26 DECEMBER 1863, Page 21

Nautical Dictionary. By Arthur Young, assisted in tho nautical department

by James Brisbane. (Longman and Co.)—A second edition of this valuable work, which is mainly confined to definition, but by no means shirks the duty of giving general information. The articles on the "screw-propeller" and "ship-building," for instance, are very clear and concise. The explanations are rendered still more intelligible, wherever it is necessary, by well-designed woodcuts.