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      576 Critical Notices . —Extraordinary Black Book .

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      The Extraordinary Black Book ; an Exposition of Abuses in Church and State * Courts of Law , Representation , Municipal and Corporate Bodies . A New Edition . 1832 . This work was originally brought out in numbers , twelve years ago , and * upwards of 14 , 000 copies were sold , almost without the expense of advertisement , or any of those helps from literary notices which are usually deemed essential to give celebrity to the productions of the

      press . ' Last year a spirited attempt was made to remedy the defects of the publication ; and by a further employment of industry , talent , and energy , the edition now before us is , we believe , rendered as complete and correct as any work of a like multifarious description which has ever appeared . It contains an immense mass of information , with dissertations intermingled which are written with great spirit and ability .

      Amongst much valuable matter now first introduced , is an article on the numbers , wealth , and educational efficiency of Protestant Dissenters , in which the compiler ( and no wonder ) has been led a little astray by the confused nomenclature of Sectarianism . He is not aware that Presbyterians and Unitarians , and General Baptists and Unitarians also , are , to a considerable extent , identical . The former are estimated ( from the Congregational Magazine we believe ) at 258 congregations , and the latter ( we know not from what source ) at 169 . The General

      Baptists are returned at 107 . The total of Presbyterians and General Baptists ( 365 ) is probably about the number of Unitarian congregations . Some of each class are orthodox , but there are Unitarian societies not classed under either denomination . The mistake was scarcely Avoidable , and is not , in a political view , of any particular moment . We ought to have had returns of our own , complete and authentic : only so can mistake in some quarters and misrepresentation in others be precluded . Every man who is interested in the condition and improvement of the country , should have this book at hand for reference .

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      Our notices of books sent to our ofnce are unavoidably left considerably in arrears this month . Our insertion of J . C . ' s request would be taxed as an advertisement . No parcel from J . has been received . The subject suggested by E . T . will soon be brought into discussion . We feel strongly with J . L ., as we shall shew when occasion serves . The notice of the Rev . W . P . Scarcit y ' resignation arrived too late for insertion in the Unitarian Chronicle .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1832, page 576, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1818/page/72/