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of a May meeting on the interest of a mission to
the Patagonians. The universal demand for men-
tal recreation, and its moral as well as physical
effuot,, clearly prove that it should be encouraged
instead of crushed, provided always that it is
rationally and moderately directed. Various causes
continued to render the writer's stay at Stanley
Harbour disagreeable, and these circumstances
may have tinged his impressions, but his picture
is not inviting. His narrative is plain and straight-
forward. As regards his private wrongs, it is of
course impossible to judge ; but from the manlier
in which they are stated, the sympathies of the
reader will generally be on his side in his arduous
and responsible position. Regarded as a book of
travels, it offers us but little definite information,
as he SAW but little of the natives. The nautical
and meteorological observations may very possibly
be of service to those navigating that difficult and
dangerous coast. The charts and coloured plates
afford a good idea of the various localities. In his
preface the author commends his work to the indul-
gence of the public from the circumstances under
which it was written, and his own want of practice
in literature. This work will no doubt effect the
object intended, by calling public attention to those
regions and our connection with them, and it is
therefore not impossible that some lasting good
may be effected by this narrative of "Life in the
Southern Seas."

English Style. By G. F. Graham, author of Eng-
lish ; or, the Art of Composition, &c. Long-
mans.
This book may be of esential service to the stu-
dent; it contains a clear statement of the rules to be
observed by those who would attain to a correct
style in speaking and writing, also a summary of
the errors to be avoided, but which are of such con-
stant recurrence in everyday life. It is chiefly in-
tended forithe higher classes in schools and colleges,
and it has every appearance of being particularly
qualified for such scholars. An historical sketch
of the English language is appended which is in-
structive and interesting. The following remarks
prove the progression and extension of the Saxon
tongue, and confirm the poet's assertion
It kindles realms so far apart,
That while its praise we sing,
These may be clad in autumn fruits
And those in flowers of spring."
" The extraordinary extension of his language should be
to every Englishman a subject of natural and honourable
pride. No language, either in ancient or modern times,
has ever been so widely spread as English. If we compare
the extent of territory over which the ancient Latin was
spoken with that in which English now predominates, we
shall be struck with the difference ; and when we remem-
ber that neither India uor America was known to the
Romans, we shall easily seehow much more widely diffused
is the modern English than was the ancient Latin lan-
guage. In modern times, French, at one period, had a
considerable preponderance in Europe, and it is still very
generally studio 3, and even spoken, on the Continent. But
on the whole the preponderance is now greatly on the side
of English. It is spoken throughout England, Wales,
Scotland, Ireland, and the Isle of Man (though in all these
places there are still some scanty remains;of Celtic dialects)
—and in the United States, in Canada, Australia, and all
the English colonies and dependencies, it is now the
prevailing language."

The Poems of Francis Hingeston. Edited by his
Son. Longman.
This is a volume of pleasing and unpretending
poems by the late Mr. Hingeston, of Cornwall,
whose verses were much admired by his friends and
neighbours, and whose son has, therefore, thought
it desirable they should be presented to the public
in a more enduring form than in serials and scrap-
books. They deserve this care, as there is much
graceful melody and pathos in them ; and if the
author makes no ambitious flights, he spares his
readers that straining after effect so common in
modern poets. He says of himself in one of his
letters, " You know that I have never followed the
muse in her high flights; that I possess but a feeble
wing and weak voice, and that all my glory has
been to flutter for a moment upon a sunbeam, to
sigh to the wild winds of my native hills, or to
twine a simple garland of field flowers for some of
those sweet children of Nature to whom afone my
lowly songs have owed their inspiration." The
poems have appeared in various local papers, and
some of them have been introduced in Mr. Pol-
whole's "Biographical Sketches of Cornwall ;" but
they have now an opportunity of being more widely
circulated, and are tolerably secure from severe
criticism, inasmuch as the "simple garland of field
flowers" is now a wreath of i2nmortelles over the
author's tomb.