older pupils with that assistance to correct pronunciation, embodied in the text itself, for which it is at present usual to consult a pronouncing dictionary. As a first reading-book, it is intended for children about five years of age, who have the power of saying easy words at sight, or twosyllable words by spelling them. Several contrivances, referred to below, are made use of for rendering reading easier, and the lessening the mechanical difficulties of reading has enabled the Author to select pieces of higher literary merit than are usually found in children's books. Words are least difficult when they are regular or phonetic, as, plant, creed, sheepish, entertain, conformity; and most difficult, when encumbered with silent letters, or with letters having other than their usual power, as, knight, caught, yacht, though, wrestle, beauty, aisle. The latter are rendered phonetic, and consequently easy to spell, by printing such silent letters in italics, and instructing the child to spell only the sounding letters which are in Roman type, thus-nīt, caut, yat, thō, resl, buty, ile. The eye is accustomed to see and recollect the form of the entire word, and the ear to distinguish its essential elements. Words ending in our and participles in ed are made easier by being printed favor, labor, endeavor, spelt, stept, brusht,-form'd, veil'd, stray'd,-than when written favour, labour, endeavour,-spelled, stepped, brushed,-formed, veiled, strayed; and the pedantic habit of saying them as two-syllable words is prevented. Other important helps are afforded by a system of diacritical marks, which are generally sufficient to indicate the exact pronunciation, but which are not so numerous as to render them too complex for Infant Schools. The Author also suggests the advantages of his work as a class-book for foreigners learning English, and throws out certain new ideas respecting the engrafting some of the advantages of the Phonic System upon the old alphabetic name method of teaching to read. Lectures Françaises; or, Extracts in Prose from Modern French Authors, with copious Notes, for the use of English Students. By LÉONCE STIEVENARD, Principal French Master in the City of London School; Second French Master in St. Paul's School; and Lecturer on the French Language and Literature in King's College. 12mo. pp. 432, price 48. 6d. cloth. [Nov. 9, 1861. THE object of the present selection is to provide English students of the French tongue with a varied but carefully graduated series of specimens of modern French prose, taken from upwards of a hundred eminent writers of the present age, so as to exhibit the language as it is now spoken and written, and facilitate by its use the acquisition of French conversation, as well as to afford the pupil some insight into French history, manners, and literature. With this view, the volume is divided into three parts; the first consisting of simple and easy passages, completely within the comprehension of beginners; and the second being adapted for pupils who are sufficiently advanced in French to translate with tolerable facility. The NOTES to these two divisions, placed, in accordance with the best practice, at the end of the volume, are for the most part explanatory of idiomatic difficulties. The third part is composed of more difficult selections, suitable for learners who have made still further progress, and have begun to appreciate style in written composition, and to discriminate its varieties. The Notes to the third part, all historical, biographical, and geographical, are written in French. Care has been taken throughout the work to admit no specimen, however brilliant, the good taste of which can be called in question; and likewise to include no piece of doubtful moral tendency. A new work entitled Sunsets and Sunshine, or Varied Aspects of Life, by the Rev. ERSKINE NEALE, M.A., is preparing for publication. It will contain a copious account of Count Louis Batthyani, late Prime Minister of Hungary, and will embrace sketches of Charles (Fourth) Duke of Richmond, Lola Montes, the (young) Duke of Dorset, the Right Hon. William Huskisson, Col. Willoughby Moore of The Europa, the Dowager Marchioness of Salisbury, Basevi the Architect, Lord Boringdon, the Balmats of Chamouni, William Hone the Political Satirist, Daniel Webster the American Statesman, and other celebrities whose careers afford matter of interest for the general reader. A new volume of religious biography will shortly be published by the Author of My Life and What shall I do with it? entitled "Records of "the Ministry of the Rev. E. T. MARCH PHILLIPPS, "M.A." This work, which is designed chiefly for the use of clergymen, attempts to record the experience of a parish minister, who laboured in the same country village from 1808 to 1859; and to detail the growth of opinions, which, having been formed by an independent study and diligent practice of Christian truth, and uniting in an unusual degree those fundamental Christian principles of grace, holiness, and humanity, which are too often taught disjunctively,— may serve to suggest to others also some solid grounds for union with each other and with the Church of England. 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 publication. 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. BAMPTON LECTURES for 1861. — Preparing for publication, in One Volume, 8vo. "The Mission and Extension of the Church at Home, "considered in Eight Lectures preached before the "University of Oxford in the Year MDCCCLXI. on "the Foundation of the late Rev. John Bampton, M.A." By the Venerable JOHN SANDFORD, B.D., Archdeacon of Coventry. 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 Principles 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. A 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 fep. 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. THE Law of Storms considered in connexion with the ordinary Motions of the Atmosphere. By Professor H. W. Dove, Berlin. An English Translation of this work is preparing for publication by Mr. ROBERT H. SCOTT, M. A., Trin. Coll., Dublin, with the author's sanction and co-operation. No scientific man of the present day has rendered such eminent service to the cause of Meteorology as Professor Dove, by whom the scattered materials derived from the various observatories on the surface of the globe have been arranged and classified into one general system. Ia this work he shows how storms are simple conse quences of the ordinary laws by which meteorological changes are governed. The first German edition of the work appeared in the year 1857, as a portion of the author's Klimatologische Beiträge, and was almost entirely occupied with a discussion of the Law of Storms. Of this edition an English translation has been published as No. 3 of Meteorological Papers issued by the Board of Trade, and has already reached a second edition. In the preparation of the second German edition the work has been entirely re-written and nearly doubled in size. The additional matter contains a discussion of the ordinary winds observed in different parts of the world, and of the effects produced by the variations of these winds on the meteorological instruments. This investigation is supported by a series of valuable tables of the indications of the barometer and thermometer in the different localities where observations are carried on. 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. A 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 present season, 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 staghounds 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. New Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical, by THOMAS ARNOLD, B.A. is preparing for publication. This work is principally designed for the use of Students at Universities, or for the higher forms in Public Schools and Colleges. It professes to act as a guide to the systematic study of English literature. Such guidance appears to be more and more demanded, not only the magnitude and bewildering variety of the field, but the evergrowing and spreading sense of the educational importance of its contents. The day is gone by when it would be thought no disgrace for a young Englishman to leave Oxford, familiar with the beauties of all the classic poets, from Homer to Menander, and from Catullus to Ausonius, but having never read a line of Absalom and Ahitophel, or of the Essay on Man. The present state of opinion on this subject is indicated distinctly enough by the prominent position which the English Language and Literature hold in all public competitive examinations, and by the honourable place assigned to these studies in the curriculum of every newly-founded university. It must be confessed that in this respect other nations the French especially-are before us. The student of French literature can be referred to more than one manual, where writers of the most cultivated intelligence and the most brilliant imagination will take him by the hand, and conducting him through all the courts of the temple of the past, will point out in succession to his delighted gaze all the monuments raised by the genius of the gifted dead. In this country far less has been achieved; but it may safely be predicted that the necessity of dealing with our literature systematically will become every year more manifest. The work will be divided into two nearly equal portions one tracing the growth of our literature historically, from its earliest feeble beginnings to the vigour and vastness of its present development - the other attempting, by a classification of literature, to exhibit the works of our greatest writers in the order of Art rather than in the order of time, and so to furnish the means for instituting instructive comparisons between the masterpieces in the literature of our own and other countries. In the Second, or Critical, Section numerous extracts, both in prose and verse, will be given by way of illustration, and courses of English reading will also be suggested, such as may be useful both to teachers and to private students. A chapter on English Metres will be found in the Appendix. A full index is given, with the dates of each author's birth and death annexed to his name. A new work on the Comparative Anatomy and Physiology of the Vertebrate Animals, by RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S., D.C.L., Superintendent of the Natural History Department, British Museum, Fullerian Professor of Physiology in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, Foreign Associate of the Institute of France, &c., is preparing for publication, to form one thick volume, illustrated with. upwards of Twelve Hundred Engravings on Wood. A New Edition of Professor MAX MÜLLER'S Lectures on the Science of Language will be ready in a few days. MEMOIRS of the Life of Sir Marc 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. LITURGICAL REFORM.-A reprint of the recent Article in the Edinburgh Review (January, 1861), entitled Church Expansion and Liturgical Revision, may now be had, price Sixpence. The republication and extensive gratuitous circulation of this Article has been undertaken, with Messrs. LONGMAN and Co.'s permission, by an Association established for the purpose, with a view to promote the Expansion and Enlarged Comprehensiveness of the National Church, by means of neutrality on non-essential points of doctrine. THE new Latin-English Dictionary, by the Rev. Oxford, and the Rev. J. E. RIDDLE, M.A., of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, founded on the larger Dictionary of Freund, revised by himself, is advancing at press, and is expected to be ready for publication early in the year 1862, 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 careful 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 phi lology. Accordingly, the book now in the press con. tains some thousands 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 consistent 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. FELIX MENDELSSOHN'S Letters from Italy and Switzerland, translated from the German by LADY WALLACE, will be ready in January, in one volume. A 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." A new work entitled Tales of the Gods and Heroes, by the Rev. GEORGE W. Cox, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, is preparing for publication. The vast stores of Greek legend supply a mass of tales which fall under more than one method of classification. They may be arranged with reference to their subject-matter, as they exhibit either the relics of strictly mythical speech, or the religious, and, finally, the moral sentiment of the Greek mind. But another principle of division is furnished by the character of these tales, which are sometimes marvellously simple, sometimes very complicated. Some specimens of the former class were published in a volume entitled "Tales from Greek Mythology," intended chiefly for the amusement and instruction of very young children. In that series care was taken not to include any tales involving ideas which young children would not readily understand; and the sorrows of Demêtêr and of Niobê were recounted, because in such legends no marked distinction need be drawn between gods and men. But it is obvious that the tale of Io and Prometheus, or of the rivalry of Posei don and Athênê for the naming of Athens, cannot be told without a distinct reference to deified heroes and the successive dynasties of the Hellenic gods. The present work consists of tales, many of which are among the most beautiful in the mythological stores common to the great Aryan family of nations. The simplicity and tenderness of many of these tales suggests a comparison with the general character of the Northern mythology, while others tend in great measure to determine the question of a patriarchal religion, of which the mythical tales of Greece are supposed to have preserved only the faint and distorted conceptions. These and other subjects are examined in the Introduction and Notes to the volume, among the contents of which are, Kephalos and Procris; Daphne; Kyrênê; the Delian Apollo; the Pythian Apollo; the Toil of Hercules; Althea and the Burning Brand; Pandora; Iô and Prometheus; Poseidon and Athène; Ariadne; Bellerophon; Sarpêdôn; Memnôn; Œnône; the Cattle of Hélios; Calypso, &c., &c. PRINTED BY SPOTTIS WOODE AND CO. NEW-STRLET SQUARE, LONDON. THE object of this periodical is to enable Book-buyers readily to obtain such general information regarding the various Works published by Messrs. LONGMAN and Co., as is usually afforded by tables of contents and explanatory prefaces, or may be acquired by an inspection of the books themselves. With this view, each article is confined to an ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENTS of the work referred to: Opinions of the press and laudatory notices are not inserted. Copies are forwarded free by post to all Secretaries, Members of Book Clubs and Reading Societies, Heads of Colleges and Schools, and Private Persons, who will transmit their addresses to Messrs. LONGMAN and Co., 14 Ludgate Hill, London, for this purpose. Literary Intelligence of Works preparing for publication will be found at pages 205 to 220. Democracy in America. By ALEXIS DE TOCQUE VILLE. Translated by HENRY REEVE, Esq. A New Edition, with an Introductory Notice by the Translator. 2 vols. 8vo. pp. 1,034, price 218. cloth. [Feb. 8, 1862. THE earlier editions of the English translation of this celebrated work, published in 1835 and 1840, having long been out of print, it is now republished with the addition of an introductory notice by the translator, on the Life and Writings of M. de Tocqueville. The original work has gone through sixteen editions, and has taken a permanent rank amongst the classical productions of French literature. In the United States the English translation has been reprinted almost as often, and it is regarded by the Americans themselves as one of the most ingenious and accurate treatises on their own Constitution. Arrangements have recently been made which enable the present proprietors of the copyright to reproduce the work in a cheaper and more accessible form, the first and second volumes of the original edition being comprised in one volume of this edition; whilst the second part of the work (originally forming the third and fourth volumes) is now contained in the other. It is almost superfluous to add, that the important events now taking place in North America,-the disruption of the Federal Union, the struggle of the Southern States for independence, and the dark and mysterious future of the Negro race in America,give to this book a still higher degree of interest than when it first appeared. It is still quoted every day by the champions and by the opponents of democratic government, both of whom draw A |