The Press.
London, England, 1854-06-10 00:00:00

JUNE 10, 1854.

Sermon on the Mount. London: Longmans.
THE fifth, sixth, and seventh chapters of St. Matthew,
forming "The Sermon on the Mount," are beauti-
fully printed in this handsome little thumb-book,
and furnished with appropriate headings. The pretty
bidding and clasp recommend it as a gift-book : the
divisewisclom it contains may perhaps meet with more
earnest and frequent meditation from being pre-
seated in so very convenient and elegant a shape.

the Bites of Sepulture. By the Rev. T. D. Bernard,
M.A. London : Seeley s.
A MEP lecture on the memorials of the dead, acd
the various forms of sepulture adopted in different
ages and among different nations. The author has
some eloquent paragraphs on the sanctity of "God's-
acre" (the Saxon term for churchyard), but leans to
the conclusion that the report the dead leave be-
hind them is of far more importance than their
resting-place or memorials.

Addison's Works. Vol. 111. London : H. G. Bohn.
THIS volume contains as many of Addition's contri-
butions to the Spectator as are included from No.
JIGS to No. 483, making a handsome book of more
jakan 500 pages. Permanence is a test of genius, and
the continued popularity of Addison's style is of
itself a proof of his extraordinary merit. From the
false taste and forced humour of much writing in the
present day it is delightful to turn to these pages,
where wit steals upon the reader naturally and
quietly enshrined in polished yat simple periods.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
BOOKS.

The Works of Oliver Goldessith. Vol. 11. P. Cunningham.
Murray.
Memorials of the Life of Mrs. Opie. C. L. Brightwell.
Longmans.
Poems by Melanter. Hardwieke.
The Sultan of Turkey. Rev. H. Christmas. Shaw.
A Treatise on Relics. J. Calvin.
Edinburgh, Johnstone and Hunter.
Clidia, and other Poems, G. Gerard. Bosworth.
History of Missions. Rev. W. Brown. Blackwoods.
Songs of the Present. Clark, Beeton, and Co.
Erastianism and the Church of England. J. R. Pretyman.
Hope and Co.
Gatherings from many Authors. Ditto.
Sermons. Rev. A. R. Russell. Ditto.
Guide to the Crystal Palace. Routledge.
Charles 11. in the Channel Islands. Dr. Hoskins. Bentley.
Three Years' Cruise in the Australian Colonies. R. E.
Malone. Ditto.
Devey's Logic. Bohn.
India, Pictorial, Descriptive, and Historical. Ditto.
Di Foe's Works. • Ditto.
Types of Mankind. Triibner and Co.
The Iliadiff Houser. W. G. T. Barter. Longmans.
. Hide and Seek. W. W. Collins. Bentley.
Tales of Ireland. J. G. Mac Walter. Shaw.
Constantinople of To. day. T. Gautier. Bogue.
Verbal Inspiration. Rev. J. Bayle, D.D. Beeler'.
Light through the Clouds. Ditto.
Schamyl and Circassia. Routledge.
Popular Lectures on Astronomy. M. Arago. Ditto.
To Mont Blanc and Back. W. White. Ditto.
2'he Works of the Rev. Sydney Smith. Longmans.
:he Works of Sir J. Mackintosh. Ditto.
.13istrper's Poetical Works. Vol. 11. Edinburgh, Nichol.
oillindrae. J. B. Norton. Richardson Brothers.
ITheologia Germanica. _ Longman'.

PAMPHLETS.
'The Case,qf the Baron de Bode. Brettel.
dlepurt of Select Committee on the Case si l anon de Bode.
Ditto.
. The Railway Miscellany. Boniter and Co.
The Deluge. Freeman.
Gymnastics. Captain Cbiosso. Walton and Maberly.
On the Influence of the History of Science upon Intellectual
Education. W. W. Whervrell. Parker and Son.
Observations on Mental Education. Professor Faraday.
Ditto.
Report qf the Trial qf Jeremiah Smith for Perjury. Parsons.
The Theory and Practice of Landscape Painting. G.
Barnard. Orr.
Words on the War. A Sermon by W. Drake, M.A. Hope.
The Duty of 7'rusting in God. Sermons. Ditto.
The Great it'ine.Pras. Strange.
Yet there is . Room. Rev. J. V. Lester. Seeleys.
Thoughts on Satanic Influence. C. Cowan. Ditto.
The Britisisßantroversialist. Honlaton and Stoneman.
The War and the Fast. J. G. Manly. Ward and Co.
'Sixteen (/wide Books to the Crystal Palace and Courts.
Bradbury and Evans.
Among the new books to be issued next week we
are glad to see a story intided " Magdalen Hepburn,"
by the lady who made so favollrable an impression in
the reading world by her 'Passages in the life of
Mrs. Margaret Maitland!' Lord Jeffrey's praise was
sparely given, yet he admired the delineation of
Scottish character in this work as being deeper and
purer than in the writings of Galt. A life of
Marguerite d'Augoilleme, Queen of Navarre, from
original documents, is also announced in thatdepart-
ment of literature which Miss Strickland has rendered
so popular, by a lady of considerable literary attain-
ments.

THE PRESS.

HOME CIRCULATION.

THE Sydenham Palace of Art is the talk of the
town. The Court, of course, is alert, because the
Queen and the foreigners of distinction are going.
The aristocracy always like a fits by day ; the man
of business and on 'Change look forward to the cora.
monial of to-day as the crowning success of an
unique commercial speculation. Cab companies are
alive with their advertisements for economic access.
Sundry milliners, bonnet makers, tailors, livery-
makers and livery-stable keepers, and florists, are
almost bewildered by despair at the hundred-handed
custom which is eagerly asking for their services.
The directors have been liberal with their invitations.
The municipalities of the kingdom, the various
exhibition commissioners, learned societies, and the
two Houses of Parliament, will all be represented.
The week has been very remarkable both for busi-
ness and pleasure. There have been failures
on the Stock Exchange, simply because the
funds have been swinging up beyond 02 for the
last settling-day. The admission of 'the London
joint-stock banks to the clearing-house is a great
feature. The powerful Sampson affirms that this
change will cause an amount of circulation to be
economised equal at least to 1,000,0001. sterling !
The London and North-Western, and the other
metropolitan railway companies, are determined to
carry out the partially-tried plan of permitting the
engine-drivers to contract for the working expenses
of their engines. A correspondent in the Times
estimates the addition to the dividend fund of the
country from the adoption of such a step at not less
than from 700,000/. to 800,0001. per annum ! One
of their intelligent traffic superintendents, Captain
Bruyeres, suggests a wholesome arrangement for
public cabs. He would that the London cabs should
charge any fare they please, as long as they publish
the tariff at the back of the vehicle per mensem, and
deposit a duplicate of the " affiche " with the police.
" Any one would gladly pay for a clean cab, a fast
" horse, and a civil driver, a trifle more than that
" which a moribund back, a crazy brougham, and a
" surly Jehu, at present demand of him."
Even a Parisian jianneur could have had his full,
during the last six days, of festivity and excitement
in London. The Marquis of Breadalbane's evening
party was a splendid one. The crowd outside.
enjoyed the illuminations much better than some of
your friends did the crowded rooms, which (in spite
of Messrs. Ranting, Holland, and Durley) were
rather warm. The flowers were most exquisite, and
so were the pretty women.
At the King's-road Nursery, Chelsea, is as beau-
tiful a flower-garden as you may see in a day's
march, or stroll rather. Some 3,000 plants in full
bloom ; a pond decked with the choicest lilies and
aquarious herbage, in which swarm gold and silver
fish. Mr. Weeks, the proprietor, who is an architect
and horticulturist, has laid out his own grounds with
a taste and beauty well worth the attention of any
one who loves what Bacon calls "the solace of life."
But to return to the round of amusements.
On Thursday Madame Viardot resumed Fides, in
the Prophite, at Covent Garden, with her usual dra-
matic genius and wondrous mastery of voice. There
was an enormously-crowded house ; but the book-
sellers overreached themselves by the excessive
prices they were charging for boxes and stalls.
There is still an addition to the very capital gallery
of French pictures in 121, Pall-mall, more than two-
thirds of which are already sold. Her Majesty, the
Duchess of Sutherland, Lords Lansdowne, Elles-
mere, and Ward, Messrs. Henry Hope, Wallie, Gold-
amid, and Creswick, R.A., are considerable pur-
chasers; but no great prices have been paid, for
Biard's lovely picture of "Undine" only brought 1051.
Letters received at Kew confirm the public ac-
counts of the Duke of Cambridge's health : he is in
the highest spirits, and will go with the division to
Varna. Who will not of his London friends be glad
to know that the Duke is a thorough military re-
former, with a horror of the razor, the shako, the
pelisse, leather stocks, and pipeclay?
Let all our friends who like cheap prints look at
the six• shilling drawing of Cronstadt published by
Messrs. Colnaghi, from drawings on the spot by
Dolby. The same firm are going to present us with
a sketch of Sebastopol taken from the drawings so
coolly made by Lieutenant O'Reiley, of the Retribu-
tion. There is also an artist in the Baltic picking up
pictures of costume, scenery, national portraitures of
the town and country people resident on either side.
Mr. Davis lost largely on the " Events of the
Week ;" but he paid his losses with "smiles of con-
tent" and " chaff" unequivocal.
Mr. F. Robson, at the Olympic Theatre, has been
essaying one of Liston's characters. This gentleman
has tragic humour ; but he wants fining down, judg-
ment, and some intelligent instructor. His play of
face is extremely grand ; but be should have seen

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Bouffe for attitude and self-regulation. The French
vaudeville company are gone. Mlle. Luther, Mme.
Allan, and Mlle. Fix, and M. Regnier have taken
La Joie fait peur with 'em ; and, though Mr. Lewes
is said to have translated it for Mr. C. Mathews's
house, they haven't the people there, or anywhere
else in j.ondon, to play such a dillieult piece.
lin* Napoleon has taken a bosse near Boulogne,
*oo.Mich town some twelve reginients marched last
Monday, previously to encamping on the heights
near the sea. There is, as announced, to be another
camp at St. Omer.
With the advance of the summer season, the cool
enjoyment of smoking out of doors is very properly
encouraged by the authorities of Greenwich Hospital ;
and the old pensioners are being provided with a new
shed which faces the river: formerly they were not
allowed to smoke in the grounds of the hospital.
The Society of Arts has despatched visitors to
some of the continental educational establishments
to select articles for their exhibition at St.. Martin's-
hall, and to contribute school statistics.

A new edition of Tennyson's Poems is to appear,
illustrated by Mulready, E. Landseer, Millais, Clark-
son Stanfield, Hunt, Creawick, and Alfred Taylor :
if that does not promise to be a " Book of Beauty,"
as the great Mr. Heath used to call his scarlet-
bound volumes of scarlet ladies and others, what
does?

Pusit.