Reviews.

The Poet of tlie Age ; a Satirical Poem , viitU introductory ¦ remarks on the Decline of ' . Poetry . Hardwicke , Piccadilly . The most valuable part of this work is decidedly to be found in the introductory remarks , which , by-the-bye , is as long as tho poem . Itis a sensible well-written article , which would be better entitled an "Essay on Cant , " than on the decline of poetry . Of the poem we are compelled

to say wo have failed to discover the point of the satire , and have only arrived at the conclusion that—whoever may be—tho author of this brochure , is not the " Poet of the Age . "

Notes On Literature, Science, And Art.

NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE , AND ART .

Dr . Ermete Pierotti , who recently read some lectures at Oxford on Jerusalem , has an imperial quarto volume in preparation , entitled Jerusalem Fxplored ; being a Description ofthe Ancient and Modern , City . The work will be illustrated with upwards of 100 views , ground plans , aud sections . Dr . Pierotti has lived in Jerusalem for eight years as architect and

engineer to the Pasha of the city , and has had many peculiar and favourable opportunities for pursuing researches relating to the topography ofthe ancient and suhterreanean city . Trubncr and Co . have favoured us ( the Critic ) with a prospectus of a remarkable work about to appear at Milan in the Italian language . We had better give the title ;

Sommonalcodom Codice Duddislico Siamese ( T , hai ) Manuscrilto e Dipinlo . " tin volume in 4 : to grande . Con Atlante di Settanta Tatiole in Cromolitograjia , puhlicato per cura D . Biondelli . The publication of the MS . with the plates in chromo-lithography , will he a treat to Oriental scholars . Buddhism is the religion of some 400 millions in the East . By good fortune , the present

manuscript , unique of its kind , has reached Europe , in which the Bhuddist religion is figured and described . It is in the T , hai , or Siamese language . The first volume will he an exact facsimile of the original manuscript , and judging by the specimen before us , it will have pictorial interest , if nothing more . As to the written characters , we do not pretend to have the slightest acquaintance . The second volume , however , will tell us all

about the contents ofthe first , and about the philosophy and religion of Buddha . Both volumes will be in the 4 to form , and it is announced that 250 copies only will be printed . David Wingate , the collier poet , to whom DlacTcivoocVs Magazine has directed so much attention , is a native of Lanarkshire , and lives and works to this day in a coal-pit at

Windmillhill , near Motherwell . He is about thirty-five years of age , and since his boyhood has written verses which haye seen the light in the poet ' s corners of the Glasgow newspapers . So finback as 1852 the late Hugh Macdonald introduced Mr . Wingate and several of his poems to the readers of the Glasgow Citizen in a kindly and appreciative article . Wingate ' s collected

" Poems and Songs , " will be shortly published . The poetical works of the late Hugh Macdonald , of the Glasgow Citizen , are in the press , and will be published in the course of the present summer . A new translation of Horace , by Gr . Chichester Oxenden , printed for railway reading , will be published immediately .

Messrs . Longman and Co . project the issue of a new series of wall maps for schools . It is thought hy many teachers that the maps at present in use are faulty in the following respect : — They do not give the physical features of countries with sufficient clearness and distinctness ; the mountains are too frequently a confused mass of black , without any attempt to

show the ranges , the peaks , and depressions ; the rivers are laid down in a manner which renders it often impossible to say where they rise ; places of importance in a commercial point of

view are omitted ; and the positions of cities and towns are not given with that accuracy which is essential to sound teaching . It is believed that these evils can only he remedied by having two maps for each country ; one , in which the physical features —the mountains , plains , rivers , & c . —shall he clearly and boldl y delineated ; and another , which shall contain , in addition to the physical features , the political divisions , cities , towns , & e .

Upon this plan a map of England and Wales will shortly he published , and , if it meet with favour , it will be followed h y others . A new Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages , by the Bev . W . L . Blackley and Dr . C . M . Friedlander , is in preparation . The dictionary has been compiled

for practical English use , and will exclude all archaic or merely pedantic words unknown to literature and speech . Mr . Charles Alston Collins , brother of Mr . Wilkie Collins , has iu the press , A Cruise upon Wheels , " an autumn ramble among the deserted post roads of France . Professor Cairnes , of Queen ' s College * Galway , has in the

, press a work on The Slave Power : its Character , Career , and Frobable Designs , being an attempt to explain the real issues involved in the American contest . Mr . Peter Cunningham has completed his work on the Environs of London , similar in plan to his Handbook of London . Mr . Richard Redgrave , R . A ., and his brother , Mr . S .

Bedgrave , who has acted for years as the honorary secretary of the Etching- Club , have been engaged for some time in preparing the materials for a History of the British School of Painting . They have both of them excellent opportunities at the present time for increasing their knowledge , as they are busily oeccpied , with Mr . Creswick , R . A ., in the difficult and irksome task of arranging the British pictures sent to the International

Exhibition . Mr . Maclise , R . A ., having finished his first great picture in the Houses of Parliament , " The Meeting of Wellington and Blucher at Waterloo , " has received a commission for a work of the same size for a corresponding compartment , measuring 45 feet long hy 12 high . The price paid for these large pictures , which are painted in the new method called " water-glass "

painting , invented by Dr . Fuchs , of Munich , is £ 3500 each . The subject for this second great work of Mr . Maclise's is " The Death of Nelson . " The Peers' Gallery is to have eighteen of these immense pictures upon its walls , all of which will relate to the military and naval history of England . Messrs . Colnaghi , Scott , and Co . are about to publish a splendid

srries of photographs , made in Egypt and Greece , hy C . G . Fountaine , Esq . These are taken from admirably-selected point of view of the countries in question , and present the ancient remains and famous localities with impressive grandeur . The effect chosen for representation is generally a softer one than that preferred by Mr . Frith in his noble collection . " The Bock

Temple of Abou-Simbel , " " The Eastern Colonnade of Philie ;" the Hyposthral Court and Hieroglyphic Wall at the last place are rendered with the greatest force and delicacy . Sot less delightful are those from Karnac , Edfou , and Luxor . The Council of the Astronomical Society have awarded the the Gold Medal to Mr . Warren De La Eue for his astronomical

researches , and especially for his application of photography . This public recognition of the success of chemical delineation of celestial objects may be an important date in the history of astronomy . So discovery of our day affords a more hopeful field of anticipation than that of photography , which seems destined to take that part in the astronomy of visual phenomena wliich graduated instruments have taken in the astronomy of motions and positions .