28 OCTOBER 1865, page 19

The Quarterly Journal Of Science—october.—this Number...

by Captain Tyler on the means of communication in railway trains, from which it appears that the objection of the public to being quietly murdered or burnt is really being......

Personal Names In The Bible. By W. F. Wilkinson, M.a.

(Strahan.)— • This volume opens with fifty pages on the nature and origin of names and surnames in general, then follow more than 100 pages on the names of God, and these are......

The Sunday Magazine. 1865. Edited By Thomas Guthrie, M.d....

Sunday Magazine contains a large proportion of very serious reading, and continues to enter a protest against latitudinarianism, Sunday travelling, and other modern tendencies.......

Current Literature • The Little Things Of Nature. By L.

H. Grindon. (Pitman.)—Mr. Grindon writes in a pleasant and rather sentimental way upon such sub- jects as the vitality of-seeds, the sleep of plants, the magic of chemistry,......

Travels Of A Queen's Messenger.*

WE opened Major Hall's book with much curiosity, having always. had a longing to know something of the duties, qualities, and attributes of that mysterious entity, the "Queen's......

Common Shells Of The Shore. By Rev. J. G. Wood.

With plates by Sowerby. (Warne.)—Mr. Wood's name is a guarantee for the soundness of the information given in this manual. It is rather sternly practical, and not enlivened with......

Meditations. By Henry Alford, (strahan.)—the Dean Of

Canterbury has published in this small volume the substance of some sermons on the second Advent, Creation, and Providence. His design in preaching them was "to take some of the......

The Art Journal. September And October. (virtue.)—the...

in both these numbers are not quite up to the mark ; Egg's pictures of the "Life and Death of Buckingham" are not very interesting in themselves, and they have not been well......