NEW EDMONS. — Professor Huxley republishes, under the title of an Introduction
to the Classification of Animals (Churchill), some of his lec- tures on the elements of comparative anatomy. From the same pub- lishers we have a fifth edition of Dr. Edwin Lee's Baths of Nassau, with a supplement on the waters of Homburg and Nauheim.—A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation of the Grope Vine, by William Thomson (Blackwood), has reached a sixth edition. Mr. Thomson is gardener to to the Dake of Buccleuch, at Dalkeith.—We have to greet a very old acquaintance in the House I Live in, edited by Thomas C. Girtin (Longmans), a popular treatise on the structure of the body. —In theology we have to notice the reprint of two well-known volumes of sermons by the Rev. Isaac Williams, — these are Female Characters of Holy Scripture and the Characters of the Old Testament (Rivington). — The same publishers send us a second edition of the Priest to the Altar, a manual of preparation for the Holy Communion, the character of which may be sufficiently described by quoting from the title-page the sentence, "that it is chiefly after the ancient English use of Sarum."— Up the Rhine, by Thomas Hood (Moron), is a work of the great humourist which is very little know; and will probably be new to most of our readers, as it was to us. We need not say that they will find plenty of thoroughly good fun in it. —Another amusing book of the new style is Angelina Gushington's Thoughts on Men and Things (Rivingtons), which appears in a third 'edition, with a new preface and additions.—So many additions and changes have been made in the Bentley Ballads (Bentley) since its first appearance that it may be called almost a different book. We thus notice it for the present, in the hope that we may return to it at some future time.—Vulgarisms and other Errors of Speech (Philadelphia: Claxton and Co.) is a series of lessons administered to us by a teacher on the other side of the Atlantic. It has reached a second edition. There is no doubt plenty of work that it may do both here and there.— Words of Comfort for Parents bereaved of Little Children, by William Logan (Nisbet), has reached a sixth edition. It seems a judicious selection from authors of repute, and certainly con- tains not a few things which all will agree to admire. We cannot but wish it all success.
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