of consumption; whilst in Australia is to be found the opportunity of producing permanently beneficial effects on this class of disease. The vital statistics of that country give evidence of a very remarkable comparative immunity from consumptive disorders, while the climates of the different parts of the great territory offer, in their variety and health-giving qualities, advantages which are not to be met with in Europe. The peculiar eligibility of this country being shown, the Author proceeds to describe the influence produced by the sea voyage; he endeavours to give useful and accurate information connected with this part of his subject, especially in reference to the time of year for starting, the class of cases peculiarly susceptible of improvement, &c. and concludes with a description of life in Melbourne and its neighbourhood, the institutions, social condition, and prices of food, labour, &c. in that city. Plays. By FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE. An English Tragedy, a Play in Five Acts. Mary Stuart, translated from the German of SCHiller. Mademoiselle De Belle Isle, translated from the French of ALEXANDRE DUMAS. Post 8vo. pp. 586, price 12s. cloth. [Nov. 12, 1863. OF the plays contained in this volume, the first is original, and is founded on an incident in real life. The second is translated from SCHILLER'S well-known German drama. The third, from the French of ALEXANDRE DUMAS, gives a picture of French society in the days of RICHELIEU. of many personal friends of the Author, who loved him while living, and who will not forget him in death. The poems are varied in character, and exhibit much versatility of style. The greater portion, however, are descriptive of rural scenery and the beauties of nature, which appear to have possessed for the writer a peculiar charm. These are interspersed with a few satirical pieces, serenades, and other short lyrical effusions; and followed by two or three of a humorous tendency, and two or three others of a facetious character. THE Western Woods and Waters: Poems and Illustrative Notes. By the Rev. J. HOSKYNSABRAHALL, M. A. late Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. With a View of the Arched Rock of Mackinaw, and a coloured Map of the Laurentian Lakes. Fcp. 8vo. pp. 410, price 8s. 6d. cloth. [Dec. 12, 1863. HE contents of this book are as follows:1. Raspberry Moon; or, a July among the Woods and Waters of the Red Man: Fifteen Cantos. This is a verse account-composed partly among the scenes it describes-of a tour in July (the month called Raspberry Moon' by the North-American aborigines, because the wild raspberries are then ripe). The tour was taken, chiefly, on board the first Lake Superior mailboat. It embraced the finest scenery in the region of the great lakes. In his sketches of the Niagara river, the Author has embodied impressions derived from visits during three years, at different seasons. Descriptions of the phenomena of the Mirage and the Northern Lights, as well as of perils by land and by water, are interspersed with accounts of the magnificent aspects of nature in that region. Interwoven with these are legends associated with the several localities - specimens of the imaginative folk-lore of the Red Man. 2. Appendix Notes. The Author has thought it best to give but a few short foot-notes, and place at the end of the cantos illustrative articles or excursuses. They contain much that has not been hitherto put before the public. Among their subjects are the scenery, the geology, the flora, and the fauna of the region, as well as the language, myths, superstitions, and customs of its ancient human inhabitants. Among the materials from which the Author has drawn are TransAtlantic books, 'blue-books,' serials, and newspapers, as well as his own journal during his sojourn in the New World. 3. The Dahkohta's Dream; or, the Vision on the Dark River. This is a supplemental story. It is illustrated by foot-notes, as well as by the Appendix notes, which precede it. The British Empire: a Sketch of the Geography, Growth, Natural, and Political Features of the United Kingdom its Colonies and Dependencies. By CAROLINE BRAY, Author of Physiology for Schools.' Pp. 562, with 5 Maps. Fcp. 8vo. price 7s. 6d. cloth. [November 26, 1863. THE aim of the present volume is to give a more familiar acquaintance with the geography of the empire than can usually be gained from educational works, by showing, simply and briefly, the natural resources of the country we live in, the origin of its social and political conditions, the process of growth by which England has made homes for her people in every quarter of the globe, and the present relations of the parent State with her colonies and dependencies. A secondary aim has been to furnish for general use a book of easy reference, containing particulars hitherto dispersed in histories, cyclopædias, official reports, and various works not usually accessible. In compressing so wide a range of subjects into limits so narrow, it has been necessary to avoid lingering over details: consequently only such lists of names and places have been given as were essential to render the work adequate as a "Geography,' while the plan throughout has been to adhere strictly to chronological order in the narration of events, and to select those which stand forth most distinctly as causes of change or progress. The Shilling Entertaining Library. Edited by J. S. LAURIE, Editor of the Graduated Series of Reading-Lesson Books.' Six Works, Gulliver's Travels, pp 196, with 6 Woodcuts, Robinson Crusoe, pp. 200, with 6 Woodcuts, Christmas Tales, pp. 218, with 6 Woodcuts, Sandford and Merton, pp. 218, 6 Woodcuts, History of the Plague, pp. 220, 6 Woodcuts, Evenings at Home, pp. 224, with 4 Woodcuts, are now ready, each Volume complete in itself, in square 18mo. price 9d. sewed, 1s. cloth, or 1s. 6d. with gilt edges. [Oct. 1863. THE THE object of this Library is to provide the young, and generally speaking the less educated sections of the community, with a set of readable books. The collection is distinguished in various respects from others that have a similar aim. The volumes are all uniformly entertaining; the Library being designed precisely for that class who require an inducement to take a book into their hands. The Library consists of adaptations of works of time-honoured celebrity, such as Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels, which are to some extent abridged by the exclusion of objectionable and uninteresting passages. It is intended to add to these, reprints of more modern works which have equally received the stamp of popular approbation, and which possess the requisite fitness for School Libraries, Families, and Working Men. The books are all printed in a large distinct type, and strongly bound; and each work is illustrated by several full-page engravings. The price One Shilling per volume-will, it is hoped, place this Library within the reach of the poorest families and the smallest elementary schools. The following works are in preparation in the Shilling Entertaining Library': Swiss Family Robinson, Vicar of Wakefield. To be followed by other works. Every-Day Scripture Difficulties Explained and EVERY earnest reader of the Bible is perplexed and sometimes startled by the many obscurities and seeming inconsistencies with which he meets. It has been the intention of the Author, in this work, to give condensed explanations of such passages, as far as they have appeared to him to occur in the first two Gospels. The term 'Every-Day Difficulties' is not intended to convey the idea merely of those difficulties which are of a simple or superficial character. Whereever an educated person might find some decided obstacle to his right understanding of the sacred writings, that portion has been selected for brief discussion. Each difficulty is, in general, treated of in a separate section, which is adapted either for reading aloud or as an aid to the private perusal of the Holy Scriptures. At the head of the section the passage in question is printed, and where it has appeared necessary, in order to carry out the connexion, other contiguous verses are added in different type. Copious foot-notes are given, containing much additional matter and numerous references to the works of reliable authors, with few exceptions such as may easily be consulted by the reader. Naturally, the same or similar difficulties often occur in the other Gospels; such passages are noted before the several sections, and a complete table is placed at the beginning of the volume for convenience of reference. An index of the subjects is added, and an introduction prefixed pointing out the characteristics of the two Evangelists. The Author avoids everything of a polemical character. He does not shrink from the avowal of any opinion which seems to him to be warranted by the statements of the inspired writers. He endeavours, as far as his limits will allow, to bring before the reader in support of his own ideas the judgments of writers of acknowledged value, more especially the important results of modern research. But the primary object of the Author is to point out to the general reader what is known to the more advanced student, to show those who have not the time or the opportunity to search for themselves the perfections and consistencies of the revealed Word of God. Scriptural Paraphrases: being a Commentary wholly Biblical on some of the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels. By a LAYMAN. 8vo. pp. 672, price 18s. cloth. THE [November 30, 1863. HE aim of this work is the inculcation of that true and sober piety amongst Christians, which would steer between the errors of superstition and the doubts of infidelity, by an appeal to the Holy Scriptures themselves, rather than to the religious tenets or opinions of Churches or Sects, for an orthodox knowledge and right observance of the doctrines of Christianity. To prevent, if possible, the dry discussion which may arise from lengthened dissertations, the Author has thought it better that his research into Scripture should be given in the inductive mode of questions and answers, by colloquially paraphras ing some of the Collects, Epistles, and Gospels used by the Church of England, in the hope that such Scriptural elucidations may prove not only useful, but also frequently interesting. scholastic use, or are available only for students who understand Greek. The present volume has been prepared in the hope of supplying this deficiency so far as regards the shortest and plainest of the four Gospels. The INTRODUCTION, besides a brief account of St. Mark and his Gospel, contains notices on the Parables, the Priests, the Scribes, the Synagogues, the Jewish Sects, and on the use of the phrase 'Son of Man.' Should this little work be favourably received, it will probably be followed by similar volumes of explanatory notes, somewhat fuller, on the other three Gospels, and on the Acts of the Apostles. The KEY to the Exercises contained in the FIRST PART of Dr. KALISCH'S Hebrew Grammar, for the use of Teachers and Students who are learning Hebrew from that Grammar without the Aid of a Muster. By M. M. KALISCH, Ph. D. M.A. Author of 'Historical and Critical Commentary on the Old Testament.' 8vo. pp. 104, price 5s. cloth. [November 21, 1863. AS S this KEY is chiefly intended to assist students who are using Dr. KALISCH's Hebrew Grammar without the aid of a master, care has been taken that it shall afford sufficient help to guide and direct them, without endangering their progress by superseding their own exertions. As the Grammar attempts a method scrupulously progressive, they can scarcely, in any case, be uncertain how to work out the EXERCISES; and they will, in almost every instance, require an aid to their memory rather than any additional information. translation of the passages taken from the Old Testament has been prepared with a careful literal accuracy, which may enable the learner easily to understand the construction and familiarise him with the peculiarities of the Hebrew idiom. The IN [November 2, 1863. N the present work, composed with more particular reference to the class of English Composition in the University of Aberdeen, the Author has kept steadily in view the following plan. Under Etymology, the three departments: 1st, Classification of words or the Parts of Speech; 2nd, Inflection; 3rd, Derivation, have been separately discussed, instead of the method of exhausting successively each of the parts of speech in all its relations. The practice of explaining the precise meanings of the frequently recurring words of the language, such as pronouns, articles, distributive adjectives, prepositions, and conjunctions, has here been systematically followed out. Words of this description are not numerous. Belonging alike to all subjects and all styles, they are the very hinges of composition. The explanation of them, so long as it is confined to a small compass, is a proper cffice of the grammarian, although therein he may seem to intrude a little on the province of the lexicographer. A similar plan is carried out in the second part of Etymology,-Inflection. Thus, the meanings of the different moods and tenses of the verb being explained as accurately as the writer's knowledge would enable him. So with regard to Derivation, the meanings of the significant prefixes and suffixes are stated. Under this head such an account has been given of the sources of the English vocabulary, as in a great measure to dispense with an etymological dictionary. One advantage of the plan now described is the simplifying of syntax, which, when freed from all matters relating to the meanings of words and of inflections, may fall entirely under the three heads of Concord, Government, and Order or Arrangement of words. A short account of the English alphabet is prefixed, but orthography at large is not entered on in this work. The subjects of prosody, figures of speech, and style, are also reserved, it being pur posed to include them in a separate manual of rhetoric. In the discussion of the idioms and constructions of the language, this Grammar contains one novelty of importance, namely, the explanation of the precise uses of the relatives-That, Who, and Which. The distinction between 'that' on the one hand, and 'who' and 'which' on the other, was clearly perceived by our idiomatic writers up to the beginning of the last century; but owing to an unfortunate misapprehension as to the peculiarly English idiom of throwing a preposition to the end of a clause, the relative that' is now very little employed in book composition, 'who' and 'which' being made to serve in its stead. The work is adapted for the higher classes of schools, and for colleges and universities where English is taught to the junior pupils. First Steps to EUCLID, comprising the Proposi tions of Book I. in a form adapted for being written out; with a Recapitulation of the Steps of the Demonstrations appended to each. Designed as a Help to Beginners and Candidates preparing for Examinations. By A. K. ISBISTER, M.A. Head Master of the Stationers' Company's Grammar School, London. 12mo. pp. 74, price 1s. 6d. cloth.-Also Two Geometrical Copy-Books to accompany the same, in 4to. price 6d. each. [October 7, 1863. HE great extension which has recently been given to the system of written Examinations renders it very desirable that some uniform system of writing out the Propositions of Euclid, which form a necessary part of almost every examination, should be adopted in schools. THE The object of the present work is to train beginners and candidates for examination to the habit of writing out their work clearly and expeditiously, by exhibiting the demonstrations in a form at once brief and compact, and the most convenient for writing out. It is believed also that by the form in which the Problems are here arranged pupils in schools, and others commencing the study of Euclid, will be taught not only to write but to learn and to remember them better than by the ordinary method. With the view of exhibiting to the eye the successive steps of the construction and proof, the demonstrations are arranged on the following plan. (1) The 'references,' or elements of the Proposition on which the successive steps of the reasoning depend, are in each case given immediately after the enunciation. (2) In describing the figures, the parts which are given in the a complete table is placed at the beginning of the volume for convenience of reference. An index of the subjects is added, and an introduction prefixed pointing out the characteristics of the two Evangelists. The Author avoids everything of a polemical character. He does not shrink from the avowal of any opinion which seems to him to be warranted by the statements of the inspired writers. He endeavours, as far as his limits will allow, to bring before the reader in support of his own ideas the judgments of writers of acknowledged value, more especially the important results of modern search. But the primary object of the Auth to point out to the general reader what is to the more advanced student, to show t have not the time or the opportunit for themselves the perfections and cr the revealed Word of God. .e present erve as a THE aim of t' THE true ar which woul stition ar to the to th or Prose, consisting of Rules and and forming an Easy IntroducWriting of Continuous Latin By W. W. BRADLEY, M.A. late Magdalen College, Oxford. 12mo. $18, price 58. cloth. [Sept. 12, 1863. MONG the numerous Latin Exercise-books which have of late years been offered to the public, the present one will be found in some respects sui generis. It is well known that the translation of detached English sentences will never enable a boy to write good continuous Latin prose. He can only attain this art by the transfation of connected sentences and of paragraphs. In the present work the Author has attempted to supply an easier introduction to continuous Latin prose-writing than any he has yet met with. From an experimental knowledge of the difficulties of young scholars, he has also aimed throughout at more than usual simplicity and clearness, often sacrificing brevity to attain this end. The book however is progressive in its character, and the latter part will require a good acquaintance with the vocabulary and structure of the Latin language. The book is divided into four parts. The first, of an extremely easy character, is on the tenses of the indicative mood, gerunds, supines, infinitive, and participles. The second part is mainly on the subjunctive mood-the use of which has been scholastic use, or are avail who understand Greek been prepared in ficiency so far as of the four G brief acco notices the S of Kercises in the de principal value xercises themselves, a tolerably easy but ed for translation. The several points concerning conjunctions, which were o difficult for the earlier portion In the concluding Lessons the abjects, already touched upon in the t, of The Dependent Question and Oratio are illustrated at greater length. is hoped that this book will not only be found eful in the middle forms of our larger schools, but that it will in an especial degree prove an acceptable help to that large class of tutors, who are preparing backward pupils to write a decent piece of Latin prose, previously to their entering at the University, or undergoing an examination for the Army or Civil Service. In such cases there is no time to commence again from the beginning, and paragraphs of ordinary English. are much beyond the pupil's powers. System moreover is wanted, and the question is, What is to be done? This work, it is hoped, may to some extent solve the difficulty. A KEY to the EXERCISES in the present work will be published shortly for the use of persons engaged in tuition; to whom only it will be supplied on application to the Author through the Publishers. The Civil Service Arithmetic: containing 1,300 Questions proposed by the Civil Service Commissioners; with Solutions of the most difficult. For the Use of Schools and Colleges. By ROBERT JOHNSTON, Author of 'The School Arithmetic,' &c. 12mo. pp. 244, price 38. 6d. cloth. [Oct. 29, 1863. Tduced into the Civil Service has rendered a HE system of Competitive Examination intro modification in the character of most of our elementary school-books absolutely necessary. To effect this object in the Arithmetical Department this treatise has been compiled. It contains almost all the questions on Arithmetic given in the Civil Service Reports, and several others which were obtained from parties who underwent the examinations at which they were proposed. The questions are arranged under the various rules, and referred as far as possible to the Department of the Civil Service in which they were proposed. Some of the most difficult are worked as examples, and every pains has been taken to render the treatise suitable for the requirements of the Public Service. |