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[2n'iS.N<>80., JuLYll. '67. 



that the derivation was " avri iyphs irrjxhs,'" " against 

 wet mud." J. W. L. 



NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC. 



Professor Stephens of Copenhagen, the translator of 

 Tegner's Frithiof, has just published a melodrama in five 

 acts, founded on the old ballad The Count of Rome, and 

 entitled Revenge, or TFoman's Love. When we tell our 

 readers that a few out of the precious hoard of our words 

 vulgarly called " obsolete," and some references to Old 

 Scandinavian and Old English Folk Lore and Customs, 

 have been introduced as necessary to give a shade and 

 tone ill harmony with events of the tenth century — and 

 add that these matters ai-e illustrated in the "After- 

 words " and " Word Roll " appended to the play — our 

 readers will be prepared to look for a work of considerable 

 oi'iginality. They will not be disappointed. The play 

 exhibits both originality and poetic feeling. While as if 

 to keep up its character for the former quality, it is ac- 

 companied by Seventeen Songs, Chants, ^c., nearly all 

 composed by Professor Stephens, but harmonised for the 

 pianoforte by B. Viltz Hallberg. 



The Rev. J. C. Wood has won for himself a name as a 

 writer of popular books on natural history, and he cer- 

 tainly has done something to increase his reputation b}' 

 the little volume which he has just issued — and most 

 opportunely — for the use of those who are abandoning 

 the metropolis and its labours for some of the many pretty 

 watering-places which surround our sea-girt country. 

 The Common Objects of the Sea Shore, including Hints for 

 an Aquarium, as this book is called, will occupy small 

 space in the carpet bag, but add much to the enjoyment 

 of a sojourn at the sea-side. 



We must bring under the notice of our readers, hut for 

 obvious reasons with very brief comment, several im- 

 portant books which have just reached us. First we may 

 mention, and its ample title-page will sufficiently describe 

 its object, The Real Presence of the Body and Blood of 

 Our Lord Jesus Christ the Doctrine of the English Church, 

 with a Vindication of the Reception by the Wicked, and of 

 the Adoration of Our Lord Jesus Christ truly present, by 

 the Rev. E. B. Pusej', D.D., &c. The next is a work, 

 very eloquent and very impassioned, on a subject of great 

 importance, and to which public attention is at length 

 awakened, The City, its Sins and Sorrows, being a Series 

 of Sermons from Luke xix. 41. — " He beheld the City, 

 and wept over it," — by Thomas Guthrie, D.D. Very dif- 

 ferent in character, but equally excellent, is a little 

 volume by the late excellent Bishop of Grahamstown, 

 entitled Parochial Sermoris. They are short, plain, prac- 

 tical, and devotional ; and one cannot, therefore, be sur- 

 • prised to find that they have already reached a second 

 edition. We must now content ourselves with acknow- 

 ledging the receipt from the same publisher as the last 

 work (Parker of Oxford) of the following tracts and 

 small books : — Questions on the Collects, Epistles, and 

 Gospels throughout the Year, for the Use of Teachers 

 in Sunday Schools, Part II., Easter to Twenty-fifth 

 Sunday, by Rev. T. L. Claughton ; A Course of Lectures 

 in Outline on Confirmation and Holy Communion by Rev. 

 G. Arden ; The Rebuilding of the Temple, a Time of Re- 

 vival Sermon on the Re-opening of Llandaff Cathedral, by 

 The Bishop of Oxford; Notes on Confirmation, by A 

 Priest ; Anomalies in the English Church no just Ground 

 for Seceding, or the Abnormal Condition of the Church con- 

 sidered with reference to the Analogy of Scripture and of 

 History, by H. A. Woodgate, B.D. 



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