Judgment—­A new System of communicating Scientific Information in a Tabular form—­On the Study of the Law and Medicine—­On Apoplexy,” and the general business of the University, are very grave matters for little more than 100 pages.  “On the Metamorphosis of Plants,” by Goethe, is more attractive; but Magazine readers do not want the lumber of law and medicine—­the dry material of parchment, or the blood and filth of the physiological chair.  How different too, is all this from the pleasantry and attic wit of “The Etonian,” into whose volumes we still dip with undiminished gratification.

As we have enumerated the least attractive of the papers in the London University Magazine, we ought also to run over the lighter portions of its pages.  These are “A young head, and, what is still better, a young heart,”—­discursive enough—­“A Tale of the Irish Rebellion—­the Guerilla Bride, a Poem,” beginning

    “It is a tale of Spain—­Romantic Spain!”

—­and a Sketch of the Irish Exchequer Court.  A description of the University, with a Vignette view, and ground plan, is perhaps, the most interesting of the whole Number; but as dramatic critics sometimes say of a new performer, we had rather see him in another character before we form an estimate of his talents—­so we wait for better things from the London University Magazine.

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THE EDINBURGH JOURNAL OF NATURAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL SCIENCE, No. 1.

We expected much from the announcement of this work, and are not disappointed in its first Number.  It contains original papers—­scientific Reviews—­geographical and natural History Collections—­and an abundance of scientific intelligence—­somewhat on the plan of Mr. Loudon’s excellent Magazines.  We have not at present room for extract; but the Number before us will furnish several interesting Notes for a portion of our next publication. A Tour in the Island of Jersey is one of the most amusing articles we have read for some time, and we hope to abridge it for our columns.

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THE FOREIGN REVIEW.

The Eighth Number of this valuable Journal is just published, and its table of contents is exceedingly attractive.  Among these are Phrenology—­a characteristic article on Germany—­the French and Italian Drama—­anecdotical papers on Napoleon and General Jackson and the United States of America, and the History of the Cid.  Ours will be a pleasing task to “note” through this Number.

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UNPUBLISHED LINES ON DR. JOHNSON.

By the late Dr. Wolcot. (Peter Pindar.)