6 FEBRUARY 1864, Page 23

A Desk - Book of English Synonymes. By John Shorer. (Groombridge and

Sons.)—An enormous number of synonymes are collected hero in a small cheap volume, which will be useful in schools to call the attention of scholars to the nicer shades of meaning by which one word is sepa- rated from others of similar signification. The work is founded on Webster, and seems fairly executed.