New Work by Mr. LECKY.-Early in March will be published, in Two Volumes, octavo, "A History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne. By W. E. H. LECKY, M.A. Author of History of the Rise and Influence of Rationalism in Europe.' New Edition of MILL. on the MIND.-In March will be published, in 2 vols. 8vo. Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind. By JAMES MILL. A New Edition, with Notes Illustrative and Critical, by ALEXANDER BAIN, ANDREW FINDLATER, and GEORGE GROTE. Edited, with additional Notes, by JOHN STUART MILL. IHNE'S Roman History.-Preparing for publication, 'Roman History By WILHELM IHNE. Translated from the Original German by the AUTHOR. VOL. I. from the Founding of Rome to the First Punic War. D'AUBIGNE'S HISTORY of the REFORMATION.The Fifth Volume of the Rev. Dr. J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNE'S History of the Reformation in Europe in 'the Time of CALVIN,' is nearly ready for publication. Completion of Mr. TODD's Work on PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNMENT.-Nearly ready for publication, VOL. II. in 8vo. On Parliamentary Government in England, its Origin, Development, and Practical Operation. By ALPHEUS TODD, Librarian of the Legislative Assembly of Canada.—This forthcoming Volume, which will complete the work, will comprise Chapters on the Councils of the Crown under Prerogative Government, the Privy Council under Parliamentary Government, the Cabinet Council, the Ministers of the Crown in Parliament, the Departments of the State-their Constitution and Functions, the Judges in relation to the Crown and to Parliament, and a copious INDEX to the entire work. New Handbook of ZOOLOGY and COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY.-Preparing for publication, in 1 vol. The Student's Manual of Zoology and Comparative Physiology.' By J. BURNEY YEO, M.B. Resident Medical Tutor and Lecturer on Animal Physiology in King's College, London. New Work on the CATACOMBS of ROME, trans. lated with the Author's sanction and co-operation from the Italian Work of the Commendatore DE ROSSI.Shortly will be published, in One Volume, 8vo. illustrated with numerous Engravings on Wood, Ten Lithographs, Ten Plates in Chromolithography, and an Atlas of Plans, all executed in Rome under the Author's superintendence for this Translation, Roma Sotterranea; or, an Account of the Catacombs, and especially of the Cemetery of St. Callixtus. Compiled from the Works of Commendatore G. DE ROSSI, with the consent of the Author, by the Rev. J. S. NORTHCOTE, D.D. and the Rev. W. B. BROWNLOW. Six ESSAYS ON CONGREGATIONALISM will shortly be published, in One Volume, 8vo. intitled 'Religious 'Republics.' The CONTENTS are as follows:-1. Congregational Polity, by WILLIAM MITCHELL FAWCETT, Barrister-at-Law. 2. The External Relations of Congregationalism, by THOMAS MARTIN HERBERT, M.A. Minister of a Congregational Church at Cheadle, near Manchester. 3. The Congregationalist Character, by EDWARD GILBERT Herbert, LL.B. Barrister-at-Law. 4. Congregationalism and Esthetics, by THOMAS HARWOOD PATTISON, Minister of a Congregational Church at Newcastle-on-Tyne. 5. Congregationalism and Science, by a DOCTOR of MEDICINE. 6. The Spirit of Nonconformity, by JAMES ANSTIE, B.A. Barrister-atLaw. New work edited by the Author of CHRISTIAN SCHOOLS and SCHOLARS.-Nearly ready, in One Volume, 8vo. with a Portrait, price 10s. The Life of Mother Margaret Mary Hallahan, O.S.D., better known in the religious world by the name of Mother Margaret.' This remarkable NUN, who died at Stone in Staffordshire, on the 11th of May 1868, was the Foundress in England of the Third Order of St. DOMINIC, forming a Congregation under the title of St. CATHERINE of Sienna. This Congregation, now consisting of about one hundred nuns, has the charge of several schools, orphanages, hospitals, &c. in this country, all founded by the energetic charity of MOTHER MARGARET. The forthcoming Life, written by her RELIGIOUS CHILdren, and edited by the Author of Christian Schools and Scholars,' will contain selections from her correspondence, and copious biographical details. New DEVOTIONAL WORK by the Rev. ORBY SHIPLEY, M.A.-Nearly ready, in 24mo. 'Invocation of Saints; a Manual of Devotion for Members of the English Church from Greek, Latin, and Anglican 'Sources.' Edited by the Rev. ORBY SHIPLEY, M.A. The Editor wishes to make this Manual as complete as possible, and he will be much obliged for any Translations of suitable and little-known Devotions, either direct Invocations or Prayers for the Intercessions of the Saints, which may be addressed to the Publishers. THE ALPINE CLUB MAP of SWITZERLAND.Preparing for publication, in Four Sheets, a New MAP of SWITZERLAND and the Adjacent Countries, on a scale of 250000 (four miles to one inch), from Schaffhausen on the North to the Southern Slopes of the Val d'Aoste and Milan on the South, and from the Orteler Group on the East to Geneva on the West; constructed under the immediate superintendence of the ALPINE CLUB, and edited by R. C. NICHOLS, F.S.A. F.R.G.S.; drawn and engraved by ALEXANDER KEITH JOHNSTON, LL.D. F.R.G.S. The FIRST SHEET, being the North-West portion of Switzerland and comprising Bâle, Lucerne, Interlachen, Grindelwald, Bern, Freiburg, and Neuchâtel, price 68. on DRAWING PAPER, or price 8s. 6d. mounted on CANVAS and folded into a CASE,-is expected to be ready early in the Spring. Mr. St. JOHN PARRY'S New Analytical GREEK GRAMMAR.-Nearly ready, in 12mo. An Elementary Greek Accidence. By the Rev. E. St. JOHN PARRY, M.A. of Balliol College, Oxford; Author of 'Reges et Heroes,' 'Origines Romanae,' and Ciceronis Epistolarum Delectus;' Editor of Terence' in the Bibliotheca Classica. This volume will, it is hoped, supply the want generally acknowledged of a Greek Grammar for Boys based on true principles of Grammatical Analysis and yet not beyond the understanding of Young Boys. New PRACTICAL WORK on LAND SURVEYING and LEVELLING.-Nearly ready, A Treatise on Land Surveying in Theory and Practice.' By JAMES SMITH, Civil Engineer. This work, which is designed mainly for the use of Engineers, Surveyors, and Students in Colleges and Schools, will give the best methods of Surveying and Levelling for Statistical, Estate, Colonial, and Engineering purposes, together with full Explanations of the Construction, Adjustment, and Use of Theodolites, Levels, and the other instruments required in the Field and Office work of Surveying and Levelling; with Copious Illustrations and Examples for Practice. SHILLING ANNOTATED PLAYS of SHAKSPEARE for STUDENTS.-Early in March will be published, in 12mo. price One Shilling, SHAKSPEARE'S Othello, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes, Critical Remarks, and other Aids to a thorough understanding of the Drama. Edited for the use of Schools and Students preparing for Examination by the Rev. JOHN HUNTER, M.A. SHAKSPEARE'S Othello is specified in the Syllabus of subjects on which Male and Female Students who are in training in Normal Schools will be examined in December 1869. The following PLAYS of SHAKSPEARE, annotated on the same plan by the same Editor, may now be had:-Merchant of Venice, price 1s. Tempest, price 18. Hamlet, price 1s. King Lear, price 1s. Henry VIII. price 1s. and Julius Cæsar, price 1s. School Edition of SCOTT'S MARMION.-Nearly ready for publication, Marmion, a Tale of Flodden Field. By Sir WALTER SCOTT, Bart. With Introductions, Notes, and a Glossary for the use of Schools, by EDWARD E. MORRIS, M.A. Lincoln College, Oxford; Assistant-Master at St. Peter's College, Radley. New Work on ENGLISH PROSODY for the use of STUDENTS preparing for EXAMINATION. Preparing for immediate publication, A Manual of English Prosody, forming an Introduction to the Study of English Poetry.' By ROBERT FREDERICK BREWER, B.A. This work is designed mainly as an initiatory course to the study of the English classical poets required in the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examinations. New Work on ENGLISH VERSIFICATION.Nearly ready for publication, English Versification.' By E. WADHAM.-This work claims to be an exhaustive treatise on English Versification, giving a complete view of all measures, their nature, relative bearing, and application. Every form that English verse can assume will here be found indicated; and every moot-point connected with English versestructure, such as the feasibility of naturalising the hexameter, is fully discussed. The Author has sought to shew how much too narrowly drawn are the accepted limits of verse, and that the POET has hitherto allowed himself to be debarred from a large, if not from the better part of his domain. TEXT-BOOKS In New Work by Mr. G. F. GRAHAM.-Preparing for publication, A Book about Words.' By G. F. GRAHAM, Author of English, or the Art of Composition,' English Synonymes,' 'English Style,' English Grammar Practice,' &c.-The object of this work is to make the Science of Words more popular than it has been hitherto regarded. The Author treats the subject under a variety of heads. Chapter I. the Origin of Language, and Families of Words are discussed. Chapter II. is on Latin, French, and Middle-age Words. Chapter III. is devoted to Old and New Words: the causes of their disappearance or introduction, &c. and the tendency of English to get rid of certain Words. In Chapter IV. he treats of the Degeneracy of Words: their contradictory meanings, subjective and objective senses, &c. Chapter V. is on Equivocal Words and their consequence: punning in various forms, and other corruptions of language. Chapter VI. is on Concrete and Abstract Words; and in Chapter VII. there is a protest against the absurdity of the grandiose style, and the tendency, in writing, towards the 'sensational.' Chapter VIII. is on English Spelling; Saxon Spelling; the influence of printing on Spelling; Phonographic Spelling; proposed changes in Spelling, &c. Chapter IX. contains remarks on the flexibility, variety, &c. of English Words. Here also are treated accent, inversion, attraction, assimilation, &c. In Chapter X. it is shewn that the same ideas are expressed by different words and forms in different languages, and these are compared together. Compound Words form the subject of Chapter XI.; and Chapter XII. is on Pronunciation. In Chapter XIII. are discussed Slang Words, and Americanisms. The work closes with some general remarks on the subject, and the explanation of certain derivations not generally known. OF SCIENCE. 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Travels in the Central Caucasus and Bashan ; COUGH the ethnology and history of the Caucasus have been treated of by various authors, information concerning its natural features has been up to the present time scanty and difficult of access, and until the Summer of 1868 no Englishman had visited the most interesting portions of the chain, and its two most famous summits, Kazbek and Elbruz, were still unascended. The chief aim of the journey described in the present volume was to explore the interior of the chain and to effect the ascents of Kazbek and Elbruz. The Writer and his friends hoped by penetrating on foot the recesses of the mountains to learn the form of the peaks, the extent of the snowfields and glaciers, and the character of the forests and flora, so as to be able to draw a general comparison between the Caucasus and the Alps. Before, however, carrying out this part of their design the travellers made a rapid journey through Syria, in the course of which they visited the Hauran and Lejah districts, recently brought into notice by the supposed identification of the ruined towns still existing in them with the cities of the gigantic Rephaim laid waste by the Israelites. The Author records his conviction that this theory is unfounded, and that the ruins of the so A |