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while costlier copies of the work under notice ar
of course, procurable from the publishers, a better
a completer, in all essential respects a more beauti-
ful edition than this Popular reprint, in Four
Volumes, could not be obtained anywhere of Pro•
fessor Wilson's magnum opus, the " Noctes Am-
brosianre." The series, we are gild to observe,
will immediately be followed by a similar edition
of Christopher North's Recreations.

People's Edition of Macaulay's History of England.

Part VII. Longman and Co.

Half of the populta edition of Lord l\hcaulay's
foreshortened " History of Eogland"—a gigantic
literary undertaking, co purely fragmentary in the
form in which it has been left to us that we can only
judge of it as a whole, as it were, by analogy, ex
pede llerculeni—one exact moiety of the work has,
with this instalment of it, been republished. 'the
People's Edition was announced at its commencemen t
us designed to lengthen out into fourteen Lumbers,
and here is the seventh. The whole is to be com-
pacted into four volumes, and two consequently are
already supplied to the subscribers. Printed
though the work is necessarily in small type, on
double-columned pages, it is nevertheless so beau-
tifully printed, and in every other respect so ad-
mirably well got up that " The Popular Edition" is
as satisfactory and admirable, assuch, as the cuatliest
library edition in its way could be in all the
luxury of vellum-like paper, bound in calf-gilt.

EXITDITIOUS WRITING.—This is the title of a
little work issued to the public by Mr W. Hall,
F.R.C.S., and which may be read with great ad-
vantage by every person engaged in correspon-
dence. It lays down certain rules for abbreviating
writing without the labour and trouble of a study
of stenography, and also a clear and concise system
for the combination of shorthana characters, with
the abbreviations above-mentioned. The work will
be found very interesting, and at Cae same time
highly useful.
MISCELLANEOUS.—The May portion of the
Events of the Month contains a number of v,ry
readable papers on a variety of subjects; for in•
stance, we have "Letters from the Nile," "A few
Words about Modern Music," " Floral Decoration
of Village Churches," and "The Earthquakes of the 19th
Century." Altogether, the present part is a very good one,
—The Alexandra Magazine opens with a new talc of great
interest, entitled "Born at Sea ;" this is followed by a very
pretty poem, "The Virtuous Woman," by Mrs. Sewell,
and then succeeds a very sensible and valuable con-
tritution, entitled " Parental Responsibility," A number of
other useful and interesting papers enables this magazine
well to sustain its character, namely, the woman's social
and industrial advocate.—The Social Science Review this
month gives us the concluding portion of Dr Richardson's
highly interesting paper on the "Diseases of Overworked
Men."; It is replete with valuable information and sugges-
tions, and, therefore, we commend it to the careful perusal,
of all professional men. "The Cabmen of London" is a
very good contribution ; and amongst the other miscella-
neous papers is one on the "Cure of Habitual Drunken-
ness."—The monthly parts of Once a Week. form a very
entertaining companion for a railway journey Thcßrow-
ley Lecture-hall Chronicle contains a report of the visit of
Mr. Harper Twelvetrees to the Continental Temperance
Congress at Hanover, and a good collection of articles of
interest to the temperance cause.

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HER MAJESTY,

WINDSOR CASTLE, May 12.

The Queen, accompanied by her Royal Highness
Princess Louise, arrived at Windsor Castle last
evening soon after seven o'clock, attended by Lady
An gnsta Stanley, the Hon. Mrs. Bruce, Lord Alfred
Paget, and Captain Sir W. Hoste.
Her Royal Highness Princess Leiningen and the
Princess Alberta arrived yesterday afternoon on a
visit to her Majesty.
Her Majesty the Queen, accompanied by her
Royal Highness Princess Louise, walked and drove
in the grounds this morning.
The Judge-Advocate-General had an audience of
the Queen.

Her Royal Highness Princess H-12na accomg
panied the Prince and PrincTss of Wales at the
State concert en Wednesday evening, and wore a
dress of rich pink silk handsomely trimmed with
lace and ruches of crape; head-dress, acacias and
rosss ; diamond ornaments.

Her Majesty went on Wednesday to Baron Maro-
chetti's studio to see the colossal statue of the Prince
Consort, in progress for Glasgow, as well as other
works of the Baron.
Sir Ed.win Landseer had at the same tima the honor
of submitting his model of the colossal lion on which
he is engaged for Trafalgar-square.
The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterdays
attended by Major Teesdale.
The Princess of ,Wales took a carriage drive, at-
tended by the Hon. Mrs. W. Grey.

Princess Helena and Princess Louise visited the
Princess of Wales in the forenoon.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales honoured Earl Granville with their pre•
sence at the evening party given at the South New

sington Museum.

Their Royal Highnesses were attended by the
Hon. Mrs. W. Grey and Major Teesdale.

ROYAL VISIT TO DUNROBIN CASTLE. The
Wick papers state authoritatively that the Prince and
Princess of Wales are expected to visit the Duke
Duchess of Sutherland at Duarobin Castle in September'
In anticipation of a review before their royal highnoseee'
the Sutherland volunteers are very busy at drill.
The Earl of Radnor is, according to the latest
accounts from Coleshill, much better. The venerable Peer
is, however, in a weak state.
The Earl and Countess of Cork had a /Valler
party yesterday evening at their residence in Grafton-stroe"
There were among the guests Viscountess Dangarvs,l3;
Lord Hubert de B. Canning, Sir William Alexander, 'I
Knightley, M.P., Mr Alfred Seymour, M.P., Hon. 3 ne3,--0
and Mrs Ashley, Hon. Mrs Lyttelton, Mr and Hon.
Higgins, Mr. Baillie Cochrane, M.P., and Miss Cochreiloet
The Dowager Countess Spencer has takon
Grosvenor-street, for the season, and is expected in-boot:le--
at the end of this month with Lady Sarah Spencer.