west coast of Lake Manitobah. The narrative closes with an account of the Voyage between Manitobah House and Oak Point, thence to the Settlement.

Chap. XXVIII. refers to Indian Wealth, and minutely describes "the Buffalo, the Horse, and the Dog." The three following chapters relate exclusively to the Indians in the occupation of the country-their Customs and SuperstitionsNumbers and Origin-their Title to the HuntingGrounds they occupy-the Labours, and Results of the Labour, of Missionaries among them. Chap. XXXIII. contains a notice of the Origin and Present Condition of the Hudson's Bay Company, and is followed by a comprehensive summary of the modes of communication with the country over which they have ruled so long. The concluding chapter of this portion of the second volume describes the importance of the Valley of Lake Winnipeg to the British Crown-its probable future relation to Canada and British Columbia, and the vast natural advantages of the Basin of Lake Winnipeg for a route across the Continent.

The Geology of the Country is next discussed in five chapters, which relate respectively to the Surface Geology, the Silurian and Devonian Series, the Carboniferous and Jurassic Series, the Cretaceous and Tertiary Series. In the Geological portion of his work Mr. Hind has been assisted by E. Billings, Esq., the Paleontologist to the Geological Survey of Canada; and by F. B. Meek, Esq., a well-known State geologist in the employment of the government of the United States. Two chapters are then devoted to the Climate of the Valley of Lake Winnipeg; and the work concludes with a chapter on the Locusts and Floods of the Winnipeg Basin, followed by a copious APPENDIX.

The volumes are fully illustrated by a series of twenty whole-page chromo - xylographs and seventy-six woodcuts, representing striking waterfalls and picturesque river, mountain, and prairie scenery, portraits from photographs of the red natives and half-breeds, several fossil remains new to science, &c.; three maps, two topographical and one geological; four plans; and a sheet of profiles of different parts of the country explored. A list of the twenty subjects in chromoxylography is subjoined:

1. Ka-ka-beka Falls, Kaministiquia River.
2. Fall at Third Portage above Ka-ka-beka.

3. Beginning of Great Dog Portage.

4. Great Falls on Little Dog River.

5. Grand Falls of the Nameaukan River.

6. Falls on Rainy River, opposite Fort Frances.

7. Islington Mission, Winnipeg River.

8. Red River from St. Andrew's Church.
9. The Prairie, looking West.

Lyra Germanica: Hymns for Sundays and chief Festivals of the Christian Year. Translated from the German by CATHERINE WINKWORTH. New Edition, with about 225 Illustrations from Original Drawings engraved on Wood under the superintendence of JOHN LEIGHTON, F.S.A. Fcp. 4to. pp. 296, price 21s. in ornamental Gothic covers designed by the Artist; or 36s. bound in morocco antique. [Dec. 21, 1860.

EVER since the Reformation, the German

Church has been remarkable for the number and excellence of its hymns and hymn-tunes. Before that time it was not so. There was no place for congregational singing in public worship, and therefore the spiritual songs of the latter part of the middle ages assumed for the most part an artificial and unpopular form. Yet there were not wanting germs of a national Church poetry in the verses rather than hymns which were sung in German on pilgrimages and at some high festivals, many of which verses were derived from more ancient Latin hymns. Several of Luther's hymns are amplifications of verses of this class, such as the Pentacostal hymn, Come, Holy Spirit, God and Lord, which is founded on a German version of the Veni Sancte Spiritus, Reple. By adopting these verses, and retaining their wellknown melodies, Luther enabled his hymns to spread rapidly among the common people. He also composed metrical versions of several of the Psalms, the Te Deum, the Ten Commandments, the Nunc Dimittis, the Da nobis Pacem, &c. thus enriching the people, to whom he had already given the Holy Scriptures in their own language, with a treasure of that sacred poetry which is the inheritance of every Christian Church. From the

time of Luther there has been a constant succession of hymn writers in the German Church; and a brief account of the most celebrated of them is given in the translator's preface to the present selection, which is taken from the large collection of Baron Bunsen, and comprises many of those hymns best known and loved in Germany, arranged according to the Sundays and chief Festivals of the Christian year, with a view to facilitate the use of the work in England as a manual of private devotion. In translating these hymns the original form has been retained with the exception that single rhymes are generally substituted for the double rhymes which the structure of the language renders so common in German poetry, but which becomes cloying to an English ear when constantly repeated; and that English common metre is used instead of what may be called the German common metre.

The FIRST SERIES of the Lyra Germanica, originally published in 1855, was favourably received by the press and the public; it has been frequently reprinted, and continues in constant demand. In the present edition the work is carefully produced as a gift-book, in accordance with the prevailing taste for illustrated literature. The designs printed in the text, about 225 in number, comprise Bible landscapes, scriptural vignettes, a few subjects of allegorical character, emblematical marginalia, and tail-pieces, all strictly in keeping with the hymns which they illustrate. Several of the vignettes illustrative of the seasons, rites, and ceremonies of the Church, and of events in the life of Our Saviour, are derived from the sources indicated in Mrs. JAMESON'S well-known work on sacred and legendary art. Great care has been taken to preserve unity of character throughout the series, as well as a German-Gothic style of treatment uniformly consonant with the hymns. These illustrations, which decorate nearly every page of the volume, are from original designs by E. ARMITAGE, J. FLAXMAN, C. KEENE, M. LAWLESS, J. LEIGHTON, and S. MARKS; and all are engraved on wood in the best manner under Mr. Leighton's superintendence by Messrs. BOLTON, COOPER, DALZIEL, De Wilde, GREEN, HURRALL, LEIGHTON, MURDEN, PEARSON, and SWAIN.

Political Ballads of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Annotated by W. WALKER WILKINS. 2 vols. post 8vo. pp. 626, price 188. cloth. [December, 1860. THE admirable use made of our satirical litera

ture by Lord Macaulay in his historical fragments and essays, has suggested the idea of collecting and publishing these curious specimens of ephemeral wit. They have been gleaned from

excessively rare (not a few believed to be unique) single-sheets and broadsides, old MSS., and contemporary journals, in the national and other libraries. A few have been extracted from very scarce volumes, which were published at the close of the seventeenth or early in the eighteenth century; and fewer still have been derived from more modern books, in order to give a greater completeness to the series; thus by far the larger portion will be entirely new to the generality of readers.

In his selection of the Ballads, the Editor has been guided by a desire to reproduce such only as are particularly characteristic or illustrative of the periods to which they respectively refer; and, at the same time, are not unfitted to meet the general eye. It will be seen, that there are few compositions more interesting in themselves, or that offer more valuable material to the historical inquirer, than these artless effusions: they are the rude but most expressive monuments of the great political struggles in which our jealous ancestors were engaged; and they exhibit, "in their habit as they lived," the peculiarities of person and temper, as well as expose the feelings and motives by which each was actuated in his public conduct, of the most celebrated individuals in the long historic roll of Britain.

A list of the Ballads is subjoined.

1712. The Soldiers' Lamentation for the Loss of their

General.

1713. Nothing but Truth.

The Merchant à la Mode.

The Raree Show.

GEORGE I.

1715. A Lamentation for the late Times. The Vagabond Tories.

A New Song.

Ormond the Brave.

Bishop Burnet's Descent into Hell.

1716. The Pretender's Charge against the Tories. The Tories' Answer.

The Pretender's Flight, and Sorrowful Lamentation for his late Disappointment in Scotland.

1717. The Christening.

719. The Seven Wise Men of England. 1720. A South Sea Ballad.

The South Sea Ballad.

1724. The Devil o'er Lincoln.

GEORGE II.

1730. The Statesman.

1731. The Norfolk Gamester.

An Ode for the New Year.

1732. The Honest Jury.

1733. Britannia Excisa: Britain Excis'd.

The Countryman's Answer to the Ballad called
Britannia Excis."

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1734. The Modern Patriots.

1736. The Tinker turned Politician; or, Caleb's Metamorphosis.

1740. Admiral Hosier's Ghost.

1741.

The late Gallant Exploits of a famous Ba. lancing Captain.

Argyle's Advice to Sir Robert Walpole.

1742. A New Court Ballad.

Robin will be Out at Last.

The Statesman's Fall.

A New Ode to a great number of Great Men newly made.

The Old Coachman.

1743. Sandys and Jekyll. Harvey and Jekyll.

1753. The Jews' Triumph. 1753. The Jews Naturalised.

1755. The Unembarrassed Countenance. 1756. The Converts.

The Letter of a certain Admiral. 1757. The Secret Expedition.

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ALLA ROOKHI, first published in May 1817, was immediately successful. It ran through twenty expensive editions in little more than twenty years, and continues to this day the most universally admired of the Author's productions. An article on this poem by Lord JEFFREY in the Edinburgh Review, No. LVII. November 1817, confirmed the prompt verdict of the public. The following passages from this article by no means exhaust the critic's praise; but they will be read with interest, because they point out with clearness and sagacity those parts of the poem which instantly captivated, and have so long retained, the public favour.

"THE beauteous forms, the dazzling splen"dours, the breathing odours of the East, seem "at last to have found a kindred poet in that "Green Isle of the West, whose genius has long "been suspected to be derived from a warmer "clime, and now wantons and luxuriates in those "voluptuous regions, as if it felt that it had at length regained its native element. It is amazing, indeed, how much at home Mr. Moore 66 seems to be in India, Persia, and Arabia; and "how purely and strictly Asiatic all the colouring "and imagery of his book appears. He is thoroughly embued with the character of the

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poured out with such warmth and abundance, as to steal insensibly on the heart of the reader, "and gradually to overflow it with a tide of sympathetic emotion. There are passages, indeed, "and these neither few nor brief, over which the very Genius of Poetry seems to have breathed "his richest enchantment-where the melody of "the verse and the beauty of the images con"spire so harmoniously with the force and "tenderness of the emotion, that the whole is "blended into one deep and bright stream of "sweetness and feeling, along which the spirit of "the reader is borne passively away, through long reaches of delight. Mr. Moore's poetry, "indeed, where his happiest vein is opened, "realizes more exactly than that of any other "writer, the splendid account which is given by "Comus of the song of

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"His mother Circe, and the Sirens three, "Amid the flowery-kirtled Naiades.

"Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul, "And lap it in Elysium.

"The volume contains four separate and distinct poems-connected, however, and held together, "like orient pearls at random strung,' by the "slender thread of a slight prose story, on which they are all suspended, and to the simple catastrophe of which they in some measure contri"bute. This airy and elegant legend is to the following effect. Lalla Rookh, the daughter of "the great Aurengzebe, is betrothed to the young King of Bucharia; and sets forth, with "a splendid train of Indian and Bucharian attendants, to meet her enamoured bridegroom "in the delightful valley of Cashmere. The progress of this gorgeous cavalcade, and the beauty of the country which it traverses, are "exhibited with great richness of colouring and picturesque effect. . . . To amuse the languor, or divert the impatience of the royal bride, in the "noontide and nighthalts of her luxurious progress, a young Cashmerian poet has been sent by the gallantry of the bridegroom; and recites, on those occasions, the several poems that form "the bulk of the volume. Such is the witchery "of his voice and look, and such the sympathetic "effect of the tender tales which he recounts, "that the poor princess, as was naturally to be "expected, falls desperately in love with him "before the end of the journey; and by the time "she enters the lovely Vale of Cashmere, and sees "the glittering palaces and towers prepared for "her reception, she feels that she would joyfully forego all this pomp and splendour, and fly to "the deserts with her adored Feramorz. The "youthful bard, however, has now disappeared "from her side; and she is supported, with fainting heart and downcast eyes, into the hated presence of her tyrant ! when the voice of Fera

a name, a trait of history, or allusion of romance "which belongs to European experience, or does "not indicate an entire familiarity with the life, "the dead nature, and the learning of the East. "Nor are these barbaric ornaments thinly scat"tered to make up a show. They are showered "lavishly over all the work; and form, perhaps "too much, the staple of the poetry and the "riches of that which is chiefly distinguished for "its richness.... There is not only a richness and "brilliancy of diction and imagery spread over "the whole work, that indicate the greatest activity and elegance of fancy in the author;

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In the series of vignettes which forms the feature of the present edition of Lalla Rookh, the artist has aimed at depicting the most striking scenes and characters of the poem, in strict keeping with the language and imagery of the poet. The general title of the volume, printed in gold and colours, is composed from several ancient Oriental MSS. preserved in the library of the East India House. The title to the Veiled Prophet of Khorassan is taken principally from a Persian MS. in the British Museum. In the title of Paradise and the Peri, the architectural details which form its basis are derived from Baghdad and other cities on the Tigris. The title of the Fire-Worshippers is adapted with but slight modification from the binding of a copy of Shah Namah in the East India House library. The title of the Light of the Haram, is a combination of the florid ornamentation of Oriental painted vases, and of illuminated Persian MSS.

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. New Edition, edited and abridged from the First Edition by the Right Hon. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, M.P. Pp. 752; with 8 Portraits and 2 Vignettes engraved on Steel. Square crown 8vo. price 12s. 6d. cloth, gilt edges.

[Oct. 20, 1860. THE first edition of this work, which consisted

of eight volumes, was published in four seetions of two volumes each between the years 1853 and 1856. In that voluminous form, interwoven with much matter of transient interest, the work was generally admitted to comprise ample biographical particulars of the Author's habits, tastes, pursuits, and occupations; as well as an abundance of anecdotes and bons-mots of the eminent persons whose society he frequented; interspersed with information relating to the origin of the poetical compositions by which he made his name famous. Moore's Diary and the series of letters in which it is set, besides presenting a vivid image of the poet's own life in his own words and those of his correspondents, are known to reflect fully and faithfully the

tone of the distinguished circle into which the poet's talents won him access during the whole course of his literary career.

In the present edition for the people, which forms a single volume uniform in size and appearance with the PEOPLE'S EDITION Of MOORE'S POETICAL WORKS, the whole of these materials have been carefully abridged and recast from the first edition in eight volumes, and re-arranged as nearly as possible in chronological order, without departure from the editor's original plan; and a few new and interesting letters from Lord Jeffrey, Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, and the Rev. W. L. Bowles, have been inserted. The ILLUSTRATIONS Comprise two portraits of Moore, with views of his birthplace, his residence at Sloperton, and his tomb; and portraits of Lord Moira, Lord John Russell, Sir John Stevenson, the Marquess of Lansdowne, Samuel Rogers, and Joseph Corry.

The Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith: a selection of the most memorable passages in his Writings and Conversation. Crown 8vo. pp. 364, price 7s. 6d. cloth. [Oct. 22, 1860.

THE intention of the Editor of this volume has

been to unite in a compendious form the most brilliant and instructive sentences in the writings of Sydney Smith. These extracts are purposely separated as much as possible from the context and connection in which they originally stood; and each passage is limited to the smallest compass which could convey with accuracy the detached thoughts of the writer. In this volume the gems are displayed without their setting-the pearls are unstrung. It has frequently been remarked that wit and knowledge strike more forcibly upon the mind, and cling more faithfully to the memory, when they are reduced to the form of maxims or aphorisms; and if this be true in general it is true more especially of writings like those of Sydney Smith, which were for the most part devoted to critical and polemical objects that have already lost much of their interest, by the very success of the warfare he waged against them. Posterity will find it hard to comprehend or to believe the amount of ignorance, prejudice, intolerance, and cant against which he contended, and over which he triumphed.

But even when the questions which were fought out in the earlier portion of this century, with all the fury of party strife, are forgotten, the writings of Sydney Smith will be read and cherished wherever the English tongue is spoken, for their broad and benevolent wisdom-for their exquisite flavour of expression-for their gladsonic humour-for that wit which glittered like