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while costlier copies of the work under notice a:

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-
brosianx." The series, we are glad 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 popular edition of Lord Macaulay's
foreshortened " History of England"—a gigantic
literary undertaking, so 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 Herculean--one exact moiety of the work has,
with this instalment of it, been republished. The
People's Edition was announced at its commencemen t
1.,s designed to lengthen out into fourteen numbers,
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
satisfactoryas and admirable, as such, as the costliest
library edition, in its way could be in all the
luxury of vellum-like paper, bound in calf-gilt.

EXPEDITIOUS WRITING.—This 18 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 shorthanu characters, with
the abbreviations above-mentioned. The work will
be found very interesting, and at the same time
highly useiul.

ISCELLANEOUS.—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 tale 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-
tribution, 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 ono on the "Care of Habitual Drunken..
ness."—The monthly parts of Once a Week form a very
entertaining companion for a railway journey —Theßronz-
leg Lecture-hall Chronicle contains a report of the visit of
Mr, Harper Twelvetrees to the Continental Temperance
Congress at Hanover, and a good collecron of articles of
interest to the temperance cause.