The Press.
London, England, 1856-03-15 00:00:00

The Manual of Zoology.

London: Renshaw.
THE " Manual of Zoology " presents few points of
interest except to personb specially interested in the
subject. But it contains an immense mass of infor-
mation, and the name of its author, Mr. Milne
Edwards, is a guarantee of its truthfulness. The
illustrations are numerous and excellent.

MARCH 15, 1856.

A Month at Malvern Under the Water Cure. By R.

T. Lane.
Spirits and Water. By the Same Author.
London : Mitchell.

MR. LANE bas given us two lively little volumes—
the one containing an account of his cure at Mal-
vern, under
Dr. Wilson, of water-cure celebrity ; the
other a walking tour in Wales, and one or two stories,
wilich are always told with spirit. The history of
the patients' lives at Malvern is very interesting ; and
certainly, if it be not a little coloured,we must admit
that water works wonders.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.-MARCH 13.
BOOKS.

Throat Ailments. James Yearsley. Churchill.
.llcdce Eionenses. Edidit Ricardvs Okes,
Be S.T.P.
ll and Daldy.
The Daisy Chain. J. W. Parker and Son.
The Bombay Calendar and Alsnanack jor WA.
Bombay : Times Press.
Gleanings after " Grand Tour"—ists. Bosworth and
Harrison.

The Mercantile and Maritime Guide. Glasgow : Mackenzie.

The Publishers' Circular.

Sampson Low and Co.

THIS FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF NATteNS are much less
apt to be influenced by accidental events than is
generally imagined. . . . May we be allowed to hope
that the time is approaching (not rapidly, or by violent
changes, but slowly and quietly, like all those
arrangements of nature which tend to the substan-
tial improvement of the species) when the establish-
ment of equal rights and rational systems of regular
government over the whole of Europe shall diminish
yet farther the consequences attached to the capriies
and accidental fates of individuals, and shall reduce
to complete order all the circumstances that affect
the intercourse of nations; so as to subject their
whole movements to certain general and invariable
laws, to reduce every eccentricity of course, and to
correct all accidental inequalities or alterations in
the system.—Lord Brougham's Contributions to the
‘. Edinburgh Review."
THE HOSPITAL. AND THE COLLEGE.—IS it any
wonder that the hospital and the college, wide as
they seem apart, if one looks at them from one
point of view, should still retain marks of relation-
ship and of a common descent ? Every hospital which
exists in London has produced an eminent college
or school. Nearly every college which has been
founded of late years has sought alliance with an
hospital. You see it must be so. Guy, the book-
seller, might merely intend to provide a hospital for
a number of sick people, but if any good is to come
to these sick people, if they are not merely to suffer
terribly, to die and to be buried, there must be a
staff of medical men to look after them. These
medical men must have a scientific knowledge as the
basis of their experience—they must cultivate
that knowledge by experience—they must have
younger helpers to do the work which they have not
time to do. These they must educate by direct in-
struction in books, and by all the fund of practical
wisdom which the sufferers in the hospital supply.
Thus a school or a college grows up in the very
heart of the hospital to meet its necessities. Or if
there is the college already, as in the case of Univer-
sity College and King's College, one vast field of
humai culture must be disregarded or moat imper-
fectly tended, unless a hospital can be raised in
which the information given by lectures may be
tested, and illustrated, and expanded. This union I
regard as one of those wonderful blessings which
seem to be created by our necessities or our
ingenuity, but are really the fulfilment of a Divine
Purpose; our circumstances being used as the in.
strument for making us understand and realise
good that, if we had been left to our own devices, we
should have MiSS6e. utterly.—Rev. F. D Maurice,
Lectures to Ladies.
GUIDE BOOKS IN THE UNITED STATES.—The town
of St. Louis had, when I visited it, no less a popula-
tion than 120,000. The Catholic church, though
simple, is extremely pretty. My first walk was to
this church, my inducement thereto being the follow-
ing description, which I had read in the St. Louis
Directory for the year:—" The cathedral at St. Louis
is unrivalled in the United States for the elegance
and costly magnificence of its sacred vessels, its pic-
tures, and decorations ; and few churches in Europe
are in possession of similar treasures. There are
pictures by Rubens, Raphael, Guido, Paul Veronese,
and many others by the first masters of the Italian
school." From this description I was led to hope for
the enjoyment of a fine picture-gallery, as well as of
other precious works of art; but, to my infinite
astonishment, I found that these treasures existed
_almost solely in the imagination of the writer.
There were no works of art, but four oil pictures, and
of T
these only one that could possibly be ascribed to
the old masters. It is common enough to find exag-
gerations and colouring in the statements of travel-
lers, but such a piece of downright falsehood as this
I had not before met with.—lda Pfeiffer's Second
Journ.y Round the World.

THE PRESS.

Etc glrama.

HAY MARKET.—We can only briefly glance at Mr.
Bayle Bernard's clever domestic comedy brought out
here on Monday evening. The play attracts rather
by brilliancy of dialogue than by power of charac•
terisation, effectiveness of situation, or complexity of
plot ; and the personage? presented are, with one ex-
c lotion, mere mouthpieces for smart repartees, an
incessant fire of which is kept up, with unflagging
spirit, by every individual that appears on the scene,
down to the very servants, who, like the domestics in
Sheridan's comedies, are quite as ready with a good
antithesis or a ludicrous comparison as their masters
and mistresses. Mr. Compton's finished represen•
tAtion of the one character of the piece, the deaf
country postman, with his peculiar views on the de-
livery of letters, his love for long stories utterly
irrelevant to the business in hand, his bad memory,
and his slow, laborious utterance, was a carefully
studied bit of art, and the man looked deaf, walked
deaf, and talked deaf. The, mise•en scene was
excellent. We propose to give a longer notice on a
future occasion.

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