We have received another of the excellent series of handbooks,
published for the benefit and guidance of persons intending to emi. grate, The Australian GraPierS' Guide (S. W. Silver and Co.; Hamilton and Adams), put together by a writer who "has passed through a lengthened experience of the sheep-farmer's life, in its varied phases."—Ganoes Physics. Translated by E. Atkinson, Ph.D., P.C.S. (Longmans.)—The present is the ninth edition, thus showing the popularity of the book as a text-book for colleges and schools, and as a, work of reference for the general reader. It has been entirely revised, and much new matter added.—A Rudimentary Treatise en Navigation. By J. Grenwoocl, B.A., revised by W. H. Rosser. (Crosby Lockwood and Co.)–.-A now edition of one of the handy books in the well known " Weale's Series." Its object is to assist masters and owners of yachts, yachtsmen, and others to a know ledge of navigation, the reading and working of flag-signals, &e. —Baedeker's Norway and Sweden. (Thalau and Co.)—The Law Magazine.—Men of Mark, containing portraits of Mr. H. M. Stanley, Lord A. Leftne, and Mr. Walter W. Unless, A.R.A.—The Theatre. —Part 3 of Greenhouse Paveurites.----The North-A men can Review.-7-St. Nicholas, a capital number.—The first half-yearly volume of a pew weekly journal, House and Home : a Jour. nal for all Classes. Its object is to promote social well- being, especially as regards such matters as healthy dwellings, economical management of food, and the like. We wish it success. We may, perhaps, be allowed to add that strict moderation is as necessary in the advocacy of good objects, as in other things ; and that such moderation must be enforced on correspondents, notwith- standing the editor's proviso that he is not responsible for their opinions. We say this because, in glancing through the volume, we notice a letter (p. 195, " London Shop-girls") which, whether the writer is right or wrong in his main contention, contains quite inadmissible language.
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