454 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
9. Outlines of a Mechanical Theory of Storms, containing the true [?] 
law of lunar influence, with practical instructions to the navigator, 
10. Fownes’? Chemistry for Students.—A new edition of this well es- 
tablished and valued work has just been published by Messrs. Blanchard 
& Lea, of Philadelphia, from the last Lond. edition by Drs. Bence, Jones 
and Hoffman. The American edition is edited with care by Dr. Bridges. 
11. A Manual of British Mineralogy; by R. P. Gree, P.G.S., and 
W. G. Lertsom. Price £1 1s.--The British Mineralogy of 
Messrs. Greg & Lettsom is now in press and its appearance is prom- 
ised in the course of the season. he work, as we learn, and should 
infer from our knowledge of the authors, will be a thorough treatise on 
the minerals of Britain, and will contain a large amount of original 
matter, descriptions and figures of many new forms of crystals, new 
analyses, besides statistical and other useful information respecting the 
mines of Britain and their products. The work will be illustrated by 
nearly 300 wood-cuts and a few colored lithographic plates, illustrating 
some unique and remarkable specimens. 
12. My Schools and My Schoolmasters ; or, the Story of My Educa- 
tion, by Hucu Minter. Edinb., Johnstone & Hunter. (Extracts from 
a notice in the Athenzeum of March 11, 1854).—Mr. Miller’s grandfa- 
ther was a buccaneer—his father was a sailor-—to whom he was born, 
force on his schoolmaster, who tried to flog him because he would not 
that which (to avail ourselves of one of Mr. Ruskin’s fantastic figures 
of speech) creative wisdom has written in the caverns of the earth. 
His kith and kin, some of them pure Highlanders, were men of marked 
character,—-so that, with these surroundings, and these propensities 
of mind and endowments of body, there was small chance of the Cro- 
marty boy lacking such adventures as serve a bold spirit for schooling, 
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was no alternative for him save to betake himself to manual labor. 
garding this again, he shall tell his own story. 
A The husband of one of my maternal aunts was a mason, who, con- 
tracting for jobs on a small scale, usually kept an apprentice or (Wo 
and employed a few journeyman. With him [ agreed to serve for pe 
term of three years ; and, getting a suit of strong moleskin elothe 
