completed. The Editor has derived his information, to a great extent, from original evidences, especially from the registers of the official acts of the Archbishops themselves, which contain mate. rials for the history of England which have rarely, if ever, been carefully and properly examined.

The Editor has aimed at confining himself strictly within the limits of biography. The whole of the first volume is accordingly devoted to the Archbishops themselves, without any historical or exegetical disquisitions on the times in which they lived.

Thoughts on Population, and the Means of Comfortable Subsistence; with Suggestions regarding an increased Supply and lessened Cost of Food for Children and the Industrial Classes. By AGRESTIS. Post 8vo. pp. 214, price 4s. 6d. cloth. [Aug. 20, 1863. THE idea of this work was suggested by the object

tion to the relation likely to subsist between the extent of population and the amount of food, and the consequent necessity of keeping up production to the level of population. It mainly seeks to ventilate the subject of a larger supply of such nourishing and palatable food as is less adequately furnished than it should be.

On the subjects of marriage and increase the Author manifests a measured approval of early unions-in the abstract; and, in this spirit, he has sought to enforce his views by the simple logic of facts, presenting a few statistics connected therewith.

The interesting subject of Emigration, and the rise and progress of our Colonies-those of Australia in particular-have been brought forward by him in support of his views. High farming, by the aid of science, is panegyrised by him upon the same and general grounds. The capacity of land for producing food for human subsistence, directly and indirectly, is dilated on, by proofs of its productive power in the growth of food for cattle, and the capacity of animals in producing food for man.

graphy, Spelling, or other subject of the school course, and to describe the best methods for making out Time Tables, and obtaining good organisation and discipline, so that Teachers may have a guide to assist them in the discharge of their duties, and that Managers and Committees may become conversant with the ordinary routine of school business and be, therefore, enabled to test satisfactorily the progress of the children from day to day, and introduce such changes, when necessary, into the general management of the Schools as will lead to higher and more permanent results.

In carrying out this design, he has described the most serious of the faults met with by him during the discharge of his official duties, and given only such remedies as will be found practicable by the majority of Teachers at present in office. On this point the Author speaks with considerable confidence, as the system described in the Manual has been in actual operation for the last few years in the majority of the Schools which he now inspects.

The value of the suggestions is established by such arguments as appeared most suitable, and by frequent quotations from the reports of Inspectors, and other eminent Educational Authorities. The principles upon which they rest are also treated of, so that the suggestions may be carried out intellectually instead of mechanically, and varied occasionally when the circumstances of any School require such a course.

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An Exposition of the Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy with some other Papers on Subjects connected with Midwifery. W. F. MONTGOMERY, M.A. M.D. M.R.I.A. exScholar of Trin. Coll. Dublin; late Professor of Midwifery in the King and Queen's College of Physicians in Ireland, &c. Reprint of the Second Edition [1856]; pp. 782, with Portrait, 6 coloured Plates comprising 25 Figures, and 48 Woodcuts. 8vo. price [August 25, 1863.

25s. cloth.

to the Primary Schools of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies. By ROBERT ROBINSON, Inspector of National Schools, Ireland. Fcp. 8vo. pp. 476, price 6s. 6d. cloth. [August 12, 1863.

IN this work the Author has endeavoured to show fully the steps which ought to be taken in order to secure the proper proficiency in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar, Geo

in July 1856; but although called a second edition, it might fairly have claimed to be regarded as a new work, every sentence of the preceding edition having been carefully rewritten, and the new matter then first added having exceeded in quantity the whole contents of the original publication. The reputation which this work won for the Author on its first appearance was confirmed by the steady demand for the enlarged and improved edition of his book; no less than by the unanimous voice of the legal and

medical professions, as expressed by the public press.

A considerable portion of the remaining stock having been consumed by the fire on the Publishers' premises in September 1861, the work has continued above a year out of print. The Author being since deceased, it has been thought advisable to reprint the second edition, with no further change than the correction of a few literal errors.

Lectures on Surgical Pathology, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. By JAMES PAGET, F.R.S. Surgeon-Extraordinary to Her Majesty the Queen, Surgeonin-Ordinary to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's and Christ's Hospitals. Revised and edited by W. TURNER, M.B. Lond. F.R.C.S.E. and F.R.S.E. Senior Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Edinburgh. Pp. 868; with 117 Engravings on Wood. 8vo. price 218. cloth. [June 11, 1863.

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EARLY all the Lectures in this volume were delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons during the six years in which the Author held the office of Professor of Anatomy and Surgery to the College. The Lectures were designed to illustrate the general pathology of the principal surgical diseases in conformity with the larger and more exact doctrines of physiology; a plan which seemed the more reasonable, because it was in accordance with the constant design of HUNTER, the great founder of the Museum of the College.

The Lectures were not constructed to form a complete system of Surgical Pathology, but a wide. range of subjects was included in them. In preparing them for the press numerous facts were added, which had been ascertained since their delivery, and many references to cases and authorities which time, or their inaptness for oral delivery, necessitated the omission of when they were spoken. They embrace a consideration of the Nature, Purpose, and Conditions of Nutrition; the Processes of Growth, Hypertrophy, and Atrophy; the various forms of Degeneration; the Processes of Repair in various textures; the Phenomena of Inflammation, its products and the changes which they undergo, the effects which it produces on the tissues of the parts in which it occurs, its nature and causes; and the Phenomena of Mortification. A Lecture is then devoted to the consideration of specific diseases.

The Lectures on the above subjects formed the first volume of the original edition of the work. In this new edition they constitute somewhat less than one-half the volume. The greater part of this volume, corresponding to the second volume

of the first edition, is devoted to an account of Innocent, Recurrent, and Malignant Tumours. A Lecture on Tubercle completes the series.

In preparing for publication this NEW EDITION of these Lectures, it has been the wish both of the Author and Editor to make the work, as far as possible, represent the present state of our knowledge of pathology. With this object they have submitted the text to a careful revision; some parts have been altogether rewritten; and to others they have appended numerous and copious notes. The statistical TABLES of Cancer have been carefully gone over, some new ones added, and many of the old tables increased by the addition of cases which have come under the notice of the Author since the publication of the first edition. A copious INDEX for the purpose of study or reference completes the volume.

Cæsar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, BOOKS I. to V. revised from the Text of SCHNEIDER, with various Readings from the best extant Editions, brief English Notes, and a Lexicon. By ALEXANDER K. ISBISTER, M.A. Head Master of the Stationers' Company's Grammar School. 12mo. pp. 208, price 3s. 6d. cloth. [August 28, 1863.

THE object of this school edition of CESAR'S

Commentaries on the Gallic War is to supply an accurate text, based on a comparison of the best extant editions, and at the same time to simplify the work for beginners, so that it may be used as a First Latin Reading Book, and thus serve the purpose of a Delectus as well as of an introduction to Cæsar. The text has been formed on the principle of selecting as a basis an edition of acknowledged excellence, and then comparing it with other good editions, and noting the most important passages in which they differ. The editions used for this purpose are those of SCHNEIDER, NIPPERDEY, HERZOG, OUDENDORP, ELBERLING, and KRANER. The Vocabulary, compiled chiefly from the Lexicon of Professor ANDREWS, has been prepared with much care. It has been compared throughout with the recently published Dictionary of WHITE and RIDDLE, and, where necessary, corrected by it. The greatest attention has been paid to typographical accuracy. Adverbs, conjunctions, and the ablative singular of the first declension have been accentuated, and the quantities of first and middle syllables have been carefully indicated in all cases in which a doubt might arise, both in the Lexicon and in the Reading Lessons. As some of the chief difficulties in Latin Syntax arise from the use of the oratio obliqua, the occurrence of this construction has been denoted throughout by italics.

An Elementary Latin Grammar for the Use of Schools. By the Rev. EDWARD MILLER, M.A. late Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford. Fep. 8vo. pp. 442, price 58. cloth. [July 28, 1863.

THIS work has been drawn up with the view of

adapting the traditional system of Grammar to the scholarship of the present day, having originated in wants felt by the Author in the course of his teaching. Attention has been paid throughout to soundness in principle, accuracy of detail, and clearness in method and language. The Genders of Nouns are explained under each Declension; and memorial lines in Latin are added to the explanation. A fuller account of Pronouns is given than in most elementary grammars. Lists of irregular Perfects and Supines are inserted upon a plan which the Author has used with much success. The Grammar has two Syntaxes: a short one for beginners, upon the principle of the construction of sentences; and a fuller one for early reference, and for more advanced boys. The latter contains a development of a theory of Madvig's about compound sentences, which seems to coalesce more easily than any other explanation with the older system of syntax. Formulæ for memory' are in Latin; explanations' and other detailed matter in English. The Prosody includes, besides the usual subjects, a description of all the metres in use. Copious INDEXES are added, and an APPENDIX.

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A Modern French Grammar; including Vocabularies, Conversational Lessons, and Copious Exercises composed from the best Authors of the Present Day. By LÉON CONTANSEAU, Examiner for Military and Civil Appointments; Author of the Practical French and English Dictionary,' &c. New Edition, entirely remodelled. 12mo. pp. 308, price 5s. cloth. [June 17, 1863.

HE first edition of this Grammar was drawn

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up with an especial view to the wants of the Author's pupils at Addiscombe, rather than to the requirements of the French class in public and private schools. The sale of three editions has induced the Author, now that Addiscombe College has been broken up, to remodel his book without departure from its original plan, so as to adapt it for more general use in English schools where French is taught.

The point at which the Author has constantly aimed in this as well as in the other works of his Course, is the utmost conciseness of expression consistent with perspicuity, and the sedulous avoidance of all redundancy and repetition. No person who has acquired a foreign language, or

taught one with success, will dispute that every rule must be learnt; and this principle admitted, the system of imitation and frequent repetition must be discarded, unless many hours are devoted to doing exercises every week for a much longer period than is sufficient to acquire a competent knowledge of French by assigning a single hour a day to this essential branch of education.

The present work will be found to contain, in addition to the ACCIDENCE and SYNTAX of the French tongue, copious Vocabularies and Conversational Lessons, and numerous Exercises for translation from French into English and from English into French, accompanied by brief Notes pointing out from the earliest stage such real difficulties as a judicious Professor would explain verbally in setting the task; a feature which it is believed has saved Masters who have adopted this Grammar some trouble, as well as increased the utility of the book to self-teachers. But in these Notes Mr. CONTANSEAU has abstained in every instance from suggesting the application of any rule which a pupil ought to have passed and retained in his memory. The SYNTAX (written in English) is followed in an APPENDIX by a few simple rules for the Genders of Nouns, and a comparison of some of the most usual French and English Idioms. A set of Miscellaneous Exercises are now first added, carefully graduated in difficulty, and intended for more advanced scholars -that is to say, pupils who have fairly mastered all that precedes, and can read an easy French author with some facility.

Civil Service Examinations.

Solutions of Questions on Arithmetic and Book-keeping used in the Civil Service Examinations of 1862, published in the APPENDIX to the EIGHTH REPORT of the Commissioners. With a SUPPLEMENT, containing EXAMPLES in ACCOUNT-STATES. BY the Rev. J. HUNTER, M.A. 12mo. pp. 84, price 1s. 6d. cloth. [August 13, 1863.

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IE Author of these Solutions, who is engaged professionally as an instructor of candidates for civil service and other public examinations, having found by experience that some peculiar features in the Papers on Book-keeping, recently published with the Eighth Report of the Civil Service Commissioners, present to many students considerable difficulty, and require some illustration beyond what is provided in his recentlypublished Examination-Questions on Bookkeeping,' has attempted in the present work to supply such an additional amount of information as will render the pupil's knowledge of this subject complete.

Annotated Summary of Lord Bacon's Two Books of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning: With numerous Extracts from the Work, and Specimens of ExaminationQuestions. By the Rev. J. HUNTER, M.A. Instructor of Candidates for the Civil Service and other Public Examinations. 12mo. pp. 104, price 28. cloth. [June 9, 1863. THIS THIS work is intended to form a manual for the guidance of Candidates for the various Public Examinations, and likewise to suggest how the easier portion of Bacon's writings may be made a subject of literary study by young persons. It is adapted for scholastic as well as private use, and is applicable to any edition of the text. By self-teachers, who aim at proficiency in English composition, and who do not shrink from strenuous labour, the various sections are adapted for use as outlines of themes to be written out from the learner's own resources.

English Composition, Argumentative and General, comprising Reports, Letters, Abstracts, and Mental Philosophy. Forming PART III. of Practical English Composition,' and completing the work. By RICHARD HILEY, Author of several English Grammatical and Mathematical School Books. 12mo. pp. 294, price 4s. 6d. cloth. [August 11, 1863. HE FIRST and SECOND PARTS of this work,

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tions respectively, are in very general use. Author was induced to prepare them with a view to supply, in the first instance for his own school, a manual of English composition suitable to follow any ordinary first grammar, but which should impel pupils using it to draw upon their own resources rather than seek extraneous aid; and simultaneously to acquire by degrees the habit of arranging their ideas with clearness and propriety -one of the highest aims of education, and for which no branch of it is better fitted than composition in one's native tongue. With this object the lessons are all carefully graduated from the outset, the exercises are made practically useful as well as interesting, and each one is so constructed that it cannot be performed otherwise than by the industrious application of the learner's own judgment and reflection.

The present volume forms the THIRD PART, and completes the course, on the same plan as the FIRST and SECOND. The information supplied in each Section is just what is needed and sufficient, so that no grammar or dictionary of synonyms will have to be consulted. The Exercises are in general made dependent on the application of this information, so that by being made familiar to the learner's mind it may become the germ of future thought and action. For the special requirements of both the classes of students for whose use this book is designed, it has been sought to supply in an orderly and systematic sequence such a body of materials as will supersede the necessity of referring to any other work on English composition. In short, it has been sought to provide within the limits of a small volume such a series of finishing exercises as, honestly gone through by a boy of average capacity, shall insure him a ready command of correctness, ease, and perspicuity in putting his thoughts upon any subject into writing; the ability to describe all he sees, hears, feels, or understands; and the useful talent of presenting or reproducing in his own language any matter which his pursuits may bring before him in the business of life.

THE method of teaching Arithmetic from first

principles, as given by the Author in his earlier book on this subject, having been almost universally adopted by the elementary schools of this country, it was believed that a systematic work, applying the same plan and method to the higher rules and operations of Arithmetic, would be acceptable to all interested in education. In pursuance of this system, the Author has sought throughout this collection of rules and examples to make the science of numbers the logic of the people (as it has been termed), by assigning for the rules of arithmetic such reasons as may be readily understood; or, in other words, by appealing to the pupil's understanding, instead of merely taxing his memory with abstract rules and formulæ.

ENGRAVINGS ON WOOD from the OLD MASTERS. The skill of the printer and the art of the woodengraver have not hitherto been applied to the production of an edition of the New Testament representing the degree of perfection which these arts have reached in modern times. The wish to produce such an Edition has encouraged the expenditure of much time and cost in the preparation of the volume now announced; and it is hoped it may be considered worthy of the object for which it was undertaken. The volume will contain the whole of the New Testament, with numerous engravings on wood from the designs of

ANDREA ORCAGNA. FRA ANGELICO. LEONARDO DA VINCI. PIETRO PERUGINO. FRANCESCO FRANCIA. LORENZO DI CREDI. PINTURICCHIO.

FRA BARTOLOMMEO.

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PAOLO VERONESE.
JACOPO BASSANO.
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NICHOLAS POUSSIN.
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LUCA GIORDANO.

Each page will be decorated with borders, ornaments, or initial letters engraved on wood, copied from the finest Italian manuscripts of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and from other sources. Numerous medal. lion picture-subjects are also introduced into the margins. The work has been produced under the general superintendence of Mr. HENRY SHAW, F.S.A. and is expected to be ready during the present year.

The first Edition, on large paper, of the full quarto size, will be limited to Two hundred and fifty copies; the price will be Ten Guineas.

Those persons who may desire to possess a copy of this edition are requested to apply direct to the Publishers, Messrs. LONGMAN and Co. or through their own booksellers.

New

[ew Work by the Author of The Arrest of the Five Members.'-In November will be published, Sir John Eliot: a Biography. By JOHN FORSTER.

A New Work on Popular Natural History, to

be entitled Homes without Hands; or, an 'Account of the Habitations constructed by various 'Animals, classed according to their Principles of Con'struction,' written by the Rev. J. G. WOOD, M.A. F L.S. Author of The Common Objects of the Sea Shore,' &c. is now preparing for publication. This work, which will be copiously illustrated with Wood Engravings, from Original Drawings, made under the Author's superintendence, will appear in Monthly Parts, in 8vo. and will be completed in Twenty Parts, price One Shilling each.

55 to A.D. 1485,' written and illustrated by JAMES E. DOYLE, the Designs engraved and printed in colours by EDMUND EVANS, in One Volume quarto, will be ready in November next. It has been known for some years that Mr. DOYLE had written a Chronicle, or Historical Sketch, of English History from the earliest times to the end of the Fifteenth Century, illustrated very copiously with coloured drawings, which were intermingled with the text. These drawings were not mere fancy sketches, but the result of careful study not only in costume and architecture, but also in the main incidents which they were meant to illustrate. The original MS. has been seen and admired in various circles, from the very highest; and it has been a matter of regret that the great cost of reproducing the ILLUSTRATIONS in facsimile has hitherto opposed an insurmountable obstacle to its publication. But a recent improvement in the art of printing in colours has rendered the undertaking practicable, and the volume now announced is the result. It is, however, by no means a mere reproduction of the original MS. for the history has been carefully revised and minutely studied from the Old Chroniclers and other original sources; and much additional thought has been bestowed throughout on the Illustrations, which have been drawn on wood by Mr. DOYLE himself. It is therefore believed that the forthcoming volume will possess attractions of no ordinary kind.

ANSTER'S FAUST, PART II.—In the press,

in 1 vol. post 8vo. Faustus, PART II. from the German of GOETHE. By JOHN ANSTER, LL.D. M.R.I.A. Regius Professor of Civil Law in the University of Dublin.

Petroleum, Coal, Peat, &c.-A New Work on

'Hydrocarbon Oils, &c.' their characters and manufacture from petroleum, coal, and other bituminous minerals, peat, &c. and their applications in the arts, is preparing for publication, by B. H. PAUL, Esq. Ph.D. Consulting Chemist, and late Managing Partner in the Lews Chemical Works. This work will contain a full account of the various methods of manufacturing useful commodities from native bituminous materials and from artificial tar; descriptions of the characters essential for the safe and convenient application of the various products to the purposes of domestic economy and of the arts, and of the chemical principles concerned in their production from various sources, purification, &c. The numerous inventions that have been brought forward in reference to this important new branch of chemical industry will also be described, and their respective merits illustrated. The history of this new art will also be given, so that the work, while of practical use to the manufacturer, will also be of interest to the general reader.