456 Literary Notices. 



Instances of the Power of God as manifested in his Antmal 

 Creation: A Lecture delivered before the Young Men's Christian 

 Association, Nov. 17, 1863. By Professor Richard Owen, D.C.L., 

 F.R.S. (Longmans.) — This is the lecture that gave rise to so much 

 discussion and anger in the minds of certain well-meaning gentle- 

 men whose defective training peculiaily needed to be supplemented 

 by the kind of instruction which Professor Owen provided for them. 

 No one can doubt the religious tendency of Professor Owen's mind: 

 he has always contemplated science in the light of natural theology, 

 and his main line of argument would be followed by nine- tenths of 

 that now numerous section of the clergy who have thought then- 

 performance of duty incomplete without a reverent study of God's 

 works. 



The Rose Book: A Practical Treatise on the Culture of -the 

 Rose ; comprising the Formation of the Rosarium, the Characters of 

 Species and Varieties, Modes of Propagating, Planting, Pruning, 

 Training, and Preparing for Exhibition, and the Management of 

 Roses in all Seasons. By Shirley Hibberd, P.R.H.S., etc., etc. 

 (Groombridge and Sons.) — Every family tries to grow roses after a 

 fashion, from those who confine their labours to a humble pot in 

 the chamber or window sill, to those who can afford to lay out 

 rosariums, or line long garden-walks with the all-favourite flower. 

 Rose culture is indeed one of the most important branches of 

 gardening as a fine art, and thousands are annually baffled and 

 defeated for want of the practical instruction which Mr. Hibberd 

 here gives. The wealthy cultivator with acres of lawns and beds, 

 will derive from his pages ample information, much of which is 

 usually concealed as a secret of the craft, while more modest growers 

 will be saved from many a mistake. To the inhabitants of towns 

 and suburban districts, he affords great comfort by indicating what 

 sort of roses they must choose, and how they mnst treat them to 

 ensure success. Mr. Hibberd is well known as a most indefatigable 

 experimenter, and what ho recommends to others he has first tried 

 and proved for himself. 



The Temple Anecdotes. By Ralph and Chandos Tbmple. 

 Invention am> DisroviKY. Illustrated; published monthly. No. 1. 

 (Groombridge and Sons.) — Everybody likes good anecdotes, and 

 everybody likes good illustrations; and here they are, ai a. price 

 wonderfully low, considering the admirable quality of I he type, 

 paper, and engravings. No. I of the " Temple Anecdotes " contains 

 twenty-eight anecdotes of great inventors and great inventions, 



besides ;i brief introductory essay on the " Truo Mother of Inven- 

 < ion." Arkwright, Clavier, Stephenson, Crompton, Brunei, Bnok- 

 iand, Watt, and Wollaston, are among the heroes of (lie incidents 

 narrated, and the editors have shown industry and discretion in 

 hunting up striking and little known lads. Arkwright's wife 

 destroying his models, and as incident in the childhood of James 

 Watt, furnish subjects fur i wo fJull*pagc elaborately-executed 

 engravings, which belong to a style of art seldom seen in cheap 

 publications. They are both good, but the second is especially 



