The Practical Mechanics' Journal Record of the Great Exhibition of
1862. (Longman and Co.)—This is the best memorial of the Great Exhibition that we have as yet seen. It is not, of course, a complete record of the contents of the great show, for it does not profess to take notice of Fine Art productions, properly so called ; but it gives a very full and clear account of all the objects which can fairly be regarded as coming within the scope of the journal by which it is issued. It is illustrated by a profusion of well-executed woodcut; which materially enhance the value of the work. We have also received the forty- seventh part of Routledge's Illustrated Natural History, which deals chiefly with spiders and scorpions; the fifth part of Beeton's Book of Home Games, which finishes billiards and begins chess ; the January number of Every Boy's Magazine (Routledge); The" News" Abnanackfor 1863; a directory of banking, insurance, railway and public companies ; a pamphlet on Utilization of Metropolitan Sewage (Hunt and Co.), in which a ratepayer examines and condemns the final Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Sewage of Towns; and three books for young children, viz., a collection of allegories, entitled The Castle Maiden, &c., by Mrs. R. J. Greene (Bath: Binns and Goodwin), and two stories, pub- lished by J. and C. Mosley, Brother and Sister, and Little. People, the latter of which is a really admirable reproduction of the sayings and doings of the average small child of the period.
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