nected historical account of Reformation work, and contains 518 cuts and plates, nine Biography. LEY. Crown 8vo., 208, price 2/6. MacRecords .as are · available for his purpose, millan and Co., 1879. instead of relying on the condensed and only | Professor Morley could have hardly chosen too frequently garbled statements of historians a better biographer of Hume than Professor who wrote during and after this momentous Huxley. The work is divided into two unperiod. The references to original memoirs equal parts, a quarter being occupied by a are frequent, and will be found of interest and short account of Hume's life and career, the value to the historical student. We may other three quarters being devoted to an able mention that Mr. Burke writes in a thoroughly exposition of the principles of Hume's philosCatholic tone, and follows in this respect in ophy, and his infuence on modern thought. the footsteps of Dr. Maitland, Dean Hook, For the first part Professor Huxley acknowthe Rev. T. Hugo, and others of the modern ledges his indebtedness to Hume's' “ History English Catholic school. We shall look of My Own Life,” and to John Hill Burton's forward with pleasure to the appearance of valuable“ Biography of Hume,” but the second Mr. Burke's second volume. part, with the exception of the copious extracts Histoire des Romains depuis les Temps les from Hume's works, is all Professor Huxley's own. The headings of the chapters will sufplus reculés jusquâ l'Invasion des Bar. bares. Par VicToR DURUY. Membre ficiently indicate the mode of treatment adopde l'Institut, ancien Ministre de l'In. ted by Professor Huxley. The object and struction Publique. Nouvelle édition scope of philosophy in general ; the contents enrichie d'environ 2500 Gravures d'aprés of the mind; the origin of the impressions ; l'antique et de 100 Cartes ou Plans. Vol. the classification of mental operations; the 1. Imperial 8vo., pp. cxxxi.-647, price mental phenomena of animals ; language; the 23/-. Hachette & Co. 1879. order of nature; miracles ; theism ; the soul; volition ; liberty and necesssity, and the prinThis is the first volume of a new and greatly ciples of morals. As a concise exposition of enlarged edition of Victor Duruy's classical the philosophical principles of Hume and his school, Professor Huxley's essay is a valuable one. Of Hume's historical works Professor Huxley does not speak. Literature. La Divina Commedia di Dante, with Portrait. pp. 500. Size, 2 ins, by ilins. Price 30/-. Milano. Ulrico Hoepli, 1878. [Hachette & Co.] This microscopic edition of the whole of the Divina Commedia, containing the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso claims, and we believe, with justice, to be the smallest book ever published. The type, although much smaller than our English diamond, is per. fectly clear, and may be easily read' by any one possessing ordinarily good sight, even in the dull light of a London January. As a marvel of typography, Signor Hoepli's production is unique, and fully deserves the honours awarded to it at the last Paris Exhibition. Typomaniacs have only a very few chances of securing a copy of this wonder, the type having been broken up. Dans les Nuages : Impressions d'une Chaise. Récit recueilli par SARAH BERNHARDT. Illustré par GEORGES CLAIRIN. 4to., pp. 94, price 12/-. Paris, Charpentier, 1879. (London, Hachette & Co.] Having alternately terrified and delighted her admirers with her acting, and astonished them with her sculptures, Mademoiselle Sarah Bernhardt now seeks to enchant them with a charming emanation from her pen, written with all the fairy-like grace and lightness of a but. terfly, whose airy realms have been unwarrantably intruded on by a party of talkative bipeds in a balloon. The story-telling straw chair is bought at a chairmaker's by an unknown gentleman, who carries it, or as it is a French chair, perhaps we had better say carries her, off to an enclosure in the gardens of the Tuileries, where the ambition to rise in the world with which she has always been animated since first her oak and straw were joined together in the bonds of chairhood, is fully gratified by finding herself in the car of M. Godard's balloon, where she serves as a restingplace for an enchanting actress, Dona Sol, the thin disguise under which the authoress'chooses to veil herself. Dona Sol, during the voyage, finds our heroine in the way, and wants to kill a Parisian by dropping her over the side of the car, but is prevented from doing so by MM. Georges Clairin and Louis Godard, who accompany the two ladies, so ho matter is at last compromised by hanging te four-legged fair one to the network outside in company with Dona Sol's boots, with which she had previously quarrelled. The history of the four aëronauts on their journey, after their descent, and during their return to town, as well as by what means our heroine is made happy for ever after, must not be told here, they must be read side by side with M. Clairin's beautiful etchings. Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. VON PROF. DR. EDUARD MUNK. Dritte Auflage, nach der zweiter Ausgabe neu bearbeitet von RICHARD VOLKMANN. Erster Theil. Von Homer bis auf die Anfänge der Attischen Prosa. Erstes Heft. 8vo., pp. vii.—288, price 35. Berlin, Ferd. Důmmler's Verlags-buchhandlung (Harrwitz u. Grossmann. 1879. [1878.] (London, Williams & Nor gate.] This is the third edition of Prof. Munk's school book, giving an analytical account of the classical Greek writers. It is somewhat differently arranged from the previous editions, in that the prose and poetry of each period are treated together, not separately as before. This is in harmony with the plan of the work, the object of which is to indicate the development in time of Grecian literary thought. Untersuchungen zur Snorra Edda. Als Einleitung “ Zur prosaischen Edda im Auszuge." Von E. WILKEN. 8vo., pp. 296, price 5s. 6d. Paderborn, Ferdi. nand Schöningh. 1878[London, Williams & Norgate.] This elaborate introduction to the prose Eddas of the North, in which the notes are almost as bulky as the text, is divided into seven sections, entitled C. I to C. 7. These deal with the MSS. and editions of the prose Eddas; the subjects discussed being the relative value of the different MSS.; traditions about the Edda; the mythology of the Gylfaginning; the allusions to the heroic legends of N. Germany in the prose Eddas; the way in which these Eddas originated; the Skalds; and the position of the two Eddas in the old northern literature. There is a short index. The notes to each section are separately numbered. The index, which is very meagre, refers to the whole work, which forms vol. XI. and XII. of Dr. Heyne's · Bibliothek der altesten Deutschen Litteratur-denkmadler.' Miscellanies, Political and Literary. By MOUNTSTUART E. GRANT DUFF. Mem. ber for the Elgin District of Burghs. Demy Svo, pp. viii.---315, price 10/6. Macmillan & Co. With the exception of the first and last these essays were originally published in the Fortnightly and Contemporary Reviews, between 1874 and 1878. The first is a reprint of a Presidential Address delivered by Mr. Grant Duff, on the opening of the section of Economic Science and Statistics, at the Dundee Meeting of the British Association, in 1867, and is an enthusiastic exposition of the value of statistics. The second essay, “Egypt” is a glowing description of the author's visit to the land of the Pharaohs in the winter of 1873-74, in company with Sir John Lubbock. In this essay, the author gives us a good idea of the versatility which distinguishes him, for he not only describes and are written to cheer the monotony of the the archäological features of the country, but soldier's every day work Though most of its people, races, history, religions, botany, them are written for a distinct moral purpose, ornithology, mineralogy, and geology. But the author never assumes too much of a why, may we ask does Mr. Grant Duff spell pulpit tone, a defect which is frequently too Pasha, Pacha? The former is a Turkish apparent in books of this description. He first dignitary, the latter means a sheep's trotter describes his adventures at Malta, as a subsurely not a polite epithet to apply to the altern, while on his way to the Crimea. The Viceroy's first minister. The third. essay, story called “ Sergeant Munna-Wheestle," tells "Must we then believe Cassandra ?” made how a Scotch sergeant who would not allow some little sensation at the time of its publica the men to whistle on the Sabbath, evention-being a reply to Mr. W. R. Greg's tually levanted with the regimental cash-box. famous book-"Rocks Ahead, or the Warn “A Pattern Irishman” is a capital sketch of ings of Cassandra,” and produced a counter a true man and a true soldier." The Troop reply of a very able character, in the second | Sergeant-Major" will give the general idea of edition of that work. The fourth and fifth the sufferings which our soldiers have to essays, which are addresses delivered at the undergo in the trying climate of our Eastern Social Science Congress and at Clifton Empire. The chapters bearing the headings College, are somewhat dry reading, but the of " The Soldier” and “Ready” are a concise sixth, on the Maxims of Balthasar Gracian, a | exposé of the duties of a soldier, military, Spanish Jesuit of the latter part of the six | social, and religious. In the apppendix we teenth and the beginning of the seventeenth have an interesting account of the labours of centuries, although somewhat metaphysical the American Missionaries in Turkey, in the in parts, is sufficiently entertaining. The essay, cause of religion, education, and civilization. entitled a “Plea for a National Education,” is an excellent sketch of what a young boy's Covert-Side Sketches; or, Thoughts' on Hun. education should be, although, possibly the ting, suggested by many Days in many range of studies indicated by Mr. Grant' Duff Countries with Fox, Deer and Hare. would be a little too wide in schools, where cricket, football, rowing, and rifle-shooting By J. NEVILL FITT, “H.H.” of the are in full swing. Thus he gives a list of no “Sporting Gazette.” Crown 8vo., pp. less than twenty-six works, or parts of works, vii.-346,"price 10/6. Sampson Low & Co., to be translated into English from Greek, and 1878. about the same number from Latin. To our notion, the best essay in the book is that on Mr. Fitt is evidently a keen sportsman, and Emilio Castelar, the chief of the Spanish writes on hunting matters with all the gusto Progresista party, in which is given an interest of an enthusiast. He gives us a pleasantly ing account of the life and labours of that re written history of hunting in all its phrases, markable man, who, until the appearance of interspersed with well-told anecdotes. The these articles in the Fortnightly Reviews for popularity of the chase amongst all classes at June and July last, was utterly unknown and the present day, the national utility of hunting unappreciated in this country. Even those to and its antiquity, first engage Mr. Fitt's whom politics are distasteful, will find plenty attention. He then gives us an account of the to interest them in the extracts taken from animals hunted in England at the present day, Senor Castelar's own works, especially those more especially of the fox, followed by the from his “ Travels in Italy.” The fire and history of the principal packs of foxhound in brilliancy of some of his descriptions will this country. The stag and deer are next somewhat startle our English purists, who are taken into favour, and, after an excellent too timorous or distrustful' of their own chapter on the chase of the carted deer, in strength to rise beyond the dead level of cold which Mr. Fitt justly reprobates this ridicuclassicality. The last essay is an address on lous mode of " sport," the timid hare and the the “ Political Situation” delivered at Peter hounds that hunt her are fully described. The head, in September last. chapters on otter-hunting and the otter-hound gives a number of interesting details about this Old Comrades, or Sketches from Life in the form of sport, which appears to be dying out British Army, with Thoughts on Mili in this country. The last chapter is on the tary Service. By C. H. MALAN, once drag, which is now-a-days almost as indispena Major in the Army. Author of " a | sable an adjunct to the meet as the hounds Soldier's Experience.” Crown 8vo., pp. | themselves. There is an excellent index atvii.--272, price 3s. 6d., Nisbet and Co., tached to the work; but we could easily have 1879. dispensed with the very badly executed coloured plate which forms the frontispiece, which is Although the preface states that this book quite unworthy of the bright and sparkling is written about" soldiers, by a soldier for text. Although written specially for sportssoldiers, it will be found no less interesting by men, ordinary readers will find much to the meekest of civilians. The stories Mr. amuse and instruct them in Mr. Fitt's pleasant Malan tells are true narratives of real life, | pages. Notes. distinctly and immediately from the plays' of Our readers will have heard with great the Latins. It first had its birth in the Uni versities. The plays of Seneca represented regret of the loss the town of Birmingham has tragedy, and those of Terence comedy. sustained in the destruction of the libraries by The fire. From the reference library alone over first actors were University men. The head master of Eton wrote the first comedy to be 300,000 books were issued during last year. The general portion of the Reference Library acted at Eton. The Westminster Play still had been compiled with great care under the represented the old custom. The first tragedy direction chiefly of Mr. Samuel Timmins. It came into existence in like manner. The actors contained over 50,000 volumes, including the were University men or barristers at the Inns Shakespeare Memorial Library, which alone of Court; the latter subsequently finding in numbered nearly 7,000 volumes, the Staunton writing plays a means of earning money which Warwickshire collection, and the Cervantes they quickly adopted. The lecturer then proLibrary. The Shakespeare collection com ceeded to give details of the progress of the English drama from the days of Elizabeth, and prised 336 editions of Shakespeare's complete works in English, including many original at the end announced that his next lecture folios, 17 in French, 58 in German, 3 in would be on “ The English Stage as it is.” Danish, 3 in Italian, 4 in Polish, 2 in Russian A Second Edition of Mr. Jemmett-Browne's and I each in Dutch, Spanish, Swedish, and Poems, entitled “Songs of Many Seasons,” Bohemian, besides separate plays in less published by Messrs. George Bell & Son, is known languages. The Staunton Warwick announced. The first edition was in its way a shire collection consisted chiefly of ancient volume de luxe and illustrated, but the author manuscripts, engravings, portraits, views, found a larger appreciation than, in these water colours and drawings, of which no prosaic times, might have been anticipated, and other copy is known and representing many the new edition, though elegant in form, will old places now destroyed. This collection be without illustrations. The poems upon said to have been one of the most complete which the critics have already pronounced a and valuable ever formed. The Cervantes very favourable judgment are, by permission, Library, recently presented by Mr. William dedicated to the Princess of Wales. Bragge, contained nearly all the known The Printers' Register of the 6th instant editions and translations of the Spanish contains its annual list of the daily newspapers, author. which for the first time is diminished instead On the 2nd instant, Professor Henry Mor of increased in length. From it we learn that ley delivered a lecture on “ The English Stage there are now but 143 daily newspapers in the as it has been,” at the London Institution. United Kingdom, as against 151 last year. In every epoch of the past history of the Eighteen are published in London, 85 in the drama, he said, there had been real defects, and provinces, 2 in Wales, 21 in Scotland, 16 in there were real defects in the condition of the Ireland, and 1 in Jersey. Seventy-eight are drama of the present day. But there were morning papers and 65 evening; 50 are pubelements of hope that if the right way be taken lished at a penny, 63 at a half-penny, and the the dignity of the profession of the actor remainder (10) at prices varying from 1 d. to would be maintained. The actor who was 3d. Sixty-four are returned as Liberal, 37 as true to his calling knew it was a worthy one, Conservative, and 42 as Independent or and he, as an artist of a high kind, should be neutral. entitled to generous recognition in his own day. An actor, like a great soldier or sailor, Philology. did his work in his own lifetime. The battle of Trafalgar was not always being Notes. fought, but it was something to be remem Dr. Rauchenstein, the eminent Swiss' phibered; and a great impersonation of the stage lologist, died last week in Aarau. He was was not like a book that could always be eighty years of age. . studied in future generations. The utterance of the mind and the triumph were there, but they were gone with the lifetime of the actor; CONTENTS OF MAGAZINES. and just in the same way that the great soldier or sailor was entitled to a statue or a monument, CLASSIFIED. so the true actor who manifested genius or who even stirred up those who came to see his representations to a sense of beauty ought to Natural History. have all the praises we could give him. We ought not to grudge that praise, nor labour to Acherontia atropos, Capture of Larvæ of. T. make the life of the actor a more painful one MARSHALL. Scottish Naturalist. Janu than it need be. There was a common asser ary, 1879. tion that the English drama originated in | Alluvium Old, of Perth, Old Canoe found in miracle plays, interludes, and so forth ; but the. J. GEIKIE. Scottish Naturalist, that was a mistake. Our drama was derived January, 1879. Bryozoa (Polyzoa) of the Bay of Naples, by Lepidoptera of Moncrieffe Hill. SIR T. Mon. R. W. WATERS. Ann. Nai. 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Crustacea Cumacea of the “Lightning,” Ann. Nat. Hist. January, 1879. “ Porcupine,” and “ Valorous," Expedi. | Reptiles from the Islands of Torres Straits, tions, by A. M. NORMAN. Ann. Nat. by A. GUNTHER. Ann. Nat. Hist. Hist. January, 1879. January, 1879. Diastylis bimarginatus, by C. SPENCE BATE. Smilodon, The dentition of, by P. GERVAIS. Ann. Nat. Hist. January, 1879. Ann. Nat. Hist. January, 1879. Deiopeia pulchella in Scotland. SIR T. Spirula australis, Supplementary observaMONCRIEFFE. Scottish Naturalist. Jan tions on the Anatomy of, by PROF. R. uary, 1879. OWEN. Ann. Nat. Hist. January, Devil-Fish and its Relatives. W. E. DAMON. 1879. . American Popular Science Monthly. Sociology and Biology. Scientific Relations January, 1879. of. J. LE CONTE. American Popular Eristalis tenax, Anatomy of the Larva of, by Science Monthly. January, 1879. Dr. BATELLI. Ann. Nat. Hist. January, 1879. Stock-Dove breeding Scotland. A. B. BROOKE. Scottish Naturalist. January, 1879. Felsengebirge, Die Wunder des. E. v. H. WAKTEGG. Mittheilungen des kais. Thal und Seebildung. Beitrag zur Kenntkonigl. geographischen Gesellschaft in niss von. G. HARTUNG. Zeitschrift d. Wien. Nov. 1878, p. 528—534. (On Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin. the Colorado Canons.) Bd. 13, p. 265–333. Tafel VI. Fishes, Description of two new, from New Valley of Minnesota and Mississippi to the Zealand, by F. W. HATTON. Ann. Nat. junction of the Ohio. G. F. WARREN. Hist. January, 1879. Silliman's Journal. January, 1879 Fungi, List of, found in the Province of Virchow and Evolution. J. TYNDALL, Ameri Moray. J. Keith. Scottish Natural can Popular Science Monthly. January, ist. January, 1879. 1879. Gallerucina, New Genera and species by J. S. | Vegetations-charakter von Air, Ueber den. BALY. Ann. Nat. Hist. January, Dr. E. v. BARY. Zeits d. Ges. f. Erdk. 1879. Berlin.' Bd. 13, p. 350—356. Geological Record for 1876, Notice of. Ann. | Volvox divicus, Germination of the spures of, Nat. Hist. 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