The Middle-Class Examinations of 1864.Early in the Spring will be published a School Edition of WORDSWORTH'S Excursion, Book I. edited by the Rev. C. H. BROMBY, M A. late Scholar of St. John's College, Cambridge, and Principal of the Normal Training College, Cheltenham; preceded by a full Preface on the Analysis of Sentences, and accompanied by Critical, Grammatical, and Explanatory Notes, with Specimen-Lessons of Analysis, Parsing, and Paraphrasing. Specially prepared for the use of Pupils qualifying for the Middle-Class Examinations of the present year. This volume is planned to contain all that is necessary to learn upon the subject of Analysis of Sentences. The real essentials of this branch of grammar have, it is believed by the Editor, been here condensed intelligibly into a few pages. The true principles of paraphrasing also, exercises in which are now universally required of candidates for certificates of merit, as well as of the candidates for Civil Service appointments and Middle-Class Examinations are made clear by model examples. The FIRST BOOK of WORDSWORTH'S Excursion being recognised as a standard by which to examine and test the proficiency of Pupils in almost all normal schools, it is confidently believed that this Poem may be introduced with great propriety and advantage for the same purpose into grammar schools and young ladies' seminaries.

WHITE and RIDDLE'S Latin School Dictionaries. --Preparing for publication, I.-'An Advanced LatinEnglish Dictionary, for the use of Upper Form Pupils, and University Students,' and II. A Junior Latin-English Dictionary, for the use of Junior Pupils and the Lower Forms in Grammar Schools'; both works abridged from WHITE and RIDDLE's new and copious 'Latin-English Dictionary,' by Rev. JOHN T. WHITE, M.A. Joint- Author of the larger work.

The plan of both these ABRIDGMENTS corresponds in all essential features with that of the original work. A complete Lexicon of the Latin language from its earliest to its latest stages is, however, needed chiefly by persons whose reading extends beyond what are called the Classical Authors. The larger abridgment, in medium octavo, is designed, therefore, to illustrate fully the writers which are usually read in the Public Schools and Universities; and, accordingly, words and meanings of words, found only in Glossaries, Ecclesiastical Writers, and such Authors as AMMIAN, PETRONIUS, APPULEIUS, &c. have been omitted. The number of examples in each article is necessarily diminished; but enough has been left in every instance to elucidate the various modes of construction and the several shades of meaning through which each word has passed. Most of the proper names have been retained, and the etymology has been compared with various works on the subject, which have appeared, whether wholly or in part, within the last two years.

This larger ABRIDGMENT is now in the press, and is expected to be ready at Midsummer. The smaller ABRIDGMENT, for the use of Schoolboys and Junior Pupils, will be sent to press after the foregoing has been published.

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 samne Authors, now complete in Six PARTS or STANDARDS. 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 be published at a low price, but will be embellished with numerous attractive woodcuts.

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A popular Manual of the Geography of India,' designed for the use of Candidates for the India Civil Service Examinations, and as a general textbook of reference for persons engaged in the Indian service in general, civil or military, is in course of joint preparation by Professor LOTT, B.A. formerly of King's College, London, late Head Master of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy's Parsee Institution of Bombay; and WILLIAM HUGHES, F.R.G.S. Professor of Geography in King's College, and in Queen's College, London. In this volume the Authors aim at presenting a complete but concise account of the Physical, Historical, Civil, and Political Geography of British India, both within and beyond the Ganges; of the Islands of India, including the various members of the East Indian Archipelago, as well as those adjacent to the Indian mainland; the Native Kingdoms, both independent and protected; together with the Indian possessions of France and other European nations. The want of such a work has long been generally felt.

GLEIG'S SCHOOL SERIES. In the press and will be ready early in March. in 18mo. illustrated with 125 Diagrams, price One Shilling, An Elementary Treatise on Orthographic Projection and Isometrical Drawing,' by W. S. BINNS, M.C.P. Author of 'A Course of Geometrical Drawing:' forming part of the School Series in course of publication, edited by the Rev. G. R. GLEIG, M.A. Chaplain-General to Her Majesty's Forces. In this elementary work, the cheapest on the subject yet offered to the public, will be found a great variety of practical examples in the two branches of Geometrical Drawing of which it treats, forming an easy and useful intro. duction to the Author's more advanced work. The Engineer will find in it the delineation of Screws, Toothed Wheels, Shafts, Drums, &c. The Builder will find the representation of Plans, Elevations, Sectional Plans, and Sectional Elevations of Buildings, and the Projection of Staircases, &c. The Bricklayer will find the Methods of delineating Brickwork, &c. Instruction will also be given in constructing different Scales, and in laying down Drawings to scale, the whole forming an easy and practical exposition of the subjects of which it treats.

A 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 April. 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.

A New 'Middle-Class Atlas,' prepared expressly for the use of Schools and Colleges, also of Pupils qualifying for the Oxford and Cambridge and other University Local Middle-Class Examinations, by WALTER M LEOD, F.R.G.S. M.C.P. F.A.S.L. Head Master of the Model School and Master of Method in the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea,—will be published in the course of March, complete in One Volume, 4to. price 5s. cloth. This Atlas will contain twentynine MAPS drawn and engraved on steel by E. WELLER, F.R.G.S. and fully coloured, as follows:-1. The World; 2. Europe; 3. Physical Map of the British Isles; 4. England and Wales; 5. Scotland; 6. Ireland; 7. Spain and Portugal; 8. France; 9. Holland and Belgium; 10. Denmark; 11. Prussia and West Germany; 12. Switzerland; 13. Italy; 14. The Austrian Empire; 15. Turkey in Europe and Greece; 16. Russia in Europe; 17. Sweden and Norway; 18. Asia; 19. Turkey in Asia, and part of Persia; 20. Palestine; 21. India or Hindostan

and the Malay Peninsula; 22. Africa, part of Arabia, and Cape Colony; 23. North America; 24. British Colonies in North America; 25. United States; 26. West Indies and Central America; 27. South America and British Guiana; 28. Australia; 29. Australian Colonies.

MILTON'S MINOR POEMS for TRAINING COLLEGES and SCHOOLS. In the press, uniform with BOOK I. and Book II. of Milton's Paradise Lost, as prepared for School use by the same Editor, MILTON'S Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso, edited, with 'Notes and a Critical Introduction, by the Rev. J. 'HUNTER, M.A.' The First and Second Books of MILTON'S Paradise Lost, with Notes, for the use of teachers and students, having been favourably received, it has been resolved to prepare on the same plan an annotated edition of the best of MILTON'S M nor Poems, since these also are often included among the subjects prescribed to candidates for public Examinations. The work will, it is hoped, be found to explain many difficulties of language, allusion, &c. occurring in these poems, and to promote a right appreciation of many beauties that might not be duly discerned in an ordinary perusal.

In the Comus, L'Allegro, and Il Penseroso, we have poetry of an older school-older both in language and sentiment-than the Paradise Lost. An interval of thirty years, devoted to state affairs and political controversy, had elapsed between the production of the former poems and that of the great epic. To be acquainted, therefore, with the poetry of MILTON'S earlier days is to possess a necessary means of duly estimating his poetical character, as well as a treasury of thought productive of the highest enjoyment and utility to the literary mind.

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"THE novel is clever, it is even brilliant, it is written with a warm and vigorous eloquence, and the reader is carried on from scene to scene, and crisis to crisis, amused, interested, excited. If he takes up the book, he will read on to the end of the third volume and the destruction of the Temple.' The TIMES.

'A strong interest is infused into the Gladiators by the glimpses it gives us of the infant Christian Church.. The result is a book which clothes the dry bones of history with forms of beauty and strength, and animates them with

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the various movements and passions of humanity.'

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'THE school or Family of Gladiators is the centre round which the plot mainly revolves; and with which Mr. MELVILLE is thoroughly at home. The distinctness with which he has set these people before us amounts to a positive service to classical literature......A book, prepared with so much care, dealing with such great events, and abounding in briliant scenes and striking situations, well deserves a careful perusal.' GUARDIAN.

61. CHRIST ascending the Cross (Early Italian Miniature).

62. Sun and Moon at Crucifixion (Ancient Ivory).
63. Legend of LONGINUS (Belgian MS. 1310).
64. Early Crucifixion, with Thieves (Monza).
65. Bad Thief (Antonello da Messina).

66. The Crucifixion, with Church and Synagogue (Drawing, 16th century).

67. ADAM at foot of Cross (English MS, 14th century).

68. Colloquy between SATAN and PRINCE of Hell (MS. 14th century, Biblioteca Ambrogiana). 69. CHRIST at door of Hell (do.).

70. Jaws of Hell (Bible Historiée).

71. The Resurrection (Shrine of S. Albinus, Cologne). 72. Incredulity of THOMAS (Byzantine MS. 1200). 73. The Ascension (Early Ivory).

74. The Ascension (Ivory, 12th century).
75. Hohenlohe Siegmaringen Crucifix (front).
76. Hohenlohe Siegmaringen Crucifix (back).

77. Enamel Crucifix (in possession of the Hon. R. Curzon).

78. Agnus Dei (capital of column, S. Ambrogio,

Milan).

79. First and Second Person (Belgian MS.).

80. CHRIST in glory (Belgian MS).

81. Man of Sorrows (A. Dürer).

82. The Mass of St. GREGORY (School of Memling). 83. CHRIST enthroned (L. Vivarini).

84. Infant CHRIST (Luini).

85. CHRIST as Judge (French MS. 12th century).

Etchings.

1. Ivory Gospel Cover (6th century).

2. Ivory Diptych (14th century).

3. Creation of Angels and Fall of LUCIFER (French Bible, 15th century).

4. Diagram of the Universe (English MS. 14th century).

5. DAVID Killing the Lion (Byzantine MS. 9th century).

6. NATHAN before DAVID; DAVID repentant (do.). 7. Innocents, with Patron Saints (D. Ghirlandajo). 8. The Agony in the Garden (I. Italian Speculum, 14th century; II. Rembrandt Etching: 2 subjects).

9. CHRIST after the Flagellation (Velasquez). 10. Tree of the Cross (English MS. 14th century). 11. The Resurrection, the Maries at the Sepulchre (Early Ivory).

12. The Trinity (Memling).

History of the Reformation in Europe in the time of Calvin. By J. H. MERLE D'AUBIGNÉ, D.D. Author of the 'History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century.' VOL. III. France, Switzerland, Geneva. 8vo. pp. 588, price 12s. cloth. [May 27, 1864. IN

the third volume of this work, the Author takes up the life of CALVIN, from the time when he was compelled to leave Paris on account

of the persecution excited by Rector Cor's sermon, and carries it on until the eve of his journey to Italy. Within this period we witness the growth of the Reformer's character, his early missionary efforts in France, and the publication of his great work, The Institutes of the Christian Religion. At Angoulème, his first asylum, where the magnificent library of the DU TILLETS was placed at his disposal, he continued his theological studies, and began to try his wings in the field of controversy. He is described as exercising a particular charm over all who came near him, and his memory is still retained in the neighbourhood of the place where he preached his first sermon. He is next met with at Poitiers, where his evangelical opinions are adopted by the educated and highborn classes. Here his early antagonism to Popery shows itself in its most open form-almost to creating a schism in the infant church. This seat of learning was the centre of the first regular missionary campaign undertaken by the Reformers, CALVIN having consecrated two of his followers for that special work. The particulars of their journeys present a curious picture of France in the middle of the sixteenth century. Another phase of French life is given in the chapters devoted to Queen MARGARET, and the representation of her drama of The Nativity before the Court at Pau.

CALVIN now entirely separates from the Church of Rome, resigns his benefices, and proceeds to Paris, where he is brought into contact with the singular sect of the 'Libertines,' and with SERVETUS, whose opinions had compelled him to leave Germany. The first CALVIN refutes in a controversial tract; the second, after challenging the Reformer to a discussion, fails to keep his appointment. Still following CALVIN, we visit the Reformed Church at Strasburg, witness his interview with ERASMUS, and settle down with him at Berne, where he completes his Institutes, which he appears to have begun at Angoulème. careful analysis of this work, and of his letter to the King of France in defence of the persecuted evangelicals, closes the first half of the volume. Separate chapters are devoted to the progress of the Evangelical Church in Paris, and to the cruel sufferings inflicted upon the Reformed, in consequence of a certain placard, as it was called, written by FAREL and posted on every wall.

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The latter half of the volume is occupied with the political and religious struggles of Geneva, where, though the field is small, the principles involved embrace the whole world. FAREL, OLIVETAN, and FROMENT are its heroes; and the towns and villages of Neuchâtel and Vaud, with the Waldensian valleys of Piedmont, as well as the City of the Leman, are by turns the scene of important struggles. The attempts made by