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NOTES ON BOOKS. 



Historical Memoir of the O'Briens, with Notes, Ap- 

 pendix, and a Genealogical Table of their several Branches. 

 Compiled from the Irish Annalists. By John O'Donoghue. 

 (Hodges'& Smith.) 



The present work originated in the belief of Mr. 

 O'Donoghue that " a connected history of one of the 

 leading families of the Celtic stock and its fortunes, would 

 better illustrate the social condition of the country, and 

 throw a clearer light on the weak and fitful authority 

 pretended to be held by the Norman colonists of Ireland 

 over its people down to the commencement of the seven- 

 teenth century, than could be obtained from the dis- 

 jointed and unconnected pieces of history published by 

 the Archaeological Society of Ireland." Mr. O'Donoghue, 

 for reasons which he states at length, selected the 

 O'Briens for the subject of this history; and although he 

 originally intended to confine it to the mediaeval portion 

 of their memoirs, he was subsequently induced to com- 

 plete the work, and bring it down to the senatorial ser- 

 vices of the late Sir Lucius O'Brien. The volume is one 

 which will be read with considerable interest b}' the 

 countrymen of the O'Briens, and contains materials new 

 to and well deserving the attention of English readers. 



The Olde Countesse of Desmonde : Her Identitie : Her 

 Portraiture : Her Descente. With Photographic Print 

 and Genealogical Table. By the Ven. A. B. Rowan, D.D., 

 M.R.I.A. 



In this little brochure, of which only one hundred copies 

 have been printed. Archdeacon Rowan, who has already 

 made the " Olde Countesse " the subject of several com- 

 munications to this Journal, with that right feeling which 

 distinguishes a true scholar, being satisfied that he was 

 wrong in bis views as to her identity, has not hesitated 

 to confess "the blunders he has committed," and has 

 here collected and put in form a quantity of details which 

 he has collected connected with the Desmond branch of 

 the old Geraldyn family. But in doing so the Arch- 

 deacon gives the credit of finally solving the enigma of 

 the identity of the Old Countess — Catherine, the wife of 

 Thomas Earl of Desmond — to the author of an article on 

 the subject in the Quarterly Review for March, 1853. The 

 work is one highly creditable to Archdeacon Rowan, and 

 well calculated to please our antiquarian friends. 



A Practical and E.regetical Commentary on the Epistle of 

 St. Paul to the Ephesians. By the Rev. Henry Newland, 

 M.A., Vicar of St. Marv Church, Devon, and Chaplain to 

 the Bishop of Exeter. (J. IL & Jas. Parker.) 



We shall not be expected to do more than indicate 

 the merits of this learned volume, which appears to be 

 intended as a first instalment of a new Catena on St. 

 Paul's Epistles. Mr. Newland's design is to exhibit the 

 Church's interpretation of this portion of Holy Scripture 

 by a series of extracts from primitive, mediseval, and 

 modern commentators, which he connects together hj' a 

 running commentary of his own. In his well-written 

 and thoughtful preface, be states and vindicates the 

 principle of Church authority in the interpretation of 

 Scripture. 



The Year of the Church; a Course of Sermons by the late 

 Rev. R. W. Huntley, M.A. (J- ". 'S: J;is. Parker.) 



A course of sensible and orthodox sermons, written for 

 a country congregation, not exhibiting any great re- 

 sources of imagination, or containing any keen appeals to 

 the conscience; but perhaps (for that very reason) not 

 the leas adapted for the bucolic audience before whom 

 they were delivered. 



'J ho .Monthly Magazines for June display their usual 



variety. In Macmillan " Tom Brown " proceeds very 

 satisfactorily. In the Cornhill " Lovel the Widower " is 

 married. But the great article of the Cornhill this month 

 is that on " the Defence of London." In the Constitu- 

 tional Press, we have a continuation of " Hopes and Fears," 

 and what will doubtless be very popular at the present 

 time, the first chapter of Mrs. Gatty's " Hornbook of 

 Phycology." Fraser is particularly good this month ; 

 but we must content ourselves with directing the atten- 

 tion of our readers to one article, Mr. Spedding's " Sug- 

 gestions for the Improvement of the Reading Department 

 of the British Museum." We do so because the sugges- 

 tions are so practical and obvious that we cannot doubt 

 that the gentlemen of the Museum, who are always ready 

 to attend to such hints, will willingly lend their aid ; but 

 because, to carry out to the full the improvements pointed 

 out by Mr. Spedding, the cooperation of the frequenters 

 of the Reading Room is also necessary, and it is with the 

 view of securing such cooperation that we draw special 

 attention to Mr. Spedding's paper. 



Books Received — 



Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. 

 Edited and Abridged from the First Edition, by the Right 

 Hon. Lord John Russell. Part IV. People's Edition. 

 (Longman.) 



The present part, which embraces the Poet's life from 

 December, 1825, to July, 1828, contains among other 

 matters the negotiations connected with his Life of 

 Byron. 



Boutledge's Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev. 

 J. G. Wood. Parts XIV. XV. and XVI. (Routledge.) 



By the publication of these parts, Messrs. Routledge have 

 brought to a close the first volume of their justly popular 

 Natural History. The object of the Editor to make his 

 work " rather anecdotical and vital than merely anatomi- 

 cal and scientific," has been well seconded by the pub- 

 lishers, who have spared no expense in the admirable 

 woodcuts with which the text is so profusely illustrated. 



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A Tour thro' the whole Island op Great Britain. ByaGcntlc- 

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Records Aritbmatick, or the Ground of Arts. Augmented by 

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The Works op Mr. Thomas Brown. 8th Edition. 4 Vols. 8vo. Dub- 

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Rump Songs. 8vo. Impertect copy. 



BrsnopE (Georoe), New England Jodgfd not by Man's but dt the 

 Spihit op the Lord. 4to. 1661. An imperfect copy. 



Sir Thomas More's English Works. 1557. Folio. An imperfect 

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Avellaneda's Continuation op Don Quixote, translated by Mr. Baker. 

 Svo. 2nd Edition. 1760. Vol. IT. 



The Athenjium of October 28, 1837; November 28, 1810 ; July 30, ISM; 

 August, 1852; March, 1851; March, April, and December, 1857; Decem- 

 ber, 1858. 



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W. S. I Parthenon Club.) " The Barber'* Story of hi* Fifth brother." 

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