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uncut Elzcvip, gotle's Abuses and even u1ca
Greek uavu. oiiris, tie gens Of thc biblrma7 30"
crown. NJ. Lbr must have toen born book DOL
lector,
Among Mr.. Murray's positive announcements 10
tie riefs Mt No, enher and December are mot bcor'
mentioned leIe Dr. Smitl g Students Manual o
Ancient Geography" uniform with the other volume
of the "Studeut Seriee;" Handbook TO the Cnthe
dralz of England; Southern Division, including Win
chester Salisbury. Exeter, Wels Chichester, Roches
ter, Canterbury, with $50 illustrations vols
rect octave. At this average Of contents, 1t will
REQUIRE two other divisions, q midland" and q
"Norbe,D," TO complete the subject. Dir. Henry
Coughs Personal Narrative Of Two Years Imprison
meut in Durnah," rost octave Prof. Blunt's Con
trtutious to the Quarterly Review octave Ancien,
Law, its connection with the early history Of society
End lis relation TO modern ideas," by II. Sumner,
Msre, and Lectures on the History of the Eastern
Clmch" by DR.. Arthur Penryn Stanley, the biog-
nILer of Dr. Arnold, Regus Professor of Eccesi-
I'll, al History at Oxford This latter subject though
full of nterest is almost blank in English literature,
as the erude work of the Rev. j. NJ. Neae was com.
menced ON 10 vohmnous a scale that It's completion
see ms ho eless and the four volumes published include
only the General Introduction, and History Of the
AlexandIisn Phtiisrbae." Tie local coloring that
gives such yividness to the Pages Of Sinai and Paes
tine" will no doubt he visible in the Professors deduc.
ticn Of tie Church History Of those regions to later
period
The new illuminated presentation volume, Thomas
Mooies Paradiie and the Peri" from Lalla Rookhl,
on which Mesr. Owen Jones and Henry Warren have
Gvished all tie decorative speDdor of the arts, is said
to exceed in true Oriental feeling and grace anything
yet produced II is in royal quaro, and forms 81 pages
each one "a thing of beauty
Owen Meredith's next appearance as an author
will he in the character Of the translator Of "Sebs
Pe,ne. or Nationa Songs Of Servia" These are IN
doutedy tie ballads which were first appreciated and
in fact discovered and introduced TO the western world
by "Tavi" (Mrs Edward Rob nsonl, and by their lyric
combined with grandeur of treatment almost
erical. gaye great mpuse to the study Of popular
roetrv Throughout Eurore which resulted in works too
nun erous 10 mention and foremost Of all, Dir. Vile
sroue's mort curious and interesting Barzos Brei1"
or Celtic Minstrelsy Of Bretagne.
Tie current number OF Ne Ncrln bIltish
view the rs seued since passed into the hands Of
Messrs Clark of Edinburgh, presents lit of contrbu-
tons ii at would make the fortune of any periodical.
Sir David Brewster furnishes an article on Calico,
Mr. Iaac Taylorone on " Modern Thought, its tenden-
eies, &C." American Humor and Humorists" are
treated by Mr.. Gerald Masey, "Logie" by Professor
Frazer, the succeseor TO Sir VIM IlamtOns chair and
"SyIia and the Druse Question by the Rev. Mr..
Porter Whose mastery of the subject has been proved
BY tie authorsl ip of "The Hand Book of Syria and
Palestine in Mr.. Muruy's series.
Tie English rsrers are noticing the death Of Dir.
Henry ButteIw0rth Of the most eminent publishers
of law books in England who has recently
closed life ofoli fashioned business labor and success,
at tie age u.s. II is good instance Of the 6xity OF
thing in London, that the house he occupied all his
cal er was formerly The Hand and Star, in Fleet
siTeet within Temple Bar" where formerly dwelt
Richard Toty the printer of the statues and early law
Treatise from tire reign Of Henry Will to his death In
Queen Elzabe.hs time, in 1893, and has ever since
continued in the same profession that Plowden or
Sir Edward Coke if they could revisit the EARTH might
walk into their old haunts, and get served as usual
batting few differences of costume &c.
Prof. Faraday's Juvenile Course of Lectures at
tie Royal Institute for the coming Christmas Holidays
had for their subject 1.-THE Chemical History of
Candle" Trey will undoubtedly be reported in short
hand ike the last course the Forces OF Nature.
wi ich has met with 30 much SUCCESS in England and
America.
Lieut. Maury's Physical Geography and Meteor
ology of tia Sea- publishing in London, with
meIs ard charts, by Messrs. Low, Son g. Co., is an
rourced az "a reconstruction and enlargement of his
former work." and will in due time be accessible
TO American readers.
-Meesrs Maemlan's (of Cambridge forthcoming
contributors to scientific literature are, Life on
Earth its Origin and Succession" by John Phillips,
Professor of Geology in the University of Oxford and
=" Life Of Edward Forbes, the Naturalist" by Dr. VIII
son of Ednburg, and Archibald Gekie. While
gagged on the memoirs Of bis friend, DR.. Wilson (wbo
was Professor Of Technology at the University of Ed
ingburgh) has deceased and his Life is announced
by the same publishers. Prof Phillips book II under
stood to b. the most and thorough examination
of Mr. Darwns theories that they have yet received.
1t is remarkable that Geol gsts, generally, have
ranged Themselves on the eide Of his opponens, and
thus bis warmea supporters among the students of
vegetable and the lower forms Of animal life.
MIR. aad Mn. Troo1e continue to cultivate the field
of Italian History to which the late occurrences has
given such interest paul the Pope, and Paul the
FIar; A Story cf an Iaterdict," by Thomas Adophus
Trollope, and Sketch of Events IN Italy during the
last Eighteen Months" BY Theodoeia Troliope, are
both to be published by Messrs Chapman g. Hall dur
ing the present month.