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161, Fleet-stieet, price BeTenpence. This paper was projected to support the principles and usages of the Wesleyan methodist connexion.

1835, Jan. Th^ Educadonal Magazine, No. 1.

18.35. The Analytt, a quarterly literary and scientific journal, printed and published at Bir- mingham. Not the least recommendatory feature of this publication. is its analysis of the proceed- ings of provincial societies, which well bespeak the active intelligence of Warwickshire and the adjoining counties.

1835. May. The Original. A series of perio- dical papers by Thomas Walker, esq. and com- prises in the whole twenty -six numbers, the last of which appeared November II. The subjects treated on are aristology, or the art of dining or giving dinners ; the art of travelling, clubs, roasted apples, he. 6cc. Mr. Walker was the son of Thomas Walker, esq.* a merchant, and bom at Manchester, in the year 1784. He was a barrister at law, and one of the magistrates of Lambeth -street police office, London. He died at Brusseb, Jan. 20, 1836, and was buried in the cemetery of that city.

1836, Jw,y. The Constitutional Magazine. 1835, July. Britiih and Foreign Quarterly

Review, No. 1. London, Ridgwav and Sods.

1835, Dec. Fnuer't Literary Chronicle.

1836, Jan. 15. Died, Charles Lewis, the most eminent bookbinder in Europe, and the binder of nearly all the splendid bound books in the libraries of the duke of Sussex, duke of Devonshire, earl Spencer, who died in 1834, baron Holland, the right hon. Thomas Grenville, Richard Heber,f the late sir Mark Sykes, sir Francis Freeling,^ and other eminent bibliogra- phers. Charles Lewis was born in London, in 1786, being the fourth son of Mr. John Lewis, a native of Hanover. At the age of fourteen he became apprentice to Mr. Walther,§ under whose training and skill he acquired the rudiments and perfection of his art, and by whose example of unwearied diligence, much of his success in after life depended. After serving the full period of his apprenticeship, and working as ajoumey-


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t Richard Heher, esq. was born in 'Westminster. Jan. 6, 1773, and was educated at Oxford, which nnlTcrsity he at one time represented in parliament. His collection of booits in ancient English literature, for extent and richness, ha* never been eqoalled, and, perhaps, will never be sor- paased. He was not a mere book collector— " he was a scholar, and a ripe and good one," and his boolcs were contained In libraries at Hodnet, in Shropshire, London, Oxford, Paris, Ghent, and other places. IHr. Heber was nevcrmarried, anddiedat Fimllco, Oct. 4, 1833. He was half brother to the late amiable Reginald Heber, bishop of Calcutta, where he died, April 3, ISSA, aged 43 years.

In 1834 was published BMioih^ Hebtriana^ or Cata- lonu of Richard Heber't eeletnUed librarg. 8vo. 1834—38, price £1 Us.

t Francis Freelinf, secretary to the general post-oOlce, London, a bibliomaniac, and a member of the Roxborghe dub, died, Joly 10, 1836, in his seventy-third year.

I D. Walther was a binder, bearing the character of execntin); his worli in a " good, substantial, honest man- ner." He bad no pretensions to any style peculiar to himself, but gained the character bestowed upon him from the excellent manner every part was performed. He deserves to be recorded as an example of industry ; for fifty years he worked fourteen hours a day, with Uie grntest diligence, and dosed a long and respectable life in his ninetieth year.

man in several shops in the metropolis, he com- menced business on his own account, in Scotland- yard. At this place, and subsequently in Den- mark-court, Strand, and Duke-street, nccadilly, he displayed as much perseverance and attention in the management of his business, ais skill and energy in the pursuit of the art, which he appears from his first introduction to it,atMr.Waltner'8, to have been passionately devoted to. On the character of his binding, Dr. Dibdin has thus enlarged : — ^ The particular talent of Lewis con- sists in uniting the taste of Roger Payne with a freedom of forwarding and squareness of finish- ing, peculiarly his own. His books appear to move on silken hinges. His joints are beanti- fullv squared, and wrought upon with studded gold ; and in his inside decorations he stands without a compeer. Neither loaf-sugar paper, nor brown, nor pink, nor poppy-coloured paper are therein discovered : but a subdued orange, or buff, harmonizing with russia; a date or French grey, harmonizing with morocco; or an antique or deep crimson tint, harmonizing with sprightly calf: these are the surfaces, or gronnd colours, to accord picturesquely, with which Charles Lewis brings hb leather and tooling into play ! To particularize would be endless ; but I cannot help just noticing, that in his orunge and Venetian moroccos, from the sturdy folio to the pliant duodecimo — to say nothing of his management of what he is pleased facetiously to call binding d la mode Franeaite, he has strack out a line, or fashion, or style, not only exclu- sively his own, as an English artist, but modelled upon the ornaments of the Orolier and De Thou volumes, infinitely beyond what has yet been achieved in the same bibliopegist department. It is due to state, that in his book restorations he equals even the union of skill in Roger Payne and Mrs. Weir. We may say —

' And what was Bo; er once, is Lewit nam.' " He was succeeded in business by his eldest son. John M'Creery, in his poem of the Preu, thus eulogises the art of bookbinding :

" Embodied thought enj03rs a splended rest On guardian shelves, in emblem costume drest) Like gems that sparkle in the parent mine, Through crystal mediums the rich coverings shine ; Morocco flames in scarlet, blue, and green, Impress*d with bumlsh*d gold, of dauling sheen ; Arms deep emboss'd the owners state declare. Test of their worth— their age— and his kind care ; Embalm'd in russia stands a valued pile That time impalis not, nor vile worms defllei Russia, exhaling (him its scented pores Its saving power to these thrice-ralned stores, In order fsir arranged in volumes stand. Gay with the skill of many a modern hand ; At the expenie of sinew and of bone. The fine papyrian leaves are firm as stone : Here all is square as by masonic rale, And bright the impression of the burnished tool. On some the tawny calf a coat bestows, Where flowers and fillets beanteons forms eompoK : Others in pride the virgin vellum wear. Beaded with gold— as breast of Venus fair ; On either end the silken head-bands twine,

Wroucht by some maid with skilful fingers f

The yielding back fUls loose, the hinges play. And the rich page lies open to the day. Where sdence traces the unerring line. In brilliant tints the forms at beauty shine ; These, in our works, as in a casket laid. Increase the splendour by their powerful aid.'

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