The Sun.
London, England, 1842-09-17 00:00:00

MRS. HALL'S IRELAND, Part XXIIL
How and Parsons, London, 1842.
In the present Part of this popular work, than,
a view of the city of Londonderry, engraved by
Bradshaw, from an original design by Creswick, wit
rare skill and felicity of touch ; together with two
maps, one of the counties of Down and Tyrone,
and the other of Fermanagh, Leitrim, and Longford.
The literary portion of the work is conducted by Mrs.
Hall, with her usual care and spirit ; her sketches of
Lough Erne, with its picturesque islets and small
wooded bays, are particularly graphic; and she ob-
serves of this charming vicinity, " travel where they
will, in this singularly beautiful neighbourhood,
lovers of the picturesque will have rare treats at every
step. It is impossible to exaggerate, in describing
the surpassing loveliness of the whole locality. How
many thousands are there who, if just ideas could be
conveyed to them of its attractions, would make their
annual tour hither, instead of up the hacknied and
soddened Rhine—infinitely less rich in natural graces,
far inferior in the studies of character it yields, and
much less abundant in all the enjoyments that can
recompense the traveller. Nothing in Great Britain
—perhaps nothing in Europe--can surpass in beauty,
the view along the whole of the road that leads into
the town of Enniskillen, along the banks of the upper
Lough Erne."

PRACTICAL INTRODUCTION TO THE •
STUDY OF GERMAN. Simphin and Marshall.
This Manual, the production of M. Heinrich Capel,
professes to arrange for the learner the early forms
and inflexions of the German tongue, not in the style
of the ol.d grammarians, such as Adelung and others,
according to the antiquated Latin order, but in a new
and facilitative method, which, after six years' actual
proof in instructing the large classes at King's Col-
lege, the Professor approves as the best. Instructions,
either by word or book, are sure to be valuable when
proceeding from a practical source. and under this im-
pression we strongly recommend the work to students.

THE BRITISH MAGAZINE.
Clem Smith, Henrietta-street.
The September Number of this periodical opens
with a notice of Cyril Lucar, the Patriarch of Con-
stantinople, coeval with our Jr.mes the First and his
successor Charles. A document appears in the course
of the article, illustrative of the state of the Greek
Church in the Patriareh's time ; and, in a statement
of its ceremonies, is noticed a curious, but now obso-
lete, observance in the performance of the Eucharist.
It was entitled " The Ceremony of the Sacred Parti -
cles." The particles were nine in number, consisting
of very minute portions of bread, and a tenth of St.
Mary the mother of the Lord, which, after the pouring
of the wine and water into the cup, being taken from
one loaf of oblation, were placed near the bread of the
Eucharist. This ceremony was intended to signify
that the condition of the saints is even now happy, and,
being joined as members to their heavenly Head, tri-
umph with Him. " A Call at the Rectory," is a neat
and characteristic lampoon upon the relation between
poor stipendiary curates and their paymasters, the
rectors. A paper on Hereford Cathedral states that
4,771/. have been subscribed for the repairs of • that
ancient- architectural edifice ; 20,0001., however, it
seems,. are required.