A new and improved Edition of Mr. W. B. KESTEVEN'S Manual of the Domestic Practice of 'Medicine' is nearly ready.-The work has been thoroughly revised; many additions, corrections, and omissions have been made, so as to render a second edition more exactly adapted to domestic use, its object not being to teach the science of medicine, but to give plain practical instruction to those who, not having medical aid immediately within reach, may nevertheless have occasion to treat disease, accidents, and slight maladies which may be cured by the mother or nurse if provided with such information as the Author has endeavoured to give in this book.

A New Edition of The Philosophy of Health, • being an Exposition of the Physiological and Sanitary Conditions conducive to Human Longevity and Happiness,' by the late SOUTHWOOD SMITH, M.D. will be ready early in December, in 1 vol. 8vo. with New Plates. This work, first published in two volumes, in which shape it passed through ten editions, will now be issued in a new form, the greater part of the work re-written, and much new matter added by the Author prior to his decease. The Plates to accompany this edition have been prepared under professional superintendence.

A New Work on the STEAM ENGINE, entitled 'A Handbook of the Steam Engine.' By JOHN BOUrne, C.E. Author of A Treatise on the Steam Engine,' and 'A Catechism of the Steam Engine,' is nearly ready for publication. This work is complementary to the Author's Catechism of the Steam Engine,' and its main purpose is to show in what manner the principles enunciated in that work are to be practically applied. It consists, consequently, chiefly of practical rules illustrated by examples worked out at length, exemplifying the manner in which every calculation connected with the steam engine is to be performed; and these elucidations are easily followed and easily applied to other cases presenting themselves for solution. The latest scientific discoveries in topics bearing on the steam engine, and the latest practical improvements in construction or configuration, are embodied or described; and the rules and examples given are illustrative of the newest and most approved methods of the present time in every department of steam engineering.

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New Elementary Work on ARITHMETIC.Nearly ready, in 12mo. A Graduated Course of 'Practical Arithmetic for the use of Schools.' By JOHN HERBERT, Master of Lady Joanna Thornhill's School, Wye. PART I. the First Four Rules. To be followed by PART II. the Higher Operations.

ISBISTER'S COLLEGE EUCLID.-Just ready, in 12mo. The College Euclid, comprising the first Six 'Books and the portions of the Eleventh and Twelfth 'Books read at the Universities, chiefly from the Text of Dr. Simson.' By A. K. ISBISTER, M.A. Head Master of the Stationers' Company's School. The chief features of this edition will be a new arrangement of the figures and demonstrations; the enunciations of the proportions given separately for self-examination apart from the text; notes and questions on each book; and a series of geometrical problems for solution from the most recent University Examination Papers.

Mr. TEGETMEIER, formerly Secretary to the Apiarian Society, has prepared a practical treatise on the management of bees, to be entitled the Handbook of Profitable Bee-keeping: with an APPENDIX on the 'Fallacies of the Times Bee Master.' In addition to the details of all the most approved methods followed in England and Scotland, it will contain an account of the new mode of management which has given so great an impetus to bee-keeping in Germany; a notice of all the most approved hives, both British and foreign, and of the newly introduced variety of bee known as the Ligurian (Apis Ligustica). The work will be illustrated by engravings on wood, and will be ready early in the Spring.

STEVENS and HOLE'S SCHOOL SERIES.- Preparing for publication, The Ready Writer: a Course of Eighteen carefully graduated Narrative Copy-Books, designed to meet, as far as possible, the Writing ' requirements of the several Standards of the Revised Code, and generally to lead to good and correct Writing. By HENRY COMBES, Head Master of the Poplar and Blackwall Free School, London; and E. T. STEVENS and CHARLES HOLE, Editors of the 'Grade Lesson Books,' &c. The chief peculiarities of these COPY BOOKS will be as follows. The first four numbers have a copy in black letter, and a line in dotted letters on every half page. The next four and number 11 have a continuous interesting narrative engraved for a copy on every other line throughout the books. The alternate lines in three of these are to be traced over. Numbers 9 and 10 have transcription exercises, to be written in small round hand, Number interleaved alternately in script and print.

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the subject of Parliamentary Reform was first mooted.

The object of EARL RUSSELL's Introduction is to give some account of the working of that reformed legislation of which it is not too much to say that it has changed the face of the land, and raised a barrier against merely speculative and revolutionary changes, stronger than any which the old legislation could have presented.

In the course of the Introduction, EARL RUSSELL gives his judgment on some points which are subjects of anxious debate. The legislation of the last forty years has confined the list of capital offences to those of murder and high treason; it has reduced the number of executions from an average of 56 in 1823 (one in 229,177 of the population) to an average of 11 in 1852-62 (one in 1,711,434). But while the Author questions not the right of a State to inflict the punishment of death, or its expediency in certain conditions of society, he doubts whether murder is prevented by retaining the punishment for eight or ten persons in a year, and comes to the conclusion that nothing would be lost to justice if the punishment were altogether abolished.

The suffrage, EARL RUSSELL believes, can be extended on good old English principles, and in conformity with good old English notions of representation; but the theory that every man ought to have a vote, weighed always according to a sort of handicap, seems to him visionary in the extreme. His reasons against this theory are given at some length; while the real dangers attendant on the introduction of changes in the franchise law are also pointed out.

A New Latin-English Dictionary, abridged from the larger Latin-English Dictionary of WHITE and RIDDLE. By JOHN T. WHITE, M.A. of C. C. C. Oxford; Joint-Author of the larger work. Medium 8vo. pp. 1,048, price 188. cloth. [February 14, 1865.

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IIE present Dictionary has been prepared with the view of supplying a work which would satisfy all the requirements of students not travelling out of the ordinary course of reading. Such words as are found only in Glossaries, in the existing Fragments of early authors like NAVIUS, in Ecclesiastical writers, and in the postclassical productions of AMMIAN, PETRONIUS, APPULEIUS, &c. are generally omitted, save only so far as they are the foundation of others occurring in Classical literature. For instance: the adjective affuber, found only in the Glossary of Festus, and in the late-Latin Author SYMMACHUS, is inserted, as being the word from which the Ciceronian adverb affabre is obtained. In like

manner the Digests supply triga, from which LIVY and PLINY have their trigarius; and the adjective trifarius, used only by APPULEIUS, SOLINUS, and CASSIODORUS, is retained as being necessary to the formation of the adverb trifariam used by LIVY. But with this exception, this Dictionary contains in a condensed shape the information afforded in the parent-work, with which it corresponds in all its main features. The same method of giving the literal or etymological meaning of words has been adopted, the several English equivalents have been arranged in corresponding order, and for the most part one example of each mode of construction has been retained.

Of the alterations, which are very few, the principal are those connected with Etymology. In this part of the Dictionary the Author has, while exercising his own judgment, availed himself of the assistance obtainable from the works of Bopp, CORSSEN, CURTIUS, LEO MEYER, MAX MÜLLER, and POTT, which either have been re-edited, or have appeared wholly or in part since the early months of the year 1862.

With a view of rendering certain philological principles adopted in the larger work more available in this Abridgment, such Italian and French words as were there given in a separate Appendix have now been transferred to the end of the several articles to which they respectively belong; while very many fresh instances of the affinity existing between the Italian, French, and Latin languages have been added.

Great attention has been paid to the division of words, at the ends of lines, in accordance with their formation on the principle of Base, Suffix, and Connecting Vowels. This division has been made in the case of each language occurring throughout the whole body of the work.

Mr. MAX MÜLLER, M.A. Taylorian Professor of Modern European Language and Literature in the University of Oxford, has the following Note at page 290 of his SECOND SERIES of Lectures on the Science of Language (published in July 1864), in reference to the larger work, from which the present volume is compiled and abridged:-'These passages are taken from "WHITE and RIDDLE'S Latin-English Dictionary," a work which deserves the highest credit for the careful and thoughtful manner in which the meanings of each 'word are arranged and built up architecturally, story by story.'

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The following favourable opinions of the present work, formed by the Head Masters of Public Schools, have been received by the Publishers :

From Rev. Dr. COLLIS, Bromsgrove.

I have to thank you for a very serviceable-looking Dictionary, abridged from the large WHITE and RIDdle. The cost of the latter has hitherto deterred me from introducing it here. I shall, however, largely use the

abridged one, which is very capital in its typography as well as the arrangement of its contents. The way in which the meanings are regularly deduced, and the excellence of the etymologies, render it superior to any Latin Lexicon I have yet seen.

From Rev. Dr. MAJOR, King's College, London.

I am very much obliged to you for your kind and valuable present of Mr. WHITE's smaller Latin Dictionary. It appears to me so carefully prepared and accurately printed, and also in so compendious and convenient a form, that I should augur that it will soon take precedence of all others for ordinary use. From the Rev. E. ST. JOHN PARRY, M. A. Leamington.

I have to acknowledge with thanks the valuable Dictionary which I have just received. I have a very high opinion of Mr. WHITE's larger work, from which this is abridged; and consider it unrivalled in arrangement and execution. This smaller Dictionary will be very useful to the higher boys in schools, who require something of philology and methodical classification of the meanings of words.

Historical Studies. By HERMAN MERIVALE. 8vo. pp. 480, price 12s. 6d. cloth. [February 13, 1865. THIS work is partly composed of original Essays, THIS on subjects chiefly connected with foreign European history; partly of papers contributed by the writer during the last few years to reviews and other periodical works, but recast and in great measure rewritten in combination with the former. In the first part of the volume, styled Essays on some of the Precursors of the French Revolution,' an attempt has been made, in the form of biography, criticism, and dialogue, to convey the views of the Author as to some portions of a great subject the characters and achievements of those distinguished monarchs, statesmen, and men of letters of the last half of the eighteenth century who, by their reforms, their political activity, or their influence on the minds of men, may be said to have prepared the way for the first French Revolution. It comprises sketches of the life and character of JOSEPH the SECOND of Germany, and CATHERINE the SECOND of Russia; of PASCAL PAOLI; of VOLTAIRE, ROUSSEAU, and GOETHE,

considered in their relation to each other and to European progress: and an attempt to place in contrast the characteristics of opposite political schools, in the form of a Dialogue between BENJAMIN FRANKLIN and JOSEPH DEMAIStre.

The second division consists of sketches of the European history of the seventeenth century, connected with each other as different scenes in the great drama enacted in France, England, and Germany during the religious wars and revolutions of its first moiety (the Streets of Paris, and Visits to the Battle-fields of Lützen and of Marston Moor).

The third section, entitled the 'Leisure Hours of a Tourist,' is miscellaneous only, containing unconnected essays in which the endeavour is made to unite the historical impressions produced by celebrated scenes, with the observations occasioned by the aspects of the scenes themselves (the Landscape of Ancient Italy as delineated in the Frescoes of Pompeii; the Scenery and Antiquities of Cornwall; a Visit to Malta; &c.)

History of the Romans under the Empire. By CHARLES MERIVALE, B.D. Rector of Lawford; Chaplain to the Speaker of the House of Commons. New Edition. VOL. I. post 8vo. pp. 456, with Map, and VOL. II. price 6s. each Volume, in cloth. To be continued monthly, and completed in Eight Volumes. [Jan. 31, Feb. 28, 1865.

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HIS edition of Mr. MERIVALE'S History of the Romans under the Empire, will be completed in eight volumes, of cabinet size, uniform with the post octavo edition of Lord MACAULAY'S History of England. With the full text, it will also contain all the maps which illustrate the library edition.

The first volume gives an account of the civil and military contests which preceded the fall of the Republic, and brings the history from the death of SULLA to the return of CESAR from his second invasion of Britain. The second volume is mainly devoted to CESAR's trans-Alpine campaign, his policy and his legislation, his last triumph, the conspiracy against his life, and his assassination, beneath the statue of POMPEIUS, on the Ides of March, B.C. 45-44.