printed. The writer endeavours to derive lessons from a thoughtful call at houses referred to in the New Testament. We have here, therefore, the house of the Widow of Nain, and those of the Centurion, of Peter, of Matthew, of the Demoniac, and of the Greek Mother. Fancy is necessarily drawn upon-sometimes, as we think, rather unwarrantably, in painting many of the details; but the author's aim is to edify his readers in the faith; and there are many by whom his little book would be considered a real treasure. Heart Cheer for Home Sorrow. Edited by the Rev. Charles Bullock, Rector of St. Nicholas's, Worcester, author of The Way Home,' &c. Pp. 172. London: W. Macintosh, 24, Paternoster Row. FROM a variety of sources, ancient and modern, Mr. Bullock has culled a large number of scraps, in prose or verse, all bearing upon affliction and sorrow, and having a tendency to alleviate these, and to comfort the bruised and bleeding heart. This little book is very nicely printed and bound in cloth. The size is small. The Omnibus: a Satire. Pp. 43. London: Trübner and Co., 60, Paternoster Row. THERE is wit in this satire, but none of rare quality; there is vigour, but it is rough and rude. The writer appears to have come fresh from the reading of the minor satirists of the eighteenth century, who studied their art in the schools of Dryden and Pope. In the words of one of them: · Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen; Thine is an oyster knife.' Every-day Lessons from the Experience of George Mogridge (Old Humphrey). Edited by his Widow. With numerous illustrations. Pp. 136. London: S. W. Partridge, 9, Paternoster Row. THE pious care of the widow of Old Humphrey has gathered here many of those interesting lessons of practical wisdom by which George Mogridge endeavoured to lead simple-hearted readers into the paths of piety and charity. Some of these chapters have previously appeared in print. The illustrations are, as we usually find them in Mr. Partridge's books, many and good. The Broken Heart. A Tale. By 'Poor Regimental Jack,' a Drummer in the Guards. Pp. 255. London: Job Caudwell, 335, Strand. A TALE of lowly life, revealing with painful fidelity the causes of much of the misery that prevails amongst the poor, not least of which, by any means, is that wonderful proneness to intoxicating drinks, which easily besets so many of them. The tale has all the marks of being written mainly from life, and, if really done by a drummer in the Guards, is very creditable to his graphic skill. The Gardeners' Magazine. For Amateur Cultivators, and Exhibitors of Plants, Flowers, and Fruits; for Gentlemen's Gardeners, Florists, Nurserymen, and Seedsmen; for Naturalists, Botanists, Beekeepers, and Lovers of the Country. Conducted by Shirley Hibberd, Esq., F.R.H.S. London: E. W. Allen, 11, Ave Maria Lane, and 11, Stationers' Hall Court. ALWAYS original, vigorous, and useful. The Home Accommodation of the People, in Relation to their Domestic and Social Condition, with Practical Suggestions as to the Fuller Development of Freehold Land Societies and Building Societies. By Thomas Beggs, F.S.S. MR. BEGGS, in his writings, is habitually practical and sensible. His opinion on the great Dwelling Question is, that legislation can do much, but that more can be done by the people themselves; that the province of Government in all such cases is to remove obstacles out of the way; and that the means by which freeholding can be largely extended should be improved in the manner he points out. His most startling proposition is, that the same facilities of alienating freeholds and enfranchising leaseholds should be given to freehold land societies as are exercised by railway companies, but that the power should rest with some properly constituted municipal authority. He desires, as all do, except the lawyers, an economical and easy mode of transfer, to supersede the present cumbrous mode of conveyancing. He makes other suggestions, all deserving of careful consideration sideration, and in their statement helping to promote the solution of one of the great and increasing difficulties of this age. Practical Observations on the Intellectual, Sanitary, and Medical Treatment of the Deaf and Dumb. By Henry Samuel Purdon, M.D., Fellow of the Anthropological Society, London. Pp. 94. Belfast: Adair, 11 and 13, Arthur-street. THE writer of this book published in 1865 a pamphlet on the 'Peculiarities of the Deaf and Dumb, as observed at the Ulster Institution,' and the good reception met with has encouraged him to make further inquiries on the subject, the results of which, obtained by correspondence with medical gentlemen attached to a number of deaf and dumb asylums, as well as by his own further observations at Ulster, he now lays before the public. The book contains seven chapters, with an introduction and a conclusion. There are a brief historical sketch of the deaf and dumb; an account of the congenital or acquired conditions of the ears of mutes, with the various remedies which have been proposed for their cure; a description of the manifestations of disease occurring in deaf mutes; and of the diseases to which the deaf and dumb are peculiarly liable; and some chapters on medical treatment, sanitary management, and dietetic regimen. The tables in which the results of information, derived from many of the existing deaf and dumb schools, are collated and compared, are very interesting, and give this work a special value. A Woman's Thoughts on the Education of Girls. By Mrs. Roe. Pp. 39. London: F. Pitman, 20, Paternoster Row. MRS. ROE is wife, we believe, of the Mayor of Derby; and a very excellent woman she must be, too, if at all fulfilling her own programme, as laid down in this excellent little pamphlet. It is full of sound, good sense, and is well worthy the attention of all who have to do with the education of girls. Sketches from My Note Book. By Geo. Mogridge (Old Humphrey). Edited by his Widow (with numerous illustrations). Pp. 136. London: S. W. Partridge, 9, Paternoster Row. CHEERY and rich with practical wisdom, Old Humphrey is always a welcome visitor. We are indebted to his widow for the opportunity of possessing his homely lessons in pleasant-looking little volumes, of which the one before us is by no means the least interesting. The Popular Journal of Anthropology. Monthly. London: Trübner and Co., 60, Paternoster Row. DEVOTED to the exposition of the practical value of the science of man, and the diffusion of facts of interest and importance connected therewith. The public are offered, in its pages, a channel of communication with the students of the science. The plan of the projectors is, frankly to state the truth about the uncivilised races, but not to be the organ of any party, nor to advocate any exclusive set of opinions, General Eyre, however, we observe, is highly lauded for his action in Jamaica. The Wreck of the 'London. Pp. 100. London: S. W. Partridge, 9, Paternoster Row. THE affecting story of the wreck of the 'London' and the escape of the cutter is told in this volume in full detail. Here are portraits and memoirs of some of the principal persons who perished or were saved; a description of the vessel, and a full account of the last scenes on board, as far as known. The object of the writer has evidently been to teach a Christian lesson as well as to produce a readable volume, and in both directions he has succeeded. Treason; or, the Image of the Beast. Pp. 28. ANOTHER attempt to translate the spiritual events seen by St. John 'in the spirit' into worldly history; and, of course, another egregious failure. The Practical Results of the Total or Partial Abolition of Capital Punishment in Various Countries. Prepared as a Summary of the most recent and authentic information on the subject, and inclusive of Statistics and Reports forwarded to the Royal Commission on Capital Punishment. By William Tallack, Secretary to the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. THIS paper was read in the jurisprudence department of the Social Science Congress of 1865, and is published by the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, at their office, 36, Southampton-street, Strand, London. The The Rev. William Knibb, Missionary to Jamaica. A Lecture delivered in the schoolroom of Mare-street Chapel, Hackney, December 19, 1865, by Daniel Katterns. Published by request. Pp. 30. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. ESPECIALLY interesting in connection with the Jamaica massacres, and should be read by all who desire to take a just view of the action and influence of the Baptist missionaries. The Church. A Monthly Magazine. Price One Penny. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. A NEW religious and entertaining magazine, under Baptist auspices. Our Own Fireside. A Magazine of Home Literature for the Christian Family. Edited by the Rev. Charles Bullock, Rector of St. Nicholas's, Worcester. THERE is no falling off in the management of this interesting serial. The Appeal: A Magazine for the People. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. A NEW halfpenny candidate for public favour. Report of the Society for the Abolition of Capital Punishment. January, 1866. A Working Man's View of Tennyson's 'Enoch Arden. By J. H. Powell, author of Life Incidents and Poetic Figures.' London: Trübner and Co., 60, Paternoster Row. The Universal Financial Review. No. I., vol. I. London: 4, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. Caudwell's Temperance and Alliance The Christian's Penny Almanac_and The Temperance Spectator. Monthly. The British Workman. Monthly. One Penny. London: S. W. 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Old Jonathan; or, the District and Parish Helper; for the Streets and Lanes of the City; for the Highways and Hedges, to bring in the Poor, and the Maimed, and the Halt, and the Blind. Monthly. London: W. H. Collingridge, 117 to 119, Aldersgate-street. The Church of England Temperance Magazine. A Monthly Journal of Intelligence. Organ of the Church of England and Ireland Temperance Reformation Society. London: Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 54, Fleet-street. The Baptist Magazine. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. The Juvenile Missionary Herald. One Halfpenny. Monthly. London: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row. Meliora. ART. I.-ETHICS OF DUST. 1. The Ethics of the Dust. Ten Lectures to Little Housewives on the Elements of Crystallisation. By John Ruskin, M.A. London Smith, Elder, and Co. 1866. 2. Geology for General Readers. A Series of Popular Sketches in Geology and Paleontology. By David Page, F.R.S.E., F.G.S. Blackwood and Sons. 1866. 3. Frost and Fire: Natural Engines, Tool Marks, and Chips; with Sketches taken at Home and Abroad. By a Traveller. 2 Vols. Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas. 1865. E ACH season of the year has its poetry and its philosophy. Spring, in its waywardness, its gentleness, and its breathing beauty of growth, lies upon us like a loving mystery of life and force. Summer charms us by its richness, its mellowness, and its fragrant suggestions of love, wealth, and power. Autumn wins us by its plenteous smiles, its teeming luxury of colour and form, and sober sadness of prophecy. Winter awes us by its sternness, soothes us by its sleep of power, and pictures out for us, in its snowy crystal-life on grass and pane, a strange elfin dream of all that has given beauty to the past, and lies about us as the magic of the future. The mind revels in these beautiful gradations, in this round of marvellous transformation. Without them the year would be like a dead man's face. Eternal summer, or eternal winter would be as burdensome to us as immortality without youth. was to Tithonus. We should catch no magnificent suggestions of ourselves, feel no strange pulses stirring beneath our crisped and shrivelled natures, and no tidal flush around, fresh sweeping from shores we cannot see, yet murmuring of power that fails not, of peace that ebbs not, of love that falters not. We miss in cities all this ebb and flow of life, this subtile Vol. 9.-No. 34. efflorescence G efflorescence of power. A vague, general idea of each season is all that we usually get. We have no almanac of flowers, and trees, and fruits. We cut up the year into arbitrary divisions, and measure nature by fashion. Certain things will come in their season, we know, but we have not watched them. Our senses have been elsewhere. We have been gathering dust, unmindful of the outburst of glorious beauty in the fields. We have seen no soft-blowing zephyr stirring the dead leaves where the violets hide, nor warm air eddying into the spongy woods where the hyacinths bloom, nor spray of sunbeam breaking into loveliest colour on berry and fruit. Here and there a poet, or an artist, or a dreamer, has seen these things and reported them to us; and, with eulogies upon his good taste, and the bestowal of a dust-package, white or yellow, we have passed on. All through spring and early summer we have shielded ourselves from any nature-longings. Our prosy life has been clasped with a more spasmodic clutch. We have been logical and stern, and done resolute battle with such forgotten memories as dared to peep out of their ensconcings. Beauty has embosomed us, we have been islanded in a witchery of radiance and colour; but we have chanted our little lifepsalm and tried to forget it, and the hurrying wheels have run quicker, and the hum of labour rung out louder. But no piling of pyramids of yellow dust has made us forget the other shining heaps that lie abroad in nature, and shame us with their very profuseness of wealth and cheapness. We are all infected by poetry in some form or other, did we but know it. Right through humanity this spirit runs like a glittering vein; now it is slender as a gossamer, now thick as a cable; now it runs right across each separate fragment, or twinkles as it curves out a corner; but it is nearly always there, had we but eyes to see it. And this spirit gets moved upon in a singular way. Hot days flare upon us, and the azure overhead glows, half in irony and half in sadness. We brace ourself up, and again we resist, and pile up our pyramids. But a new invasion is threatened. It comes upon us everywhere at once. It seems to derive its strength from a malicious memory of despised and abused power. We have hewn the granite hills, and ground them into dust. Over choice specimens of crystal-life in porphyry and syenite, we have bowled along in hot and palpitating haste. The spicula are broken, the foliations are destroyed, the little nests of crystal-life, and fierce little epics of crystal sorrow and warfare, are destroyed; but their particles remain, and troublesome is their resurrection. We can withstand the heat, work down any fitful flashes of poetic musing, but we are conquered by the summer |