TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. Publishers, Authors, Artists, and Musical Composers, are requested to transmit on or before the 15th of the month, Announcements of Works which they may have on hand, and we shall cheerfully insert them, as we have hitherto done, free of expense. New Musical Publications also, if a copy be addressed to the Publisher, shall be duly noticed in our Review; and Extracts from new Books, of a moderate length and of an interesting nature, suitable for our Selections, will be acceptable. Directions to the Binder for placing the Plates in the FIFTH VOLUME, THIRD SERIES. No. XXV. 1. Frontispiece. 3. 2. View of Bicton Bunney-Hall 4. Ladies' Head-Dresses 6. View on Herne-Hill, Cam 58 XXIX. 8. View of Wimbledon-House 63 Evening Dress 30. Table, Chair, and Window-Seat 31. Muslin Pattern. 32. View of Caen-Wood 34. Ladies' Dinner Dress 26. View of Dunster-Castle Swainston .. 29. ib. 305 311 .312 363 ib. Ball Dress Persons who reside abroad, and who wish to be supplied with this Work every Month as published, may have it sent to them, free of Postage, to New-York, Halifax, Quebec, and to any part of the West Indies, at £4 12s. per Annum, by Mr. THORNHILL, of the General Post-Office, at No. 21, Sherborne-lane; to Hamburgh, Lisbon, Cadiz, Gibraltar, Malta, or any Part of the Mediterranean, at £4 12s. per Annum, by Mr. SERJEANT, of the General Post-Office, at No. 22, Sherborne-lane; and to the Cape of Good Hope, or any part of the East Indies, by Mr. Guy, at the East-India House. The money to be paid at the time of subscribing, for either 3, 6, 9, or 12 months. This Work may also be had of Messrs, AREON and KRAг, Rotterdam. CAEN-WOOD, middlesex, THE SEAT OF THE EARL OF MANSFIELD. the subject of our First Plate, is a very elegant structure, and is situated but a short distance to the north of Hampstead, in a small but richly wooded park, embellished with fine plantations and water. The present mansion was erected by the late Earl of Mansfield, and the design being chiefly of the Ionic order, the building has a very chaste appear WITHIN the last century, the neigh- Caen-Wood House, which forms bourhood of the metropolis has been considerably improved by the erection of a great variety of pleasing and elegant mansions, and many spots, which were, even from their dreariness, considered dangerous, have now assumed quite a different character. The advantages attending the improvements which have taken place, especially the formation of several new roads and canals, are incalculable. ance. The entrance is on the western side, but the Southern Front, Few places in the immediate vi- which is exhibited in the annexed cinity of town possess greater at- Engraving, commands a fine protractions than Hampstead or High-spect of the metropolis and surroundgate; the heath of the former being, ing country. On each side extends from its numerous excavations and a wing, with an entablature supportdeclivities, remarkably picturesque. ed by three-quarter columns, one of The rising ground upon which those which forms the library, and the places are built is considered more other a conservatory. The interior healthy than any other so near Lon- is extremely imposing; the propor don. tions of the several apartments and Vol. V. No. XXX. TT their numerous embellishments be- || name to the domain, is an adjunct ing allowed to surpass those of a similar nature in most of the seats of other noblemen. The music-room is particularly deserving of attention; its compartments, painted by Julius Ibbetson, display some interesting views in North Wales. The library also is very handsome, and contains a portrait of the first Earl of Mansfield, by Martin. Among other works of art which adorn the different apartments, is Wilkie's celebrated picture of the Village Politicians. The portrait of the late Chief Justice Mansfield, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, and which has been engraved, is not considered a faithful likeness of that nobleman. There are also some fine busts-of Homer, which was bequeathed by Pope to the late Lord Mansfield, Sir Isaac Newton, and the Earl of Mansfield, by the late Mr. Nollekins. An eminent modern topographer, Mr. E. W. Brayley, speaking of Caen-Wood, justly observes, " that || the place is rich in circumstances of natural beauty; the undulations are gentle, yet sheltering; and that deep mass of woodland, which imparts a of the picturesque rarely found in the close vicinage of the metropolis. Art has been largely employed to complete the display, but all her operations have been guided by so fine a taste, that the patient examiner alone detects the parts indebted to her interference. "A serpentine walk, nearly two miles in extent, conducts round the most interesting parts of the domain, and through large and venerable woods. In the course of this perambulation occur numerous pleasing views, varied between a comprehensive prospect of the metropolis and its immediate environs, and the more attractive points of home scenery." Attached to the domain is a valuable farm, containing two hundred acres, which is kept in a high state of cultivation, and enables its present noble proprietor to employ many poor labourers who otherwise would become a burthen upon the parish. For the above particulars, as also for the drawing from which our engraving was taken, we are indebted to Mr. F. W. L. Stockdale. PIERCEFIELD, NEAR CHEPSTOW, MONMOUTHSHIRE, THE SEAT OF NATHANIEL WALLS, ESQ. and the distant hills of Gloucestershire and Somersetshire. PIERCEFIELD is one of the most || pleasing views of the river Severn, elegant modern structures erected during the last century, and, in respect to situation, it possesses advantages superior to some of the most celebrated residences of the nobility. The house stands in the centre of a park of more than six hundred acres, embellished with the finest plantations imaginable, and commands most This seat has passed through various hands, and among others of a man whose name will be ever revered (the late Valentine Morris, Esq.), and who experienced the greatest vicissitudes of fortune, and died, after seven years' confinement, in the King's |