Reviews.

REVIEWS .

Some Account of the Residence of the Inventor of the Steam Eng ine . By Bro . THOMAS LIDSTONE , P . M ., P . Z ., & c , Architect , of Dartmouth , Devonshire . London : Longmans and Co . This is a remarkable book—being not only remarkably short ( containing only one paragraph ) and remarkably well printed and "got np , " but treating of the remarkable case of the "building of an old house . " Bro .

Lidstone , a Devonshire architect and antiquary , determined , it seems , so long ago as 1851 , the year of tha Great Exhibition , to get up a public memorial in honour of his fellow townsman , he being no less a personage than Mr : Neweomin , an ironmonger of Dartmouth , and tbe inventor and maker of the first self-acting steam engines . In this effort , however , public sympathy did not go with him . So when local improvements necessitated the

destruction of Newcomins' residence , in connection with the removal of one of the old streets of Dartmouth , for sanitary measures , he saved it "from the burning , "—for it was sold and would have been iWiitf for firewood , —and rebuilt it on a favourite site of his own , to his own honour , and as an esamnle to all of -what WP .

11-directed and thoughtful enterprise can do . The material support of the whole British Empire was enlisted to aid the " restoration" of Shakspeare ' s house at Stratforddoubtless a correct impulse towards a great man ' s memory—sympathy , on the other hand , being refused in a worthy effort to commemorate the achievements of one of our great " unknown" men—this pioneer of progress and civilisation , and the great ori ginator of the chief

source of the material greatness of the English nation though he sprung from a [ now ] obscure borough town , an individual " buckled to , " and did tho work , singlehanded and alone . The building is picturesque in appearance , and will , Ave hope , remain for many years an attraction to the place , and add to the credit ofthe enterprising local architect , Thomas Lidstone , who evidently knows how to appreciate the labour and ingenuity of one

of his predecessors as an inhabitant of the town . AVe hope modern authors , when treating on the history of steam power , will take the hint on the title page , and convey tlrLs Booh of One Paragraph as a "note" in connection with their records of the prominent place 3 STewcomin holds in the history of science .

Scientific Meetings For The Week.

SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE WEEK .

Sunday , June 26 th . —Sunday Lecture Society , St . George ' s ] Hall Langham-place , at 8 . Monday , June 27 th . —Ethnological Society , at 8 ; London Institution , at 4 . Wednesday , June 29 th . —Society of Arts ( Anniversary Meeting ) , at 4 ; Geological Society ( President ' s Conversazione ) , at 8 . Friday , July 1 st . —Ropal United Service Institution , at 8 . 30 .

List Of Lodge, Meetings, &C., For, Week Ending 2nd, July 1870.

LIST OF LODGE , MEETINGS , & c ., FOR , WEEK ENDING 2 ND , JULY 1870 .

( Abbreviations . —F . M . H , Freemasons' Hall ; M . H ., Masonic Hall ; M . T ., Masonic Temple ; Tav ., Tavern ; Ho ., Hotel ; Ro . Fiooms ; L ., Lodge ; St ., Street ; Sq .,-Square ) . METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTEES . Monday , June 27 th . LODGES . —British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tav ., Ba . ncroft-pl , Mile-end ; De Grey and Ripon , Angel Ho ., Groat Ilforel

CHAPTER . —Joppa , Albion Tav ., Aldersgate-st . Tuesday , June 28 th . Audit Committee Girls' School , at 2 . 30 . LODGES . — -Industry , F . M . H . ; Prince of AVales ' s "Willis ' s Rooms , St , James ' s . Wednesday , June 29 th . LODGES . —Temperance in the East , Pri . Ass . Ro ., 6 , Newby-pl ., Poplar . CHAPTER . —Lily Chapter of Richmond , Greyhound , Richmond , Surrey . Thursday , June 30 th . Gen . Com , Girls' School , at F . M . H ., at 4 .

List Of Lodge, Meetings, &C., For, Week Ending 2nd, July 1870.

Friday , Jidy lit . LODGES . —Star , Marquis of Granby Tav ., New Cross-rd . ^—CHASTEB .. —High Cross , White Hart Ho ., Tottenham ! Saturday , Jxdy 2 nd . Gen . Com . Boys' School , at F ' . M . H ., at 4 . METROPOLITAN LODGES AND CHAPTERS OF INSTRUCTION .

Monday , June 27 th . Temple , Old George , St . Mary Axe , E . C . ; Justice , Royal Albert New Cross-rd , Deptford ; Old Concord , Turk ' s Head , Motcombe-st ., Belgrave-sq . ; Sincerity , Railway Tav ., London-st . ; St . James's Union , Swan Tav ., Mount-st ., Grosvenor-sq . ; Industry , Dick ' s Coffee House , Fleet-st . ; Crystal Palace , City Arms Tav ., AVest-sq ., Southwark ; High Cross , White Hart Ho ., Tottenham ; Tower Hamlets EngineersDuke of Clarence

, , Commercial-rd ., East ; Eastern Star , Royal Ho ., Burdett-rd ., Mile-end-rd . ; Camden , Adelaide Tav ., Haverstock Hill British Oak , Bank of Friendship Tav ., Mile End . Tuesday , May 28 th . Faith , Fisher's Restaurant , Rletrop . Dist . Rail ., Victoria Station ; Domatic , Palmerston Arms , Giosvenor-pavk , Camberwell ; Jordan , Alwyne Castle , Canonhury ; Yarborough , Green Dragon , Stepney ; Prince Frederick William , Knights of St .

John ' s Tav ., St . John ' s-wood ; Dalhousie , Royal Edward , Triangle , Hackney ; Royal Albert , AVhite Hart , Abchurchlane ; Pythagorean , Prince ol Orange , Greenwich ; City of London , Shepherd and Flock Tav ., Bell-alley , Moorgate-st . y New Wandsworth , Freemasons' Ho ., New AVandsworth ; Rose of Denmark , George Ho ., Aldermanbury ; Royal Union , Dubourg ' s Ho ., Haymarket ; Metropolitan , George Ho ., Aldermanbury . CHAPTER . —Robert Burns , Sussex Stores , Upper St . Martiu's-lane ,

Wednesday , June 29 th . Confidence , Railway Tav ., London-street ; United Strength , Bull and Gate , Kentish Town ; New Concord , Rosemary Branch Tav ., Hoxton ; St . Mark ' s , ivfawby Arms , Mawby-st ., S . Lam ; beth ; Peckham , Maismore Arms , Park-road , Peckham-Rye , Temperance in the East , George the Fourth , Catherine-st ., Poplar ; Prosperity , Gladstone Tav ., Bishapsgate-sfcreet . CHAPTER OF INSTEUCTION . —St . James ' s Union , Swan Tav ., Mount-st ., Grosvenor-sq .

Thursday , June o 9 th . Fidelity , Goat ancl Compasses , Euscon-road ; Kent , Duke of York , Borough-rd ., Southwark ; United Mariners , Three Cranes , Mile-end-rd . ; Vitruvian , White Hart , College-st ., Lambeth ; St . George ' s , Globe Tav ., Royal Hill , Greenwich ; Manchester , Berkeley Arms , John-st ., Berkeley-square ; Tranquillity , SuirarLoaf'Tav ., Great St . Helen ' s , E . C . ; Whittington , Thatched House Tav ., 'J , Rod Lion-st . ; Royal Oak , Royal Oak

Tavern , Deptford . CHAPTEE OE INSTRUCTION . —Joppa , Prospect of AVhitby Tav ., 57 , Wapping-wall , Friday , July 1 st . St . Luke ' s , Pier Ho ., Cheyne-walk , Chelsea ; Temperance , Victoria Tav ., Victoria-rd ., Deptford ; Unions ( EmulationLodge of Improvement for M . M . ) , F . JI . H . ; United Pilgrims , Horns' Tav ., Kennington ; AA estbourne , the Grapes , Dulee-st ., Manchestersquare ; AVellington , Lord Duncan Tavern , Broadway ,

Deptford ; Florence Nightingale , Freemasons' Tav ., AVoohvich ; Ranelagb , Windsor Castle Hotel , King-st ., Hammersmith ; Belgrave , Duke , of Wellington , Spring-gardens , Charing-ci'oss ; St . James ' s , Gregorian Arms , Jamaica-row , Bermondsey ; Doric , Three Cranes , Mile End-rd . ; Rose of Denmark Metropolitan Chapter of Instruction , White Hart , Barnes , Surrey ; Victoria , Ar ^ lei-ton ' s Ho ., Fleet-st . ; Hervey , George Ho . Walham-green . CHAPTEE OE INSTEUCTION . — Domatic , Fisher ' s Restaurant , Victoria Station .

Saturday , July 2 nd . Mount Sion , Union Tav ., Air-st ., Piccadilly ; Robert Burns , Sussex Stores , Upper ^ St . 'Martin ' s-lane .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

" % > * All Communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury - street , Strand , W . C ,

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