Several current Novelties will be found described at length in this volume—­as the circumstantial and accurate accounts of the Colosseum—­and the New Swan River Settlement, the last of which is illustrated with an Engraved Chart.

Strenuous as have been our exertions for past patronage, we shall not relax in the ensuing volume.  An entirely new Type has been prepared for this purpose, and we feel confident that we shall be enabled to keep pace with the increased typographical beauty of the MIRROR, as well as with the improved spirit of its Engravings.

June 27, 1829.

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LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

VOL.  XIII.

PORTRAIT of the late SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, Bart.

Bruce Castle, Tottenham.

Old Elephant, Fenchurch Street.

Macclesfield Bridge, Regent’s Park.

Rupert’s Palace, Barbican.

Hanover Lodge, Regent’s Park.

Grove House, ditto.

Colosseum, Exterior, ditto.

Marquess of Hertford’s Villa, ditto.

Doric Villa, ditto.

Colosseum, Interior, ditto.

Kirkstall Abbey.

Warwick Castle.

Old Covent Garden Market.

York Terrace, Regent’s Park.

Snow Flakes, Magnified.

Rugby School.

Miners of Derbyshire.

Fortune Playhouse, Barbican.

Epsom New Race Stand.

Old Charing Cross.

Exeter ’Change, Strand.

Hyde Park Grand Entrance.

Talipot Tree.

Glowworm.

Deathwatch, Magnified.

Chester Terrace, Regent’s Park.

Guy’s Cliff.

Roman Altar.

Gower’s Tomb.

Hirlas Horn.

Old Somerset House.

Harrow School.

Sussex Place, Regent’s Park.

Clarendon House, Piccadilly.

Relic of John Buryan.

Cornwall Terrace, Regent’s Park.

Chart of the Swan River Settlement.

Laleham Park, the Residence of the Young Queen of Portugal.

Holland House, Kensington.

Cumberland Terrace, Regent’s Park.

Residence of T. Campbell, Esq.

Labyrinth at Versailles.

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MEMOIR OF SIR HUMPHRY DAVY, BART.

The present may be regarded as a chemical age; for so extensive, rapid, and important have been the late acquisitions in the science of chemistry, that we may almost claim it as the exclusive discovery of our own times.  The popularity and high estimation in which it is held may be ascribed to three causes:  1.  The satisfaction which is afforded by its results. 2.  Its utility in all the arts of life. 3.  The little previous preparation which an entrance on its study requires.  To these may be added, the new interest conferred upon the science by the discoveries of Black, Priestly, and Lavoisier, which had already introduced into chemical science the long-neglected requisites of close investigation and logical deduction; but it was reserved for Sir HUMPHRY DAVY to demonstrate the vast superiority of modern principles, by the most brilliant career of discovery, which, since the days of Newton, have graced the annals of science.