A LIST OF RECENT WORKS SUITABLE FOR BOOK-SOCIETIES.

An Introduction to the Study of the Old Testament. By Alfred Barry, M.A. John W. Parker and Son.

A Rationale of Justification by Faith. Hamilton and Adams.

[A thoughtful and able theological essay. It is written mainly from the point of view taken by the Coleridge theologians. So far as it falls short of this, in the effort to be more orthodox, it seems to us to lose its own footing.]

On Truth and Error. Thoughts, in prose and verse. By John Hamilton (of St. Ernan's), M.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge. Macmillan and Co.

The State of France before the Revolution, 1789. By M. de Tocqueville. John Murray.

[The most mature work on political philosophy published in recent times.]

Memoirs of the Marquis of Montrose. By Mark Napier. 2 vols. Hamilton and Adams.

[This enlargement of the same author's "Life and Times of Montrose" contains much new and valuable historical material. The author's politics are exceedingly prejudiced, and his style rather tumid.]

Memoirs of Frederick Perthes. From the German of Clement Theodore Perthes, Professor of Law in the University of Bonn. 2 vols. Hamilton and Adams.

[A piece of extremely minute German biography, referring to a
period of great social and political interest. The simplicity,
strength, and heartiness of Perthes' character make him an
admirable type of the non-speculative but cultivated portion of
the German middle classes.]

Beaumarchais and his Times. Vols. 3 and 4. Addey and Co.
The Espousals. By the Author of "The Angel in the House." J. W.
Parker.

[A second instalment of a genuine poem, worthy of, if not quite
equal to, the first portion.]

Bothwell. A Poem. By W. Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L. Blackwood.

[A poem of rather level history, not without tasteful passages. It may be read once, but hardly a second time.]

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England in Time of War. By Sydney Dobell. Smith, Elder, and Co. [Noticed in Article VII.]

Essays, Critical and Imaginative.

Blackwood.

By Professor Wilson. Vol. 1.

[Containing many charming papers, scarcely inferior to those in "The Recreations of Christopher North."]

The Sketcher. By the Rev. John Eagles, M.A., Oxon. Originally published in "Blackwood's Magazine." Blackwood.

[Artistic chat, scarcely worthy of separate publication.]

English Traits. By R. W. Emerson. Routledge and Co.

[Often epigrammatic, sometimes fanciful, but every where readable.]

The Cauvery, Kistnah, and Godavery. Being a Report on the Works constructed on these rivers for the irrigation of the provinces of Tanjore, Guntoor, Masulipatam, and Rajahmundry, in the Presidency of Madras. By R. Baird Smith, F.G.S. Smith, Elder, and Co.

[We have heard of a book-society that ordered "Johnson's Dictionary" and "Burns' Justice." To one much less solidly disposed these valuable maps and the report will be a welcome study. No one who has read Colonel Cotton's little book on the irrigation of India can find a subject uninteresting which closely concerns the lives of so many millions of our subjects.]

Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, 1852-4. By M. C. Perry. Vol. 1. Trübner. Letters from Paraguay and Brazil. By the late Charles Mansfield, M.A., Clare Hall, Cambridge. With a Sketch of the Author's Life, by Charles Kingsley, Rector of Eversley. Macmillan and Co.

[Rambling notes of a rambling journey in South America, agreeable to read.]

The Oxonian in Norway; or Notes of Excursions in that Country. By the Rev. Frederick Metcalfe, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett.

Sight-seeing in Germany and the Tyrol, in the autumn of 1855. By Sir John Forbes. Smith, Elder, and Co.

It is a

[This book tells us the things to see, but little more.
guide-book. The Tyrol portion will not compare at all in
merit with Mr. White's charming account of his pedestrian
tour there, also recently published.]

Our Captivity in Russia. With an Account of the Blockade of Kars.
By Colonel Atwell Lake, C.B. Bentley.

Young Singleton. By Talbot Gwynne. 2 vols. Smith, Elder, and Co.

[Not without cleverness, but disagreeable.]

Recent Works suitable for Book-Societies.

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Eveleen. By E. L. A. Berwick, Author of "The Dwarf." 3 vols. Smith, Elder, and Co.

[Very readable and clever.]

America by Rail and River. By W. Ferguson. Nisbet.

Southey's Correspondence. Vols. 3 and 4. Longmans.

The Stereoscope; its History, Theory, Construction. By Sir David Brewster. Murray.

Ferny Combes: a Ramble after Ferns in the Glens and Valleys of Devonshire. By Charlotte Chanter. Lovell Reeve.

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Dred a Tale. By Mrs. Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Sampson Low, Son, and Co.

[Some of Mrs. Stowe's sketches in this book are full of genius; but there is no action.]

It is never too late to mend. By Charles Reade. 3 vols. Bentley. [Discontinuous as a tale, but full of life, observation, and ability.] The Hills of the Shatemuc. By Miss Warner. Sampson Low, Son, and Co.

[Very still life indeed; the dialogue evidently has often obscure meanings to the authoress's mind, which do not reach the reader, so that the loquacity is inarticulate. There is eye for character, but very inadequate voice.]

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