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HE Head Master of Shrewsbury School, in A New Work, entitled Notes on Mexico in 1861

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 judgement, 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.

CONTANSEAU'S French Dictionary Abridged.

- New Dictionary of the French and English Languages is preparing for publication, being a careful Abridgement (by the Author) of CONTANSEAU'S PRACTICAL FRENCH and ENGLISH DICTIONARY, preserving all the most useful features of the original work, viz. classification of meanings, terms of science and art, directions for the choice of the right word or meaning, &c. condensed into a compactly-printed Pocket Volume for the convenience of Tourists, Travellers, and English Readers or Students to whom portability of size is a requisite.

A New Volume of Progressive French Exercises

designed chiefly for the use of Classical Schools, entitled PALESTRA GALLICA, and adapted, mainly, but not exclusively, to the Rev. Dr. COLLIS'S Tirocinium Gallicum, is nearly ready, by the Rev. F. C. SIMMONS, B.A., late Scholar of Lincoln College, Oxford, and Head Master of the Dundee Proprietary School, and H. DURLAC, French Master in Dundee High School. These Exercises are intended for boys in the middle and upper forms of public schools beginning French, and having some knowledge of Latin grammar and a little practice in Latin composition. Especial pains have been taken to introduce continuous composition, requiring only an elementary knowledge of French, at a very early stage.

and 1862, Politically and Socially considered, from a Survey of the Actual State of that Country, by CHARLES LEMPRIERE, D.C.L., of the Inner Temple, and Law Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford, is nearly ready for publication in One Volume, with a Map and Illustrations.

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WALL MAPS of ENGLAND and WALES, preparing for publication, edited by WALTER M'LEOD, F.R.G.S., M.C.P., &c., Head Master of the Model School and Master of Method in the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. In offering to the Masters of Colleges and Schools a new school MAP for Class Instruction, it will be necessary to give the reasons which have led to the publication of the first of a new series of maps for elementary and middle-class schools. According to the testimony of our best teachers, the maps at present in use are faulty in the following respects:-They do not give the physical features of countries with sufficient clearness and distinctness ;-the mountains are too frequently a confused mass of black, without any attempt to show the ranges, the peaks, and depressions; the rivers are laid down in a manner which renders it often impossible to say where they rise ;-places of importance in a commercial point of view are omitted; and the positions of cities and towns are not given with that accuracy which is essential to sound teaching.

It is believed that these evils can only be remedied by having Two Maps for each country; one, in which the Physical Features, -the mountains, plains, rivers, &c. shall be clearly and boldly delineated; and another, which shall contain, in addition to the physical features, the Political Divisions, Cities, Towns, &c. Of England and Wales it is intended to publish Three Maps, the third being coloured geologically.

This method of treating the geography of a country has received the approbation of some of the Principals of Training Colleges and of some eminent teachers to whom the plan was submitted for consideration and suggestions, and to whom the Editor and Publishers are indebted for very valuable and practical recommendations.

The first issue of the series, 3 WALL-MAPS OF ENGLAND AND WALES, will soon be ready; and should the plan meet with success, MAPS of the various countries of the globe will from time to time be published in the following order:-Scotland, Ireland, Palestine, Europe, &c.

Each Map will be 4 ft. 8 in. long by 3 ft. 4 in. wide a size well adapted for school purposes. To insure a clearness and distinctness not hitherto attempted in school maps, the Mountains will be printed in brown; the Rivers, Lakes, Coast-line, and all names relating to Hydrography, in blue; and the names of Counties, Cities, &c. in black letters. This method of representing to the EYE the grand physical features and divisions of a country will materially assist pupils in learning and also in remembering the physical formation and features of the several regions of the earth. The MAPs will be drawn by EDWARD WELLER, F.R.G.S.

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"the Third-1760 to 1860"-by THOMAS ERSKINE MAY, C.B., completing the work, will be published in the Autumn. The first volume comprised an historical review of the prerogatives and influence of the Crown, and of the relative powers of the two Houses of Parliament. It exhibited the ascendency of the king and the aristocracy in the councils of the State, and the manifold corruptions by which the popular branch of the legislature had become their tool. It traced the progress of popular power, until the Commons acquired their proper constitutional position-controlling the executive, without encroaching upon its authority- predominant in legislation, without overbearing the House of Lords, and themselves accountable to their constituents, and to public opinion.

The forthcoming volume will continue the survey of constitutional progress, under aspects no less interesting. It will illustrate the influence of party organisation in a free State, and the principles which have advanced public liberty. It will describe the progress of freedom of opinion-including the press, public meetings, and political agitation. It will review the history of the Church, the progress of Dissent, and the struggles and final triumph of religious liberty. It will sketch the constitutional history of Ireland; of municipal institutions, and local self-government; and of Colonial administration. It will conclude with a summary of the general legislation of the period, which evinces-as the natural result of extended liberties-not only enlarged principles of government, but a wider spirit of humanity, and a more generous consideration for the interests of the people.

While the narrative embraces many of the most stirring incidents of political history, it follows the developement of the laws and liberties of England during a period which, more than any other, affects our present political condition and future destinies.

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New Work by Mr. ROBERT SCOTT BURN, Editor of the "Year-Book of Agricultural Facts, &c., entitled "Notes of an Agricultural Tour "in Belgium, Holland, and on the Rhine, with Practical "Remarks on the Principal Departments of Flemish 'Husbandry, as Treatment and Uses of Manure, Cul"tivation of Flax, Colza, Beet-Root, &c." is nearly ready for publication, in One Volume, post 8vo. with numerous Illustrations. The substance of these Notes appeared originally in the "Journal of Agriculture," and the "Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society;" and, from the interest which they excited, it has been deemed advisable to republish them in a complete form. To verify the results of his investigations made during his first visit to these neighbouring countries, and to obtain further and fuller information on subjects connected with departments of Flemish agriculture which possess much interest for British farmers, Mr. Burn passed a second

time through certain districts. The results of the enquiries then made are embodied, in the form of additional notes, in the forthcoming volume, which will also contain several illustrations from sketches made during this second visit. Besides notes on various subjects of practical importance, copious information will be found on the subject of Flemish husbandry. The farmers of Flanders have long been famous for their skill in the treatment and uses of manures, more especially liquid manure, and the waste matter of towns; in their preparation of the soil, arrangement of rotations, and in the cultivation of a wide and valuable variety of crops. To these departments Mr. Burn paid special attention during a protracted sojourn in Flanders; and the results will be embodied in the volume now announced.

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THE ROYAL FARMS, an Agricultural Memoir of His Royal Highness the late Prince "Consort," is the title of a work now in the press, prepared, with the sanction and permission of Her Majesty the Queen, by JOHN CHALMERS MORTON, and forming a volume in 4to., embellished with about Thirty Pages of Illustrations. This volume, which is expected to be ready in the course of June, describes in detail the relations to British Agriculture sustained by the late PRINCE CONSORT-the President of the Royal Agricultural Society of England. It relates the improvements carried out under His Royal Highness's instructions on the estates and farms of which he was the owner and the cultivator. The whole subject of estate and farm management has received the most valuable illustration at Osborne and Balmoral, and on the farms around Windsor, of which the PRINCE was the tenant; and it is attempted in these pages to make generally known those examples of farm buildings, good cottage accommodation, thorough drainage, steam tillage, skilful cattle breeding, and good cultivation generally, which the Royal Farms have for many years presented.

The PRINCE CONSORT's relations to the labouring class, and especially to the labourers on his own estates, are also described. And an account is given of what he actually did in furtherance of general agricultural improvement, and in aid of those societies by which in this country it is promoted.

The author gratefully acknowledges the help he has received from the several departments presided over by the Hon. Sir CHARLES PHIPPS, K.C.B.; the Hon. Col. Hoop; and Major-General SEYMOUR; in whose hands the management of the Royal Farms is placed.

Illustrations, filling upwards of thirty quarto pages, give maps of the estates, plans, and sketches, and isometrical perspectives of buildings and cottages, and all such details as may be necessary for the easy understanding of the text; and it has been attempted by a simply written story, and by the best efforts in typography and engraving, to present a worthy memorial most useful and distinguished agricultural

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SPOTTISOODE AND CO., PRINTERS, NEW-STREET SQUARE, LONDON

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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.

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Literary Intelligence of Works preparing for publication will be found at pages 296 to 306.

The Pentateuch and the Book of Joshua critically examined: PART I. The Pentateuch examined as an Historical Narrative. By the Right Rev. JOHN WILLIAM COLENSO, D.D., Bishop of Natal. 8vo. pp. 198, price 68. cloth. [October 29, 1862.

ON the inquiries of which the present work is

or purpose of his own, but from the plain necessities of his position as a Missionary Bishop. Writers who have been supposed to assail the authority of the Old Testament, and writers who stand forward in its defence, alike profess their belief that any final agreement is only to be looked for through a searching criticism. It has been urged that if the writers of Essays and Reviews had stated a single case with its evidence, their opponents would know how to deal with them, and, after examining their arguments seriatim, either refute them or admit their validity. It has

been further maintained that the criticism applied to the Old Testament should be of the severest possible kind; that no difficulty is to be neglected, no peculiarity of expression disregarded, no minute detail overlooked, or, in other words, that the history of the Pentateuch should be submitted precisely to those tests which Sir Cornewall Lewis has applied to the early histories of Rome, Egypt, and Assyria. But some of the writers who demand the application of such a criticism to the Bible as to other books, maintain at the same time that the history of the Pentateuch is in all essential particulars correct; that undoubting confidence may be placed in the historical veracity and infallible accuracy of the Mosaic narrative in all that is of any importance, and that the writers, having received by Divine Revelation many facts unknown before, were directed in the selection of other facts already known, and preserved from error of every kind in the records they made.

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With these questions the Author was brought directly into contact in his labours as a translator of the Bible into the Zulu language. Having for a long time contented himself with a general belief in the substantial credibility of the Mosaic history, he felt, in the face of difficulties and questions constantly urged upon him by native converts and learners, that it would be a sinful abandonment of his duty to turn away from an inquiry which involved the truthfulness of his own teaching to the heathen. He undertook, therefore, an examination of the Pentateuch, applying to it the same principles of criticism which are used in sifting all other historical narratives; and the result of his inquiry is, that the Pentateuch, as a whole, cannot possibly have been written by Moses, or by anyone acquainted personally with the facts which it professes to describe; and further, that the so-called Mosaic narrative, by whomsoever written, and though imparting to us Revelations of the Divine Will and Character, cannot be regarded as historically true. This conclusion has been forced upon him, not by bringing together any number of petty variations and contradictions which may be explained by alleging our ignorance of all the circumstances of the case, by supposing some misplacement, or loss, or corruption of the original manuscript, or by any other suggestions of a like kind. The difficulties of which the present volume treats are not such as arise from considering the accounts of the Creation and the Deluge, or of miracles wrought, whether by the leaders of the Jews or by the Egyptians; nor such as are raised by the trivial nature of a vast number of conversations and commands ascribed directly to Jehovah; or such as are grounded on moral considerations connected with the character of the Mosaic legislation. They are difficulties which are involved, not in the narration of miraculous or supernatural events, but in the absolute, palpable self-contradictions of the histories. The Author felt that a sincere love of Truth impelled him to a strict examination of this narrative, regardless of all consequences; and the examination has issued in the discovery of cardinal difficulties, in matters of fact, which are woven as a kind of thread into the whole story of the Exodus, and cannot be taken out without tearing the whole fabric to pieces.

In the present volume the Author has confined himself to a clear exposition of these difficulties, and of the several arguments by which writers who uphold the historical truthfulness of the. Pentateuch have sought to answer them. He has reserved for another Part the consideration of all questions which relate to the date and method of composition of the several books which make up the so-called Mosaic records.

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He has written for those who seek simply and absolutely to arrive at the Truth, and he believes that his duty as a Bishop in the Church of England requires him to declare the Truth and recommend the subject of this work to the thoughtful consideration of English churchmen, more especially of the laity that he owes it as a duty to the Church itself of which he is a minister to do his part to secure for the Bible its due honour and authority, and save its devout readers from ascribing to it attributes of perfection and infallibility which it never claims for itself. But while his conclusions with regard to the Pentateuch appear to him matters, not of speculation, but of fact, he regards it still as an integral portion of that Book which, whatever intermixture it may show of human elements, has yet, through God's Providence and the special working of His Spirit on the minds of its writers, been the means of revealing to us His true name, and has all along been, and, as far as we know, will never cease to be the mightiest instrument in the hands of the Divine Teacher for awakening in our minds just conceptions of His character and of His gracious and merciful dealings with the children of men. It is still a book which does not cease to 'contain the true Word of God,' with 'all things necessary for salvation,' and to be 'profitable for doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness.' And the recognition of its real value, and of the grounds on which it rests, will be, as the Author believes, the commencement of a period of far greater strength and efficiency to the Church of England, both at home and abroad, and of increased harmony among its members and the whole body of Christians generally.

The Targums of Onkelos and of Jonathan ben Uzziel on the Pentateuch; with the Fragments of the Jerusalem Targum: Genesis and Exodus. From the Chaldee. By J. W. ETHERIDGE, M.A., Translator of the New Testament from the Peschito Syriac, and Author of A Survey of the Scholastic and Religious Literature of the Jews.' 12mo. pp. 588, price 8s. 6d. cloth. [Nov. 20, 1862. THESE Chaldee Paraphrases on the writings of

Moses, so long valued by the most learned Divines, are now for the first time rendered accessible to the general reader and student of the Holy Scriptures, by a translation into the English language. The translation, made directly from the Chaldee, is strictly ad literam, and preserves the idiomatic characteristics of the original. The Targum of Onkelos possesses an intrinsic philologic and critical value from its

close adherence to the Hebrew text as extant in the first century; while the more diffuse paraphrase of the Jonathan, or Palestinian Targum, variegated with the picturesque traditions of the Jews, will, it is believed by the translator, be found of general interest to all readers. The volume now published comprises the books of Genesis and Exodus, preceded by a full Introduction to the literature of the very little known Targums. It will be followed, in a few months, by another, completing the remaining books of the Torah, in a similar translation of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy.

The Weather Book: A Manual of Practical Meteorology. By Admiral FITZROY, F.R.S. Pp. 472; with an APPENDIX and 16 Diagrams. 8vo. cloth. [December 1862.

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use of meteorologic instruments, explaining clearly their application in every-day life, on land as well as at sea, having often been expressed to the Author, he has aimed at supplying in the present work a popular account of the theory and practice of meteorology.

Having given a view of the world (as from an eye in space) and of its atmospheric conditions, the Author proceeds to describe the use of instruments, such as Weather-Glasses, and to give a condensed abstract of rules and notices respecting changes of weather and premonitory signs-with suggestions intended to promote accordance among observers; and considerations about existing, as well as possible scales, or graduations, of instruments. With modes of publishing results, and preferable courses of proceeding, the more technical part of the work is concluded.

Then follow historical sketches of the progress made in meteorology from early times to the present, a general examination of leading principles and the chief effects of solar heat combined with diurnal rotation. Currents of air, or winds, climates, and oceanic effects, are treated in their order, with atmospheric zones, barometric curves, parallel currents, laws of gyration and of storms, electricity and the polarisation of air. These discussions are followed by proofs of horizontal movements and translation of air-currents, their changes and deflections, with observations on cyclones and other storms.

Views are then given of all the principal climates in the world, their prevailing winds and weather, followed by explanations of the present system of forecasting weather, with reflections on the atmosphere and its various striking peculiarities; on electricity, as connected with meteorology, and on warning signals sent telegraphically.

The writer next explains the recently developed movements in our atmosphere, which have facilitated forecasting weather; and, with some entirely original explanations and diagrams, ventures to make an advance toward a general theory-offering for consideration certain tidal effects of moon and sun, in accordance with strict Newtonian principles, and not at variance with those of Whewell, Herschel, and Dove.

Having shown the existence of recurring periods, and their propagation into remote derivative air-tides, corresponding to luni-solar periodicities, he brings forward some applications of these views to winds in general, and to storms exceptionally, as 'crucial instances.' Some remarks are added on supposed lunar temperatures and dispersion of clouds. Extracts show the nature of hurricanes and other storms, as examples for cautioning inexperienced persons; and the work concludes with a few descriptions, selected from the Author's personal observations, of wind-force, lightning, and waves of ocean.

In the APPENDIX are full details of the present system of Meteorologic Telegraphy; papers on tides, clouds, aqueous vapour, anemometry, an Eastern earthquake alarum, and lightning averter; camphor-glasses; some tables for reference; a letter to the Board of Trade from the Royal Society, and explanatory notices of some original and novel diagrams; with an INDEX to the whole.

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to the present volume is to produce a ChristHE object of Mr. Hole and the contributors mas Book acceptable to gardeners and lovers of a garden. In the first article, on Roses, how to Grow and Show them, the results of a long and successful experience are given by the Editor, for the instruction of younger amateurs. Fragments, by THOMAS RIVERS, the well-known writer upon roses, orchard-houses, &c., treats on Lawn Trees, Pyramidal Roses, Plums, Clematises, Siberian Trees, Lilacs, and Decorated Climbing Roses. The Novelties of 1862, by the Rev. H. H. DOMBRAIN, the Editor of the Floral Magazine,' enumerates and describes such trees, plants, and flowers, amongst those recently introduced, as seem most worthy of cultivation. In a paper entitled the Hollyhock, Mr. WILLIAM PAUL gives full directions for the culture of that showy flower, and appends descriptive lists of the best varieties for exhibition and for garden decoration.

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