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" Christian state will be victorious—the truly Evan-
gelical Church will triumph ;" and he propounds
the principle—" Toleration for all, even for the in-
" tolerant, bat not for the intolerance of such as are
"exclusive on principle." With thin very general
idea of the principle of the volume ( which consists
of ten letters to a friend), we must leave it to those
who are interested in the ecclesiastical politics of
Germany, and who have requisite knowledge and
learning to fathom them in the profound philosophi
cal exposition of this eminent Prussian savant.

A Cyclopedia of Geography, Descriptive and
Physical. By James Bryce, M.A. London and
Glasgow : Griffin and Co.
A PRUSSWORTHY contribution to our stock of educa-
tional works on geography. To the ordinary features
of a cazeteer is united a great mass of extrinsic in
formation in the shape of statistics, of language, and
of antiquities :
The distances, taken from the best recent maps, are
given direct, unless when otherwise mentioned, as by rail-
way or river; and these, as well as the heights, are ex-
pressed in the English measures. The revenues of the
minas S•ates. and the values of imports and exports, have
been generally reduoed to sterling money To facilitate
redactions which may he necessary, a table of the principal
foreign moneys is subjoined The popula-
tions ere given from the latest census, the several dates
being stated nnder each country. The admirable digests of
the returns for Great Britain and the United States, espe-
cially the former, have furnished many facts of great social
interest. The pronunciation is marked in Italic letters,
inclosed in a parenthesis—the ancient and native names in
Italics, inclosed in brackets.
When we add that the whole of this compact digest
of geography and history is published at the price of
125., we 01,11 have said enough to recommend it to
the attention of our readers.

Literary Addresses. Delivered at Various Popular
Institutions. Third Series. London and Glas-
gow : Griffin and Co.

Tur compositions contained in this volume are most
of them good of their kind, though marked by a prize
essay sort of tone likely to detract from their useful-
ness. The list of names in the present volume com-
prises. among others, Mr. Levan], the Duke of Ar-
gyll, Lord Eglinton, and Mr. Warren.

PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.-MAY 22.
BOOKS.

The Attaché in Madrid ; or Sketches of the Court of
Isabella 11. Sampson Low and Co.
The Pleasures of Home. A Poem. In Two Parts. Rev.
John Anderson. Hall and Virtue.
Shakespeare's England; or, Sketches of our Social History in
the Reign of Elizabeth. Loncrtnans.
A Catechism of Music. Boaworth and Harrison.
The Seasons of the Church, What thew Teach. Mozlev.
Ismeer ;or Smyrna and its British Hospital in 1855. By
a Lady. Madden.

Revised Enolish Version of the Holy Scriptures. Ameri
can Wide Union Trtihner and Co.—The israelitish
AuthoTship of the Sinailic inscriptions. Bentley—Plan of
Construction and Ventilation of Hospitals. Bentley—Re-
cruiting in the United Slates. Wilson.

WATERS OF THE DEAD SEA.—Anxious to test the
accounts of travellers touching the buoyancy of its
waters, I disrobed myself, and plunging in, was soon
engaged in springing rather than swimming over its
blue wavelets. At each stroke that I made, my head,
arms, and entire shoulders, down nearly to my waist,
rose above the surface ; nor was I able to keep my
feet while in motion under water, so that my progress
was rendered slow in the extreme. I even found that
without taking the trouble to turn on my back, if I
merely desisted from striking out, I remai ied motion-
less on the surface, my head and shoulders well
above water ; whilst on turning to look far my feet,
found that they also were tumble to remain below,
and were sticking up behind. So long as I remained
in the water I found it most cool and refreshing:
though immediately on gaining the land it seemed
as if I had emerged from an oil tub ; and on
attempting to dry myself with a towel, I was obliged,
after a most violent rubbing, to give it un in despair,
and to put on my clothes, notwithstanding the
clammy moisture which oozed from every pore, and
which I found impossible to rectify by rubbing. This
unpleasant dampness lasted for two or three days, in
fact until I was able to bathe in fresh water on my
return to Jerusalem. Kennard's Eastern Ex-
periences.

WEIGHT OF BEES.—It IS not often that insects
have been weighed; but Reanmur's curiosity was
excited to know the weight of bees; and he found
that 338 weighed an ounce, and 5,376 a pound.
According to John Hunter, an ale-house pint con-
tains 2,160 workers.— Kirby and Spence's Ento-
mology.