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"THE STORY OF OUR LIVES FROM YEAR TO YEAR." Shakespeare.

Now ready, price 5s. 6d. bound in cloth,

THE FIRST VOLUME

OF

ALL THE YEAR ROUND,

CONDUCTED BY CHARLES DICKENS.

CONTAINING

A TALE OF TWO CITIES,

BY CHARLES DICKENS.

BOOK FIRST: RECALLED TO LIFE. BOOK SECOND: THE GOLDEN THREAD.

And, in addition, the following Papers on subjects of passing and permanent interest :

ADVENTURE.-The Crusoe of the Snowy Desert.-All
Doomed!-A New Sentimental Journey.-In Charge.-
Right through the Post.- Storm-Experience. - Two
Trains of Pleasure.

AGRICULTURAL LIFE.-The Poor Man and his Beer.-
Farming by Steam.-Rice.

ARCHEOLOGY.-Rome and Turnips.-St. Francis's Will.-
Not a Whitechapel Needle.

ARCTIC DISCOVERY.-The last Leaves of a Sorrowful
Book.

ART.-The Royal Academy in Bed.-Photographic Print.
BIOGRAPHY.-Portrait of an Author painted by his Pub-
lisher.

CHINA. A Piece of China.-Another Piece of China.
CLERICAL LIFE.-Out of the World.-A Confessor's Hand-
book.-A Book.-Our Eye-witness at Church.
COLONIAL LIFE. - Bungaree, King of the Blacks. - A
Piece of Blood Money.

EDUCATION.-Roughing It.-The English People's Uni-
versity.-At Home and at School.

EXHIBITIONS.-The Talking Fish (our Eye-witness).-
Our Eye-witness with an Infant Magnet.
HEALTH.-Life in Round Numbers. - Good Qualities of
Gout. Pliny made Easy.

HISTORY.-Drift: A Letter from Edward the First, A
Warrant by Richard the Third, A Plea in Richard the
Second's Time, Royal Inquisitions, Inquisitor's Post
Mortem, Pardoned too Late.

IMPOSTURE. Sure to be Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise.-
Piano-Forte Lessons.-Trap Advertising (Small Shot).
Inexhaustible Hats.

INDIA. An Empire Saved.-The European Mutiny.
IRISH LIFE.-A Car-full of Fairies. -Her Majesty's Irish
Mail.-Driver Mike.

ITALY AND THE WAR.-The Revolution at Florence
exactly Described.-Viva L'Italia.-Piedmont.-The
Track of War.-The Last of the War.-The Sack of
Perugia.-North Italian Character. - Fruit Ripening
in Tuscany.

LAW.--The Good Old "And Whereas."-A Sum in Plain
Division.-Too much Freedom on the Seas.-All the
Year Round at the Post-Office (Small Shot).-County
Courted. The Parish Stocks (Small Shot).-Five New
Points of Criminal Law.

MANUFACTURES.
Purple.

Change for Nuggets.

MEDICAL LIFE.-Buying a Practice.
MILITARY LIFE.-Battle Array.-How the Victoria Cross
was Won.-Our Eye-witness at Woolwich.-The Buck-
inghamshire Man.-Aldershot Town and Camp.-The
Conquering Heroes Come.

MUSIC.-Our Eye-witness with Handel.

NATURAL HISTORY. -Our_Nearest Relations.-Good and
Bad Funguses.-Fairy Rings.-Gamekeeper's Natural
History. Under the Microscope. - Melons.- Clocks
made of Flowers.

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NAVAL LIFE.-Ships and Crews. Portsmouth. - The
Great Eastern Postscript.-Aboard the Training Ship.
OCCASIONAL REGISTER.

POETRY.-The Earthly Eden.-Trade Songs.-A Thought
from Phantastes.-To Come.-Different Paths.-Half
the Year Round.-Totty's Consolations.-Memory.-
A Friend in a Flower.-Te Deum.-Great Odds at Sea.
Over the Mountain. - Dream-Life. The Future.-
Withered Flowers.-Bird and the Bower.-The Wish.-
Life.

POLITICAL LIFE.-The Parliamentary M.C. Austria.
PSYCHOLOGY. A Physician's Ghosts.

SOCIAL LIFE. - Mutual Testimonial Association. -A Leba
non Sheik.-Pray employ Major Namby.-My Adn
sers. The Colonel's Cricket Match. First floor
Windows. Great Meeting of Creditors. -A Penny
Bank. The Bachelor Bedroom.-New View of So.
ciety.-Down at Dippington.-Number 186.-Down in
the World.-Well Dressed.

THE STAGE.-Appalling Disclosure for the Lord Chamber-
lain.-Cartouche on the Stage.
SUPERSTITIONS.-Wonders will never Cease.
TALES.-Eleven o'Clock among the Fir Trees.- Mother's
First Lodger.-Four Wild Stories.-Three Nights by
Ashpool.-Our Mr. Dove.-Lois the Witch.
TOPOGRAPHY.-Pilgrimage to the Valley of Desolation.-
Haunted London. The Island of Sardinia. - Dr.
Johnson's House in Bolt Court (Small Shot).-Casties
in the Sea.-Pity a Poor Bridge.-A Week with Wed-
derspoon.

ALL THE YEAR ROUND is published (also in Weekly Numbers, price Twopence, and in Monthly Parts) at 11 Wellington Street North, Strand, London, W.C.; and by Messrs. CHAPMAN and HALL, 193 Piccadilly, W., of whom may be had all the Numbers of HOUSEHOLD WORDS. (1053)

Printed by GEORGE ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, of No. 10 Little New Street, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London, at No. 5 New-street Square, in the said Parish; and Published by SAMPSON Low, of 14 Great James Street, in the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, at the Office, 47 Ludgaté Hill, in the Parish of St. Bride.- Tuesday, November 1, 19,

General Record of British and Foreign Literature

CONTAINING A COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF

ALL NEW WORKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN

OTH the number and prices of books announced indicate, we think, a season decidedly above

for our usual illustrated number for the 1st of December.

The following is a classification of the more important publications of the past fortnight :-
In Literature, Art, and Science.-On the Strength of Nations, by Andrew Bisset; Montalem-
bert's Pius the Ninth and France; Taylor's Great Pyramid; Rowntree's Quakerism, Past and
Present, and Hancock's Peculium, the two prize Essays on the Decline of the Society of Friends;
Familiar History of the British Fishes; Edgar's Crusades and the Crusaders; Dibden's Guide to
Water-Colour Painting, in 4 parts; M'Kewan's Lessons on Trees, in Water-Colours; Ruskin's
Elements of Perspective; Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Vol. 2.

In History and Biography.-A Translation of Palleske's Life and Works of Schiller, by Lady
Wallace; Life of Schleiermacher, translated by Rowan.

In Travel, Geography, and Research.-Bowring's Philippine Islands in 1858-9, illustrated;
Mr. Thornbury's Life in Spain, a reprint from Household Words, 2 vols. illustrated; R. H.
Horne's Australian Facts and Prospects; Autumn in Silesia, by the Author of Travels in
Bohemia; Captain Briggs' Heathen and Holy Lands, or Sunny Days on the Salween, Nile, and
Jordan.

In Theology.-Dean Ramsay's Diversities of Faults in Christian Believers; Boardman's
Higher Christian Life; Hinton on Redemption; Theodore Parker's Experience as a Minister.
In Law.-Farries' Guide to Drawing Bills of Costs.

Illustrated books.-Gems from the Poets; Halliday's Adventures of Mr. Wilderspin; IIaw-
thorne's Scarlet Letter; Samuel Lover's Metrical Tales, and other Poems, illustrated; Bible
Histories of Jesus Christ, from Drawings by Merkel; Marvellous Adventures of Master Tyll
Owlglass, illustrated; Arnold's Reynard the Fox, after Goethe.

Juvenile.-Reid's The Boy Tar; Blind Man's Holiday, Tales for the Nursery; Tuppy, Autobiography of a Donkey; Bennett's Nine Lives of a Cat; Edwards's Charlie and Ernest, or Play and Work; Kingston's Annual for Boys, 1860.

In Fiction. Mr. Vane St. John's Undercurrents, 3 vols.; When the Snow Falls, by W. Moy Thomas, 2 vols.; Armstrong's Lilly of Devon, 3 vols.; Edwards's Now or Never; Drury's Misrepresentation, a novel, 2 vols.; Mr. and Mrs. Asheton, 3 vols.; Tales from Molière's Plays, by D. B. Lennard.

New Editions.-Of Elton's Below the Surface; of Mrs. Gaskell's Life of Charlotte Bronte; of Brontë's Tenant of Wildfell Hall; of Leigh Hunt's Autobiography; of the Kellys and the. O'Kellys, a Novel in 1 vol. by Mr. Anthony Trollope, originally published in 1848; of Bulwer

Lytton's Caxtons, Vol. 1; of Haliburton's Sam Slick. A 2d of Lathbury's History of the Book of Common Prayer; of Lady Shelley's Shelley Memorials; of Bennett's Pathology of Consump tion. 3d of Bayley's Ragged Homes and How to Mend Them; of Kingsley's Saint's Tragedy. 4th of Lady Pepys' Quiet Moments; Philip's Cabinet and Library Atlas. 7th of Adam Bede and Tom Brown's Schooldays.

Messrs. Longman's List is now fully before the public. The works, which number, we observe, sixty-two, comprise many of more than ordinary importance.

Mr. Murray's Trade Sale, which will take place at the Albion on the 22nd inst., will no doubt produce, as usual, sample copies of the new works announced by him. The sale is likely to afford an interesting meeting of the London trade; we have already referred to several striking books in the List.

Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. held their first Dinner Sale on the 8th inst. at the Albion Hotel Upwards of 5000 copies were taken of the half-crown edition of the Life of Charlotte Brontë, notwithstanding its large sale at the previously reduced price of six shillings. Of the new edition of Jane Eyre upwards of 1500 were also disposed of. Other works found an average sale.

Messrs. Seeley and Co. have nearly ready a new work by the Rev. Charles Bridges on the Book of Ecclesiastes. This author's former work, known all over the world as a Commentary on the 119th Psalm, has, we learn from the publishers, commanded a sale of nearly 70,000 copies. The same house announces Lord Ebury's pamphlet on the Revision of the Liturgy: also a new work of great interest to all who watch the progress of missionary enterprise, consisting of a Narrative of Explorations on the Niger by two Missionaries.

Rumours and corrections of rumours, all we believe equally incorrect, have been recently circulated upon the subject of Mr. Murray's long-announced edition of Pope's works left unfinished by the late Mr. Croker. The editor appointed to complete Mr. Croker's work, is not Mr. Thoms, nor Mr. Thomas (as stated), but Mr. Elwin, the present editor of the Quarterly Review. A volume is, we believe, now in the press. Mr. Cunningham, who was originally announced as co-editor, has, we understand, ceased to be engaged upon it.

Mr. Bentley announces, in addition to his first list, a History of Rome, by Theodor Mommsen Lives of the Italian Poets, by Dr. Stebbing; and Historical Record of the Fifty-second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infantry), by Captain W. S. Moorsom.

Messrs. Kent and Co. and Griffin and Co. are good caterers for the season. Their sales took place yesterday. The attendance was satisfactory. The whole of the new edition of Burns's Works was sold; and the entire edition of Capt. Mayne Reid's new juvenile book, The Boy Tar, has also been subscribed. The list from each house comprises a host of illustrated works and first-rate books for children, of which we shall perhaps have occasion to say more in next number.

Messrs. Judd and Glass announce Count Cavour, his Life and Career; The Weaver's Family, by the Author of Dives and Lazarus; Government upon First Principles, by John Grossmith; The Peerage of Poverty, second series, by the Rev. E. Paxton Hood, &c.

Nearly the whole edition of the new volume of the Rev. Frederick Robertson's Lectures on the Corinthians is already sold.

Mr. Charles Kingsley has nearly completed a new novel, which will probably appear in the spring.

Mr. Thornbury is about to publish his recent experiences in Turkey, in a series of papers in

All the Year Round.

Mr. Thackeray's circular to the contributors to his forthcoming Shilling Monthly Magazine. though we believe intended for the present to be as it is marked, a "private" paper, has found its way into the columns of one of our contemporaries. The new periodical is to be called The Cornhill Magazine. From the circular we learn that there is "hardly any subject" which will not be treated of in its pages. The Magazine will start with the New Year. Its staff of contributors already engaged includes Mr. Sala, Mr. Hannay, Mr. Thornbury, Mr. Hollingshead, Mr. Moy Thomas, and other names familiar in the Magazines. Its proposed scale of payment to contributors is said to be liberal, in return for a complete renouncement of copy. right.

Mr. Winwood Reade, nephew of Mr. Charles Reade, is about to publish a novel entitled Liberty Hall, Oxon. Town and Gown, Proctors and Chums, are of course the staple of the story. Mr. William Bell is preparing a work on The Three Missing Years in the Life of Shakspeare A member of the University of Oxford has offered a prize of £50 for the best poem on The Life, the Character, and the Death of the heroic Seaman, Sir John Franklin, with speci reference to the Time, Place, and Discovery of his Death.

We have received a copy of the Edinburgh University Calendar for 1859-60; it appears t give every kind of University information which students could require.

We have also received from Mr. Nimmo, of Edinburgh, a specimen sheet of Dr. Mackay's Poem, The Whiskey Demon: it is printed on handsome 4to. paper, with illustrations by Mr. Watts Phillips. Also, from Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, a copy of The Young Islanders, by Jefferys Taylor, one of the Run-and-Read Library; also a little book on a useful subject by Dr. Norman M'Leod, entitled Deborah, or Christian Principles for Domestic Servants; and the Stationers' Handbook, which is a useful guide to all engaged in the paper trade.

It is understood that Everybody's Journal is likely to change hands.

The Dublin Evening Post lets its readers into the secret that the papers entitled The Season Ticket, now publishing in the Dublin University Magazine, are from the pen of Judge Haliburton, the Author of Sam Slick.

The November number of Harper's New Monthly, seldom seen, notwithstanding its enormous circulation, on this side of British custom-houses, has reached us. When will English publishers succeed in establishing a Magazine so cheap and so widely popular?-a Magazine containing "75 per cent. more matter than Blackwood or Fraser," on good paper, with fifty excellent woodcuts, for a shilling. Will Mr. Macmillan do it? Do Messrs. Smith and Elder's hopes extend so far? Messrs. Strahan and Co., of Edinburgh, announce that an addition has lately been made to their firm in the person of Mr. Alexander Whyte, of the late well-known firm of William Whyte and Co. of Edinburgh.

Messrs. Saunders and Otley announce that they have opened an East India Army and General Agency in connection with their publishing house.

A complaint has been made of Messrs. Marshall and Son availing themselves of their exceptional discount, as railway booksellers, to offer new works to the public at twenty-five per cent. off the retail price. We are glad to say that, upon remonstrance, they have signified their intention of discontinuing the system in favour of the publications of any house objecting to it. It remains, therefore, with the trade to pronounce their opinion upon the subject.

We regret to see an article with the name of Mr. James Lowe, in Everybody's Journal, accusing publishers generally of sharp dealing towards authors. Among other charges it is stated that when the agreement is to pay the author so much after a certain number is sold "it is astonishing how the sale falls away as the charmed number is approached," and that "it may even come within four or five of the covenanted number, and yet never reach it." Our contemporary may be assured that, with publishers of any name, honourable dealing is the rule, not the exception; if for no better reason, because good character is a valuable thing. If our censor should ever embark in the trade which he thinks so exceptionally advantageous, he will no doubt quickly find that publishers are no more than their neighbours exempt from the sharp competition which compels them, as well as other people, to be content with moderate gains. We had hoped that in these days the notion that any trade which is open to all the world, and protected by no special privileges, could be particularly or unduly gainful, was entirely exploded. A correspondent of the Literary Gazette complains that Miss Martineau, in her popular series of articles on Ladies' Swimming Dress, &c., in Once a Week, has availed herself, without acknowledgment, of the tracts on the same subjects published by the Ladies' Sanitary Association.

Colour-Printing has made an ambitious movement in Studies from the Great Masters, by W. Dickes (Hamilton and Co.): a work containing copies, in imitative oil colours, of the most famous paintings. Two pictures, and explanatory letter-press, are given in a Part (of which seven are published). Carracci's "Three Maries," Quintin Matsy's "Misers," Guido's "Ecce Homo," may be taken as samples of the contents.

We have again received a warning that the Manchester swindlers are still carrying on their business. It may be enough to say that their last applications to London publishers were dated from "Sidney Street, Oxford Road," and "Freeman Street, Hulme," Manchester.

The firm of Berger-Levrault and Son, of Paris, announce an Official History of the French Artillery Service at the Siege of Sebastopol, a work of some magnitude.

The Austrian Government has interdicted the circulation of a new novel by Louise Mühlbach, entitled Erzherzog Johann (Archduke John), on account of some personages of the Austrian court figuring in the story," which is forgetting the respect due to members of the RoyalImperial family," as the decree says.

We read in a correspondence addressed from St. Petersburgh to the newspaper Le Nord, "The Emperor has just confirmed the statutes of a Society which has very recently been organised in Russia to assist poor authors and their families. These statutes are marked by a philanthropy truly enlightened, and assign to the beneficent activity of the society a very extensive circle of operation. The pecuniary resources, proceeding from annual subscriptions of ten francs et infra, from donations, and the proceeds of concerts and dramatic representations, will be employed, not only to aid necessitous literary men and savants, but in the publication of works worthy of their favor, and to supply to débutants in the literary and scientific career the means of improving themselves in foreign countries, &c." If the action of this society responds to its programme it will render very great service to Russian literature, and will, from the elevated liberality which has presided at its organisation, serve as a model for similar institutions in other parts of Europe.

The Foreign Obituary includes M. Amedée Renée, recently editor of the Paris Constitutionnel and Pays. He was best known in this country for his lively history of The Nièces de Mazarin. The Courrier des Etats Unis contains the following:

"There is not in Great Britain a more remarkable book than Pilgrim's Progress. It is a sort of Telemachus of Protestant religious literature, and is more highly esteemed by the English than Fénélon's chef-d'œuvre. Hitherto this work has been attributed to John Bunyan. But a young woman, named Catherine Isabella Curt, has just published in London a translation of an old French manuscript in the British Museum, which is, almost word for word, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. The manuscript is the work of a clergyman, G. de Grideville, who lived in the fifteenth century. Its title, in Norman English, is Pylegremage of the Sowle. The printer, Caxton, who occupied the same position in London as the Etiennes in Paris, published in 1483 a translation of this manuscript, of which the