The Sun.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

Townsend's Manual of Dates. Frederick Warne
and Co.
A completely new edition has now been published
of the most comprehensive Dictionary of Reference
that has ever been produced in the English language'
As a compilation of facts, dates, events—alphabeti-
cally arranged, either singly or grouped together!
—the book is simply unparalleled. The next beet,
work of the kind is " Haydn's Dictionary of DLit°,
—Haydn's, however, being in no degree as comPre.
hensive as Townsend's. A statement the accurae9
of which is, easily enough, demonstrable. For'
whereas Haydn's Dictionary in his latest (the 12th)
edition (published in 1866), there may be found
5,743 articles arranged alphabetically—in Toro'
send's new edition (alb second), published this Year
(1867), there are upwards of eleven thousan',,
(11,045) articles, also arranged alphabetically. The
volume itself has, of course, expanded very conside.
rably in its dimensions. The • double columns on
each page are appreciably widened, the pages 01°3;
selves are more numerous by 150—the first issue e'
the work extending to 916, while the present edi•
tion, its immediate successor, has exceeded by oil"
teen the full thousand ! The Edition, in effect, if;
so new that the book might more reasonably be
called a new work altogether. It is a library in Hall;
It is as a hive Ailed with honeycombs—each COta,
brimming with honey—each separate cell cratara'
to repletion. For any working man-of-letters, the
cio
book is at once a luxury and a necessity—a
mecum of knowledge, so symmetrically pige°P;
holed that one can put one's hand upon the instant
upon almost any scrap of information ono Inea
chance to be in search of. The events here recorded
(always, be it remembered, alphabetically) are the
most important in the history of mankind—those
f
events at least which are to be found in annal°
anything like an authentic character. Strongly bound
_
in cloth, in the form of a large crown octav
volume, the book is one calculated to be an acepliei:

tion of a really important kind to any library'
no matter how.; well appointed that library U
already be in other particulars. It is a book s°
certain to be constantly turned to when once it bas
been examined as a work of reference, that it is far
rather a book for the table than abook for the shelve'
The mere list of the authorities consulted by tb6a
compiler in building up this huge cairn of dates an
events is something portentous—ranging as it ciciie,l4
through an enormous series of works of a well
known character, beginning with (‘ Adolphus,oo
History of England," and ending with " Wright
History of Caricature." Among the generic articles'
o
as they may be called, that arc introduced Int
" Townsend's Manual of Dates," it will be wel'
for any one coming newly to the work to turn by
way of test to such papers as those relating to Col:.
spiracies, Revolutions, Telegraphs, EncycloiXll'2
Alliances, Battles, Libraries, as affording more than
simply tastes of the quality of this extraordinary
compilation. Turning to the article Newspapers'b
we note a slip of the pen in regard to ourseles, which'
as it seems to us, is but inadequately noted in r
Corrigenda. It will, therefore, be in a 041313 e
individually satisfactory to us when even this second
improved edition of " rfownsend's Manual f
Dates" has been followed by a third yet more tic°
•
rate and probably by that time yet more eemPre:
hensive than the remarkable one we have Pa"
now welcomed.

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eiralbr•

HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, Dec.
The Queen walked and drove in the grounds 01
morning, accompanied by her Royal Highne4
Princess Beatrice.
His Royal Highness Prince Arthur, attended 11
Major Elphinstone, has left the Castle for Greeir.
wick Park.
lcii
The Duke and Duchess of Roxburgho have -
the Castle.
Lord Charles Fitzroy and Colonel Du Plat 1331;
succeeded Major-Gen. F. H. Seymour and Colo°
b r.
Hon. A. Hardinge as Equerries in Waiting to
e
Majesty.

Charles Dickens's Reception in America•

Simultaneously with the arrival of the telegr3l:
from Queenstown this morning—making ineeti°o
of Mr. Dickens's enthusiastic welcome on the 501'0
of the United States, when he landed at Boston °
the nineteenth of November—the current nus',l7:ir
of Banter (No. 14) comes to hand with a capita
cartoon, entitled "A Man and a Brother,'
1.
1
which Uncle Sam is presenting the Free Negro to ou
great novelist, with these words Wal, Charley'
I guess you're welcome : let me introduce to you
our new brother down South—' The most re,
markable man in the country.'"

The Duke of Leiuster arrived aOa
t his residence -
!arlton-house-terrace yesterday, from Carton house, 313 r

nooth.
Their Royal Highnesses the Count and Counte:
de Flandre and suite havo returned to the Clarend,l
Hotel from visiting their Royal Highnessestho Prince a°
Princess of Wales at Sandringham. House.
11 VA
/71A
VIENNA MORALS.—The birth registers of 4
do little credit to its people. There were 26,745 chil"re
born in that city in the year 1866, and 13,802 of thoOtio:
majority in number—were illegitimate. The porfuls

of the city was 560,000 in 1863.
lifeboat,
DIE CIVIL SERVICE LIFEBOAT. This valuable
boat, which was stationed at Wexford about afte°;ll•
months since, was the gift to the National Lifeboat J-4 f
tution of gentlemen connected with the Civil Sotlir 13°.
the Crown, through Mr. Dow and Mr. Goldsmith, t
Admiralty. ~n Of
EMIGRATION FROM THE MERSEY. The retth-5
the Government emigration agent at LiverpOleifi 0
that during the past mouth the total emigration fool_ alt.
Mersey has been 5,312 under the act, and 991 not O. c;
the act—total 6,303, sgai -st 6,451 in the corrose-idivf
mouth of last year. Compared with the
October there is a falling off of nearly 50 per cent. Aij 5° l
51 t:
the bulk of the emigration has been to the United otieo3
which absorbed 5,968 of the total number, and C3'l3upder
'
of the remainder. Of the 4,852 steerage passengers
the act, 2,000 were English and 1,350 Irish.
j 3 Vin'
THE ADJOURNMENT OF PARLIAMENT.IbIO
ticipated that Parliament will adjourn on Friday till too
is '
ordinary time of assembling in February. As therei
Pro.,
n 3 business of importance before the Legislature, it
b
bable that an adjournment from to-day till Friday
resolved upon.
Her Majesty has sent a donation to Mo. 1!40S:i
beth Watson, of Armathwaite, a widow, who has att3iftlive
the extreme age of ninety two, and has lived to so
generations in her own family.
KING THEODORUS IN LONDON.—A
of King Th,,odore of Abyssinia is now added to the. "101,
sand collection in Baker-street ; and the dress is origtieno,
having been brought to England by the ltev• Mr. .sit to
ono of King Theodore's captives, after his first /id pf
Abyssinia, and kindly presented to Madame 11°6E411
rs. Stern. portr.ait

its successful realisation, are the passion, the fel'
your, and the musical eloquence animating so mall
of the heart-stirring ditties scattered up and down
the leaves of this graceful volume of poetry—as for
example " The Martial Aim of England," " Out
Volunteers," " The Death of Wellington," "An„
Echo of St. Crispin," " Pipe Clay and Bunting;
and—a companion portraiture, in its way, to the
" Private of the Buffs" of Sir Francis Doyle—"ll33,
Dying Soldier from the Redan." Contrasting wIL"
those very charmingly, "La Jenne Fille et 13
Mort" ought not to be overlooked ; any rate
than ought " L'Amour qui passe et L'EsP°lf
qui vient." Two or three whimsicalities ice
fail to catch the humour of as, for example:
the one "On a late oe-eur-rence.,, There are several
—perhaps half-a-dozen—dainty morceamr from
Heinrich Heine, the best of all these being " Tba
Pilgrimage to Kovlaar." Excellent, admirable
though some of the minor poems iu the volume ate,
there is not ono among them all, however, iu and
way to compare, to our thinking, with " Ilehgt
Animis," a poem to which we gladly revert as by fatthe finest poetical effusion, of which we have SO
knowledge, from the hand of Alfred Richards.