The Press.
London, England, 1854-08-26 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

1. Lecture on Respiration. Part of a Series. By
Thomas Hopley. London : Churchill.
2. Healthy Homes, and How to Make Them. By
W. Bar dwell, Architect. London : I►ean and
Son.

1. The first of a series of lectures intended to be
delivered by Mr. Hopley upon the physical education
of man. The present discourse is designed to impress
upon the minds of all classes the vast importance
(particularly at this time of cholera) of pure air and
thorough ventilation of houses to a healthy state of
body. The statistical returns appended to the lec-
ture exhibit the true state of the habitations of the
poorer classes in England, who at this }.resent mo-
ment, ➢fr. Hopley asserts, are living by hundreds of
thousands in fetid cellars and miserable hovels,
without " light or ventilation, and flooded with
" stagnant water."
2. " Healthy Homes " is a clever essay by an
architect upon the material requisites of wholesome
habitations for the labouring classes, with practical
remarks upon the present inadequate mode of venti-
lation adopted in the construction of the houses of
the poor, and the lamentable state of drainage, about
the suburbs of London. Numerous architectural
plans and elevations illustrate the book, which is
dedicated, by permission, to the Home Secretary.

1. Our Own Correspondent. By W. Brough. Lon-

don : Tinsley.
2. The Serf and the Cossack. By F. 'Max. Lon

don : Trailer and Co.
3. Rowe's New Map of Europe. London : Rowe.
1. " Our Own Correspondent" relates, in Mr.
Brough's popular style of extravaganza, the ad•
ventures of a gentleman connected with the press
in search of authentic information from the seat of
war in Turkey for the columns of a newspaper.
2. "The Serf and the Cossack" is a slight sketch
of the state of the Russian people, taken principally
from the valuable work of Haxthausen.
3. " Rowe's Map of Europe " iv a cheap publics
Lion, correctly showing the scat of war up the Baltic,
and in the Turkish provinces.

Catalogue of Ornamental Caste. Department of
Science and Art, Board of Trade. By It. N.
Wornum, Keeper. London : Longmans.
Ma. WonNum, in the introductory remarks to this
catalogue, gives an analysis of the characteristics of
the peculiar styles of architecture during the Re-
naissance period, from the first date of modern
innovation in art, in the Tre.cento style, through the
more perfect era, that of the Cinque-cento, down to
the debased style of Louis Quinze. Of the Cinque-
cento style there are several illustrations of the casts,
drawn on wood by the female students, and a detailed
description appended to each specimen. The
collection of ornamental casts which it is proposed to
form, as illustrative of the three great epoch." in
architecture, viz., the Ancient, Mediaeval, and Renais-
sance styles, is by no means perfected, but it is
intended, when the collection is more fully developed,
to publish catalogues containing similar illustrations
of the two earlier periods of art.

The Languages of the Seat of War. By Max Muller,

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M.A. London : Longmans.
So much has been done by the Governments of every
continental state, and so little by the authorities of
this country, to encourage the study of Oriental
languages, that we hail with satisfaction this fir•t
step towards a more liberal policy on the part of our
Government. The essay before us was written (by
the desire of Sir Charles Trevelyan on the part of the
Government) for the benefit and instruction of all
officers proceding to Turkey, a lamentable want of
knowledge of Oriental languages on their part being
admitted. Although a mere outline, this essay is
still a learned sketch of the relationship of the differ-
ent languages of the East, and a good introduction
to their study. An ethnological map, carefully
drawn, accompanies the present volume, which is
interesting and instructive to a degree.

The Talk of the Toad. Part I. Dublin: Curry

and Co.
A REPRINT of papers which originally appeared in
" The Catholic Layman," a monthly periodical pub-
lished in Dublin for the calm and dispassionate in-
vestigation of religious truth. " The Talk of the
Road" is intended to represent the actual conversa-
tions, doubts, fears, and superstitions of the poorer
classes in Ireland with regard to religion ; but we
question whether any Irish peasants are so well up
in theology as they here are supposed to he.
However, the book de-erves attention as giving a
characteristic sketch of native feeling. and as affording
a curious insight into the workings of the priests
among the people.

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Notes on Diseases in Turkey, and a Memoir on the
Remittent Fever of the Levant. By Drs. Schulobf
and Bryce. London : Stewart and Murray.
Tim pamphlet by Dr. Schttlohf upon the more im-
portant diseases which prevail in the Danubian
provinces, contains much minute local information
and experience of the diseases to which those coup•
tries are peculiarly liable. The Danubian provinces
do not appear from Dr. Schulolifs remarks to be
healthy districts, ague, rheumatism, ophthalmia, and
malaria, with typhus and putrid fevers, being the
prevalent diseases. The " Memoir upon the Re-
mittent Fever of the Levant," by Dr. Bryce, is.
grounded upon an experience of many years' local
practice. Both memoirs have been written and pub-
lished by the desire of the Director-General of the
Medical Department for the assistance of the medi•
cal staff now employed in Turkey.

The Representatives of the Greek Preposition ANA.
By J. Hewitt Key, M.A.
A PAPER read before the Philological Society upon
the equivalents, in some of the European languages,
of the Greek preposition rem, as prefixed to verbs.
Mr. Hewitt contests the theory of Grimm that the
Gothic prefix AN n or ANDA is represented by the Greek
fiVTS, and decides that it is represented by am in those
cases in which AND enters into composition with
verbs. The treatise is written with learning and cri-
tical ability, and forms a welcome contribution to
philology.

The City of the Sultan. By Miss Pardoe. London :

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Routledge and Co.
Tar•. fourth edition of a work so well known as Miss
Pardoe's " City of the Sultan" requires only a word
of congratulation upon its well-deserved success.

Priscilla Eaton. London : Shaw.

A NARRATIVE of the sufferings and privations nn•
dergone by a Puritan family in the first colonising
of Virginia. The story has some " thrilling adven-
tures " and " perilous discoveries" calculated to
attract youthful readers.

Stanford's Emigrant's Guide. " Australia," by J.
Capper. "Canada," by W. Hutton. London :
Stanford.
Two cheap guide-books to the above colonies written
with honesty and comparative accuracy ; and as such
may he recommended to persons who desire practical
information upon the countries described.

Gold. A Story for the Times. London : Chapman

and Hall.
A stmrx.v story to illustrate the unprofitableness
of a life devoted to money-making, and the necessity
for the fulfi!ment of other duties than those of specu-
lation and trading.

Famous Persons and Famous Places. By N. I'.

Willis. London : Ward and Lock.
A CHEAP volume, made up principally of some of
Mr. Willis's original " Pencillings by the Wayside,"
with some additional letters from England and the
Continent in 1845-fl, and articles from a journal of
later date published at New York.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Booze.

Sybil Lennard. Mrs. Grey.
Cookery for the People. A. Soyer.
Fashion and Famine. Mrs. A. S. Stephens.
Mr. Sydenham Gremlin('h in London.

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Ditto.

PAMPHLETS.
On the Use of Vegetable Arida in the Treatment of Cholera.
J. H Tucker. Churchill.
Sentiments of the late Archleacun Jeffreys. J. Jeffreys.
Tweedie.

Missionary Voices to British Christians. Ditto.
The Coming Peace. J. R. Morell. Theobald.
Contagion in Relation to Epidemic Diseases. J. Grote.
Ridgway.
Ditto.

S elphur a 4 a Remedy i• Cholera. J. Grove.
erntons. No. 41.
Map of i., t'rirara.

Itivingtons.
Wild.

TUE PHILOSOPHF.RS OF llEnvoi have been thrown
into great excitement by the extraordinary and well-
verified fact of a married woman having given birth
to no less a creature than a merman, or mermaid.
The following is the official report of the case :
" On the 15th the wife of a painter in Old Schiinhaus-
street brought into the world a most wonderful
abortion. This was a child, born only a few weeks
before the regular time, which had the regular hu-
man form down to the loins, and thence downwards
that of a fish, but aithout vcales. Its fingers were
webbed, but otherwise perfectly well fcrmed. ]t 414 d
half an hour after birth, in the presence of Dr. Hoff-
mann."

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