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The following are a few of the Books which will 12. be earliest issued: Her Majesty the Washerwoman. By A. S. Illustrated by Charles Keene. Vistas in the Russian Church. The Second of Two Papers. By Professor C. Piazzi Smyth. With an Illustration. Sea Weeds. Illustrated by H. H. Armstead. Mistress and Maid. Chaps. 19 and 20. By the Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman." Illustrated by J. E. Millais. At Night in an Observatory. By Principal Leitch. With an Illustration. Geffrard, President of Hayti. By J. M. Ludlow. A True Ghost Story. (Dedicated to the Spiritualists.) By At Home in the Scriptures. By the Rev. William Arnot. the Editor. London: STRAHAN & CO., 32 Ludgate Hill. Will be ready on the 23rd instant, in 2 vols. crown 8vo. 12s. THE OLD LIEUTENANT & HIS SON. By NORMAN MACLEOD, D.D. EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. "Why should a man who is 'some fifty,' apologise to the public for beginning to tell stories? Is not this a very common phenomenon at his time of life?' I have indeed no good reason to give for writing this tale, except one-which, after all, is no reason, but the mere statement of a fact, whatever be its reason-viz. that Í could not help it! When I began to write about the Old Lieute nant, it was my intention merely to occupy a chapter or two of Good Words with a life sketch gathered from memories of the past. But the sketch grew upon me. Persons, and things, and scenes, came crowding out of the darkness; and while I honestly wished to mould them for practical good, I felt all the while more possessed by them than possessing them. "Having taken, however, the first bold step of publishing the story in Good Words, the second which I now take, of publishing it separately, can hardly make matters better or worse for me. The fact of an unauthorised edition being issued in America confirms me in the resolution to publish a corrected one here." London: STRAHAN & CO., 32 Ludgate Hill. HOUSEHOLD HYMNS OF GERMANY & THE NORTH. Twenty-seventh Thousand. In neat cloth antique, 3s. 6d. Edited and Translated under the Direction of Miss GREENWELL, Author of "The Patience of Hope." VII THE GRAVER THOUGHTS OF A COUNTRY PARSON. By the Author of "Recreations of a Country Parson." VIII JOHN EVANGELIST GOSSNER; HIS LIFE AND HIS DEEDS. IX SUBURBAN: A BOOK OF ESSAYS WRITTEN IN THE COUNTRY. By ALEXANDER SMITH, Secretary to the University of Edinburgh, Author of "The Life Drama," "City Poems," &c. X A POPULAR EDITION OF THE EARNEST STUDENT: BEING MEMORIALS OF JOHN MACKINTOSH. By NORMAN MACLEOD, D.D., of the Barony Parish, Glasgow. London: STRAHAN & CO., 32 Ludgate Hill. (590) THE NEAR & HEAVENLY HORIZONS. BY MADAME DE GASPARIN. "This is a charming book. Madame de Gasparin has the touch of genius which has the strange gift of speaking to every one in their own tongue.'...Those who wish to give or recommend a good book to friends who are sad or suffering, inay feel sure that in be stowing The Near and the Heavenly Horizons' they will bestow a work that will discourse things pleasant, as well as 'things profitable.'"-Athenæum. "The pictures of nature here are wondrous. This book, written by the mistress of a Parisian household, speaks to the hearts of us all." Macmillan's Magazine. "These pages are like gossamer threads beaded with radiant dewdrops."-Witness. "A remarkable book-displaying marvellous powers of descriptive writing."-Scotsman. "The Near and the Heavenly Horizons' is a book full of beauty and pathos."-British Quarterly Review. "Be persuaded, reader, to get this beautiful voluine among those you are laying in for your summer trip. It is just the book for Sabbath afternoons in a Christian family."-Eclectic Review. "Let us say at once of The Near and the Heavenly Horizons,' that we have scarcely ever read a book with more enjoyment than its perusal has afforded us."-Aberdeen Free Press. London: STRAHAN & CO., 32 Ludgate Hill. (591) Printed by GEORGE ANDREW SPOTTISWOODE, of No. 12 James Street, Buckingham Gate, in the Parish of St. Margaret, in the City of Westminster, at No. 5 New-street Square, in the Parish of St. Bride, in the City of London; and Published by SAMPSON Low, of 14 Great James Street, in the Parish of St. Andrew, Holborn, at the Office, 47 Ludgate Hill, in the Parish of St. Bride.-Friday, August 15, 1862. FOR TRANSMISSION ABROAD. CIRCULAR THE PUBLISHERS Learning AND General Record of British and Foreign Literature CONTAINING A COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ALL NEW WORKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN AND EVERY WORK OF INTEREST PUBLISHED ABROAD PRICE (UNSTAMPED.. 3d. ....4d. Sept. 1, 1862 UNSTAMPED PER ANN. LITERARY INTELLIGENCE CONTENTS Page 399-402 BOOKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN FROM AUGUST 14 TO 30......................................... 402-405 AMERICAN LITERATURE FRENCH, GERMAN, ITALIAN, ETC.............. .............................................................................................. 405-407 *****.................... 410-414 NEW EDITIONS AND BOOKS LATELY PUBLISHED................................................................ 414-416 MISCELLANEOUS.......... ............................................................ ........................... 416-422 THE the There are few other works in our present list which we need mention here. Two volumes of Travels, both relating to the same region-British Columbia-have appeared: the one, by Captain Barrett-Lennard, is a Narrative of a Yacht Voyage round Vancouver's Island, and of a sojourn of Two Years on the Pacific Coast of the North American Continent, and is pleasantly written; the other, by Mr. Alexander Rattray, who is a surgeon in the Navy, is a book of valuable information to all who are about to repair to these new gold regions, as well as for those who would speak or write on the subject. The writer is resident at Esquimalt, Vancouver's Island, and appears to have collected his facts with industry and care. The volume contains some interesting tinted lithograph views, besides useful maps. A new volume of Mr. Brewer's learned edition of the works of Giraldus Cambrensis; and Dr. Norman Macleod's Old Lieutenant and his Son, a pleasant story of quiet humour, reprinted in two volumes, from Good Words, likewise claim notice. The following is our usual summary of other publications in our fortnightly list which also deserve mention: In LITERATURE, SCIENCE, and ART.-A great facsimile reprint in quarto has been published of the well-known Caxton volume, The Game of Chesse, supposed to be the first book printed in England; and we have also a book of Emblematic Illumination, intended both for artists and amateurs, giving forms, colours, and emblems suitable for illuminating texts of Scripture, in large style, in oil and water colours; a quarto volume of reprinted articles, poems, essays, &c., from the newspapers and magazines, called forth by the death of the Prince Consort, collected under the title of Albert the Good a Nation's Tribute of Affection; the first part of a new genealogical work of existing families, entitled The Aristocracy of London; The Useful Plants of Great Britain, illustrated by J. G. Sowerby; a first volume of Mr. Robert Hunt's Handbook to the Industrial Department of the Great Exhibition, to be completed in 2 vols.; and we have a fourth volume of the complete edition of the works of Thomas Hood, edited by his Son. In HISTORY and BIOGRAPHY we have a small but interesting local history entitled The Preston Guilds, the Ordinances of Various Guilds of Preston, the Charters to the Borough, &c., by W. Dobson and J. Harland. In THEOLOGY-Heart Melodies, three hundred and sixty-five new Hymns and Psalms for public worship or domestic use; The Helping Hand, a Guide to the New Testament, with maps and illustrations (one of Messrs. Hogg & Co.'s Books with a Meaning); and Bibliolatry, an Essay, by the Rev. J. Hughes. In FICTION we have a novel entitled Hearths and Watch-Fires, by Captain Colomb, 3 vols.; The Last Days of a Bachelor, an Autobiography, by J. M. Allan, 2 vols.; and Rose Leblanc, by Lady Georgiana Fullerton, 1 vol. Among EDUCATIONAL publications we notice A Class Book of Poetry, chiefly intended for Young Ladies, by Ellen A. Bell; The Gospel of St. Mark, arranged in parts and sections, &c., for use of Schools; and the School Euclid, comprising the first Four Books, chiefly from the text of Dr. Simson. And in NEW EDITIONS we have Sir Henry Holland's Essays on Scientific and other Subjects; Mr. W. C. Bennett's Poems, with a portrait and illustrations; a cheap edition of Mr. J. Cordy Jeaffreson's Book about Doctors; of Mrs. Browning's Last Poems; a 2d of Life Problems, by Sir R. Alcock; of Mr. Graham's English Style-a Course of Instruction for the Attainment of a Good Style of Writing; and Principles of Gunnery, by J. T. Hyde; a 5th of Goulbourn's Introduction to the Devotional Study of the Holy Scriptures; and a 10th of the Rev. T. Hartwell Horne's Compendious Introduction to the Study of the Bible, revised and edited by the Rev. J. Ayre. Mr. MURRAY will publish next week a Handbook to the Eastern Cathedrals, including Oxford, Peterborough, Ely, Norwich, and Lincoln, with illustrations. Messrs. SMITH, ELDER, & Co. have just ready a volume entitled Robert O'Hara Burke and the Australian Exploring Expedition of 1860, by Andrew Jackson. They will also publish shortly a Journal of a Political Mission to Afghanistan, with an Account of the Country and People, by H. W. Bellew, Medical Officer to the Mission, with eight plates. Messrs. STRAHAN & Co. are about to publish a volume of Essays by Mr. Alexander Smith, Author of Edwin of Deira, under the title of Suburban. Messrs. MACMILLAN & Co. have in the press Six Months in the Federal States, by Edward Dicey (reprinted from their Magazine); The Book of Praise, from the best English Hymn Writers, selected and arranged by Roundell Palmer (one of the Golden Treasury Series); PreHistoric Man, Researches into the Origin of Civilisation of the Old and New World, by Daniel Wilson; and Viti, an Account of a Government Mission to the Vitian or Fijian Group, by Berthold Seemann. Theo will also publish in November a new work by Mr. P. G. Hamerton, entitled A Painter's Camp in the Highlands. Messrs. HURST & BLACKETT announce for publication on the 5th inst. a new novel, entitled The Maroon, by Capt. Mayne Reid, in 3 vols. Messrs. HOULSTON & WRIGHT will publish on October 1, The Illustrated Universal Gazetteer, edited by W. F. Ainsworth, F.R.G.S., in one volume, 1,056 pages, imperial 8vo. with 500 illustrations. Messrs. KENT & Co. publish this day the 4th vol. of All Round the World, an Illustrated Record of Voyages, Travels, and Adventures in all parts of the Globe, edited by W. F. Ainsworth. Messrs. WARD & Lock publish this day a new work by "Waters," entitled Undiscovered Crimes; also, Recollections of an Irish Police Magistrate, edited by his son-in-law, H. R. Addison. Messrs. ROUTLEDGE & Co. will publish immediately a new book of reference for Students and Libraries, entitled The Manual of Dates, referring to important Events in the History of Mankind, by G. H. Townsend. The proprietors of Good Words announce, among the arrangements for next year, a new novel by Mr. Anthony Trollope, to appear in that periodical; also a new work by Dr. Guthrie, illustrated by Millais; and a new work by Dr. Caird, author of The Religion of Common Life, &c. The story of Elizabeth, of which a First Part appears in the present number of the Cornhill, is reported to be from the pen of Miss Thackeray, one of the two daughters of the great novelist. She has, we believe, more than once contributed papers to the Magazine. The idea of the story is somewhat similar to that of a poem by Mr. Monckton Milnes, which appeared in the Cornhill some time ago, and turns upon the secret jealousy of a mother towards a daughter. Abstractedly, the notion is certainly not pleasing; but it is managed in Miss Thackeray's story with great tact and delicacy. It is impossible to doubt, on reading it, that circulating libraries will one day become more familiar with Miss Thackeray's name. Her style is graceful and easy, but bears little resemblance to her father's writing. The accidental discovery that a Mr. Eugene M'Carthy, an Irish solicitor, was in possession of a number of valuable books, the property of the British Museum, which that gentleman had tranferred to his own shelves, having first pasted into them book plates with the arms of the M'Carthy family, is likely to give rise to some enquiry into the management of the Museum Library. Visitors to Mr. Panizzi's reading room are probably aware that all the volumes in the lower portion of that magnificent circle are works of reference, in constant use by readers, and may be taken down by them without any restriction. As to all other books in the library, however, students can only obtain them by filling up a printed ticket with date and signature; and a record of every book handed out in this way is, we believe, invariably kept. With regard to the first kind of books, there is, of course, no record, and in the event of any one of these being stolen it would, perhaps, be difficult to detect the stealer; but with the others it would seem that nothing could be easier than to trace them. Some of the books carried off by Mr. M'Carthy appear to have been of this latter class. They were missed in 1857. They duly appear, by the books of the Museum, to have been last in Mr. M'Carthy's possession. The very day and hour when he had them was all along known; his address, and the address of the two responsible persons who recommended him to the trustees for a reader's ticket, were also entered, or should have been entered, in the books; and Mr. M'Carthy took so little precaution against detection, that he honestly signed his true name on his ticket, left the Museum press marks under his heraldic book plates, and lately and openly asked friends to send the books from his lodgings to him. Yet the Museum appear to have made no enquiries, and we are even now indebted to the accidents of Mr. M'Carthy's heedlessness and his friends' curiosity for the detection of the theft. The public will assuredly ask, how far these undisturbed depredations have proceeded. How many M'Carthys are there in the field? If publishers are to be compelled to send gratuitous copies of their most expensive productions to public libraries, it would at least be satisfactory to know that they are preserved for the uses for which they are intended. The death of Professor T. Stewart Traill, at Edinburgh, is just announced. Dr. Traill is best known as the Editor of the recent edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, to which he was himself a large contributor. Mr. J. Lewis Ricardo, the Member of Parliament for Stoke-uponTrent, who died a few days since, at the age of fifty-one, had also a literary name as the author of the History of the Navigation Laws, and other publications on political and economical subjects. He was the nephew of David Ricardo, the great Political Economist, and contributed much, by his indefatigable labours, to give practical effect to the principles developed in the principles of Political Economy and Taxation. The essays of the late Mr. Buckle, published and unpublished, are about to be collected and published in a volume. From the letter of the friend who was present with Mr. Buckle at Damascus, where he died, published in the Times, it would appear that the unpublished essays relate more exclusively to political economy than their author's great work on the History of Civilisation. The volume will, we presume, comprise Mr. Buckle's contributions to Fraser, and will, no doubt, be published by Messrs. Parker. The sketch of President Jefferson Davis, in Blackwood of this month, gives some information which will be new to English readers. The article is chiefly a narrative of facts; but, in the paucity of information concerning the South, is of considerable interest. The extracts given from his speeches are certainly calculated to enlist our sympathies. Mr. Davis has been successively a soldier, a farmer, and a statesman. The following extract from one of his addresses, delivered on the eve of the Separation, in which he alludes to his feelings towards the old flag of the Stars and Stripes, is an eloquent and touching passage, which affords a strong evidence of the sincerity of the convictions of this arch-Secessionist :- "It may be pardoned in me, Sir, who in my boyhood was given to the military service, and who have followed under tropical suns and over northern snows the flag of the Union, suffering for it as it does not become me to speak, if I here express a sorrow which always overwhelms me when I think of taking a last leave of that object of early affection and proud association, feeling that henceforth it is not to be the banner which by day and by night I am ready to follow, to hail with the rising and bless with the setting sun. But God, who knows the hearts of men, will judge between you and us at whose door lies the responsibility of this." It is rumoured that Mr. Thackeray's new novel will be commenced in the Cornhill Magazine for January next. We shall not, perhaps, be far wrong in guessing that it will be an historical novel of a more romantic character than Mr. Thackeray's recent stories. |