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Matthew Henry; and confirms the argument by the citation of certain passages of Scripture which appear by legitimate inference to support the conclusions of these writers, and to justify the acceptance of this belief. The object avowed by the Author of this work is to plead for more humane treatment of animals than they usually receive, owing to a thoughtless and unreasoning indifference to their rank next below man in the order of creation.

The Poetic Spirit, and other Poems. By JAMES ELLIS CARTWRIGHT. Fcp. 8vo. pp. 146, price 4s. 6d. cloth. [June 27, 1861. THE Poetic Spirit is a poem in three cantos, the whole comprising little over a thousand lines. The first canto defines the Poetic Spirit as an universal principle of human nature, inducing men on the one hand to love goodness and beauty, on the other to hate all evil. The moral and physical forms of goodness, of beauty, and of evil, are then enumerated. Great men who show forth the Poetic Spirit by their words or by their actions are afterwards considered, and the first canto closes with a brief history from remote to present times of the progress of this great principle. The second canto recounts the influences which, springing from nature or art, from the revelations of science, and from the ordinary workings of the world around, tend to develop the Poetic Spirit in man as an individual; and the third canto treats of some of the many social evils which in our own age and country check that development. The smaller poems are short, and wholly of a miscellaneous character.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE

MEMOIRS of the Life of Sir Mare Isambard

Brunel, Civil Engineer, V.P., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &c., by RICHARD BEAMISH, F.R.S., are preparing for publication, in 1 vol. 8vo. with a Portrait and Illustrations. THE Life of Robert Stephenson, F.R.S., late

President of the Institution of Civil Engineers, by JOHN CORDY JEAFFRESON, Barrister-at-Law; and WILLIAM POLE, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers, is preparing for publication, in 2 vols. 8vo. with Portrait and numerous Illustrations.

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new work by Dr. GEORGE HARTWIG, entitled The Tropical World and its Living Wonders a Popular Scientific Account of the Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms in Tropical Regions, is preparing for publication. In this work the Author has attempted to treat in detail the extensive and interesting range of subjects included under his title, with the same completeness, living knowledge, and picturesque power which characterise his work on the Sea and its Living Wonders.

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Narrative of the China War of 1860, by Lieut.-Colonel WOLSELEY, 90th Light Infantry, Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General to the Expeditionary Force, will be published in October, in one volume, 8vo. illustrated with a Portrait of Lieut.-General SIR J. HOPE GRANT, G.C.B., Commander-in-Chief of the Expeditionary Army. In this work Colonel WOLSELEY gives a detailed account of the military and naval operations lately carried on in China by the English and French forces. The author enters fully into the subject of the diplomatic relations between the British and Celestial Governments; their causes of dispute, and the manner in which affairs were finally arranged. Of the numerous conferences which took place between the officials of the British Embassy and the Chinese authorities, the work gives an unbiassed report, showing, by constant reference to captured Chinese documents, the motives which influenced the Pekin Ministers in their dealings with the Allied Powers, and throwing considerable light upon their ideas relating to diplomatic intercourse with other nations. The volume contains, likewise, an accurate account of the country visited by the Allied Armies, and of the manners and customs peculiar to the people in the northern regions of China; also, amongst other points of interest, a description of the Summer Palace of Yuen Ming Yuen, its subsequent destruction, the surrender of Pekin, the triumphal entry of the Allies within its walls, the signing of the Convention, and the ratification of the Tien-tsin Treaty. All the trustworthy information which could be obtained regarding the fate of the British subjects taken prisoners and murdered, is given in detail in the course of the narrative; and the author concludes his work with his personal experiences during a stay at Nankin, the Head-Quarters of the Rebel Forces, where he remained as a guest of one of their kings, and had many opportunities of observing their present condition and estimating their future prospects.

A SYSTEM of MENTAL PHILOSO

PHY, based on the PRINCIPLES of NATURAL SCIENCE, by J. D. MORELL, M. A. LL.D. is preparing for publication. The object of this work is to pursue the Analysis of the Human Mind simply under the guidance of facts taken from the widest survey of human nature, and by the principles of Inductive Philosophy. To accomplish this end it goes back to the physical basis of all human activity, investigating the primordial forms and conditions of life, and showing the transition from the vital to the mental processes. It attempts next to develop the general laws of our intellectual activity, and to show how the primary forms of the human intelligence gradually unfold themselves into all the fulness and richness of our Mental Maturity. The various phenomena of the Intellect, the Emotions and the Will are thus drawn out into one connected chain of natural sequences, and all connected with those primary and instinctive activities, out of which they are evolved, by the fundamental laws of our mental growth.

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new Library Edition of The Statesmen of the Commonwealth, by JOHN FORSTER, Esq., thoroughly revised, with much new matter, is preparing for publication, in 3 vols. 8vo. VOL. I. will comprise Eliot, Strafford, and Hampden; VOL. II. Pym, Marten, and Vane; and VOL. III. Cromwell.

A new work, entitled the Treasury of Bible

Knowledge, is preparing for publication, by the Rev. JOHN AYRE, M.A., of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. The contents will comprise a Summary of the Evidences of Christianity; the Prin ciples of Biblical Criticism; the History, Chronology, and Geography of the Scriptures; an Account of the Formation of the Canon; separate Introductions to the several Books of the Bible, &c.; presenting at one view, and in a convenient form for reference, a complete body of information most necessary for the thorough understanding of the Sacred Volume. The Treasury of Bible Knowledge will form a volume in fcp. 8vo. accompanied by Maps, Engravings on Steel, and numerous strictly illustrative Woodcuts; uniform with Maunder's well-known Series of Treasuries.

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new work, entitled The Tale of the Great Persian War, by the Rev. GEORGE W. Cox, M. A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, is preparing for publication. The author's wish is to place before the English reader the history of the great struggle between Greece and Persia, as it was conceived by Herodotus himself. Nowhere, perhaps, except in translations (which, of necessity, labour under the disadvantages and exhibit the defects cominon to all literal translations), is the beautiful narrative of the historian accessible to readers not acquainted with the original. The great writers who in our own day have imparted a living reality to the History of Greece, have rather analysed the narrative of Herodotus than presented it in its own poetical form. The present volume gives in the first part the Tale of the War as it is found in Herodotus, without the many and long digressions which apparently break the thread of the narrative and tend to put out of sight the strict unity of epical conception and of religious and moral sentiment which pervades the whole. In a second part the author has endeavoured to determine the general credibility of the history, by an examination of the means of information open to Herodotus, of the results of recent Assyrian discoveries, and of the several causes and incidents of the war, as given by Herodotus and other writers. His attention has been directed more particularly to the life of Themistocles and the alleged evidence of his treachery, as a question at once of historical and practical interest; and he has sought to show that this evidence is susceptible of a more lenient interpretation than that which has been given to it even by writers so strictly impartial as Bishop THIRLWALL and Mr. GROTE.

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new volume of popular natural history, devoted chiefly to the habits and instincts of wild animals in their native haunts, written by Mr. CHARLES BONER, Author of "Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria," and based entirely on personal observation, will shortly be published under the title of Forest Creatures, with several illustrations drawn from nature by GUIDO HAMMER, an artist of repute resident at Dresden. The contents of this work comprise, amongst other kindred matters, a series of chapters on the Wild Boar, the Roe, the Red Deer, the Fallow Deer, the Cock of the Woods, the Black Cock, and the Eagle. An essay on " Homer a Sportsman follows, reviewing certain passages of the Iliad, Odyssey, and Homeric Hymns relating to the sports of the field. The volume concludes with a few Hints on the use of the Rifle in the Forest, embodying the Author's own experience.

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new work, entitled the Treasury of Botany, is preparing for publication, under the editorship of JOHN LINDLEY, M.D., F.R. S., F.L.S., Emeritus Professor of Botany in University College, London: assisted by Professor BALFOUR, F.R.S.E.; the Rev. J. M. BERKELEY, F.L.S.; JOHN BALL, Esq., F.R.S.; the Rev. C. A. JOHNS, F.L.S.; J. T. SYME, Esq., F.L.S.; MAXWELL MASTERS, Esq., F.L.S.; THOMAS MOORE, Esq., F.L.S.; and other practical Botanists. The Treasury of Botany will form a volume in fcp. 8vo. uniform with Maunder's well-known Series of Treasuries, and illustrated with 16 Engravings on Steel, and numerous Engravings on Wood, from designs by W. H. FITCH.

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new classical school-book entitled Lessons in Continuous Latin Prose- Writing, by the Rev. W. WINDHAM BRADLEY, M.A., late Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford; Author of "Latin Prose Exercises, "consisting of English Sentences translated from Casar, Cicero, and Livy to be retranslated into the original Latin," is preparing for publication, with a KEY. Each lesson of this work will consist of a rule in syntax or explanation of some important point with reference to tense, mood, &c., accompanied, when necessary, by further helps, and followed by an English exercise to be translated into Latin, the more difficult Latin words and phrases being given. These exercises will constitute the most valuable part of the work. Some of them will be formed by a compilation of short sentences; but the larger number will consist of paragraphs, some translated from Cicero, Casar, and Livy, others English versions of passages from the same writers, simplified and adapted for the purpose in view, and others again the original composition of the author. The book will be divided into three or four parts, progressive as to difficulty. From the first the use of the subjunctive mood will be studiously excluded. And both the first and in some degree the second part will be of a very simple character, and adapted for the use of boys not sufficiently advanced to do with tolerable ease and correctness the exercises

in any published work on continuous Latin prosewriting known to the author.

New Work on Ceylon, by Sir J. Emerson Tennent.

new volume will appear in the Autumn on the Natural History of Ceylon, by Sir J. EMERSON TENNENT, K.C.S., LL.D., &c., with numerous Illustrations from Original Drawings, to be entitled Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon, and comprising Anecdotes illustrative of the Habits and Instincts of the Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Insects, &c., of the Island. A considerable portion of the contents of the forthcoming volume formed the Zoological section of a much more comprehensive work recently published by the Author on the history and present condition of CEYLON. But its inclusion there was a matter of difficulty to have omitted altogether the chapters on Natural History would have impaired the completeness of the plan on which he had attempted to describe the island; and to have inserted them as they are now about to appear, without curtailment, would have encroached unduly on the space required for other essential topics. In this dilemma, Sir J. EMERSON TENNENT was obliged to adopt the alternative of so condensing the matter as to bring the whole within the prescribed proportions. But this operation necessarily diminished the general interest of the subjects treated, by the omission of incidents which would otherwise have been retained; as well as by the exclusion of anecdotes calculated to illustrate the habits and instincts of the animals described. The design of republishing these sections in an independent form afforded the only opportunity for repairing these defects by revising the entire, restoring the omitted passages, and introducing fresh materials collected in Ceylon; and this additional matter will occupy a very large portion of the volume now in the press. It will include the monograph of the Elephant, which formed the Eighth division of the original work, and contains ample and interesting particulars of the wild elephants of Ceylon, their habits in a state of nature, and the processes of capturing and training them. This monograph, thoroughly revised, will form a leading division of the forthcoming work; for completeness and novelty it has been described by the first of living zoologists as the most comprehensive and accurate account in any language of this stupendous animal. The ILLUSTRATIONS, which are unusually numerous and all entirely new, have been engraved on wood in the best manner by skilful artists from drawings made from nature expressly for the present work.

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new work, entitled The Lives of St. Peter and St. John, with an Account of their Writings, and of the State of the Christian Church at the close of the Apostolic Age, is preparing for publication, by the Rev. F. C. Cook, M.A., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Lincoln; to form two volumes in quarto, printed and illustrated uniformly with the first edition of CONYBEARE and Howson's "Life and Epistles of St. Paul."

CONTINUATION of the New Edition of

Bacon's Works.-The Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, including all his Occasional Works, namely, Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Devices, Private Memoranda, and all authentic Writings not already included among the Philosophical, Literary, or Professional Works: now newly collected, revised, and set out in Chronological order, with a Commentary, biographical and historical, by JAMES SPEDDING, of Trinity College, Cambridge, are preparing for pubIcation. The FIRST and SECOND VOLUMES, forming VOLUMES VIII. and IX. of the New Edition of Lord Bacon's Works, edited by Messrs. SPEDDING, ELLIS, and HEATH, are in the press.

AN English Edition of Herr BERLEPSCH's Pictures

of Life and Nature in the Alps, entitled The Alps, or Sketches of Life and Nature in the Mountains, translated by the Rev. LESLIE STEPHEN, M A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, is nearly ready for publication, illustrated with the same series of seventeen Sketches of Alpine Scenery, from the pencil of Herr EMIL RITTMEYER, which accompany the original work. Herr Berlepsch's work contains a popular and scientific description of the most remarkable and picturesque phenomena of the Alpine regions. It commences with a short account of the geology and characteristic vegetation of the mountains on both the Italian and German side. After this descriptions are given of thunderstorms, snowstorms, landslips, avalanches, &c., as they occur in the higher Alps, with explanations of their most striking peculiarities. All these wonders of nature are brought before the reader with a power and vigour evidently derived from a practical insight into their causes and frequent familiarity with their effects. The glaciers and Alpine summits are next treated of; anecdotes of exploring expeditions and incidents follow, accompanied by accounts of the most perilous ascents and memorable adventures of late years in this chain. The work concludes with a description of various modes of life peculiar to the Alps, such as that in the high pastur ages, that of the chamois-hunters, goatherds, wild hay-cutters, and woodmen, and of life in the higher villages. As the Author is a dweller in the Alps, personally familiar with the scenes he describes, his pictures have the merit of being the result of more intimate knowledge than can be possessed by any foreign writer. His work may be described as an attempt to do for the majestic scenery and stupendous phenomena of the Alps, what has already been done with great completeness by Von Tschudi for the animal life of the same regions. It is believed that many of Berlepsch's descriptions will be substantially new to English travellers in the Alps, since they often refer to districts little visited at any time, and to seasons when the upper Alpine regions cannot be explored by tourists without danger. Even those passages of the work which relate to scenery and phenomena familiar to the wanderer in Switzerland and Savoy, contain, it is believed, fuller and more accurate details than can elsewhere be found in conjunction with vivid and picturesque descriptive power.

JOHNSON'S Dictionary of the English Lan

guage, a New Edition, founded on that of 1773 (the last published in Dr. Johnson's lifetime), with numerous Emendations and Additions, by R. G. LATHAM, M.D., F.R.S., &c. will be published in Monthly Parts, forming, when completed, 2 vols. 4to. This work will be founded on the last edition of Todd; but will not be regulated by the principles of either Todd or Johnson exclusively. An attempt will be made to give both such new words as have been lately introduced into our language, and such old ones as, although deserving a place, have been omitted in previous dictionaries. At the same time purely technical words will be omitted; as well as those words which from their antiquity may be considered as Anglo-Saxon rather than English. It is clear, however, that no very strict rule can be laid down on this point. The deviations will be on the side of comprehension rather than exclusion. For every word and quotation, in the way of illustration, an authority will be given; special attention being bestowed upon the derivations; among which none which are merely speculative will be admitted. The Historical Introduction will be brought down to the present time, and many omissions in the original made good. ** PART the FIRST will be published on the 1st of January, 1862.

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new work on the Chase of the Wild Red Deer in the Counties of Devon and Somerset, by CHARLES PALK COLLYNS, Esq., of Dulverton, will be published in the approaching Autumn, and is expected to supply a blank in the history of sport in this country. The very existence of the red deer in their wild state, on Exmoor and the wild and wooded purlieus of that vast tract of land, and the peculiarities of the mode of hunting these denizens of the forest, are almost unknown even to many who rank amongst the most ardent lovers and supporters of the chase. Yet from the time of Queen Elizabeth, at least, when Her Majesty's ranger, Hugh Pollard, kept a pack of stag hounds at Limmsbath, in the heart of the then royal forest of Exmoor, down to the present time, the country has been hunted by a succession of packs, and the names of Fortescue, Acland, and Chichester are to be found amongst those of the many worthies of the west by whom the noble sport has been fostered and patronised. The author of the work has himself hunted with the different packs for nearly half a century, and on more than one occasion has rendered service in preventing the discontinuance of the hounds, and in awakening the interest of the proprietors of estates and coverts in the preservation of the game. Much information on the nature and habits of the deer will be found in the work, which is enlivened by many anecdotes connected with the chase, and furnished with an appendix, in which a selection from the most remarkable runs that have occurred in modern times is given, and which, to the local sportsman at all events, can hardly fail to be interesting. The skilful pencil of an amateur who is familiar with this noble sport will enhance the interest of this volume by some vivid lithographic delineations of the scenes in which he has often taken part.

PRINTED BY SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE, LONDON.

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The City of the Saints, and Across the Rocky Mountains to California. By RICHARD F. BURTON, Captain H.M. Indian Army, Fellow and Gold Medallist of the Royal Geographical Societies of England and France; H.B.M. Consul in West Africa; Author of "A Pilgrimage to El Medinah and Meccah." Pp. 720, with a Route Map and 18 Woodcut Illustrations. 8vo. Price 188. cloth.

[Nov. 9, 1861.

THE author of this volume had long since de

termined, after his pilgrimages to the Holy Cities in the Old World, to visit their young rival in the New, and to examine in its working

on the spot the Theocratic system of the Mormon States. In the vast extent of ground which he had to traverse, and the vast array of facts which eame before him, accuracy of observation and description were indispensable: the notes, therefore, which form the groundwork of this volume, were written in sight of the objects which attracted his attention.

The present work would not have seen the light so soon after the publication of "A Journey to Great Salt Lake City," by M. Jules Remy, if it had not appeared to the author that there was yet much for him to say. The French naturalist passed through the Mormon settlements in 1855, and five years in the Far West are equal to half a century in the Old World. The Mormons are

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