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[Sept. 8. 1855 



Luther was only the more eminent successor — the whole 

 three events dating from the fifteenth century." We 

 need not now stop to discuss the accurac}' of this state- 

 ment: for, even if the coincidence of invention be not 

 capable of proof, the ftict that the press would have been 

 useless without paper is too obvious to render discussion 

 necessary. At the present moment, when books, news- 

 papers, and other periodicals are issued to the world in 

 numbers almost beyond calculation, and when the want 

 of linen fibre for the manufacture of paper to supply the 

 daily inoreasina; demand has been exciting the deep in- 

 terest both of the press and of the government, a care- 

 fully-compiled and well -\\Titten book on Paper and Paper- 

 makin<f. Ancient and Modern, cannot be otherwise than 

 welcome. Such an one is the octavo volume just issued 

 by Mr. Herring, which is based upon the Lectures re- 

 cently given bv him upon the subject at the London 

 Institution. Without being either tedious or technical, 

 the author conducts his reader through the history of 

 paper, the process of its manufacture, its varieties, its 

 distinctive marks {paper-marks, a subject yet open to 

 much investigation), and also incidentally to the question 

 of the influence of the duty on the spread of knowledge; 

 and as the volume is amply illustrated by plates of ma- 

 chinery, specimens of paper-marks, and specimens of the 

 various kinds of paper described, it supplies- just that 

 amount of knowledge upon a very interesting and im- 

 portant topic, which every well-read person would desire 

 to possess. The work is most creditable to Mr. Herring. 



As White's Selborne has made many a naturalist, so we 

 have no doubt Harvey's Sea-side Book has been the means 

 of inducing many an idler on the sea-shore to look with 

 attention at the infinite variety of natural objects cast at 

 his feet. That such examination leads in many instances 

 to a closer study of the marine world, there can be little 

 doubt ; and as little doubt that a desire has thence arisen 

 for a " Manual which should contain the characters of 

 everv Class, Order, Tribe, Family, and Genus of our 

 Native Marine Animals, so arranged as to be suitable 

 for ready reference." Such a book has hitherto been 

 a want, and nothing more ; but Mr. Gosse, the author 

 of The Afjuarium and A. Naturalist's Rambles on the 

 Devonshire Coast, has now supplied it ; and the first part 

 of his Munual of Marine Zoology for the British Islands is 

 now before us. Mr. Gosse had already shown himself 

 pre-eminently qualified for the task,, and he has executed 

 it admirably: and when we add, that the portion of 

 the work now issued (a second Part will complete it) 

 contains no less than three hundred and forty species — 

 a figiire of every genus named — of which a great propor- 

 tion are drawn from living specimens, we show at once 

 the value and utility of this little volume; not only to 

 those who are studying on the tangled beach, but also to 

 that large and increasing class who, as we judge from our 

 advertising columns, are by means of Vivaria pursuing 

 their studies in the quiet of home. 



The new edition of Hallam's Historical Works is pro- 

 gressing. The third volume, which is also the third of 

 his View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, 

 and completes that work, has just been issued. Hand- 

 somely printed, and published at so cheap a rate, there 

 can be little doubt that a very extensive sale awaits this 

 eleveyith edition of one of the most valuable historical 

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Books Rkceived. — Echoes of the War, and other 

 Foems, by Henry Sewell Stokes. Written with much 

 grace and feeling, and a thorough English spirit, these 

 little poems are calculated to increase the reputation 

 ■which Mr. Stokes obtained by the publication of his Vah 

 of Lanherne, a descriptive poem of considerable meut, 

 md one of especial interest to Cornish readers, 



No. 306.J 



u^schines in Ctesiphontem. 



Sophocles — Antigone. 



Sophocles — Philoctetes, 



Cornelius Nepos. 



Four more parts of the judicious and well-timed en- 

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Brief History of the Christian Church.. An unpretend- 

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 events in the history of the Church ; not laving claim to 

 originality of research, but avowedly founded^on Cave, 

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