The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY.

BALMORAL CASTLE, May 30.
The Queen walked out in the morning, meow
panied by Princess Louise • and her Maje'sty drove
out in the afternoon, with Princess Louise and
Prince Leopold.

The Duchess of Atbole and Miss Macgregor were
in attendance.

His Royal Highnes3 the Prince of \Vales rode
out yesterday forenoon, attended by Major Tees-
dale.

The Princess of \Vales drove out yesterday, ac-
companied by the Crown Prince of Ddnmark.

The Handy Royal Atlas.
By Alexander Keith Johnston. Wm. Blackwood
and Sons.

As a Popular Atlas we how of none whatever
that can be compared to this publication. As to
the size of it, nothing could be Handier. As to the
look of it, nothing could be handsomer. Without
being costly or ornate, the volume is as elegant and
valuable in the general appearance of it as the most
fastidious lover of books could reasonably desire.
It is an imperial octavo, substantially half bound is
morocco, two guineas and a half in price, containing
forty-live maps in all—each of these five-and-forty

maps being carefully revised and corrected ac-
cording to the latest procurable geographical
information of a really reliable character.

As to the authenticity of the work as a book of
reference, as an Atlas in which implicit confidence
can be reposed, the author's name alone (to say
nothing whatever of his publishers') yields an in-
stant and absolute guarantee. Dr. Alexander
Keith Johnston, by right of his two great master-
pieces, " The Royal Atlas" and " The Physical
Atlas," has assumed an authority and a position
among the geographers of the present century
in which, if ho be not actually unrivalled,
he is most certainly nowhere surpassed. The
title selected by him for his present volume
has about it an especial significance. For+
the work is, in point of fact, as that title inti-
mates, The Royal Atlas in a Handy form. It is the
larger and costlier work, produced at a more mode-
rate charge and within more reasonable dimensions•
The advantages accruing from that reduction, both
in size and price, are, as a matter of course, obvious
upon the instant. But, to refer simply to those
arising out of the fact of the book being handier,
any one without previously handling the book can
appreciate at once how great a facilitation the modi-
fication in size must insure, where frequent reference
happens to be the rule, happens iu fact to be a thing
unavoidable. To the tutor and the pupil teacher
"The Htudy Royal Atlas " must necessarily be--
not conventionally, but necessarily—regarded as
one of those three things so often spoken of, but se
seldom found mentioned anywhere in plain Eng-
lish—a ne plus ultra, a vade mecum, and a deside-
ratum. Here, in effect, they are, all three of them,
combined, and combined, too, in a wonderful man-
ner. For, without being cramped or entangled iu
any way, each map, so far as the scale permits,
includes within it many of the distinguishing
excellences hitherto to be found only in its
costlier and bulkier prototype. Upon that
prototype, that is upon the " Royal Atlas," the
" Handy Royal Atlas" is, as its title indicates, di-
rectly and avowedly based. As a substitute for that

larger and nobler volume, the work under notice is
not merely what it alone assumes to be—that is to
say " valuable"—it is invaluable. The care taken
even in the mechanical getting of it up, is something
remarkable. The printing of each individual map,
all through the forty-five pages, is in the clearness
of it really beautiful. And, after the printing has
thus been seen to with admirable manipulative
dexterity, the maps have been, one after another,
daintily and delicately touched along the outlines
by the camel hair-brush of the colorist. It is a treat
to turn to any of the pages—it matters nothing
which of these may be selecteJ, for you can open
the book hap-hazard with perfect confidence—and
minutely examine them upon any point, upon any
particular. For the compacin,g and selecting of
the information contained in it, the book is really
marvel, and though The Royal Atlas is so vastly
its superior in its dimensions, as well as very much
more costly in its price,
.The Handy Royal Atlas can
hold its own in any comparison that may be insti-
tuted between itself and its otherwise more im-
portant prototype in respect to accuracy, precision,
authenticity, and distinctness. For portability, or,
in other words, Handiness, it is superior to the
larger work beyond all comparison.

A supply of the Remington breech-loaders 110
been distributed to the Pontifical troops.
On Monday the Count de Girgenti and his bride,
the Princess of the Asturias, was presented by the
King of Naples to the Pope. They will remain at
Rome for the festival of Corpus Christi.
On the festival of St. Philip Neri, the patron of
Rome, the Pope went to the church bearing the
saint's name. The Holy Father was attended 10
his carriage by Cardinals Borromeo and Monaco de
Lavalette, and preceded by Monsignor Persinelli,.
the Pontifical cross-bearer, on a white mule and
riding bareheaded.

The Rev. J. D. Massingham, LL.B., incumbent
of St. Paul's, Warrington, has been lecturing the
members of the Blackburn Church Institute on the
proposed disestablishment of the Irish Church. la
the course of his remarks he said Mr. Gladstone, be
believed, was actuated in the course he had taken by
two motives; the first was revenge, and the second
was a desire to get back to pay and place. The
other day he astonished a gentleman by classing
Mr. Gladstone with the Todmorden murderer, in se
far as they both acted from the feeling of revenge.
There was, however, this difference; they could hang
the man for murder, but they could not hang the
man who sought to disestablish and plunder the
Church, and he held that hanging was too good for
the man who proposed to do that.
A monument from the hand of the sculptor
Molin is going to be erected at Stockholm to the
memory of King Charles XII. The inauguration
is to take place on the 30th November next, the
150th anniversary of the monarch's death.

M. Leon de Rosny, Professor of Oriental lan-
guages in the Imperial School, Paris, is appointed
to the chair of Japanese just established.
The Sultan of Turkey has just ordered to be n3a-
nufactured in Paris a silver table, the price of which
will not be less than three millions of francs.

The great cattle market at La Villette, Paris, is
provided with sheds large enough to accommodate
4,600 oxen, 2,500 calves, 23,000 sheep, and 4,000
pigs. Taking the whole of France the consumption
of meat is on the increase. In Paris, during the
last five years, there has been an augmentation of
about six kilog. per head and per annum, tho
average being stated at 77 kilog. in 1866.

Tile Queen has just presented the public librarf
of Malta with two copies of the " Early Years of
his Royal Highness the Prince Consort," and
" Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the

Highlands," each bearing her Majesty's autograph
signature. The gift was accompanied by a (10-
spate!' from his Grace the Secretary of State fa
the Colonies to his Excellency the Governor, trans-
mating, by cog nand of her Majesty, the two
works, and expressing the Queen's desire that
these books may be placed in the public library of
Valetta.

The pearl fishery grounds recently discovereia
Western Australia extend along the coast for 1,0
wiles. Upwards of 60 tone of pearl oystcr3 were
fished up in December last, and sold for £lOO P
er
ton. - -

Lord Clermont is editing the works of Sir Jolla
Fortescue, and writing a history of the fatnily e,
:
Fortescue. Ile offers £5O for authentic inforTa
tion of the picture of the old Chancellor of the 2c.,
chequer that Bourne Willis says was Old \Vhadcw'

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