VI.-ANOTHER MARY :-

Marie Thérèse de Lamourous; Foundress of the
House of La Miséricorde, at Bourdeaux. A
Biography, abridged from the French. By the
Author of "The Heir of Redclyffe." London:
John W. Parker and Son, West Strand. 1858. 977

VII.-ROBERT CANE-THE CELTIC UNION :-

1. The Williamite and Jacobite Wars in Ireland.

By Robert Cane, M.D. Dublin W. M.

Hennessy

2. The Celt, Edited by a Committee of the Celtic

Union. Dublin: John O'Daly.

1005

VIII. THE IRISH INTERMEDIATE CONVICT PRISONS :-
Notes on Colonel Jebb's Report on Intermediate
Prisons, August, 1858. By Captain Walter
Crofton, C.B., Chairman of Directors of Irish
Convict Prisons. Dublin: Thom and Sons.

IX.-QUARTERLY RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF

REFORMATORY SCHOOLS AND OF PRISON DIS-

CIPLINE:-Containing: Reformatory and Refuge

Union-Prisoners' Aid Society-Belvedere Cres-

cent Reformatory-House for Outcast Boys-

Criminal Returns for 1857-Associated Farms-

The Assington Agricultural Association-Prisons

in Ireland.

1057

THE

IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. XXXII.-JANUARY, 1859.

VOL. VIII.

CONTENTS.

FAMILY INTERESTS-Letter to the Editor.

ARTICLE.

I.-EATING AND FEEDING-LIVING AND EXISTING:

1. Comments on Corpulency, Lineaments of Lean-

ness, Mems on Dietetics. By William Wadd,

Esq., F.L.S., Surgeon Extraordinary to the King.

London: Ebers and Co., 1829.

2. The Original. By Thomas Walker, M.A., Trinity

College, Cambridge, Barrister at Law; and one of

the Police Magistrates of the Metropolis. Third

Edition. London: Renshaw, 1836.

PAGE.

2. The Trial of M. Le Comte de Montalembert and
M. Douniol before the Paris Correctional Tribunal,
on the 24th November, 1858. Effingham Wilson.
London: 1858.

3. The Political Future of England. By the Comte
de Montalembert of the French Academy-from

the French. John Murray. London: 1856. 1381
X.-HEALTHY MUSHROOMS:-

1. Checkmate, a Tale. London: Bentley. 1858.
2. The Coquette, by Biddulph Warner. Dublin :
William Robertson. 1858.

3. Hills and Hollows. London: Newby. 1858. 1421
XI.-QUARTERLY RECORD OF THE PROGRESS OF REFOR-

MATORY SCHOOLS AND OF PRISON DISCIPLINE :—
Containing Letter of Mr. Israel Russell of New
York, to Miss Carpenter, on the cost of American
Reformatories-Mr. Adshead's paper on the cost
of English Reformatories-Mr. Hill's paper on the
Treatment of Criminals in Germany-Photographs
as a means of discovering Runaways from Prisons.
-Exertions of the late Rev. John Clay in the im-
provement of Prison Discipline-Irish Reforma-
tories-Meeting at Christ Church, Dublin, to es-
tablish a Protestant Reformatory, under the new
Act, for the City and County of Dublin-Cork
Reformatory-Letter from the Rev. Father Caccia
on the Patronage of Boys leaving Reformatory
Schools, enclosing copy of a Letter to Cardinal
Wiseman-Extract from Letter of the Right
Rev. Abbot of Mount St. Bernard on same sub-
ject-Extract from the "Southern Times," on the
Mutiny of Convicts in England.

APPENDIX-"The Jebb and Crofton Controversy."

ST. JOSEEH'S INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE, with special refer-
ence to its Intern class of Workhouse Orphans.

THE

IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW.

No. XXIX.-APRIL, 1858.

ART I.-ODD PHASES IN LITERATURE.

SIXTH PAPER.*

1. Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor, including an account of the origin of Printing, with Biographical Notices of the Printers of England from Caxton to the close of the Sixteenth Century. By J. Johnson, Printer. London: Longman and Co., 1824.

2. Origines de l'Imprimerie de Paris.

Paris, 1694.

Par J. Chevillier,

3. Annales Typographica. Norimbergo: 1793.

4. Essai sur les Livres dans l'Antiquité. Par H. Gérand. Paris: 1840.

PRICES OF BOOKS IN ANCIENT TIMES AND IN THE MIDDLE AGES.-"The ancients apprise us, according to Aulus-Gellius, that Plato, though possessed of a very moderate patrimony, purchased for 10,000 deniers (£400) the three books of the Pythagorean Philolaus, and from which Plato is said to have derived the greater part of his Timaeus. Some authors assert that this sum was given him by his friend Dionysius of Syracuse. It is also related that Aristotle, after the death of Speusippus, payed three attic talents (£659) for some books composed by this philosopher. This sum, according to the value of the Roman money, was about 72,000 sesterces. Timon, in his three books of satires, gives vent to his malignity; apostrophizes Plato, whom he tells us was very poor, in consequence of hav

For the other papers of this series see IRISH QUARTERLY REVIEW, Vol. VI., No. 23, p. 439. No. 24, p. 647. Vol. VII., No. 25, p. 1, No. 26, p. 267. No. 27 p. 629.

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