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A history and description of modern wines / By Cyrus Redding.

  • Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870.
Date:
1836
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    4. In the Press. A New Edition, in 8vo., with Sixteen Engravings, cloth lettered. A HISTORY and DESCRIPTION of MODERN WINES; with considerable Improvements and Additions; and comprising the last Par- liamentary Reports on French Wines, and other Statistical Information. “We have read with great pleasure a very instructive and entertaining work, entitled ‘ A History and Description of Modern Wines,’ by Mr. Cyrus Redding. With no pedantic pretensions to pro- found learning or philosophical research, with no laboured attempts at wit, or unnecessary displa of poetical reading, to which his subject might have inclined him, Mr, Redding has given us a boo which coutains a vast deal of interesting and useful information, conveyed in a clear and unaffected style. ‘The Appendix itself contains a body of facts of sufficient interest and importance to com- pose a volume, a body of facts which will be found in no other single work on the subject.”—Tvmes, ““Mr. Redding’s work contains a vast fund of practical and curious information, and an immense number of minute facts.” —Spectator. , : *“In research, arrangement, and statistics, it ought to be in the hands of every lover of the vine- yard, and of pure wine.” — United Service Gazette. ’ 4 ‘* A varied collection of very curious facts in a highly interesting branch of Natural History, which will conduce to the entertainment even of those who may be careless of the pleasures of wine, but yet partial tothe contemplation of the beautiful phenomena of the vegetable kingdom.” — Monthly Review. “ Every thing that can be said on the subject of modern Wines throughout the world is here brought together in a masterly style.’—Brighion Gazette. 5s A new edition, with considerable additions and improvements, in two volumes, post 8vo., illustrated by numerous Portraits of Birds, carefully drawn and coloured by the best Artists, from real Specimens in their finest Plumages ; and also by various Engravings on wood, illustrative of some of the more remarkable Points in the Natural History of Birds. 28s. cloth lettered. THE FEATHERED TRIBES OF THE BRITISH ISLANDS. By Ropert Muniz. Describing, in simple language, and in a plain and familiar manner, the general Form and Appearance, the Haunts and Habits, the seasonal changes of Place and of Plumage, the Breeding and Economy, the domestic Uses, the obedience to Season and Climate, and the general Rela- tions to the System of Nature, of all the known Species of British Birds, from the Ptarmigan on the mountain-top, to the Petrel on the far sea-wave. The whole interspersed with Descriptions of Scenes; with Illustrations of Prin- ciples ; with physical, economical,and moral Reflections; and with remarkable Instances of the Wisdom and Goodness of the Creator, as set forth in His Works generally, and especially in the Feathered Tribes. ‘“ Indispensable to every studier and every lover of the birds of Britain. This, like the rest of Mr. Mudie’s works, is characterized by evidences of much original observation; of a combinative habit of reflection on things observed ; of clearness of narration ; and of a capacity for discursive, exciting speculation.”’—Loudon’s Nat. Hist. 6. In super-royal 8vo., illustrated by elaborate plates, price 15s. cloth lettered. AN EXAMINATION of the ANCIENT ORTHOGRAPHY of the JEWS, and of the ORIGINAL STATE of the TEXT of the HEBREW BIBLE. : Part L., containing an INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF ALPHABETIC WRIT- ING ; with which is incorporated an Essay on the Egyptian Hieroglyphics. By CHARLES WILLIAM WALL, D.D., Senior Fellow of Trinity College, and Pro- fessor of Hebrew in the University of Dublin. “ Bhatpany peculiarities in the writings of the Old Testament, especially in the Pentateuch might possibly be elucidated by a caretul examination of the bieroglyphic system of expression has been for some time a general belief among Biblical scholars. ‘* Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians,’ and his early education must bave naturally influenced his habits of thought and Janguage. ‘this hypothesis, which, however, scarcely went beyoud a vague surmise, has been examined with great learning and acuteness by Dr. Wall, Professor of Hebrew in the Dublin Uni- versity. In the progress of his inquiries, he was led to doubt the reality of Champollion’s dis- coveries in the interpretation of hieroglyphics, and pursuing an opposite course, arrived at a key to the deciphering of the Rosetta stone. * * * He is entitled tothe great merit of having discovered a ney eriuciple of investigation, which may elucidate the chief difficulties in the Elebrew text.’— LENEMIMN, - . “The volume abounds with deep learning and forcible argument.’’—Monthly Review.