Emerson's tribute to Thomas Carlyle and his earlier and much-sought-for addresses on Sir Walter Scott and Robert Burns. It is illustrated with two full-page portraits in albertype after Mr. Notman's faithful and pleasing photographs of Mr. Longfellow, and Mr. Hawes's celebrated photograph of Mr. Emerson, taken in 1855, so highly prized by collectors. It is in one volume, quarto, boards, uncut; or in white vellum, cloth, gilt top, uncut edges. Á very limited edition has been printed.

THE MONOGRAPH.-This is the title of a serial collection of indexed essays published monthly, at Bangor, Maine, by Q. P. Index. The essays are biographical, and the selection takes a wide range, from Antoninus and Cleopatra, to Buonaparte and Moltke. The number before us is Felipe II. by John Fiske. The object of these essays is to meet the wants of city and school libraries by information readily accessible in a convenient form for the benefit of readers whose time is limited, and the editor promises to give such as unite scholarly accuracy with literary merit.

TROPICAL AGRICULTURE.-The literature of tropical Agriculture is not so prolific as to make the following two journals de trop. One we had the pleasure of announcing was in preparation in Nos. 171-2 of our RECORD, viz. "The Journal of the Royal Agricultural and Commercial Society of British Guiana," vol. i. part 1, for June, 1882, edited by E. F. im Thurn, M.A. It contains articles on "Cocoa Cultivation," " Indiarubber and Gutta Percha," "The Influence of Boiling on Cavassa," besides others of interest, together with the Report of the Society's Meetings from January to June, 1882. It is published by J. Thomson of Demerara. The other journal comes to hand from a different tropical quarter, Colombo, Ceylon; it is entitled the "Tropical Agriculturist, a Monthly Record of Information for Planters," compiled by Messrs. A. M. and D. J. Ferguson, of the Ceylon Observer. Volume xiii., now just completed, contains 13 numbers, or 1088 pages of matter, in double columns, small 4to., with a good index. To cultivators of coffee, tea, cocoa, cinchona, palms, sugar, rice, tobacco, or other tropical produce, this Journal will be very valuable.

A DICTIONARY OF NEEDLEWORK.-Mr. L. Upcott Gill, of the Bazaar Office, 170, Strand, has issued "The Dictionary of Needlework, an Encyclopedia of Artistic, Plain, and Fancy Needlework." Illustrated with upwards of 800 wood engravings. The Plain Sewing, Textile, Dressmaking, Appliances and Terms, is edited by S. F. A. Caulfeild. The Church Embroidery, Lace, and Ornamental Needlework by Blanche C. Saward. The volume is in 4to. size, similar to the Art Journal; the engravings admirably illustrate the text, which is very full and complete. The ladies will find it an indispensable companion to the work-table, and if it is patronized to the extent it ought to be, it will be one of the most successful books ever published, and will benefit both the projector and the purchasers. Her Majesty the Queen has been graciously pleased to accept a copy of this work. SPELLING REFORM.-Two publications on this subject have just come under our notice, the latest is the Pro and Con of Spelling Reform" by Prof. O. C. Vaile, edited by Eliza B. Burnz, published by Burnz & Co., New York. One of an earlier date is the Circular of Information of the Bureau of Education, Washington, No. 7, 1880, which gives an historical epitome of the movement.

ABORIGINAL AMERICAN LITERATURE.-Dr. D. G. Brinton, of Philadelphia, is about to commence the publication of a series of works under the general title of Library of Aboriginal American Literature. Each of these works will be printed in the original tongue, with an English translation and notes. Every work admitted to the series will be the production of a native, and each will have some intrinsic importance, either historical or ethnological, in addition to its value as a linguistic monument. Most of them will be from unpublished manuscripts, and every effort will be made to secure purity of text and competent editorship. The works contemplated in the series are such as will be indispensable to the future student of American archæology, ethnology, or linguistics. They will be printed from type, in medium octavo, on heavy paper, and but very few copies will be struck off beyond the number subscribed for. A subscription to the first number will not bind the subscriber to future volumes. No. I, the "Maya Chronicles," will be ready before the close of the present year. The appearance of subsequent numbers will depend upon obtaining competent editors, and the encouragement offered by those engaged in these studies. The following are some of the works which it is proposed to issue in this series -No. I.-The Chronicles of the Mayas. Edited by D. G. Brinton, M.D. This volume will contain five brief chronicles in the Maya language of Yucatan,

written shortly after the conquest, and carrying the history of that people back many centuries. Four of these have never been published, nor even translated into any European tongue. Each will be given in the original, with a literal translation and grammatical and historical notes. To these will be added a history of the conquest. written in his native tongue by a Maya chief, in 1562. This also is from an unpublished MSS. The texts will be preceded by an introduction on the history of the Mayas; their language, calendar, numeral system, etc.; and a vocabulary will be added at the close. -No. II. Central American Calendars. A number of native calendars and "wheels," used by the Mayas, Kiches, Cakchiquels, and neighbouring tribes, in reckoning time and forecasting the future, will be published for the first time, with explanations. From lack of sufficient material, this important point in American archæology has remained extremely obscure. The collection which it is intended to embrace in this volume is unquestionably unique of its kind. -No. III. The Annals of Quauhtitlan. The original Aztec text, with a new translation. This is also known as the Coder Chimalpopoca. It is one of the most curious and valuable documents in Mexican archæology.- No. IV. The National Legend of the Creeks, Edited by Albert S. Gatschet, Mr. Gatschet will present (1) The original German account, written in 1735, by which this legend has been transmitted: (2) Its English translation: (3) Its retranslation into the Creek language, in which it was originally delivered, by an educated native: (4) Its translation into the Hitchiti, a dialect cognate to the Creek: (5) Glossaries and ethnographic notes.-No. V. The Chronicles of the Cachiquels. These chronicles are the celebrated Memorial de Tecpan Atitlan so often quoted by the late Abbé Brasseur de Bourbourg. They are invaluable for the ancient history and mythology of Guatemalan nations, and are of undoubted authenticity and antiquity. Other works of equal interest will be added, if the series proves acceptable to scholars. The above order of issue is uncertain.

AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION.-Proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Session, held in Cambridge, Mass., July, 1882.-The Session was called to order at 3 P.M., in the Assembly Room of the Faculty of Harvard College (University Hall), by the President, Professor Frederic D. Allen, of Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass. The Treasurer, Mr. Charles J. Buckingham, of Poughkeepsie, New York, presented his report.-Communications were presented as follows:-1. The Written Alphabet of our Colonial Fathers, by Mr. J. B. Sewall, of Thayer Academy, South Braintree, Mass.-2. The Semitic Personal Pronouns, by Professor C. H. Toy, of Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.-3. Further Words as to Surds and Sonants, and the Law of Economy as a Phonetic Force, by Prof. W. D. Whitney, of Yale College, New Haven, Conn.-4. The University of Leyden in its relation to Classical Studies, by Prof. F. D. Allen.-5. The World of Beowulf, by Prof. F. A. March, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.-6. A Bibliographico-critical Sketch of the Greek New Testaments published in America, by Dr. Isaac H. Hall, of Philadelphia, Pa.-7. Alien Intrusion between Article and Noun in Greek, by Professor A. C. Merriam, of Columbia College. New York.-S. The Eleventh Chapter of the First Book of Thucydides, by Professor Milton W. Humphreys, of Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.-9. The Form and Force of the Aorist Tense in Greek, by the Rev. J. Colver Wightman, of Taunton, Mass.-10. Notes on Latin Quantity, by Professor Tracy Peck, of Yale College, New Haven, Conn. -11. The Influence of the Latin Syntax in the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, by Professor W. B. Owen, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.-12. The Locutions Two first and "First two," by Professor F. A. March, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.-13. On Surds and Sonants, by Professor March.-14. The Ablaut in English, by Dr. B. W. Wells, Friends' School, Providence, R. I.; read, in the author's absence, by Professor W. B. Owen.-15. On où un with the Future in Prohibitions, by Professor C. D. Morris, of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; read, in the author's absence, by Professor Minton Warren.-16. Report of the Committee on the Reform of English Spelling, by the Chairman, Professor F. A. March, of Lafayette College, Easton, Pa.-17. Emendation to Euripides's Cyclops, v. 507, by Professor T. D. Seymour, of Yale College, New Haven, Conn.-18. On the Smile of Aphrodite, Theoc. I. 95, 96, by Professor T. D. Seymour.— 19. General Considerations on the Indo-European CaseSystem. by Professor W. D. Whitney, of Yale College, New Haven, Conn.-20. On initial P in Gothic and Anglo-Saxon, by Charles P. G. Scott, Ph.D., of Columbia College, New York.-21. The Wages of Schoolmasters in Ancient Rome, by Dr. R. F. Leighton, of Brooklyn, N.Y.; read by title, by the Secretary.

AMERICAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. -Volume Thirteen of the Journal of the American Geographical Society has just been issued for the year 1881, containing the Transactions and papers read before the Society. General Cullum, the Vice-President, indicated on a map the course of the Jeannette from Behring Strait to the point where she was crushed in the ice, and then the course of the crew in small boats to the mouth of the river Lena from the time they abandoned the vessel on June 11, 1881, near the New Siberian Islands. The additions to the Library of the Society and its map rooms during the year have been 1,265 items, 704 being books, 474 pamphlets, 83 maps and 4 atlases. The high estimation in which the publications of the Society are held in Europe and America is proved by the frequent applications for them, by travellers, scientific men, and learned institutions.

THE ROUND-ROBIN SERIES.-The last volume but one of this series of novels, which are published without authors' names, is entitled "Leone," which is the name of a brigand. The scene is laid in Italy, the characters being Americans, Italian artists, priests, and brigands. The plot is well put together, and the interest kept up to the end. It is such a novel as the sculptor Story might write.-The last volume is entitled "Dr. Ben, an Episode in the Life of a Fortunate Unfortunate," and is a novel, the plot of which hinges on lunacy and the lunacy laws in America.

LAZY HOUR SERIES.-Billy Blewaway's Alphabet, by G. F. Godfrey, is, we presume, the first publication in the above series. It is a picture alphabet for little folks in comical style with white silhouettes on a blue ground, and is published by Messrs. J. R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, Mass.

POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES.-Mr. William H. Boyd, of Washington, D.C., and publisher of the Directory of the District of Columbia, has just issued a handy little pamphlet at a small price, which brings the United States Census within the means of even the poorer classes of emigrants, who naturally like to know as much as they can about the land they mean to make their future home. Mr. Boyd's plan is an alphabetical list of villages and cities in the United States, with the number of inhabitants in each when that number reaches 500 and upwards. It is compiled from the Census documents of 1880, and at the end contains tables of the comparative populations of 1870 and 1880, of the cotton manufactures of the U.S. in 1880, and of the distances between the principal seaports of the world in statute miles.

HARBOUR DEFENCE IN THE U.S.A.-The enormous coastline of the United States renders it impossible to defend it in the manner adopted by more compact countries. At the same time its extent is on the other hand a protection in itself, as the attack of an enemy would be of very little moment except at certain points it is necessary to preserve intact. In connexion with the coast defence the Chief of Engineers, General H. G. Wright, has issued in the Professional Papers, Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army, No. 23, a Report upon Experiments and Investigations to Develope a System of Sub-Marine Mines for Defending the Harbours of the United States, by Lieut.-Col. Henry L. Abbot. Only a limited number of this book have been printed, and it is likely to be a reference book on this subject for some years to come, as Lieut. Abbot has gone thoroughly into the matter, and gathered together all the available information on the subject. BACTERIA.-Dr. Charles S. Dolley, of Rochester, New York, has sent us a very interesting paper on Bacteria, as beneficial and noxious agents, read before the Rochester Society of Natural Sciences. While accepting the theory that these organisms are instrumental in spreading disease, he argues that the Bacteria which spread disease are exactly the same in formation and character as the harmless ones, the only difference being that those that spread disease have been nourished and developed in the poison of the disease they spread.

A RATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF LITERATURE.-Mr. F. B. Perkins has just issued a revised edition of his "Rational Classification of Literature for Shelving and Cataloging Books in Libraries," with an Alphabetical Index. There is no subject of more interest to a librarian than classification, and there is nothing that is more arbitrarily treated, so that a rational system will be welcomed by many.

INDEX CATALOGUE OF THE SURGEON-GENERAL'S LIBRARY. -The third volume of this magnificent model of bibliographical labour has just been issued. It includes 9,043 titles under authors' names, representing 10,076 volumes and 7,386 pamphlets, 8,572 subject titles of separate books and pamphlets, and 28.846 titles of articles in periodicals. It also records 4,335 medical portraits, under the heading "Collection of Portraits."

RICHMOND, VA.-The capital of Virginia possesses natural advantages which must in defiance of all hindrances eventually bring it to the front as a commercial centre. Besides being on a naturally beautiful site, it possesses advantages which sooner or later must render it a great distributor of produce as well as a manufacturing producer itself, and in the latter particular it has much greater facilities than Northern and Western Cities which are already great centres of distribution, but have not its water power, which is sufficient for mills that would supply all the Union with cotton fabrics from the raw material which may be said to be grown on the spot. The Trades Committees of the Chamber of Commerce and Commercial Club, Richmond, Va., have issued a pamphlet with two good maps, to which we would refer our readers for further information.

AN AMUSING FOURTH OF JULY ORATION.-The Passenger Department of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway, Milwaukee, Wis., have issued a Fourth of July" oration by Col. P. Donan, of the Fargo (Dt.) Argus, entitled "A Scream from the American Eagle in Dakota." It humourously relates the progress of the United States during the last fifty years, and especially the district traversed by this Railway in its route to Dakota.

MISSISSIPPI.-Amongst the many States of the Unica which have been recently issuing handbooks for the informa tion of immigrants, it is quite right that the fertile one of Mississippi should not remain in the background; therefore we are pleased to see that the Hon. E. G. Wall, the Com missioner of Immigration and Agriculture, has issued one giving a brief history of the State, with a list of its officials, a geographical, geological, and topographical description of Mississippi, the railroads, the climate and rainfall, the education, institutions, taxation, and laws. It also gives statistics of labour and how employed, the productions of the State, and very full information as to the price, quality, and suitability of land for any particular product. There are also accounts of the success of individual immigrants in certain counties of the State, besides a short comparison between the household expenses in Mississippi as compared with other parts of the United States of America. The handbook is accompanied by a very full and well-executed map of the State.

GREENE TOWNSHIP, OHIO.-Messrs. Robert Clarke & Co., of Cincinnati, deserve the thanks of historians and archeolo gists for certain publications issued by them relating to local antiquities in the U. S. A., which can scarcely be remunerative in a commercial sense. One of this character we have just received, being an "Historical Sketch of Greene Township, Hamilton County, Ohio," contained in an address delivered by Mr. C. Reemelin, author of " American Politics, 1881," before the twenty-third annual festival of the Greene Township Harvest Home Association, August 31, 1882.

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FISHERIES AND FISH-BREEDING, CANADA.-From the Canadian Fisheries Statement," 1881, we find that the total yield of the fisheries of Canada in 1881 was $15,817,16264, being an increase over that of 1880 of $1,317,182.93, exclusive of the catch in Manitoba and the North-west Territories, of which there are no returns. The report of Samuel Wilmot, Fish-Breeding Operations in the Dominion during 1881 is issued separately from the "Fisheries Statement." This gentleman's report shows that during the past two years there has been a falling off in the production Salmon; and if the same conditions obtain for any length of time, the salmon fisheries of New Brunswick would be speedily exhausted. Salmon production in all parts of the world shows remarkable fluctuations, in some parts falling of fifty per cent., and rising again later on in the same ratio. The reports on fish-breeding, published both by the United States and Canada, clearly show that of late years artificial fish-breeding has become a prime necessity, the artificial method securing about eighty-five per cent. of young fish against three to eight per cent. by natural means; so that it is easy to see that, if nature was relied on, fish would soon cease to be an article of food. Professor Baird, the United States Commissioner of Fisheries, states that in the near future the artificial breeding of fish will render the fishermen of the United States independent of the Dominion coasts and

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The Canadian Parliamentary Companion," which he brought out up to the year 1866, since which time it has been under the editorship of Mr. C. H. Mackintosh. "The Tour of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales through British America and the United States," Montreal 1860; "Industrial Politics of America," Montreal, 1864; "Place British Americans have in History," Ottawa, 1866; and "The Canadian Legal Directory," Toronto, 1878, are also works for which the Dominion public are indebted to Mr. Morgan.

THE VICTORIAN YEAR-BOOK.-Mr. Henry Heylin Hayter's eighth issue of the Victorian Year-Book for 1880-81 has reached us. We note the duties on imports range from 5 to 25 per cent. in this colony, which forms about the thirty-fourth part of the area of Australia. This we presume may be considered the representative protectionist colony, and New

South Wales the representative free-trade one, and those who peruse the statistics of both can form their own conclusions.

BOOKS RECEIVED.-Thirty-ninth Annual Report of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, New York, 1881.-Vick's Illustrated Catalogue of Hardy Bulbs, Plants, etc., 1882.-Johns Hopkins University Circulars, July and August, 1882, with Title-page and Contents, Dec. 1879, to Sept. 1882.-Boston Public Library, Thirtieth Annual Report of the Trustees, 1882.-Bulletin of the Boston Public Library, July, 1882.-Simpson (Jas.), John Bunyan and the Gipsies. -Annual Report of the Chief of Engineers, 1881, 3 vols. 8vo, -Van Nostrand's Electric Engineering Magazine, Sept.American Journal of Science, Sept. and Oct.-The Telephone, an International Journal in English, French and German, issued twice a month, Nos. 1 to 3.

GILES.-The Rev. Henry Giles died on July 10th at Hyde Park, Massachusetts. He was born at Cranford, Wexford, Ireland, Nov. 1st, 1809, and was educated at the Academy of Belfast. Though brought up a Roman Catholic, he became a Unitarian minister, and officiated in Greenock two years and Liverpool three years. In 1840 he emigrated to America, where he lectured and preached. He was the author of the following works, "Lectures and Essays," 2 vols. Boston, 1845; "Christian Thoughts on Life," 1850; "Illustrations of Genius in some of its Applications to Society and Culture," 1854; "Human Life in Shakespeare," a series of Lectures, of which a new edition appeared this year.

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HAAS.-The following obituary notice of Dr. Ernst Haas who died on the 3rd July after a long illness, is taken from the Athenæum, and is supplemented by such additional information as we have been able to procure. born at Coburg on the 18th of April, 1835, and received his early education at the grammar school of his native place. At Easter, 1852, he became a student of the University of Berlin, and after a year he went to Bonn, to devote himself to the study of medieval history and literature as well as of Teutonic and Romance philology. Later on he began to learn Sanskrit as a basis for his other linguistic studies. Gradually, however, as he gained a deeper insight into its structure, and became better acquainted with its literature, this new study exercised such an attraction on him that he thenceforth gave his time exclusively to it, and exchanged Bonn for Tübingen for the purpose of enjoying the benefit of Prof. Roth's teaching. He finally returned, in 1855, for another year to Berlin, to attend the lectures of Prof. A. Weber and work at the Sanskrit MSS. in the Royal Library. It was from these MSS. that he gathered the first fruits of his Sanskrit studies, consisting in an elaborate treatise on the marriage rites of the ancient Hindus according to the Grihyasûtras. On the ground of this treatise he took his degree at Tübingen in 1859. It appeared subsequently, with valuable notes by the editor, in the fifth volume of Weber's "Indische Studien," pp. 267-412, and is still the standard authority on the subject. During his holiday visits to Coburg, Dr. Haas was a frequent and ever-welcome visitor at Neusess, a village two miles from that city, where Friedrich Rückert resided, and he received from the veteran poet and scholar every advice and encouragement. Of the influence which that friendly intercourse with Rückert exerted upon the disciple he often spoke with fervent gratitude. After spending three years as private tutor in Holstein and Paris, Haas went to Scotland, where he resided for three years in the same capacity in the family of Lord Minto, with whose sons he travelled in Germany and Italy during the winter months of 1864 and 65. His appointment in the British Museum dates from 1866, his tenure of the Professorship of Sanskrit in University College from 1875. He was engaged from 1870 to 1876, conjointly with Prof. J. Eggeling, on the cataloguing of the Sanskrit MSS. of the India Office Library. The patient and accurate scholarship which he brought to bear on this laborious task will not be fully appreciated by Sanskrit students until the work shall have passed through the press. His two papers, "On the Origin of Hindu Medicine, with special reference to Suçruta," in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, vol. xxx. pp. 617-670, and "Hippokrates and Hindu Medical Science in the Middle Ages," ib., vol. xxxi. pp. 647-66, are based on his examination of the Sanskrit medical manuscripts in that library. Though intended to disprove the antiquity and independent origin of Hindu medicine, which are nevertheless still held to be a moot question, they contain so much new matter, so

many ingenious deductions, that they will always be important and indispensable factors in any fresh discussion of the subject. His "Catalogue of Sanskrit and Pali Books in the British Museum," published in 1876, is a pattern of accuracy, and shows how well acquainted he also was with the modern literary languages of India, the study of which he had commenced in Paris in 1860. Indeed, had he lived, he would have brought out, on the same plan, the far more extensive catalogue of books on and in the Indian vernaculars as represented in the British Museum, on the compilation of which he had for years been working when his fatal illness overtook him. Amongst the Collectanea he has left behind him, have also been found valuable notes towards a Prakrit grammar, which it was his intention hereafter to publish; they are unfortunately not in a sufficiently forward state to be worked up into shape. Whoever may be selected to succeed him in his post will find his work clearly traced out for him, and will have no difficulty, after clearing off the arrears which must necessarily have accumulated during Dr. Haas's long illness, in continuing the cataloguing and arrangement of the Oriental, more especially the Indian, books on the lines laid down by his predecessor. For, as he was deliberate and fastidious in his speech and in whatever he wrote, so he was deliberate and methodical in everything he undertook. He was an anima candida in every respect, independent in his judgment, of quiet, studious, unobtrusive habits. Himself an accomplished pianist, he took a warm interest in music, as he did in literature and art. The wide range of his acquaintance with the literature of the East stood him in good stead in the course of his official duties in the British Museum, and was ever readily placed by him at the service of those who came to consult him. He has made his mark on Oriental scholarship, and leaves a fair name behind him for solidity of learning, for helpfulness and kindliness of disposition, and for the accuracy and trustworthiness of all his literary work.

HALM.-One of the lights of German learning has departed in the person of Karl von Halm, who died on the 5th of October in his seventy-fourth year. Most of his life was passed in Munich; he was born and educated there, first at the Gymnasium, and then at the University under Thiersch. After an interval of a few years, during which he worked as a schoolmaster at Speyer and Hadamar, he returned to Munich in 1849, to become rector of the newly founded Maximilian-Gymnasium-an office which he relinquished in 1856, when he was nominated to the distinguished post of Director of the Munich Library and Ordinary Professor at the University. His life, therefore, was all along busy; but in his case, as in that of Ahrens, Meineke, and so many eminent names in German philology, scholastic duties do not seem to have been found incompatible with the interests of learning. He was certainly one of the best Latinists of his time, and the range of his knowledge was such that he was equally at home with Cicero and Quintilian and with the Latin Fathers. Those who knew him personally will not easily forget the distinction of his manner and his somewhat ecclesiastical air, which made one think for the moment that one was talking with an abbé of a former age rather than with a living German philologist.-Athenæum.

HAMILTON.-On July 25th, in his ninetieth year, at Long Branch, New Jersey, died John Church Hamilton, whose antecedents very nearly carry us back to Revolutionary times. He was the son of General Alexander Hamilton, and was born in Philadelphia in 1792. He served in the war of 1812 as aide to General Harrison, but retired from the army

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A Frankfort Almanack, with many MS. notes; was a sole resource in several cases.-T. C.

Note.-See Theophili Georgi Drittes Supplement zu dessen allgemeinem Europäischen Bücher Lexicon. Fol. Leipzig, 1758. Was die Schlesier vom alten Fritz erzählen, 1860. Paltry little 12mo. Pamphlet.-T.C.

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Cox (J. D.)-The March to the Sea: Franklin and Nashville. Crown 8vo. cloth, pp. xii. and 265. Maps and Plans. New York. 5s. (Campaigns of the Civil War, No. 10.)

General Cox deals in this, his second contribution to the "series," with that passage of the war which has perhaps a more romantic and adventurous character than any other-the great march "from Atlanta to the sea." The story of the expedition through the heart of the Confederacy, one of the chief military undertakings of modern times, is only told here for the first time adequately, both to the military student and the general reader, but the allied operations of Gen. Sherman's plan are described-the operations in Tennessee, by which the Confederate armies were kept from pursuit and beaten back. The volume carries the narrative on through the Carolinas, so that it brings the campaigns of Sherman to their end in the surrender of Johnston; and the story of one great portion of the war is finished. Appendix contains names and statistics regarding the two armies.