Mensuration. This course will, it is believed, be found sufficient for the office, the warehouse, and the workshop.

The Editors disclaim any intention to supersede the work of the teacher: their only design is to assist him, and to furnish his pupils with examples to be worked at home or otherwise. They have given a collection of short rules and definitions in order that the pupil may be enabled to refresh his memory, if necessary, as to the various processes which have been taught in class. In order that the pupil may be enabled to read the lessons with appreciation, the most difficult words and forms of expression in each extract are explained, as far as possible, in the sense in which they are used. These definitions are prefixed to the lesson, and may be advantageously committed to memory by the pupil before he reads it.

The Collection of BEETHOVEN's Letters, recently edited by Dr. NOHL, will shortly be published in an English Translation by Lady WALLACE, Translator of MENDELSSOHN'S and MOZART's Letters, and of PALLESKE'S Life of SCHILLER. It would be difficult to overrate the interest of these letters of BEETHOVEN, which display so powerfully the grand, fitful, generous nature of one of the most sublime geniuses the world ever saw”. It is sad to read of his sufferings and the lonely feeling entailed by deafness, and yet cheering to see how his devotion to art bore him up amid all his trials. The Letters offer a fine picture of his strange, passionate, gloomy character, brightened by love for art and his fellow-men, and by unselfish consideration for others.

'Beaten Tracks; or, Pen and Pencil Sketches in Italy, is the title of a new work by the Authoress of a Voyage en Zigzag,' which is expected to be ready early in December in 1 vol. 8vo. with about 200 Illustrations. This work will consist of a series of letters, illustrated by pen-and-ink sketches, describing a journey in North Italy during the last spring, comprising Nice, Mentone, the Corniche, Genoa, and Florence. The letters give a history of the DANTE Festival and other Italian fêtes, modern Florence as a new capital, the social habits and manners of its people, the KING, the customs of the peasantry, and their amusements, the artistic and natural beauties of the place, the adaptation of old buildings to the requirements of the Government, and the proposed changes in the city. The book will contain descriptions of a journey by Bologna and Milan, over the St. Gothard, to Switzerland and Paris; and the everyday adventures of an English family.

Pastor FLIEDNER. A Sketch of the Life of 'Pastor FLIEDNER of Kaiserwerth,' translated from the Kaiserwerth Year-Book for 1866, with the sanction of the Author, by CATHERINE WINKWORTH, is nearly ready, in 1 vol. small 8vo. The Deaconesses' Institution at Kaiserwerth must be regarded as the most successful attempt yet made in any Protestant Church to found a sisterhood for charitable work. It was begun by FLIEDNER twenty years ago, in the humblest possible manner; but in the year 1864 no less than sixteen hundred sisters were at work, and about thirty thousand At the persons, chiefly sick, were under their charge. present time, when the whole question of sisterhoods is attracting great attention, it is believed that this little sketch of FLIEDNER'S life, with some account of his work, will not be without its value for the English public.

FLIEDNER'S name is not unknown in English religious and charitable circles, for he visited England several times, and was known to Lord SHAFTESBURY, Mrs. FRY, and other eminent philanthropists; and Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE studied for some time at Kaiserwerth, and still maintains friendly relations with the Deaconesses' Institution.

NEW WORK by GEORGE BARNARD, forming a companion to the same Author's LandscapePainting in Water Colours.'-On Thursday, Dec. 14, will be published, in imperial 8vo. illustrated with 18 lithographic plates, plain and coloured, and above 100 Woodcuts, price 258. cloth, 'Drawing from Nature,' by GEORGE BARNARD, Professor of Drawing at Rugby School. This work is intended as a complete guide to the young student of nature; commencing with numerous examples and careful directions for the practice of the hand in representing foliage and other difficulties to the beginner. The pupil is then introduced to simple foreground subjects, easy of access, and the requisite instruction is given in a series of short Lectures delivered during many years at Rugby School, and found eminently successful in producing talented sketches from nature. In a succession of artistic tours principally in Switzerland and the Pyrenees, the various lessons are carried out and fully illustrated by a large number of sketches from these countries drawn upon stone and on wood by the Author. Those who wish to acquire the power of drawing from nature will it is hoped derive valuable help from this work, the drawings furnishing interesting copies for the pencil. A list is subjoined of a few of the principal illustrations of the work:

Roadside Sketching, Py- Group of Game, &c.-Still Life; a Study for Indoor Practice.

renees.

Ash, Oak, Scotch Fir, &c.
with Elementary Ex-
amples.
Foreground Water-Plants,
in Colour.

The Evelyn Beech Woods.
The Matterhorn, from the
North Side.
The Jungfrau, from above
the Staubbach.

Rocks, Isle of Sark;

a

Study in Sepia. Oak at Fontainebleau, in Colour.

Interior of a Spanish Stable. Aiguilles du Dru and Verte,

from near Chamouni. Fer de Cheval, Valley of Sixt.

Professor OWEN's New Work on COMPARATIVE ANATOMY.-VOL. I. of the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals,' by RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S. D.C.L. Superintendent of the Natural History Departments, British Museum, Foreign Associate of the Institute of France, &c. will be published on Thursday, December 14th. VOL. II. will be published on the 1st of March, and the THIRD VOLUME, completing the work, in the Spring. This work will be illustrated by upwards of Twelve Hundred Engravings on Wood.

PEOPLE'S EDITION of LORD MACAULAY'S SPEECHES. On January 1, 1866, will be published a New Edition of Lord MACAULAY'S 'Speeches,' as corrected by Himself, complete in One Volume, crown 8vo. price 3s. 6d. cloth, uniform with the PEOPLE'S EDITION of Lord MACAULAY'S History of England and Miscellaneous Writings, recently completed; to be had also in Three Parts, price One Shilling each. This volume will contain the same matter as the library edition in octavo, at about one quarter of the original price.

A New Grammar of Heraldry,' by JOHN E. CUSSANS, Esq. is nearly ready in one volume, small 8vo. with 196 Illustrations engraved on Wood.

F. HEALEY'S CHESS PROBLEMS.-In December will be published, in 1 vol. crown 8vo. Chess Problems, by F. HEALEY,' being a Selection of Two Hundred of Mr. HEALEY'S best Positions, including the Prize Problems of the Era, Manchester, Birmingham, and Bristol Tournament;' with the Solutions.

New Work by Dr. H. S. BOASE.—' An Essay 'on Human Nature, shewing the Necessity of a Reve'lation for the Perfect Development of Man's Capacities,' by HENRY S. BOASE, M.D. F.R.S. and G.S. Honorary Member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, is nearly ready, in 1 vol. 8vo.

New Work by the AUTHOR of 'TALPA.'—In January will be published, in 1 vol. 'Occasional Essays,' by CHANDOS WREN HOSKYNS, Author of Talpa, or Chronicles of a Clay Farm.' The CONTENTS will comprise: 1. The Invisible World, or the Occult Powers of Creation; 2. The Domain of Phy sical Inquiry, an Address to the Warwickshire Natural History Society; 3. On Agriculture, its Rise and Progress in Great Britain; 4. The English Landowner; 5. The Battle Line of History, or the Influence of Battles on Human Progress.

'Free Thoughts on many Subjects, by a MANCHESTER MAN,' will shortly be published in 2 vols. post 8vo. This work will consist of a selection from articles contributed to FRASER'S Magazine from 1848 to 1864, with notes, &c. of the present date. They contain essays on the following subjects:-1. A Manufacturing District, a sketch from nature; 2. Our Manufacturing Populations, the educational agency among them; 3. Manchester; 4. The Church among the Tall Chimnies; 5. A Treatise on Humbug; 6. A Whitweek in Manchester; 7. An Essay on Popularity; 8. A Discourse on Crotchets; 9. The Manchester Art Exhibitions of 1857; 10. A Threnody as touching the East Wind; 11. Our Failures; 12. Hymns and Hymn-Tunes for Congregational Worship; 13. The Meeting in Manchester of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1861; 14. The Philosophy of Marriage, studied under Sir Cresswell Cresswell; 15. Our Cotton Trade and Factory Operatives; 16. Lancashire under a Cloud; 17. Moral Leverage for the Masses.

A NEW WORK intitled The Food Supplies of 'Western Europe,' being Letters written in reply to the Question Where is England to get Meat? during a brief Tour in France, Switzerland, Belgium, and Holland in the Autumn of 1865, by JOSEPH FISHER, will be ready in a few days, in one volume, small 8vo. to which will be appended a Paper (by the same Author) on the Production of Food, read in the Department of Political Economy at the International Social Science Congress at Berne, 1865.

DESCRIPTION and EDUCATION of IDIOTS.Preparing for publication, in 1 vol. crown 8vo. 'A 'Manual for the Classification, Training, and Edu'cation of the Feeble-Minded, Imbecile, and Idiotic, by P. MARTIN DUNCAN, M.B. Lond. F.G.S. F.A.S.L. Honorary Consulting Surgeon to the Eastern Counties Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles; and WILLIAM MILLARD, Superintendent of the Eastern Counties Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles.

A New Manual on Poisons, intitled The Toxi'cologist's Guide,' is preparing for publication by JOHN HORSLEY, F.C.S. Analytical Chemist, Cheltenham. This volume will give the best methods of manipulation to be pursued for the detection of poisons (postmortem or otherwise).

GRANT'S ARISTOTLE.-Early in 1866 will be published, in 2 vols. 8vo. a New Edition, revised and completed, of The Ethics of ARISTOTLE, illustrated ' with Essays and Notes, Critical and Explanatory? By Sir ALEXANDER GRANT, M.A. late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

New Classical School Book by the Rev. E. St. JOHN PARRY, M.A.-Nearly ready, in 1 vol. small 8vo. CICERONIS Epistolarum Delectus,' by E. St. JOHN PARRY, M.A. Head Master of Leamington College. This work is formed of a selection from CICERO's letters containing all the important allusions to the events of his times, accompanied by notes and introductions, adapted to the use of the highest classes in public schools.

The COMMERCIAL YEAR-Book for the Year 1866, by FREDERICK MARTIN, Author of The Statesman's Year-Book,' will be ready in the course of December. This work will contain, besides the Calendar and the other usual contents of an almanack, very copious classified TABLES of the IMPORTS and EXPORTS of Great Britain for each of the two years 1863 and 1864, and the nine months 1864 and 1865-the latest returns obtainable. This classified list of imports and exports-the principal feature of the Commercial Year-Book-will form a complete synopsis of British commerce, made easy for reference by an alphabetical INDEX, and will, it is hoped, entitle the book to a place amongst the works of authority usually consulted in banking houses, mercantile board and committee-rooms, merchants' offices, and most other places of business.

A New Practical Guide for British Shipmasters in United States Ports,' by PIERREPONT EDWARDS, Her Britannic Majesty's Vice-Consul at New York, is now in the press. The object of this work, as expressed in the above title, is to form a guide to British Shipmasters upon their rights and duties. The Author has been for the past nine years Her Majesty's Vice-Consul at the Port of New York, where, from its extensive trade, carried on largely by British ships, the Author has found the want of such a work-a work so simplified, that shipmasters could find in it their duties defined, as to eventualities likely to arise, without hunting through the Acts and Statutes that have been passed to govern them. At the same time the Author has given the authorities from which he has arrived at his decisions, quoting legal ones, or special Acts covering the different cases. He has begun with the rights and duties at the home port, and followed the vessel on the voyage to her port of destination in the United States, giving the regulations of all the principal ports there as to pilots, port charges, quarantine, &c. which will have to govern the Master on arrival.

As suits against the vessel in relation to the seamen, cargo, and other matters, arise in United States ports, the Author has also noticed these, giving the latest decisions of the American Courts with regard to them.

This work will, it is believed, be found of great use, not only to Masters of vessels bound to United States ports, but (as containing the rights and duties of Masters and seamen) to shipmasters and shipowners generally.

THE Head Master of Shrewsbury School, in compliance with particular request, has undertaken to edit VIRGIL expressly for School use. The main principle which his experience in teaching has led him to adopt is, that the Notes should be such as a Master, at least in the two highest forms of Public Schools, may justly require all his scholars to prepare as a portion of the lesson, These notes will seldom impart that knowledge which can be obtained from the three Diction aries supposed to be in the hands of all advanced boys; but they will indicate, by brief examinative questions, what a boy must obtain from his Dictionaries, while they embrace, briefly but sufficiently, whatever is further requisite for the full interpretation of the author. They will contain as much translated matter as may seem necessary to promote taste and guide judgment, while they carefully avoid that luxuriance of English translation which is so unwelcome te every wise Master, as only tending to enfeeble, and often to mislead, the minds of boys. The text of WAGNER will be generally, but not implicitly, followed; and ther will be a few critical Latin foot-notes, indicating the departures from that text. The other notes, in English, will be at the end of the volume.

The publication of this work has been delayed by other and most important duties, but it is now in progress, and advancing towards completion.

WHITE and RIDDLE'S LATIN DICTIONARIES.'The Junior Latin-English Dictionary,' abridged from the larger work of WHITE and RIDDLE by the Rev. JOHN T. WHITE, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, is expected to be ready by January 1, 1866.

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New Work for Indian Civil Service Candidates by the Rev. R. DEMAUS.-Nearly ready, in 1 vol. small 8vo. English Literature and Composition,' by the Rev. R. DEMAUS, M.A. Author of Class Book of English Prose,' &c. This work, which is intended to form a guide to candidates in the departments of English literature and composition in the Indian Civil Service, will comprise all the Examination-questions from the commencement of the open competition, with complete answers to four of the papers, and brief hints on a systematic course of preparatory study.

The New Pract cal Dictionary of the English and German Languages, by the Rev. W. L. BLACKLEY, M.A. and Dr. CARL MARTIN FRIEDLANDER, Corresponding Member of the French Historical Institute, is expected to be ready by January 1, 1866.

In announcing the New Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages, the Authors consider it advisable in a few words to point out its general purpose and its peculiar features. The object they have proposed to themselves has been the production, in a convenient form, of a work calculated especially for the use and assistance of English students of the German language, and thus to supply a real want of the present day, the existence of which may be asserted without disparagement to the learned labours of many predecessors in the same field of knowledge, who, addressing themselves, for the most part, to a different object, have generally achieved a different result.

The projected Dictionary by no means aims at being an Index Verborum,' and will neither seek nor merit approbation for containing multitudes of archaic or merely pedantic words, unknown to the living literature, almost to the living language, they profess to illustrate. Its general purpose will be to present every word at all likely to be needed in interpreting or in speaking the German tongue, and its peculiar additional objects will be as follows:

I. By simplicity of arrangement to enable the student, at the least expense of time and trouble, to discover the exact sense of the words he seeks, with reference to their context in his reading, or their fitness for his speech; and

II. To supply him copiously with the best equivalents in either language for the abundant and characteristic idioms of the other.

The association in the work of an actual representative of each language may justify the expectation of a useful accuracy being obtained, at least in this latter department.

On the two points, of practical facility and idiomatic phraseology, the compilers expend especial care and pains, in the sincere hope that their treatment of such important features in the undertaking may render it of more than usual value and service to the public.

This new German Dictionary is on the same plan, and is intended to be uniform with. Professor CoNTANSEAU'S well-known Practical Dictionary of the Freach and English Language.'

MAX MULLER'S HANDBOOKS for the STUDY of SANSKRIT.

I. A New SANSKRIT-ENGLISH DICTIONARY by Professor THEODOR BENFEY, of the University of Göttingen and Correspondent of the Institute of France, is nearly ready for publication. The valuable dictionary of the late Professor H. H. WILSON has long been out of print, while the dictionaries now in course of publication in England and on the Continent are planned on a scale which will require many years for their completion, and, like the Latin Dictionary of FORCELLINI, and the Greek Thesaurus of STEPHANUS, they are designed for the use of advanced scholars only. A dictionary of moderate size is therefore much needed by those who wish to study the language for the sake of its literature and the aid which it affords to researches in Comparative Grammar. The present work, which is intended to supply this want, will give only those words which are found in the actual literature of the language, to the exclusion of those which rest only on the authority of Grammarians. The roots are, however, inserted, but all which have not yet been authenticated are marked with a

cross +.

II. A Sanskrit Grammar for Beginners,' by MAX MÜLLER, M.A. Taylorian Professor of Modern European Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford, is advancing in progress.

ENGLISH HISTORY for CANDIDATES for EXAMINATION. Early in January will be published, in 1 vol. small 8vo. A Manual of English History from the Ear'liest Period to our own Times.' ByW.M. LUPTON, Instructor of Candidates for the Civil Service, Army, and other Public Examinations. This work will contain much matter never before introduced into a school book. It will include a brief notice of every important event in English history; together with chronological tables of the battles, sieges, and treaties in Europe since the Conquest, and in India since the time of CLIVE; as well as a short biography of nearly every name of mark figuring in English history, copious useful historical addenda, and a complete INDEX. The work is intended to supply a deficiency which has probably been felt by most schoolmasters engaged in preparing pupils for examination; since no school history yet published answers all the questions that have been already proposed in the Oxford and Cambridge Local Examination papers, while students qualifying for the Civil Service have to collect their information from a variety of sources. By incorporating with the English historical narrative in one chronological sequence the principal events that have happened in Europe since the Conquest and in India since the acquisition of that empire, the Author trusts that he has provided in one inexpensive volume, and in a form easily retained in the memory, all the matter required to be mastered as a necessary step preliminary to passing with credit the most searching examination in English history.

A MANUAL of the DOMESTIC PRACTICE of MEDICINE.

By W. B. KESTEVEN, Fellow of the Royal College of Sur-
geons of England, &c. Second Edition, thoroughly revised,
with many Additions, and the omission of such topics as
were found in practice to render the first edition less strictly
adapted for domestic use. Fcp. 58.

A DICTIONARY of PRACTICAL MEDICINE,
By JAMES COPLAND, M.D. F.R.S. Abridged from the larger
work by the Author, assisted by J. C. COPLAND, M.R.C.S.
Medium 8vo. 36s.

The PHILOSOPHY of HEALTH;

Or, an Exposition of the Physiological and Sanitary Condi
tions conducive to Human Longevity and Happiness. By
SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M.D. Eleventh Edition, with 113
Figures. 8vo. 15s.

The RESTORATION of HEALTH;

Or, the Application of the Laws of Hygiene to the Recovery of Health: a Manual for the Invalid, and a Guide in the Sick Room. By W. STRANGE, M.D. Fcp. 68, SEA-AIR and SEA-BATHING for CHILDREN and INVALIDS:

On FOOD and its DIGESTION :
Being an Introduction to Dietetics. By W. BRINTON, M.D.
Physician to St. Thomas's Hospital. 8vo. with 48 Wood-
cuts, 12s.

HINTS to MOTHERS for the MANAGEMENT of their HEALTH during PREGNANCY and in the LYINGIN ROOM;

With Hints on Nursing, &c. By THOMAS BULL, M.D.
Sixteenth Edition, revised and enlarged. Fcp. 58.

The MATERNAL MANAGEMENT of CHILDREN in HEALTH and DISEASE.

By THOMAS BULL, M.D. Eighth Edition, fcp. 5s. LECTURES on the DISEASES of INFANCY and CHILDHOOD.

By CHARLES WEST, M.D. Physician to the Hospital for
Sick Children. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged, Svo. 16s.

HOW to NURSE SICK CHILDREN:

Intended especially as a Help to the Nurses at the Hospital for Sick Children: but containing Directions which may be found of service to all who have the charge of the Young. By CHARLES WEST, M.D. Third Edition. Fcp. 18. 6d.

The DIAGNOSIS and TREATMENT of DISEASES of WOMEN, including the DIAGNOSIS of PREGNANCY. By GRAILY HEWITT, M.D. Physician to the British Lyingin Hospital. 8vo. 16s.