FEB. 1, 1867. north as latitude 820 45', or within seven and ations, those who fail of securing a place among the quarter degrees of the Pole." The work will be first hundred being placed upon the list of the next printed in the best style of the Riverside Press, issue. The membership of the club, we believe, is and embellished with illustrations, charts, vig- not known. It may be communicated with through nettes, &c. Messrs. J. M. Bradstreet & Son, of New York, and John Penington & Son, of Philadelphia. MR. GEORGE D. PRENTICE.-The fugitive poetical pieces of this well-known poetical editor (of the "Louisville Journal") are to appear, at last, in book-tributed to the "North American Review," by Mr. form. Some of them possess very high merit. MR. JAMES PARTON.-The racy articles lately conParton, are to be collected in a volume to be entitled "Famous Americans of Recent Times." MRS. E. D. E. N. SOUTHWORTH.-This well-known American novelist is now publishing a new serial story, called "Winning her Way," in "The Guide," an illustrated London weekly, sold at one cent per number. MR. HEPWORTH DIXON.-This gentleman's "New America" has not yet reached this country, and probably has been delayed by the necessity of good light to produce the photographs with which it will be illustrated. "GRIFFITH GAUNT."-Mr. Charles Reade states, EXTRAVAGANT Price of Paper.—Few who are not directly interested in the matter are aware how grave a tax is inflicted upon all whose business lies in newspapers or books by the extravagant price of paper. More than double the prices which ruled before the war are now obtained for the various grades, and the fall of values in other articles has affected this one but in a slight degree. We are assured by dealers that this is chiefly due to the scarcity of rags; but rags are sufficiently abundant in Europe, and are among the very few things which pay no duty. On the other hand, the duty on paper is practically a prohibitory one, and, although in a published letter, that he was indebted to the a better quality can be bought in London for four-« Picardière" Case, in the causes celèbres, for the pence sterling the pound than here costs twenty main incidents of "Griffith Gaunt." Mr. Reade, cents, it appears that it cannot profitably be im- who is Doctor of Civil Law, and son of the late John ported. Thus, while the national revenue is not in Reade, of Ipsden House, county of Oxford, was born the least assisted, those who make and those who in 1814, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, buy newspapers or books are subjected to a heavy where he graduated B. A. in 1835. burden which only enriches the manufacturers. of his College, which may yield him $2000 a year. large number of new paper-mills are immediately, He was called to the bar in 1843, but does not apas might be expected, to go into operation, which pear to have practised in the courts. He first bemay bring down prices to some extent through came known as a man of letters by his share (with competition, but this relief will be an inadequate Mr. T. Taylor) in the authorship of the comedy of one. Besides, it will give strength to the cry which "Masks and Faces," and by two tales-"Peg Wofwill directly be raised, not to interfere with the ta- fington" and "Christie Johnson." In 1856, his riff in this respect because of the injury to an ex- novel, "Never Too Late to Mend," placed him high tensive manufacturing interest. We earnestly hope among the popular writers of the day. that Congress may be induced to give this subject earnest and candid attention. American literature A is now pressed down by a most unjust and impolitic burden which does not relieve the national exchequer, and does improperly aggrandize a very few persons. Our book-trade has been affected to an almost fatal degree, and the number of English publications in the market is a tangible measure of it. We cannot afford, if we are to have any national literature at all, to crush out its vitality by such meaningless and onerous impositions. All other branches of industry are now looking forward to relief after the dark and troublous past, and most others may look forward with hope; but nearly all those connected with publishing are as badly off as in the worst days of the war. We protest against a discriminative injustice which reacts most disastrously upon education and general intelligence, and we earnestly entreat that Congress may be wise enough to speedily adopt a simple and obvious method of relief-Round Table. He is Fellow THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.-It is said that an organic change will speedily be made in this, the oldest of English periodicals, for it was established by Edward Cave, as far back as the year 1731. The discontinued, to make room for an historical novel. reports of proceedings of learned societies are to be LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC LONGEVITY. - The Duc de Broglie, M. Guizot, MM. Viennet, Lebrun, De Pongerville, and Villemain, senior members of the French Academy, are all above eighty years of age. The three eldest members of the Royal Society of England are Lord Brougham, born in September, 1778; Sir Henry Ellis, late Librarian of the British Museum, born in 1777; and Mr. William Lawrence, late President of the Royal College of Surgeons, born in 1783.-Lord Brougham is the oldest member of the National Institute of France. LITERATURE IN INDIA.-In a recent public lecture, at the Bibliothèque Impériale, M. Garcin de Tassy gave the preference to the Oordoo dialect THE AGATHYNIAN is to be added to the list of New over the Hindoo, because it is the representative of York book clubs. Its intention is to print, at as Islamism, which recognizes but one God, while moderate cost as possible, and in limited editions- Hindee represents the polytheist doctrines of the one hundred and twenty copies each, of which but Hindoos. He said that there is in India the same one hundred will be for sale-both original works tendency to bring the language back to the pure and reprints of rare, curious, and old American, Hindee standard as there is in Greece to revive the English, French, and Latin books. These are to be language of Xenophon. He also states that the issued from the Bradstreet press; and in the case universities of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay conof old books, head and tail-pieces, initial letters, tinue to prosper, and that the Oriental University and cuts, the reprints will be fac-similes. The first of Lahore, founded by the natives themselves, issue will be made next month, being a reprint of a promises success under Dr. Leitner's management. satirical work of the last century entitled "Advice Its object is chiefly to revive the taste for ancient to the Officers of the British Army," with notes and Hindoo and Mussulman literature, and to introduce an introduction, and with a wood-cut in fac-simile a new kind bearing as strong an analogy to Euroof the original representing General Burgoyne, Sir pean literature as is compatible with Asiatic ideas. Harry Clinton, and Lord Cornwallis. Subscribers Two principal colleges are to be connected with this will secure attention in the order of their applica-university,-one at Lahore and the other at Delhi, FEB. 1, 1867. each having a principal or director, and six professors. : STATISTICS OF BRITISH PUBLISHING IN 1866.-"The Bookseller" (London) states that for the year 1866, the following are the facts of British publishing There appeared 4204 new books and new editions: Religious books and pamphlets, 849; biographical and historical, 194; medical and surgical, 160; poetry and the drama, 232; novels, 390; minor fiction and children's books, 544; travels, topography, and geography, 195; annuals and serials (volumes only), 225; agriculture, horticulture, &c., 64; English philology and education, 196; European and classical philology and translation, 161; law, 84; naval, military, and engineering, 39; science, natural history, &c., 147; trade and commerce, 79; politics and questions of the day, 167; illustrated works, 85; art, architecture, &c., 34; miscellaneous, not classified, 359-total, 4204. CHARLES LAMB.-The subscription list, commenced by Mr. Moxon, the London publisher, who married Lamb's adopted daughter, is so rapidly filling, that in a few months it will be sufficient to pay for the erection of a handsome monument over the remains of "Elia," in the churchyard of Edmonton, near London. BYRON.-The anniversary of Lord Byron's birthday was the 22d of January. He was born in 1788, and would have been 79 years old last week, had he been spared. He died, not quite three months over 36, on the 19th April, 1824. It is stated, in a London journal, that Mr. Murray, the publisher, possesses all the manuscript of Byron's poems, and that among the noble poet's papers are fragments of a fifth canto of "Childe Harold," containing. amongst other things, a description of an eruption of Stromboli, which he saw in his last voyage to Greece. It is also said that he left, in Mr. Murray's hands, a plan of the continuation of "Don Juan.” verbally communicated to Washington Irving, when they met in Italy, and Irving published it, nearly thirty years ago, in "The Knickerbocker." 66 That he LITERATURE IN RUSSIA.-There is a Publishers' Circular (the Knizhnuiy Viestnik," a book intelligencer), which has just given a curious table of the number of volumes published at different places in Russia in the years 1863 and 1864. The grand total is 1,652 in 1863, and 1,836 volumes in the following year. In the essays of the Russian critic Druzhenin, which are now being reprinted in a collected form, like those of Jeffrey and Macaulay, the fifth volume contains articles on Currer LORD BACON.-The British government have be-Wilkie Collins's "No Name," on Lawrence's "BarBell's "Villette," on Thackeray's "Newcomes," on come possessed of five letters written, in 1620-21, to King Christian IV. of Denmark, by Francis Bacon, Baron Verulam and Viscount St. Albans. Their date is just before the heavy charges against him for malfeasance in office as Lord Chancellor were preferred against him. King Christian, to whom these letters were addressed, was brother of Anne of Denmark, wife of James I. and mother of Charles I. The Danish government presented these autographs to Sir Charles Murray, the British minister at Copenhagen, who sent them to Lord Stanley, the present Foreign Secretary of England. From him they will doubtless pass into the British Museum. GERMAN LITERATURE IN 1866.-The London "Review" says: "The statement that the literary activity of Germany has, during the past year, received a great check, will, we presume, not require a long explanation. The whole of Germany was deeply agitated-more deeply, perhaps, than it has ever been since the disastrous times of the Thirty Years' War. Our readers must, nevertheless, not imagine that the number of publications was considerably smaller than in preceding years. Somehow or other, the 'Vierteljahrs-Catalog' always swells to about its usual size, just as the columns of the daily newspapers are always filled up,| whether there be any news or not. There were also published last year many works of great literary value in Germany; but for the most part they give the impression of being 'isolated' publications, and they cannot be easily grouped together as representing any systems or schools. The want of unity was, however, in one branch, at least, not perceptible. We mean the political department of German literature. In purely literary matters there was no active co-operation among the writers of Germany; but with regard to politics the parties were strictly defined, and this circumstance impressed upon all works bearing in any way on the reorganization of Germany a certain characteristic stamp. This remarkable fact followed in natural development the manifest yearning in Germany for union and freedom, a feeling which runs through nearly the whole current literature of all the German States. In the course of last year, this feeling assumed a tangible form, and it is only natural that the consequences should be traceable in the recent literary productions of Germany." Eliot's "Romola," on Dr. Russell, the "Times"" ren Honor," on Trollope's "Orley Farm," on George correspondent, and a host of other subjects of English interest. CHARLES DICKENS.-This very successful author is stated to have sold 250,000 copies of "Mugby Junction" within three weeks of its first publication, and now announces public readings of the "Barbox" chapters, and the revelations about railway refreshment stations, by “The Boy at Mugby." OXFORD CHAIR OF POETRY.-In May, Mr. Matthew Arnold, M. A., will resign the Professorship of Poetry in the University of Oxford to which he was elected in 1857. Among its occupants have been Dean Milman and the Rev. John Keble. Among the candidates is John Ruskin, who has written a great deal of poetic prose, and Sir Francis Hastings Charles Doyle, Baronet, born in 1810, barrister-at-law, and Receiver-General of the Customs, London, with £1200 per annum salary, since 1846. Sir Francis, who was first class in classics, at Oxford in 1832, has written two or three volumes of poetry. Mr. Ruskin, born in 1819, is the wellknown art-critic, and a man of private fortune. BOCCACCIO OPERATIZED!-M. Gounod, the musical composer, has added "La Colombe," a new opera, to the repertoire of the Opéra Comique at Paris. It is founded on Boccaccio's pretty story of the poor lover (doubly poor), who, when his rich mistress, self-invited, went to dine with him, cooked his pet falcon and served it up as her repast-for which she gave him her hand and wealth. DR. CHALMERS.-Dean Ramsay, of Edinburgh author of "Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character," has written "Thomas Chalmers, D. D., a Biographical Notice," price one shilling. BYRON. Mr. Murray, of London, has just published a new edition of Byron's poems, revised and corrected from the original manuscripts. It is said that portions of a Fifth Canto of "Childe Harold" are in Mr. Murray's possession, as well as about half of the Seventeenth Canto of "Don Juan." RICHARD COBDEN.-All the pamphlets and other political writings of the late Mr. Cobden, which have long been out of print, are now about being republished in one volume. FEB. 1, 1867. PUBLISHING ACTIVITY.-In November, 1866, over 500 new books and new editions were published in England. LORD MACAULAY.--In the immediate neighborhood of his grave, and near to Addison's statue, in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey, a bust of Lord Macaulay has been placed by Lady Trevelyan, his only sister. It stands upon a handsome bracket, designed by Mr. Scott, the architect. COPYRIGHT IN FRANCE.-The law has been recently altered, so as to extend the rights of heirs to fifty years after the author's death. OBITUARY. The death of Mr. WILLIAM KIDD, a popular English author of books more particularly intended for young people, is announced in the English papers. His books related to a variety of subjects connected with natural history, but "domestic pets" was his favorite theme, and he was most successful in its treatment. Mr. Kidd was 64 years of age. Mrs. ANN GILBERT, the last but one of "The Taylors of Orger," died, at Nottingham (England), on December 20th. Best known as Ann Taylor of Orger, she was the daughter of an English clergyman whose wife wrote popular books in the last century. Charles Taylor, her uncle, edited "Calmet." Her elder brother, Isaac, was author of "The Natural History of Enthusiasm ;" and her second brother, Jeffrey, wrote, among other works, "The Apostolic Age in Britain." In conjunction with her sister Jane, she wrote a well-known volume, “Original Poems for Infant Minds." The well-known household poem, "My Mother," was also written by Ann Taylor, who married the Rev. Joseph Gilbert, also an author, in 1813. Two of her sons are distinguished men of letters, and her nephew, the Rev. Isaac Taylor, has written "Words and Phrases." Mrs. Gilbert had reached the advanced age of 85. Dr. JOSEPH ROBERTSON, a Scottish antiquarian, died at Edinburgh, on December 13th, aged 56. A native of Aberdeen, and a lawyer, he became newspaper editor, but without many qualifications for that profession. His tastes were antiquarian, and for the last thirteen years he was in an official position (Curator of the Historical Department of the Register Office, at Edinburgh), which enabled him to indulge them. He edited several volumes for the Spalding, Maitland, and Bannatyne Clubs. He was well acquainted with the literature and history of the northeastern coast of Scotland. Near Edinburgh, on the 5th January, died ALEXANDER SMITH, the Scottish poet, who had completed his 36th year on December 30th, 1866. He was the son of a designer of patterns for the Glasgow manufacturers, and had the same occupation for some years after his plain education was completed. In 1852 portions of "A Life Drama," written by him, appeared in the "London Critic," and were so well received that he found a publisher for the whole poem in the following year. It obtained great popularity, and was immediately republished with equal success, by Ticknor & Fields, in this country, who gave him a liberal portion of the profits. In 1854, he was placed in comfortable circumstances by being appointed Secretary of the University of Edinburgh, with a salary of £300 a year. In 1855, in conjunction with another poet, he produced a series of "Sonnets on the (Crimean) War." In 1857, appeared a volume of "City Poems,” and in 1861, an historical poem, in the manner of Tennyson's Idyls of the King," called "Edwin of Deira." Latterly he had taken to writing prose, his works being Dreamthorpe," a charming volume of rural essays; "Alfred Haggart's Household," a tale of Scottish life; and a volume relating his tour to the Isle of Skye. When he was closing his career, he was advertised to edit Burns' Poems. Twelve years before, he had lectured on "Burns as a National Poet." Professor Aytoun's satirical poem "Firmilian, a Spasmodic Tragedy," was written in pleasant raillery of Alexander Smith's "Life Drama." On Thursday, January 20th, on which day he completed his 60th year, NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS and graduated at Yale College at the age of twenty, died. He was born, in 1807, in Portland, Maine, having "fleshed his maiden pen" three years earlier as a contributor in prose and verse to magazines and newspapers. For a time he edited books for Mr. S. G. Goodrich, but finally began the "American Monthly Magazine," which, three years later, was merged in the "New York Mirror," the editors of which for many years after were Messrs. N. P. Willis, George P. Morris, and Theodore S. Fay. Desiring to travel, he went abroad, nominally as attaché to the U. S. Legation at Paris, and the result of his foreign observation and experience, thrown into the easy form of letters, appeared in the "New York Mirror" as "Pencillings by the Way." They were gracefully written-too much en couleur de rose, perhaps, and rather too communicative personally, but were and are extremely pleasant reading. He was blamed in England for having told too much of what he saw and heard, but the accuracy of what he wrote was not impugned. After various other literary performances in poetry, prose, fiction, dramatic writing, criticism, and journalism, he rejoined his old friend, Mr. George P. Morris, in 1846, in establishing the "Home Journal," a family paper which has always been popular; and for many years past his authorship was almost wholly limited to agreeable editorials in that weekly. Some of his poetry is of the highest merit; his sacred poems are particularly. good. Mr. Willis, for the last thirty years, has been one of the most popular authors and journalists in the United States. He will be best remembered, perhaps, by his "Pencillings by the Way." To young authors he was always very kind, and has materially aided in founding the reputation of many authors who are highly thought of now. Mr. Willis' health, which had somewhat failed from the beginning of the year, greatly declined since the close of last autumn. PERIODICALS. The Atlantic Monthly. February. The Guardian Angel: Part II. (O. W. Holmes). — Mona (Alice Carey).-Characteristics of Elizabethan Literature (E. P. Whipple).-George Bedillion's Knight: Part I. (Mrs. R. H. Davis).-Comic Journalism (C. D. Shanly).-Elizabeth's Chamber.Katharine Morne: Part IV. (Miss Palfrey).-A DriftWood Fire (T. W. Higginson).-Real Estate (J. T. Trowbridge).-How Mr. Frye Would Have Preached It (Author of a Man Without a Country).-Glacial Phenomena in Maine (Prof. Agassiz).—Forza Maggiore (J. D. Howells).-The Guerdon (T. B. Aldrich). Recollections of John Vanderlyn (Bishop Kip).— The Republican Alliance (J. Mazzini).-The Standpoint of the Boarding House (J. D. Howard).—Reviews and Literary Notices. Boston: Ticknor & Fields. Hours at Home. February. Moral Uses of Dark Things: No. I.-Night and Sleep (H. Bushnell, D. D.).—Marcella of Rome: continued (Francis Eastwood).—De Rebus Ruris: No. VI.-Laying Out of Grounds (D. G. Mitchell).— The Emigrant's Wife.-Representative Cities: No. I.; Damascus (Prof. W. S. Tyler).-Painting and Painters in Italy (Prof. E. A. Lawrence).-Persia FEB. 1, 1867. Unveiled (Prof. Wm. Welles).-Storm-cliff: Chaps. | The American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Jan. II., III., IV. (Mrs. S. J. Pritchard).—St. Chrysostom Observations on Wounds of the Internal Jugular (P. Schaff, D. D.).—John Wesley's Sermon (W. J. Vein, and their Treatment, with Special Reference Paulding).-Present Aspects of the Papacy (Prof. G. to the Safety of the Ligature; embracing a StatisP. Fisher). What I Saw at the Battle of Kissingen tical Account of Eighty-six Cases, with some Re(John D. Sherwood).-Researches of a Fogy: No. marks upon the General Applicability of Ligation II. The Story of a Copper (W. J. Paulding).— as a Venous Hæmostatic Agent (S. W. Gross, M.D.). Short Sermons to Sunday-School Teachers: No. X.-On Internal Aneurism, and its Relation to Sudden (Rev. C. S. Robinson).-The Modern Samaritans.- Death, with an Account of Ten Cases in which the Books of the Month. New York: Scribner & Co. Existence of that Disease was not suspected prior The Galaxy. January 15. to the Death of the Subject, from Rupture of the Tristan: Part II. (Edward Spencer).-Nix (Mary Sac; to which is appended a Practical Discussion E. Atkinson).-Savonarola: Part II. (Anna C. concerning the Diagnosis and Treatment of Aortie Ritchie). Traditions of the Blackfeet (J. M. Brown). Aneurism (John A. Lidell, M. D.)-Trichiniasis -The Claverings: Chaps. XXXVIII., XXXIX. (A. (John D. Jackson, M.D.)—On Retrogressive Motions Trollope).-Alms at the Beautiful Gate (H: H.).-in Birds, produced by the Application of Cold to the Imperial France (G. M. Towle).-The London Clubs Cervical Spine; with Remarks on the Use of the (W. W. Reade).-Shapes of a Soul (Sarah M. B. Agent as an Aid in Physiological Investigations (S. Piatt). The Poor Capitalists (Marie Howland).- Weir Mitchell, M. D.).-On the Detection and MeaAdvertising (G. Wakeman).-The House Opposite surement of Astigmatism (John Green, M. D.).— (Maria L. Pool).-Nebulæ (The Editor). New New Method of Employing Heat as a Resuscitating York: W. C. & F. P. Church. Agent (Joseph G. Richardson, M.D.).—The Permanganate of Potash in the Treatment of Carbuncle (Thad. L. Leavitt, M. D.).—Bromide of Potassium The Galaxy. February 1. in Epilepsy (Horace Y. Evans, M. D.).—On some of the Causes which render the Air in Surgical Wards Tristan: Part III. (E. Spencer).-George Sand (E. Benson).-The Negro in Blue (J. F. Fitts).-Fenwick (E. B. Seabrook).-Horseflesh as Food (Pierre Blot). The Claverings: Chaps. XL., XLI. (A. Trol-impure, with a Description of a Portable Ward Apparatus for Supplying Flowing Water, and all the lope).-On the Stairs (E. R. Johnson).-Our Taxes. Materials used in Dressing Wounds (Thomas G. (George A. Potter).-The Parable of Hassan (H. Morton, M. D.).—Case of Aphonia successfully H.). A Day with the Painters (W. L. Alden).-treated by the Extirpation of a Fibro-Epithelial Another "Pretty Bow of Ribbon" (Caroline Chesebro).—Nebula (The Editor). New York: W. C. & F. P. Church. The Contemporary Review. December. M. Comte and his Disciples on International Policy (Rev. W. H. Fremantle, M. A.). - Recent Poetry: Second Article (Editor).-Recent Results of Photozincography (Rev. E. Venables, M. A.)— Concerning the Theory and Truth of Ritualism (H. F.)-Eton Reform (Rev. W. E. Telf, B. D.). Luther's Theology (Dr. F. A. Dorner).-Notes from Rome.-Notices of Books, &c. The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review. Jan'y. The Culdee Monasteries.-Drs. Hedge and Woolsey on College Studies and Government.-The Training and Distribution of Missionaries.-Gregory the Theologian.-The Oriental Churches.-Malthusianism. The Rejection of Christ by the Jewish Rulers and People.-Short Notices, &c. &c. Philadelphia: Peter Walker. Neoplasm from the Vocal Cords (Ephraim Cutter, On the Construction of a Normal Map of the Solar Spectrum (Wolcott Gibbs, M. D.).-John Francis Encke.-Sketch of the Geology of Northeastern Dakota, with a Notice of a Short Visit to the celebrated Pipestone Quarry (F. V. Hayden).-New Classification of Meteorites, with an Enumeration of Meteoric Species (Charles Upham Shepard).-On the Tertiary Formations of Mississippi and Alabama (Eng. W. Hilgard).-Evidences of the Existence of Ancient Local Glaciers in the White Mountain Valleys (A. S. Packard, Jr.). Experiments on the ElectroMotive Force and the Resistance of a Galvanic Circuit (Hermann Haug).-On Colorado Meteorites, Russel Gulch Meteoric Iron, and Bear Creek Meteoric Iron (Prof. J. Lawrence Smith).-On a New The Pope and the Revolution (J. H. Newman, Locality of Tetrahedrite, Tennanite, and Naerite, D. D.). The Source of Labor.-Poem.-The Godfrey with some Account of the Kellogg Mines of Arkansas Family: continued.-Pardon.-Sea-side Flowers. (Prof. J. Lawrence Smith).-On Recent Soundings -On the Request of the Daughter of Herodias.- in the Gulf Stream (Henry Mitchell).-Observations The Church and Monarchy.-Deo Opt. Max. on the Glacial Drift beneath the Bed of Lake MichiRobert; or the Influence of a Good Mother.-One Moment.-Problems of the Age: concluded.-My Aunt's Work-box.-How My Aunt Pilcher Found the Catholic Church.-A Portrait of Fra Angelico. -I am the Way.-Christine.-Genius in a Parisian Attic.-Syracuse and Etna.-The First Siege of Limerick.-New Publications. New York: L. The Catholic World. February. gan, as seen in the Chicago Tunnel (Professor E. Andrews).-Shooting Stars in November, 1866 (H. A. Newton).-Correspondence, &c. &c. New Haven: Conducted by Professors B. Silliman and Jas. B. Dana. The New York Medical Journal. January. Original Communications.-The Histological Doetrines of M. Robin (William T. Luck, M. D.).—Notes on Fractures of the Upper Extremity (John M. Packard, M. D.).—Inflammation of the Cavity of the Tympanum, and its Relation to the Exanthemata (C. D. Pomeroy, M. D.).—The Treatment of Fracture of the Lower Jaw by Interdental Splints (Thomas Brian Gunning).-The Sphygmograph (Meredith Clymer, M. D.).—Proceedings of Societies.-Reviews and Bibliographical Notices.-Reports on the Progress of Medicine.-Varia. New York: Ballière & Brothers. FEB. 1, 1867. BOOK NOTICES. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. 366. cism, both English and German. The text and the Walking in the Light. By Daniel Dana Buck, The Satisfactory Portion. By Rev. A. C. George. pp. 107. Poe & Hitchcock, Cincinnati, publish each of of a discourse preached by the author before the these volumes. The first of them is an expansion East Genesee Conference of the Methodist Episco soul. William Farel, and the Story of the Swiss Reform. Mr. Gayarré's elaborate "History of Louisiana," in three volumes, is regarded as one of the best of the separate State histories which have been produced. In the present work he develops a kindred subject, but one which possesses the additional advantage of a personal interest. His mode of treatment is somewhat peculiar. His aim is not to furnish a mere narrative, but rather a summary, or, as he expresses it in his prefatory note, "not to present a minute chronicle in regular narrative of the events cal retrospect of what was most memorable in Spain and not the World, is the satisfying portion of the of Philip's reign, but in a certain way a philosophi-pal Church, at Lima, New York, in 1860. The theme of the second work is, that true Religion, during that period as it was shaped by the controlling mind at the head of affairs, such a deduction in fact as the modern student must needs draw for himself after he has exhausted the materials of that busy and important era." Rather oddly, our author begins the volume with a very graphic account of the lingering death of the subject of his biography, thus opening the story where chronologically it should end. Mr. Gayarré's style is animated and vigorous, his incidents are related with good effect, his characters are well analyzed and sharply discriminated, and the whole work is lifted far above anything like dulness. It is in every way a volume which cannot be read without interest. No fiction is more wonderful than many of its events. is a very sparing reference to authorities, and an index should have been added. Mr. Widdleton has issued the work in excellent style. The paper is of superior quality, the type is clear and distinct, rendering the page as legible as could be wished. Trials of an Inventor. Life and Discoveries of Charles Goodyear. By Rev. Bradford K. Peirce. pp. 224. New York: Carlton & Porter. There Mr. Goodyear was born at New Haven, in 1800, and died at New York, in 1860. His improvements in the manufacture of India rubber have added much directly and indirectly to the material wealth of the country; and it was fitting and well deserved that this record of his life should be made. There is much in the volume that is curious and suggestive, and some of its truth is no less strange than fiction. RELIGIOUS. Anthropos. By Rev. W. P. Breed, D. D. pp. 120. with very great method. We have sixteen chap- The Scriptural Books included in this volume are Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and Solomon's Song. The aim of the authors is to produce a compendious commentary for Biblical students, Sabbath-school teachers, and the general reader, The sketch of Farel here presented, though not drawn from any original sources, is both interesting and instructive. He was a prominent actor in the scenes of the Swiss Reform, and, apart from his own influence and characteristics, is well worthy of attention as the intimate friend of Calvin. MEDICAL. The Renewal of Life. Lectures chiefly Clinical. By That a second American edition of this work has already been called for, shows that it has been justly appreciated by the profession in our country. To those who have not read it, we earnestly recommend its perusal. The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth, Adult Age, and Advanced Life, considered in their Physiological, Social, and Moral Relations. By William Acton, M. R. C. S. Second American from the Fourth London Edition. pp. 291. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. tion. It is well digested and upon a most imThis work has also early passed to a second ediportant subject. SCHOOL BOOKS. Ripley's System of Map-Drawing. By E. L. Ripley, extensively into our schools, but text-books on the FICTION. Two Marriages. By the author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," etc. pp. 301. New York: Harper & Brothers. A new work from Miss Mulock will be welcomed and to embody therein the results of recent criti- by the large circle of her readers. The presen |