THE REV. DR. KENNEDY, Head Master of

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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 new. 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.

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New Edition of the Lyra Germanica, with

Music, will shortly be published under the title of "The English Choral-Book." It will form a complete Hymn-book for public and private worship in accordance with the services and festivals of the Church of England; the Tunes, arranged in four parts, with historical annotations &c., compiled, harmonised, and edited by WILLIAM STERNDALE BENNETT, Professor of Music in the University of Cambridge, and OTTO 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 excellence of its quality, as none but the gems among the sacred tunes of Protestant Germany - commonly known under the name of Chorales-have been introduced. The tunes appear, as far as it 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 likewise 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 Churches of the Continent have regarded and cherished for the last three centuries as one of their most precious heirlooms, and the bulwark of their services.

The original harmonies 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 an 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 are appropriate to 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 for the use of choirs and organists.

A New Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages is in preparation by the Rev. W. L. BLACKLEY, M.A., and Dr. CARL MARTIN FRIEDLÄNDER, Member of the Order of Leopold, Corresponding Member of the French Historical Institute, &c.

In announcing a New Practical Dictionary of the English and German Languages, the Authors consider it advisable in a few words to point out its general purpose and its peculiar features. The object they have proposed to themselves has been the production, in a convenient form, of a work calculated especially for the use and assistance of English students of the German language, and thus to supply a real want of the present day, the existence of which may be asserted without disparagement to the learned labours of many predecessors in the same field of knowledge, who, addressing themselves, for the most part, to a different object, have generally achieved a different result.

The projected Dictionary by no means aims at being an "Index Verborum," and will neither seek nor merit approbation for containing multitudes of archaic or merely pedantic words, unknown to the living literature, almost to the living language, they profess to illustrate. Its general purpose will be to present every word at all likely to be needed in interpreting or in speaking the German tongue, and its peculiar additional objects will be as follows:

I. By simplicity of arrangement to enable the student, at the least expense of time and trouble, to discover the exact sense of the words he seeks, with reference to their context in his reading, or their fitness for his speech; and,

II. To supply him copiously with the best equiva lents in either language for the abundant and characteristic idioms of the other.

The association in the work of an actual represen tative of each language may justify the expectation of a useful accuracy being obtained, at least in this latter department.

On the two points, of practical facility and idiomatic phraseology, the compilers expend especial care and pains, in the sincere hope that their treatment of such important features in the undertaking may render it of more than usual value and service to the public.

on HEAT, considered as a MODE of MOTION," delivered at the Royal Institution of Great Britain, are preparing for publication in one volume, crown 8vo. with Illustrations.

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New Work entitled Tales of the Gods and Heroes, by the Rev. GEORGE W. Cox, M.A., late Scholar of Trinity College, Oxford, Author of the "Tale of the Great Persian War," is in the press and will shortly appear in a small volume, with six Landscape Illustrations engraved on Wood from Drawings by the Author. 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 exceedingly simple, sometimes very complicated. Some specimens of the former class were published in a volume by the same Author 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 Dêmêtêr 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 lô and Prometheus, or of the rivalry of Poseidon 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. 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. The CONTENTS are as follows: Introduction.

1. Kephalos and Procris. 2. Daphne.

3. The Delian Apollo. 4. The Pythian Apollo. 5. The Vengeance of Apollo.

6. The Toils of Heracles. 7. Althea and the Burn

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8. Phaethon.

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16. Poseidon and Athênê. 17. Ariadne. 18. Narcissus. 19. Medeia. 20. Kyrênê. 21. Bellerophon. 22. Iphige neia.

23. Hector and Andromachê.

24. Sarpedon.

9. Epimetheus and Pan- 25. Memnon.

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WILLIAM HUGHES, F.R.G.S., Author of the "Manual of Geography," and several approved geographical school-books, is preparing for publi cation, entitled "The Geography of British History: comprehending a Geographical Description of the British Islands and the Colonial Empire of Britain." It is the author's object in this work to trace the geography of Britain through the successive periods of British history, from the earliest times to the present day, and to engraft upon it a complete geographical description of the British Islands. Incidental to this, his chief purpose, the author seeks to show throughout the intimate connexion between History and Geography-two subjects of study which, although each possessing distinctive features of its own, yet require to be regarded more or less in conjunction, in order that either may be adequately comprehended. This has hitherto been much less fully accomplished in the case of Britain than in the instance of several other countries, ancient and modern. Yet the geographical position, features, and natural productions of the British Islands have in all times exerted, and must continue to exert, a direct and most important influence upon the course of those events which belong to the history of the British nation-in connexion, more particularly, with its manufacturing and commercial greatness, and its wide-spread colonial dominion.

An accurate description of the physical geography of the British Islands, embodying their natural features, climate, and chief productions, mineral or otherwise, forms the basis of the work. The political divisions and various noteworthy localities of Britain are then described, through the successive periods of Roman, Saxon, and Norman rule. The relationship between England and the neighbouring portions of the European continent, through the French possessions of our Anglo-Norman kings, is fully treated, and the geography of Normandy and other provinces described. The localities which, in our own country, are connected with the Wars of the Roses, the Civil War (1643-51), and other great events of British history, fall within the author's plan, as likewise do the beginnings of English colonisation in the East and the West. The longest chapters in the volume are those devoted to the geography of England and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, as it exists in the present day. This embodies a brief description of the several counties, in which the natural features, the geological and mineral conditions of each, the localities of manufacturing or commercial industry, the towns and other places of note, are successively passed under view. A brief description of the Colonial Empire of Britain, in its present extent, completes the work, which addresses itself alike to the general student and to those engaged in the higher branches of English education. The necessary statistical details are given throughout, and the divisions of Britain at successive periods are illustrated by Maps.

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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. 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.

[R. B. B. WOODWARD, B.A., F.S.A.,

MR. M. Phil. Soc., Librarian to the Queen, is

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engaged in preparing for publication a new Historical and Chronological Encylopædia. This work, which is now nearly ready for the press, is intended to form a copious and trustworthy book of reference for both students and general readers, and to present in a brief and convenient form, but with the most scrupulous accuracy as to dates, CHRONOLOGICAL NOTICES of all the great events of universal history, including treaties, alliances, wars, battles, &c.; of the incidents in lives of great and distinguished men, and of their works; of scientific and geographical discoveries of mechanical inventions; and social, domestic, and economical improvements. Matters of merely local interest, prolix details, with mathematical and technical chronology, are not admitted. general arrangement will be alphabetical; but wherever connected series of events can be grouped under familiar titles, this expedient will be adopted, both to facilitate reference and to prevent needless repetitions. Historical events and occurrences happening in or relating to England will invariably receive the largest share of attention. In all cases the most exact date which can be ascertained will be given; and wherever it appears desirable, the original or national dates will be added. Where different dates have been assigned to the same event by scholars of reputation, those which can assist the enquiries of the student will be inserted; but the convenience of the general reader will be consulted by placing the best-established first. References to the authorities will be frequently given with a view to establish the value of particular dates, as well as to direct students to the sources of further information respecting them.

THE the Rev. C. MERIVALE'S HISTORY of the THE SEVENTH and concluding VOLUME

ROMANS under the EMPIRE will be ready in the Autumn, completing the work to the death of M. Aurelius, the point at which the narrative of Gibbon commences.

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THE SECOND and concluding VOLUME of the Treatise on Mills and Millwork, by WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, C.E. LL.D. F.R.S. F.G.S., &c. will be published in the approaching Autumn. The object

of this work is to furnish a complete treatise on the machinery, arrangement, and construction of mills. In the forthcoming volume transmissive machinery will be first treated of, including the teeth of wheels, shafting, couplings, and disengaging gear; and then examples of various descriptions of mills will be given, showing the details of their arrangement, including corn mills, cotton mills, flax mills, and woollen mills; all of which important subjects will be carefully analysed for the guidance of the Engineer and Millwright.

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NEW Series of Reading-Books, adapted to the requirements of School Libraries, Families, and Working Men, is in preparation by Mr. J. S. LAURIE, Editor of "The Graduated Series of Reading. Lesson Books," to be entitled "The Shilling Entertain ing Library for Leisure Hours," to be published in quarterly volumes, from January 1, 1863. Two or three volumes, as specimens of the Series, will be ready in December. The object of this Library is to provide the young, and, generally speaking, the less educated sections of the community, with a set of readable books. The collection will be distinguished in various respects from others that have a similar aim. The volumes will, first of all, be uniformly entertain ing; since the Library is designed precisely for a class of readers who demand, above all, an inducement to take a book into their hands.

The Library will include adaptations of works of time-honoured celebrity, such as Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, &c. which will be to some extent abridged by the exclusion of objectionable and uninteresting passages. It will also comprise reprints of more modern works which have equally received the stamp of popular approbation. These will be varied with newly-translated and original

works.

The books will be printed in a large, distinct type, and strongly bound; and they will be illustrated by a first-rate artist. The price-One Shilling per volume-will place the Library within the reach of the poorest families and the smallest elementary schools.

LEIG'S SCHOOL SERIES.-The next work in this Series will be a "Treatise on Logarithms," by the Rev. JOHN HUNTER, M.A., forming a Companion and Supplement to the Author's "Elements of Plane Trigonometry for Beginners," in the same Series, and containing not only the Theory and Practice of LOGARITHMS, but also TABLES for the Logarithmic Calculation of all the PROBLEMS in the "Elements of Plane Trigonometry."

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New Manual of English Literature, Historical and Critical, by THOMAS ARNOLD, B. A., Professor of English Literature, Cath. Univ. Ireland, will shortly be ready 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 from the magnitude and bewildering variety of the field, but from the increasing sense of the educational importance of its contents. The day has 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, 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 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 is divided into two nearly equal portions:- one tracing the growth of our literature historically, from its earliest beginnings to the vigour and vastness of its present developement — 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, are given by way of illustration, and courses of English reading are also suggested, such as may be useful both to teachers and to private students. A chapter on English Metres will be found in the Appendix. To add to the-completeness of the work, a copious INDEX has likewise been prepared, with the date of each Author's birth and death an. nexed to his name.

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 Work by Dr. GEORGE HARTWIG, entitled

The Tropical World and its Living Wonders ; a Popular Scientific Account of the Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms in Tropical Regions, will be ready in the Autumn. In this work the Author has attempted to treat in detail the extensive and interesting range of subjects included under this title, with the same completeness, living knowledge, and picturesque power which characterise his work on the Sea and its Living Wonders.

A New Work, entitled "The EARTH and its

"MECHANISM, being an Account of the various "Proofs of the Rotation of the Earth, with a full Descrip"tion of the Instruments used in the Experimental De"monstrations; to which is added the Theory of the "Gyroscope, with Practical Directions for Illustrating by "it the Laws of Rotating Bodies," by HENRY WORMS, F.R.A.S., F.G.S., is nearly ready, in One Volume, 8vo. with numerous illustrative Woodcuts and Diagrams. This work is divided into two parts. PART I., which is popular, and adapted to the comprehension of the general reader, commences with the History of the Discovery, tracing the various notions of the System of the Universe entertained by the leading philosophers, from the time of Pythagoras to that of Galileo. The Author then proceeds to expound in chronological order the various demonstrations, after refuting the religious and scientific objections put forth in the middle ages against the true hypothesis. Especial attention is drawn to a new proof suggested by Arago and founded on the finite propagation of Light, which not only affords evidence of the motion of Translation as thought hitherto, but also of that of Rotation. The instrument he employed for measuring the velocity of light was Professor Wheatstone's revolving mirror. This and many other inventions of the learned Professor have been communicated by him to the Author, with the permission to publish them in their originality, and must add peculiar interest and value to the last chapters, which treat of Foucault's Pendulum and Gyroscope. Finally, the experiments made on falling bodies for showing the Earth's diurnal motion, though proposed by the illustrious Newton, are here for the first time presented to the English reader in all their details. The SECOND PART contains a careful synopsis of the most valuable analytical investigations with regard to the Earth's Rotation, of the Theory of Falling Bodies, the Free Pendulum, and the Gyroscope, and will, it is hoped, be found useful to the more proficient student of Natural Philosophy.

A New Classical School-Book, entitled Lessons in

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

A New Set of Elementary Latin Prose Exercises,

by the Rev. H. M. WILKINS, M.A., will shortly be published. This work is intended for the use of the Shell Forms, which constitute a considerable section in our principal public schools, and for similar classes in other institutions. In its scope, therefore, it resembles PART I. of Arnold's Latin Prose, but differs materially from that manual in its arrangement, and especially in being founded on a systematic exposition of the Latin Syntax. This exposition will not be based on the rules of any one Latin Syntax, since there is none decidedly above its rivals, at any rate in point of circulation. It will consist of a clear and simple digest of the most popular Syntaxes: such, for instance, as those in Dr. Kennedy's, King Edward the Sixth's, and the Eton Grammar, among elementary books of this class, and Schmitz's edition of Zumpt, Madvig, and Dr. Donaldson's recently published Complete Latin Grammar, among the larger

New School-Book, entitled Solutions of Ques

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tions in Proportion, Interest, Discount, Stocks, Profit and Loss, Partnership, &c. by First Principles, will shortly be published by WALTER MLEOD, F.R.G.S. M.C.P. Head Master of the Model School, and Master of Method in the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea; Author of "Manual of Arithmetic," "Mental Arithmetic," and various other approved elementary works extensively used in schools. This forthcoming work will be found to contain full solutions of questions in Simple and Compound Proportion, Interest, Discount, Stocks, &c. by First Principles, in a form adapted for elementary instruction. The superiority of the teaching of Arithmetic by First Principles over the general method by Rules, is fully recognised by many Inspectors, and by some of our ablest Teachers. But although the system has been well spoken of in the Reports of H.M. Inspectors, and the methods have to a certain extent been adopted in the solutions of some easy questions in a few manuals of Arithmetic, still no work has attempted to show, by means of a systematic course of exercises, that even the most difficult questions in Compound Proportion, Stocks, Profit and Loss, &c. can be solved without statement, and by means of Multiplication and Division only. To supply Teachers and PupilTeachers with a Handbook of Questions, all solved by First Principles, and adapted for the instruction of pupils in elementary and middle-class schools, has been the aim of the author in the publication of his book of Solutions. Questions in Stocks-the proper method of solving which is a stumbling-block to many-will be treated in a way that will make the subject plain even to children. The chapters on Stocks, Discount, and Partnership are specially recommended to the notice of Teachers.

A Dictionary of Chemistry, founded on that of

the late Dr. URE, is now preparing for publication, purposing to give a full representation of the present state of Chemical Science; with especial reference to the clucidation of general principles, to the explanation of processes used in the Arts, and to the description of analytical methods, both quali'ative and quantitative; by HENRY WATTS, B.A., F.C.S., Editor of the Journal of the Chemical Society. It is intended to issue the work in monthly parts, uniform with the New Edition of Dr. URE's Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines, recently completed.

excellences of these works, and also to secure such a wording of the rules as may be most intelligible, because most familiar, to the pupil, who will probably have used one or another of the above Grammars. Each rule will be illustrated by an Exercise, of an easier character than those in Dr. Kennedy's Curriculum, and drawn, exclusively, from the purest classical sources. An English-Latin Dictionary, possessed by every pupil in the Shell, and, generally, even in the Fourth Form, will supply the more ordinary words; difficult phrases will be suggested, and constructions explained, at the foot of cach Exercise.

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