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la have tr

ime 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 interesting matter, descriptive and
theoretical, regarding earthquakes and volcanoes ;
and concludes with 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 en_Tavinfrs.

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 securely
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 require 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 Universi

t' 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. It§
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 siege
materiel of the Allies, and the

RUSSIAN ACTIVITY,

A great and most unfortunate delay took place in land-
ing and bringing up the siege-guns and stores of the
Allies —a delay which was improved to the utmost by the
Russians, who kept large bands of citizens, and even
women, as well as the garrison, at work in relays, both
night and day, in throwing up a vast exterior line of
earthen redoubts and intrenchments, and in covering the
front of their stone-works with earth, so as to render it
almost impossible to breach them.

Several other illustrations are pointed out of the
great alacrity evinced by the Russians in turning,
every incident and each minute to account in pre-
paring for the resistence of that powerful and
valiant armament before which they must ulti-
mately succumb.

Among the biographical sketches which adorn
the present number of the Dublin is one of Vol-
taire, in which the character, mental and literary,
of that arch•infidel is given with much truth, as
follows :

F VOLTAIRE

There are very few men who have been so much written
about, or talked of, as Voltaire ; scarcely any who have
composed so voluminously themselves, and none whose
writings have produced the same amount of mischief. We
may safely place him in the front rank of those who have
)loyed brilliant talents in the dissemination of un.