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NEW volume of Sermons, chiefly on the Theory of Belief, by the Rev. J. T. BOONE, late Incumbent of St. John's, Paddington, will be published in October. This second and posthumous series of Mr. Boone's discourses will, it is believed, be found characterised by the depth of thought, logical grasp of argument, and brilliance of language which made their anthor known as an eloquent philosophical preacher and sound divine. By no preacher of the day were the prevailing forms of intellectual unbelief refuted with greater candour and acumen, and the truths of Christianity demonstrated with more consummate eloquence and force, than by Mr. Boone; and it is hoped that the selection from his sermons comprised in this forthcoming volume will adequately represent these his qualifications. In addition to those which more peculiarly illustrate the writer's special genius for speculative theology, the volume is diversified by a few sermons of a more practical kind.

THE CANADIAN RED RIVER and AS

SINNIBOINE and SASKATCHEWAN Exploring Expeditions. The Canadian Government having despatched, in the years 1857 and 1858, two expeditions, at a cost of £12,000, for the exploration of the southern part of Rupert's Land, or the basin of Lake Winnipeg, including the country within the limits of the new Crown Colony of Red River, as well as the region traversed by the proposed overland route from Canada to British Columbia, the narrative of those expeditions, drawn up by Mr. HENRY YOULE HIND, M.A., F.R. G.S, Professor of Chemistry and Geology in Trinity College, Toronto, who had charge of the second expedition, is preparing for publication by Messrs. Longman and Co. The explorations have extended over a large area of country never before described; in many parts never previously visited by white men, in others only by furtraders or their half-breed servants. The winter journey in 1858, from Fort Garry on Red River to Crow Wing on the Mississippi, was made over the snow in dog-carioles, part of the way in company with Lord Frederick Cavendish, the Hon. Evelyn Ashley, and Mr. Danby Seymour. The work will contain ample particulars of the physical geography, geology, and climate of the territory explored; and will be cmbellished with coloured maps, geographical and geological, and

numerous other illustrations, including striking waterfalls and picturesque mountain, river, and prairie scenery; portraits from photographs of the red natives and half-breeds, several fossil remains new to science, &c. A professional photographer was one of the staff of the second expedition, and opportunities were embraced to secure photographs of the native races, such as Plain or Prairie Crees, Swampy Crees, Ojibways, Cree and Ojibway half-breeds, &c.; besides Indian graves and wigwams, and scenery in Lord Selkirk's settlement on the Red River of the North. A series of thirty photographic views of the scenery, churches, and houses of the settlers at Selkirk settlement, and of Indian tents, Indian graves, and the native races, will be published simultaneously with this work by Mr. J. Hogarth, 5 Haymarket, London.

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new and greatly improved edition of "The Artisan Club's Treatise on the Steam Engine, in its application to Mines, Mills, Steam Navigation, and Railways," edited by JOHN BOURNE, C.E., will be published about Michaelmas. The work has been almost entirely re-written by Mr. Bourne, and comprises an account of the recent discoveries respecting the nature of heat, and particulars of the most important modern improvements in boilers and engines, including exam. ples of the most approved forms of apparatus for superheating the steam, and of the most noted engines for working with economy of fuel. A number of new plates and woodcuts have been added and substituted; an appendix has been introduced containing a large number of useful tables, practical specifications, and other important data; and the whole information which the work contains has been brought down to the present state of engineering science, so as to afford an accurate reflex of the most advanced condition of engineering practice in this country, so far as relates to the subject of the steam engine in its various adaptations to mines and waterworks,-to mills and to locomotion, and to the numerous miscellaneous purposes to which the steam engine is now applied.

A TREATISE ON MILLS AND MILL

WORK, by WILLIAM FAIRBAIRN, LL.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., Corresponding Member of the National Institute of France, &c., is in the press. This work is intended to discuss, in a simple and intelligible manner, the principles of construction, proportion, and strength of all the machinery falling within the province of the millwright; and to illustrate the machinery so described, and the general arrangement of various descriptions of mills by examples taken from the Author's own practice. It treats, first, of the mathematical principles of mechanism in general, and the elements of which the more complex machines are composed. In the next section prime-movers are discussed, beginning with those depending on water power. The principles of hydrostatics, the collection, measurement, storeage, and application of water are treated of at considerable length. The construction of the various forms of overshot, undershot, breast and Poncelet water-wheels, and the methods of ventilation are described. Turbines and the simpler water-pressure engines are also treated of, and especially that introduced by Mr. James Thomson, and known as the vortex wheel. The properties of steam are then considered, and a resumé is given of the Author's own experiments on the density of saturated steam and the expansion of superheated steam. The various forms of steam-engines and boilers employed in mills are illustrated. In the next section transmissive machinery is treated of, including framing, shafting, couplings, gearing and the principles of the formation of the teeth of the wheels. Another section is devoted to examples of various descriptions of mills, including corn mills, cotton, flax, and woollen mills; and lastly, other miscellaneous machinery usually constructed by the millwright, including cranes and machinery for lifting, will find a place. The treatise will form two volumes in 8vo., copiously illustrated with woodcuts and steel-plates.

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R. JOHN HENRY FREESE, formerly a merchant in London and Rio de Janeiro, now Director of the Collegiate Institution at Nova Friburgo, in Brazil, and author of the "Cambist's Compendiumi and other works of instruction, has prepared for the press a book which will shortly be published with the following title:-"Everybody's Book; or, Gleanings, "Serious and Entertaining, in Prose and Verse, from "the Scrap-Book of a Septuagenarian. Part I. Re"ligion; Christianity; Immortality; Eternity; Death; Life; Prayer. Part II. Education; Schools; School"masters. Part III. Woman; Love; Home; Happiness; Old Age: Poets of Persia: Duties of the "Affluent. Part IV. England and her Enemies; the "Two Napoleons. Part V. Apophthegms; Maxims; "Thoughts; Fragments; Miscellanies. Part VI. "United States of America; Brazil."

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new work on the Development of Chris

tian Architecture in Italy between the Fourth and Fifteenth Centuries inclusive, by W. SEBASTIAN OKELY, M.A., (F. Cam. Ph.S.) of Trinity College, Cambridge, and late Travelling Bachelor of the University, will be published in a few days. This work, which is intended for the information of general readers, is divided into three parts, treating respectively of the interiors, façades, and towers, of the Italian Churches. In each part the consecutive phases of the mechanical and decorative construction are described and illustrated in a series of sixteen Plates, and finally classified; and the agreement of this classification with the chronological order in which the different churches stand is pointed out. A separate treatise is added on Vaulting, in which almost all the varieties of Italian vaulting are passed in review, and methods of constructing some of the most ingenious and unique are stated.

"HALF-HOUR LECTURES on the History

and Practice of the Fine and Ornamental Arts" is the title of a crown 8vo. volume by Mr. WILLIAM B. SCOTT, Head Master of the Government School of Art, Newcastle-on-Tyne, which will be published in the Autumn, with 51 Woodcut Illustrations. This work is in substance a series of nineteen chapters or lectures conveying a popular and rapid history of the arts, commencing with the Christian era, and pursuing the various subjects through their successive stages of development down to the present day.

These lectures were originally delivered to senior students assembled in classes. When it was found that the general public took an equal interest in the course, they were revised for the press, and rendered more complete by a series of illustrations. A knowledge of the fine arts has gradually assumed importance, both as a branch of special education and as a polite accomplishment; yet there exists at present no manual of repute, text-book, or popular work of recognised authority, embracing the whole subject. Such an introductory view of the entire field of the fine and ornamental arts, especially in their application to manufactures, and chronologically complete within certain limits, it is Mr. ScorT's object in this volume to supply.

THE THE new edition of MAUNDERS' Geographical Treasury, now ready, has been carefully revised throughout, and such alterations made in its contents as were rendered necessary by the rapid advance of geographical knowledge since the date of its first appearance in 1856. This is more especially the case in regard to the political changes in Italy, the recent Aretic discoveries, and the African explorations by Burton and Speke. The changes which recent years have produced in the Colonial system of Britain-as in the case of the transfer of Indian rule consequent upon the late insurrection, the settlement of British Columbia, and the erection of Queensland into a distinct province-have been carefully noted by the author. The statistics throughout the volume, particularly the four Synoptical Tables of the four Quarters of the World, shewing the political divisions, population, &c. of each, have been carefully revised, and brought in every instance up to the latest date of information. Altogether, it is believed that the present edition of MAUNDERS' Geographical Treasury furnishes by far the completest epitome of the geography of the world in the present day.

THE new Latin-English Dictionary, by the Rev.

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J. T. WHITE, M.A. of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Rev. J. E. RIDDLE, M.A. of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, founded on the larger Dic. tionary of Freund, revised by himself, is advancing at press, and is expected to be ready for publication in the Autumn, in one large volume, royal 8vo. This Dictionary is not a mere revision of the American translation of the work of Freund. It is based on the larger Dictionary of Freund, revised by himself; that lexicographer having supplied towards the materials for the present book many corrections of his own Latin-German Dictionary, with various additions, which he amassed while preparing a new edition of that work. But beyond this it contains a very large amount of entirely new matter, derived from a careful use of modern criticism, and from laborious reference to the works of Latin authors in the best editions. Great pains have also been employed in making a really correct and philosophical arrange ment of meanings, without reliance on any existing authority; and much labour has been bestowed upon some elements of the work which are entirely new. Especial attention has been directed to the Etymology, as affording the only true key to the real meanings of words. This branch of the work has been elaborated throughout with continual reference to the latest results obtained by writers on comparative philology. Accordingly, the book now in the press contains some thousands of words and meanings more than can be found in any Latin-English Dictionary that has yet been published,-corrections of countless errors which have been transmitted by Andrews and others down to the present day,-an etymology con sistent with the views of the most eminent modern philologists, and a construction of every article upon sound and pre-eminently useful principles, some of which have been already recognised, but imperfectly carried out, while others have been hitherto quite overlooked.

expedition to the valleys of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan. In addition to a description of the geographical features of the country traversed and explored, Mr. Hind has treated on the geology, the climate, and natural resources of the southern part of Rupert's Land, or the Basin of Lake Winnipeg. The native races now occupying the country, the half-breeds of Selkirk Settlement, the Hudson's Bay Company, the results of missionary enterprise, and finally the importance of this part of British America, have all received careful study, and are described or discussed at considerable length.

The first volume contains the narrative of the Red River Expedition of 1857, and of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan Expedition of 1858. Chapter I. relates to the uninterrupted communication existing between the ocean and Lake Superior by means of the Canadian canals. The Kaministiquia route, or the route followed by the Hudson's Bay Company as far as Rainy Lake, is described in Chapters II. and III. This route is compared with the old North-West Company's line of communication by the Pigeon River, along the boundary line between the United States and British America; and also with a route by the river Seine direct from Milles Lacs to Rainy Lake. The country which these lines of communication between Lake Superior and Rainy Lake traverse, is minutely described; and woodcuts of magnificent waterfalls, together with river, lake, and forest scenery, convey ideas of its natural features. Chapters IV. and V. relate to the beautiful and fertile valley of Rainy River, the Lake of the Woods, and the wild and majestic Winnipeg River. A description is given of a "talk" with the haughty Ojibway Indians of Rainy Lake, who arrested the progress of part of the Expedition; and woodcuts from photographs of the Ojibways of Rainy Lake, the fort of the Hudson's Bay Company, some of the cataracts on the Winnipeg, and the Mission station at Islington, accompany the text. These chapters contain also a descriptive account of the Indians inhabiting the country, and of its natural history and resources. Chapter VI. introduces the reader to Lord Selkirk's settlement on the Red River of the North, and describes the physical features of the country as far west as Prairie Portage, on the Assinniboine, and south, as far as the boundary line. Chapters VIII., IX., and X. relate to the history of the colony-the statistics of its population; the administration of justice; trade and occupations of the settlers; the Missions-Church of England, Presbyterian, and Roman Catholic; the Indian Missionary village; the state of Education in the settlements; the Agricultural Industry; and the vast capabilities and resources of the country. They are illustrated by wood

cuts, partly from photographs and partly from sketches, of Red River, the houses of the settlers, the prairie, Indian tents, the fort of the Hudson Bay Company, views of Red River from different points. Chapter XI. contains a brief sketch of the country west of Red River as far as the south branch of the Saskatchewan; and Chapter XII. concludes the narrative of the Red River Expedition of 1857, by an account of the journey to Canada, viâ St. Paul, in the State of Minnesota.

The narrative of the Assinniboine and Saskatchewan exploring expedition follows; Chapter XIII. describing the journey from Fort Garry, the head-quarters of the fur trade at Red River, to the boundary line on the Little Souris River, on the edge of the Great American Desert. This chapter is illustrated with views from photographs of the Assinniboine River, the Little Souris River: it is followed by an account of the journey across the treeless desert between the boundary line and Fort Ellice, the approach of hostile Indians, an attempt to steal the horses of the expedition, and the devastating hosts of grasshoppers or locusts which swept across the country. Chapter XIV. describes the journey from Fort Ellice to the Qu'appelle or Calling River Mission, in the country of the Plain Crees, and is illustrated with views from photographs of Fort Ellice and the Qu'appelle Valley. The next three chapters are devoted to a narrative of the journey, in canoe or on horseback, throughout the entire length of the Qu'appelle Valley, from the Assinniboine to the Saskatchewan: the physical features of this remarkable excavation are minutely described, as well as the extraordinary country which it intersects. Ample descriptions are given of the Plain Crees, the manner in which they impound buffaloes, of their tents, mode of life, and their war parties. At the elbow of the south branch of the Saskatchewan Mr. Hind embarked in a small birch-bark canoe he had carted across the prairies from Red River, a distance of 800 miles, and drifted down that noble river to its junction with the north branch at the Grand Forks. From the Nepoweewin Mission on the Main Saskatchewan a detachment was despatched down the Main Saskatchewan, viâ the West Coast of Lake Winnipeg, to Red River; a second detachment explored the country from the Grand Forks to Fort Ellice; while a third made a survey of the Valley of the Assinniboine: the three parties meeting at Red River Settlement in the middle of September, 1858.

The Second Volume contains an account of the Exploration of the South-Eastern Coast of Lake Winnipeg, the Little Saskatchewan River, Winnepego-sis Lake, and Dauphin Lake: the Ascent and Character of the Riding Mountain is next described, and the country bordering the