NEW EDITIOIS.—Sir Thomas Watson publishoe a fifth edition, revised and
enlarged, and brought up to the present state of medical knowledge, of Lectures on the Principles and Practice of Physic. 2 vols. (Longman.) —The lectures were originally delivered to the students of King's College twenty-eight years ago, and have long boon, as was to be expected from the reputation of their author, targ;.0 eroXu71'stp6re6r,4, a standard work.—In another domain Of knowledge, whore, as in medicine, numberless obscure causes tend to make our progress very slow, we have the Book of the Farm. 2 vols. By Henry Stephens. (Blackwood.)—Twenty years have passed since the last edition of this work appeared, years spent by the author in gathering knowledge from men and books, and above all, from the experiences of practical agri- culture. The period has brought enough of change, especially in the articles of machinery and manures, to necessitate a very considerable revision of the work, which is indeed, as the author tells us, "in great part rewritten." Mr. Stephens' personal experience has, we gather, been gained in the scene of the best of British agriculture, the Lothians. The day when farmers could despise " book-learning " have gone by, and the practical man could not, we imagine, have a better assistant than the Book of the Farm. In the same connection we may mention another standard work, the Horticulturist, by J. C. Loudouu (Warne). The book has been revised, and in the ease of one or two chapters rewritten, by Mr. W. Robinson, author of "Alpine Flowers," dm., and A Practical Treatise on the Cultioation of the Grape Vine, by William Thomson (Blackwood). Mr. Thomson is gardener to the Duke of Bueeleuch at Dalkeith.—We have to notice a new edition of Lord Macaulay's history of England. (Longrnans.)—This is to be included in two volumes, of which the first is before us. It is another modern marvel of printing. The volume of Miscellanies and Speeches is already familiar, and it is sufficient to say that it has been reissued.—We have also before us the first volume of a new edition of The Works of W. M. Thackeray. (Smith and Elder.)—This edition, which has a neat appear- ance and convenient form, is to be completed in twelve volumes, to be published monthly, The first contains Vanity Fair, and has for frontis- piece an excellent portrait of the author.—Messrs. Straiten publish a new edition in one volume of Mr. William Gilbert'a Shirley Hall Asylum, —In theology we have A Compendium of Biblical Criticism, revised and enlarged by Frederic Sargent (Longmans), Duty and Doctrine : a Book of Sermons, by the Rev. S. B. Samos (Partridge); and St. Peter, His Name and His Office, by Thomas W. Allies, M.A. (Washbourne), Mr. Allies is known as the author of "The Formation of Christendom." Is it an established interpretation among Roman Catholic theologians that the "one Shepherd of the one fold" is St. Peter ? We should have thought that the words applied to One grouter Oven than the "Prince of the Apostles." But one learns to be surprised at nothing that Ultrarnontane devotion says of the Virgin, St. Peter, or the Pope,----In the reissue of The Aldine Edition of the British Poets (Bell and Deldy), we have the Poetical (Yorks of John Dryden,— The Rev. John S. B. Monson publishes a now edition of Parish Musings (Rivingtons), and we have also before us the three volumes of a cheap edition of The Poetical Works of Mr. Nicholas Michell (Tegg). That Mr. Michell's name is wholly unknown to us we cannot say, .but we should be much surprised to find that it is known to many of our readers. That a cheap edition of his poetry should be called for strikes us with some surprise. There must be somewhere a poetry-reading public of which we know nothing, and which judges of its authors by other standards than ours. In case this notice should wander into the region which it inhabits, we say that the titles of the three volumes before us are Sibyl of Cornwall, Pleasure, and The Poetry of Creation. --In Bell's English Poets (Griffin) we have Spenser and his Poetry, by G. L. Craik, LL.D. The plan of the work is to give, besides a life of the poet and general criticism, a connected account of the poems, with extracts and hints at the interpretation.—We have also to notice a new edition of Antiquarian Gleanings from Aberdeenshire Records, by Gavin Turreff (Aberdeen : Murray).
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