illustrations than these (not excepting even Yarrell's well-known volumes or Mr. Wood's). No one can equal Mr. Wolf in the portraiture of birds, and these have been very carefully engraved by Messrs. Whymper. The Frozen Stream is an account of the formation of ice in various parts of the world, by Charles Tomlinson, and contains information about icebergs and glaciers, sledgetravelling, and other amusements on ice, and is illustrated with fifty little engravings. Penny Wise and Pound Foolish is a story by Mrs. Carey Brock, with six illustrations. Mauritius, or the Isle of France, is an account of the history, geography, products, and inhabitants of this island, by the Rev. Francis Flemyng. The author was military chaplain there in 1854, and had therefore excellent opportunities of compiling this little volume. The Book of Trades contains a brief account of twenty-seven different manufacturing processes, such as the glass-maker's, the paperstainer's, the potter's, the carpenter's, the printer's, &c. ; but as these are all compressed into 238 pages, several of which are nearly filled with woodcuts, each trade gets but a small account. Perseverance under Difficulties is the title of a little book containing the lives of Columbus, Franklin, Captain Cook, James Watt, Herschel, Arkwright, and George Stephenson, very pleasantly written and nicely illustrated. We are glad to see English Ballads for School Reading among the Society's publications; among all the books devoted to learning and religion which they yearly issue, they can afford now and then to devote one or two to the cultivation of the imagination and the feelings. This well-printed little volume is edited by the Rev. W. Benham, and contains the old favourites Chevy Chace, Robin Hood, Adam Bell, The Red Cross Knight, the Beggar's Daughter, Sir Andrew Barton, and many others, and all have explanatory foot notes.

The Child's Companion, that long-established favourite, published by the Religious Tract Society, contains this year, in addition to the usual gathering of wood engravings, a few coloured illustrations, printed by Messrs. Kronheim, which we are sure will please young readers. Considering the price of this little volume, the Society deserve much credit for the way in which it is produced.

The list of new books issued by Messrs. DARTON & HODGE includes-1. The Tiger Hunter, translated from the French of Luis de Bellemare, by Capt. Mayne Reid, and illustrated with eight engravings by L. Huard; a book full of hair-breadth escapes which will be read by old as well as young 2. Peter Parley's Annual for 1863, with eight page illustrations, printed in colours, and nearly 200 woodcuts. This is the twenty-third year of the publication of this Annual, and therefore we need not say a word further in its commendation. 3. The Adventures of a Sailor- Boy, being tales of the sea and exploits of the British navy, by an Old Sailor, with a very vigorous illustration of Olaf the Dane. 4. Tales of Life in Earnest, by Miss Crompton, illustrated.

A new edition of the well-known Hymns for Little Children is announced by Mr. MASTERS, to be illustrated with forty-one engravings, from designs by W. Chappell, one of which may be seen in our columns.

A collection of Wordsworth's Poems for the Young, will shortly be published by Messrs. STRAHAN. These will be accompanied by fifty drawings, by two Edinburgh artists, Mr. Pettie and Mr. Macwhirter. We have seen proofs of about a dozen of these engravings, by Messrs. Dalziel, and can report that they are very pleasing, and that they charmingly illustrate the sentiment of the poet.

A new edition of Papers for Thoughtful Girls, by Sarah Tytler, is promised by the same publishers, with illustrations, by John Millais. To be ready before Christmas.

The best books for younger children are The Stories that Little Breeches told, and the Pictures that Charles Bennett drew for them; these said pictures, consisting of upwards of 100 etchings of the most humourous character, which we have tested in the nursery and found to be highly approved.

My Grandmother's Budget of Stories and Songs, by Frances Freeling Broderip, with illustrations by her brother, Thomas Hood.

The Loves of Tom Tucker and Little Bo-peep, a Rhyming Rigmarole, written and illustrated by Thomas Hood; and The Boys' and Giris' Illustrated Gift Book, which contains 200 large engravings by Wolf, Weir, Watson, and Phiz. A capital book for a Christmas present to a small party.

Our Book List, however, reminds us that our review of the splendours of the gift books of the season by no means exhausts the record of the publishing activity of the past fortnight, which, for the production of standard works in Architecture, Biography, Travels, &c., is, at least, equil to the corresponding period of any past year. Pursuing our usual classification of the more noteworthy of these, we find

In LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, Mr. Fergusson publishes his History of the Modern Styles of Architecture; a solid, handsome volume, closely printed, to which we have already alluded in our notice of books of the season. This may be regarded as an independent work, or bound

so as to form a third volume of the Author's Handbook of Architecture. Mr. Murray also publishes his Handbook to the Cathedrals of England, embracing Oxford, Peterborough, Norwich, Ely, and Lincoln; and we have Sir William Chambers's Treatise on the Decorative Part of Civil Architecture, with illustrations and notes by Joseph Gwilt, revised and edited by W. H. Leeds, 4to.; and a second series of a Handybook of Villa Architecture, by

C. Wickes, 4to.

IN HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY we have at last Lady Morgan's Memoirs, Autobiography, and

Correspondence, in 2 large volumes, which form an agreeable contrast to the volume of her Autobiography relating to a later period in her life, already published-the present volumes being full of her personal history, and abounding in sketches of her contemporaries. In the Life of Joseph Locke, Civil Engineer, 1 vol., we obtain another contribution to the History of our railway system; and we have also a first volume of Mr. Rawlinson's History of the Five Great Monarchies of the Ancient Eastern World, which will be completed in 3 volumes.

In GEOGRAPHY AND TRAVEL, apropos to the present excitement in Greece, and the offer of the crown to Prince Alfred, we have Miss Frederika Bremer's Greece and the Greeks, a narrative of a Winter Residence and Summer Travel, translated by Mrs. Howitt, 2 vols.; Mr. George Borrow also publishes another curious work of philology and personal adventure, entitled Wild Wales, its People, Language, and Scenery. We find, also, under this head, Mr. Hamerton's Painter's Camp in the Highlands, and Thoughts about Art, 2 vols.; Mr. Baldwin's African Hunting from Natal to the Zambesi, which is full of adventure and striking illustrations; Professor Ansted and Mr. Latham's beautiful volume on the Channel Islands; and Notes in Mexico in 1861 and 1862 politically and socially considered, by Charles Lempriere.

IN THEOLOGY we find Recollections of the Conversational Parties of the Rev. Charles Simeon, with introductory notes, 1 vol.; Historical Theology, a Review of the Principal Doctrinal Discussions in the Christian Church, by Dr. William Cunningham, edited by his Literary Executors; a translation into English of the Targums upon Genesis and Exodus, by J. W. Etheridge; and an Essay on Religious Philosophy, by Emile Saisset, translated with Analysis, Notes, Critical Essay, &c., 2 vols.

In FICTION, Miss Mulock, the author of John Halifax, Gentleman, reprints from Good Words, her story of Mistress and Maid, in 2 vols.; and we have The Prophecy, by Lady Rachel Butler, 2 vols.; The Double Prophecy, or Trials of the Heart, by William Carleton, 2 vols.; The Family at the Sea, a Tale of Home, 2 vols. ; Family Troubles, by Charlotte Hardcastle, 2 vols. ; Aims and Ends, 3 vols.; and Raven of Redruth, by E. Stredder, 3 vols. While in MEDICAL works we find a Treatise on the Continued Fevers of Great Britain, by Charles Murchison.

In POETRY we ought not to omit to mention a beautiful translation, by Mrs. Ramsay, of the Divina Commedia of Dante into the difficult terza rima verse of the original, which appears to us to preserve in a marvellous degree the severe simplicity and dignity of the great Florentine's immortal poem. If the translation be as faithful as its poetical beauty is undoubted, even the fine version of Carey into blank verse must be thrown into the shade by Mrs. Ramsay's publication. We have also a volume of poems by Mr. Selma; another, consisting of short pieces chiefly on the present state of Italy, by Miss Caroline G. Phillipson; and a little volume of humorous but graceful pieces, by Mr. Frederick Locker, entitled London Lyrics. Among NEW EDITIONS we observe Mr. Dickens's Tale of Two Cities, in 1 vol. ; and a 2d of Sir George Cornewall Lewis's Essay on the Formation of the Romance Languages, the original edition of which was published nearly thirty years ago.

Mr. MURRAY will publish immediately, with Portrait, The Principal Speeches and Addresses of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort, with an Introduction, giving some Outlines of his Character; also Four Years in British Columbia and Vancouver's Island, by R. C. Mayne, Commander, R.N., map and twenty illustrations; and Recollections of Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants, by Mrs. Atkinson, illustrations.

The new work by Dr. George Hartwig, entitled The Tropical World, a popular Scientific Account of the Natural History of the Animal and Vegetable Kingdoms in Equatorial Regions, is just published by Messrs. LONGMAN & Co., in 1 vol., with 8 chromo-xylographs and 172 woodcut illustrations.

Mr. Russell's American Diary will be published by Messrs. BRADBURY & EVANS, in a few days, in 2 vols. with a map, under the title of My Diary North and South, or Personal Experiences during the Civil War in America.

Messrs. PARKER, SON, & BOURN have in the press a new work on Christian Names, their History and Derivation, by the Author of The Heir of Redclyffe, 2 vols.

Messrs. MACMILLAN & Co.'s new list of announcements comprises a work On Clerical Subscription, an Enquiry into the Position of the Church and the Clergy in reference to the Articles, the Liturgy, and the Canons and Statutes, by the Rev. Charles Herbert, M.A.; Scripture Sonnets, by Mrs. Henry Bruce, handsomely printed, with initial letters; A Manual of Political Economy, by Henry Fawcett; Discourses, by A. J. Scott, Professor of Logic in Owen's College, Manchester, 2 vols.; Syria, as a Province of the Ottoman Empire, by Cyril Graham, with maps; The Fairy Book, Classic Fairy Stories, selected and rendered anew by the Author of John Halifax, Gentleman, one of the Golden Treasury Series, with Vignette by J. Noel Paton, and frontispiece; The Missionary History of the Middle Ages, by the Rev. G. F. Maclear; &c.

Messrs. CHAPMAN & HALL'S list of new publications in the press includes The Life and Times of St. Bernard, Abbot of Clairvaux, by James Cotter Morison, 1 vol.; Life in the South from the Commencement of the War, by a Blockaded British Merchant, being a Social History of those who took part in the Battles, from a personal acquaintance with them in their own Homes and Fireside Circles, from the Spring of 1860 to August 1862, 1 vol.; North and South, by the White Republican of Fraser's Magazine, 1 vol.; Roba di Roma, or Walks and Talks about

Rome, by William W. Story, 2 vols.; The Life of Lord Bolingbroke, Secretary of State in the Reign of Queen Anne, by Thomas Macknight; A Selection from the Poems of Robert Browning; and other works.

Mr. Wilkie Collins's novel of No Name will be published on the 16th inst., in 3 thick volumes, having been delayed by the illness of the author. Messrs. Low, Son, & Co. will also publish on the 10th, The Boyhood of Martin Luther, by Henry Mayhew, Author of The Peasant-Boy Philosopher, with 8 illustrations by Absolon; and on the 16th inst. The Poet's Journal, a Political Autobiography, by Bayard Taylor; and The Canoe and the Saddle, Adventures among the North Western Rivers and Forests, by Theodore Winthrop.

Messrs. A. & C. BLACK have nearly ready a new school tale, entitled St. Winifred's, or the World of School; also Tales and Sketches from Life, by Hugh Miller; a work On the Diseases of Women, by J. Y. Simpson, M.D.; &c.

Messrs. TINSLEY, BROTHERS, have just ready a new novel, in 3 vols., by Albany Fonblanque, jun., entitled The Tangled Skein; also to be published in January, in 3 vols., The House by the Churchyard, reprinted from the Dublin University Magazine; Aurora Floyd, by the Author of Lady Audley's Secret, 3 vols.

Mr. BENTLEY will publish on the 15th inst. The Ice-Maiden, by Hans Christian Andersen, from the Danish, by Mrs. Bushby, with illustrations.

Messrs. BELL & DALDY will publish shortly British Seaweeds, drawn from Professor Harvey's Phycologia Britannica, with descriptions, including the recently discovered species, in popular language, by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, 4to.; Jerusalem Explored, a Description of the Ancient and Modern City, with upwards of 100 illustrations, by Dr. Ermete Pierotti; Hymns of Love and Praise for the Church's Year, by the Rev. J. S. B. Monsell; &c.

Messrs. EDMONSTON & DOUGLAS's list of forthcoming books comprises Life in a Fishing Village on the Coast of Normandy in 1848: Sketches of French Fishing, Farming, Cooking, Natural History, and Politics, drawn from Nature, by an English Resident, in 1 vol.; Scotland under her Early Kings, by E. W. Robertson, 2 vols. with Maps; The Chronicle of Gudrun, a Story of the North Sea, from the Old German, 1 vol.; Ballads from Scottish History, by Norval Clyne, 1 vol.; The Roman Poets of the Republic, by W. Y. Sellar, M.A., Professor of Greek in the University of St. Andrews, and formerly Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, 1 vol. and other works.

Messrs. ATCHLEY & Co. are preparing to publish A Practical Treatise upon Mechanical Engineering, illustrated with 28 plates and 91 woodcuts, by Francis Campin; An Analysis of Ancient Domestic Architecture, exhibiting the best existing examples in Great Britain, from drawings and measurements taken on the spot, by F. T. Dollman and J. R. Jobbins; a new work on Mining, Engineering, Land, and Railway Surveying, by H. D. Hoskold, Mining Engineer and Surveyor; and a work entitled Railways in the East, and generally in High Thermometrie Regions, by W. Davis Haskoll, late a Resident Engineer on the Smyrna and Aidin Railway (Asia Minor).

Messrs GRIFFIN, BOHN, & Co. have now ready Gray's Poetical Works, a new edition, handsomely printed on toned paper, from the Eton copy; with Essays by Rev. R. Moultrie, Earl of Carlisle, &c., and a series of exquisite steel plates illustrative of the spots where Gray lived and sung; and will publish immediately, Ballads of the Cavaliers of the English Jacobites, now first collected and edited with historical introduction, by Charles Mackay.

A new juvenile book for the season is announced by Messrs. JACKSON, WALFORD, & HODDER, to be entitled A Chat with the Boys on New Year's Eve, by Old Merry.

Dr. Colenso's work on the Pentateuch has been the subject of a series of Sermons delivered before the University of Cambridge, by Dr. Vaughan, the Vicar of Doncaster, which are announced to be published under the title of The Book and The Life, by MACMILLAN & Co.

Mr. TWEEDIE has just published, in a shilling volume, an original story entitled Roxana, the Spanish Maid, a tale of modern times.

The first volume of Messrs. Chambers' Book of Days, a miscellany of popular antiquities, edited by Robert Chambers, will be published at the end of the present month.

Messrs. HURST & BLACKETT'S announcements of new works in preparation include Travels on Horseback in Mantchu Tartary, by George Fleming, 1 vol. with map and 50 illustrations; Lost and Saved, by the Hon. Mrs. Norton, 3 vols. ; The Court and Society from Elizabeth to Anne, illustrated from the Papers at Kimbolton, by the Duke of Manchester, 2 vols., with fine portraits; Church and Chapel, by the Author of No Church, and Owen, a Waif, 3 vols.; Driftwood, Seaweed, and Fallen Leaves, by the Rev. J. Cumming, 2 vols.; A Prodigal Son, by Dutton Cook, Author of Paul Foster's Daughter, &c. 3 vols.; Adventures and Researches among the Andamans, by Dr. Mouatt, with numerous illustrations; David Elginbrod, by George Mac Donald, M.A., Author of Within and Without, Phantastes, &c. 3 vols.; The Last Decade of a Glorious Reign, by Martha Walker Freer, 2 vols. with portraits; A History of England, from the Accession of James I. to the Disgrace of Chief Justice Coke, by Samuel Rawson Gardiner, M.A. 2 vols.; True as Steel, by Walter Thornbury, 3 vols.; A Lady's Travels from Delhi to Pekin, by Mrs. Muter, 2 vols.; Mary Lyndsay, by the Lady Emily Ponsonby, 2 vols.; Memoirs of Christina, Queen of Sweden, by Henry Woodhead, 2 vols. with portraits; Queen Mab, by Julia Kavanagh, Author of Nathalie, &c. 3 vols.; Live it Down, by J. C. Jeaffreson, Author of Olive Blake's Good Work, &c. 3 vols. ; &c.

Straker's Annual Mercantile, Ship, and Insurance Register, will be ready on the 12th December.

A Companion Volume to Things not Generally Known is now just ready, entitled Things to be Remembered in Daily Life, by John Timbs, F.S.A.

A new work by the Author of Heaven Our Home, and Meet for Heaven, entitled Life in Heaven, is published this day by Mr. NIMMO of Edinburgh.

The first volume of the Cambridge Edition of Shakespeare, edited by W. G. Clark and J. Glover, will appear on the 23d of March next. The work will be completed in eight volumes, published at intervals of four months. A text based on a thorough collation of the four folios, and of all the quarto editions of the separate plays, and various other important features, will distinguish this from all previous editions. The work will be handsomely printed in demy 8vo. at the Cambridge University Press. A Glossarial Index to the Plays and Poems of Shakespeare, by W. Aldis Wright, is also in preparation. It will be adapted specially to the Cambridge Edition, but may be used with any other.

Messrs. BoosEY & Co. publish this day a list of the pieces in their Musical Cabinet, a library of vocal, pianoforte, and dance music, in shilling books, upwards of seventy of which have already appeared. They comprise every variety of classical and popular music.

Messrs. A. & C. BENNETT have just published The Boys' Country Book: being the Real Life of a Country Boy, written by Himself; edited by William Howitt.

An Index to the Edinburgh Review from Vol. LXXXI. to CX. inclusive is nearly ready. The quire stock of the volumes of the Edinburgh Review to which this Index is being prepared having been entirely destroyed by fire at the publisher's in September 1861, no more copies of this Index will be printed than are likely to be required to meet the current demand.

Messrs. DEAN & Co.'s new retail list of novelties for Christmas and New Year, extending to sixteen closely printed pages, is now ready, and may be had on application, free.

Mr. S. W. PARTRIDGE announces three new shilling books to be published in a few days, bound in cloth, entitled, The Giants, and How to Fight Them, illustrated by John Gilbert; Tom Burton; or, the Better Way, by the author of The Working Man's Way in the World, eight engravings; and Cousin Bessie; or, a Tale of Youthful Earnestness, by Mrs. Balfour, eight engravings.

Kitto's Cyclopædia, a third edition, edited by William Lindsay Alexander, D.D. the first vol. A to E, is just published, price twenty shillings. In a small portion of the advertisement in our illustrated pages, the price appears in error as thirty shillings.

The new volume of Lectures delivered before the Dublin Young Men's Christian Association is announced by Messrs. HODGES, SMITH, & Co. It will contain Lectures by the Archbishop of Dublin (Dr. Whately), Bishop of Killaloe (Dr. Fitzgerald), Mr. Whiteside, M.P., Professor Cairnes (Author of The Slave Power), Rev. Dr. Salmon, Right Hon. J. Napier, LL.D., and other well-known writers. The volume will have for its frontispiece a portrait of Mr. Whiteside, M.P., engraved on steel.

We are requested to announce that the English Journal of Education, the oldest educational paper published in this country, is transferred to Messrs. Lockwood & Co., who will commence its publication under entirely new arrangements, with the January number; the same publishers have in preparation a work by Professor J. R. Young, the eminent mathematician, bearing upon some controversies of the day, especially those arising from the works of Bishop Colenso and the authors of Essays and Reviews. The title will be Science Elucidative of Scripture, and not Antagonistic to it.

Cassell's Illustrated Family Bible will be completed in April next. The Old Testament, New Testament, and Complete Bible will then be published in various styles of binding, &c. Cassell's Popular Natural History will be completed in March, and will be published in four volumes, profusely illustrated with engravings and tinted plates.

The death of Mr. James Sheridan Knowles, the celebrated dramatist, and author of Virginius, which took place at Torquay on the 30th ulto, is an event which cannot be said to have been unexpected, Mr. Knowles having long been suffering from serious illness. He was born in Cork in 1784. Virginius, which brought him into fame, was first produced about 1819. It was a close imitation of the Elizabethan dramatic poets, but was full both of poetry and dramatic spirit, and at once made its author welcome in the literary circles of that day, of which Charles Lamb, Talfourd, Hazlitt, and Leigh Hunt were the most conspicuous stars. The Hunchback, The Wife, The Love Chase, Woman's Wit, Love, &c., all plays of the same author, were equally successful both as acting and reading plays. Mr. Knowles also wrote a novel, originally published, if we remember rightly, in the columns of The Sunday Times; but for some years he had devoted himself almost entirely to theology, and was understood to look with little satisfaction upon what he had come to consider as the frivolous productions by which he obtained his reputation. Although he had received originally but little education, and had been an actor from a boy, Mr. Knowles's theological works were considered to display considerable learning in their particular field. Mr. Knowles occasionally officiated as a preacher, and travelled some time ago in Spain on a sort of Protestant mission. A pension of £200 per annum was conferred upon him about ten years since.

After a long silence, Mrs. Gaskell promises a new story to appear in the pages of All the Year Round, entitled A Dark Night's Work, by the authoress of Mary Barton. The story will appear

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early in January, and will follow the completion of Mr. Wilkie Collins's No Name. It will run only to six numbers, and will be immediately followed by a new serial story by Mr. Charles Reade, author of It is Never Too Late to Mend, which will be continued from week to week, and completed in about eight months.

Mr. Carleton's new story of The Double Prophecy, or Trials of the Heart, is published by Mr. DUFFY, in two vols. At a time when our playwrights find the stories of the Irish novelists so profitable a source of plots for interesting dramas, another tale from the author of Willy Reilly and the Evil Eye must be hailed with satisfaction by readers of fiction. The scenes of the story are laid in the north of Ireland, and its principal thread-the romantic history of its heroine, who is raised from a humble position to be the wife of a marquis-is, we are told, a true story of real personages. In a touching prefatory epistle to Lord Carlisle, Mr. Carleton speaks of the work as his last and farewell contribution to Irish literature as a novelist, and attributes, the close of his literary labours to "my declining state of health, or what I fear I must term my rapidly approaching blindness." The story is thoroughly Irish, and abounds with the peculiar humour and invention which first secured to its author the favour of the reading public.

The Churchman's Family Magazine (to be published by Messrs. JAMES HOGG & SONS) is among the most notable feature in the periodical literature of the new year. It starts under good auspices, and gives every promise of a wide and permanent sphere of usefulness. The cover, which we print on another page of our present number, is a happy effort of Luke Limner's well-known hand.

Messrs. Letts & Co.'s Diaries, of which a full list for the ensuing year is just published, continue to retain their high reputation for utility and variety. We can ourselves honestly testify to their merits, having long found in our "Letts" a daily, or we may say hourly, remembrancer, and an indispensable depository for odd memoranda. The original forms, some two or three in number, of these Diaries were, we understand, first printed a little more than fifty years ago, and the varieties now exceed one hundred.

In our present number we publish lists of the various Diaries, Photographic Albums, and Almanacs for the new year of Messrs. De La Rue & Co., T. J. & J. Smith, Brown & Co. J. C. & A. Penny.

Principal Forbes, in a recent address delivered before the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on the life of the late Professor Traill says he was nominally editor of the eighth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica,' and he certainly contributed to it some forty articles; but his responsibility was, I believe, chiefly confined to the earliest volumes, the greater part having been practically edited by the able publisher, Mr. Adam Black.

The Rev. Dr. Norman Macleod, one of Her Majesty's Chaplains and Dean of the Chapel, whose death at the age of 79 is announced, was, we understand, the father of Dr. Norman Macleod, the editor of Good Words, and author of the Old Lieutenant and his Son, who is also one of Her Majesty's Chaplains.

Messrs. Whittaker & Co. have published a volume of Selections from the Poets, Devotional and Moral, entitled Golden Gleanings, uniform with Choice Poems and Lyrics, Choice Thoughts from Shakspere, &c., published by them. The pieces appear well chosen from the gems among the short pieces of our best writers of sacred and moral poets, from Herbert and Crashaw to Wordsworth, Moir, and Heber. The volume opens with Mr. Gerald Massey's beautiful poem entitled Albert's Tomb, one of the longest pieces in the book. This, as well as many other of the poems by living writers, is copyright, and included in the collection by special permission. The volume is beautifully printed on toned paper, with red-letter title, and tasteful

ornaments.

Messrs. BooSEY & Co.'s Musical Almanac, just published, price threepence, contains five pieces, including Quadrilles, &c. by Laurent, Mackay, Balfe, and others. The Almanac contains sixteen pages, legibly printed.

The publishers of Good Words state that the monthly numbers of that Magazine have reached a circulation of 70,000 copies. The numbers are profusely illustrated with woodcuts from designs by Millais, Holman Hunt, Tenniel, Keene, Walker, Pettie, and others: and among the arrangements for 1863 the editor announces a new work by Thomas Guthrie, D.D.; a new work by John Caird, D.D., author of The Religion of Common Life, both of which are to commence in January, and be completed in December; a new story, by Anthony Trollope, illustrated by Millais, to commence in July, and be completed in December; a new serial by the editor, Dr. Norman Macleod, to commence in January. Among the contributors to the early parts for 1863 will be the Rev. Charles Kingsley, Canon Stanley, Dean Alford, Sir John Herschel, Archbishop Whately, Laurence Oliphant, and Sir David Brewster. All the illustrations will in future be printed on toned paper.

Mr. Ridgway, the publisher of Piccadilly, whose name is as closely associated with the pamphlets of the past forty years, as that of Almon or Miller with the pamphlets of the days of Wilkes and Junius, died recently at his country house near Burton-on-Trent, aged 63. Mr. Ridgway is stated to have been one of the principal proprietors of the Globe newspaper. The death of Mr. Stevens, the respected law publisher of Bell Yard, Lincoln's Inn, is also announced. Mr. Stevens died on the 23rd ult. in his 69th year.