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requires no great gift of prescience to foresee that
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gone far to establish himself in the character of a
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The Museum of Science and Art. Edited by Dr
Lardner. London : Walton and Maberly.
The fourth volume of this popular and valuable

series is before us, and the work continues to pre-
sent to its readers the same features of scientific
accuracy and popular attraction which distinguished
Is commencement. The subjects introduced
nerally discussed with considerable amplitude

of space, sufficient earnestness of manner, and a
satisfactory simplicity of diction. The present
volume is devoted, in more than one-half of its
extent; to a history and description of the Electric
Telegraph. In this, the various forms of apparatus
which have from time to time been brought into
use, and the advantages and disadvantages of each,
are considered and pointed out ; and along with
these particulars is given a concise history of the
progress of electric science. The volume likewise
contains much interestinc, matter, descriptive and
theoretical, regarding earthquakes and volcanoes
and • 4tE • -"cirri and

concludes win a chapter on steam, and its
application to the arts and business of life. This
volume, like its predecessors, is copiously and taste-
fully illustrated by wood engravings.

The Philosophical Works of John Locke. With
a preliminary Essay and Notes. By J. A. St.

John. London : Henry G. Bohn

This handsome and cheap edition of Locke's
works is now completed in two volumes, and forms
a portion of Mr. Bohn's Standard Library. Like
the other works of the series, it has many good
qualities to recommend it to the public—the first,
that it is of standard excellence intrinsically, and
is published at a cheap rate, it enjoys in common
with the others of .the set ;—the second, that it is
carefully collated with the best text, and sufficiently
annotated to clear up any obscurity in the original,
is a quality partly peculiar to this work, and is
partly shared in common with the others. Besides
the celebrated "Essay on the Understanding," on
which the fame of Locke has been long and secarely
built, this edition contains likewise his controversy
with the Bishop of Worcester ; the Elements of
Natural Philosophy ; and the valuable suggestions
thrown out by the great mental philosopher, under
the title of " Some Thoughts, concerning the read-
ing and study for a gentleman." The treatises of
Locke have too long held a distinguished place in
philosophical literature to requite defence or com-
mendation from us ; the concurrent testimony of
successive generations has rooted them too firmly
in public esteem to need our help ; but even general
approbation is no reason for withholding from this
reprint the commendation of cheapness, complete-
ness, and beauty, to which it is so fully entitled.
The Dublin University Magazine. Dublin :

The number of this able periodical, which closes
the year, and concludes its forty-fourth volume, is
one, in all respects, worthy of the general favour
and high distinction which, during a course now
bordering on a quarter of a century's extent, it has
laboured worthily to establish and maintain. Its
contents are varied and lively, yet replete with
wisdom, and embellished by literary excellence.
Its table of contents for December presents to the
reader an attractive melange of fact, fiction, and
well-elaborated dissertation, sprinkled with snatches
of sparkling poetry, sagacious narrative, and tel-
ling biography. The opening paper is devoted to
the second part of The Expedition to the Crimea,"
in which a well-condensed narrative of that event-
ful expedition, up to the close of the battle of
Balaklava is laid before the reader. In reference
to the commencement of the siege operations, the
writer makes the following significant remarks
upon the inevitable delay in landing the
materiel of the Allies, and the