The Life of Faith.

Songs of the Cross.

The Final Conflict and Heaven.

The present volume, which is uniform with the Illustrated Edition of Lyra Germanica, Hymns for the Sundays and Festivals of the Christian Year, has been produced with great care as a gift-book, in accordance with the prevailing taste for illustrated literature. The designs printed in the text, nearly 200 in number, comprise Bible landscapes, scriptural vignettes, a few subjects of allegorical character, emblematical marginalia, and tail-pieces, all strictly in keeping with the hymns which they illustrate. Great care has been taken to preserve unity of character throughout the series, as well as to maintain a Gothic style of treatment uniformly consonant with the hymns. Of these illustrations, which decorate nearly every page of the volume, and are all original, six are from designs by E. Armitage, A.R.A. three from designs by F. Madox Brown, and the rest from designs by JOHN LEIGHTON, F.S. A.; and all have been engraved on wood in the best manner under Mr. Leighton's superintendence by Messrs. Bolton, Butterworth and Heath, Cooper, Dalziel, Green, Leighton, Pearson, Swain, Williamson, and Whymper. The volume is printed on toned paper at the office of Messrs. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Bread Street Hill, London.

Memoir of Sir Philip Francis, K C.B. with Correspondence and Journals. Commenced. by the late JOSEPH PARKES; Completed and edited by HERMAN MERIVALE, M.A. Pp. 1,068 with a Portrait of Sir P. Francis engraved on Steel after a Painting by Hoppner; the copy of a Caricature of Sir P. Francis, A.D. 1788; and Seven Facsimiles of Handswriting. 2 vols. 8vo. price 30s. cloth. [November 7, 1867.

THESE THESE volumes, as stated in the title-page, have been compiled and edited by Mr.

HERMAN MERIVALE; great part of the original materials having been collected, but only to a very small extent arranged, by the late Mr. JOSEPH PARKES. Mr. PARKES had devoted himself for many years to the study of the subject. He had convinced himself, not without some hesitation and change of views, of the truth of the common opinion, that PHILIP FRANCIS was the Author of 'Junius.' But in following the clue which his researches in that direction had placed in his hands, he became satisfied, also, that FRANCIS had been in constant correspondence with the Public Advertiser newspaper for four or five years before the commencement of JUNIUS; that he was the sole author of a great mass of anonymous political writing (including the famous Candor Letters and the most remarkable pamphlets respecting the doctrine of general warrants), forming as it were a kind of collective introduction to the Letters of JUNIUS, only inferior in interest and importance to those Letters themselves. Mr. PARKES had composed several chapters of a Life of FRANCIS devoted to this special subject; but he had not carried the biography of his hero further than the commencement of the JUNIUS period. But the life of FRANCIS extended over the whole reign of GEORGE the THIRD. After the termination of JUNIUS he received a high appointment in India, and played for some eventful years a leading part in its government. On his return to England he obtained a seat in Parliament, of which he was an active and influential Member on the Whig or Foxite side for nearly twenty years, including the period of the impeachment of HASTINGS, in which he took great part. lived on familiar terms with the leaders of his party, and was for years particularly intimate with the PRINCE of WALES and his circle at Brighton and Carlton House. There can be little doubt that if the ill-luck of his party had not condemned FRANCIS to a life of opposition, he would have attained high office, to which his eminent political talents fully entitled him. For the illustration of all this long life FRANCIS had left ample, though very undigested, materials. In some of the most serious crises of his fate (particularly the Junius period) he had kept journals, or composed fragments of autobiography. During most of his life he maintained a frequent and voluminous correspondence with his family and friends, most of which, on both sides, he preserved. Although never directly disclosing his character as JUNIUS, these remains of his (in Mr. PARKES's opinion) served very strongly to corroborate the common opinion-so powerfully advocated in recent times by Lord MACAULAY, Earl STANHOPE, Lord BROUGHAM, and other leading authorities, in addition to its older sup

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porters-which attributes it to him. By negociation with the family of FRANCIS, with that of Mr. WOODFALL, and with the representatives of other correspondents of Sir PHILIP, Mr. PARKES had become possessed in his own right of a large bulk of these papers, and obtained the use of others.

The Editor, on having these great masses of MS. together with the unfinished work of Mr. PARKES, placed in his hands, felt that to continue that work on the scale on which Mr. PARKES had commenced it would be impossible. The materials in his possession, though very abundant for portions of the story, were defective for others. Nor, probably, could he have anticipated sufficient encouragement from the public for so extended a work. He has endeavoured, in the first place, to render useful by condensation the matter which Mr. PARKES had collected for the purpose of his Junian argument; secondly, to continue the outline of the Life of FRANCIS from the Junian period to his decease; and lastly, and as the most important part of his task, to fill up that outline by bringing before his readers FRANCIS himself, in his correspondence, his fragments of journals, and some unfinished biographical and historical sketches, very characteristic of the man, which he left behind him, with only so much of connecting remarks as may serve to make them easily intelligible.

Chips from a German Workshop. By MAX MÜLLER, M.A. Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 784, price 21s. cloth. [November 25, 1867.

MOST of the

essays which compose this collection appeared originally in the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews, in the Oxford Essays, in Fraser's and Macmillan's Magazines, in the Saturday Review, and in the Times newspaper. A few of them are here published for the first time. The essays collected in the FIRST VOLUME are devoted to a comparative study of the religions of mankind, with a view of discovering the grains of truth contained in all of them, and the causes of their decay. Their general scope may be summed up in the words of ST. AUGUSTINE: What is now called the Christian 'religion has existed among the ancients, and was 'not absent from the beginning of the human 'race until CHRIST came in the flesh; from which 'time the true religion, which existed already, began to be called Christian.' The titles of these essays are as follows:

I. Lecture on the Vedas or the Sacred Books of the Brahmans, delivered at Leeds, 1865.

VI. Progress of Zend Scholarship, 1865. VII. Genesis and the Zend-Avesta, 1864. VIII. The Modern Parsis, 1862.

IX. Buddhism, 1862.

X. Buddhist Pilgrims, 1857.

XI. The Meaning of Nirvâna, 1857. XII. Chinese Translations of Sanskrit Texts, 1861.

XIII. The Works of CONFUCIUS, 1861.
XIV. Popol Vuh, 1862.

XV. Semitic Monotheism, 1860.

The SECOND VOLUME Contains essays on the
origin of mythology, the transmutation of mytho-
logy into legends and nursery tales, and the
history of certain customs many of which may
claim a pre-historic origin. They are as follows:-
XVI. Comparative Mythology, 1856.
XVII. Greek Mythology, 1858.
XVIII. Greek Legends, 1867.
XIX. Bellerophon, 1855.

XX. The Norsemen in Iceland, 1858.
XXI. Folk-Lore, 1863.

XXII. Zulu Nursery Tales, 1867.

XXIII. Popular Tales from the Norse, 1859.
XXIV. Tales of the West Highlands, 1861.
XXV. On Manners and Customs, 1865.
XXVI. Our Figures, 1863.
XXVII. Caste, 1858.

Two more volumes are in preparation, one containing essays on the history of literature, the other essays on the science of language.

The Government of England: its Structure and its Development. By WILLIAM EDWARD HEARN, LL.D. Professor of History and Political Economy in the University of Melbourne. 8vo. pp. 578, price 14s. cloth. [October 4, 1867.

THE object of the Author in the present work

has been to describe the Constitution of England as it is now understood, and to trace the steps by which it has attained its present form. In this inquiry, he has exclusively taken into account historical and jural considerations. He has sought to investigate certain principles, not to compose a treatise on the art of politics. To those who regard our political system not as mechanical but as organic, and who think that any change in our polity ought to be in conformity with its original type, such an inquiry as the present will appear to have a direct practical interest.

Starting from the fact that the English Constitution forms a part of the Common Law, the Author treats first of the Kingship of England, shewing that the KING is a true monarch and not an executive officer, the monarchy being limited by the substitution of the official will of the King for his personal will. The functions of royalty being legislative, judicial, and administrative, it becomes necessary to consider each of these branches. The Author therefore exhibits the various forms under which at various periods of our history the legislative power was exercised. But next to the making of law, comes its interpretation, and thus he is led to treat of the rise of a separate judiciary, and of the various methods by which the just and undisturbed administration of justice is secured. In subsequent chapters he has traced the development of the two councils which from time immemorial have been dependent on the Crown; and pointed out the steps by which the great Council of the Norman Kings was gradually transformed into a series of estates, and how these estates, by separation, by coalescence, or by dwindling, became the two Houses of our modern Parliament.

Throughout this legal and historical inquiry the Author has advocated no particular political views. He has sought only to ascertain what the Constitution of England now is, and how it became what it is. He leaves to others the task of inquiring whether or how it should be changed.

Letters of Distinguished Musicians, viz. Gluck, Haydn, P. E. Bach, Weber, and Mendelssohn. Translated from the German by LADY WALLACE. Pp. 486, with Three Portraits. Post 8vo. price 14s. cloth. [Oct. 3, 1867. THIS volume contains some unpublished letters

of MENDELSSOHN, which cannot fail to be welcomed by those who have learnt to know and to love him by reading the Two Series of his Letters published a few years ago. But it has been compiled and translated under the conviction that the lives of other musicians may awaken an interest as real, if not perhaps so deep or so acute, as those of BEETHOVEN, MOZART, and MENDElssohn. The name of GLUCK is associated with a revolution in music. He propounded principles which were generally unacceptable, and he never faltered in what he supposed to be his duty. His letters tell the story of a man assured of the truth of his convictions, and not less sure that these convictions would in the sequel be received as undoubted principles of the art and science of music.

Of the letters of CARL P. E. BACH it may

be enough to say that they are not unworthy of the son of so great a father. Those of HAYDN will probably carry with them for English readers a higher interest, will bring before them a man in whom great powers were combined with a genuine simplicity of character, and will enable them to appreciate more thoroughly the mental strength which at an age of more than sixty years could produce such works as the Creation and the Seasons.

The letters of CARL VON WEBER contained in this series are addressed, with few exceptions, to his most intimate friend, and may thus be regarded as introducing us to his inmost thoughts. If they do not impart much new information about his opinions, it must be remembered that he was known scarcely less as a writer than as a musician.

The volume is illustrated with portraits of GLUCK, of HAYDN, and of WEBER, the latter having been kindly lent for the purpose by the possessor, Dr. AYLING.

A Dictionary of General Biography; with a Classified and Chronological Index of the Principal Names. Edited by WILLIAM L. R. CATES. 8vo. pp. 1,308, price 21s. cloth. [October 2, 1867. THIS Dictionary of General Biography, based on the thirteenth edition of the well-known Treasury of Biography,' which was substantially a new work, is far from being a mere reprint of that edition.

Being entrusted by the Publishers with the preparation of this Library edition, the Editor has striven to do all that lay in his power to supply omissions and remove errors. Lapse of time had rendered it necessary to include many new lives, and a further examination showed the need of inserting a large number of subjects not contained in the previous edition, in place of some comparatively insignificant names which had not been struck out. The labour involved in these numerous alterations and important additions imparts to the present volume the character of a new work.

The new articles in this work, including a few which have been rewritten, amount to about five hundred, and many of them are notices of important historical persons. Among these will be found the names of Amrou, Arcadius, Arnold of Villa Nova, Barbaroux, Cardinal Bibbiena, Brian Boru, Sir O. Bridgeman, Aaron Burr, Cardinal Cajetan, Carlstadt, Earl of Derwentwater, Eadric Streona, Dr. Eck, Erastus, Frederick of Hohenzollern, Macdonald of Glencoe,__ Cardinal Granvella, Sir Simon Harcourt, Hroswitha, Hubert de Burgh, Humayun, John Sans Peur,

St. John of the Cross, Layamon, Liutprand, Lothaire I. and II. Maine de Biran, Sir Walter Manny, Earl of Mar, Countess Matilda, Morcar, Moseilama, Earl of Nithsdale, Popes Paul IV. and V. Strongbow and other Earls of Pembroke, Penda, the De la Pole family, Prester John, Roscelin, Tancred, Theodore Archbishop of Canterbury, Thurstan, Togrul Beg, Earl of Tyrone, Vermuyden, Vigilantius, Wahhab, Governor Wall, Adam Weishaupt, Zizim, and Zoroaster. Among the memoirs and notices of eminent persons recently deceased which first. find a place in this work may be mentioned those of W. E. Aytoun, the Marquis d'Azeglio, W. T. Brande, Frederika Bremer, John Brown, W. A. Butler, A. H. Clough, C. R. Cockerell, J. Conolly, Bishop Cotton, David Cox, G. L. Craik, Sir C. Eastlake, John Gibson, G. W. Gordon, Marshall Hall, Gen. Haynau, Ingres, John Keble, Dr. Lappenberg, Alfred de Musset, H. Olshausen, Sir W. Parker, J. E..Riddle, Sir W. C. Ross, Emile Saisset, B. Silliman, Dr. Southwood Smith, and C. G. Zumpt.

Besides the new articles five hundred names have been inserted by way of cross references, thus making a total of between nine hundred and a thousand additional names, and nearly two hundred pages of new matter. The dates have also been carefully re-examined; and some erro. neous statements have been corrected according to more recent information. It is hoped that this 'Dictionary of General Biography,' in respect of completeness, accuracy, honesty, and catholicity of spirit, will be found the most useful and trustworthy book of the kind hitherto published; and that with its Chronological and Classified Index it will be no less welcome as a Manual for the Student than as a companion in the Family Library.

Life of Pastor Fliedner of Kaiserswerth. Translated from the German (with the Author's sanction) by CATHERINE WINKWORTH, Translator of The Life of A. W.

Sieveking,' &c. Fep. 8vo. pp. 182, with Portrait, price 3s. 6d. cloth. [Nov. 6, 1867. THIS THIS little volume contains the only complete

story of the Life of Pastor Fliedner which has been yet given to the world. It is sanctioned by his family, by one of whom it was written, and who requested Miss C. WINKWORTH to translate and revise it for the English public.

Pastor FLIEDNER, as is now well known, was the founder of the Deaconess Institution at Kaiserswerth, as well as the promoter of reformatories and many other good works. The Deaconess Institution is the most successful attempt as yet made in any of the Reformed Churches to grapple

with one of the problems of our day,-the organised employment of women in the service of the Christian Church, for the relief of sickness and poverty, and the education of the young. It began in the most humble manner thirty years ago; there are now thirty-three DEACONESSES' HOUSES like Kaiserswerth itself, scattered over Germany, each with its own branches in many various places, and more than sixteen hundred SISTERS are at work. FLIEDNER himself was frequently in England, where he numbered among his best friends, Mrs. FRY, Mr. J. J. GURNEY, Lord SHAFTESBURY, and FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, who herself studied for some time at Kaiserswerth. He also visited the East, where he established flourishing schools and hospitals at Jerusalem, Alexandria, and other places.

Miscellaneous Essays, Second Series. By the Rev. WILLIAM KIRKUS, LL.B. Post Svo. pp. 374, price 10s. 6d. cloth.

[November 23, 1867. YONTENTS of this volume ::I. Satire.

II. Froude's Elizabeth. III. Convict Management. IV. Model Sermons.

V. Ritualism.

VI. Romanism, Anglicanism, and Evangelicalism Logically Identical. VII. Lecky's Rationalism in Europe. VIII. The New Reformation. IX. Mr. John Stuart Mill.

Fiscal Legislation, 1842-1865; a Review of the Financial Changes of that Period, and their Effects upon Revenue, Trade, Manufactures, and Employment. By JOHN NOBLE. 8vo. pp. 212, price 7s. 6d. cloth.

[September 20, 1867. THIS work is designed to present in a compact

and readable form a record of the successive changes which have taken place, during the period specified, in the financial policy of the empire, together with a brief but comprehensive review of their effects upon the revenue, trade, manufactures, and employments of the United Kingdom. The Author's aim has been to combine historical method and continuity of narrative with the statistical and politico-economic details which must necessarily enter into an account of financial developments unexampled in the annals of our own or of any country, and to include in a volume of moderate size all that is necessary for a general as well as special knowledge of the course of