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Cassell's. metamorphosed and sedimentary rocks is given This new serial will give an illustrated with the special colour by which it is indicated. geographical and historical description of the Announcements and News. chief places of interest in England, Wales, and Scotland. The arrangement of the subThe Stars in their Courses, a series of star | jects will not be strictly topographical, it maps and catalogues, by T. S. BAYLEY, M.A. being believed by the editors that greater Trùbners. interest is to be obtained by a varied distribu. On Chemical Manures. By M. GEORGES tion of the subject. The present number VILLE. Translated and Edited by William opens with a description of Salisbury Plain, Crookes, F.R.S., &c. Longman & Co. Stonehenge, and Amesbury. The second article treats of Leeds and its surroundings; The fifth edition of How to work with the | and the third begins the history of the Cinque Microscope. By Dr. LIONEL S. BEALE, F.R.S. 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Remington & Co. ly, being the first of the new volume (vol. xvii.), This work which is from the pen of the it may be interesting to our readers to give a Librarian of the London Institution, is in more detailed account of its contents than tended to be a guide to students engaged in appears elsewhere in our columns. It opens the study of English literature. Beginning with a biography of Longfellow, the frontiswith the Beowulf Saga, A.D. 500, it carries piece being a portrait of the poet on wood, by the reader through the fertile meads of Mr. Wyatt Eton, in which the touch of the English written thought until it reaches " little etching tool, on copper, is imitated very Burney's,” Cecilia, and Evelina, Thomas de closely, somewhat in the Rajon style. The Quincey's Opium Eater, and Douglas Jerrold's article itself is illustrated with twelve woodimmortal Caudle Lectures. 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