Master of Rugby School, and since approved by many of the first scholastic authorities, is to illustrate every stage of Bishop Wordsworth's Greek Accidence, on the principle that a delectus should be a grammar teaching by example. Accordingly, in lieu of the exegetical notes, too commonly construing and parsing for the pupil, in similar works, constant reference is made to Wordsworth's Accidence and Syntax, the scope and practical bearing of which are thus inculcated on the pupil's mind as he proceeds. Idiomatic constructions only are explained in the notes; ordinary words and phrases being given in a Lexicon appended, in which it has been aimed to present all the additional information which the youthful student of Greek can require, so as to make this delectus complete in itself.

The earlier portions of the Delectus consisting of very short passages from classic authors, whose exact meaning is sometimes doubtful, or appears obscure, because they are separated from their context, it was suggested some time ago to the author and the publishers that the book would be more generally available if a literal version were accessible to such schoolmasters or tutors as might desire its aid. With this view the present version, a limited edition of which was printed for private circulation when the Delectus came into general use, is now for the first time published, with a few corrections making it literally conformable throughout with the original.

the coast-lines, the directions of mountain-chains, the courses of rivers, and the boundaries of king. doms, provinces, counties, &c. The maps also contain the most recent information respecting the political changes that have taken place in the boundaries of France, Sardinia, Austria, and the States of the Church.

It seems desirable to add that, in 1857, the University of Oxford passed a statute, establishing two examinations for "those who are not members of the University;" one for youths under eighteen, another for boys under fifteen years of age. The examinations are open to all persons, whatever their position or religious denomination be; may the only restrictions are those already specified. The examinations are held in Oxford, in London, and other local centres in June. Those who succeed in the lower examinations obtain certificates; and those who pass the higher receive the title of Associate in Arts of Oxford.

Durham University

Middle-Class Examinations, 1862.

Among the subjects of examination for Senior and Junior Candidates, in October 1862, are Ancient and Modern Geography of Palestine, and the Analysis and Parsing of a passage taken from GOLDSMITH's Deserted Village. The following works, also by Mr. M'LEOD, are specially adapted for the use of Candidates:

GOLDSMITH'S DESERTED VILLAGE, with Notes and Rules of Syntax, Parsing, and Analysis of Sentences. Seventh Edition. 12mo. price 1s. 6d.

The GEOGRAPHY of PALESTINE or the HOLY LAND, including Phoenicia and Philistia. Eleventh Edition. 12mo. with a coloured Map of Palestine, price 1s. 6d.

Also, forming PART II. of the above, The LIFE and TRAVELS of ST. PAUL: With Pronouncing Vocabulary, Questions for Examination, Map, Plans, and Chart. 28.

First Progressive Exercises on the Accidence of the Latin Grammar; to which are added, Exercises on some of the leading Rules of Syntax: Intended to be used simultaneously with the Grammar. By RICHARD HILEY, late Principal of the Grange Collegiate and Commercial School, Thorp Arch, Tadcaster. Second Edition, revised and improved. 12mo. pp. 198, price 1s. 6d. cloth.

[Dec. 31, 1861. IIE object of this Manual is, by supplying a THE series of easy Progressive Exercises on the Latin Accidence, to insure a suitable first year's

course, to be studied simultaneously with the Grammar. In prosecution of this design, the author has proceeded, step by step, in adapting to every declension, conjugation, and rule, in the exact order of occurrence, such a variety of Questions and Exercises as the nature of the case seemed to require. Especial attention has been paid to secure proficiency in those formula which usually present some difficulty to beginners, or are liable to escape the memory. Though the work was drawn up with reference to the author's well-known and approved Latin Grammar, it is equally applicable to any other. The Second Edition has been carefully revised throughout, corrected, and in several parts improved.

selves before they are required; so that, the first difficulties of the subject being removed, the most unstudious of Englishmen may be allured onwards to the acquirement of a correct knowledge both of the language and the two principal alphabets, such as every one who pretends to superiority over the Hindus ought to possess.

The grammatical portion of the work is written in the simplest manner, and with great clearness of arrangement. Numerous tables of verbs are given, which include the most useful in the language. The method of deriving Arabic words from their roots, and the importance of this subject to a correct acquaintance with Hindustani, is explained. The syntax is the only full Hindustani syntax that has yet been written. Selections for reading, in the Persian character, with a vocabulary and useful dialogues on common subjects, are added (together with a chapter on the Devanagari alphabet). The whole book forms a complete, portable, and cheap manual for the use of all classes of persons resident or likely to be resident in India.

An Inquiry into the Medicinal Value of the Excreta of Reptiles in Phthisis and some other Diseases. By JOHN HASTINGS, M.D. Post 8vo. pp. 112, price 5s. cloth.

THIS

[Feb. 13, 1862.

THIS little book contains a short account of a discovery of an entirely new class of remedial agents, embracing all that is known of their action on the human body, and of their curative properties. They appear to be beneficial in a variety of diseases in which medical aid was much needed, such as phthisis, scrofula, asthma, hoopingcough, menorrhagia, leucorrhoea, and in some of the most rebellious affections of the skin, viz. chronic eczema, acne rosacea, and acne punctata, they have likewise been found to possess considerable efficacy in gout and rheumatism.

Collection of the Essays on Scientific and other Subjects contributed to the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews by Sir HENRY HOLLAND, Bart., M.D., F.R.S., &c., in One Volume octavo, is preparing for publication. The following is a list of the Essays:

Progress and Spirit of Physical Science.
Life and Organisation.

Human Longevity.

Roman History - Julius Cæsar.

The Atlantic Ocean.

The Mediterranean.

Humboldt's Cosmos-Sidereal Astronomy. Aerolites.

Modern Chemistry and the Atomic Doctrine. Coral Reefs.

&c. & c.

ON Translating Homer: Last Words," by

MATTHEW ARNOLD, M.A., Professor of Poetry in the University of Oxford, will be published in a few days. In this supplementary Lecture Mr. ARNOLD notices the principal objections made to the canons of criticism which, in his Three Lectures on Translating Homer, he endeavoured to establish.

THE FOURTH SERIES of Mrs. JAMESON's Sacred

and Legendary Art, completing the work, is preparing for publication. It is entitled "The History of Our Lord and of his Precursor John the Baptist; with the Personages and Typical Subjects of the Old Testament, as represented in Christian Art," and will be illustrated, uniformly with the other three series, with many etchings and engravings on wood.

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 Edition of the Lyra Germanica with Music, forming a complete Hymn-book for public and private worship in accordance with the services and festivals of the Church of England, will shortly be published; the tunes in four parts, with historical notes, &c. compiled, harmonised, and edited by WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT, Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge, and OrrO GOLDSCHMIDT; the hymns translated from the German by CATHERINE WINKWORTH. This work will contain 120 original tunes to about 200 hymns, the latter not only bearing upon all the festivals, seasons, and rites of the Church, but a great number of them suitable for private devotion, and for morning and evening use. It has been compiled exclusively with a view to the

THE REV. DR. KENNEDY, Head Master of

new.

Shrewsbury School, and Prebendary of Lichfield, has in the press, and approaching completion, Hymnologia Christiana, an ample collection of the best Psalms and Hymns in the English language, suitable either for congregational or for private singing, or for both; in number about 1500. The Psalms are extracted from many versions, old and The Hymns are the partly original, partly translated, work of numerous Christian poets from the Reformation to the present day, including many which will now appear in print for the first time. All the Psalms and Hymns are arranged under the Christian seasons to which they are adapted, from the First Sunday in Advent to the Last Sunday after Trinity; those for Morning, Evening, and the Sabbath appearing, for instance, at the close of the Easter Hymns. The volume will be prefaced by historical sketches of Christian Hymnology and the Christian Seasons, and will be dedicated, by special permission, to the Lord BISHOP of LICHfield.

the sacred tunes of Protestant Germany - commonly known under the name of Chorales-have been introduced. The tunes appear, as far as this was practicable, in their original form, and for the first time in England-coupled to the hymns for which they were composed or to which they have become traditionally attached.

A small number of Psalm tunes in use for the last three centuries in the Calvinistic Church on the Continent generally ascribed to Goudimel-as also a few from the congregational music of the Moravians, which on account of their beauty have readily been admitted into the service of the Lutheran Church, have also found a place in this work; and it thus contains nearly the whole of that standard and central portion of their hymnology, which the Protestant

Knowledge, is preparing for publication, by the Rev. JOHN AYRE, M.A., of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It 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.

cherished for the last three centuries as one of their most precious heirlooms, and the bulwark of their services.

The original harmonics of the period at which the tunes were written or introduced into the Church, have as far as possible been retained, and all of them revised by Professor Bennett and Mr. Goldschmidt. This work also offers for the first time to the English public the opportunity of tracing back the tunes to their real sources or to the period at which they first appeared; a subject likely to prove of interest, considering the frequent controversies going on respecting foreign tunes well known in this country, such as the "Old Hundredth," that called "Luther's Hymn," and others.

The Hymns, carefully selected from the rich stores of Germany, include many new translations made expressly for this volume, and bear upon every condition of the Christian life; and as the tune, arranged in four parts, will be printed over each separate hymn, the work will be equally adapted for public and private worship, and also for the use of choirs and organists.

Compendious Introduction to the Study of the Bible will soon be ready for publication, edited by the Rev. J. AYRE, M.A., of Gonville and Cains College, Cambridge. This manual is a summary of the same author's "Introduction to the Critical Study of the Holy Scriptures," in four octavo volumes. It contains a brief exhibition of the Evidences of the Christian Religion; the Elements of the Criticism and Interpretation of Scripture; an Account of Bible Geography and Antiquities; with a short Analysis of each particular book among the Sacred Writings. The present edition has been thoroughly revised and corrected after the last edition of the larger work, a considerable portion of it having been rewritten, and much new matter introduced. It is hoped that the manual in its present shape will be found both complete in itself, and also well adapted to lead the student on to more extended works on the various branches of Biblical knowledge. It will be comprised in a fcp. 8vo. volume, with maps and illus

THE History of Jerome Savonarola and his Times, by PASQUALE Villari, Professor of History in the University of Pisa, is preparing for publication, in English, accompanied by New Documents, and translated from the Italian by LEONARD HORNER, Esq., F.R. S., with co-operation and Additions of the Author.

A Work entitled Four Periods of Public Edu

cation, as reviewed in 1832, 1839, 1846, and 1862, in Papers, by Sir JAMES P. KAY-SHUTTLEWORTH, Bart., will be ready in March, in one volume. The four periods of public education which form the subject of this volume commence with the description of the condition of a great city immediately before the first act of interference by the Government to improve and extend elementary education by the Treasury grants of 1833. The moral and physical condition of the working classes of Manchester in 1831-2 is described at the time of the first visitation of cholera. The steady growth of the municipal and social institutions of Manchester, and especially of the combined moral and religious agencies, and of the elementary schools, is traced by a minute analysis of the chief elements of progress in each of three decennial periods. An attempt is then made to discriminate the causes which still retard the growth of civilisation, maintain a high rate of mortality, and obstruct the natural consequences of great public spirit in the municipality and earnest exertions in the religious and civil associations of Manchester. The second period comprises the origin of the Committee of Council on Education; the earliest efforts of that department to found a National Normal School on the basis of religious equality; the first steps in the employment of pupil teachers, and their subsequent training; and the foundation of the first Training College. The precedents on which that college was founded, its organisation, discipline, and studies, and the story of its progress during the first years, are treated in two chapters. Then the Author explains those parts of the Minutes of 1846 which applied the administration of the public grant for education to promote the apprenticeship of pupil teachers; the education of the Queen's scholars in Training Colleges; and the improvement of the position and prospects of the certificated teachers of elementary schools. The concluding chapters are devoted to a defence of these Minutes against the plans proposed by the Royal Commission of Inquiry, and the Minute of the 29th July, 1861, which are regarded as subversive of all the preceding administration of the Committee of Council on Education. The greater part of the volume consists of a republication of the Semi-official Papers, issued by direction of the Government at the great periods of public controversy, which have marked the successive steps of progress in the administrative development of a system of national education. These papers had at each period a circulation of from eight to ten thousand copies, and a desire has been expressed that they should be collected into one volume as part of the story of this thirty years of progress.

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A New Edition (the Second) of BRIALMONT and

GLEIG'S Life of the DUKE of WELLINGTON is nearly ready for publication, carefully abridged from the larger work, and condensed into one compactlyprinted volume, by the Rev. G. R. GLEIG, M.A., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Chaplain-General to Her Majesty's Forces. In his Preface the Author avows that his object has been to produce a book which shall come within the reach and be level with the understandings of the great body of his countrymen, who have a right to be supplied with an authentic history of the greatest man and truest patriot of modern times. As the Duke's life was spent in their service, so has his character, cleared by time from the mists of prejudice, become public property. It is a property, also, the value of which cannot be over-estimated. For though his views of things may not be accepted by all as invariably right views, there is but one opinion-there can be only -respecting the motives upon which he invariably acted. On these grounds the Author expresses his hope that this cheaper and condensed edition of a work, which, when first published, was of necessity both voluminous and expensive, may find its way into the hands of Englishmen of all ranks and callings, For there is no man so high, so low, so rich, so poor, that he may not derive incalculable benefit "from it; if it stimulate him to follow in all things, as "the great Duke did before him, the guiding star of "Duty through life."

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THE Head Master of Shrewsbury School, in compliance with particular request, has undertaken to edit VIRGIL expressly for School use. The main principle which his experience in teaching has led him to adopt is, that the Notes should be such as a Master, at least in the two highest forms of Public Schools, may justly require all his scholars to prepare as a portion of the lesson. These notes will seldom impart that knowledge which can be obtained from the three Dictionaries supposed to be in the hands of all advanced boys; but they will indicate, by brief examinative questions, what a boy must obtain from his Dictionaries, while they embrace, briefly but sufficiently, whatever is further requisite for the full interpretation of the author. They will contain as much translated matter as may seem necessary to promote taste and guide judgment, while they carefully avoid that luxuriance of English translation which is so unwelcome to every wise Master, as only tending to enfeeble, and often to mislead, the minds of boys. A preface on VIRGIL'S style, in the nature of a Poetic Syntax, will be given: and to this the learner will often be referred. It is hoped that these principles will recommend themselves to scholars engaged in classical instruction. But, as the notes are not yet in the press, the Editor invites the communication of their opinions, with a view to make the edition as complete as possible for the purpose it has in view. The text of WAGNER will be generally, but not implicitly, followed; and there will be a few critical Latin foot-notes, indicating the departures from that text. The other notes, in English, will be at the end of the volume.

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PEOPLE'S EDITION of CONYBEARE and HowSON's well-known work on the Life and Epistles of St. Paul, will be ready for publication on the 12th of March, condensed into Two compactly - printed Volumes, crown 8vo. uniform with the People's Edition of Lord MACAULAY's Essays and the Rev. SYDNEY SMITH'S Works. In this Edition the TEXT, carefully revised, will be given without retrenchment; the ANNOTATIONS will be considerably abridged, and adapted to unlearned readers.

Though the death of one of the writers of this book (the Rev. W. J. CONYBEARE, M. A.) has thrown the sole responsibility of revision on the survivor (the Rev. Dr. HowSON), the plan of a People's Edition" was contemplated by both writers from the time when the First Edition was published.

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The original design of this work was to give a living picture of St. Paul himself, and of the circumstances by which he was surrounded. But in order to present such a picture, much more was necessary than a mere transcript of the Scriptural narrative, even where it is fullest. Hence views of places (both plates and woodcuts) were diligently collected from various sources, to illustrate the work; and, in addition to careful geographical descriptions, maps were given exhibiting, with as much accuracy as can at present be attained, the physical features of the countries visited by St. Paul, and some of the ancient routes through them; together with PLANS of the most important cities, and maritime CHARTS of the coasts and harbours, where they were needed. For the same reason, engravings of COINS were given where they seemed to throw light on the circumstances mentioned in the history,-while other illustrations were taken from various sources. With regard to the Epistles, which are so essential a part of St. Paul's personal biography, the authors wished to represent faithfully in English what they were to their Greek readers when first written. They gave, therefore, a free translation, as there seemed to be no reason why a translation of St. Paul should be rendered inaccurate by a method which would generally be adopted in a translation of Thucydides. In this work, the translation of the Epistles and speeches of St. Paul was contributed by Mr. Conybeare, the historical portion of the work principally, and the geographical portion entirely, by Dr. Howson.

notes, so far as they were criticisms of passages in the New Testament, were based on the Greek text, exclusion or adaptation was in all such cases necessary for the English reader. But criticisms of this kind occurred most frequently in the notes on the Epistles, which were not translated by the present Editor. Under all these circumstances, general approbation will, it is hoped, be secured for the arrangement which has been adopted.

Those readers have throughout been kept in view, who, though well educated, would not find it easy to refer to Greek or German books. Some few technical Greek terms are retained, with an occasional reference to classical authors; but, on the whole, there are few citations except from books which are easily within reach. The references to Scripture are frequent; but such references can scarcely be too frequent. While, however, it is presumed that the reader has before him the Authorised English Version, the notes may, it is hoped, continue useful to students of the Greek New Testament. Some criticisms must, however, be necessarily taken for granted; and in some such cases reference has been made to the two larger Editions. In Mr. Conybeare's part of the work no alteration whatever has been made, except as regards the verbal adjustments requisite for leaving out the Greek, and certain retrenchments in the Appendices, made in harmony with the general aim of this Edition.

It is possible that a greater symmetry might have been obtained by a more unscrupulous alteration of notes which were not written by the present Editor; this, however, for reasons already stated, he did not think it right to attempt. But while he feels the imperfection of his own work, this last revision has left in his mind a higher estimate than ever of the parts written by his fellow-labourer and friend.

*The Original Edition of this work, in quarto, with numerous Illustrations, was completed in 1852; the Second Edition, with fewer Illustrations, but after careful revision, appeared in 1856. In the People's Edition, now announced, the Illustrations will be somewhat fewer; the Text is unaltered, with the exception of slight verbal changes suggested in the course of a thorough re-perusal; and the Notes in the narrative portion are condensed, as indicated above. Thus each of the Three Editions has a character of its own.

THE FOURTH and FIFTH Lectures on the History

WILLIAM LONGMAN, comprising the reign of EDWARD the FIRST, will appear shortly.

Epistles would have embarrassed rather than helped the mere English reader. But the retention of some notes involved the necessity of selection. The present Editor might have cut down his own notes to a narrow compass; but there yet remained the notes of the friend whom he could not consult; and to have omitted nearly all the former, while retaining all the latter, would have disturbed the whole symmetry of the book. And again, since in the former Editions the

the Five Members."-Preparing for publication, in 2 vols. post 8vo. uniform with "The Arrest of the Five Members," with Two Portraits, from Original Paintings at Port Eliot, The Life of Sir John Eliot: Rewritten; being the First and Second Volumes of a New and greatly enlarged Edition of FORSTER'S Statesmen of the Commonwealth. Some delay in the appearance of this work has unavoidably arisen from the recent discovery of important papers illustrative of Eliot's career.