PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Dr. Wa.agen's IIANDBOOli OF THE GERMAN, FLEMISH, AND DUTCH SCHOOLS OF Parsrise, though based on that of Kugler, is essentially a new book, the merits or demerits of which are to be ascribed to Dr. Waagen alone. So much new and important matter has been brought to light since Kugler wrote that Mr. Murray has deemed a new edition ne- cessary, in order that the werk might not remain below the high standard of excellence at which he aims in his handbooks, and Dr. Waagen has exercised the power entrusted to him for that purpose with great freedom. "Generally speaking," he says, "what survives of the first edition refers chiefly to the earlier periods, inclusive of Albert Durer and Holbein. In the admirable account of Albert Darer, namely, I have had occasion to make but few additions. Yet even in this early portion, especially in the department of miniatures, my fresh .matter is of considerable amount. But in the later periods—such, for instance, as the notices of Rubens and Rembrandt—while the text has been greatly enlarged, I may say that only a small portion of the original work has been preserved. In order to make his book the more serviceable to Englishmen, Dr. Waagen has been careful to refer them for examples chiefly to those gal- leries which are most accessible to them in this country and on the Con- tinent. He has also given short notices of those painters who either en- graved, etched, or designed for wood-cuts from their own compositions ; and he reminds his readers that for the study of the " Peintres Graveurs" in all their different styles, especially in that of etching, "no place in the world offers such advantages as the collection of engravings in the British Museum." Lastly, Dr. Wasgen claims credit for his own work above all other works known to him on the same subject, and his plea is this : "With the exception of a very few, and those openly avowed, I have myself seen every picture which I quote, and on which.I found my opinions." DT. Mitchel's POPULAR ASTRONOISE ; A. CONCISE ELEMENTARY' TREAT- ISE ON THE SUN, PLAIIXIS, SATELLFTES, ANTI COMETS, is the work of a distinguished practical astronomer, who has availed himself freely of all existing sources of information, and presented the results upon a new plan which is wholly his own, and which is designed to inspire the stu- dent with a higher interest in the grandest of the sciences, by leading him to italong the path of actual discovery, so that he shall approach the so- lution of its great problems as it were ab intra instead of ab extra. In other words, the facts and phenomena of the science are so presented as to afford him an opportunity to exercise his own genius in their discus- sion and resolution, before he is made acquainted with the explanation given of them by ancient or modern science. Two editions of the work are accessible to the English student; one of them is the original Ame- rican edition, which is on sale in London, and the other is an English reprint.

Professor TiViSdCEL'S ELEMENTARY EXA3IPLES ON PRACTICAL MECHA- NICS is a treatise which differs from all the elementary works com- monly in use, which are introductory to Rational Mechanics, inasmuch as the Professor's work is designed to be an introduction to the science of ..4p- plied Mechanics, and at least one half of it has, as the author believes, no counterpart in any existing elementary treatise.

Dr. Wynter's CURIOSITIES OF CIVILIZATION is a collection of thirteen choice articles which have appeared in the Quarterly and Edinburgh Re- views within the last six years. All of them have been much admired in their original form, and some of them have achieved extraordinary popu- larity. Among the latter ' are the amusing paper on "Advertisements,' which appeared in the Quarterly in 18:55, and that on "Rats," the de- mand for which in 1857 was such as to carry the number of the Quarterly containing it into a second edition.

LEAVES raom THE OLIVE MOUNT is a little volume of poems by Miss Catherine Macready, a daughter of the tragedian. Its title, as the author explains, has been adopted in no spirit of dogmatic assumption, but simply as indicative of the religious sentiment which pervades it.

BOOKS.

A Guide through iVorth Wales; including Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Den- bighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, and Montgomeryshire; with the adja- cent Borders, completing the Basin of the River Dee, and the upper Basin of the Severn, as far as Shrewsbury. Designed to accompany the Ordnance Maps. By William Cathrall. With a Notice of the Geology of the Country, by A. C. Ramsey, Esq.

Nelson's Handbook to Scotland. Illustrated by Maps, Plans, and Views. By the Reverend John M. Wilson.

A Handbook for Tra relieve in South Wales and its Borders, including the River Wye. With a Tavelling Map.

History, Theory, and Practice of the Electric Telegraph. By George B. Pres- cott, Superintendent of Electric Telegraph Lines.

The Uses of Animals in Relation to the Industry of Man: being a Course of Lectures delivered at the South Kensington Museum. By E. Lankester, M.D. Food Collections. First Course.

The Ultimate Principle of Religious Liberty. The Philosophical Argument : with a Review of the Controversy, as conducted on Grounds of Remo n and Expediency, in the Writings of Locke, Warburton, Paley, Dick, Wardlaw, Gladstone, Martineau, and Miall.

Elementary Examples in Practical ..itechanies. Comprising copious Explana- tions and Proofs of the Fundamental Propositions. By the Rev. John F. Twisden, M.A.

NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.

The Professor. By Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronta To which are added the Poems of Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell, now first collected.

Curiosities of Cirilization. Reprinted front the " Quarterly " and burgh " Reviews. By Andrew Wynter, M.D.

Practical Through-Routes between London and Prance, Belgians, Holland, The Rhine, The German Spas, Germany, The Tyrol, Switzerland, Savoy, Piedmont, and Italy. Red-Book for the Continent. Condensed from "The Practical Guides." By an Englishmen Abroad. Specially intended to ac- company and connect in one short, consecutive, complete, and really practi- cal form, " Murray's" various "Handbooks." Fourth edition.

Practical Paris Guide. Red-Book for Paris. The Routes between London and Paris in full detaiL Excursions around and beyond Paris. Practical Map ; and in the briefest possible space, every necessary advice—Passport, Money, Tourist's Requirements, Objects of Note, Vocabulary of Language, Hotels, Steamers, Tariffs, Rails, to see all that ought to be seen in the shortest period and at the least expense. By an Englishman Abroad. Fourth edition.

Practical Guide for Italy, North and Central. The Routes from London. By an Englishman Abroad.