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son has discussed the " Principles of Reform in 

 the Suffrage ; " and Mr. Stapleton devotes two 

 volumes to a consideration of the principles of 

 " Intervention and Non-intervention," in which 

 he disapproves of the policy of Lord Palmers- 

 ton. Mr. J. Lewis Farley, Fellow of the Statis- 

 tical Society of London, and Corresponding 

 Member of LTnstitut Egyptien of Alexandria, 

 furnishes, under the succinct title of " Turkey," 

 a very comprehensive account of that empire. 

 E. 0. Bolton and H. H. Webber, of the Royal 

 Artillery, have produced conjointly a work on 

 " The Confederation of British North America." 

 To these works on the United States and British 

 America we may add one by Mr. Wilfrid 

 Latham on " The States of the River Plate, 

 their Industries and Commerce." A book of a 

 similar kind, with reference to one of the great- 

 est of the English colonial possessions, is the 

 large volume by Mr. Anthony Forster, late 

 Member of the Legislative Council at Ade- 

 laide, on " South Australia, its Prosperity and 

 Progress." 



Amongst the books of travel of the year, is a 

 narrative of a trip " Up the Elbe and on to Nor- 

 way," by "a clerk in the Waste-Paper Office," 

 under the assumed name of "Nihil." The Rev. 

 Mr. Joseph Waterhouse, of the Wesleyan-Meth- 

 odist Conference Society, a former missionary 

 to the Fiji Isles, has related the results of his 

 labors in the promotion of Christianity among 

 the Fijian people, in a volume entitled "The 

 King and People of Fiji: containing a Life 

 of Thakombau, with Notices of the Fijians, 

 their Manners, Customs, and Superstitions, pre- 

 vious to the Great Religious Reformation in 

 1854." Mr. Macgregor, M. A., of Trinity Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, has published an account of 

 his adventures abroad, entitled "A Thousand 

 Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and 

 Lakes of Europe." The "Narrative of the 

 Wreck of the Graf ton, and of the Escape of the 

 Crew after Twenty Months' Suffering," is a 

 melancholy and affecting description, from the 

 "Private Journals of Captain Thomas Mus- 

 grave," of nearly two years' sufferings endured 

 by a whole ship's crew on one of the Auckland 

 islands in the Southern Ocean, who were 

 wrecked in January, 1864. Mr. Charles Brooke, 

 Tuan-Muda of Sarawak, gives us two volumes 

 of his adventures and experiences during a ten 

 years' residence in that part of Borneo. Mr. 

 Henry Blackburn has recorded what happened 

 to him during a tour he made in the Peninsula 

 in the autumn and winter of 1864, entitled 

 " Travelling in Spain in the Present Day." A 

 second book about Spain has appeared during 

 the present year, viz., Mrs. Byrne's " Cosas de 

 Espafia : Illustrative of Spain and the Spaniards 

 as they are." Of a similar character is Miss 

 Margaret Howitt's " Twelve Months with Fred- 

 erika Bremer in Sweden." Mr. W. D. Howells, 

 a gentleman who was for some time American 

 minister at Vienna, has given, in his volume on 

 " Venetiau Life," an admirable sketch of the 

 domestic manners of the people of Venice, as 



well as of the city itself. Mr. W. H. Bullock's 

 work entitled "Across Mexico in 1S64~'65," 

 affords a melancholy and depressing picture of 

 the present social condition of that country, but 

 is doubtless a faithful description of Mexico aa 

 it was at the time he visited it. Sir Samuel 

 White Baker, M. A., F. R. G. S., has given a 

 valuable account of his African travels and dis- 

 coveries, in two volumes, bearing the title oi 

 " The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile, 

 and Explorations of the Nile Sources." Mr. J. 

 Leyland has also published a work on a similar 

 subject, under the title of "Adventures in the 

 Far Interior of South Africa, including a Jour- 

 ney to Lake Ngami." Mr. Henry Morley pro- 

 vides a series of " Sketches of Russian Life be 

 fore and during the Emancipation of the Serfs; ' 

 and Mr. II. B. George, editor of the Alpint 

 Journal, has published a volume of his wander- 

 ings across " The Oberland and its Glaciers." 

 Captain Spencer, in his " Travels in France and 

 Germany," has added another to the many 

 books of travels in each of those countries that 

 have already been published from time to time. 

 Of Eastern travel, we have Dr. Norman Mac- 

 leod's narrative of his recent experiences in the 

 Holy Land; Mr. Pollock Black's "Hundred Days 

 in the East," a diary of a journey to Egypt, 

 Palestine, Turkey in Europe, Greece, the islands 

 of the Archipelago, etc. ; Miss M. B. Edwards's 

 " Winter with the Swallows," a picture of Al- 

 geria in the present day ; Lieutenant S. P. 

 Oliver's "Madagascar and the Malagasy, with 

 Sketches in the Provinces of Tamatava, Beta- 

 nemena, and Ankera ; " and a " Narrative of 

 Travel from Calcutta to the Snowy Range," by 

 " An old Indian." Mrs. Alfred Hort's "Life in 

 Tahiti," and Mr. Pritchard's " Polynesian Rem- 

 iniscences," are contributions to our knowledge 

 of a distant and still semi-barbarous part of the 

 world. 



PHILOSOPHY i^ceived but few additions. Early 

 in the season a brief treatise was published by 

 Dr. Henry Travis, entitled " Moral Freedom rec- 

 onciled with Causation; the Moral Basis of 

 Social Science." Dr. Travis has exhibited no 

 small acuteness in the discussion of his subject. 

 Mr. Thomas Shedden, M. A., of St. Peter's Col- 

 lege, Cambridge, has written a metaphysical 

 work with a very strange title to wit, " A 

 Popular Essay on the Infinite." Some other 

 subjects are handled in the same volume, half 

 of which consists of a review of Mr. Mill's 

 " Examination of the Hamiltonian Philosophy." 

 The Rev. J. B. Heard, M. A., has handled a 

 difficult subject, or set of subjects, in his book 

 on "The Tripartite Nature of Man, Spirit, Soul, 

 and Body, applied to Illustrate and Explain the 

 Doctrines of Sin, the New Birth, the Disem- 

 bodied State, and the Spiritual Body." From 

 Mr. Simon S. Laurie we have an analytical 

 essay " On the Philosophy of Ethics," in which 

 the author maintains an independent position 

 between the extreme views of the Utilitarian 

 school of moralists and the Intuitionalists. Mr. 

 Mansel, the celebrated author of the " Bumptou 



