Carlyle, we fear, must be in his dotage; s, therefore, most unkind of Mr. Ruskin to sh the poor old man's twaddle. He writes, at Mentone, where both had been this er, the peasantry were kind, modest, gentle, Courteous. But in the streets of Chelsea, of the whole district of London round it, the park to the outer country (some twelve Heen miles of disorganized, foul, sinful, and wretched life), he now cannot walk without ng insulted, chiefly because he is a grey, old a; and also because he is cleanly dressedse two conditions of him being wholly hostile, the mob of the street feel, to their own inincts, and so far as they appear to claim some ind of reverence and recognition of betterness, o be instantly crushed and jeered out of their way; and this temper of the London populace has been, he said, steadily on the increase for These last twenty years, so that now the streets have become nearly impassable to him, riding or walking, and he must either get through the quietest he can find to the park, or be fain to walk his rounds under the night, when it cannot be manifest to the public provocation, either that Le is old, or has a whole coat on." If the state

f Mr. Carlyle's mind be such as we must suspect from this, our wonder is that his mind does not revert to his early days, and by so doing bring a Carge against the Londoners for reviling him because he now wears stockings and shoes, and does not go barefoot as he did when at Eccletechan. Mr. Carlyle, however, has since written to say that "The thing now going the round' is untrue; diverges from the fact throughout; and in essentials is curiously the reverse of fact; an incredible (and at once forgetable) thing."

THE SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE-At the annual meeting of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, it was stated that, during the past year, 837,000 Spies of the Bible and Prayer Book had been circulated, at a cost of £14,000, charged to the charitable fund: that religious books and tracts, spia variety of works of an instructive and anising, though not necessarily of a religious character, had been distributed to the number of

7.528; and that the Society's new secular perodical, the "People's Magazine," had already attained a large and remunerative circulation. Parochial libraries had been assisted; frequent grants of books had been made to soldiers' braries, at home and abroad; books and tracts ad been forwarded to ships, hospitals, asylums,

penitentiaries, reformatories, ragged young men's associations, working men's stations, &c.; and the Society's publications tal been extensively circulated in India, Australia, and the Colonies generally. It was o stated that, notwithstanding the vast and reasing efforts made by the Society, and the mense good achieved by it, rot more than 4. laymen subscribed to its funds—an average than one layman for every four parishes aaghout the country.

The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Church of England Book-hawking Union took place

the 29th instant, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canterbury. We have always it well disposed towards this Society, not only from the fact that it is well managed and useful, but also because the system it adopts, of sending awkers to districts where books would not therwise be purchased, is a desirable one, without being detrimental to the bookselling

ale generally. A rather amusing instance of erical intolerance was mentioned by the Bishop

of Oxford. A well-known clergyman prohibited the sale in his parish of "The Pilgrim's Progress" by the Society's agent; the consequence of which was, that the call for Bunyan's allegory was so great as to quickly exhaust the local bookseller's stock. We quite agree with the spirit of the Bishop of Winchester's resolution, that "the system of book-hawking, which carries to the homes of the people a carefullyselected stock of books, secular and religious, together with cottage wall-prints, is calculated to meet the wants of the present day."

The indefatigable Captain Mayne Reid commenced a daily evening paper, apparently nearly all written by himself, at least, so far as original matter was concerned. It was in demy 4to, and called the Little Times, but after a lingering existence of about three weeks it ceased to appear.

CIVIL LIST PENSIONS.-No fault can be found with the recent additions to the pension list, unless it be the smallness of the amount in each case. The names and amounts are £95 to Mr. Geo. Cruickshank, £100 to Mrs. Chisholm, £100 to the widow of Sir W. Snow Harris, £100 to the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, and £100 to the (four) daughters of the late Dr. Petrie.

GRUB STREET.-At a recent meeting of the Middlesex Archæological Society, it was stated that only one literary man had ever been known to reside in this street, John Foxe, the martyrologist, whose "Acts and Monuments" were reviled by the Papists as "Grub Street writings."

Too FAR OFF.-The National Portrait Gallery at South Kensington has failed, up to the present time, to attract public attention. The total number of visitors last week was but 1,732; and on the half-crown day, the police and other officials on duty greatly outnumbered the paying public. The collection is intrinsically so interesting, that we can only attribute the neglect it experiences to the distant quarter of the town in which it is exhibited. It is truly a matter of congratulation that the proposal to remove the Royal Academy and the National Gallery to South Kensington was so vigorously and so effectually opposed.-Pall Mall Gazette.

The Art Furniture Company has been started to supply cabinet-work and house furniture as designed by Mr. Charles Eastlake, an architect who wrote an article in the Cornhill, pointing out the want of taste displayed by other designers and makers of furniture. The prevalent taste in upholstery is bad, but we can scarcely hope for any improvement from the Art Furniture Company, who have shown such bad taste as to advertize Mr. Eastlake's name in the manner they have done.

"OUR OWN FIRESIDE."-The Editor announces that, on and after July 1, this well-known work will be published and supplied by Messrs. William Hunt & Co., 23, Holles-street, to whom the trade are requested to forward their orders at an early date.

Mr. J. Moodie Miller, opposite the Grey Friars' Churchyard Gate, Edinburgh, has published a handsome crown 8vo. volume of 400 pp. of Epitaphs and Monumental Inscriptions in the Grey Friars' Churchyard. Mr. David Laing, of the Signet Library, has written an interesting History of the Churchyard, which forms an appropriate introduction to the volume. The work is illustrated by twenty-one views of the earlier and more interesting monuments. the Grey Friars' Churchyard is historically the most important place of sepulchre in Scotland, the volume cannot fail to be interesting to Scotchmen in all parts of the world.

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HOTTEN'S WORLD WIDE LIBRARY. --Mr. Hotten has added "Roderick Random" and the "Essays of Elia" to his "Library of World-wide Authors" -both are exceedingly well printed. The former contains nearly 200 pages, and appears to be an accurate and verbatim reprint, including the preface, which is frequently omitted. Prefixed to Elia is a neatly-written account of Charles Lamb, by Edmund Öllier, son of Lamb's first publisher. The English Catalogue of Books for 1866 appears this somewhat later than usual, but the delay may be accounted for by the time occupied in the compilation of the useful index of subjects, which now appears for the first time. It is to be regretted that the price must necessarily be high, but even at that fixed (five shillings) the demand will probably give the compiler a very small remuneration for his labour.

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The Fables of La Fontaine, although not so well known to English readers of the present day, were great favourites with our grandfathers, and, perhaps, greater still with our grandmothers; but by means of the elegant form in which they have been reproduced by Messrs. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, we have no doubt they will obtain a greater degree of popularity than they ever had in this country. The edition now in course of publication is the full quarto-size, abundantly illustrated by Gustave Doré, of whom a splendid portrait is given, with Part 1. It is well printed on toned paper, and is in every respect a handsomer and better book than the original edition published by Messrs. Hachette and Co., Paris. The translation is in verse, by Mr. Thornbury.

The Reverend P. Hately Waddell, minister of the Gospel, has undertaken, doubtless for a con-sid-er-a-ti-on, to edit the works of a profane, licentious, vulgar, uneducated ploughman and excise officer, named Robert Burns. Prefixed is a "Spiritual Biography," to be in four parts, of which a portion of Part I., "Morning on the Soil," is printed in the first number of a new edition of the poet's works now in course of publication by Mr. D. Wilson, Glasgow. The "Spiritual" Memoir is remarkable for had writing, bad grammar, bad spelling, and bad taste; redundant of words and froth, but wofully deficient in originality of thought. The work is nicely printed and on good paper; the size demy 4to.

Under the title of "Virtue's School and College Classics," Messrs. Virtue and Co. are issuing in a complete form, bound up in vellumfaced cloth, cheap editions of Greek and Latin Classics, with English notes, critical and explanatory; including the Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, Virgil, Horace, and Terence, of their Weale Series; and they announce other works of the classics as in preparation on the same plan.

The Handbook to the Charities of London, by Mr. Sampson Low, jun., corrected to March, 1867, has just been published; it contains a condensed account of above eight hundred charitable institutions, with the names and addresses of secretaries and other officers, and the objects, amount of income, and other particulars.

POPULAR EDUCATION.-Many persons will be glad to know that Mr. Ridgway has just published, as a shilling pamphlet, A Sketch of Primary Education in Germany, being a letter to the Rev. J. Oakley from the English chaplain at Baden, the Rev. H. De Romestein. This, in a very small compass, furnishes all the important facts connected with the compulsory Prussian system, and offers some remarks upon the introduction of a similar system into England.

A Popular Illustrated History of Irel announced for publication by subscription. illustrations by James and Henry Doyle descriptive of the customs, dress, archite and social life of the different periods. The will be 14s. Subscribers' names will be re by the Rev. Mother Abbess, Convent of Clares, Kenman, County Kerry.

That interesting little book "Our Fa Four Acres" is now published by M Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, who have iss shilling edition.

Messrs. Routledge have commenced a val serial work, which deserves, and no doc obtain, a large circulation - The Natural History of Man, by the Rev. Wood, who so ably conducted Messrs. Routi "Natural History." The public need not be a of being bored in this work with any and dry disquisitions on the antiquity of the age of flint, or other matters which delig anthropologists, and furnish materials for a debates at the meetings of the Ethnogra Society. Here, on the contrary, everythin as interesting and as pleasant to read as novel. We fall in with the Kaffirs at start behold their veritable portraits as maidens as mothers, and cannot fail to be amused w their articles of dress and other appliances make them handsome. Let us not be misund stood there is no lack of correct scient knowledge, but this is rather insinuated ti thrust prominently forward; the reader acquire it in a more lasting manner than by perusal of a merely scientific volume.

"DICTIONARY MAKING."-In reply to paragraph in the last number of the Bo SELLER, an Aberdonian remarks, that only does dictionary-making appear to be peculiarly Scottish occupation,' but it is to a la extent an occupation having Aberdeen for head quarters. Dr. Ogilvie's 'Students' Dicti ary' was compiled there, also his Sch Dictionary' just published. The two editions Dr. Longmuir's 'Walker and Webster Improve were compiled and printed there; and abridgment of Jamieson's Scottish Dictionar also came to light in that city."

To a large number of persons, it would b very distressing event if the Pope becam devout member of the Church of England, a the whole college of cardinals respectable Pres terian deacons or ruling elders. The matter w be most keenly felt by the Protestant Associat and those worthy ministers who every S day exercise their inventive faculties, and ar their congregations by execrating the scarlet and all her belongings. The Immaculate ception is one of the errors of the Romish Chu that is just now exciting a large amount of dignation. Dr. Edward Preuss, of Berlin, written, Mr. George Gladstone has transi and Messrs. Clark, of Edinburgh, have lished, a 12mo. volume on the subject; r entitled "The Romish Doctrine of the In culate Conception Traced from its Source "God's wars," the author says, "have been a must be carried on so long as the wor stands. . . The false doctrines of the Remi Church have all a uniform groundwork.. t idolatrous instinct which has ever dwelt in o race since the fall of Adam. . . . At one time is Schiller and Goethe who are worshipped idols; and at another, the sin puts on an ecc siastical dress, and then it is the Virgin Mary This volume will be a valuable acquisition to truly Protestant libraries.

mose who are curious in woodcuts, and wish archase some blocks of the olden time, may a the prices of some very ancient ones by ing a stamp to Mr. W. Chapman, York, copy of his illustrated catalogue.

HE AUTHOR OF "JUNIUS."-The late Mr. eph Parkes, whose literary tastes were as known to those who were intimate with aas his political and public labours were to contemporaries in general, devoted a very ge portion of his time during the later years ha life to an inquiry into the life of Sir Philip ascis, and his alleged connection with the ters of Junius. In the pursuit of his investistion of these subjects, he became possessed of large mass of original papers and correpondence of Sir Philip and members of his Lamily; of the manuscript reminiscences and other memorials of him left by Lady Francis, Sir Philip's second wife; of a number of miscellaneous papers which had been in possession of Henry Sampson Woodfall, the publisher of the Public Advertiser; together with a quantity of other MS. materials, lent or given him by persons, members of whose families had been unected in various ways with Francis during his Jong career. The arrangement of these materials, sad the completion of a life founded on them, became an engrossing occupation with Mr. Parkes. But he commenced his operations on them upon a scale which the present Editor found it impossible to maintain. Mr. Parkes left behind him eight chapters completed, conducting his hero only down to the year 1768, in which the first Letter of Junius appeared. At

that point his labours were terminated by death. Had he lived to complete them, the work must have been extended through several volumes, and would have contained a storehouse of information, not respecting its immediate subject 3ne, bat concerning much of the intimate story of English public men through the whole ragn of George the Third. Mr. Parkes left a Very large quantity of materials as yet unused, but not in such order as to enable a successor to take up the thread of the narrative, and continue it on anything like the scale on which he had comtenced it. The Editor, Mr. Herman Merivale, his therefore contented himself with completing the Late on a reduced plan, and leaving Sir Philip Francis to speak chiefly for himself, and the Junian" portion of the subject to unravel elf, by extracts, as far as space would admit, from the great body of manuscripts entrusted to m for the purpose by the family of Mr. Parkes. The work, which will make two volumes, will published by Messrs. Longman.

A FINE ART CATALOGUE.-South Kensington, t well known, is desirous of rivalling, or, if ble, outshining the British Museum. One of the greatest glories of the latter is its unrivalled library. Like all large collections, the Meam library is very deficient in books of Particular classes; but perhaps its greatest weak

is in works connected with the Fine Arts. Here there was a splendid opportunity for the authorities of the Museum of Science and Art. Accordingly, it was determined to get up a comhensive catalogue, not only of the books at Brompton, but of all that are to be found in the orld. In this, all books, however remotely aring upon Art, were to be included; all books th illustrations, all books that should or could illustrated; all books relating to artists, their athers, mothers, wives, or mistresses; all ks relating to the countries r towns of Artists; all books relating to all subjects but the

exact sciences, sermons, and controversial theology were to be included. A Mr. J. H. Pollen, who was at one time, if we mistake not, a Tractarian clergyman at Leeds, and since then a Roman Catholic layman, was employed to edit this precious work. A grant of £500 was first obtained, then another of £1,000; and lastly, it was determined to spend £5,000 in advertising it piecemeal in the columns of the Times. Having proceeded so far, and having shown how deficient all our public libraries are in such works, the next move would have been a vote of £20,000 or £25,000 a year for the purchase of the books, the appointment of a librarian at a salary of £1,000 a year, and perhaps of a travelling agent to report and purchase books abroad. The concocters of the scheme made one unfortunate mistake, a mistake fatal to all such schemes-they made it public. Now, publicity is fatal to cleverness. Very clever people and South Kensington swarms with them-should have been aware of this, and, like birds of wisdom, have shunned the light of day. For the present, the scheme is in abeyance, but only for a time; the originators have spent too much pains in its conception to let it rest. Learning a lesson from their failure, they will not reveal their plan; but having secured "my Lords," and being well screened by a Treasury Minute, they will say nothing about it until they think proper to tell us that they have been enabled to purchase a most extensive and exhaustive library of Art Books, and only require the moderate sum of a hundred thousand pounds to pay for them, with a quarter of a million sterling for a building to hold them, and twelve or fifteen thousand pounds a year for a curator and staff of attendants.

THE CAMDEN SOCIETY.-The report for 1867 has just been issued, from which we learn that the following three volumes, viz. :—

I. Notes on Pope Alexander the Seventh and the College of Cardinals. By the Rev. Dr. John Bargrave. Edited by the Rev. J. Craigie Robertson, M.A., Canon of Canterbury;

II. Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots. Edited by Allan J. Crosby, Esq., and John Bruce, Esq.;

III. History from Marble. Being Ancient and Moderne Funeral Monuments in England and Wales, by Thomas Dineley, Gent. Fac-simile in Photo-Lithography, by Vincent Brooks. With an Introduction by J. G. Nichols, F.S.A. Part I.

will be issued to subscribers for 1865. The last. named work is not yet ready. One of our contemporaries suggests that the Camden Society might give more to present subscribers, and leave posterity to provide for itself.

The estimates for Education, Science, and Art, for 1867-8, amount to £1,487,554, and contain the following items :

Public Education, Great Britain
Public Education, Ireland

Science and Art Department

Paris Exhibition (2 years)

British Museum

£705,865

344,700

206,387

115,799

99,621

31,917 separate numbers, periodicals, newspapers, &c.; 286 manuscripts, and 704 charters; while large additions have been made, by purchase and gift, to the series of portraits, prints, caricatures, &c., of the English masters. Increased facilities are afforded to real students for the examination of books and manuscripts, while effort is made to rid the reading-room of mere novel-readers and idlers.

The Hall of Arts and Sciences at Kensington (says the London Review) was opened on the 20th inst. by the Queen, the Prince of Wales and his brother having arrived express from Paris to take part in the ceremony. A piece of music by the late Prince Consort was performed, and the usual meaningless trowel business gone through. We wish every success to the Hall of Arts and Sciences, but we do not clearly understand what it is intended for. "Arts" and "sciences" may include anything from the Polytechnic to the more candid Mechanics' Institute, and we have already more halls than our taste for either art or science can fill. One of the most sensible reports of the proceedings appears in a new comic paper, the Tomahawk, which makes the Prince of Wales to say: "I don't know what this place is to be; I believe a sort of West-end music-hall. I've been obliged to take a private box. I wish some one would take it off my hands. I shall ask Lucca to come and sing here, and Arthur Lloyd too-that will be rather jolly. I hope my box is on the pit tier. I suppose I must say something about this stupid place. It has been got up by puffing and gentle pressure. Lots of fellows have taken boxes because they were afraid of offending my mother. They wish they had not done it. I suppose Cole will give lectures here, and charge a guinea for tickets. I hope I shan't have to come and hear him. There will be a nice staff of curators, superintendents, boxkeepers, check-takers, &c.-all well paid. If we say it's all in memory of my father, Parliament will be obliged to vote the money. I shall try and get some of my friends places. I always have to say in my speeches that I want to walk in my father's footsteps; but I don't. I think you may praise a man too much, even when he's dead. It makes people tired of him." There is truth as well as satire in this.

PARIS EXHIBITION.-Mr. Dillwyn has moved for a return, the production of which will, perhaps, excite some consternation amongst the persons so employed. The address moved for a return of the names of all persons employed or engaged by this country in connection with the Paris Exhibition and the Exhibition Catalogue, the part they have taken in the work, the nature of their previous employments or professions, and the amount of remuneration paid or to be paid them; and a separate account of all moneys paid or to be paid for travelling, rent, lodgings, and all other expenses."

JURORS AT PARIS.-According to the estimates, there have been appointed 85 jurors, 52 assistantjurors, 18 delegates, and 85 reporters, at an average cost of £50 each. Some of these will appear to have had an easy time of it-in Class 90, for instance, there is but one English exhibitor, and he shows but one volume; yet, in order to judge of its merits, there are a juror and an assistant-juror, with a "reporter" in describe its merits. Who are the jurors Classes 6 and 7, books and bindings, we scarcely know, but believe that they are-Mr. George Clowes, of Stamford Street, for printing, and Mr. Warren De La Rue, of Bunhill Row, for binding. Mr. Rivers Wilson, a clerk in the

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Treasury, was appointed as assistant Clowes, and, we believe, Mr. F. Har assist Mr. De La Rue; but in a test got up by the jurors complimenting M Richard Grosvenor" signs as "Vice-P of Class 6." In the catalogue, we obse names of Lord Houghton as vice-preside that of Mr. Baillie Cockrane, M.P., as as juror. A long list of committee men a tioned by name; these, we understan taken no part in the matter, but sever sponsible persons, whose names are not i were very actively engaged in supplying mation and advice to the jury.

ROME. We hear that we may shortly to receive an account of the catacombs: inscriptions therein found, such as implicitly trusted. Mr. John Henry after some difficulty, obtained permission Pope, and after much more difficulty that Cardinals, to take photographs of the inscri By means of the magnesian light he was to do this, and thus, for the first time, world an actual facsimile of what has lon supposed to be the work of the early Chri in the time of the first persecution. We that the result is somewhat disappointing of the remains being evidently of Pagan ot and others the work of the 8th or 9th cent and but little that is traceable to the perser Christians who were compelled to worship t

PARIS. The Marquise de Boissy (Co Guiècioli) is preparing a work which M. A will shortly publish; it consists of her recolle of Lord Byron, with a number of unpubl documents. The first volume is already pr the title-page is simply "BYRON." The s and concluding volume is now at press.

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The Round Table, published at New Ye in many respects the most creditable lit paper that has been issued in Ameri many years. The editor is evidently Ame to the back-bone; but, at the same time, large literary sympathies. No English b condemned on account of its birth, nor American author unduly praised because not "raised" on this side of the Atlantic! reviews, too, are, on the whole, written scholarly and conscientious manner. Table occasionally handles subjects upon Americans are exceedingly sensitive; the treated with a remarkable degree of boldnes independence, and, as the paper is read large number of the soundest thinkers i States, its influence must be great. On subject, we think, the editor's usually sound ment has failed him; and that is, in the admi of too much personality, especially in his En correspondent's letters. No doubt there a America, as there are here also, many p who like to know that Mr. Tennyson wes wide-a-wake hat, that Mr. Thackeray's Dos not remarkable for its prominence, and that legs of Mr. Dickens's chairs are not stru but considerably bowed. Good taste keerprivate matters out of English papers; somewhat notorious writer of gossip in country dwells very much at Coventry, in sequence of his known habit of caterin. morbid appetites. We do not wish to s system, but we think it open to improve Round Table carried on on precisely the E... and, with all good wishes, point out what w sider a weakness. With the trifling exce we have referred to, we think the editor edo better than follow the line of managem bas marked out for himself.