CREOLE LANGUAGES.-Dr. Schuchardt, of the University of Gratz, has undertaken a work of considerable interest and labour. It is notorious that in every part of Asia, Africa, and America, from the contact of European Languages with the Native Languages, new forms of speech are coming into existence, which at first sight may be called jargons, but which may possibly be the germs of new Languages. At any rate, English and Hindustani must have gradually come into existence in some such way. Most conspicuous among the class of degraded language types is Pidgin-English, which is however represented by a literature of its own, and Creolese, which is represented by a translation of a portion of the Bible. But along the West Coast of Africa are found languages composed of English, French, and Portuguese intermixed with the Coast Languages, and Dutch has suffered a frightful degradation at the lips of Hottentots of mixed breeds. Professor Schuchardt invites the co-operation of all, who happen to possess any special knowledge of the subject, or who can indicate sources of information, He has already addressed scores of letters to residents in different parts of the world, and it is hoped that he may receive some replies. To any one who has read the Preface to Lepsius' Nubische Grammatik, in which that great scholar propounds the magnificent theory, that all the infinite variety of Languages, spoken by the Negro Races North of the Equator from the Nile to the Atlantic, are the result of the contact of the Hamitic and Bantu Races during long periods of years, it is a question of first-rate interest to trace the effect of the Arian languages of Europe upon the wholly dissimilar elements of such highly cultivated languages as Chinese, and the wild flowers of Africa. The Editor of Trübner's Record will gladly receive any communications for the learned Austrian Professor.-R.N.C.

RECORDS OF THE MAYAS OF YUCATAN.-Dr. Daniel G. Brinton, who delights in researches connected with aboriginal antiquities, has issued "The Books of the Chilan Balam," or the prophetic and historic records of the Mayas of Yucatan. The Mayas possessed books written in letters and characters on paper manufactured from the bark of a tree and sized with a durable white varnish. As the contents of these volumes were found to relate to pagan rituals and astrological superstitions, the Jesuit priests destroyed them whereever they were discovered. Chilan Balam was the title of the priests: Chilan from Chij, "the mouth, mouthpiece," or interpreter; and Balam, literally tigre, the title of a certain class of priests, and still applied to the protective or patron spirits of fields and towns.

THE GOVERNOUR.'-The new edition of Sir Thomas Elyot's "Governour," an advertisement of which appears in another column, is in many respects a remarkable work. The book was originally published in 1531, and though several editions appeared subsequently in the sixteenth century, these were all in black-letter, and with the exception of an extremely imperfect edition in 1834, no attempt appears to have been made till now to reproduce the original text with critical and explanatory notes. As a matter of fact, the present is the tenth edition; but there were so many omissions in the text of the intermediate editions, that the present is virtually the second. Sir Thomas Elyot lived in a period of great literary activity, the renaissance of classical learning in England. His book consequently teems with quotations from the classics, and not only from the classics, but from modern Italian writers, such as Pontano and Patrizi. It has devolved upon the Editor to trace these quotations to their original sources; and in this, a most laborious work, he has been very successful. The title of the work is well chosen, for its motif is to present a scheme of education for gentlemen, those who were destined to take part in the government of the State. A very complete glossary is appended, and will be found to contain a larger amount of information about a variety of words, mostly obsolete, than is to be found in any English dictionary or glossary hitherto published. There is no probability of the work being ever reproduced in its present shape, and therefore those who desire to possess an edition de luxe of an interesting English classic, will do well to purchase a copy of the "Governour" before the edition is exhausted.

STORM GUIDE FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC.-The Inspector of the Meteorological Service of the Dominion of Canada, Mr. Hugh V. Payne of Toronto, has mapped out the course of storms in the North Atlantic, so that by means of his Storm Sailing Guide mariners may keep their vessels outside the influence of any storm that may be raging at any time. Mr. Payne has thoroughly studied the subject, and we have no doubt that by using his instrument and guide, many vessels would be saved that otherwise would not safely cross the

BUREAU OF EDUCATION.-The Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, No. 5, 1880, is by Mr. Henry W. Hulbert, on English. No. 6, 1880, is a Report on teaching Chemistry and Physics in the United States, by Professor F. W. Clarke. No. 7, 1880, is by Professor F. A. March, on Spelling Reform, being an historical sketch of the movement with its literature. No. 1, of 1881, is on Library Buildings, by Mr. W. F. Poole, Librarian of the Chicago Public Library. No. 2, 1881, is by Dr. E. E. White, on the Relation of Education to Industry and Technical Training in American Schools. No. 3, 1881, contains the proceedings of the Department of Superintendence of the National Educational Association, at its New York meeting, Feb. 8-10, 1881. No. 4, 1881, is on Education in France. Besides the Circulars of Information, which are numbered, some extra issues have appeared in 1881, under the following titles:-Comparative Statistics of Elementary Education in fifty principal countries, Library Aids, The Discipline of the School, Education and Crime, and one containing the following 6 articles, On Fifty Years' Freedom in Belgium, Education in Malta, Third International Geographical Congress at Venice in 1881, Illiteracy and Crime in France, School Savings Banks, and Education in Sheffield.

LIBRARIES AND LIBRARY MATTERS.-The Bulletin of the Boston Public Library for March contains the conclusion of the Bibliography of Copyright, one on Ireland and the Land question, and one on the Literature of Civil Service Reform. The Harvard University Bulletin, No. 22, for April, besides the list of accessions to the Library, contains Scudder's Bibliography of fossil insects, Scu to Woo; Catalogue of the Lee Manuscripts, Numbers 89 to 152; Mr. Justin Winsor's list of the most useful reference books, and Whitney's list of American Authors in Geology and Paleontology, A to Lit. This latter has also been printed separately in "Bibliographical Contributions," No. 15.

SPANISH AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE.-General Bartolomé Mitré has favoured us with a copy of the second edition of his "Nuevas Comprobaciones Historicas Aproposito de Historia Argentina." This work is of importance for the history of the secession from Spain of the different States of South America. The publisher is Carlos Cassavalle, Buenos Aires.

STEEL. Messrs. Miller, Metcalf, and Parkin, of the Crescent Steel Works, Pittsburgh, issued last year a very valuable little manual on the Treatment of Steel, a series of circulars on Heating, Annealing, Forging and Tempering. There is now a new edition of this little book in preparation, and we should hope Messrs. Miller, Metcalf, and Parkin will publish it for sale, which they did not do with the first edition; we are quite sure it would be eagerly sought after by all workers in steel. The final division headed "Sparks" contains some very useful maxims of matters to be observed and avoided in working steel.

COMPARISONS OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN FARMING.Mr. Alfred G. Thomas, C.E., has published a very useful little brochure under this title, with special reference to farming in Nova Scotia, though it might be applied as well to represent any other part of North America. It shows that unless farmers on the other side of the Atlantic conduct farming on scientific principles, and give up the exhausting system, they will not be able to compete with their European brethren in the near future. Three chapters at the end of this little work give the management of a farm of 100 acres with 40 acres of "Dyke" for pasturage, according to the principles of conserving the fertility of the soil as enunciated by the author.

THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OF THE UNITED STATES.-We mentioned some time ago that there was to be a new departure in endeavouring to add to the usefulness of this department, and in connexion we may mention that the Hon. G. B. Loring has been appointed Commissioner. The Hon. Wm. G. Le Duc before he resigned presented to the President of the U.S.A. two valuable reports on special subjects. One is by Mr. R. B. Hayes, also containing a document by Mr. John L. Hayes, relating to the Origin and Growth of Sheep Husbandry in the United States, with some remarks on Angora Fleece, and four illustrations of sheep and goats. The other is by Dr. Wm. McMurtrie, on the Culture of the Sugar Beet and the manufacture of sugar therefrom in France and the United States, which has a full complement of plates of machinery for the manufacture of sugar from beet, and maps of the beet-growing districts in Europe and America. Both of these reports are necessary to any one engaged in the industries on which they treat; accumulated information of this kind saves much trouble and unnecessary expense in experiments which may have

NEW YORK REVIEW OF THE TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE. The recent rapid strides made in telegraphic and telephonic science encouraged Mr. George Worthington, of New York, to commence publishing last January an electrical monthly journal of the above title. We have examined the numbers that have appeared, and can candidly say that if specialists wish to have the latest news on these subjects, they will not be without this journal.

THE WRITINGS OF HENRY PHILLIPS, JUN., A.M., PH.D. -Mr. H. Phillips, jun., of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, has written some papers interesting to antiquaries in various transactions and periodicals; as such papers generally escape the notice of the bibliographer, we give a list of them:-1862 History of the Pennsylvania Paper Money-1863 Catalogue of New Jersey Bills of Credit -1865 History of American Colonial Paper Currency-1866 History of American Continental Paper Money 1867 Medicine and Astrology - The Pleasures of Numismatic Science. History of Maryland Currency - Considerations upon the Numismatic Society-Paper on a Hoard of Coins exhumed at Paris.-1868 Cozumel-Cowries as a Currency -1869 The Coins and Coinage of China-Paper on the Remains in the Ribbesdale Caves 1871 Discovery of America by the Northmen-An account of a Black-letter Almanac for 1620-1872 The Magic of the Middle Ages; Albertus Magnus-1873 Danish Architecture of the Middle Ages-1874 Late Discoveries at Pompeii-1875 Origin and Coinage of Money-1876 The First American Expedition to

77 66

the North Pole-The Falsification of Coins-Pre-historic Pompeii 1877 Method used by the Aztecs in making Obsidian Implements 1878 Notes on Coins, First paper -List of Waterloo Medals - Poems from the Spanish and German-Account of the Earthquake at Aix-la-Chapelle -1879 Worship of the Sun as shown on Coins-Account of an old work on Cosmography-1880 Notes on a Denarius of Augustus. (Standards. )-Obituary Address on Peter McCall -Early Philadelphia Almanacs-Stone Age in Asia and Africa-Notes on Coins, Second paper-Certain early Maps of America-1881 Faust (from the German of Chamisso)Old Time Superstitions, No. 1-A Glimpse into the PastHead-dresses exhibited on Coins-1882 Remarks on a Coin of Sicyon-A Pre-historic Epic.

VICTORIA (AUSTRALIA). -RepoRTS OF THE MINING SURVEYORS AND REGISTRARS. These Reports for the quarter ending Dec. 31st, 1881, show that the total quantity of gold from alluviums and quartz reefs amounts to 225,071 oz. 14 dwt. The gold reported from the colony amounted to 101,371 oz. 18 dwt. The gross gold and bullion received at the Royal Mint was 133,872.95 oz., and the gross weight issued was 35,202-032 oz.

BOOKS RECEIVED.-Chief of Engineers U.S. Army Map of River and Harbour Improvements, 1879.-Weisse s English Speaking Populations, 1881.-Trenwith on Prayer, 1881Johns Hopkins University Circulars, No. 13, Feb. 1882.Dr. Bucke's Report of the London (Ontario) Asylum for the Insane for 1881.-Boston University Year- book, Vol. VIII. -Platonist, Vol. I. Nos. 11 and 12, December and January.

CHAMPLIN.-The Rev. James Tift Champlin, author of "A Text-Book of Intellectual Philosophy," "A Text-Book of Political Economy, First Principles of Ethics," and the editor of several editions of "Demosthenes Orations," etc., died at Portland, Me., on March the 15th.

COLEMAN.-The Rev. Dr. Lyman Coleman died at Easton, Pennsylvania, on March 14th, in his 86th year; he was born at Middlefield, Mass., on June 14th, 1796. He was the author of the following works: "The Apostolic and Primitive Church," "History and Geography of the Bible," "Ancient Christianity," Historical Text-Book and Atlas of Biblical Geography," and translated "The Antiquities of the Christian Church" from the German.

66

DEWEY.-The Reverend Orville Dewey, D.D., author of "The Problem of Human Life and Destiny," "The Education of the Human Race" (lectures). "Letters on Revivals," and "Sermons," died on March 21st last, within a few days of the advanced age of 88 years, at Sheffield, Mass., in which place he was born on the 28th of March in 1794. His works were collected and published in three volumes in New York in 1847.

EMERSON. Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher and Poet, died on April 27 last at his residence, Concord, Mass., not very long after his friend Longfellow. He was born in Boston on May the 25th, 1803, was the son of the Rev. William Emerson, a Unitarian minister, and the eighth consecutive minister in the family, for Mr. R. W Emerson was brought up by his father to succeed him in the ministry. For five years after leaving Harvard College, where he graduated in 1821, Mr. Emerson engaged in what the Americans call "teaching school," and in 1826 was appointed by the Middlesex Association to preach, and from 1829 to 1832 he was associated with the Rev. H. Ware in the Second Unitarian Church, Boston. After a visit to Europe in 1833, he commenced lecturing in Boston on celebrated men, Michael Angelo, Milton, Luther, George Fox, and Edmund Burke, being amongst his subjects. After his return from Europe, he seems to have given up ministerial work, his views having become too transcendental for the Unitarian body. The "Dial," the organ of the New England Transcendentalists from 1840, had frequent contributions from his pen, and for the last two years of its existence he was its Editor. Mr. Emerson delivered many excellent addresses and lectures which have not been printed. He was not a prolific writer, and his style was terse, almost to the verge of vagueness. Though, like his friend the late Thomas Carlyle, his writings have had a great influence on his age, they have not tended to found a school of philosophy, but rather to promote thought, and make every man his own philosopher. In 1847 he paid a second visit to England, where he lectured in Exeter Hall. His poems, though they abound in fine thought, partake of the style of his prose. Mr. Emerson's works in various editions will be found in the Catalogue of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co., of the Riverside Press,

Cambridge, but they first appeared as follows:- 1836 Nature, an Essay-1841 Essays, 1st Series-1844 Do. 2nd Series (of which an English edition also appeared with a preface by the late Thomas Carlyle)-1846 Poems-1849 Miscellanies (including Nature, 9 lectures and addresses) -- 1850 Representative Men-1856 English Traits-1860 Conduct of Life. -1869 May-day and other Poems-1869 Society and Solitude -1869 A revised edition of his Prose Works, complete, was issued-1874 Parnassus, a collection of Poetry, with an Introductory Essay - 1876 Fortune of the Republic - 1877 Perpetual Forces, an Essay.-His last essay on the Superlative appeared in the Century for February, 1882.

FORD. It is with much regret we record the death on April the 25th of our old friend Geo. W. Ford, of Messrs. E. and J. B. Young & Co., of New York. He was born at Duxbury, Mass., in 1831, and entered the import book trade on leaving college. Old and rare books were his speciality, When the Civil War broke out, he joined the army, and when it ended he retired from the service, having risen to the rank of Colonel of Engineers. He married a daughter of Mr. John Wiley, of New York, whom he leaves a widow with four children to lament the loss of a kind husband and father.

JOHNSON. - Dr. Samuel Johnson, the Pastor of a Free Church at Lynn, Mass., died in May last. He was born at Salem, Mass., on October 10, 1822. Hymns of the Spirit" was the title of a volume for public and private devotion which he issued in conjunction with the Rev. Samuel Longfellow. Dr. Johnson was a great student of Oriental religions, and published under the general title of Oriental Religions and their Relation to Universal Religion," "India" and "China"; the former has been republished in London by Trübner & Co. in two vols. He was engaged on "Persia at the time of his death.

LONGFELLOW.-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, LL.D., a poet whose fame extends wherever the English language is spoken, and who is perhaps more popular in the British dominions than in his own country, died on March 24th last. He was born at Portland, Maine, on the 27th of February, 1807, and was a son of the Hon. Stephen Longfellow, who was descended from the early Pilgrim settlers of New England. Mr. Longfellow showed a genius for poetical composition at an early age. The Hymn of the Moravian Nuns," "The Spirit of Poetry," "Woods in Winter," and "Sunrise on the Hills" being his first efforts. He spent four years (1826-30) in France, Spain, Italy, and Germany, and made a second European tour in 1835-6. During these tours he did not neglect to study the languages of the countries he visited, as his exquisite translations in the "Poets and Poetry of Europe," first published in 1845, bear witness.

Mr. Longfellow was brought up to the Law in his father's office, but his taste for literature led him to adopt it as a profession, and he became Professor of Modern Languages and Literature at Bowdoin College, and Modern Languages

Church (Ella R.)-Money-making for Ladies. 16mo. cloth, pp. 221. New York. 4s. 6d.

A concise and thoughtful review of the various fields in which women of varying capacity, cultivation, disposition and opportunity can turn their industry into money. Chapters on: The boardinghouse; the housekeeper; the needle; teaching; literature and writing; art industries; house decoration; shopping; gardening; bees and poultry.

Coan (Rev. T.)-Life in Hawaii: an Autobiographic Sketch of Mission Life and Labours (1835-1881). 12mo. cloth, pp. viii. and 340. With Portrait. York. 7s. 6d.

New

Rev. Titus Coan gives his own experience in the missionary field, and an account of the people, the scenery, life and customs of Hawaii,

Cornell (W. M.)-The Life and Public Career of Hon. Horace Greeley. 12mo. cloth, pp. 317. With Portrait and Illustrations. Boston. 6s. 6d.

This life of the great journalist sets forth the facts in his career, the influences, political and otherwise, of his period, and of his relations to the leading men, and to the many great political movements during the long term of his editorial service.

Cutler (E. G., M.D.) and Garland (G. M., M.D.)Percussion Outlines. 8vo. cloth, pp. vi. and 66. With 9 Plates. Boston. 7s. 6d.

Cuyler (T. L.)-From the Nile to Norway and Homeward. Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. viii, and 357. Illustrated. New York. 7s. 6d.

Future State.

Dana (A. H.)-Enigmas of Life, Death, and the 12mo. cloth, pp. 250. New York. 6s. 6d. Some doctrines of the Church from a rationalistic point of view. Davis (Miss R. I.)-Gleanings from Merrimac Valley. 24mo. cloth, pp. 128. With Portrait. Portland (Me.). 5s.

Papers and poems; includes, among other articles, two sketches of characters in Whittier's poems, viz.: Miss Harriet Livermore, and the Countess (wife of Count Francis de Vipart), formerly residing in East Haverhill. A picture of Miss Livermore appears as a frontispiece.

Decrow (W. E.)-Yale, and the City of Elms.
4to. cloth, pp. 126. Illustrated. Boston. 7s. 6d.
De Peyster (J. W.)-Mary Queen of Scots: A
Study. 8vo. paper, pp. 144. New York.

39.66

The author offers some original views concerning the life and acts of Mary Stuart; he divides his book into five parts-"Portraits of Mary," "Historical Introduction," Study,' ""James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell," and "The Lovers," Mary and Bothwell. Donnelly (I.)-Atlantis: the Antediluvian World.

12mo. cloth, pp. x. and 480. Illustrated. New York. 10s. This is an ingenious and interesting attempt to demonstrate that the description given by Plato of an island which once existed in the Atlantic Ocean, opposite the mouth of the Mediterranean Sea, and known to the ancient world as Atlantis, is not, as has long been supposed, fable, but veritable history. Mr. Donnelly describes it as the true antediluvian world, as the Garden of Eden, the Elysian Fields, etc., which perished in a terrible convulsion of nature, sinking with all its inhabitants into the ocean, and that a few persons escaped in ships and on rafts, and carried to the nations east and west the tidings of the catastrophe, which has survived to our own time in the Flood and Deluge legends of the different nations of the old and new worlds. Taking the soundings of H.M.S. Challenger as a point of support to his theory, and reasoning with great ingenuity and an admirable facility of induction, he has compiled a most fascinating, entertaining, and instructive argument.

Doubleday (A.)-Chancellorsville and Gettysburg. 12mo. cloth, pp. xvi. and 243. With Maps. New York. 5s.

This narrative relates to the decisive campaigns of the war, which freed the Northern States from invasion; as General Doubleday was an actor in the scenes he describes, and knew the principal leaders on both sides, in consequence of his association with them at West Point, and subsequently in the regular army, he presents a most vigorous and stirring narrative; it is believed that the diagrams and maps of positions in this volume illustrate many complicated passages of the battle more clearly than they have been hitherto illustrated for the general reader. Appendix gives names and numbers of officers and men on both sides, with killed and wounded. Index.

Dwight (T.)-Frozen Sections of a Child. cloth, pp. 604. New York. 15s.

8vo.

Eaton (D. B.)-The Spoils System and Civil

Service Reform in the Custom-House and Post-Office at New York, 12mo. pap. pp. viii. and 123. N. York. 2s. 6d.

Ebers (G.) The Burgomaster's Wife: a Romance; from the German by Mary J. Safford. 16mo. paper, pp. iv. and 351. New York. 2s. 6d.

A romance of the Netherlands, 1574; gives an excellent picture of Holland and the Hollanders during the time when William of Orange was fighting the wars of the Netherlands against Philip of Spain; contains, also, a very charming domestic element, which centres in the burgomaster Peter Van der Werff and his wife, who are both fine examples of character-painting.

Ellwanger (H. B.)-The Rose. A Treatise on the Cultivation, History, Family Characteristics, etc., of the Various Groups of Roses, with Accurate Descriptions of the Varieties now generally grown. 16mo. cloth, pp. ii.

and 293. New York, 6s, 6d.

Though many books upon the rose have been produced within the past twenty years, the most useful and valuable are English compilations and specially adapted to an English climate; hence the desirability of a work like the present. where the differences of climate, etc., are considered. These differences require a modifica. tion and change in the directions for culture, a different list of varieties for general cultivation, etc.-all of which the author has considered, besides many new varieties, classes and types are described, while many modifications of old-established principles which have lately crept into rose-culture have not been overlooked.

Everett (W.)-School Sermons Preached to the Boys at Adams Academy, Quincy, Mass. 16mo. cloth, pp. xii. and 196. Boston. 5s.

Discourses of an unsectarian character-simply dealing with the wide truths of Christianity-preached to an audience of boys, of ages ranging from 13 to 20; they are hopeful, cheerful discourses, especially adapted to the needs of young men.

Fairbanks (L. S.)-The Laws of Massachusetts relating to Marriage and Divorce; with a Digest of the Decisions of the Supreme Court in Divorce Causes; with Forms of Pleading. Second Edition. 16mo. cloth, pp. 88. Boston. 68.

Fitz (J.)-Sweet-Potato Culture: giving Full Instructions from Starting the Plants to Harvesting and Storing the Crop; with a Chapter on the Chinese am. 12mo. paper, pp. 58. New York. 2s. 6d.

Fitz-Simon (E. A.) Historical Epochs, with System of Mnemonics, to Facilitate the Study of Chronology, History and Biography. 12mo. cloth, pp. iii. and 70. New York. 2s. 6d.

Fowler (E. P., M.D.)-Suppression of Urine: Clinical Descriptions and Analysis of Symptoms. 8vo. cloth, pp. 86. Illustrated. New York. 7s. 6d.

Foye (J. C.)-Tables for the Determination, Description, and Classification of Minerals. 2nd Edition, Revised. 12mo. cloth, pp. 85. Chicago. 5s.

In this revised edition, a table describing the species, a table classifying species by basic elements and ores and the blow-pipe reactions referred to in the work, have been added.

Galdos (B. P.)-Gloria: A Novel: from the
Spanish by Clara Bell. Revised and Corrected for the
United States. Two Volumes. 16mo. paper, pp. vi. and
318; iv. and 362. New York. 5s.
Garfield. See Blaine, Hoare, Pedder, and Ridpath.
Gerrish (F. H., M.D.)-Prescription-Writing:
Designed for the Use of Medical Students who have never
studied Latin. 4th edition, with an Appendix on the
Metric System of Prescriptions. 24mo. cloth, pp. 55.
Portland (Me.). 3s.

Gordon (Rev. A. J.)—Ministry of Healing in all
Ages of the Church. 12mo. cloth. Boston. 7s. 6d.
Gourlie (J. H., jun.) - General Average: The
Laws and Customs of the United States, Argentine Re-
public, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chili, Cuba,
Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, England, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Hayti, Holland, Italy, Mexico, Norway,
Peru, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, U. S.
Colombia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Wallachia. 12mo. sheep,
pp. 866. Philadelphia. £3 3s.
Guthrie (F.) The First Book of Knowledge.
16mo. cloth, pp. 130. New York. 5s.

Describing things and stuffs used for house-building; what matter is made of; the elements, air, fire, flame and water; wood-its growth and what it is used for; material used for heating and lighting, and how obtained; everything used for finishing and furnishing, clothing, food, cleaning, writing and printing. Designed to be used by a teacher who is expected to show his pupils specimens of the stuffs and things spoken of. Index.

Hackett (H. B., D.D.)-Illustrations of Scripture. 12mo. cl. pp. 354. New Revised Edition. Chicago. 6s. 6d. Hale (Lucretia P.)-The Art of Knitting: Containing Careful Directions for Beginners, as well as Instruction in a Variety of Knitting Stitches. Patterns, etc. 8vo. paper, pp. iv. and 103. Illustrated. Boston. 4s. Hamilton (A. M., M.D.) — Nervous Diseases: Their Description and Treatment. 8vo. cloth, pp. 598. Second Edition. Philadelphia. £1. Hargreaves (W., M.D.)-Alcohol and Science; or, Alcohol-What It Is, and What It Does. 12mo. cloth, pp. 366, Coloured Plate. New York. 7s. 6d. Haswell (C. H., C.E.)-Engineers' and Mechanics' Pocket Book. 41st Edition. Enlarged and Revised. 12mo. leather tuck, pp. 720. New York. 158. Heard (F. F.)-Star Chamber Cases: Showing what Cases properly belong to the Cognizance of that Court: Reprinted from the Edition of 1630: with Introduction by F. F. Heard. 4to. boards, pp. xiii. and 57. Boston. 18s.

Hoar (G. F.)-James Abram Garfield.

cloth, pp. 44. With Portrait. Boston. 2s. 6d.

16mo.

A tribute to the late President, delivered on the 30th of December, 1881, at the request of the city government of Worcester, Mass., by the Hon. G. F. Hoar.

L Index Annual for 1881: An Index to the International Review, Popular Science, Century, Lippincott's, The Nation, Atlantic, Living Age, Harper's and The Eclectic for 1880-81. By "Q. P. Index." 8vo. paper, pp. 56. Bangor (Me.). 5s.

Ingersoll (Col. Robert G.), Black (Judge J. S.), and FISHER (Prof. G. P.).-The Christian Religion. 8vo. paper, pp. 143. Washington. 2s. 6d.

This very remarkable series of papers appeared at intervals in the "North American Review," and awakened the profoundest interest with the press and public.

Johnson (Rev. F.)-True Womanhood: Hints on the Formation of Womanly Character. 16mo. cloth, pp. 139. Cambridge (Mass.). 5s.

Essays on character-building, character and reputation, selfishness, the love of home, duty, the government of the affections, purpose, the masculine woman, little faults and piety.

Johnston (A.)-History of American Politics. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 16mo. cloth, pp. 314. New York. 5s.

Jones (C. H.)-History of the Campaign for the Conquest of Canada in 1776, from the Death of Montgomery to the Retreat of the British Army under Sir Guy Carleton. 8vo. cloth, pp. 234. Philadelphia. 15s.

Kane (H. H., M.D.)-Opium-Smoking in America and China; Study of its Prevalence and Effects, Immediate and Remote, on the Individual and the Nation. 16mo. cloth, pp. xiv. and 156. New York. 5s. Keep (J.)-Common Sea-Shells of California. 12mo. boards, pp. 64. Illustrated. San Francisco. 5s. Describes and illustrates upwards of one hundred species of the common marine shells found on the Pacific coast of the U.S. Contains chapters on the anatomy and classification of mollusks, and gives directions for collecting, studying and preserving shells.

Lathrop (G. P.)-In the Distance: a Novel. 16mo. cloth, pp. 374. Boston. 6s. 6d.

This is a thorough American novel in scenes and characters; the scene is chiefly laid in New Hampshire, around and upon Monadnoc Mountain, though it changes to more cultured centres.

Lawson (J.D.)-The Law of Usages and Customs. 8vo. sheep, pp. 610. St. Louis (Mo.). £1 16s. Lemmon (J. G.)-Ferns of the Pacific Coast, including Arizona: a Full Conspectus of the Tribes and Genera, with a Classified List of the Species, giving Principal Points of Distinction and Localities of Growth. Svo. paper, pp. 14. San Francisco. 2s. 6d. Lockwood's Directory of the Paper, Stationery and Printing Trades, 1882. Eighth Edition. 8vo, cloth,

Madame Lucas.-A Novel. 12mo. cloth, pp. 347.

Boston. 5s.

Manton (W. P.)-Field Botany: A Hand-Book for the Collector, containing Instructions for Gathering and Preserving Plants and the Formation of the Herbarium. 32mo. cloth, pp. 42. Illustrated. Boston. 2s. 6d. Martin (H. T.)-Every Woman Her Own PianoTuner; or, Hints and Aids to Piano-Tuning. 32mo. bds. pp. 48. Beaver Falls (Pa.). 3s.

A work on piano-tuning by a practical tuner of many years' experience, which completely divests the art of all mystery; it teaches how to tune a piano by a new and simple process, which any one can understand; tells how to take care of a piano, how to remedy sticky keys, rattling keys, jarring strings, sticking hammers, how to put on new strings, etc., and offers some practical suggestions on the care and preservation of the reed organ.

Moore (F.)-Anecdotes, Poetry and Incidents of the War, North and South, 1860-65. 8vo. cloth, pp. 560. New York. 15s.

Morawetz (V.)-Treatise on the Law of Private
Corporations. 8vo. sheep. Boston. £1 16s.
Morrison (R. S.) and Fillius (J.)-Mining Rights
in Colorado: Lode and Placer Claims, Possessory and
Patented, from the District Organization to the Present
Time; Statutes in Full, Prospecting, Land Office, Incor-
porations, Forms, Decisions, etc. Fifth Edition, Revised and
Enlarged. 8vo. sheep, pp. 336. Denver. 14s.

Brought up to date, with Federal and State legislation and LandOffice rulings and judicial decisions. Among other things the set of forms on application for patents are given as now used, to meet the latest changes. Several new chapters have been added, and the whole work thoroughly revised.

Mountford (W.)-Euthanasy; or, Happy Talk Towards the End of Life. Ninth Edition. 8vo. cloth, pp. xviii. and 511. Boston. 10s.

Newcomb (S.) Popular Astronomy. Fourth Edition, Revised. 8vo. cloth, pp. xvi. and 578. With Maps and Illustrations. New York. 12s. 6d.

The principal additions to the present edition relate to the great telescopes completed within the last three years, the transit of Venus of December 6th, 1882, and recent developments in cometary astronomy. The work has also been brought up to date in all important points.

New York State Business Directory for 1882; with New Map of the State. 8vo. cloth, pp. 1564. New York. £2 2s.

Norton (C. B.)-American Inventions and Improvements in Breech-loading Small Arms, Heavy Ordnance, Machine Guns, Magazine Arms, Field Ammunition, Pistols, Projectiles, Explosives, and other Munitions of War, including a Chapter on Sporting Arms. Second Edition, with Notes on Cast-iron Heavy Guns and later Inventions in Machine Guns and Magazine Small Arms. 4to. cloth, pp. 425. With Coloured Plates and Illustrations. Boston. £2 10s.

The first edition of this work, the only complete work on the subject that has ever been published, was so favourably received that a second edition was rendered necessary, to which important additions in reading matter and plates have been made, bringing the book up to date.

O'Dea (J. J., M.D.)-Suicide: Philosophy, Causes, and Prevention. and 332. New York. 9s.

Studies on its 12mo. cloth, pp. x.

Comprises a careful historical summary of the teachings and doctrines which have had an influence on suicide, and of the laws in regard to it; an investigation into the several classes of causes, mental and physical, of suicide, and a careful consideration of the measures, legal, moral and medical, employed or to be recommended for its prevention.

O'Donoghue (A. H.)-Theology and Mythology: an Inquiry into the Claims, and Biblical Inspiration and the Supernatural Element in Religion. 12mo. cloth, pp.