The Sun.
London, England, 1864-04-22 00:00:00

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HER MAJESTY.

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WINDSOR CASTLE, April 21.
The Queen and Royal family, Attended by the
Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, arrived at
Osborne at half-past seven o'clock last night, from
Windsor Castle.
Tier Majesty's health, though still requiring care,
has not suffered from the fatigue of the journey.

The Prince and Princess of Wales.
SANDRRINGHAM, April 2L
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince
,and Princess
of Wales have spent last week at Sandringhael
very quietly. The weather having been verf
favourable their Royal Highnesses have made fre°
quent equestrian excursions in the neighbourhood'
The Prince and Princess appear to be in excellent
health.
On Sunday last their Royal Highnesses the
Prince and Princess of Wales, ac3ompanied
by
Lieut.-General Knoilys, Captain Grey, Mr. Her-
bert Fisher, Mr. H. L. Wood, Colonel the Hoo'
Henry and Mrs. Byng, and the Hon. Mrs. Bruce'
attended Divine service at Sandringham Church.
The Rev. George Browne Moxon, 8.A., rector,
officiated and preached.
On Tuesday the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey arrived
at
Sandringham, and succeeded the Hon. M.'s. Bruce
in attendance upon her Royal Highness the Princeof Wales.
His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by
Major -Cowell and Lieutenant Haig, arrived at,
Sandringham on Tuesday evening, on a visit to
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of
Wales.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princes
of Wales and suite will, according to present sr'
raigements, leave Sandringham, for London, about
the latter end of next week.

The Countess of Listowel and the Ladies litire
have arrived at the Clarendon Hotel.
The EArl of Hoperoun has arrived at .Loniii
Hotel.

Count de Schall has left Furranee'a Hotel, for
Paris.

Mr, and Lady Charlotte Schreiber, and the
Misses Guest, have arrived at 11, Cavendish-square, Or
the season.

Sir Charles Grey has arrived at the Clarendon/
from Tunbridge Wells.

Admiral the Hun. E. and Mrs. Howard hale
arrived at Brown's Hotel.

LITERATURE,

The Standard Wrzting Exerczse Books for School
and Home. By J. S. lAwrie. Thomas Murby)

Bouverie-si rest:

These are very useful little works, that have bee°
arranged with great care, and will doubtless prove
of essential service to those for whom they are de-
signed. Great attention has been shown in select"
ing the subjects given for writing, and in this, se
in many similar instances, we can see how groat 10
the superiority of education now-a-days to what it
used to be. Learning is rendered more available
in every way, and in some degree the task is
lightened by the introduction of pleasing varieties
into the weariness and monotony of study.

Milton's Conzus, 4.c. With illustrative notes. Bf

the Rev. J. Hunter, M.A. Longman.
We have here another of Mr. Hunter's useful
little manuals for training schools and colleges•
The type is clear and good, while the explanatory
notes, which are full and comprehensive, will enable
the dullest or least im.aginative scholar readily to
follow the author's meaning. They are not re-
stricted to mere observations or queries on parts of
speech, as is too often the case in works of this kind,
but tcey explain difficult phrases or obscure corn"
parisons after illustrating them by passages front
other poets. The ethical extracts at the beginning
will assist the young reader in forming some idea►
of the peculiar beauties of Milton's style.

The History of Englund. By Lord Macaulay.
Part Vl. People's Edition. Longman.
This admirable edition of one of the standard
works of our language is uniform with the cheap
re-issue of the same author's world ramous essays,
and, like that, is suited to the book shelves of the
humblest reader, white the type and paper render
it by no means unworthy of a place in a more ex"
pensive library, By following the method of
monthly publication, Messrs. Longman are thus
putting within the re2co of all who are likely to
appreciate them some of the first works of our time,
and in thus encouraging tae taste for solid reeding
and diffusing knowledge and cultivation they are
conferring a public benefit.

Old Bones ; or, Notes for Young Naturalists. BY
the Rev. W. Sy mouth, F.G.S. Herd wieke, Plc"

cadilly.

We are not surprised that this little work should
have reached a second edition, for it combines in $
High degree the two important qualities of being
interesting and instructive. It combines in some
degree the two sciences of zoology and geology'
since it traces the changing forms of animal nature
from the living beings of the present day to the
ancient remnants of the mastodon or mammoth of
an earlier age. The illustrations are copious, and
add greatly to the value of the work, whose clear
and simple style and abundant information render
it pleasant and pr, fitable reading for thany wb°
have left their schooldays far behind.

The Standard Manual of Geography. Edited bf

J. S. Lawrie. Simpkin and Marshall.

This little work has been compiled by a gentle'
man who is one of her Majesty's Inspectors of
Schools, and who is consequently famidar wits
:he requirements of pupils. It is arranged on a
vet: excellent system, being plain and terse, and
giving its information, brief though it necessarily
is, in a form sufficiently interesting to impress the
pupil's mind with something more than a mere
catalogue of names and dates. For the benefit of
small schools, Bcc., we may add that this useful
compendium is befog also published in four monthly
twopenny parts.

Handbook of Croquet. By Edmund Routledge.
A capital explanation of this now very fashion-
able game. Ttiose wishing to liteJme proficients
in it have only to stuay this volume, and the work
s accomplished.