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NEW work, entitled Salmon Fishing in Canada, by a Resident, edited by Colonel Sir JAMES EDWARD ALEXANDER, K.C.L.S., F.R.G.S., 14th Regiment, Author of "Travels in Africa, Persia, America, &c." will be published on Monday, June 18th. It forms a volume in square crown 8vo. illustrated with numerous engravings on wood.

"A SUMMER HOME AMONG THE

MOUNTAINS; or, the Eagle's Nest in the Valley of Sixt, Savoy," is the title of a new work by Mr. ALFRED WILLS, of the Middle Temple, Barristerat-Law, Author of "Wanderings among the High Alps," which will shortly be published in one volume, post 8vo. illustrated with Twelve Drawings on Stone by Messrs. HANHART from Sketches and Photographs by Mr. and Mrs. WILLS, and a Map.

THE Autobiography of Mrs. Prozzi, with a

collection of her clever and interesting letters, has since her death in 1821 remained in the possession of the family of her late physician, Sir James Fellowes. These papers have now come into the hands of Messrs. Longman and Co., and will shortly be published. They consist of an autobiography of Mrs. Piozzi, whose anecdotes of Johnson's life are acknowledged to be among the most amusing and valuable records of the great lexicographer's habits and characteristics. This autobiography gives a rapid sketch of the leading incidents in her life down to the period of her settling in Bath. The MSS. then continue the account of Mrs. Piozzi's life, by means of a collection of letters written by her between 1815 and 1820, the year previous to her decease. These letters are principally addressed to Sir James Fellowes, and embrace an infinite variety of subjects, personal, literary, social, and retrospective, and form a curious picture of the life and literature of the time.

A new and greatly improved edition of "The

Artisan Club's Treatise on the Steam Engine, in its application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and Railways," edited by JOHN BOURNE, C.E., will be published about Midsummer. The work has been almost entirely rewritten by Mr. Bourne, and comprises an account of the recent discoveries respecting the nature of heat, and particulars of the most important modern improvements in boilers and engines, including exam. ples of the most approved forms of apparatus for superheating the steam, and of the most noted engines for working with economy of fuel. A number of new plates and woodcuts have been added and substituted; an appendix has been introduced containing a large number of useful tables, practical specifications, and other important data; and the whole information which the work contains has been brought down to the present state of engineering science, so as to afford an accurate reflex of the most advanced condition of engineering practice in this country, so far as relates to the subject of the steam engine in its various adaptations to mines and waterworks,-to mills and to locomotion,-and to the numerous miscellaneous purposes to which the steam engine is now applied.

MOORE'S Lalla Rookh, with Woodcut Illustra

tions. Messrs. LONGMAN and Co. have in the press a new edition of Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance, by THOMAS MOORE, with numerous illustrations from original designs by John Tenniel, engraved on wood by Dalziel Brothers.-This work, which will form a single volume in small quarto, nearly ranging in size with the edition of Lord Macaulay's "Lays of Ancient Rome," illustrated by George Scharf, will be published early in the autumn of the present year.

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R. THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, C.B., Clerk Assistant of the House of Commons, has nearly completed a History of Constitutional and Legislative Progress in England, since the Accession of George III., which will be published in the Autumn, in 2 vols. 8vo. The principal contents are as follows:-General Introduction; Prerogatives and Influence of the Crown; The House of Lords and the Peerage; The House of Commons, Representation, and the Commonalty; The Church and other Religious Bodies; Influence of Political Parties; The Press, and Liberty of Opinion; "Political Agitation"; Civil and Religious Liberty; Liberty of the Subject; Revenue, Taxation, and Financial Policy; Commercial Legislation; Monetary Laws; The Criminal Law; Amendments of the Law, and Administration of Justice; Legislation for the Moral and Social Welfare of the People; The Poor; Education Ireland; The Colonies and British Possessions Abroad; Slavery and the Slave Trade; Public Works, &c.

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ASSINIBOINE and SASKATCHEWAN

Exploring Expeditions. The Canadian Government having despatched, in the years 1857 and 1858, two expeditions, at a cost of £12,000, for the exploration of the southern portion of Rupert's Land, between the Boundary-Line, the Red River, and the Rocky Mountains, including the region traversed by the overland route from Canada to British Columbia, partly through British, partly through American territory, with a view to the formation of a new colonial settlement, the narrative of those expeditions, drawn up by Mr. HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A., Professor of Chemistry and Geology in Trinity College, Toronto, who had charge of the second expedition, is preparing for publication by Messrs. Longman and Co. The winter journey of last year from Fort Garry to Crow's Wing extended over 500 miles of country never before described; in many parts never previously visited by white men, in others only by furtraders or their half-breed servants. This journey was made on dog-carioles, part of the way in company with Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, and Mr. Danby Seymour. The work will contain ample particulars of the physical geography, geology, and climate of the territory explored; and will be embellished with coloured maps, geographical and geological, and numerous other illustrations, including striking waterfalls and other picturesque mountain and river scenery, prairie animals, portraits of the red natives and half-breeds, several fossil remains new to science, &c.

Two WO new rudimentary classical school-books for the use of beginners, by the Rev. Dr. Collis, Head Master of Bromsgrove School, will be published in a few days, price One Shilling each. The first, entitled Ponticulus Græcus, consists of short elementary Greek Exercises, to be used, lesson for lesson, with the author's Pontes Classici, No. I., which is a stepping-stone from the beginning of Greek grammar to Xenophon. The second, Ponticulus Latinus, consists in substance of an abridgment of the early history of Rome to the end of the Third Punic War, prepared and adapted for re-translation into Latin, and intended to be used simultaneously with the author's Pontes Classici, No. II., or stepping-stone from the beginning of Latin grammar to Cæsar. hoped that continuous narratives, such as these books contain, will be more interesting to boys than the unconnected sentences in Ellis, and similar works. They may be used as Exercise-books quite independently of the Pontes Classici, to which they are adapted.

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Athletic and Gymnastic Exercises is the title

of a new work, now preparing for publication, by Mr. John H. Howard. This work will contain upwards of seventy illustrations on wood, including a frontispiece representing Hercules, the border being enlivened by numerous gymnasts in their various athletic feats In the present day, when all the world like to vary their pleasures and amusements, not only for themselves but also for those placed under their care, it would appear desirable to find some such amusement as would in itself combine recreation with all the branches of education. Now the object of the Author has been to supply such a means of recreation in the form of Gymnastics or Athletic Exercises, whereby greater freedom of the limbs and body may be attained, and the strength of not only the muscles of the arms, but also those of every other part of the body, may be increased. In working out his plan, the author has aimed at making the study of Gymnastics more a kind of amusement and pleasure than of work and trouble. How the ancient Greeks and Romans exercised themselves is well known from the accounts we have of their feats of strength, &c. ; yet the exercises contained in the present work (most of which the Author acquired on the Continent) will prove that strength does not alone consist in the using of the arms or legs to the greatest advantage, but that exercise should be distributed in equal proportions all over the body, and that every part of the body should partake of the benefit to be derived therefrom. In the description of the Gymnasium, Apparatus, Dress, &c., the greatest care has been used to make it as explicit as possible. All the different divisions of the subject are illustrated by various diagrams, showing fully the mode of constructing them; and the language made use of in the exercises themselves cannot fail to be understood by every one into whose hands the work may fall. The whole of the illustrations have been drawn with the greatest care; and the body of the gymnast has been sustained in the required position, thereby facilitating the achieving of the exercises, and likewise showing the exact method of accomplishing any particular feat.

THE THE second volume of the Rev. THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE's well-known Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures is devoted to a consideration of the text of the Old Testament, and to Scripture Interpretation; it contains also an Introduction to each separate Book of the Old Testament, with a notice of each Book of the Apocrypha. In the tenth edition of the entire work, published in 1856, this volume was edited, and nearly re-written, by the Rev. Dr. S. DAVIDSON. It will be remembered that on the appearance of the tenth edition, while a high tribute was paid to Dr. Davidson's learning, some dissatisfaction was expressed on the ground that the treatment of certain parts of his subject was not in harmony with the views of inspira tion adopted in the other three volumes. The publishers, therefore, made an arrangement with the Rev. JOHN AYRE, Domestic Chaplain to the Earl of Roden, to re-edit this volume with the sanction and co operation of the Author, the Rev. THOMAS HARTWELL HORNE, B.D.;-having first ascertained that Mr. Ayre's views were in complete accordance with those of Mr. Horne. This volume is now in the press, and will soon be ready for publication. Dr. Davidson's volume, however, is not withdrawn, but is continued on sale in order that those who approve of his views may purchase it as a portion of the new edition of Mr. Horne's entire work.

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WO new works on Mineralogy and Geology are preparing for publication, by Mr. H. W. BRISTOW, F.G.S. and of the Geological Survey of Great Britain. The first will be entitled A Glossary of Mineralogy, embracing the physical characters and chemical composition of the metalliferous and earthy minerals, and a popular account of their history and application. In the execution of this work the author has not attempted to produce a systematic treatise, but rather to prepare a book which may be used by any traveller or other person unacquainted with the science, who may desire to know something of the properties, uses, and characters of the minerals with which he may meet. The Author's object is to afford, in a concise form, an account of the external and physical characters of minerals and of their che mical composition. For this purpose, woodcuts of the most common crystalline forms of the principal minerals will be presented, in connexion with their chemical analyses. An account will be added of their history, of their application and uses in the arts and manufactures, of the countries and localities whence they are chiefly procured, and of the derivation of their names. Mr. BRISTOW's second work, to be entitled A Glossary of Rocks, explanatory of their Structure and Composition, is founded chiefly on a translation of Cotta's Gesteinlehre, and is also intended for general and popular use. In this work the Author will furnish a detailed account of the various kinds of rocks; describing in familiar language the appearances they present, the materials of which they are composed, and the means of identifying them; while their chemical composition will also be explained.

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NEW introductory work on early Greek History, in a series of Select Lives from Plutarch, by Mr. A. H. CLOUGH, Sometime Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, is nearly ready. This selection extends

GLEIG'S SCHOOL SERIES-A Key to

the Elements of Mensuration," by the Rev. JOHN HUNTER, will be ready in a few days.

arranged in chronological order. Illustrated with numerous engravings on wood, this little volume will present to youthful readers a sufficient sketch of the most interesting and instructive period of Greek history, in a form, it is believed, more attractive than that of a compendium, and in the language of an original classic.

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Morton's Agricultural Handbooks.

HE second of Mr. JOHN CHALMERS MORTON'S "Agricultural Handbooks," entitled Handbook of Farm Labour; Manual Labour, Steam, Horse, and Water Power, will be published in June. It is intended to furnish in this series a set of cheap Handbooks of the several sections of Farm Practice. small volume entitled "Handbook of the Constitution, being a Summary of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Laws of England, by ALFRED P. HENSMAN, B.A., Barrister-at-Law," will be published in June. This work was undertaken by the author in the belief that a knowledge of this

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subject is most desirable for all; and that there are many who would be glad to meet with a small book containing the elements of the Constitution, presented in a succinct and popular form. The book is also intended as a class-book for schools, which do not appear hitherto to have devoted sufficient attention to this part of education, so important in a free country. It is divided into two parts. In the first part the nature of the government is traced from the earliest times down to the present; care being taken to note the origin of every great constitutional principle, and to give a short account of the most important Acts of Parliament. The opinions of distinguished writers, such as Bracton and Fleta, Blackstone, Hallam, and De Lolme, are freely quoted; and a short chapter is assigned to the nature of government in general. In the second part the working of the Constitution at the present day is described. Accounts are given of the Crown, Lords, and Commons, and of the way in which an Act of Parliament is made. Then follows a description of the mode in which the executive performs its functions, including an action at law, and an indictment for crime; and the book concludes with a short summary of the leading principles of the Common Law. All these matters the author has attempted to explain in easy and popular language, divested of legal phraseology,

Surgical Operations, by Mr. JAMES PAGET, F.R.S., Surgeon-Extraordinary to the Queen, and AssistantSurgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, is preparing for publication.

DR. ODLING, F.R.S. Secretary to the Chemical

Society, and Professor of Practical Chemistry at Guy's Hospital, has prepared for the press a "Manual of Chemistry, Descriptive and Theoretical," which will shortly be published. This work is intended as an elementary text-book, for the use of those lecturers and students who employ, or wish to employ, the unitary system of chemistry, according to which the molecule of water is represented by the formula H2O. Water thus becomes a unit of comparison, to which the majority of oxides, hydrates, acids, salts, alcohols, ethers, &c., can be referred. Moreover, the anomaly of the vapour-density of water is hereby obviated, and its volume-equivalent made to correspond with that of other compound bodies. This system has

been made the basis of elementary teaching by Professor Brodie at the University of Oxford; by the author at Winchester College, Hants; and by its chief English exponent, Dr. Williamson, at University College, London. It is believed that other chemists, who have fully recognised the merits of the system, and materially aided its development by their researches, would have adopted it in their public teachings, had there existed any suitable manual to which they could have referred their pupils.

THE REV. H. MUSGRAVE WILKINS,

M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, has prepared for the press a new Progressive Greek Reading-Book, to be entitled Anthologia Græca. This volume, constructed on a plau proposed by Dr. Kennedy, and approved by the masters of many of the chief schools, consists of a skeleton of the Odyssey, of excerpts from the Elegiac and Lyric Poets [excepting Pindar], and of portions of the easier plays of Euripides. It is intended to succeed the Greek Delectus, in which none but Attic Greek is given, and to introduce the young scholar to some of the chief dialectic varieties. A few illustrative Notes are given, apart from the Text, briefly explaining real difficulties of sense or construction, with short notices of the various authors and of the subjects of the poems. It has been thought better not to connect the notes exclusively or even preferentially with any one elementary grammar. But reference is occasionally made to Bishop Wordsworth's and Dr. Kennedy's grammars, one or the other of which is used at most schools. Prose extracts have been avoided, because available editions exist of the easier prose authors; and because the middle-class examinations, which influence the majority of schools, encourage the study of continuous portions of those authors, as soon as the delectus stage is passed, rather than the use of books containing extracts from them.

THE REV. J. F TWISDEN, M.A., Professor JE TWO SF Colleen refeared

for the press a series of Elementary Examples in Practical Mechanics, with copious Explanations and Demonstrations of the fundamental Theorems, which will shortly be published under that title. The object of this treatise is to teach the principles of Mechanics by means of examples which are suggested by or are analogous to practical cases, and thereby to avoid the inconvenience so frequently felt by the student after going through the usual course of Elementary Mechanics, viz.: that the objects he meets with in the workshop do not fulfil the conditions presupposed in the theoretical course. Accordingly attention is from the first directed to the physical properties of materials and to the passive resistances called into play in most cases of mechanical action. This circumstance causes a wide departure from the usual treatment of some subjects, particularly of machines in a state of rest or of uniform motion. Examples are introduced on many subjects commonly excluded from the elementary course, e.g. on the work of agents, the equilibrium of walls, the flexure of beams, rotation round a fixed axis, &c. The work is so arranged as to furnish two courses the first elementary, and adapted for the use of those whose knowledge of pure mathematics only extends to arithmetic, practical geometry, and the common rules of mensuration; the examples in the second and more advanced course presuppose (with few exceptions) no more than the usual acquaintance with Euclid, Algebra, and Trigonometry.

Authorised English Translation. THE Sea and its Living Wonders is the title of a

popular work on natural history by the eminent German naturalist, Dr. GEORGE HARTWIG, which has already reached a fourth edition. An English translation, executed under the Author's superinten dence, will be published in August; embellished with wood engravings, and an entirely new series of illustrations in chromo-xylography, representing the most interesting objects described in the work, from original drawings by HENRY NOEL HUMPHREYS. This work is not, strictly speaking, a translation; it is more properly a thoroughly revised and improved English version, in fact a fifth edition, in which the author, by continued studies and researches on the subject, has endeavoured to keep pace with the advance of science and bring his work up to the level of the present day. The chapters, for instance, on Crustacea, Starfish, and the Geographical Distribution of Marine Animals, have been almost entirely re-written; and the chapters on Whales, Seals, Walruses, and Fishes, are enriched by many new observations and interesting particulars. The historical part of the work will also be found greatly improved. All this new matter, which enters into the structure of the work, is copyright, and cannot be introduced into any English translation of an earlier and immature edition of Dr. Hartwig's Das Leben des Meeres. It will thus be seen that this work will contain a great amount of new matter, by the author, which is not contained in the original work.

PROFESSOR GOODEVE, of King's College, London, is preparing a small manual or treatise, entitled The Elements of Mechanism, which is intended to serve as a guide to engineering students in their study of the movements adopted in modern machinery. The geometrical principles which govern various mechanical combinations will be discussed and explained in this work; the illustrations being selected from machines of the best construction. The method of classification will be both simple and obvious ; and the book will be readily understood by those who possess a knowledge of the rudiments of algebra and trigonometry. This volume will be ready in a few days.

MR.

R. L. CONTANSEAU, Professor of French Literature in the Royal Indian Military College, Addiscombe, author of the "Practical French and English Dictionary," a "Compendious French Grammar," and other well-known elementary books for the use of English scholars studying the language, literature, and history of France, has completed a new work in continuation of the same series, which will appear in June under the title of Précis de la Littérature Française, depuis son Origine jusqu'à nos Jours. Like Mr. Contanseau's Abridgment of French History, this work is principally intended for the use of schools; but it is more especially planned to facilitate the efforts of pupils graduating for competitive examination under the Oxford Middle-Class System. The author's object is to comprise in a small volume of about 300 pages, a sufficiently copious history of French literature from its origin to the present time; including succinct notices of all the eminent prose writers, dramatists, and poets of France, with general remarks on their style and choice of subjects, and particulars of their influence on their own and succeeding times; and accompanied by illustrative extracts from their writings. A division is devoted to each century, from the 13th to A.D. 1860 of the 19th; and each division is introduced by a general summary. The critical and biographical narrative of which the body of the work consists, written in casy idiomatic French, is so arranged and presented as to enable a student who has gone through it to answer readily any question involving a knowledge of its contents. The extracts have been selected with an equal view to their intrinsic excellence as specimens of the respective writers, and to the use of the volume as a reading-book in classes or by self-teachers; and, in order to impart a character of freshness to the work, as a collection, passages comparatively less known, wherever available in other respects, have been chosen in preference to specimens which have been so often reproduced as to have become hackneyed. The typographical arrangements adopted in Mr. Contanseau's Abrégé de l'Histoire de France, having been generally approved, are repeated in the present work; all the more important words in each paragraph of the narrative, such as authors' names, dates, titles of works, &c., being uniformly given in a prominent type, which readily catches the eye when the book is used for reference, and is found serviceable when time is an object, in impressing the student's

memory.

NEW elementary work on physiology, enA titled Physiology for Schools and Self-Instruction, preceded by the First Steps in Physiology for Beginners, by JOHN MARSHALL, F.R. C.S. and F.R.S., Surgeon to University College Hospital, has been some time in preparation, and will shortly be published.

A SECOND SERIES of Useful Information for

Engineers, by WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, F R.S., F.G.S., President of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester, is preparing for publication, uniform with the First Series, of which the new edition is just published. The Second Series, like the first, consists principally of Lectures delivered at various Institutions on Popular Education, and comprises amongst other subjects the Rise and Progress of Civil and Mechanical Engineering; the Machinery of Agriculture, and Treatises on the Strength of Iron Ships; the Density, Volume, and Pressure of Steam at different Temperatures; the Laws which govern the Collapse of Tubes in reference to the Flues of Boilers, &c.

THE new Latin-English Dictionary, by the Rev. THE

J. T. WHITE, M. A. of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Rev. J. E. RIDDLE, M.A. of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, founded on the larger Dic tionary of Freund, revised by himself, is advancing at press, and is expected to be ready for publication in the Autumn, in one large volume, royal 8vo. This Dictionary is not a mere revision of the American translation of the work of Freund. It is based on the larger Dictionary of Freund, revised by himself; that lexicographer having supplied towards the materials for the present book many corrections of his own Latin-German Dictionary, with various additions, which he amassed while preparing a new edition of that work. But beyond this it contains a very large amount of entirely new matter, derived from a care. ful use of modern criticism, and from laborious reference to the works of Latin authors in the best editions. Great pains have also been employed in making a really correct and philosophical arrangement of meanings, without reliance on any existing authority; and much labour has been bestowed upon some elements of the work which are entirely new. Especial attention has been directed to the Etymology, as affording the only true key to the real meanings of words. This branch of the work has been elaborated throughout with continual reference to the latest results obtained by writers on comparative philology. Accordingly, the book now in the press contains some thousan is of words and meanings more than can be found in any Latin-English Dictionary that has yet been published,-corrections of countless errors which have been transmitted by Andrews and others down to the present day,-an etymology con sistent with the views of the most eminent modern philologists, and a construction of every article upon sound and pre-eminently useful principles, some of which have been already recognised, but imperfectly carried out, while others have been hitherto quite overlooked.

HE REV. JOHN HUNTER, M.A., formerly THE Vice-Principal of the National Society's Training College, Battersea, has prepared for school-use an edition of JOHNSON'S Rasselas, accompanied by Critical, Explanatory, and Grammatical Notes, &c., with a special view to the requirements of pupils and students graduating for the Middle-Class Examinations. This edition of Rasselas, which is nearly ready, although designed expressly to direct and facilitate the special studies of University Middle-Class Candidates, will, it is hoped, be found useful to youthful readers in general, by pointing out the significancy of those great moral lessons which the story was designed to inculcate. It is anticipated, also, that this little work will prove a serviceable reading manual in schools, as there is a powerful tendency in the rhythm of Dr. Johnson's style to promote the habit of distinct, graceful, and impressive elocution.

Mr. HUNTER has prepared also an Introduction to the Writing of Précis or Digests, as applicable to narratives of facts or historical events, correspondence, official documents, and general composition; with numerous examples and exercises, adapted for use in schools and for private study. This work, which, it is hoped, will be found of special utility to candidates for the Civil Service Examinations, is now in the press, and will very shortly be published.

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by Mr. EDWARD WALFORD, M.A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford, will be published on Friday, June 8th. This work, which has been some years in preparation, being intended principally for the information and guidance of aspirants to public appointments, is based on actual knowledge derived from parliamentary and official documents and other equally reliable sources, and will comprise:-1. Complete lists of all the public offices, showing the age and qualifications of candidates and the persons with whom the patronage rests, the lowest salary at commencement and the highest salary to be obtained by promotion. 2. A selection of examination papers actually set to candidates. 3. Hints to candidates as to the best method of preparing for examination. The introduction bri fly explains the origin and progress of the examination system now applied to public appointments, and points out its advantages, as tested by actual working, both to the public and to candidates for employment in the civil service. The contents of this volume are disposed under the following general heads -1. The Civil Service Commission, its basis; 2. Departments of the Civil Service, I. in Englund, II. in Scotland, III. in Ireland; 3. Limits of Age and Qualifications for Candidates, I. Departments of the Public Service in England, II. in Scotland, III. in Ireland; 4. Examination Papers, I. Arithmetic, II. Book-keeping, III. Composit on, IV. Correspondence, V. Dictation, VI. Geography, VII. Grammar, VIII. History, IX. Languages, X. Law, XI. Mathematics, XII. Natural and Physical Science, XIII. Orthography, XIV. Précis; 5. Salaries of the Civil Service, I. England, II. Departments of the Public Service in Scotland, III. Departments of the Public Service in Ireland; 6. Examiners of the Civil Service; 7. List of the Heads of the Public Departments.