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The following lines in the Ode to Despair are exquisitely beautiful ; " And there—while DANGER ' giant form Stalks through the horrors of the hurtling storm , Whose voice what mortal unappall'd can hear ? Shivers aghast the phantom FEAR . There MADNESS too , whose shatter'd hair , Wildly streaming , mocks the air ;
, His blood-shot eye-balls sparkle fire , And burst with ineffectual ire ; While still by fits he shakes his hundred chains , Xoud laughs with ghastly grin , or roars along the plains . " Did our limits permit , we would willingly extract more ; though we should perhaps be , at a loss what flowers to cull , from so extensive and elegant a parterre .
Experimental Essays , Political , Economical , and Philosophical . By Benjamin , Count of Rurnford , F . R . S . Essay IV . On Chimney Fire-Places , ivith Pro ^ posals to save Fuel , and prevent Chimnies from Smoking . Z < vo . Price zs . Ca-, dell and Davies . COUNT RUMFORD , the author of these Essays , though by birth an Englishman , has passed a great part of his life in the service of the elector of BaV varia , by whom he has been employed to regulate the economy of the poorer
part of his subjects ; and it is said , that . the Count ' s different . plaiis for their relief , have been attended with so much success , that Bavaria , from being almost the worst , is now become the best managed State in Germany . Through all his Essays , the Count writes as a scholarand philosopher ; and we take up the present Essay with peculiar satisfaction , since it relates to a part of domestic economy , which is of the first importance to the health and comfort of the inhabitants of this country . The general outline of his plan
seems to be to lessen the consumption of fuel , to prevent smoke , and to obtain an air in our apartments , free for respiration , and of coarse healthful . After enumerating tlie various ills , arising from the present defective state of chimnies and fire places , the Count proceeds to point out the chief of the defects as follows . f Although the causes , by which the ascent of smoke in a Chimney may he obstructed , are various ; yet that cause which will most commonly , and I
may say almost universally be found to operate , is one which it is always very easy to discover , and as easy to remove , —tlie bad construction of the Chimney in the neig hbourhood of the Fire-place . In the course of all my experience and practice in curing smoking Chimnies , —and I certainly have not had less than five hundred under my hands , and among them many which , were thought to be quite incurable , —I have never been obliged , except in one single instance , to have recourse to any other method of cure , than ' merely reducing the Fiie-placea nd the throat of the Chimney , or that part of it which lies immediately above the Fire-place , to a proper form , and just dimensions . "
In the seond chapter are pointed out the means of remed y , which for the most part consists ia . ' contracting the throat of the chimney , or that part which is immediately oyer the Fire-place . A variety of directions are given , by which bricklayers may alter Fire-places , according to the Count ' s Inten-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
The following lines in the Ode to Despair are exquisitely beautiful ; " And there—while DANGER ' giant form Stalks through the horrors of the hurtling storm , Whose voice what mortal unappall'd can hear ? Shivers aghast the phantom FEAR . There MADNESS too , whose shatter'd hair , Wildly streaming , mocks the air ;
, His blood-shot eye-balls sparkle fire , And burst with ineffectual ire ; While still by fits he shakes his hundred chains , Xoud laughs with ghastly grin , or roars along the plains . " Did our limits permit , we would willingly extract more ; though we should perhaps be , at a loss what flowers to cull , from so extensive and elegant a parterre .
Experimental Essays , Political , Economical , and Philosophical . By Benjamin , Count of Rurnford , F . R . S . Essay IV . On Chimney Fire-Places , ivith Pro ^ posals to save Fuel , and prevent Chimnies from Smoking . Z < vo . Price zs . Ca-, dell and Davies . COUNT RUMFORD , the author of these Essays , though by birth an Englishman , has passed a great part of his life in the service of the elector of BaV varia , by whom he has been employed to regulate the economy of the poorer
part of his subjects ; and it is said , that . the Count ' s different . plaiis for their relief , have been attended with so much success , that Bavaria , from being almost the worst , is now become the best managed State in Germany . Through all his Essays , the Count writes as a scholarand philosopher ; and we take up the present Essay with peculiar satisfaction , since it relates to a part of domestic economy , which is of the first importance to the health and comfort of the inhabitants of this country . The general outline of his plan
seems to be to lessen the consumption of fuel , to prevent smoke , and to obtain an air in our apartments , free for respiration , and of coarse healthful . After enumerating tlie various ills , arising from the present defective state of chimnies and fire places , the Count proceeds to point out the chief of the defects as follows . f Although the causes , by which the ascent of smoke in a Chimney may he obstructed , are various ; yet that cause which will most commonly , and I
may say almost universally be found to operate , is one which it is always very easy to discover , and as easy to remove , —tlie bad construction of the Chimney in the neig hbourhood of the Fire-place . In the course of all my experience and practice in curing smoking Chimnies , —and I certainly have not had less than five hundred under my hands , and among them many which , were thought to be quite incurable , —I have never been obliged , except in one single instance , to have recourse to any other method of cure , than ' merely reducing the Fiie-placea nd the throat of the Chimney , or that part of it which lies immediately above the Fire-place , to a proper form , and just dimensions . "
In the seond chapter are pointed out the means of remed y , which for the most part consists ia . ' contracting the throat of the chimney , or that part which is immediately oyer the Fire-place . A variety of directions are given , by which bricklayers may alter Fire-places , according to the Count ' s Inten-