with every other, ancient or modern. This is a
rare excellence, and, therefore, I mention it first. But it is not
the greatest merit of your performance. There is a truth in the
delineation of character, and a devotion to rectitude and virtue in
your moral estimate, quite as remarkable as the felicity of diction
by which the varieties of each portrait are denoted. You have also
escaped the snare to which brevity (according to Horace's well-known
line), is exposed--obscurity."--_From a letter of the late Bishop of
Llandoff._

London: GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street; of whom Part I., price 3s.,
may be had.

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Just published, price 1s. 8vo. sewed.

PRACTICAL REMARKS ON BELFRIES AND RINGERS. By the Rev. H.F.
ELLACOMBE, M.A., Oriel College, Oxford, vicar of Bitton,
Gloucestershire.

GEORGE BELL, 186. Fleet Street; RIDLER, Bristol.

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THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE AND HISTORICAL REVIEW.

The next number of the "Gentleman's Magazine" (which will be
published on the 1st of February, 1850), will exhibit several
alterations in the character and arrangement of its contents, which
have been determined upon after due consideration of the present
state of our literature.

Time was when the whole field of English Literature was before us,
and we were its only reapers. At that time the harvest was scarcely
rich enough to supply materials for our monthly comment. One hundred
and twenty years have produced a marvelous revolution. Our
literature has grown and expanded, and been divided and subdivided,
and has still gone on growing and increasing, until--such is its
wonderful extent and fertility--every separate branch maintains its
independent organ, and we ourselves, overpowered by a growth which
we were the first to foster, have gradually been compelled, by our
limited space, to allow one subject after another to drop from under
our notice.

Still, amidst many minor alterations, we have kept an unweakened
hold upon certain main subjects. HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY, and ARCHAEOLOGY
have never been neglected, and our OBITUARY has grown into a record
which, even we ourselves may say, has become a permanent and
important portion of the literature of our country.

The changes we are now about to introduce have for their design a
more strict adherence to what we look upon as our peculiar path. We
shall henceforth devote ourselves more particularly--we m