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THE BOOKSELLER, FEB. 28, 1867.

Subscriptions to THE BOOKSELLER for 1867 are now due, and Subscribers are requested to transmit the amount, 55., either in Postage Stamps or by Postoffice Order, payable at the General Post-office to MR. EDWARD Tucker.

Subscribers are reminded that the amount is too small to admit of application being made for it by Post, and they will consequently see the necessity for promptly responding to this intimation without putting the Publisher to any needless trouble or expense.

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Bankrupts :

THE GAZETTE.

Ashworth, Thomas, Oldham, stationer; solicitor, J.
Richardson, Manchester.
Banks, George Linnæus, Cloudesley Square, Islington,
late Richmond Road, Barnsbury Park, author, jour-
nalist, and general agent; solicitor, W. E. Goatley,
Bow Street.

Barham, James Frederick, Watling Street, and Newington
Crescent, Kennington, stationer; solicitors, Merriman
and Buckland, Queen Street.

Barnes, John, Leeds, printer, &c.; solicitor, T. Simpson,
Leeds.

Cleary, William, Bolton, newsvendor, photographer, &c.;
solicitors, Glover and Ramwell, Bolton.

Colley, Franc., Barnsley, bookseller, printer, and stationer;
solicitor, T. G. Hamer, Barnsley.

Coon, Martin, Douglas Street, Deptford, lithographic
writer and artist; solicitor, J. D. Rigby, Coleman Street.
Cook, Robert, Mount Terrace, Lambeth, late Strand,
musician; solicitor, W. H. Filder, Bedford Row.
Craighead, James, Aberdeen, printer.
June.

Claims by 13th

Dixon, Thomas Stephen, Watney Street, Commercial
Road East, compositor, and clerk to a printer; solicitor,
W. E. Goatley, Bow Street.

Gates, Joseph Robert, Folkestone, bookseller and sta-
tioner; solicitor, W. Wightwick, Folkestone.

Griffith, Thomas Kelsall, Cross Street, Holywell, sta-
tioner; solicitor, T. Parker, Liverpool.

Jones, John, Erdington, newsagent, &c.; solicitor, E. A.
Ward, Birmingham.

Low, Peter, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, artist and photo-
grapher. Claims by 6th June.

Marsh, John Thomas, West Square, Southwark, manager
to a publisher; solicitor, J. I. Cridland, Lincoln's Inn
Fields.

Murphie, George, Kingsbridge, printer and stationer;
solicitors, J. Square, Knightsbridge, and T. Floud,
Exeter.

Wigley, Henry, Shrubland Road, Dalston, stationer, &c.;
solicitor, J. Hall, Coleman Street.

Woodin, Acraman Augustus, Old Bond Street, late Ham-
mersmith, pieture-dealer, &c.; solicitor, F. T. Girdwood,
Old Jewry Chambers.

Assignments, Compositions, Trust Deeds, &c. :

Bailey, Anne Maria, widow, Cheltenham, stationer, &c.;
comp. of 2s. 6d. on 30th January, 1868.

Burbidge, John, Moorgate Street, advertising agent; in-
spectorship to wind up estate; inspectors, Thomas Lane
Coward, manager of the Morning Post, and Charles
Herrman, merchant, Lime Street.

Fisher, Walter, Bristol, printer, &c.; trustee, William
Wardley, wholesale stationer, Watling Street.
Lawrence, James George, Bread Street Hill, printer;
comp. of 2s. 6d. in three months.

Newmarch, Isaac, Hull, stationer, &c.; comp. of 4s.
Salmon, John, Belle Sauvage Yard, printer and litho-
grapher; comp. of 5s, on 14th February.
Savage, Alfred, Bishopsgate Street Without, picture

dealer, &c.; comp. of 7s. 6d.-23. 6d. on 14th May, 2s. 6d. on 14th Sept., and 2s. 6d. on 14th Sept., 1868. Williams, Alfred, Muswell Hill, photographer; comp. to pay debts in full-5s. in twelve, eighteen, twenty-four, and thirty months; first on 24th December.

Partnerships Dissolved:

Bointon, Francis Bower, and John Yarwood, Stockton,
Debts paid by Bointon.
wholesale stationers, &c.

Brown, John, and Peter Kerr, West Nile Street, Glasgow,
Debts paid by Brown.
printers and lithographers.
Burns, James, Thomas Lambert, and William Oates,
Portman Street, publishers,
Paternoster Row, and
booksellers, stationers, and manufacturers and sellers of
musical instruments. Debts paid by Burns and Oates.
Cassap, William, George Reeve, and Samuel Millbourn,
Iping Mills, near Medhurst, paper manufacturers.
Debts paid by Cassap

Clifford, John, and William Griffiths Proverbs, Edgbaston,
Birmingham, printers and stationers. Debts paid by
Proverbs.

Crossley, John Sydney, and William Billington, book

sellers, printers, &c., Rugby. Debts paid by Billington. Dobson, John, and William Green, Bingley, printers and stationers. Debts paid by Dobson.

Francis, William, and Albert Jackson, Gray's Inn Road,
lithographers and engravers.

Goodhall, Charlotte Eliza, and James Thomas Dinsdale,
Pancras Lane, stationers. Debts paid by Dinsdale.
Hook, William Edward, and Henry Tech, Plymouth,
photographers.

Morton, John and James, Glasgow, wholesale stationers
and merchants.

Reeves, Henry, Henry Bowles Wild, and Charles Kemp
Wild, Cheapside, stationers and artists' colourmen, as
regards Reeves. Debts paid by H. B. and C. K. Wild.
Tootill, Ellis, and James Thomson, Pall Mall, Manches-
ter, printers, lithographers, and stationers.
Walker, Arthur McPherson, and George Metcalf Moor,
Peterborough Court, Fleet Street, stationers, printers,
and engravers.

Wall, John Peter, James Henry Dunlop Jehring, and
Edward Harrison, in the Young Ladies' Journal, 6th
April, 1865.

Wallis, John E., and P. Keating, proprietors and pub-
lishers of the Tablet newspaper.

Wood, George, and Francis Henry Lakin, Aberdeen, musicsellers.

Dividends:

Graham, P., printer, second div. of 133. 91d.; Parkyns,
London.

Hutchinson, J. J., bookseller, 1st div. of 1s. 9d.; Parkyns,
London.

Revell, W., printer, 2nd div. of 2s. old.; Turner, Liver-
pool.

Order to Wind Up under Companies' and Societies' Acts
The Dartford Creek Paper Mill Company (Limited);
voluntary winding-up to be continue; solicitors,
Edwards, Webb, and Co., Delahay Street, Westminster.

TRADE AND LITERARY GOSSIP.

Mr. Holmes informs us that he has disposed of
the Herts Express, the property of Messrs. Pain
and Brook, Hitchin, to Mr. Chance, late of Bir-
He has also recently negotiated a
mingham.
partnership between Mr. Keating, printer, 11,
Water Lane, and Mr Page, late of Norwich.

FRAMLINGHAM.-The business of the late Mr.
Wm. Dove Freeman has been recently transferred
to his nephew, Mr. Alfred Freeman.

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EASTBOURNE.-The business of Mr. W. H. Law has been trausferred to Mr. T. S. Gowland, of the Old Library, in the same town.

The premises adjoining Temple Bar being required for the new law courts, Mr. Edward Truelove is removing his stock of "Free Thought," and other publications, to No. 256, High Holborn, the shop for many years occu

pied by the late Mr. Kettle.

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TASMANIA.-Messrs. J. Walch and Sons, the well-known booksellers and stationers of Hobart Town and Launceston, Tasmania, have admitted their manager at the latter place into partnership, as far as their Launceston business is concerned. The Hobart Town business will be still conducted under the name of J. Walch and Sons, and the Launceston firm will be Walch Brothers and Birchall Messrs. Walch have carried on business in Tasmania for twenty-one years, and the name of the firm is familiar to most of the leading houses in the trade through their London representatives, Messrs. Joseph M. Holworthy and Co., of 30, Great St. Helens, E.C.

UTRECHT.-Mr. J. L. Beyers informs us that "In the course of March he intends to sell by anction, at his house, Hoogt, G 161, a great collection of autographs and manuscripts of princes, eminent persons, etc.; further, a collection of books and pamphlets, among which is the very scarce pamphlet: The Apology

of the Prince of Orange," 1581, 4to., etc.; also a great collection of engravings, portraits, and historical prints; in this collection is a series relating to the French revolution 1787-1805 of the greatest importance, containing more than 1,000 prints and portraits, collected in ten great portfolies, etc., etc."

MANCHESTER-Mr. Henry H. Tubbs, formerly of the firm of Fletcher and Tubbs, has re-commenced business at 21A, King Street, in this city.

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THE MANCHESTER SWINDLERS. Froggart Beck is not defunct; his present address is 38, Robert Street, Ardwick, Manchester.

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Admirers of Charles Lamb will be glad to hear that Messrs. Bell and Daldy, in republishing the Essays of Elia," have restored many important passages which were suppressed in previous editions. We hope they will also add some of those charming essays which have not hitherto appeared in his collected works, but which are well known to collectors of Eliana. We may mention that this new edition, which will be the most complete one extant, is published by arrangement with Messrs. Moxon & Co., the proprietors of the copyrights of Lamb's several works. Mr. Hotten announces "The Collector," volume of essays on books, newspapers, authors, pictures, inns, &c., &c., by Mr. II. T. Tuckerman, an American, with a preface by Dr. Doran. There will be an exquisite little vignette of a collector, which any one acquainted with the quays of Paris will have no difficulty in recognising. Mr. Hotten informs us that "he has just added 'Roderick Random,' 'The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table,' 'Fortunes of Nigel,' 'Heart of Mid-Lothian,' and the 'Bride of Lammermoor,' to his popular Library of WorldWide Authors,' complete and unabridged, at sixpence each."

Considerable dissatisfaction is being caused by the determination of the principal railway companies to collect heavy goods for the country at an earlier hour than heretofore, yet this seems but reasonable. Most letters from the country are delivered in London soon after eight o'clock, a. m., and arrangements could easily be made to have them opened and attended to before ten, so that books might be collected in good time for sending off the same not easy to forget the good old coaching days, day. To some persons it is but to a newer generation familiar with steam and electricity, late hours are an abomination.

A CORRECTION.-In the notice of Mr. Percy Hudson's Arithmetic in the last number of the BOOKSELLER, the publishers' names were wrongly given-for Longman and Co. read Cassell; Petter,

and Galpin.

in the trade in connection with Messrs. Besley's Mr. Charles Keymer, a gentleman well-known (now Reed and Fox's) type foundry, has trans

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THE RIVAL "COOPERS."-We have before us rival series of the tales of Fenimore Cooper, the American novelist. Both are printed in small octavo, in double columns, and both are published at the same price-sixpence, for a "complete" tale. The series issued by Messrs. Routledge is entitled an "Author's Unabridged Edition," and each tale is nicely produced on toned paper, in an attractive wrapper; the other series is issued from a Glasgow printing-office, and bears the name of Messrs. Warne and Co. as publishers. It is stated to be a "revised edition," and that it is complete. Being greatly inferior to their usual productions in the matter of paper and print, we are inclined to believe that Messrs. Warne are not its originators, but simply the London agents of the Scottish printers. Be this as it may, we may fairly compare the two editions, and try if we can discover what kind of "revision" the Glasgow issue has undergone. A slight examination of one volume of the series, by each publisher, will suffice. In Messrs. Routledge's "Pathfinder" we have Cooper's original preface intact; in the Scotch "Pathfinder" the preface is absent. Now, as the preface contains the author's reasons for writing the tale, an intimation that in its pages will be found several anachronisms, which are then and there explained, as well as that the reader will recognise an old friend in the "Pathfinder," we cannot think the omission of Cooper's preface renders the book more 66 complete.' Next, we discover that all the chapters of Cooper's novel were headed by poetical quotations, which quotations are properly given in Messrs. Routledge's book. In the Glasgow edition all the quotations at the beginnings of the chapters are "revised " away-another method of making the work "complete." Again, on comparing a single chapter, of one book with the same chapter in the other, we perceive that words and lines, and sometimes whole sentences and paragraphs have disappeared from the Scotch issue, while they are found in their integrity in the English one. For instance, chapter xi. of Messrs. Routledge's edition com66 with the not often that

lated and printed, in an circulation, the introduction to Essay on the Origin and Progress of the Art. Typography." that in some cases when books reported have BOOKS WANTED.-Complaints have reached us been ordered, they have not been in the condition represented. It may be considered smart practice to report a book, obtain the money for it, and let the buyer find it dirty or defective in or in some way different to what he

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Those readers who are interested in the English Essayists, especially of the periodicals firey referred to "Books Wanted," where they will the first quarter of the eighteenth century, are find a very remarkable list of the periodical

literature of that time.

hope is rewarded with fruition," &c. turning to

the other, we find the chapter beginning with the words "It was now September," &c. A closer inspection reveals the fact, that twenty-five lines of Cooper's writing, in addition to the quotation

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from the "Mirror for Magistrates," have been improved clean away. Going farther on in the same chapter, we discover other "improvements" of like character; and so at last we get at the secret of the "revision." The two editions are printed in the same sized type, on pages of exactly similar length and width. Messrs. Routledge's Pathfinder" makes 188 pages; the Scottish Pathfinder," 172: therefore, in order to save sixteen pages of type and a sheet of paper, Mr. Fenimore Cooper's beauties are ruthlessly extirpated, and the reading public shamelessly deceived. This may be Scottish economy, but we can hardly think it literary honesty. By what right does any publisher or printer emasculate an American author? Surely, the reason lately given by the publisher of a popular periodical, that "alterations were necessary to fit the story for English readers," does not apply to Cooper; for, with the single exception of Washington Irving, a more pure and classic writer than he America has not produced. We do not for an instant believe that Messrs. Warne are aware of these facts, or that they would be guilty of the shabby trick of announcing an American reprint as "complete," when, in fact, it was-as we find the Pathfinder"-a mere deception!

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The librarian of the Crystal Palace is putting forth an appeal to publishers for donations of books to replace those destroyed by the recent fire; he says that he is prepared to accept any contributions of standard works for this purpose. So, we believe, was his predecessor, but donors are fully entitled to ask why the books they pregented were not properly insured.

RARE ENGRAVINGS.-At the sale-rooms of Messrs. Wilkinson & Sotheby, the sum of £1180 was given for a rare engraving of Rembrandt's, called the "Hundred Guilder Piece," unique in this condition. It is stated that another impression of the same plate, some years ago, fetched £600 £400 was given for an impression of the "Pax," of Finiguerra, and £315 for a print of the "Lord's Supper," by Morghen.

Visitors to Paris-and we suppose that every one will now be rushing thither will do well to secure a copy of the new part of the People's Magazine, which contains a coloured sketch-map of Paris-the best small map we have seen. Every visitor to that city knows how difficult it is to find his way about; but by means of this little map all difficulty disappears. The People's Magazine improves as it progresses; the new part contains well-selected and interesting papers, suitable for any leisure moment, and the work bids fair to become one of the most popular of our magazines.

In France the printers' "readers"-or as they are there called "correcteurs"-appear to be held in greater esteem than are their brethren here; they form a Society, and meet once a year. At the last assemblée générale an interesting speech was delivered by M. Ambroise Didot, in which he passed in review the names of a number of learned men whose modesty and whose occupation caused them to be almost unknown, one of whom is said to have refused the Greek chair at Cambridge, preferring to remain a corrector for Plantin's press. M. Didot, himself no mean scholar, thought it no discredit to say that much of the credit given to the learned publications issued by himself and relations was due to his confrères. He then passed on to some interesting matter connected with the history of words in the French language.

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WHAT IS THIS MYSTERY?-Four years ago there appeared in the Halfpenny Journal, a weekly periodical published by Messrs Ward and Lock, a sensational story called "The Black Band." This story was stated to be written by "Lady Caroline Lascelles ; but there is no Lady Caroline connected with the Harewood family, and the Earl of Harewood's is the only noble house which bears the family name of Lascelles. Indeed, it was said at the time that the real author was Miss Braddon. Some months ago, Mr. Johnson, of the London Journal, purchased a serial tale called "Diavola," which is now being published in that periodical, and is announced as by the "author of the Black Band.'” It seems that proof or advance sheets of this story were sold to the proprietors of a New York Magazine called the Sunday Mercury, and are being issued by them as Nobody's Daughter; or, the Ballad-singer of Wapping, by Miss Braddon, the queen of sensational romance." The "Black Band" had been previously published by Messrs Hilton, of New York, as "What is this Mystery?" and that, too, was announced as by Miss Braddon. The lady indignantly denies the authorship of both stories, while the proprietors of the Sunday Mercury as positively assert that she certainly wrote "Diavola," which they renamed " Nobody's Daughter," and that they paid £250 for the privilege of obtaining the advance sheets and the use of her name. In this conflict of assertion we do not presume to hazard an opinion, though the circumstances are cer tainly curious; as, if Miss Braddon was really the author of the "Black Band," there seems reason to believe that she also is responsible for "Diavola." It would clear up the mystery, perhaps, were Lady Caroline Lascelles to appear.

The Paris correspondent of a daily contemporary refers to the squabble just now ripe among the littérateurs of France concerning Voltaire, whose memory is being rather roughly handled. It has been remarked-and not without reason, says our correspondent — that, "whilst the French Theatre religiously keeps the anniversary of the death of Molière, that of Corneille, and that of Racine, it ignores that of the author of "Mérope," whose splendid statue by Houdon occupies the post of honour in the foyer. Now, the French Theatre owes something more to Voltaire than his pieces; his pen was the means of driving fast young men and elderly swells from the stage, which, when Voltaire's | plays were first performed, was so often crowded by nobles, and persons with a fine air,' that no room was left for the actors. Every personage in those days either lolled on a bench or en sconced himself in a chair upon the boards, and laughed and talked, whilst the working classes standing in the pit endeavoured to hear the performance. Molière denounced this custom in his " Facheux," attacking the evil in his usual gallant style. The reform which Molière attempted, Voltaire carried out.

CHESS.-Sometime during the Exhibition in Paris a chess meeting will be held in apartments provided in the building; and the French players propose an international tournament, with prizes for the winners. It is said that the Emperor, who is himself a chess player, has proposed the collec tion and exhibition of copies of the books and periodicals in various languages which constitute the literature of the game.

Mr. Charles Lever, the well-known Irish novelist, has been promoted from the Consulate of Spezzia to that of Trieste.

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From the Moniteur, of the 16th inst., we learn that in France there has been an increase of eleven political journals during the year; that on the 1st of January, 1866, there were 1911 non-political journals; and on the 1st of January, 1867, the number had increased to 2145. Seven new political sheets were authorized: one, Le Courier de Dimanche, was suppressed; and 343 communiqués were made. Authorization was given for "colportage" of 1423 books, and 155 were refused.

ANONYMOUS JOURNALISM.-In the February number of the Fortnightly Review, there appears the following note from Mr. H. Danby Seymour, one of the proprietors, and M.P. for Poole, in reference to an article by his pen, and recently printed in that magazine, in reference to the political speeches of Mr. John Bright, member for Birmingham :-"Two unconsidered charges were made against Mr. Bright in the November number of this review. I represented him as having said, first, that all the land of England is in the hands of 150 proprietors;' and, secondly, that the poor only are fit to legislate for the rich.' I am happy to retract both charges. It is needless to add that I very sincerely regret having made them.-HENRY D. SEYMOUR."

The Quarterly Reviews. -What has befallen the Quarterly? The political influence formerly exercised by our high-priced contemporaries has long since ceased to be felt. Daily and weekly newspapers, written and conducted with an ability unknown to the men of the last generation, have supplanted them in public estimation as arbiters in matters of politics. But it is usually thought that the "buff and blue" of the Whigs, or the "brown organ" of the Tories, was a power in matters of literature. This, however, is not the Its deliberative expression of opinion on books and the belles lettres is becoming as inoperative as its instructions to ministers or their opponents on matters of politics. The time allowed for gestation and preparation, the ability to choose a subject, and not be forced to take what offers, as is the case with the daily and weekly press, and the supposed employment of the best scholarship, are insufficient to retard the ever-increasing decrease of its influence. The Edinburgh and the Quarterly are notoriously fast losing their power as literary arbiters. They can neither damn an author nor make him. Their views have been anticipated; and the work criticised has already secured success or met with failure before the appearance of the critique. Nor is this to be wondered at. Apart from the causes at which we have hinted, there is a special reason for this declension of influence in the inferiority of certain papers which occasionally find admission to the pages of the two leading reviews. In the current number of the Quarterly, for instance, is an article on Yankee Humour, than which we can imagine nothing more unsatisfactory as regards matter or manner. The writer ostentatiously takes for his text no fewer than eighteen works, the productions of American authors; but he does not refer to them all. Moreover, he does not tell us what he means by humour, nor, as a consequence, does he tell us the difference between Yankee humour and all other kinds of humour. content with giving us five and twenty pages of anecdotes and quotations, which plainly show his belief that everything funny which is not wit is humour. The quotations and anecdotes, more. over, are so well known to all who take interest in such matters, that we were more than surprised to find that room had been made for them in a review of such reputation as the Quarterly It will, we think, be enough to state that the writer talks of a work being "indigenous as the flowers of the soil, native as the note of a bob-a-link, and of being en rapport with the

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The senior wranglership at Cambridge has
again fallen to a Scot. This time the winner
of the coveted distinction is Mr. C. Niven,
of Trinity College, whose brother was second
wrangler last year. Mr. Niven was educated at
Aberdeen University, and is the fourth Aberdeen
man who has within the last four years stood at
the head of the list. The secret of the success of
the Scots is that they come up to Cambridge after
a four years' training at Edinburgh, Aberdeen,
Glasgow, or St. Andrew's, and hence have an
advantage over Eton and Harrow boys, whose
attention is devoted rather to cricket, football,
and boating, than to mathematics.

Bibliography is being cultivated at the Anti-
podes, where Mr. G. B. Barton, of Sydney, has
prepared a very comprehensive work on the his-
tory of the press in that part of the world. The
Sydney News, which gives us this information,
contains an excellent two-page coloured illustra-
tion, fully equal to English work.

Mr. Bayard Taylor, the American poet, traveller and writer, has arrived in England from New York. His first visit was to his countryman, Artemus Ward, who is lying ill in Jersey: his next was to the poet-laureate.

A committee has been formed in Birmingham in furtherance of a long-cherished idea-that of erecting a Fine Art Gallery in New Street, or some equally prominent part of the town.

THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS.-In our last number we expressed surprise at no publisher having given us a collection of all the spurious gospels. We had overlooked the announcement of Mr. B. Harris Cowper's book, and have much pleasure in drawing attention to it. The volume will, we believe, be issued in a few days, by Messrs. Williams and Norgate. The so-called Gospels are not to be confounded with the writings of the Apostolic Fathers. The writers appear to have collected a number of floating traditions respecting the birth and parentage of the Virgin Mary, the infancy of Jesus, the descent of Jesus to Hades, the acts of Pontius Pilate, the story of Joseph of Arimathea, and a large number of other subjects. Although the early Church repudiated them, and although they have never been received as authentic, yet many of the stories contained in them have become matters of popular belief, and some, we think, have even been inserted in Roman Catholic works of devotion. The only collection we have at present is that which is known as Hone's, but this is a mere worthless compilation of trash.

THE QUEEN'S LITERARY LABOURS.-The Scotsman believes that it can give some facts in relation to the literary work on which her Majesty is said to be engaged, and states that the work referred to by a literary journal "is probably one entitled 'Leaves from my Journal in the Highlands,' written by her Majesty, and which has been circulated privately, but very sparingly, for half a year or more. Another work, on the sayings and doings of the Prince Consort, principally written by General Grey, but prefaced by her Majesty, has been printed, but not yet circulated."

M. Guizot has just finished the eighth and last volume of his memoirs, which terminate with the recital of the three days of the July revolution. This volume will be published in April.

Ecce Homo.-The demand for this remarkable book is still very great. The publishers having sold 10,000 copies of the half-guinea edition have now issued one at six shillings; of this three thousand copies were subscribed. Almost as large a number, we believe, have been sold in America. It will be remembered that the author promised, in a second part, to treat of Christ as God. Was it therefore quite honest on the part of a no doubt well-meaning northern worthy to forestall the author by taking the title of Ecce Deus?

"Cassell's Family Paper" is about to merge into Cassell's Magazine, which is announced as a superior and improved form of the periodical originally projected and published by the late John Cassell. Most of the prominent members of the "Savage Club" are, it is stated, engaged as contributors to the new magazine.

Eyes and No Eyes is the title of a new Magazine of local and general meteorology and natural history, of which the first number has just been issued by Mr. Barnicott, of Taunton. The notion of the work is a good one, but we think the editor, the Rev. W. Tuckwell, would do well to adapt it more to his own locality, and make the eyes as observant of Taunton and the neighbourhood as those of old Gilbert White at Selborne. We like to see local magazines, but feel an interest in them, only so long as they are local.

The Hebrew National is the title of a new weekly journal intended for the reading of Israelites. In the leading article an objection is made to the definition given by Webster of the meaning of the verb "To Jew." It is said that "On the whole face of the earth there are about 6,000,000 of Israelites, about half of whom live in Europe alone, and of these the greatest part 1,300,000 in Russia; in Austria 900,000; in Prussia 254,000, and in all the other parts of Germany 192,000; in France about 80,000, in Switzerland 3,000, in Great Britain about 42,000, in Syria and Asiatic Turkey 52,000, in Morocco and North Africa 610,000, in East Asia 500—800, in America 250,000, in Belgium 1,800, in Denmark 6,500, in Italy 4,500." We think this enumeration can scarcely be correct, for Holland is omitted, and it is notorious that Jews swarm in Amsterdam.

The Churchman's Shilling Magazine and Family Treasury makes its appearance this day, edited by the Rev. R. H. Baynes; it is a good shilling's worth, the contents being such as a Churchman of no extreme views would wish put into the hands of his children, and which he could also read himself and profit by.

The Churchman's Family Magazine will in future be published by Mr. William Macintosh, of 24, Paternoster Row

The Art Journal, true to its instincts, promises us a complete resumé of the art manufactures to be exhibited in Paris. A hundred illustrations of the works of the chief manufacturers will be given in the April part.

An advertisement in a contemporary informs us that arrangements are in progress for converting Messrs. Hogg's "Belgravia" into an illus trated weekly magazine, with a monthly issue.

The Pen, a literary journal, announced a month ago, duly made its appearance, and as quickly proved a failure; no second number having been published.

A new illustrated paper, devoted to the discussion of subjects connected with science, art, and industry, is announced under the title of The Scientific Englishman.

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A curious error has occurred in the Saturday Review. In its criticism of Mr. George Meredith's new political novel, "Vittoria," the reviewer confounded Mrs. Marsh's story, "Emilia Wyndham," with Mr. Meredith's Emilia in England," the novel of which "Vittoria" is a sort of continuation. The Saturday Review's reviewer is understood to be a lady, and, as "Emilia Wyndham" is one of the "Parlour Library" novels, it is possible she had read it, and had never heard of the other tale. Criti cism is dangerous ground for uninformed bluestockings.

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Sylvester Sound, the Somnambulist, by Henry Cockton, has been added to Messrs. Warne's Companion Library," a series which includes Mr. Disraeli's novels, and the "Sutherlands,' and other approved tales. Those who remember Cockton's Valentine Vox" will be prepared for a lively and telling narrative, in which the vagaries of the sleep-walker produce several exciting and mirth-provoking episodes. The preface, which discusses the medical theory of som nambulism, had better be read last, or a false notion may be obtained of the story.

New editions of "Debrett's Peerage" and "Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and House of Commons," have been issued by Messrs. Dean and Son. The specialities which distinguish the editions for the present season are fuller accounts of the younger sons and married daughters of peers, and biographical notices of the members of Convocation, particulars of the English, Irish, Scotch, and Colonial bishops; and complete notices of the new members of the House of Commons; two very handsome and useful

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Mr. Hagger has commenced the publication of Payne's National and Domestic History of England," in monthly parts, at 23. The work appears to be well written, and is nicely illus trated with wood cuts, steel plates, and coloured pictures.

Mr. J. Russell Smith announces an interesting work, under the editorship of Mr. W. Carew Hazlitt-a bibliography of the early popular literature of England. Tom Thumb, Robin Goodfellow, Guy of Warwick, and other well. known personages, will be duly registered from chap-books, drolls, jests, &c.

Messrs. Jackson, Walford and Hodder, an nounce "The Christian Year-Book" to contain a general outline of the principal religious movements during 1866, with statistics of all the chief religious societies in the world, &c. &c.

Mr. Kelly, of Dublin, having purchased the series of "Lives of the Saints," by Dr. Newmall, is about reprinting them in a cheaper form.

The Rev. Newman Hall has just issued a little Free Church Service Book, containing forms suitable for Divine worship for morning and evening; a Litany service; Holy Communion; and for special seasons.

In Messrs. Longman's list there is announced a volume of "Short Studies on Great Subjects, great by Mr. J. A. Froude. Amongst the " subjects" are Job, Spinoza, Homer, and Wolsey.

It is reported that Lord Elcho is busily engaged upon a collection of his speeches, includ ing some spoken after various public dinners. Some of the latter will probably require revision.

Messrs. Smith, Elder & Co., have added “Over the Cliffs," a pretty domestic story, by Charlotte Chanter, to their Monthly Volume of Standard

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