DEDICATION, in literature, is an address prefixed to a book, soliciting patronage, or testifying respect for the person to whom it is made. The dedication of the fourth part of Mr Edwards's History of Birds, is curious: To God! the ONE eternal! the incomprehensible, the omnipresent, omniscient and almighty Creator of all things that exist! from or his immeasurably great to the minutest points of matter!—his Atom is dedicated and devoted, with all possible gratitude, humiliation, and worship, and the highest adoration both of body and mind, by his most resigned, low, and humble creature, G. E.