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Review Of New Publications.
An Essay on the Maranla , or Indian Arrow Root . By Thomas R yder , % vo . Pages . Price is . Bell , Oxford ' Street . THE author of this pamphlet is one of the many speculators , who , in the present time of scarcity , comes forward to propose his plan forjfie public relief . This plan relates , to the making of Starch from a root called the " Maranta , " which , grows in Jamaica . This wonderful secret it seems was
communicated to Mr . R . in the course of his business , as an apothecary . He states , that he has received a letter of" thanks from the Society in the Adelphi for his communications relative to it ; and after some flowery and tedious digressions on the Pyramids of Egypt , and Perry ' s IVei Decks , at Blackwall , concludes by informing us , that the starch prepared from the Arrow Root , is worth about 15 c ! . per lb . in Jamaica , which would , of course , be doubled before it could be sold in England , by duty , freight , profits of the
merchants , & c . ; but that nevertheless it would be cheaper and better than English made starch , which , on the average of the last seven years , has not been more than ten pence per lb . RisunSteneatis ! 'This is an age of speculation indeed !
Bagatelles of original and translated Poetry . By Weedon Butler , B . A . Svo , Price 3 ^ , Cadell arid Davies . Mr . BUTLER comes before the world partly as an original writer , partly as an editor . We cannot from his book , however , distinguish the Bagatelles he has written , from those he has edited . The collection consists of every lesser species of composition ; many of them possessing great merit ,
some of them below mediocrity . We sometimes travel over a few pages of waste , and are suddenly surprised at the beauty of the landscape that rises before us ; and - . at other times , after passing a rich garden , we are almost prevented from proceeding by a ditch , or a swamp ,. that threatens to arrest our progress . Most of these trifles we think are the efforts of very young men ; there is nevertheless strong marks of genius ; and . we doubt not that they may continue successfully and improve .
A Reply to the Letter of Edmund Burke , Esq . to a noble Lord . B y Gilbert -Wakefield , B . A . late Fellow of Jesus College , Cambridge . % vo . Pages 52 . Price 2 J-. Kearsley . GILBERT WAKEFIELD , who is too good a man himself to let vice pass without a lash , ' and too blunt to deck his opinions in any but a plain , garb , is one among the many who have attacked Mr . Burke and his pension . The
present pamphlet has a great deal of merit : the arguments are clear , satisfactory , and convincing ; and we are of opinion that Mr . Burke will have much trouble to answer them . The quotations are in general well chosen , and well applied . The language is tliroiighout / irr'M ? and so etimes elegant \ and we believe what the writer says , because he appears to be always in earnest
, and to wish to investigate not WORDS , but FACTS .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Review Of New Publications.
An Essay on the Maranla , or Indian Arrow Root . By Thomas R yder , % vo . Pages . Price is . Bell , Oxford ' Street . THE author of this pamphlet is one of the many speculators , who , in the present time of scarcity , comes forward to propose his plan forjfie public relief . This plan relates , to the making of Starch from a root called the " Maranta , " which , grows in Jamaica . This wonderful secret it seems was
communicated to Mr . R . in the course of his business , as an apothecary . He states , that he has received a letter of" thanks from the Society in the Adelphi for his communications relative to it ; and after some flowery and tedious digressions on the Pyramids of Egypt , and Perry ' s IVei Decks , at Blackwall , concludes by informing us , that the starch prepared from the Arrow Root , is worth about 15 c ! . per lb . in Jamaica , which would , of course , be doubled before it could be sold in England , by duty , freight , profits of the
merchants , & c . ; but that nevertheless it would be cheaper and better than English made starch , which , on the average of the last seven years , has not been more than ten pence per lb . RisunSteneatis ! 'This is an age of speculation indeed !
Bagatelles of original and translated Poetry . By Weedon Butler , B . A . Svo , Price 3 ^ , Cadell arid Davies . Mr . BUTLER comes before the world partly as an original writer , partly as an editor . We cannot from his book , however , distinguish the Bagatelles he has written , from those he has edited . The collection consists of every lesser species of composition ; many of them possessing great merit ,
some of them below mediocrity . We sometimes travel over a few pages of waste , and are suddenly surprised at the beauty of the landscape that rises before us ; and - . at other times , after passing a rich garden , we are almost prevented from proceeding by a ditch , or a swamp ,. that threatens to arrest our progress . Most of these trifles we think are the efforts of very young men ; there is nevertheless strong marks of genius ; and . we doubt not that they may continue successfully and improve .
A Reply to the Letter of Edmund Burke , Esq . to a noble Lord . B y Gilbert -Wakefield , B . A . late Fellow of Jesus College , Cambridge . % vo . Pages 52 . Price 2 J-. Kearsley . GILBERT WAKEFIELD , who is too good a man himself to let vice pass without a lash , ' and too blunt to deck his opinions in any but a plain , garb , is one among the many who have attacked Mr . Burke and his pension . The
present pamphlet has a great deal of merit : the arguments are clear , satisfactory , and convincing ; and we are of opinion that Mr . Burke will have much trouble to answer them . The quotations are in general well chosen , and well applied . The language is tliroiighout / irr'M ? and so etimes elegant \ and we believe what the writer says , because he appears to be always in earnest
, and to wish to investigate not WORDS , but FACTS .