The Edinburgh Review (Volume 96) (Paperback)

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1852. Excerpt: ... working and preparing the land.-- and of a more liberal system of manuring. 3. Extending the growth of flax, chicory, and even of the sugar beet in favourable localities. As to the advancement of the purely scientific part of agriculture, we might recommend the prosecution of scientific experiments in the field--the preparation of surface or drift maps of the kingdom for the special use of practical agriculture--and the enlargement of the means of agricultural education. But each of the former two would require a special illustration, of which our space does not admit; while, that the question of agricultural education has in it, as regards English agriculture, a remarkable speciality is proved by the fact, --that with the smallest organisation for public instruction in knowledge bearing upon it, Great Britain has obtained in the improvement and practice of this art the very highest place. We leave these topics, therefore, for future consideration. Art. VIII.--Lives of the Friends and Contemporaries of Lord Chancellor Clarendon. Illustrative of Portraits in his Gallery. By Lady Theresa Lewis. 3 vols. 8vo. London: 1852. rK the 29th of November, 1667, Evelyn of the Sylva went to visit Lord Chancellor Clarendon in Piccadilly: 'I found 'him in his garden at his new-built palace, sitting in his gout'wheel chair, and seeing the gates setting up towards the north 'and the fields. He looked and spake very disconsolately. 'After some while deploring his condition to me, I took my 'leave. Next morning I heard he was gone.' He was, indeed, gone for the last time, leaving his scarcely finished palace, and saw that splendid building, the very joy of his heart, no more; -- the finest piece of domestic architecture, in Evelyn's opinion, which had been raised in England, and far surpassing Audley En...