The Sun.
London, England, 1865-07-06 00:00:00

These Pages have hitherto, says an introduc-
tory note, " been in waiting in Temple Bar.
They have now for the first time an oppor-
tunity of making their bow collectively to the
public." Pretty Pages, and bearing in their hands
an ample store of entertainment, they will willingly
be retained in the service of the general reader to
minister to his hours of leisure, to accompany him
on a railroad journey, or to attend his steps while
loitering by the sea-side. Among the most im-
portant matters thus presented to our notice are
" My Convict Experiences," evidently the results of
a practical investigation of the places described.
The lighter articles consist of tales and sketches, and
reflections for the most part of an amusing and en-
tertaining description, all written in that bright and
animated style which characterises the various pro-
ductions of the brilliant author of " Broken to
Harness."

Studies, New and Old, of Ethical and Social Subjects,
By Francis Power Cobbe. One vol., pp. 446.
Trubner and Co.

Many of these papers, " The Morals of Litera-
ture," " The Philosophy of the Poor-laws," " The
Rights of Man and the Claims of Brutes," and
others, have appeared in Fraser's Magazine. They
are well written, and interesting, but the expres-
sion of the author's religious opinions, as evidenced
in the first article, " Christian Ethics and the
Ethics of Christ," will be enough to arrest the
sympathy of many readers.

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal. 1 vol., pp.
334. New edition.
The Discovery of a North-West Passage. Edited
by Captain Sherard Osborne, C.B. 1 vol., pp.

358. Fourth edition. Blackwood and Sons.

The publishers have done wisely in issuing these
interesting and valuable works in a more condensed
and popular form, by which means they will be
more easily attainable by the general reader. The
" Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal" narrates
the experiences of eighteen months in the Polar
regions in search of Sir John Franklin's expedition
in 1850-51, to which is added an interesting account
of the career, last voyage, and fate of Sir John I
Franklin. This volume is very appropriately dedi-
cated in feeling terms to Lady Franklin. The
companion work gives the full particulars of the
voyage of discovery of H.M.S. Investigator during
the years 1850-54, taken from the logs and journals
of Captain R. M'Clure. As we have already no-
ticed this work on its first appearance, we may
briefly now commend this new issue of the fourth
edition.

Essays on Social Subjects from the Saturday Review.
Second Series. 1 Vol., pp. 312. Blackwood and
Sons.

A second series of the spirited and striking articles
on men and matters, which delight the readers of
the Saturday Review, will, no doubt, meet with the
same success as that obtained by the first series pub-
lished some little time back. This new volume con-
tains articles on " Cheerfulness," and " Meanness,"
on " Small Economics," and " Clever Children," on
" Remorse," and " Refinement," on " Flattery,"
and " Letters," on "Commonsense," and "Vanity,"
and other matters equally dissimilar and equally at-
tractive, all written in that brilliant, emphatic style
which has contributed not a little to the success of
our weekly contemporary.

East and West. By Stefano* Xenos, author (in
Greek) of " The Devil in Turkey," &c. 1 vol.,

pp. 303. Trubner.

This volume contains a diplomatic history of the
annexation of the lonian Islands to the kingdom of
Greece, with a translation of the despatches ex-
changed between the Greek Government and its
plenipotentiary at London, and a collection of the
principal treaties, conventions, and protocols con-
cerning the lonian Islands and Greece concluded
between 1797 and 1864. As a book of reference it
possesses an especial value to the politician and
historical student, and its interest is enhanced by
its particular exposition of the sentiments of the
Greeks as described by one of themselves.

Modern Scepticism; viewed in relation to Modern
Science. By J. R. Young, late Professor of
Mathematics at Belfast College. 1 vol. pp. 229.
Saunders and Utley.
The author tells us that he undertook this work
solely in the interests of truth, and believing that
he might have to abandon some incidental portions