terbury and its Archbishops,' from the time of Augustine to the Accession of Henry III.; besides minor biographical sketches. 6 The scientific and miscellaneous division comprises papers on Mineral Springs' (in which the chief Spas of Europe and their historical associations are noticed); on 'Rivers;' on 'Hailstorms and their Phenomena;' and articles entitled Science and Royalty in the Highlands,' and "The British Association at Oxford,' in which the visits of the Association to Aberdeen and to Oxford are described; besides articles on 'The International Exhibition of 1862' and the Art Treasures Collection at South Kensington.' The contents of the volume relate, therefore, to the present as well as to the past. The Essays as well as the Lectures contained in this volume are designed to have a popular character, and each article was intended to afford a condensed résumé of its subject. The Reviews are founded on several recent works of interest, including Admiral Smyth's work on The Mediterranean; Marryat's Jutland and the Danish Isles; Dr. Hook's Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury; Dr. Wilson's Life of Professor Edward Forbes, the Naturalist; Lord Campbell's Lives of the Chancellors and Lives of the Chief Justices; and other works. A Yachting Cruise in the Baltic. By S. R. GRAVES, Commodore of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. Pp. 412; with 11 Illustrations in tinted Lithography and 6 Engravings on Wood. Crown 8vo. price 12s. 6d. cloth. [April 11, 1863. ALTHOUGH the Baltic Sea does not possess the same advantages of climate as the Mediterranean, yet it has peculiarities of its own, which, if better known, would induce many to take their summer's cruise in its waters during months when this sea possesses all the attractions that yachtsmen can desire. The Author's object in publishing this account of his cruise in the Baltic is to supply information that may be useful to his brother yachtsmen, and perhaps induce some of them to follow his example, by trying the Baltic for themselves. Having accompanied in his yacht those vessels of the British fleet which conveyed His Royal Highness Prince ALFRED from Stockholm to St. Petersburgh, the Author, in addition to the yachting information contained in his volume, has recorded in these pages his impressions of St. Petersburgh and Moscow, as well as of Copenhagen, Gothland, and Stockholm. The APPENDICES comprise papers relating to the Fisheries and Trade of Denmark; Frederik's Hospital, Copenhagen; the Trade and Constitution of Sweden; the Seraphim Hospital of Stockholm; and Statistics of the Vospitatelelnoi Dom of Moscow. The ILLUSTRATIONS include a view of the British Fleet at Anchor at Waxholm; Race off the Skaw; Fridhem, the Princess Eugénie's villa in Gothland; Gothland Churches; Pilot coming on board off Sandham; H. M. S. St. George in a Gale; How we got to St. Petersburgh; Genuine Moscovskians; the Church of St. Basil of Moscow; the Redeemer's Gate and Frauenkloster; Costumes of Swedish women: with Woodcuts of the Baltic Sea Louse; New Bridge in the Grounds of the Haga; Town and Country 'under the influence' (of votka); the Tzar Kolokol; the Sterlet; and the Author's Yacht, the Ierne, laid up. A Vacation Tour at the Antipodes, through Victoria, Tasmania, New South Wales, Queensland, and New Zealand, in 1861 and 1862. By B. A. HEYWOOD, M.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. Pp. 260; with 4 Maps and 8 Lithographic Plates. Post 8vo, price 7s. 6d. cloth. [March 28, 1863. THE HE first portion of this work comprises an historical sketch of the earliest voyages to Australia and New Zealand, and of the origin and progress of the British Colonies in those parts. It is illustrated by a carefully reduced copy of Tasman's chart of Nova Hollandia in 1644, and also by a still earlier sketch-map of NorthWestern Australia. With the exception of the last chapter, which is devoted to the subject of emigration (especially of the upper classes), the remainder of the work comprises the Author's actual tour. Commencing at Melbourne, Mr. Heywood passed through several of the towns, Gold Diggings, and pastoral districts of Victoria, and visited the Island of Tasmania. Subsequently he continued his tour through many of the most important districts and cities of New South Wales and Queensland, and finally through both Islands of New Zealand. This portion of the work is illustrated by two modern Maps of New Zealand and of the Eastern Half of Australia, and also by eight views. Two of the latter are from copies of sketches of the magnificent glaciers, lately explored, in the New Zealand Alps. There are 24 glaciers, and one of them is one mile and three quarters broad at its terminal face. According to Mr. HAAST, an Austrian geologist, the scenery of the lakes fed by the glacial rivers is only equalled by that of the Lago di Como or Lago Maggiore. The volume also contains a series of Statistical Tables relating to Temperature, Emigration, Population, Trade Returns, &c.; and a Postscript noticing the valuable works of Mr. MAJOR of the British Museum on Australian discovery. A Hebrew Grammar, with Exercises. By M. M. KALISCH, Ph.D. M.A. PART II. The Exceptional Forms and Constructions; preceded by an Essay on the History of Hebrew the first epochs up to the Reformation have been more fully noticed, because they have chiefly become known to us by researches and discoveries falling within the present generation. Ductor in Elegias in usum Puerorum Etona limen insistentium. Edidit C. A. Joins, A.B., Soc. Lin. Socius. 12mo. pp. 60, price 2s. 6d. cloth. [March 24, 1863. Editor of the present volume, in the course Grammar. 8vo. pp. 340, price 12s. 6d. T of many years' experience as a schoolmaster, cloth. THE [April 18, 1863. THE SECOND PART of this Hebrew Grammar completes and fills up the outlines drawn in the First or elementary Volume. It contains all forms and constructions which deviate, however slightly, from the fundamental rules of the language. It has been the Author's aim not to omit any philological irregularity occurring in the Hebrew Scriptures, and thus to make the work a full Thesaurus of the Hebrew tongue. But his chief end was to render it available for ready and easy reference. He is of opinion that the student, after having mastered the elements of the language, should at once proceed to read critically portions of the Hebrew Bible. But the anomalies which are found even in easy sections render an exact analysis laborious, if not impossible, for the beginner, unless he is assisted by some more efficient aid than the dictionary can by its nature possibly afford. In order to secure to him that aid, the present volume is furnished with a full Index of all irregular forms, accompanied by references to the sections in which the anomalies are explained and surveyed according to their internal affinity. Hence if, in reading the Hebrew Bible, he meets with any form which he cannot explain from the elementary rules, he needs only to look for it in the Index, where he will find the necessary clue. But besides embodying the facts and pheno. mena of the language, the work attempts to connect and to account for them; and it endeavours to afford an insight into the organism and development of the idiom by critical observations and historical disquisitions. Hence it contains treatises on the origin of the alphabet, the vowels, the accents, the activity of the Masorites, and other subjects important for a thorough study of Hebrew. And in order to indicate the steps through which Hebrew grammar, as a science, has hitherto passed, and to point out the stages which it has still to accomplish, the volume is preceded by an Essay on the History of Hebrew Grammar, from the first efforts of the Jewish authors in the ninth and tenth centuries, down to the labours of the present time; in which sketch has never yet found an Elementary Latin VerseBook exactly suited to the capacity of beginners, that is to say, of boys from nine to ten years old, who have learnt their Latin Prosody and are picking their way through Ovid's Epistles. One class of books contains admirable exercises for Fourth Form boys, but ill adapted for the lower Forms. In some, reference is made to notes intelligible only to a matured judgment; in others, no attempt is made to explain difficult grammatical constructions; in another class of books, where help is given, though in stinted proportions, the verses are easy enough, but clumsy and vapid. But the making of the very simplest verses is to a child a laborious operation; and a task on which much labour has been bestowed clings tenaciously to the memory; so that, while he speedily forgets the Ovid lines which he has construed only, his memory is liable to be clogged with the sorry imitations of Ovid over which he has painfully toiled, and which, when he has forgotten the source from which they were derived, are too likely to recur to him in after years with all the authority of genuine classical lines. The Editor of the present volume believes that he has avoided both these errors. In pursuing his method of teaching versification, he takes it for granted that the boys in whose hands the book is placed are taught the application of Syntax rules while at work on Latin Prose Composition. Examples of the same rules are afforded in his verses; but all difficulties are smoothed away as they arise, and without generalisation, so that the only remaining difficulty is the arrangement of the words in their proper order; a task scarcely more arduous than that of making Nonsense Verses. No claim is laid to originality in the verses themselves. therefore, without presumption, be affirmed that they will be deemed worthy of being committed to memory as models on which boys in the highest Forms may, in after times, advantageously frame their Elegies and Epigrams. For reasons obvious to the tutor, the source from which the lines are derived is revealed neither in the preface nor in the body of the work. It may B Britanno-Roman Inscriptions; with Critical Notes. By the Rev. JOHN M'CAUL, LL.D., President of University College, Toronto, &c. Pp. 340, with Plate; 8vo. price 15s. cloth. [March 26, 1863. THE HE inscriptions given in this volume have been arranged according to their subjects, as derived from altars, votive and commemorative tablets, sepulchral and centurial stones, or from other sources. For facilities of reference the explanatory notes are given according to the counties in which the inscriptions were severally found. The object of the Author has been to discuss those inscriptions only which seemed not to have been satisfactorily explained. But if the readings or interpretations proposed by those who had previously examined them have, therefore, been necessarily called in question, the objections here urged have been suggested, not by any wish to detract from their well-earned reputation, but simply from a desire for the advancement of knowledge and the attainment of truth. The Nullity of Metaphysics as a Science among the Sciences, set forth in Six Brief Dialogues. Fcp. 8vo. pp. 104, price 2s. 6d. cloth. THE [May 30, 1863. IIE Author of this work, while he desires to keep back his name in deference to the great names of writers, living and dead, whom he opposes, seeks to bring into prominence an elementary truth of the widest extent underlying his doctrine; a truth not put forth for the first time, but as yet unrecognised, because it goes in the teeth of common doctrines to which the multitude of teachers have bound themselves; a truth, nevertheless, of the utmost importance to education, and unassailed because unassailable. That the science, so called, of Metaphysics is a nullity, will not sound as a new opinion to a very large number of English thinkers; but the ground on which it is here attempted to substantiate the opinion is new. Metaphysics are affirmed to have their existence only in grammatical parts of speech, and these are declared to be without value, except for the purpose of mutual fusion, that so out of general or abstract meanings special meanings may ensue. Meaning has and can have no parts, though construction or grammar has; and every construction which grammar forms by putting substantive and adjective, verb and adverb together, is, when complete, but one expression for the one special meaning attained. Discussion concerning Metaphysics has always hitherto provoked and kept alive the interminable contest between spiritualism and materialism. The Author speaks of this contest as a combat concerning shadows, and holds himself aloof from both sides. Playtime with the Poets; a Selection of the best English Poetry for the use of Children. By a LADY. Square fep. 8vo. pp. 406, price 5s. cloth. [April 30, 1863. THIS volume is intended to serve as a readingbook rather than as a task-book, to attract children out of lesson-time, and to supply a want, often felt by those parents who, in educating their children, are anxious to implant and cultivate the seeds of poetic taste and future poetic enjoyment, and to lead them to look on poetry as a delight and a recreation. The avowed object of the work is therefore to develope in children a taste for poetry, such as the compiler believes is never formed by reading or repeating lessons. With this view great pains have been taken, both to include only pieces (they are 160 in number) by the purest writers, and also to choose those poems only which are calculated to please children, and not to offend their judgment in after years. A child cannot select for itself; and few instructors will take the trouble to search for what suits them, through a number of the poems contained in a general selection; neither have all mothers time or inclination to select for their children. Some connecting link thus seems wanting between the book of nursery rhymes which first delights the child, and the first book of good poetry usually placed in its hands. It is hoped that the present volume will supply this want, and prove a welcome gift, not only to Children, but also to Mothers-to whom it may save the labour of marking in several volumes the few pieces which will, both in form and substance, awaken and captivate their children's intelligence. Almost all poetry, however generally admired, which requires a cultivated taste to appreciate it, or whose beauty depends upon richness or redundancy of poetical imagery, is omitted in the present collection; and in most cases, such poems only are included as are calculated to attract and delight children, and to afford them pleasure when grown up. Such are many of the shorter pieces of our best poets, and also many old English and German ballads: perhaps, indeed, few poems combine to the same extent as the German ballads vigorous action related in simple language, with a certain wild grotesqueness irresistibly attractive to children. In accordance with this taste translations by good poets of many of the best specimens of those German ballads and poems least known in England are freely interspersed in the present collection. Some of the existing selections for children rather aim at including one or two specimens from every poet of eminence, than at meeting the peculiar wants of a child's mind; others either embody a large number of nursery rhymes or of hymns. So far as the compiler is aware, there exists no selection limited to such pieces of good poetry as are likely to interest children in out-ofschool hours, except those compiled by men; and though this latter circumstance may be an advantage to the general reader, still, when a selection is to be made for children, a practical knowledge of their tastes and capabilities, which few except mothers acquire, must be considered a material qualification for the task. The pieces are, with a few exceptions, selected from the following Authors: Hunt (Leigh) Jonson (Ben) Lindsay (Lady Anne) Lyly Macaulay (Lord) Parnell Rogers Scott (Sir W.) Shirley Southey Tennyson Tickell Trench Uhland Wolfe Wordsworth The PREFACE acknowledges that permission has been obtained of the respective Authors and Publishers to include the various pieces in which copyright exists. Oxford Local Examinations, 1863. THOMSON'S Spring, preceded by a Life of the Poet, and accompanied by Notes Critical, Explanatory, and Grammatical, Remarks on the Analysis of Sentences, and numerous Illustrative Examples. Edited, for the Use of Schools, by WALTER M'LEOD, F.R.G.S.M.C.P. Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. pp. 130, price 28. cloth. [March 31, 1863. HE Regulations issued by the University for THE the Oxford Local Examinations in June state that Junior Candidates will be required to satisfy the Examiners in the Analysis and Parsing of a passage taken from Spring, in THOMSON'S 12mo. This Seasons; and that a few questions suggested by this portion of the poem will be added. text-book has therefore been published, in order to provide candidates with a manual of the information required on the several points specified in the Regulations, and the work is distributed under the following heads:-1, a Life of THOMSON, with Critical Remarks on his Works; 2, the Analysis of Sentences, with illustrative Examples; 3, the POEM, with Notes, which contain short historical accounts of the persons and places named in the text, brief descriptions of all the birds and plants, and such notices of the phenomena of nature as were considered necessary to a clear comprehension of the Author's meaning, particularly of the involved, obscure, and allusive passages. Difficulties in grammar and the analysis of sentences have been explained; and the etymologies of peculiar or uncommon words have been given. The present work is similar in arrangement and treatment to the School edition of GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village, also edited by Mr. M'LEOD and now in its Ninth Edition, which has been very favourably received by teachers. The text and punctuation of the poem are scrupulously conformable to those given in the edition of the Seasons illustrated by members of the Etching Club and edited by Mr. BOLTON CORNEY -a volume which is generally regarded as the most accurate of all the published editions of THOMSON'S Works. New and cheaper One-Volume Edition. Robert Southey's Poetical Works. Collective Edition, comprising Joan of Arc, Juvenile and Minor Poems, Thalaba, Madoc, Roderick, Ballads and Metrical Tales, the Curse of Kehama, the Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo, a Vision of Judgment, Oliver Newman, and Miscellaneous Poetical Remains. Complete in One Volume; pp. 856, with a PORTRAIT on Steel after Sir Thomas Lawrence's Picture, a VIGNETTE View of the Poet's Residence at Keswick, and a copious INDEX. Medium 8vo. price 14s. cloth. [April 28, 1863. THIS Volume is a literal reprint, with a few posthumous additions, of the Collective Edition in Ten Volumes, which was thoroughly revised by the Author. Besides embodying the Poet's Autobiographical Prefaces and last Notes, it is enriched by many Thousand important Emendations of the various Poems; all of which matter being Copyright property, cannot form part of any unauthorised reprint of any early and immature edition. It is now republished at a reduced price. A Dartmoor Days; or, Scenes in the Forest. Poem. Published at the request of a few Old Friends. By the Rev. E. W. L. DAVIES, M.A. Fcp. 8vo. pp. 148, with Frontispiece, price 58. cloth. [May 30, 1863. THE scene of this Poem is laid chiefly within the Forest of Dartmoor. In the first part, the time of action includes a week in the month of November; in the second, a week in May. The dramatis personæ are a party of gentlemen more or less connected with the County of Devon. The Laureate Wreath and other Poems. By Wreath is to develope the virtue of perseverance in a literary career, proposed as an example or model of conduct in life. The moral attempted to be conveyed is the patience under incessantly reiterated efforts which must be borne under the ordinary trials of life in its usual vicissitudes; whether arising from domestic affliction or from the pressure of external circumstances. The career of an Author not an abstracted dreamer, but a lover of his kind and a sharer of their sympathies-is sought to be pourtrayed through its varied phases; its reverses, its discomfitures, and its successes. The beneficial effect on the literary character of generous emulation or competition for literary renown is dwelt upon and enforced. An imaginary contest of this nature is described; the reverse sustained becomes the means of developing energies hitherto untried; and after severe and protracted discouragement the hero's perseverance attains its eventual triumph. A few miscellaneous Poems complete the volume, and form about half its substance. The legend of Psyche is narrated, and resolves into an allegory that beautiful Greek personification. The same subject is amplified and moralised in the next piece, which is entitled Excelsior. In the stanzas which follow on Goethe, the truths taught by the life and writings of that eminent German poet are invested with appropriate imagery. A piece headed Natural Faith reasons out by analogy the processes of thought engendered by habitual self-communion in the minds of contemplative men. In Ulysses is traced the release of a man's soul from the domain of sense, and its elevation to a higher phase of existence by his control over his passions. The verses on a School Playground seek to awaken thoughts and reminisicences of a humanising tendency, too often banished by the cares of the world in advancing life. Such are the principal topics of the shorter pieces; but the volume is completed by a poem entitled Farewell to the Muse, in which the Author enlarges on the ennobling thoughts and aspirations that are drawn from the imaginative faculty. The Ordinances of Spiritual Worship: their History, Meaning, and End, considered in a Series of Essays from the Writings of the Rev. E. T. MARCH PHILLIPPS, M.A. late Rector of Hathern, and Chancellor of the Diocese of Gloucester. Selected and edited by his DAUGHTER. Post 8vo. pp. 308, price 78. 6d. cloth. [May 18, 1863. THESE Essays embrace the subjects of Chris tian Worship, the Lord's Day, Baptism, Christian Education, Confirmation, the Holy Communion, and Heavenly Worship. They are selections from a number of sermons and other papers upon these ordinances, which were originally prepared by their Author for his own congregation in a country parish, and were designed to help and direct them to such a use of the ordinances provided for them, as that they might be enabled to realise for themselves the end designed in their appointment. The history of each ordinance, and the changes made in its mode of observance from time to time, are traced out so far as is necessary to establish the divine authority of its institution, and the laws which now regulate its observance. The truths declared in each, the spirit in which the worshipper must observe them, and the benefits they are severally designed to convey to him, form the chief subject of each essay. The whole treatise, taken together, contains a brief sketch of the spiritual education God has provided for man through the Church-historically-from the creation of mankind in Adam to his future entrance on his divine inheritance;individually and personally-from his birth into the world until his resurrection from the dead.. The Inquiry of a Retired Citizen into the THIS Edited by the 18mo. pp. 256, price [March 30, 1863. THIS work is written in the form of conversations between two retired merchants of the City, who reside in the neighbourhood of Richmond Park. Mr. Goodman, the first interlocutor, takes occasion to make inquiry of his Roman Catholic friend Mr. Faithful what he finds in the Roman Catholic faith which causes him to be so much attached to it and apparently to have his mind so much at ease. The answering of this question leads to a series of dialogues, in which Faithful |