Colton's .New Map of Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware. Calton's Battle
fields of Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville. (Messrs. Bacon and Co.)-Messrs. Bacon and Co. are very prompt in supplying these American maps to the English public. These maps are much the best pro- curable, and their cheap war maps are as intelligible as they usually are the reverse. It is possible with this one almost to understand the war correspondents of the New York Herald.
We have also received The Canterbury Hymnal (lonleton and Wright), a hymn-book compiled by the Rev. R. H. Baynes, a clergyman at Maidstone, and named in the anticipation that it will be generally used in the diocese of Canterbury ; the Grammar of English Grammars, by Jacob Lowers (Longmans), a useful work, designed especially for the use of candidates in Government examinations a treatise on Single- entry Book-keeping, on an improved principle, by D. Sheriff (Longmans) ; a Handbook of Phonography, i.e., of short-hand on phonetic principles, by E. J. Jones (Partridge); Life's Work, by Rev. F. J. Jameson, M.A., Rector of Coton (Macmillan and Co.), two sermons preached before the University of Ca:nbricl3e, of an unusually practical character for University sermons; two rather pretty and very matter-of-fact Tales from the German, translated by " E. K. E." (Faithfull); a lecture on the- reign of Edward T. (Longmans), the fourth of a course of lectures oft English history, which Mr. William Longman is delivering at Chorley- wood, his country residence ; Beautiful for Ever, an audaciously absurd puff of the enamelling system, written and published by the notorious Madame Rachel; the Report of the Temperance Congress of 18G2, (Moodie) ; the April numbers of The Medical Critic and Psycho- logical Journal, edited by Dr. Forbes Winslow (Davies), and the Journal of the National Lifeboat Institution, both quarterly publications ; a lecture on The Uses of the Study of Jurisprudence, reprinted from Austin's "Lectures on Jurisprudence" (Murray); a pamphlet in praise of The Treatment of Convicts in Ireland by four Visiting Justices of the West Riding Prison at Wakefield (Simpkin and Marshall); and another entitled, What Is Sabbath-breaking? (Edmonston and Douglas), an account, from an anti-Sabbatarian point of view, of the discussion raised by the recent proposal to open the Botanical Gardens at Edinburgh on Sunday afternoons.
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