, right and left; three stories. First story; Doric columns and pilasters, plain windows. Second story; Ionic columns and pilasters; windows, centre one, circular-headed; the others with pointed and circular pediments alternately. Balusters in the dado. Third story; nearly similar to the second ditto; balustrade parapet: small perforated cupola's at the angles. In the centre rises the great cupola, seen in the preceding front. These These elevations increase in decorations, and in a greater portion of divisions. Plate IV. Front towards Charing Cross. Seven divisions. Centre di vision, with the second and third ditto, right and left in the first story, one general arcade of the Doric order. In the second story, taking the centre division, and the third ditto right and left, where are columns and pilasters of the Ionic order, runs a series of windows, with pointed and circular pediments alternately: each of these divisions in their centrical window, give three openings, a form since much in practice under the appellation, "Venetian Window." Balustrade dado. General balustrade parapet, with balls, statues, &c. Second division, right and left; in the centre an enlarged window, and smaller ones on each side. Circular pediment above, with a cartouche shield and reclining statues. Balustrade dado, with statues. Over this pediment, plain pilasters and compartments with basso-relievos: then rises a second or principal pediment; basso-relievo in the tympanum; statues on the top of the pediment. Fourth, or angle division, right and left, repetition of ditto in preceding plate. Plain entablatures between each story. This design is much diversified from the others described, and shews a secondary idea in point of grandeur; the arcade is noble, and has a happy effect. Plate V. Fronts taken through the three principal courts, the line bearing from the direction of Charing Cross to Westminster: the aspect to the West. Nine divisions. General arcade to centre division; and to second and fourth ditto, right and left. Centre division; four stories. First story; three arches of the arcade Doric columns and pilasters: niches and statues on each side. Second story; Ionic columns and pilasters: three Venetian windows, circular heads with reclining statues: niches with statues: balustrade dado. Third story; Composite columns and pilasters, circular-headed Venetian window in the centre, square-headed ditto on each side: niches with statues; balustrade dado. Fourth story; Doric. dwarf pilasters, centre ornamented scroll compartment; square windows on each side, with scroll jambs, having open pediments, pointed and circular alternately. Above, a large circular open pediment, with gudiron shield, containing the royal arms. Balus trade parapet with statues, both standing and reclined. Second division right and left. Three stories: first story; the arcade, Doric pilasters. Second ditto, Ionic pilasters; windows with pointed and circular pediments alternately. Third ditto, Doric dwarf pilasters; windows with pointed and circular pediments alternately; scroll jambs; balustrade parapet with balls. Fourth division, right and left; a continuation of second ditto. The centrical portion, however, assumes additional decorations by the introduction of Doric and Ionic columus: open pediment, having vases and reclining statues. Within ditto open pediment, a large pedestal ensues, with scroll terms and heads, inclosing a scroll-formed compartment. These ternis support a circular pediment, and scroll parapet, statues, &c. Third and fifth, or angle divisions, come in section, and present two tier of apartments; but little or no decorations appear. The cupolas at the angles as before. Between each story, general plain entablature. In these uprights, the highest magnificence is manifested, particularly in the centre division of the centre court. Conclusion of Colin Campbell's sett. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE. In the Press. Sir PHILIP WARWICK'S Memoirs of the Reign of Charles I. with a Continuation to the Restoration of Charles II. in an 8vo volume, from the original edition, with annotations by an eminent literary character. A complete History of the House of Commons and Boroughs of the United Kingdom, from the earliest period to the present Time. By Mr. OLDFIELD, A Historical View of the Domestic" Economy of Great Britain and Ireland, with a Comparative Estimate of their Etficient Strength, corrected and conti nued to 1812. By GEO. 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Dr. GALL, the celebrated physician, has, after the experience of some years, ascertained the curious fact, that children, born deaf and dumb, and afflicted with pulmonary.com. plaints, recover their health by acquiring the power of speech. Hence it should seem that this gift is not less necessary to constitutional strength than to our happiness. ECONOMY IN BREAD.-The Rev. F. HAGGITT, Prebendary of Durham, has lately stated in a letter to the Bishop of Durham, the result of a successful experiment for saving the consumption of flour in making. bread. Mr. Haggitt gives the following account of the process:-"I took 5lb. of bran, boiled it, and, with the liquor strained from it, kneaded 56ib. of flour, adding the usual quantity of salt and yeast. When the dough was sufficiently risen, it was weighed, and divided into loaves; the weight, before being put into the oven, being 93lb. 13oz. or about 8lb. 10oz. more than the same quantity of flour kneaded in the common way; it was then baked two hours, and, some time after being drawn, the bread was weighed, and gave 83lb. 8oz.—loss in baking, 10lb. 5oz. The same quantity of flour, kneaded with common water, loses about 15lb. 10oz. in the baking, and produces only 691b. 8oz. of bread; gain by my method 14lb.; that is, a clear increase of one fifth of the usual quantity of bread from a given quantity of flour."He also states, that the bran, after being used in this way, is equally fit for many domestic purposes. 25. Tales REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. 35. Tales, by the Rev. George Crabbe, LL.B. 8vo. pp. 398. Hatchard. WITH peculiar pleasure we again of human nature, for such he may in disputably and pre-eminently be denominated. To the perusal of the former publications of Mr. Crabbe (vol. LXXVII. 1033; LXXVIII. 59; LXXX. i. 445, 548, 633) we sat down with that justifiable partiality which arises from old and intimate friendship; but our opinion of their merits was not the less sincerely given, and has been confirmed by the concurring testimony of the most respectable of our Brother Journalists, and by the unequivocal testimony of numerous successive Editions; a circumstance which the Author thus gratefully, yet modestly, acknowledges:1 "That the appearance of the present Volume before the Publick is occasioned by a favourable reception of the former two, I hesitate not to acknowledge: be cause, while the confession may be regarded as some proof of gratitude, or at least of attention from an Author to his Readers, it ought not to be considered as an indication of vanity. It is unquestionably very pleasant to be assured that our labours are well received; but, nevertheless, this must not be taken for a just and full criterion of their merit: publications of great intrinsic value have been met with so much coolness, that a writer who succeeds in obtaining some degree of notice, should look upon himself rather as one favoured than meritorious, as gaining a prize from Fortune, and not a recompense for desert; and, en the contrary, as it is well known that books of very inferior kind have been at once pushed into the strong current of popularity, and are there kept buoyant by the force of the stream, the writer who acquires not this adventitious help, may be reckoned rather as unfortunate than undeserving; and from these opposite considerations it follows, that a man may speak of his success without incurring justly the odium of conceit, and may likewise acknowledge a disappointment without an adequate cause for humiliation or self-reproach.-But, were it true that something of the complacency of self-approbation would insinuate itself into an Author's mind with the idea of success, the sensation would not be that of unalloyed pleasure: it would perhaps GENT. 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September, 1812. assist him to bear, but it would not enable him to escape, the mortification he must encounter from censures, which, may yet he finds himself unable to confute as well as from advice, which, at the same time that he cannot but approve, he is compelled to reject.-Reproof and advice, it is probable, every Author will receive, if we except those who merit so much of the former, that the latter is contemptuously denied them; now of these, reproof, though it may cause more temporary uneasiness, will in many cases create less difficulty, since errors may be corrected when opportunity occurs; but advice, I repeat, may be of such nature, that it will be painful to reject, and yet impossible to follow it; and in this predicament I conceive myself to be placed, There has been recommended to me, and from authority which neither inclination or prudence leads me to resist, in any new work I might undertake, an unity of subject, and that arrangement of my materials which connects the whole, and gives additional interest to every part; in fact, if not an Epic Poem, strictly so denominated, yet such composition as would possess a regular succession of events, and a catastrophe to which every incident should be subservient, and which every character, in a greater or less degree, should conspire to accomplish." ferring the plan he has now adopted, After assigning his reasons for pre Mr. Crabbe adds, "It is manifest that while much is lost for want of unity of subject and grandeur of design, something is gained by greater variety of incident, and more minute display of character, by accuracy of description, and diversity of scene: in these narratives we pass from gay to grave, from lively to severe, not only without impropriety, but with manifest advantage. In one continued and connected Poem, the Reader is, in general, highly gratified or severely disappointed; by many independent narratives, he has the renovation of hope, although he has been dissatisfied, and a prospect of reiterated pleasure should he find himself entertained. I mean not, however, to compare these different modes of writing as if I were balancing their advantages and defects before I could give preference to either; with me the way I take is not a matter of choice, but of necessity: I present not my Tales to the Reader as if I had chosen the best method of of ensuring his approbation, but as using the only means I possessed of engaging his attention." In a neat disquisition on the proper characteristicks of genuine Poetry, in which it is observed, that " an Author will find comfort in his expulsion from the rank and society of Poets, by reflecting that men much his superiors were likewise shut out, and more especially when he finds also that men not much his superiors are entitled to admission ;" and that "the imaginary persons and incidents to which the Poet has given a local habitation, and a name, will make upon the concurring feelings of the Reader, the same impressions with those taken from truth and nature, because they will appear to be derived from that source, and therefore of necessity will have a similar effect;" Mr. Crabbe observes, "Having thus far presumed to claim for the ensuing pages the rank and title of Poetry, I attempt no more, nor venture to class or compare them with any other kinds of poetical composition; their place will doubtless be found for them. A principal view and wish of the Poet must be to engage the mind of his Readers; as, failing in that point, he will scarcely succeed in any other: I therefore willingly confess that much of my time and assiduity has been devoted to this purpose; but, to the ambition of pleasing, no other sacrifices have, I trust, been made, than of my own labour and care. Nothing will be found that militates against the rules of propriety and good manners, nothing that offends against the more important precepts of morality and religion; and with this negative kind of merit, I commit my Book to the judgment and taste of the Reader, -not being willing to provoke his vigilance by professions of accuracy, nor to solicit his indulgence by apologies for mistakes." We are then treated with XXI par thetic "Tales," each unconnected with the other, each containing a distinct History complete in itself, and in each of which will be found an instructive Lesson, and a salutary Moral. Nor can the several appropriate Mottoes prefixed to each Tale, selected from our great Dramatic Bard, be passed over without applause. We recommend the First Tale, "The Dumb Orators," to the serious perusal of those who are so far infected with the mania of Reform, as to endeavour the overthrow of Church Foes to the Laws, the Priesthood, and the The vain, to seem supporters of a cause; One call'd for change, that he would dread to see; Another sigh'd for Gallic Liberty! And numbers joining with the forward [do." crew, For no one reason-but that numbers The Second Tale, "The Parting Hour," has great merit; and is in itself a brief Epic poem. The Third, "The Gentleman Farmer," is a highly finished Portrait sufficient of itself to have established the credit of our Author as a faithful Painter from real Life. "Gwyn was a Farmer, whom the far mers all, fcall; Who dwelt around, the Gentleman would Whether in pure humility or pride, [cide. They only knew, and they would not de "Far diff'rent he from that dull plod |