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      London ' s Magazine of Natural History . This usefyl work appears every other month . One of its most interesting features is the number of short communications , from actual observers , on the characters , habits , and remarkable doings of animals . They form a very pleasant zoological aneedotage , and are excellent materials for the improvement of standard treatises of Natural H istory . The longer articles have the merit which might be expected from the known judgment and science of the editor in this department of knowledge .

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      Rowbotham ' s New and Easy Method of learning the French Genders in a few hours . A valuable addition to several valuable school books , by the same author . It consists of tables * by which the student may , by directing his attention merely to the endings and exceptions , retain in his memory the genders of about sixteen thousand nouns .

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      Strikes and Sticks . By Harriet Martineau . Many authors would have earned commendation by this little Tract , but Miss Martineau has created a standard for her own publications by which she must submit to their being tried , although the test may sometimes seem a severe one . She claims to be a teacher of the people ; and well has her claim been supported by most of her works . But to be the people ' s teacher she must always show herself the people ' s friend ,

      not merely by the soundness of her advice , but by the tone and spirit of her admonitions . In this Tract she has shown that strikes , as heretofore conducted , are foolish , on account of the certainty of their failure , and iniquitous , on account of the violence by which they have been accompanied . But in her comparative censures she deals rather hard measure to the Operatives , and is somewhat niggardly of her praises . Jsitnot something that they have learned to unite , however imperfectly or erroneously they may , as yet , work the machinery of union ? They

      have put themselves in the way of becoming wiser , and that is a grand step . The first lesson is learned , and the second will follow , though sundry mistakes may be made by the way . Their progress will bear no disadvantageous comparison with that of any , other class of society . For their errors , even the worst , examples are but too abundant Besides , let the reader advert to the fact mentioned in the last paragraph of our correspondent ' s note on Trades' Unions ( p . 249 . ) If the strike contribution become the capital of a Joint Stock Company , the , Operatives will be following the very advice which Miss Martineau and

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      have 'made me a poet . ' We demur to both propositions . We believe that both nature and circumstances prefer his being a translator ; at least , if they do not , nature and circumstances are nut of our opinion , ! # et the reader who doubts our negative read the ' strictly commercial poem * of Of Fluminense ; and . then take the evidence of our positive in the ' Song of the Bell , ' and other versions in * Specimens of the German Lyric Poets / and the ' William Tell' of Schiller , which we are glad to see again in a second edition .

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      806 Critical Noticts .

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    • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1834, page 308, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2632/page/80/