explains seriatim to his friend what the principal features in the creed and worship of the Roman Catholic Church are which cause him to be so much attached to it. The substance of the work may therefore be described in general terms as a zealous Roman Catholic's statement of the grounds of his attachment to his religion. Mr. Faithful avows at the outset that he has always entertained a great objection to religious controversy; and he accordingly limits his replies to satisfying his friend's rational curiosity, without prejudice and without dogmatic assertion. The reader who has the same desire for information as Mr. Goodman is supposed to have, will find in these dialogues a concise and familiar statement, on the Catholic side, of the principal doctrinal points which distinguish the Roman Catholic creed, conveyed in the language of a speaker who is himself zealously and firmly persuaded of the reasonableness and eligibility of his own religion. The Westminster Confession of Faith critically compared with the Holy Scriptures, and found wanting; or, A New Exposition of the Doctrines of the Christian Religion in harmony with the Word of God, and not at variance with Modern Science. By JAMES STARK, M.D. F.R.S.E. &c. Crown 8vo. pp. 376, price 7s. 6d. cloth. [May 19, 1863. THE net on the doctrines taught by Calvin, THE Westminster Confession of Faith, being has outlived its day, and is becoming less and less the exposition of the religious faith of the reading and thinking classes. That Confession confounds Judaism with Christianity; and the doctrines taught, instead of being in conformity with the general tenor of the New Testament, are founded on isolated passages whose true meaning has generally been misunderstood; while the greater portion of the revealed word, which speaks a different language, has been ignored. Besides this, the theology taught was mainly based on that false philosophical mode of interpreting the Scriptures which prevailed so much in the Church during the dark ages, and which succeeded so effectually in obscuring the truths of Christianity. The Author of the present work, aware that no reform in the national faith of Scotland could originate with the clergy, has ventured after many years' careful study to enunciate and publish his views. The Confession is commented on chapter by chapter, and clause by clause; every statement in the Confession being critically compared with all the passages of Scripture which treat of the subject. The Author has thus occasion to enter, at considerable detail, into nearly all those interesting religious topics so much agitated at the present day; and his work has led him to comment at greater or lesser length on the inspiration of the Scriptures, the creation of the world, the age of the world, whether matter is eternal, the creation and fall of man, the cause of death, sin and its punishment, the laws of God, the first and second covenants, and with whom each was made; the perpetual obligation of the Sabbath; the Sacraments, their number, by whom they may be administered, and where; the state of the souls of men after death, prayers for the dead, the final judgment, infant salvation, universal or limited salvation; the subjects of marriage and divorce, and the Jewish and Christian laws regarding each of these; the powers of the Church and of the civil magistrate, and which ought to be subordinate; the right of private judgment; the doctrines of election, predestination, the Trinity, &c. In most cases the Author believes he has been enabled to throw quite a new light on each of these subjects, and in almost every instance arrives at conclusions at variance with those taught in the Confession, or by Calvin, but in strict harmony with the revealed word, and agreeable to the general tenor of the whole passages in Scripture which bear on each of these subjects. In a concluding chapter is discussed the duty of the clergy of the Established Church who may agree with the Author in one or more of his views, and it is shown that it is quite different from that of a Dissenter. A copious INDex completes the volume. Indoor Gardening for Balconies, Plant-Cases, Greenhouses, and Windows. By Miss MALING. Fcp. 8vo. pp. 294, with Frontispiece, price 58. cloth. [May 30, 1863. THE object of this work is to describe such gardening as may be accomplished by any amateur. The Author professes to give only such information as is perfectly practicable, and has been already proved to be so. Separate chapters are devoted to the growth of the best plants for house and greenhouse growth-camellias, forced flowers, roses, &c., being described at length, generally in the month in which they mostly blossom. There are various practical hints about conservatories, and a description of the construction and use of several small contrivances for growing and preserving the choicest, as well as the commonest, flowers in London or other towns. The chief value the book claims, however, is its minuteness-its being by an amateur who understands from her own experience what are ladies' difficulties, and who tries to explain to others her own little contrivances for doing the work of a garden in only a tiny space. Seedraising, cutting-striking, climbers for walls and balconies, and means of preserving plants through the winter, and of forcing early spring flowers, are amongst the points chiefly dwelt on; and some practical hints are given on the roomgrowth of beautiful orchids. Two chapters on flowers and foliage are reprinted from a former work, several others have also appeared in the Gardeners' Chronicle lately. Possession; the Registration of Charges and Notices; the Registration of Title by Succession on Death; Negotiable Deposit-Notes; and the Functions, Capabilities, and Benefits of Registration. An Atlas of Modern Geography. By SAMUEL A Course of Practical Chemistry, arranged for the use of Medical Students, with express reference to the Three Months' Summer Practice. By WILLIAM ODLING, M.B. F.R.S. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; Examiner on Forensic Medicine at the University of London; Secretary to the Chemical Society; and Professor of Practical Chemistry at Guy's Hospital. New Edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. PART I. pp. 136, with 38 Engrav-IN consequence of the rapid advance of geoings on Wood. Crown 8vo. price 4s. 6d. [May 8, 1863. sewed. THIS work is well known by name to students out of print; and second-hand copies, which are constantly in demand, are rarely to be met with. The Author has therefore thoroughly revised his work, and brought the practical information which forms its basis up to the existing state of chemical science. The FIRST PART treats in separate sections of Chemical Reactions, Chemical Manipulation, and Elementary Chemical Analysis, including the Blowpipe Examination of Substances, and their Detection by Liquid Reagents. The SECOND PART, treating of Toxicological and Animal Chemistry, and completing the work, will appear early in June. It will contain microscopic drawings of the most important poisons, and of various animal products. graphical discovery, and the many recent changes, through political causes, in the boundaries of various countries, it has been found necessary thoroughly to revise this long-established Atlas, and to add several new MAPS. New MAPS have been given of the following countries: Palestine, Canada, and the adjacent Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, the American States bordering on the Pacific, Eastern Australia, and New Zealand. In addition to these, MAPS of Western Australia and Tasmania have been given in compartments; thus completing the revision of the MAP of Australasia rendered necessary by the rising importance of our Australasian possessions. In the MAP of Europe, Iceland has also been re-drawn, and the new boundaries of France, Italy, and Austria represented. The MAPS of the three last-named countries have been carefully revised. The MAP of Switzerland has been wholly re-drawn, showing more accurately the physical features of the country. Africa has been carefully compared with the discoveries of LIVINGSTONE, BURTON, SPEKE, BARTH, and other explorers. The number of MAPS is thus raised from Thirty to Thirty-three. An entirely new INDEX has been constructed; and the price of the work has been reduced from 12s. to Half-a-Guinea. The present Edition, therefore, will be found much superior to former ones; and the Publishers feel assured that it will maintain the character which this work has so long enjoyed as a popular and comprehensive School Atlas. The INDEX being intended only to facilitate reference to the MAPS, the Latitude and Longitude of Rivers, and Names of Countries or People, are given from the place where their names happen to be written in the MAP, and not from any remarkable point. The same River, Mountain, Town, &c. frequently occurs in different MAPS, but is usually referred to only once in the INDEX; but the names of large Rivers are occasionally given twice or thrice in the INDEX, when any advantage seemed likely to arise from the repetition. List of the Maps. 1. The World The Oxford Local Examinations for 1863. Middle-Class Atlas: comprising full-coloured MAPS of 1. Great Britain; 2. Ireland; 3. Spain; 4. Italy; and 5. Turkey in Europe: Being all the Maps required for the Geographical Examinations in the Present Year. By WALTER M'LEOD, F.R.G.S. M.C.P. Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea. The Maps drawn and engraved by E. WELLER, F.R.G.S. 4to. price 28. sewed. [May 14, 1863. IN the year 1857 the University of Oxford for 'those who are not members of the University;' | one for youths under eighteen, another for boys under fifteen years of age. The examinations are open to all persons, whatever their position or religious denomination may be; the only restrictions are those already specified. The examinations are held in Oxford, in London, and other local centres, in June. Those who succeed in the lower examinations obtain certificates; and those who pass the higher receive the title of Associate in Arts of Oxford. The present School Atlas has therefore been planned chiefly for the use of Junior Candidates preparing for the Oxford Local Examinations to be held in June in the present year; and in accordance with the suggestion of the Principal of one of our most successful middle-class schools, who considered that a hand-atlas, specially adapted to the Oxford programme, would be an acquisition to those preparing for these examinations. The Maps are engraved in the best style of art; and particular attention has been paid to those points on which the candidates are tested at the examinations, such as the coast-lines, the directions of mountain-chains, the courses of rivers, and the boundaries of kingdoms, provinces, counties, &c. The Maps also contain the most recent information respecting the political changes that have taken place in the boundaries of Sardinia, Austria, and the States of the Church. Grammar of English Grammars; or, an Advanced Manual of English Grammar and Language, Critically and Historically considered: with numerous Exercises. Specially adapted to the Tuition of Pupil Teachers, Queen Scholars, and all Persons preparing for Government Examinations. By JACOB LOWRES, Author of A System of English Parsing,' &c. 12mo. pp. 326, price 3s. 6d. cloth. [April 2, 1863. THE present volume, together with the Author's Companion to English Grammar, published during the last year, is designed to serve as a complete Manual of English Grammar and Language, specially adapted to the needs of pupils preparing for Government Examinations. To furnish the information necessary to answer the questions put at such Examinations, the Author has consulted and compared most of the grammatical treatises already published, while he has added an historical sketch of the English language and a synopsis of the principal writers of English literature, with the chief works of each, arranged chronologically. Appended to the different chapters are questions for examination, which recapitulate the rules previously given; and at the end of the work will be AS, under the Revised Code, the Government Grant to Schools will depend on the results of the individual examination of the children, the compilers have endeavoured to produce a book which may meet the wants resulting from this change, and which, while it contains the three subjects of examination, may be published at such a price as shall place it within the reach of almost the poorest child. The lessons now prepared can be well read through by a class in about fifty days, so that each child eligible for examination may have been through it at least twice; and they are so drawn up that the teachers may be sure of their pupils passing the Inspector in all the subjects, if only they know their one lesson-book well. STANDARD I. has been carefully drawn up, so as to bring a child by the easiest gradations to a their meanings, difficult dictation exercises, examples (in arithmetic) of Bills of Parcels, Proportion, &c., and lastly, explanations of foreign phrases and sentences in common use. Thus each PART will be found to contain, according to its Standard: 1. From 50 to 100 lessons carefully graduated, and prepared solely with the view of teaching reading rapidly and well. 2. Many hundreds of words carefully arranged in spelling lessons. 3. Numerous lessons in bold Script characters, to be used as writing and reading exercises. 4. Sentences for dictation, containing words similar only in sound or in spelling. 5. Many hundred exercises for practice in arithmetic, and the necessary tables. ANSWERS to the Arithmetic will be published separately. The FOURTH, FIFTH, and SIXTH STANDARDS, completing the Course, are in an advanced stage of preparation, and will be published without delay. A Treatise on the Differential and Integral Calculus and the Calculus of Variations. By the Rev. THOMAS G. HALL, M.A. Professor of Mathematics in King's College, London; Prebendary of St. Paul's; and late Fellow and Tutor of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Sixth Edition, carefully revised. Post Svo. pp. 368, price 8s. 6d. cloth. [April 29, 1863. complete knowledge of English monosyllables. A knowledge of this branch of the Pure STANDARD II. contains a series of poems, stories, &c., in easy words of two syllables, with some hundreds of sums in the arithmetic required for this Standard, and the multiplication tables; while The THIRD STANDARD (which is also now ready) gives reading lessons of difficult words of two and easy words of more syllables, with columns of spelling, and dictation exercises, as well as exercises in numeration, notation, and the simple rules up to and including short division. STANDARD IV. will have more advanced reading-lessons, columns of spelling with meanings, exercises in dictation, and in the compound rules (money) and pence tables. In STANDARD V. reading lessons in prose will be alternated with others in poetry, consisting of extracts from popular authors; and in the arithmetic will be given the compound rules, and tables of weights and measures. STANDARD VI. completing the Course, will be composed of extracts from newspapers, magazines, and other current literature, scientific and other terms with Mathematics is absolutely necessary before anyone can successfully undertake the perusal of works on Natural Philosophy, in which the effects of the observed laws that govern the material world are reduced to calculation. The present treatise, which was favourably received on its appearance in 1834, and has since continued in general use, was originally prepared for the use of students deficient in this knowledge, yet anxious to obtain as much as might enable them to master the chief analytical difficulties incident to the study of Elementary Treatises on the mixed Mathematics; also with the hope, expressed by the Author, that by its means a subject of high interest might be rendered accessible to an increased number of readers. The work, it is believed, has also been found very useful to candidates for Government appointments, as well as to the military and civil engineer, and to adult students who have not the advantage of a mathematical instructor. A Short and Easy Course of Algebra, chiefly designed for the use of the Junior Classes in Schools; with a numerous collection of Original Easy Exercises. By THOMAS LUND, B.D. formerly Fellow and Lecturer of St. John's College, Cambridge. Sixth Edition. Fep. 8vo. pp. 172, price 2s. 6d. cloth.-KEY, price 2s. 6d. [May 25, 1863. AS S the impressions from the stereotype plates for the last edition of this work were not quite satisfactory, the whole work has now been recomposed in fresh type, and again stereotyped. No material alterations have been made in the present edition-but the ANSWERS to the Exercises are now printed on a separate sheet, so that they can be easily detached by any Tutor who thinks it desirable to keep them from his pupils. A request has often been made to the Author for an extension of the Course, with which he has not hitherto been disposed to comply. He considers that there is a completeness and oneness in the present book, which it would not be well to disturb comprising, as it does, all the Algebra required for the ordinary B.A. degree at Cambridge (neither more nor less); and being constructed throughout upon strictly deductive principles. The sale, moreover, of five Editions, amounting to 15,500 copies, sufficiently indicates that, upon the whole, the book as it is meets the requirements of those for whom it is intended. Complete Solutions of every Class of Examples in Algebra; forming a Complete Course on the Subject, and calculated to facilitate and extend the Study of Mathematics as a Logical Course. By J. WHARTON, B.A. M.C.P. late Mathematical Examiner for the College of Preceptors. 12mo. pp. 438, price 68. 6d. cloth. [May 11, 1863. THIS work, although designed mainly for the THIS use of schools, will, it is believed, be found of material service to those learners who do not pursue their mathematical studies under the superintendence of a well-qualified teacher or professor. It consists of 1,575 Examples, with all the solutions fully worked out in algebraic symbols, as follows:- Substitutions, 13; Equations and Inequalities, 19; Greatest and Least Common Measure, 23; Involution and Evolution, 36; Fractions, 89; Surds, 111; Simple Equations, 167; Quadratic Equations, 214; Equations involving two or more Unknown Quantities, 264; Problems producing Simple Equations, 133; Problems producing Quadratic Equations, 148; Indeterminate Equations and Problems, 85; Logarithmic and Exponential Equations, 37; Ratio, Proportion, and Variation, 39; Arithmetic, Geometric, and Harmonic Progression, 119; Permutations and Combinations, 27. Examination-Questions in Book-keeping by Double Entry, preceded by full Directions for the True Stating of Dr. and Cr. with ANSWERS, providing the Means of Solving all the Problems and Exercises relating to Accompt-Books set in the Civil Service and other Public Examination-Papers. By the Rev. J. HUNTER, M.A. 12mo. pp. 172, price 2s. 6d. cloth. Hunter's Examination-Questions in Bookkeeping by Double Entry, separated from the Answers, and preceded by full Directions for the True Stating of Dr. and Cr. 12mo. pp. 48, price 1s. cloth. Ruled Paper in Quires, suitable for the various Forms of Accompt-Books required in Hunter's Examination-Questions, viz. 1. Invoice or Day Book; 2. Cash Book, Single Columns; 3. Cash Book, Double Columns; 4. Journal; 5. Ledger. Price of each Form, 1s. 6d. per quire. [May 16, 1863. THE HE method of accounts called Double Entry, as introduced by the merchants of the great commercial towns of Italy, was not a complex method supplanting a more simple one, but a perfect and easily understood system, taking the place of crude and inadequate expedients. Nor does what we now call Single Entry represent the imperfect method which preceded the introduction of Double Entry: it is a modification of Double Entry, and not properly an introduction to the Italian system, as if this were merely an extension of the other; and a youth who expects to be engaged in any business of which the accounts are kept by Single Entry, having first learnt the principles of the Italian method, will find no difficulty whatever in applying his knowledge to the practice of the less perfect system. The Examination-Papers on the subject of Book-keeping in the Reports of the Civil Service Commissioners, supply an excellent means of tuition and discipline. But they contain many things difficult even to those who have previously studied some of the published systems of Bookkeeping; and it is to help such students that, in the present volume, some of the more useful of those Papers have been selected or adapted, while several original questions and examples have been introduced, and answers supplied to the whole, as a source of consultation in case of doubt and |