The Sun.
London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

of the finest rivers in the world. But the day, I trust, is
not far distant when the tide of emigration, so long mis-
directed to the United States, must turn in this direction ;
where a warm sympathy for foreigners already exists, and
a hearty welcome awaits them I"
The picture is certainly tempting enough, and we
commend it to the attention of intending emi-
grants.

A
Cotortry Visit, and its Consequences. By
Charlotte Hardcastle. Three vols. Newby.
This is a very pleasant, gracefully written story.
It does not pretend to any very high merits as a work
of art. Its chief attraction, indeed, is in its want of
pretension. It is a simple story, simply told, and,
as such, is very refreshing after the spasmodic
attempts at" sensation" in which (in a rash emuls.-
lation of their betters) so many of our inferior
novelists now indulge. The heroine of this story
is a very charming and loveable girl, who is weary
with the hollow fashionable carcer to which she is
destined by her worldly and vulgar mamma, and
from which she escapes by the happy accident of
this well-timed " country visit." The ridiculous
manner in which the disappointed would-be
"fashionable" lady accommodates herself to her
altered circumstances is most amusingly described.
Some other tales by the authoress of a " Country
Visit" are contained in the volumes, some of which
possess considerable interest.

Guide to the Unprotected in matters relating to
Property and income. By a Banker's Daughter.

Pp. 119. Macmillan.
This is a most useful and excellent little volume
for those inexperienced in matters of business. The
authoress, the daughter of a banker, being from
her position necessarily familiar with various mat-
ters of form, has been, she tells us, frequently
consulted by ladies, who, having property to dis-
pose of and to manage, have been totally ignorant
how to proceed in such arrangements. For the
benefit of these and such like " Unprotected
Females" she has considerately prepared this little
volume of useful information and practical advice.
Among other things to be found here are full
directions for all tanking transactions, writing
cheques, &c., for the disposal of stock, &c. The
laws respecting house property are defined. Tech-
nical terms of various kinds are fully explained,
and the path of the novice made smooth before
her.

A Lady's Visit to Manilla and Japan. By Anna

D'A. Pp. 296. Hurst and Blackett.
The account of a lady's experiences of these un
familiar climes may naturally be regarded with
interest. The fair authoress nas narrated her ad-
ventures and given her descriptions cf the strange
scenes among which she found herself, in a very
attractive manner. The book is adorned with a
very characteristic coloured sketch of Nagasaki.

Three TVecls in Majorca. By William Dodd,
A.M. Pp. 169. Chapman and Hall.

This is one of those modest little books which
have small pretension in their title or appearance,
but which, on a closer examination, commend
themselves to the reader's attention. We have bee❑
much interested in Mr. Dodd's description of
Majorca, tnd the other islands of the Mediterranean
Sea. His manner is lively and pleasant, and his
remarks on the various localities which he describes
often display great good sense and good feeling.

Behind the reit ; and other Poems. By the Hon.
Roden Noel. One vol., pp. 161. Macmillan.
As is generally the case in such collections, the
smaller poems in this volume are greatly superior
to the more ambi!ious and elaborate introduction,
the very subject of which is alarming in its im-
mensity. It is dedicated "to Ecila" (evidently
Alice),end the author tells us that it has cost him—
" Long anxious care, at times thought agonised ;"
and we fear that many of his readers will endure
similar sufferings before the whole drift of the
poem is clear to their comprehension. Among the
smaller pieces one of the happiest is upon an old
man revisiting the scenes of his youth. The senti-
ments which animate Mr. Roden are fu 1 of charity
and reverence. His heart is evidently in " the
right place," but it is a pity that his imagination
should bewilder itself with the subtleties of meta-
physics.

Hand book to the Calculator and Letter Box. By

J. S. Laurie. 12m0., pp. 16. Longman.

Upwards of three-and-twenty years ago, while
visiting one of the three recently established
National Schools in Ireland, we remember witness-
ing for the first time the employment of the Abacus
or Ball-Frame, as a means of inducting (with the
utmost ease) a number of very young children into
the elementary mysteries of Arithmetic. The Little
Handbook here supplied to the calculator (and
Letter Box) by the Editor of the Graduated Series of
Reading Books, already noticed in The Sun in terms
of well merited commendation, will tend directly to
impress the mind of every English Teacher with a
conviction of the many advantages comprised within
that very admirable system of tuition—the impart-
ing of knowledge by the actual sight and touch of
visible and tangible objects. A cedar box, with a
sliding lid—the lid partitioned into exactly a dozen
divisions—the box containing five-and-twenty
cound counters, as well as eight-and-seventy
pieces of wood : behold the very simple ap-
paratus for the calculator ! The twelve divi-
sions on the lid being available for imparting
a knowledge of notation and of fractions. The
five-and-twenty counters, for teaching counting and
notation. The seventy-eight pieces of wood, for
giving accurate information in the matter of frac- ,

tions. Supplied w ith this very simple and very
compact apparatus, the child and the teacher have,
in the form of that little cedar box and its contents,
calculator and the letter box in one. The duplication)
in this way, is here very readily effected by the
seventy-eight pieces of wood already mentioned be-
ing marked on one side with fractions, from a whole
to one-twelfth, and so on—and upon the other side
marked, as distinctly, for reading. The very lid of
the box having fastened down upon the back of it
a printed sheet, containing the alphabet in clear,
bold type; that type representing both letterpress
and handwriting. This wonderful little magic
box may certainly be defined as somewhat better
than poor fabled Pandora's—seeing that no ills
whatever come from this one, and that yet good
hopes and prospects are neverthelessstored up there,
too, perpetually_good hopes and prospects that
the child-student, out of these little counters and
pautitions within it, may win his way in good time
up, up to geometry and ma.
through arithmetic up,
thematics. The little box here referred to, and its
contents may be scanned any day by those who list
at the South Kensington Museum ; or it may be
seen, as a footnote tells us at page 3, at the great
publishing house at the Row whence issues this
ingenious Handbook, as a sort of pocket-key to that
same small literary and arithmetical Cabinet, at once
Letter-box and Calculator.

A SAGACIOUS GAMEKEEPER'S DUG,—Yesterday,
at the 'Wakefield Court-house, Joseph Bullock and
James Armitage were charged with night poaching on land
at Rothwell, in the occupation of Mr. Richard Sykes, and
belonging to Mr. Calverley. It seemed that at halt-past one
o'clock in the morning Isaac Jellings, a watcher in the em-
ploy of Mr. Calverley, and other assistants, were out. In a
field occupied by Mr. Sykes they saw four men, who had
nets spread, and, with the assistance of a dog, were ranging
after game. They went to them, and a struggle commenced.
One man, named James Ellis, was apprehended, and left in
the custody of James Booth, while the fight was continued
to secure the rest. The result of the struggle, however, was
that the men escaped, and Jellings placed a dog he had
with him upon the track of the two prisoners, and he fol-
lowed after, He came up to his dog while it was standing
on the brink of a pond, and said to it, " Where is he F" The
dog immediately sprang into the water, but he could not
think that any one was there, and took no steps. The dog
came out of the pond, and he repeated the question, where.
upon it ran along a hedge side until it came to a place where
Bulleck was concealed, who was apprehended and secured.
Jellings and his dog then returned to the side of the pond,
anC. Jellings repeated the question, " Where is he," The
dog again jumped into the water, and this time he followed
it, and in going through the water he trod upon Armitage,
who was up to the neck in the pond, his head being con-
cealed under a tree root. He seized him and pulled him out
of the water, and he also was secured. Bullock, a known
poacher, was sent to prison for two months, and Armitage
was committed for six months to prison, each of them to
hind surety to keep the peace for 12 months after his release
from gaol.