intended abandonment of the chair, which it was impossible to resist. He accordingly consented to recal his resignation.

Though much enfeebled in body, he presided at the annual great dinner of the Academy prior to the opening of the exhibition in 1846, and, as was his custom on those occasions, exhibited those rare powers of oratory for which he was remarkable. The unexpected death of Lady Archer Shee, however, within two days of that ceremonial, was a blow from the effects of which he never rallied so far as to be able to resume the active discharge of his official functions, for which his gradually failing health had already partially incapacitated him. His mind, however, remained clear, and his judgment vigorous to the last; and though living in strict seclusion at Brighton, he was regularly referred to by the Academy for his advice and direction on all points of exceptional interest or importance; and on such occasions never failed to respond to the appeal with all the vigour of reasoning and accuracy of judgment that marked his best years.

He died on the 19th August, 1850, having completed his 80th year on the 20th of the previous month of December.

The facts and incidents sketched above are in the biography fully illustrated by extracts from Sir M. A. Shee's works and correspondence, by various official documents, and by many details of more or less interest within the personal knowledge of the biographer. The work contains incidental notices and anecdotes connected with some of Sir Martin's most eminent contemporaries, and the social and political memories of the periods in which they flourished. Among the names which occur in connexion with the history of Sir Martin's official and personal career, or the records of his correspondence, will be found those of the late King, the late Earl Grey, the late Sir Robert Peel, the Marquis Wellesley, Sir Robert Inglis, the late Lord Abinger, the late Lord Denman, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Moore, Sydney Smith, Sharon Turner, &c.

Memoirs of Major-General Sir Henry Havelock,
K.C.B.
By JOHN
CLARK MARSHMAN.
Pp. 472; with Portrait, Map, and 2 Plans.
8vo. price 12s. 6d. cloth.

[April 16, 1860. THE HE memoir opens with a description of Havelock's early tuition at Ingress Park, and his subsequent education at the Charterhouse. It then adverts to his preparations for the bar under the instructions of the most eminent special pleader of the day, Mr. Chitty, and to the circumstances which led to his entering the army at the age of twenty; to the laborious and en

thusiastic study of his profession, and to the acquisition of that fund of professional knowledge which laid the foundation of his future eminence and renown. Despairing of active employment in England, he exchanged into the 13th Foot, embarked for India, and within a twelvemonth was engaged in the Burmese war, of which he published a narrative. These duties in the field were succeeded by twelve years of duty in the office and the cantonment, and by the most active exertions for the spiritual improvement of his men. This period of comparative inaction was filled up with incidents which are fully described in the memoir; and it was also marked by his earnest but unsuccessful endeavours to rise beyond the grade of lieutenant, in which he was kept for seventeen years by constant supersessions. At length, after twenty-two years of a subaltern's life, he obtained a company at the age of 42, and immediately after accompanied the Affghan expedition as aide-de-camp to General Cotton. Of this campaign he likewise published a history. From this period, his military labours, from our entry into Cabul to our expulsion from it, are fully described, as well as his eminent services in the engagement of the 7th of April, which relieved Jellalabad, and in the brilliant action at Istaliff, planned and executed by him, though the honours fell to the lot of his general. His exertions at Maharajpore, and in the three actions on the banks of the Sutlej, in the first Sikh war, are next dwelt upon; services for which the Duke of Wellington rewarded him with the post of Adjutant-General of the Forces at Bombay. He was unable to take a share in the second Sikh war, but copious extracts are given from the commentary he wrote on the strategy of that campaign, which, coming from so high a military authority, will be appreciated equally by the soldier and the histo

rian.

At Bombay, his health broke down, and he was constrained to return to Europe to recruit it, and large extracts are given from his animated and interesting correspondence while in England and in Germany. Returning to India, he was appointed by Lord Hardinge, successively, Quarter-Master General and Adjutant-General of Queen's troops in India. At length, in the 62nd year of his age he obtained a divisional command in the Persian expedition, which was cut short by an early pacification; but a minute description is given of the arrangement by which he secured the capture of Mohumra, the most important transaction of that brief campaign. Returning to India, he heard of the mutiny, and was sent up to Allahabad to stem the current of revolt, and to relieve Wheeler and Lawrence. The Memoir gives a more detailed description than has yet appeared of the unexampled operations of the few weeks, which were rendered

memorable by twelve triumphs, and have placed Sir Henry Havelock in the foremost rank of our national heroes. Then, when the object for which he had made these exertions was completed, by the withdrawal of the garrison and the women and children, he sunk into the grave, from the effect of exhaustion and fatigue; and the heroes whom he had led from the Alumbagh through "the streets of fire" to the Residency, conveyed his remains from Lucknow to the Alumbagh. The broad outline of Havelock's career has been presented in other works to the public; and the object of the present volume, therefore, is to fill up the picture with interesting details. It exhibits him as a scholar, a soldier, and a Christian, by copious extracts from his correspondence and his writings, and by a full narrative, drawn from authentic sources, of the military operations of the last ten months of his life, in which he was permitted, for the first time, to enjoy the direction of affairs.

THIS is the biography of a distinguished ecclesiastic, who for a long series of years presided over the well-known Catholic College of Oscott, near Birmingham. The work incidentally fur. nishes the early history of that College, which has never been given before in a connected form, and was indeed but imperfectly known even by those educated within its walls. Monsignor Weedall was identified with the College throughout its course, having been domiciliated within it as a student almost from its foundation, and having gradually risen to the honour of presiding over it. It was he also who built and organised the New College, which he governed with dignity and efficiency, and where he ended a life of distinguished merit and ability in the month of November last. The work follows chronologically the life of Monsignor Weedall; the author having known him from boyhood, and lived much and intimately with him. But as the late prelate was particularly eminent as a preacher, copious extracts are given from his sermons, of which only a few, delivered on special occasions, have been published. The biography extends over a period of seventy years, and will be found to embody notices of most of the leading persons and events during those years in the history of Catholic affairs in England.

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a Series of

Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers : Excursions by Members of the Alpine Club. An Edition comprising all the Mountain Expeditions and the Maps, printed in a condensed form adapted for the Traveller's pocket. Edited by JOHN BALL, M.R.I.A., F.L.S., President of the Alpine Club. 16mo. pp. 344, price 5s. 6d. half-bound.

[May 25, 1860.

IT has been frequently suggested by members of the Alpine Club and other Alpine travellers, that an edition of "Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers," in a portable form suitable for carrying in the knapsack, without the coloured plates, but with the maps, would be a convenient travelling manual for explorers in the higher regions of the Alps. The present edition has therefore been prepared for this purpose, and will, it is hoped, be found an acceptable publication by the general reader, who may be glad to have this series of narratives of adventurous expeditions among the Swiss mountains brought within his reach at a more moderate price, although without the attraction of the coloured views.

The new tariff of the Chamounix Guides is included in the volume, and will doubtless be found a useful assistance by those who carry the volume with them in their excursions.

Professor Ramsay's paper on the Ancient Glaciers of Wales being more suited to travellers in Wales, is published separately for that purpose.

Lectures on the History of England delivered at Chorleywood. By WILLIAM LONGMAN. LECTURE II. comprising an account of the Feudal System, and of the Origin of the Laws and Government of England. 84; with a coloured plate and 10 woodcut illustrations. 8vo. price 2s. sewed.

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the first lecture of this series, which contains an abstract of English history from the earliest times to the death of King John, A.D. 1216, it was attempted to combine a rapid narrative of the civil and military transactions with picturesque notices of the manners and customs of our ancestors, and glimpses of their social life. The origin of the division of England into counties, parishes, &c., and the origin of the names of places is treated at some length. In the second lecture the narrative of events is suspended, and a careful summary is presented of the early institutions of England, comprising an account of the origin of the English laws and

3. The Pusey Horn.

4. Tournament, from Froissart, Harl. MSS. 4379. 5. Knights Jousting (Roman du Saint Graal, Royal MSS. 14 E. III.)

6. William I. granting Lands in Richmondshire to Alan, Count of Brittany, from Cotton MSS. Faustina, B. vii.

7. Witenagemote (Cotton MSS. Claudius, B. iv.) 8. Parliament of King Edward the First.

9. The King, with his Privy Council, from an Illuminated MS.

10. Ordeal Combat, or Trial by Battle (Royal MSS. 14 E. III.)

11. Great Seal of Edward the Confessor (British Museum.)

The feudal system is first described, and shown to be founded on the ownership of land. The origin of landed property is traced, allodial and feudal laws are defined, their suitability to ancient times is pointed out, and the system of vassalage explained. Feudal customs, which mostly arose from the obligation of military service, are reviewed, and the abuses and good effects of the system are stated. Chivalry is shown to have sprung from feudalism; the investiture of a knight is described; and an account of tournaments is added. The power of the barons and its abuses are stated; how liberty resulted from the struggles of each rank with that above it, and the interference of Magna Charta to prevent abuses of power, is explained. The way in which William the Conqueror introduced the feudal system is related, and further information given as to the tenure of land and the division of the nation into classes. A section is assigned to the government of the country, the making of laws, and putting laws in force, including the origin of the parliamentary system, and the separation of parliament into House of Lords and House of Commons: the importance of this element of the English constitution is distinctly shown. A section is devoted to the administration of justice, the origin of the laws of England, and the mode of enforcing them. The King's Court is next described; its division into other courts, and the origin of the Courts of Exchequer, Common Pleas, and King's Bench; and the contrivances for removing business from one court into another. An account of the Court of Chancery follows, its origin and jurisdiction; and the law administered in this court founded on the Roman law. The Lord Chan

cellor's office is defined, the use of the Great Seal is explained, and examples are adduced of remedies provided by the Court of Chancery. The further arrangements for the administration of justice rendered necessary by the Courts sitting at Westminster only are mentioned; the origin of judges going on circuit is described; and a copious section follows on Trial by Jury, tracing it to its origin and pointing out its importance as a security for the impartial administering of justice. A section is given to the Ecclesiastical Courts and Doctors' Commons; explaining the jurisdiction of the Civil Law Courts over marriages, wills, and spiritual concerns, as well as over crimes committed on the high seas. conclusion the lecturer states that the Saxons tried to embody the laws in complete codes, and that the same attempt has been repeatedly made in England in more recent times without success; although codes have been framed and found to aid and simplify the administration of the laws in various continental states; and it is shown that a complete code of English Law would be of great value.

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Lord Brougham's Law Reforms; comprising the Acts and Bills introduced or carried by him through the Legislature since 1811: With an Analytical Review of them. By Sir J. E. EARDLEY WILMOT, Bart. Fep. 8vo. pp. 276, price 4s. 6d. cloth. [May 7, 1860.

THIS is a reprint in a more portable and com

pendious form, and with some additions, of Sir Eardley Wilmot's "Historical Review of Lord Brougham's Legislative Career as a Social and Legal Reformer from 1811 to the present time." Commencing with the call of the veteran statesman to the English bar in 1807, it follows him step by step through the various periods of his extraordinary life, marked as it is in every stage by some gigantic effort on behalf of national progress and freedom, and in furtherance of the advancement of civilisation. The work traces the course of each improvement from its earliest source, through all the obstacles thrown in its way by prejudice and interest, until at length the views of its originator having gained the aid of public opinion, became registered in the Statute Book. Nor is this all; for in this little volume will be found a description of many useful and valuable reforms still unwrought and unaccomplished, a rich mine of future wealth as yet unrealised, to which the advocate of progress has ready access. The object of the present publication is to promote and assist law amendment; while it cannot but increase, in a great degree, the admiration and respect of the public for him whose career is thus utilised for this good purpose.

Astro-Theology. By HENRY MOSELEY, M.A., F.R.S., Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen, &c.; formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in King's College, London; Author of "Illustrations of Practical Mecha

Lyra Domestica: Christian Songs for Domestic Edification. Translated from the Psaltery and Harp of C. J. P. SPITTA, by RICHARD MASSIE. Fep. 8vo. pp. 158, price 4s. 6d. cloth. [April 28, 1860. THE author of these hymns, C. J. P. Spitta,

price 4s. 6d. cloth.

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[May 26, 1860.

numerous passages of Scripture there are ascribed to the Almighty, in the work of creation, the exercise of faculties and powers analogous to those which we are accustomed to associate with the operation of human agents. It is the object of this work to inquire in an elementary and popular way, and by reference to common phenomena, whether there is not a like analogy to be found in the book of nature. The causes of these several phenomena are discussed at length, no previous knowledge of those causes being supposed in the reader; and as they include all the more remarkable phenomena of Astronomy and Meteorology, the work may be considered a popular treatise on those sciences, and also an introduction to Natural Theology. It is divided into short chapters, of which the following are the subjects. The Isolation of Earth in Space

Church. He was born at Hanover in 1801, and died in 1859. The first edition of his work, entitled Psalter und Harfe, was published at Leipsic in 1833, and soon obtained a wide reputation and popularity. The hymns were originally written with a view to provide Christian households with a manual of hymns as aids to devotion and piety. Most of them have been set to music; and a few adapted to congregational singing. The volume embraces a considerable variety of subjects relating to Christian doctrine, morality, and experience. The titles of the hymns are as follows: Up psaltery and harp. Morning. Evening. Evening Devotion. Joy in Creation.

The Beauty of Nature.
Consider the lilies of the
Winter.
[field.

The Appearance of Christ.
Patience.

The Servant of the Lord. Strong in faith, rich in love. Salvation is come to this

house.

The Word of Life.
The Life of Faith.
Unity in the Spirit.
The Blessing of Christian
fellowship.
Comfort in the Night.

The book is printed uniformly with Miss Winkworth's well-known and popular Lyra Germanica.

Sacred Musings

I. On the Threefold Life of Man.
II. On the Voice of the Spirit.

III. On the Distribution of Truth.

IV. On the Church and on the Aspects of Grace.
V. On a Catholic National Church.

Thoughts on the Atonement.

On the Symbolic Language of Scripture.
Detached Thoughts.

On the Destiny of Woman.

The Musings on the "Threefold Life of Man " are embellished with an Emblem of the "Three Lives or Human Tri-Unity in which Man was Created," and an ancient ecclesiastical Emblem of the "Divine Tri-Unity of the Most Holy One." The detached thoughts or meditations, like the rest of the volume, are of a deeply devotional cast. The whole work treats of topics on which the writer, from the elevated yet practical tone of her mind, was peculiarly qualified to speak; subjects, it may be added, to the consideration of which the leisure of her long life was constantly devoted. The PREFACE is in substance an exhortation to the study of the Bible and a defence of its authority; concluding with a recommendation of Mrs. Schimmel Penninck's writings as well calculated to stimulate to devout study and to point the way to many a profitable path.

among others, viz., "God," "Man," "Divine Order," "Christianity," "Form," "The Will and the Understanding," ," "Conscience," "Free Will,” "Faith," ""The Jewish Church," "The Apostolic Church," "The Divine Trinity," &c. All these topics are of necessity treated briefly, but, it is hoped, never lightly; and the brevity of the essays is intended to make the book suggestive, by setting the reader to work out a train of thought which may carry him farther and higher than this or any book could carry him. The writer notices in one of his chapters, "there is unmistakeably abroad a solicitude and restlessness, bespeaking the wakefulness of religious thought;" and it is in part to meet this solicitude and restlessness, and to endeavour to turn the energy of which they are the manifestation into worthy channels, that his book has been written.

Poems: including the "City of the Dead." By JOHN COLLETT, late of Wadham College, Oxford. Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Fep. 8vo. pp. 182, price 5s. cloth. [May 24, 1860. THE THE longest poem of this collection, named in the title, contains in 330 lines the fruit of the Author's musings over the ruins of Thebes; with a few illustrative notes. Some of the pieces which follow are, like the City of the Dead, of a descriptive as well as meditative cast. Others apostrophise the memory of men of genius, as Byron and Macaulay. Several are drawn from personal experience of life, especially in sickness and domestic affliction. The volume closes with eleven short poems on sacred subjects.

Virginia's Hand: a Poem. By MARGUERITE A. POWER, Author of "Letters of a Betrothed." Fep. 8vo. pp. 198, price 5s. cloth.

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[April 7, 1860. HE subject of this poem may be regarded as the representation of the influence of feeling and the influence of intellect, in the form of art, on two natures widely distinct in their mental characteristics, though closely allied in their human sympathies; the divergence arising from such distinction, and the final blending of the two idiosyncrasies into an harmonious unity, where each is made to complete and perfect the other. The groundwork of the story is of the simplest kind. Arthur, the orphan son of a sculptor, whose mother also has died in giving him birth, is, in his childhood, brought up by the wife of a mountain shepherd. Later he is adopted by an uncle and aunt,- his mother's sister, and a boy