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tion : for these we must refer our readers to the work itself , extracting only the outline of the plan in the Count's words . " The bringing forward of the fire into the room , or rather bringing it nearer to the front of the opening of the Fire-plac ;;— and the _ diminishing of the throat of the Chimney , being two objects principally had in view in the alterations in Fire-places here recommended , it is evident that both these may be attained merelbbringing forward the back of the Chimney . — -The onl
y y y question therefore is , how far it should be brought forward ?—The answer is short , and easy to be understood;—bring it forward as far as possible , without diminishing too much the passage which must be left for the smoke . Now as this passage , which , in its narrowest part , I have called thetbroataftbe Chimney , ought , for reasons which are fully explained in the foregoing Chapter , to be immediately , or perpendicularly over the Fire , it is evident that the back of the Chimney must always be built perfectly upright . "
Upon the whole we consider this Essay as extremely conducive to public ; utility , and think the Count is in general accurate and just in his observa = tions . Though at the same time we cannot allow him all the merits ol Originality : for his principles of contracting , by means of covings , and reflecting the heat into the room , have been made use of in several houses at the west end of the town with great success more than twelve years ago . The remarks on combined and radiant heat , in pages 31 a and 313 , are very riht ?
ingenious . In page 30 : 1 , he is not perhaps quite g , when he says > « that the warm air in a room rushes out at an opening made for it at the top of the window , when colder air from without is permitted to enterat the door : " for though this may be strictly true , when applied to a cottage whose door opens immediately to the air ; yet in large houses , the current along the passages cannot be so cold as the external air at the window ; and we think that unless the air on the outside of the door of the room be colder than the air on the
outside of the window , ( which can . hardly ever be the case ) the air will not rush out at the opening made for it at the top of the window . If the contrary of this be contended for , how shall we be able to account for the elasticity of condensed air . There seems to us a contradiction between the method of ventilation recommended in page 301 , and the German method mentioned in page 303 ; but it is possible , we may not fully comprehend these passages .
We are sorry our limits will not permit tts to enter into a fuller examination of this excellent little Essay ; we hope , however , at some future opportunity to be able to treat of it more at large . Angelina . A Novel . In a Series of Letters . By Mrs . Robinson . % vol . \ imo . About 900 Pages . Price 10 s . 6 d . Hookham and Carpenter ; 17961
THE talents of Mrs . Robinson , as a Novel writer , have long been stamped by public approbation ; and we think the production , now before us , will not in the . least detract from her well-earned frame . Unwilling by anticipation to diminish the pleasure whiih our readers ma ] ' receive from the perusal of these volumes , we forbear to enter into a detail of the story . We shall only observe , that its principal object is-to expose the folly and iniquity of those parents , who force the inclinations of their children in conjugal connections ; and to hold forth to just detestation the cruelty of those , who barter a daughter ' s happiness for the splendours of title or fortune . The sentiments in these volumes are animated and rational . They breathe a ve-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
tion : for these we must refer our readers to the work itself , extracting only the outline of the plan in the Count's words . " The bringing forward of the fire into the room , or rather bringing it nearer to the front of the opening of the Fire-plac ;;— and the _ diminishing of the throat of the Chimney , being two objects principally had in view in the alterations in Fire-places here recommended , it is evident that both these may be attained merelbbringing forward the back of the Chimney . — -The onl
y y y question therefore is , how far it should be brought forward ?—The answer is short , and easy to be understood;—bring it forward as far as possible , without diminishing too much the passage which must be left for the smoke . Now as this passage , which , in its narrowest part , I have called thetbroataftbe Chimney , ought , for reasons which are fully explained in the foregoing Chapter , to be immediately , or perpendicularly over the Fire , it is evident that the back of the Chimney must always be built perfectly upright . "
Upon the whole we consider this Essay as extremely conducive to public ; utility , and think the Count is in general accurate and just in his observa = tions . Though at the same time we cannot allow him all the merits ol Originality : for his principles of contracting , by means of covings , and reflecting the heat into the room , have been made use of in several houses at the west end of the town with great success more than twelve years ago . The remarks on combined and radiant heat , in pages 31 a and 313 , are very riht ?
ingenious . In page 30 : 1 , he is not perhaps quite g , when he says > « that the warm air in a room rushes out at an opening made for it at the top of the window , when colder air from without is permitted to enterat the door : " for though this may be strictly true , when applied to a cottage whose door opens immediately to the air ; yet in large houses , the current along the passages cannot be so cold as the external air at the window ; and we think that unless the air on the outside of the door of the room be colder than the air on the
outside of the window , ( which can . hardly ever be the case ) the air will not rush out at the opening made for it at the top of the window . If the contrary of this be contended for , how shall we be able to account for the elasticity of condensed air . There seems to us a contradiction between the method of ventilation recommended in page 301 , and the German method mentioned in page 303 ; but it is possible , we may not fully comprehend these passages .
We are sorry our limits will not permit tts to enter into a fuller examination of this excellent little Essay ; we hope , however , at some future opportunity to be able to treat of it more at large . Angelina . A Novel . In a Series of Letters . By Mrs . Robinson . % vol . \ imo . About 900 Pages . Price 10 s . 6 d . Hookham and Carpenter ; 17961
THE talents of Mrs . Robinson , as a Novel writer , have long been stamped by public approbation ; and we think the production , now before us , will not in the . least detract from her well-earned frame . Unwilling by anticipation to diminish the pleasure whiih our readers ma ] ' receive from the perusal of these volumes , we forbear to enter into a detail of the story . We shall only observe , that its principal object is-to expose the folly and iniquity of those parents , who force the inclinations of their children in conjugal connections ; and to hold forth to just detestation the cruelty of those , who barter a daughter ' s happiness for the splendours of title or fortune . The sentiments in these volumes are animated and rational . They breathe a ve-