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New Work, entitled the Treasury of Bible Knowledge, is preparing for publication by the Rev. JOHN AYRE, M.A. of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. It will comprise a Summary of the Evidences of Christianity; the Principles of Biblical Criticism; the History, Chronology, and Geography of the Scriptures; an Account of the Formation of the Canon; separate Introductions to the several Books of the Bible, &c.; presenting at one view, and in a convenient form for reference, a complete body of information most necessary for the thorough understanding of the Sacred Volume. The Treasury of Bible Knowledge will form a volume in fcp. 8vo. accompanied by Maps, Engravings on Steel, and numerous strictly illustrative Woodcuts; uniform with Maunder's well-known Series of Treasuries.

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 he 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.

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IE Complete Works of SAINT JOHN of the CROSS, translated by DAVID LEWIS, M.A. with a Preface by His Eminence CARDINAL WISEMAN, forming 2 vols. 8vo. will be published at Christmas. These writings have for three centuries enjoyed a classical reputation in Spain. They have also been translated into almost every European language; but the complete translation now announced will be the first which has ever been published in English. The contents will be distributed as follows. The first volume will consist of The Ascent of Mount Carmel,' in three books, and The Obscure Night of the Soul,' in two books. The second volume will comprise-1. A Spiritual Canticle between the Soul and Christ,' in forty stanzas, with their Explanation; 2. The Living Flame of Love,' in four stanzas, with a Commentary; 3. Instructions and Cautions' for those who are aiming at Christian perfection; 4. Seventeen Letters' on spiritual subjects; 5. Maxims and Sentences' for every day in the year; and 6. Poems.' The usefulness of the book for the student will be increased by an Index to all the Scriptural references which occur throughout the work, in addition to a full General Index.

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Collected Edition of the Works of the late Sir BENJAMIN C. BRODIE, Bart. D.C.L. President of the Royal Society, &c. is preparing for publication by Mr. CHARLES HAWKINS, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, to form 2 vols. 8vo. This edition will contain all the published works of Sir BENJAMIN BRODIE, including his Psychological Inquiries, his several Lectures and Addresses, and his Articles and Papers written for the Transactions of Societies, or printed in the various medical and philosophical journals to which he contributed. Some observations will be subjoined on Medicine and Surgery, from manuscript notes on which Sir B. BRODIE was engaged at the time of his death; accompanied by a brief autobiographical Sketch of his Life, taken literally from his materials left in manuscript.

A Professor THEODOR BENFEY, of the University

New SANSKRIT ENGLISH DICTIONARY by

of Göttingen and Correspondent of the Institute of France, is preparing for publication. The valuable dictionary of the late Professor H. H. WILSON has long been out of print, while the dictionaries now in course of publication in England and on the continent are planned on a scale which will require many years for their completion, and, like the Latin Dictionary of FORCELLINI, and the Greek Thesaurus of Stephanus, are designed for the use of advanced scholars only. A dictionary of moderate size is therefore much needed by those who wish to study the language for the sake of its literature and the aid which it affords to researches in Comparative Grammar. The present work, which is intended to supply this want, will give only those words which are found in the actual literature of the language, to the exclusion of those which rest only on the authority of Grammarians. The roots are, however, inserted, but all which have not yet been authenticated, are marked with a cross +.

The Dictionary will contain all words and meanings which are necessary for reading the Law book of Manu, the Bhagavadgîtâ, the Hitopadesa, and almost all the standard works hitherto published, a list of which will be inserted in the Preface. But in order to keep the work within strictly moderate limits, words occurring in the Vedic literature only, (chiefly on account of the great difference between the Vedic language and the Sanskrit proper,) will not be included, although exceptions are made in favour of those which occur in Lassen's Anthologia, and the Editor's Chrestomathy, as well as of some others which are of high interest in Comparative Grammar.

Each word will be given in the original Sanskrit, and in a Latin transliteration, and references, together with translations of the most difficult passages, will be added in all cases where words are wanting in the dictionaries already published, and where the construction or the admission of new significations is likely to involve difficulties for beginners. Of the principal words short etymological notices will be furnished, -the cognate words from the Greek, Latin and Teutonic languages being given wherever their relationship with the Sanskrit is well established.

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DOMESTICA, SECOND SERIES; • Christian Songs and Hymns, translated from the 'German of C. J. P. SPITTA and other favourite Hymnwriters, by RICHARD MASSIE,' is in the press, to form one volume, fcp. 8vo. uniform with the FIRST SERIES. This volume will be divided into two parts, of which the first is the completion of SPITTA's Psaltery and Harp ;} and the second consists of translations from, PAUL GERHARDT and other approved Hymn-writers of Germany. The Head Master of Shrewsbury School, in 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 judgment, while they carefully avoid that luxuriance of English trans. lation which is so unwelcome to every wise Master, as only tending to enfeeble, and often to mislead, the minds of boys. A paper 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. The NOTES, written in English, will be placed at the end of the volume, -which it is hoped will be ready in the course of 1864.

JOHNSON'S Dictionary of the English Lan

guage, a New Edition, founded on that of 1773 (the last published in Dr. Johnson's lifetime), with numerous Emendations and Additions, by R. G. LATHAM, M.D. F.R.S. &c. will be published in Monthly Parts, forming, when completed, 2 vols. 4to. This work will be founded on the last edition of Todd; but will not be regulated by the principles of either Todd or Johnson exclusively. An attempt will be made to give both such new words as have been lately introduced into our language, and such old ones as, although deserving a place, have been omitted in previous dictionaries. At the same time purely technical words will be omitted; as well as those words which from their antiquity may be considered as Anglo-Saxon rather than English. It is clear, however, that no very strict rule can be laid down on this point. The deviations will be on the side of comprehension rather than exclusion. For every word and quotation, in the way of illustration, an authority will be given; special attention being bestowed upon the derivations; among which none which are merely speculative will be admitted. The Historical Introduction will be brought down to the present time, and many omissions in the original made good.

PART I. is expected to be ready early in 1864.

YRA MESSIANICA; Hymns and Verses on the Life of Christ, Ancient and Modern, 'with other Poems,' Edited by the Rev. ORBY SHIFLEY, M.A. will be ready early in 1864.-This Collection of Hymns and Verses will form a Companion Volume to Lyra Eucharistica, and, in common with that Book, is intended for devotional reading at home, and not for public use in Church. It will consist of both original and selected Hymns and Verses. Of the latter, those have for the most part been taken which are the least known amongst Hymns which have been written or translated since the revival of the taste for the use of ancient compositions. With a few exceptions, the Contributors to Lyra Messianica will be the same as those who contributed to Lyra Eucharistica, considerably strengthened by additional Authors; and the sources whence Poems have been selected are the same or similar to those previously employed. Of the original Hymns, some are original, some are translations of Hymns never before attempted in English, and some are new versions of those already well known. The Hymns will be in accordance with the Doctrine of the Church of England; and they will be printed verbatim, as their Authors composed or revised them. New Serial Work on Natural History by the

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Rev. J. G. WOOD, M.A. F. L.S. Author of The Illustrated Natural History,' &c. is preparing for publication, to be entitled 'Homes without Hands, being an 'Account of the Habitations constructed by various Ani'mals classed according to their Principles of Construc'tion; and illustrated with very numerous Wood Engravings by G. PEARSON, from Original Drawings made by F. W. KEYL and E. A. SMITH, under the Author's superintendence expressly for this work. PART I. in 8vo. price 1s. sewed, will be published on January 1, 1864; to be continued monthly, and completed in Twenty Parts, price 1s. each.

The work will begin with the BURROWERS, of which the following are illustrated: Burrowing Mammalia, Mole, Fox, Prairie Dog, Rabbit, Chipping Squirrel, Polar Bear, Pichiciago, Armadillo, Aard Vark, Mallangong, and Gopher.__ Burrowing_Birds, Sand Martin, Kingfisher, Puffin, Bee Eater, Toucan, and Woodpecker. Burrowing Crustacea, the Land Crab and Robber Crab. Burrowing Mollusca, Solen, Pholas, and Shipworm. Burrowing Spiders and Insects, Trapdoor Spider, Wasp, Ant Lion, Burrower Bees of various kinds, Burrower Beetles of various kinds : and many others. The PENSILE NESTS will come next in order, and will be followed by the SOCIAL, the ERECTED, the TERRESTRIAL, the AERIAL (or BRANCH NESTS), the SUBAQUATIC, and the MISCELLANEOUS NESTS.

The whole of these Illustrations are being drawn expressly for the work, and will present characteristic episodes in the life of each ANIMAL. The subjects have all been suggested by the Author, and the Drawings are submitted to his inspection before they are engraved. Figures of all the most remarkable examples will be given; and in every instance the ARCHITECT will be drawn together with its HABITATION, and will in most cases be represented as engaged in some occupation which identifies its species and mode of workmanship.

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Tew Classical School Book by the Rev. H. MUSGRAVE WILKINS, M.A.-A Latin Anthology, 'or Progressive Latin Reading-Book, for the use of the 'Junior and Middle Classes in Schools,' by the Rev. H. MUSGRAVE WILKINS, M. A. Fellow of Merton College, Oxford, will be ready early in the year 1864. This work will consist of selections from the easier Latin Poets, commencing with a few fables of Phædrus, followed by short passages from Ovid, and succeeded by longer excerpts from that poet. Next in order will be found the most available portions of Tibullus; of whose Elegies there is no edition fit for school-boys, Dissen's being only adapted for advanced scholars. A few extracts from Propertius, Catullus, and Martial will conclude the volume. A few notes only will be given, so as not to dispense with the use of the Dictionary.

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SMALLER LATIN GRAMMAR, abridged from ‘An

Elementary Latin Grammar for the use of 'Schools,' by the Author, the Rev. EDWARD MILLER, M.A. late Fellow and Tutor of New College, Oxford, will be ready early in 1864. This Grammar will contain an abridgment of the longer Accidence, some of the large print being set in a smaller type, and some of the small type being retained in foot-notes; the First Syntax; a few Rules from the Second Syntax for early reference; and the earlier part of the Prosody, relating especially to Hexameters and Pentameters. The publication of this Smaller Grammar is part of the Author's original plan, and is intended to meet the wants of Boys until they are able to use the larger Elementary Grammar. We welcome Mr. MILLER'S Grammar,' observes the writer of an article in the SATURDAY REVIEW of October 31, 1863, as a great improvement on all that have preceded it. It will be found extremely useful to all who are engaged in teaching, either to boys at school or to men at college, the Latin language and the difficult art of Latin composition. And we are disposed to anticipate a still more 'favourable estimate of his projected Smaller GramWe shall be surprised if it does not find its way into extensive use in our public schools.'

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HOOPER'S MEDICAL DICTIONARY.

A New Edition, being the Ninth, of HOOPER'S Medical Dictionary and Encyclopædia of Medical Science, containing an Explanation of the Terms in 'Medicine, and in the Allied Branches of Natural 'Science,' brought down to the present time, by ALEXANDER HENRY, M.D. is preparing for publica. tion. The great advances which have been made in medical science since the appearance of the last edition of this work have rendered a thorough revision necessary. All the articles are undergoing careful correction, many are being rewritten, and a considerable number added; so as to make the book, as far as is possible, an Encyclopædia of Medical Science fitted for the use of the practitioner.

THE REVISED CODE. The Grade

'Lesson Book Primer for the use of Infant Schools, by E. T. STEVENS, Associate of King's College, London, and CHARLES HOLE, Head Master of Loughborough Collegiate School, Brixton, is nearly ready for publication. It is meant to be introductory to the Grade Lesson Books,' by the same Authors, in course of publication in Six PARTS or STANDARDS, of which the first Five may now be had. This Primer is intended as an easy introduction to the art of Reading, the same systematic arrangement of the monosyllables being observed as that which characterises the FIRST STANDARD of the Grade Lesson Books. The children, as in that book, are led, by the easiest gradations, from one difficulty to another; the selection of words being, however, confined to the easier and more familiar ones. The work will form a 12mo. volume, and will be embellished with numerous attractive woodcuts.

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New Work on 'English History, for the use of Schools and Candidates for the Civil Service, 'Army, and other Examinations,' by W. M. LUPTON, Instructor of Candidates for the Civil Service, Army, and other Public Examinations, will be ready early in 1864. The object of this work is to provide in one small volume a substantial analysis of the essential elements of English History. It will contain much matter never before published in form of a school book. To the student preparing for the Civil Service, Army, University, Local, or other Examination, it is hoped that it will be found most useful, as it will contain answers to all the questions already proposed in English History by the various examining bodies.

THE OXFORD LOCAL EXAMINA

TIONS, 1864.-In the Regulations just issued respecting the Oxford Local Examinations for 1864, it is stated that Junior Candidates will be required to satisfy the Examiners in the Analysis and Parsing of a passage taken from Winter,' in THOMSON's Seasons. With a view to provide pupils who may be qualifying for these Examinations with a suitable Text-Book, a School Edition of THOMSON'S "Winter," with Exer'cises in Parsing, Specimens of Analysis, and numerous 'Illustrative Notes,' is now in preparation by Mr. WALTER M'LEOD, of the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, and will be ready early in 1864. The NOTES will contain, in addition to brief descriptions of the animals, places, &c. named in the poem, such notices of the phenomena of nature as may be deemed necessary to a comprehension of the text. In order to render the Book specially useful to Candidates, a few Exercises in Parsing, on the Foreign Derivatives and words of unusual occurrence, also Specimens of Analysis of some of the more difficult passages, will be occasionally introduced. The volume will be similar in all respects to the Editor's School Edition of THOMSON'S Spring (published in February last) and of GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village (now in its tenth edition).

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PARKER'S (THEODORE) Life and Correspondence, by J. WEISS.

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Sir John Eliot: a Biography, 1590-1632. By JOHN FORSTER, Author of The Arrest of the Five Members,' 'Life of Goldsmith,' &c. Pp. 1,468; with 2 Portraits engraved on Steel from the Originals at Port Eliot. 2 vols. crown 8vo. price 30s. cloth.

[March 3, 1864. THIS Biography is in Twelve Books :—the first volume comprising the last two parliaments of James, and the first and second parliaments of Charles; and the second volume embracing the subsequent attempt to govern by prerogative, the third parliament, the endeavour to make its members after the dissolution responsible for their conduct in the House of Commons, and all the proceedings connected therewith up to Eliot's death in the Tower.

These, involving the first outbreak of the quarrel between Charles the First and his people, the impeachment of Buckingham, the debates on

the Petition of Right, and all that ensued on the murder of the favourite, are the principal historical incidents treated in the volumes; but, frequently as these have been handled in previous works, they receive here an extraordinary amount of new illustration from the private and unpublished papers to which the Author has had access. By use of the same papers, aided by a mass of unpublished manuscript documents in the State Paper Office, the personal history of Sir John Eliot, hitherto involved in much obscurity, is at last revealed. His administration of the affairs of his Vice-Admiralty; his disputes with officers of state; his early imprisonments; his relations with Buckingham up to the time of their final separation; and the extraordinary efforts made afterwards by the King and the Duke to ruin him; are related in their details, until now unknown. And, to the later incidents of Eliot's life, a large amount of new illustration, perhaps more interesting from its more private

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character, is supplied. His life and death in the Tower, with the preceding interval between the enactment of the Petition of Right and the extraordinary scene at the dissolution of the third parliament, are copiously set forth by means of upwards of two hundred original letters which now first see the light, drawn from the papers still remaining at his family seat of Port Eliot.

Other contributions made by the work to the history of this all-important period are succinctly stated in the Author's preface, which is as follows.

The only excuse I can offer for the extent and bulk of the present book is, that it is not a reproduction, under altered forms, of materials already accessible in existing books, but is an entirely new contribution to the knowledge of the period I treat of, and to the means of judging correctly its actors and events.

If any one had told me when I began, now very many years ago, the study of the popular movement against the Stuart princes in the seventeenth century, that there existed in the archives of one English family the still inedited papers of the most eloquent leader of the first three parliaments of Charles the First; that among these papers, numbering between two and three hundred original letters, lay the familiar correspondence of Sir John Eliot with such men as Hampden, Selden, Bevil Grenvile, Richard Knightley, Sir Oliver Luke, Sir Robert Cotton, Edward Kyrton, Sir William Armyne, Sir Dudley Digges, Sir Henry Marten, Benjamin Valentine, Lords Warwick and Lincoln, Bishop Hall, and many others; that they contained an elaborate Memoir, written by Eliot, with innumerable abstracts of speechies not elsewhere reported, of the first and least known (but by no means least memorable) parliament of Charles's reign, as well as careful and ample notes, taken by Eliot in the House of Commons, of the principal incidents of the second parliament; that they contributed to the illustration of the momentous matters debated then and in Charles's third parliament, as well as in the last of James, no less than twenty important speeches actually spoken by Eliot himself and not reported in any of the histories, together with revised and much amended copies of the only three great speeches forming all that were before believed to have survived of this master of eloquence; and that finally they included, with other interesting fragments found after Eliot's death in his prison, touching personal appeals in vindication of the course taken by him, intended for a later time, and notes for a speech against the violation of the public liberties by his imprisonment, which he proposed to have spoken in the parliament that did not meet until he had been eight years in his grave; if, I say, it

had been stated to me that such manuscript treasures as these were lying in the old family mansion still occupied by the descendants of Sir John Eliot, I should hardly have dared to think credible what I too eagerly should have desired to believe. But everything thus briefly described, and much more, the reader will find in the volumes before him.

The Earl of St. Germans entrusted to my unreserved use, two years ago, the whole of these priceless family papers; and I can only hope that this book, which owes its existence to the confidence so placed in me, may be found to justify it. For thus alone is it possible that proper acknowledgment may be made for a service to which any mere expression of thanks would be altogether inadequate.

'It is right I should add that the same desire to see justice done to his great ancestor induced Lord St. Germans several years ago, when he was yet Lord Eliot, to submit portions of these papers (comprising letters only) to Mr. D'Israeli, then engaged in his Commentaries on the Life of Charles the First, and that this led to the publication, at that time, of what was termed "the Eliot correspondence." It consisted of seven entire letters and five fragments of letters by Eliot; of eight written by Hampden; of a short letter by Holles; and of a portion of one by Scawen; all, with exception of Hampden's, printed so incorrectly, and with such extraordinary omissions, as to be in reality of little worth. These matters find notice, with due correction, in their proper place in the biography, and are only mentioned here because of the statement put forth at the time by Mr. D'Israeli, to explain his having limited himself to the selection of less than twenty letters out of a volume containing more than a hundred and fifty.

He speaks of the labour which the examination of that book of manuscripts had cost him, as the toil of many a weary morning, dimming his eyes with "all such writing as was never read.” The letters of Hampden only he found to be legible, and it delighted him to think that by his hand his country would possess memorials of Eliot and of his friend, of which no other remains were known to exist. But great should be the glory, he told his readers, for the strife had been hard. "The autographs of Sir John long proved "too hard for my deciphering. Days, weeks, "and months passed, and I was still painfully conning the redundant flourishes and the tortuous alphabet of Sir John, till the volume was "often closed in the agony of baffled patience. I "renewed my apologies for detaining a volume "precious in the domestic archives of St. Germans. The unlimited indulgence relieved my "wearisome repugnance, and, zealous to obtain

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