NEW EDITION OF BRANDE'S DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART, RE-CONSTRUCTED AND GREATLY EXTENDED TO ADAPT IT TO THE PRESENT STATE OF SCIENCE. In course of publication Monthly, to be completed in 12 PARTS, each containing 240 pages, price 5s. forming THREE VOLUMES, medium 8vo. price 21s. each (VOL. I. is now ready) A DICTIONARY OF SCIENCE, LITERATURE, AND ART: COMPRISING THE DEFINITIONS AND DERIVATIONS OF THE SCIENTIFIC TERMS IN GENERAL USE, TOGETHER WITH THE HISTORY AND DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SCIENTIFIC PRINCIPLES OF NEARLY EVERY BRANCH OF HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. EDITED BY W. T. BRANDE, D.C.L. F.R.S.L. & E. Of Her Majesty's Mint, Honorary Professor of Chemistry in the Royal Institution of Great Britain; W. T. BRANDE, D.C.L. F.R.S.L. & E. of H.M.'s Mint. The Rev. GEORGE W. Cox, M.A. late Scholar of Trin. Coll. Oxford. E. FRANKLAND, Prof. of Chem. in the R. Inst. of Great Britain; and Professor RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S. LL.D. D.C.L. Superintendent of the Nat. JOHN LINDLEY, M.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. Emeritus Prof. of Bot. in Univ. Coll. G. R. BURNELL, Architect and Civil Engineer, F.R.I.B.A. F.G.S. F.S.A. D. T. ANSTEAD, M.A. F.R.S. F.G.S. Hon. Fellow of King's Coll. London. Lieut. H. BRACKENBURY, R.A. F.S.A. Assistant-Instructor in Artillery, HENRY WILLIAM BRISTOW, F.R.S. F.G.S. of the Geol. Survey of Gt. Britain. DENHAM ROBINSON. H. W. JEANS, F.R A.S. R.N. Cell. Portsmouth. RALPH N. WORNUM, Keeper and Secretary of the National Gallery. R. J. COURTNEY, Superintendent at Messrs. Spottiswoode & Co.'s Printing C. MERIVALE, B.D. Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. In January 1866 will be published in One Volume, crown 8vo. uniform with the Statesman's Year Book, THE COMMERCIAL HANDBOOK OF FRANCE. BY FREDERICK MARTIN, AUTHOR OF THE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK.' THE HERE are few subjects of greater interest to Commercial men in this country, as well as to those who guide the affairs of State, than the facts concerning the trade, commerce, and general industry of France. Thanks to the progress of the principles of free trade, France has now become more intimately connected with this country than at any period in the history of the two nations. Within the last forty years, our commercial relations with France have increased on a truly gigantic scale, as will be seen by a glance at the following table : Year 1823 1863 Imports from France Exports to France It is scarcely to be wondered at that our literature, otherwise so full and comprehensive, has not kept pace with this wonderful progress of commerce. Although we have larger and more important transactions with France than with any other foreign country in the world, there exists, as yet, no work in our language giving a moderately complete account of French trade and industry. The existing gazetteers, as they embrace all the countries on the globe, can but offer the scantiest information on any one country; while the so-called Guides are almost exclusively devoted to descriptions of scenery, art, and architecture. Under these circumstances, it is thought an opportune undertaking to prepare a COMMERCIAL HANDBOOK OF FRANCE, furnishing a detailed and comprehensive account of the trade, manufactures, industry, and commerce of France at the present time, so as to be a book of reference to statesmen, merchants, and manufacturers, as well as a useful guide to the half-a-million of travellers who annually pass between the two countries. The Handbook will be divided into two parts; the first containing, among other information, Tables of French Commerce with all Nations, and particularly with the United Kingdom, so arranged as to illustrate at a glance the intercourse between the two countries. This more general information will be followed, in the second part, by a special and detailed account of the present state of French trade and manufactures. It will be in the form of a Guide; every town, village, and centre of industry being described separately, and, for facilities of reference and survey, the whole of France being divided into groups, corresponding with the chief branches of industry and the principal lines of railway. Thus the various sections will contain more or less complete descriptions of certain divisions of French manufacturing and commercial activity. There will be, moreover, a separate account of the great industrial establishments of France, as also of the various lines of railways and canals; of the actual state of the commercial marine, and of French shipping and shipbuilding. The whole will be followed by a very full and elaborate index, forming a Complete Gazetteer of France. The work will be illustrated with maps and plans, including a coloured map showing the seats of the principal industries, such as coal mines, manufactures of iron, cotton, linen, wool, and silk, and the districts of growth of the Champagne, Burgundy, and Claret wines. It is unnecessary to dwell on the importance of the vast amount of information to be given in the Commercial Handbook of France, and its reat utility to men of all classes in this country. There is so little known at present about the actual state of French industry, that it created astonishment when, some weeks ago, the papers reported that the Great Eastern Railway Company was about to receive 16 locomotives from the Creusot Machine Works in Bourgogne. A better knowledge of French manufacturing industry will explain these and many other commercial phenomena of the age; and it will be the great aim of the Handbook to supply such knowledge. SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., PRINTERS, NEW-STRERT SQUARE, LONDON. THE object of this periodical is to enable Book-buyers readily to obtain such general information regarding the various Works published by Messrs. LONGMANS and Co. as is usually afforded by tables of contents and explanatory prefaces, or may be acquired by an inspection of the books themselves. With this view, each article is confined to an ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS of the work referred to: Opinions of the press and laudatory notices are not inserted. Copies are forwarded free by post to all Secretaries, Members of Book Clubs and Reading Societies, Heads of Colleges and Schools, and Private Persons, who will transmit their addresses to Messrs. LONGMANS and Co. 39 Paternoster Row, E.C. London, for this purpose. WARTER'S Art of Case-Taking in Medicine 16 42 51 53 18 DIER'S History of the City of Rome Literary Intelligence of Works preparing for publication will be found at pages 59 to 63. The Life of Man Symbolised by the Months into which the Life of Man is divided, to accord with the Twelve Months of the Year, and the progress of nature, from the germination of the seed to the decay of the tree. The progressive developments of the physical and moral attributes of Man are shown in each Month concurrently with the growth of the Year; and the varying phases of his passions, pursuits, and aspirations are exhibited in passages taken from ancient and modern writers. These are cited in the typographical characters of their respective periods, appropriately and suggestively illustrated by many hundreds of marginal devices, initial vignettes, and tailpieces. Each page of the book is enclosed in a framework, which serves as a setting for proverbs, and other aphorismatic sentences, in harmony with the text. Each section is preceded by two fullpage engravings, of which, including the general frontispiece, there are twenty-five, printed witbin red rules. Twelve of them, illustrating the A The Recreations of a Country Parson, FIRST SERIES, by A. K. H. B. New Edition, with 41 Illustrations engraved on Wood by Joseph Swain from Original Designs by R. T. Pritchett. Crown 8vo. pp. 426, price 12s. 6d. cloth, gilt edges. [Nov. 10, 1865. THE THE Essays which form this volume were contributed to Fraser's Magazine, while the Author was incumbent of a rural parish in the south of Scotland. They were fortunate in attracting considerable attention, and at the suggestion of Mr. JOHN PARKER they were collected into a volume, which was published in November 1859. Three editions were speedily exhausted, and a cheaper edition was published, of which 24,000 copies have been sold. In America the sale was much greater, the volume having reached a fifteenth edition in a few months after its appearance. It having been suggested that the book was suitable for illustration, the Author and Mr. PRITCHETT, during the past summer, visited the locality where the essays were written, when various sketches of scenery were made, which form part of the illustrations now published. It has been the desire of the Artist to catch the tone of the book, and the scenes represented are given with scrupulous faithfulness. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry, from the Year 1783 to 1852. Edited by Lady THERESA LEWIS. Pp. 1,660; with Three Portraits from Original Paintings, and a View of Kirkbridge, the Birthplace of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry. 3 vols. 8vo. 42s. cloth. [September 23, 1865. THE manuscripts, from which the contents of the present volumes have been selected, were placed in the hands of the Editor in accordance with the expressed wish of Miss BERRY. The task of reading, of selection, and of arrangement from a large mass of MSS. has involved much Labour, and the Editor's task has been interrupted and prolonged by trials too painful to be obtruded on the reader, and by circumstances over which the Editor had no control; but it is hoped that the care bestowed on the work may be accepted as evidence of her desire to do justice to the request of one who has more than ordinary claims to live in the memory of those to whom she was personally known. For an unusually lengthened period of years Miss BERRY formed a centre round which beauty, rank, wealth, power, fashion, learning, and science were gathered; merit and distinction of every degree were blended by her hospitality in social ease and familiar intercourse, encouraged by her kindness, and enlivened by her presence. She was not only the friend of literature and of literary people, but she assiduously cultivated the acquaintance of intellectual excellence in whatever form it might appear, and to the close of her existence she maintained her interest in all the important affairs in life, whether social, literary, or political. From the age of seventeen or eighteen to that of nearly ninety, Miss BERRY and her sister AGNES (one year younger than herself) lived constantly in society both at home and abroad: they had seen MARIE ANTOINETTE in all her pride and beauty, and they lived to regret the fall of LOUISPHILIPPE, for whose abilities Miss BERRY had for many years conceived a high respect, and with whom she was personally acquainted. Born in the third year after the accession of GEORGE III. she lived to be privately presented to Queen VICTORIA a few months before her death. In her early youth she gained the respect of her elders, and was well known to have engaged the devoted affection of one already far in the decline of life; in her own old age the loved and admired of the fastidious HORACE WALPOLE Won the hearts of the grandchildren and great-grandchildren of the friends of her youth, and will be affectionately remembered by some who were still children at the time of her death. But it is as an Authoress that she must be judged by the public; and on the same ground must rest the right of those entrusted with her papers, to give to the public such an insight into her feelings and opinions as may tend to develope her character and abilities without venturing too much to invade the privacy of domestic life. But no apology can be needed for the publication of papers by the Editor of the Letters of Madame du Deffand, and the Author of the Life of Lady Rachel Russell, and of the Social Life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles II. The great age to which Miss BERRY lived has given almost an historical interest to many trifling incidents in her journals; and changes and improvements, that steal imperceptibly on, in manners, in morals, in refinement, in general convenience, and in opinions, become more defined and more interesting, when brought before the rising generation by the notes and journals of one who, born above one hundred years ago, was so lately moving amongst the living in the full enjoyment of every faculty. The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART (1769-1791), translated from the Collection of Ludwig Nohl by Lady WALLACE. Pp. 678, with Portrait and Facsimile. 2 vols. post 8vo. price 18s. cloth. [Nov. 3, 1865. A full and authentic edition of MOZART's Letters ought to require no special apology; for, though their substance has already been made known by quotations from biographies by NISSEN, JAHN, and NOHL, still in these works the letters are necessarily not only very imperfectly given, but in some parts so fragmentary, that the peculiar charm of the correspondence is entirely destroyed. It was only possible to restore, and to enable others to enjoy this charm-a charm so novel, even to those already conversant with MOZART'S life, that the most familiar incidents acquire fresh zest from it-by an ungarbled edition of these letters. Such an edition is now offered to the public with the conviction that it will be welcome not only to the mass of MOZART's admirers, but also to professional musicians; for in these letters alone the life and labours, the joys and sufferings |