said that the Almanac for 1838 was a gain
of 5,000l. to the owners. It very soon appeared that this was only a lucky
hit: the weather-prophet had a modified reputation for a few years; and is
now no more heard of. A work of his will presently appear in the list.

THE GREAT PYRAMIDS.

Letter from Alexandria on the evidence of the practical application of
the quadrature of the circle in the great pyramids of Gizeh. By H. C.
Agnew,[704] Esq. London, 1838, 4to.

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Mr. Agnew detects proportions which he thinks were suggested by those of
the circumference and diameter of a circle.

THE MATHEMATICS OF A CREED.

The creed of St. Athanasius proved by a mathematical parallel. Before
you censure, condemn, or approve; read, examine, and understand. E. B.
REVILO.[705] London, 1839, 8vo.

This author really believed himself, and was in earnest. He is not the only
person who has written nonsense by confounding the mathematical infinite
(of quantity) with what speculators now more correctly express by the
unlimited, the unconditioned, or the absolute. This tract is worth
preserving, as the extreme case of a particular kind. The following is a
specimen. Infinity being represented by [infinity], as usual, and f, s, g,
being finite integers, the three Persons are denoted by [infinity]^{f}, (m
[infinity])^{s}, [infinity]^{g}, the finite fraction m representing human
nature, as opposed to [infinity]. The clauses of the Creed are then given
with their mathematical parallels. I extract a couple:

"But the Godhead of the
Father, of the Son, and of
the Holy Ghost, is all one:
the glory equal, the Majesty
co-eternal.

"It has been shown that
[infinity]^f, [infinity]^g, and (m [infinity])^s, together,
are but [infinity], and that
each is [infinity], and any magnitude
in existence represented
by [infinity] always was and always
will be: for it cannot
be made, or destroyed, and
yet exists.

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"Equal to the Father, as
touching his Godhead: and
inferior to the Father,
touching his Manhood."

"(m [infinity])^s is equal to [infinity]^f as
touching [infinity], but inferior to
[infinity]^f as touching m: because
m is not infinite."

I might have passed this over, as beneath even my present subject, but for
the way in which I became acquainted with it. A bookseller, _not the
publisher_, handed it to me over his counter: one who had published
mat