From time to time various productions, many valuable, others the reverse,
have issued from the press in parts or numbers; some have been completed,
while others have only reached a few numbers. It would be desirable to
ascertain what works have been finished, and what have not. I have
therefore transmitted a note as to several that have fallen in my way, and
should be happy for any information about them:
"1. John Bull Magazine, 8vo., London, 1824. Of this I possess four
numbers. A friend of mine has also the four numbers, and, like myself,
attaches great value to them, from the ability of many of the articles.
One article, entitled "Instructions to Missionaries," is equal to any
thing from the pen of T. Hood. May it not have been written by him?
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2. Portraits of the Worthies of Westminster Hall, with their
Autographs, being Fac-Similes of Original Sketches found in the
Note-Book of a Briefless Barrister. London: Thomas and William Boone,
480. Strand. Small 8vo.
Part I. Price Twenty Shillings. Twenty Sketches (very clever).
3. Dictionary of Terms employed by the French in Anatomy, Physiology,
Pathology, &c., by Shirley Palmer, M.D. 8vo., 1834. Birmingham: Barlow.
London: Longman & Co. Two Parts. Stops at the letter H.
4. Quarterly Biographical Magazine, No. I., May, 1838. 8vo. London:
Hunt & Hart.
5. Complete Illustrations of the British Fresh-water Fishes. London: W.
Wood. 8vo. Three Numbers.
6. New and Compendious History of the County of Warwick, &c. By William
Smith, F.R.S.A. 4to. Birmingham: W. Evans. London: J. T. Hinton, 4.
Warwick Square. 1829. Ten Numbers, to be completed in Twelve. On my
copy there is written, "Never finished." Is this the case?
7. Fishes of Ceylon. By John Whitchurch Bennet, Esq., F.H.S. London:
Longman & Co. 1828. 4to. Two Numbers. A Guinea each.