A New Hebrew Grammar, with Exercises, is nearly ready, by M. M. KALISCH, Ph.D., M.A. The FIRST PART of this work, which will be published in a few days, is entitled "Outlines of the Language, with Exercises," and forms a Practical Introduction to the study of Hebrew. This First Part is designed to provide an elementary aid to the systematic study of the Hebrew tongue. With a strict regard to this object, it contains all that is necessary to acquire the broad outlines of the language, but it contains no more, lest an abundance of detail impede the first and most difficult steps of the beginner. The arrangement is scrupulously progressive, in order that, by avoiding all irregular anticipations, it may enable the learner closely to follow the guidance of the book, and to understand the organism and general structure of the language. The rules are stated with the utmost precision and simplicity; but as experience has taught the inefficiency of rules, unless at once fixed in the mind by example and practice, each section is accompanied by exercises calculated to insure both familiarity and accuracy: to which is added a selection of portions from the prosaical and poetical writings of the Old Testament, forming a first Reading-Book, and furnished with the necessary aids of notes, references, and vocabularies. The First Part thus forms in itself a complete work, and may be considered and used as a practical Grammar of the Hebrew language. The SECOND PART, which completes the system of the language, and embraces a full grammatical thesaurus of the Hebrew tongue, intended to assist the critical analysis of the Hebrew Scriptures, is in the press, and will appear in the Autumn. The work has throughout, as regards form and arrangement, been prepared with a view to be equally adapted to private use and to students in schools and colleges. FIRST STEPS to READING, by J. S. LAURIE, Editor of the Graduated Series of Reading-Lesson Books, &c., being a Rudimentary Series of Lessons preparatory to the First Book of the Graduated Series, adapted to the capacity of Young Children, will be ready in March, in 3 small books and in a set of single folio sheets. First Steps consists of a series of rudimentary reading-exercises, framed on the sound-system, according to which words are to be taught at sight, precisely as letters are commonly taught. The words, in which the usual orthography is of course retained, are systematically arranged, and they are, with a view to distinct articulation, adapted to the special exercise and cultivation of the several organs of speech. Short vowels are regarded as being practically distinct from long vowels. The short-vowel exercises, which are first in order, are employed in combination with the The advantage of this plan is twofoldthe exact powers of the vowels are thus rendered unmistakeable, and an almost immediate use of actual words and sentences becomes possible. The consonants are arranged in tables, according to the cognate character of their sounds: first, labials (as in consonants. map); second, dentals (as in lid); third, gutturals (as in gong); fourth, sibilants (as in such). Dual consonants with single sounds are, as the above examples show, appropriately included, e.g., th with dentals, ng with gutturals, sh with sibilants. In the succeeding section on long vowels, the paradigm of consonants in detail is, of course, discontinued; and after some preliminary exercises on the primitive vowels the lessons proceed to homogeneous vowel-sounds of various orthography, e.g., sounds in a-ai, ay, ey; sounds in e-ee, ea, ei, ie, and so on. Attention is then directed to silent consonants and to the more prominent exceptional pronunciations (as gh=1). While no symbol is introduced into a lesson which has not been previously used as a special exercise, new words are freely compounded with symbols already learnt. The subject-matter of the exercises assumes a narrative form almost at the outset ; these are varied with nursery rhymes and jingles adapted to the several heads under which they are placed, and the concluding part comprises short, easy and interest. ing stories of a miscellaneous description. An inspection of this little work will show that, while the Editor has kept the philosophy of speech in view, his primary aim has been so to unravel and simplify the technical difficulties of the English tongue, as to render the acquirement of the art of reading a less difficult and a more interesting task than it is universally found to be. are 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. Scorт, M.A., Trin. Coll., Dublin, with the author's sanction.and co-operation; and illustrated by 9 Diagrams and 6 Charts of Storms from the works of REID and PIDDINGTON. 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. In this work he shows how storms simple consequences 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 localities where observations are carried on. Raspberry Moon, or a July among the woods and waters of the Red Man, is the title of a new work by the Rev. JOHN HOSKYNS-ABRAHALL, M.A.,` late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, which will be published in March, in 1 vol. fcp. 8vo., with a View of the Arched Rock of Mackinaw, and a coloured Physical and Political Map of the Laurentian lakes, drawn by the Author, and lithographed by E. Weller, F.R.G.S. This book is, substantially, a poetical record of a Canadian excursion in that "Moon" of the Red Man which corresponds tolerably well with our July. The tour was, to a great extent, taken in the first mail-boat to Lake Superior, starting on her "trial trip." As she was but a little tug, and as the dangerous waters in which she was to ply were unknown to her master and crew, not a little "roughing" -indeed peril - befell the two passengers (the only two purely amateur members of the party) whose "experiences are recorded. With the scenes passed through the author has interwoven legends and superstitions of the ancient, though now but scanty, occupants of that region. At the same time, he has embodied impressions of the scenery of the Niagara river, derived from visits at different seasons in the years 1857, 1858, and 1859. "Raspberry Moon was begun on Lake Superior, as a jeu d'esprit somewhat after the manner of Horace's account of his trip from Rome to Brundisium, and was intended to be a companion to the matter-of-fact prose diary sent to English friends. Substantially, the first half of it was composed on Lake Superior, and the remainder during a voyage from Quebec to Liverpool rather more than a year afterwards. The following are the headings of the fifteen main divisions of the Poem: I. Meres and woods. III. Earth, wood, and water. IV. Sunshine on Keetchi Gahmi (This includes an episode entitled The WaterWraith's home). V. Storm, and fog, and rocks. VI. Mountains and islands. VII. Pale Face and Red Skin. VIII. The Kahministikwoya. IX. Leelinaw and the Pukwudjinees. X. The wonders of the welkin. XI. The Faithless Squaw and the Stately XII. The islet of the Mahnitoos. XV. The King of Floods. The Appendix-notes and Foot-notes contain much that has not been hitherto put before the British public, being extracted from Trans-Atlantic books, blue-books, serials, and newspapers, as well as from the journals of the author and his wife, during an absence from England of nearly two years. 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. GRAHAM'S English Grammar Practice 242 PARRY's Reges et Heroes 240 242 Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers, SECOND SERIES, edited by E. S. KENNEDY, M.A. 221 THRUPP's Anglo-Saxon Home 230 224 235 HOLLAND'S Essays on Scientific Subjects 229 Second Series of Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers. Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers; a SECOND SERIES INFLUENCED by a similarity of taste, a few principal bond of union among its members being the love of mountain climbing and mountain adventure. It consisted, at first, of but some halfdozen members, but it rapidly attracted to itself the sympathy of mountaineers, and under the name of the Alpine Club has become an established institution. In the second year of its existence the Club gave evidence of its vigour by the publication of a volume, edited by Mr. John Ball, the President; and the favourable reception accorded to this work proved how deeply seated and how widely diffused bad become the spirit of mountain love. Three years have elapsed since the publication of the first series of "Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers," and in the meantime the Club has doubled its num A bers, while many an unascended peak has been conquered, many an unknown pass has been opened up, and many an untrodden glacier has been explored, by the members of the Alpine Club. The result is the production of a second series of explorations. Its composition has been strictly limited to members of the Club; but the single volume which sufficed for the first series was not ample enough for the second: the number of narratives has been increased from seventeen to thirty-two, and the number of writers from sixteen to twenty-three, while the passages of ten new passes, and the ascents of ten mountains, are comprised in the two volumes which have been found necessary for an account of the adventures of the last three years. new The first volume begins with an account of an extensive tour in Iceland by Messrs. Holland and Shepherd, in districts a large portion of which had been visited by no Englishman except Henderson, whose journey took place fifty years ago. These lie, principally, in the SE. portion of the island, and comprise vast snow regions, only the outskirts of which have ever been trodden by the foot of man. In these is situated the Orofa, the highest mountain of Iceland, of which Messrs. Paulson and Olassen attempted the ascent about 100 years ago. Since that time Messrs. Holland and Shepherd are the only travellers who have endeavoured to reach its summit, and unfortunately, when near the highest peak, they were driven back by dangerous weather. In the following paper Mr. Milman gives an account of some explorations in the OberEngadin or Upper Valley of the Inn, a district very little known, and to which he draws attention as one of great beauty. This is followed by a description, by Mr. Kennedy, of an ascent of the Pizzo Bernina, an event which was regarded in the neighbourhood as one of great moment. A route from Chamounix into the Val Ferrex, by the Glacier du Tour, is described by Mr. Dodson, who, returning afterwards to Chamounix by the lower part of the Allée Blanche and by the Col de Miage, introduces a narrative by Mr. Hudson of the accident that occurred there to a young mountaineer in July 1861. The full tourist tide ebbs and flows between the two great centres of attraction, Chamounix and Zermatt, and has hitherto been confined to those comparatively uninteresting channels, the ordinary high roads either by Aosta or Martigny. In this volume is described a grande course of inexhaustible interest, traversing, as it does throughout its entire length, a series of the most magnificent glaciers and snow fields. At different times the component parts of this route have been worked out by Mr. Winkworth, Mr. Jacomb, Mr. Hardy, Sir T. Fowell Buxton, and Mr. Tuckett. A series of excursions has thus been interwoven into practicable continuity, and the High Level Route thus opened out embraces a succession of seven new glacier passes between Chamounix and Zermatt. The traveller having been conducted into the well-known district of Zermatt, is at once carried up the Breithorn by Mr. Schweitzer. He then falls into the hands of Mr. William Mathews, Mr. Hardy, and Mr. Buxton. The first gentleman carries him across the Col de Lys and the Col des Jumeaux into the Italian valleys to the south of the Monte Rosa chain; while the other two hasten him to the summits of the Lyskamm and the Nord End. Dr. Brinton concludes the first volume by a description of the little-known region which is domineered by the Noric Alps, and by an account of his ascent of the Gross Glockner. The second volume commences with the account of an ascent, by Mr. Stephen, of the Schreckhorn, an attempted ascent of which, by Mr. Anderson, was recorded in the first series. This is followed by the passage, by the same indomi table mountaineer, of the Eiger Joch, a pass connecting the Wengern Alp with the Rhone valley, by the Eiger, Trugberg, and Aletsch glaciers. The hitherto untrodden summit of the Aletschhorn yielded to Mr. Tuckett, after a persevering attempt, begun under most unpromising circum stances. Mr. Forster takes the traveller, by a pleasant and comparatively easy line, from the Grütli to the Grimsel, climbing en route the Thierberg, near the Susten Pass; a mountain of no great difficulty, but never before ascended, and one commanding magnificent views of glacier scenery. Mr. Packe furnishes a narrative of an excursion in the Pyrenees, including a description of the passage of the Port d'Oo, with ascents of the Pie des Posets and the Maladetta. There now remain to be noticed the ascents of four mountains, in districts not comprehended within the usual range of Swiss tourists. These are, Monte Viso in Sardinia, Mont Pelvoux in Dauphiné, and the Grivola and Grand Paradis in the Graian Alps. No little perseverance and skill were required to surmount the difficulties of these mountains. Monte Viso has long attracted the admiration of visitors to Turin-it was felt that it would command a magnificent view, but it was deemed inaccessible; Mr. Mathews' account of his successful ascent will therefore, it is believed, be read with much interest. Some of the inconveniences experienced by Mr. Whymper in his ascent of the Pelvoux may probably be avoided by profiting by his expe rience, but at present bad guides and execrable inns add to the usual difficulties of mountain expeditions. Despite, however, all these drawbacks, the tourists who have visited the virgin soil of Dauphiné do not seem to have regretted their venture. Other travellers besides Mr. Whymper have in this series recorded their excursions. Mr. Nichols crossed by the Col de la Tempe from the valley of La Bérarde to the Val Louise, and by the Col de l'Echauda from Val Louise to La Monêtier. Mr. Bonney has explored the Val de St. Christophe and crossed the Col de Sais, while Mr. Blackstone has contributed a sketch-route over the Col de la Selle, from La Grave to St. Christophe. Since Mr. King drew attention to the Graian Alps, a few English tourists, including two ladies, have ventured out of the common route, down the Cogne Valley from Aosta. The Grivola is situated in this district, and is one of the most beautiful mountain-obelisks in the entire Alps. It was deemed inaccessible, but its successful ascent was accomplished by one of the members of the Alpine Club. Two attempted ascents are described in this volume, one unsuccessful, but very bold, by Mr. Tuckett; the other, and successful one, by Mr. Ormsby. Messrs Mathews and Tuckett give, it is believed, a tolerably complete account of this littleknown district, and correct some important topographical errors in its received geography. Mr. Mathews has accomplished the destruction of a mountain which has existed (in maps only) for about fifty years, and Mont Iseran, a name which, on the Sardinian maps, has hitherto represented the culminating point of the Tarentaise, must now be expunged from all maps, since its non-existence as a mountain peak is completely proved. The excursions in the second volume conclude with a trip amid the glaciers of Norway, in the narrative of which Mr. Hardy relates his experiences among the Finns, and gives an account of his visit to the only Norwegian glacier, whose base is washed by the ocean. Scientific subjects (although not brought forward as principal features in the work) are not entirely omitted. Short notices are given by Mr. Tuckett and Mr. Hodgkinson upon the various instruments used in the practice of Hypsometry, and upon the methods adopted in carrying out this important branch of natural philosophy; and the result of some observations upon Glacial Dirt Bands, and the unequal distribution of Ozone, is offered by Mr. Tuckett, more by way of suggestion to future observers than as a complete explanation of the subject. The work concludes with a Table of Heights by Mr. Tuckett and Mr. Packe, which has been compiled with great care, and, it is believed, with tolerable accuracy. So far as it extends, this Table, it is hoped, will be found a more complete list than is elsewhere to be met with of the priucipal Swiss and Pyrenean "Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers." The following are the names of the CONTRIBUTORS to the SECOND SERIES of Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers : F. E. BLACKSTONE, B.C.L. Rev. T. G. BONNEY, M.A., F.G.S. Sir T. FOWELL BUXTON, Bart., M.A., F.R.G.S. J. J. COWELL, F.R.G.S. Edward ThurSTAN HOLLAND, B.A., Rev. CHARLES HUDSON, M.A. FREDERICK WILLIAM JACOMB. WM. MATHEWS, Jun., M.A., F.G.S. P. C. NICHOLS, F.S.A. CHARLES PACKE, Jun., B.A. The MAPS are as follows: : 1. (double) South-East part of Iceland 4. Sketch-Map of Pelvoux 5. Monte Viso 6. Miage. 7, 8, 9. The High Level Route 10. (double) The Monte Rosa District |