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gustin ; The Murder of Becket ; The Slack Prince, by the 

 Rev. Canon Stanley; Mr. Muirhead's Origin and Progress 

 of the Inventions of James Watt ; and Mr. Lloyd's Thou- 

 sand Leagues among the Snowy Andes. 



Mr. Bentley announces the Letters of Henrietta Maria, 

 chie fit/ from inedited Sources, edited by Mrs. Green. 



Messrs. Blackwood announce a New Volume of Miss 

 Strickland's Life of Mary Stuart. 



Messrs. Constable have in the press a work by Mr. 

 Calderwood On the Philosophy of the Infinite. 



Messrs. Chapman & Hall are preparing a cheap reprint 

 of Mr. Lever's Works ; and a new serial by him entitled, 

 Martin of Cro-Martin. 



Messrs. Jackson & VValford announce a New Edition, 

 with additional matter, and for general circulation, of 

 Mr. Hepworth Dixon's John Howard, 



Photography is by no means the mere mechanical 

 business which many suppose. To succeed in its practice, 

 the amateur should join to the cultivated taste of the 

 artist some knowledge of chemistry, and of optics ; and 

 of the relation which exists between these two branches of 

 physical science. To furnish him with information upon 

 this point, is the object of Professor Hunt's Researches on 

 Ligh.t in its Chemical Relations, embracing a Consideration 

 of all the Photographic Processes ; and when we say that 

 the information which is here gathered together upon 

 the subject of the chemistry of the solar radiations, is the 

 result of thousands of experiments, we have said enough 

 to recommend the book to such of our photographic 

 friends as do not look upon the camera as a mere toy, but 

 use it for higher and better purposes. 



Mr. Bohn may well express surprise that a classic of so 

 much renown and intrinsic value as Strabo, the great 

 geographer of antiquity, should have hitherto remained 

 a sealed book to the English ; and he deserves great 

 credit for having secured for his Classical Library a trans- 

 lation of it by competent hands. The translation was 

 commenced by Mr. H. C. Hamilton, whose official duties 

 interfered witli his progress beyond the end of the sixth 

 book; from which point the translation is that of Mr. 

 Falconer, son of the editor of the Oxford edition of the 

 Greek Text, who had devoted several years' care and at- 

 tention to the production of an English version. It will 

 be completed in three volumes. 



Books Received. — Songs of the Dramatists. This 

 new volume of the Annotated Edition of the British Poets, 

 presents the reader in a compact form with a collection of 

 the most beautiful lyrics in the language, so far as they 

 have proceeded from the pens of our dramatists, from 

 Udall to Sheridan. — The History of the Jesuits, their 

 Origin, Progress, Doctrines, and Designs, by G. B. Nico- 

 lini, the new volume of Bohn's Illustrated Library, is 

 written avowedly under the belief that " in no other epoch 

 of historj' have the Jesuits been more dangerous and 

 threatening for England than in the present." — Tours in 

 Ulster ; a Handbook to the Antiquities and Scenery of the 

 North of Ireland, by J. B. Doyle, with numerous Illus- 

 trations from the Author's Sketch Book, will be found an 

 agreeable and useful travelling companion to all intending 

 tourists to the province of Ulster, 



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Cobbett's Statk Trials. 8vo., Vol. VIII, 

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Rev. C. Colton. 

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Miscellanies : The tenth volume, by Dr. Swift. 12mo. London. 1751, 

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8vo. Oxford, 1717. 

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IV. 1845. 



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Sir Frxncis Wobtliy's Characters and Elboixs. 4to. London, 

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M. will find something on the Etymology of Pill Garllck in " N. & Q,," 

 Vol. iii. pp. 42. 74. 159. 



H. H. (Glasgow). We are perfectly aware that the effects he describes 

 do take place, ahd they will of course be avoided by avoiding the cause. 



A Beginner (Ludlow). We must refer to our Advertising Columns 

 for information as to the cost of Apparatus, Manuals, Sfc, At thesame 

 time we feel bound to caution you against the numerous advertisements 

 which appear in the daily papers offering Photographic Apparatus at a 

 price below that at which really good articles can be supplied. 



Meniscus.' Certainly ; but we should prefer one that is achromatic. 



Dkcohamenta is thanked for the Tears of the Cruet. This corre- 

 sponde.i* is of opinion that the lines were publislied in the St. James's 

 Chronicle in 1805. 



Sir Hnon Myddleton. We cannot do better than insert here the fol- 

 lowing liberal communication : — 



If" A Constant Reader" will be pleased to come out from his incog- 

 nito, and favour me with a direct communication stating the object of 

 his inquiry, &c.. I may be able, as a lineal descendant of Sir Hugh, and 

 from pedigrees in my possession, to assist him in liis inquiries, and I 

 shall lie happy to do so, if I find circumstances will permit. 



H. T. ElLACOM BB. 



Rectory, Clyst St. George, 

 Topsham, August 14, 1854. 



Washington's Birth Place. There is an ^important misprint in this 

 Query— ante p. 85. The name of Washington's mother was Ball, not 

 Bale. Perhaps some of our readers resident in the neighbourhood of 

 Cookham would look to the parish registers about February 1732, and see 

 whether the tradition of his having been born at Cookham can be con- 

 firmed. 



E. H. A. Biographical notices of Dr. Daniel Williams will he found in 

 the Dictionaries of Aikin, Chalmers, Rose, Oorton.Sfc. There is also a 

 Memorial of his Life and Will. 8vo. 1718. And an account of his l\fe 

 is preyed to Ats Practical Discourses. 8vo. 1738. 



Errata In the article on Church-building and Restoration (Vol. X., 



p. 141,), No. 7. .for" Handleby" r-ea(i"Huudleby j"No. 23., /or" Sans- 

 thorpe," read " Sausthorpe." 



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