General Record of British and Foreign Literature

CONTAINING A COMPLETE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF

ALL NEW WORKS PUBLISHED IN GREAT BRITAIN

THE flourishing condition of our Provident Institution, and the provision against future misfor

congratulation with us. Commenced as our journal was contemporaneously with the foundation of the Institution, and established by nearly the same hands, we have felt more than the common interest in its welfare; whilst personal association with its direction from the first, and conviction of its value to our community, has enabled us at all times conscientiously and strongly to advocate its claims to the general support, and given us special gratification in recording, from year to year, its gradual but continuous prosperity. We cannot recall a pleasanter meeting, of the many pleasant reunions the Institution has directly or indirectly afforded its members, than that held on Tuesday evening last at the Albion Tavern, in Aldersgate Street. The immediate occasion of the meeting and event of the evening was to evince to two of the directors-Mr. Robert Baldock and Mr. William Sharp-the appreciation their brother members held their long and gratuitous services in as treasurer and secretary respectively of the relief committee. The duties filled by these gentlemen have been most important and onerous; and perhaps more than to any of the other directors is it owing to their zeal and assiduity the present prosperous state of the funds. Whilst all have watched and aided the faithful carrying out of the objects of the Institution, enforcing its rules and husbanding its resources, upon these gentlemen devolved the chief part of the executive, and the manner in which they have administered their duties has been such as to earn the thanks of all with whom they came into contact. The sentiments of the members of the Institution were expressed in a suitable address on vellum, accompanied by a very handsome silver tea service, of the value of fifty guineas, to each gentleman. Mr. Bohn presided on the occasion, in his usual able manner, and gave effect to the wishes of the subscribers in appropriate terms. Several gentlemen expressed their opinions on the working of the Institution, and it was most gratifying to notice with perfect unanimity; indeed we may fearlessly say there is nothing that can be taken exception to, and we believe that, numerous as institutions of the kind now are, this has the proud position amongst its kindred in extent of resources, economy of management, and liberality in distributing its relief, of being second to none. Again would we urge all our non-member friends to examine into the matter for themselves, assured that a very little consideration will convince them that it is at onco a privilege as well as a duty to belong to it.

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Our remarks on the Canadian imposition of 10 per cent. on the entry of English printed books elicits various communications, and we hope will lead to some strongly-worded representation to our Government, signed by authors and publishers; it affects us much more seriously than it does our Canadian brethren, and they were much more active, although unsuccessful. Let it be hoped that we may reverse this. With a great author for Colonial Minister, and the son of a great author for Canadian Inspector-General, we should be able to obtain redress.

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We are asked, can the exemption of cheap American reprints from the tariff be explained upon any principle? We reply we can give the plea, and the utter want of principle is evident. All American reprints of English copyright books are excepted from the application of the tariff, on the plea that their admission is already subject to a copyright-tax of 12 per cent., collected for the benefit of authors.

In 1848, an Order in Council, under the Act 10 & 11 Vict. c. 95, suspended the prohibition against Foreign reprints into our colonies where the provincial government undertake to secure the collecting of a copyright-tax, for the benefit of the proprietors of copyrights, as well as to have some restrictive effect in favour of English editions. (This alteration of the law, which it amounted to, was effected so quietly that neither authors nor publishers had an opportunity of remonstrance-ante, P. C. No. 480, page 394.)

It is evident, therefore, that the Canadian imposition of an import duty of 10 per cent. on English editions, from which American reprints are exempt, is a violation of the stipulation upon which the sanction referred to is given; the tax rarely returns anything, because not only do the expenses of collecting absorb what is collected, but worse than this, it is not collected on magazines and pamphlets, as, although they are liable to it, they are not deemed worth the trouble—thus they will escape both copyright-tax and import duty.

A fair international copyright treaty with the United States for five or seven years from first publication, would be the simplest remedy for this as well as other evils. It is desired by the United States publishers as much as ourselves, and it deserves the best attention of our statesmen to bring it about; besides the service it would render literature, it would remove the secret source of half the differences and ill-feeling occasionally manifesting themselves between the two countries. Public writers can never forget the injury they are sustaining in the reproduction of their works without profit, and often without their sanction.

The War and War-subjects have not quite monopolised our literature: it will be seen by a glance over our titles of the fortnight, there have been a more than usual number of good and important works in nearly every department.

In Travel and Research the supply is particularly rich:-Dr. Charles Mackay's Life and Liberty in America, in 2 vols. with ten illustrations; A Narrative of a Walking Tour in Brittany, by John Mounteney Jephson, accompanied by Notes of a Photographic Expedition, in royal 8vo. with stereoscopic frontispiece; Weale's Handbook for Belgium; Letters from Spain, by William Cullen Bryant, the American Poet; Sixteen Years of an Artist's Life in Morocco, Spain, and the Canary Islands, by Mrs. Elizabeth Murray, the wife of the British Consul at Teneriffe, whose pictures attracted so much attention at the Exhibition of the Works of Female Artists, in 2 vols. 8vo.; Five Years in New Zealand, by Fuller, in post 8vo.; A Lady's Tour round Monte Rosa, illustrated, in post 8vo. ; To China and Back, by Albert Smith; The Peaks, Passes, and Glaciers of the Alps, in crown 8vo. ; and Weld's Pyrenees, West and East.

In History and Biography.-Memoirs of Houdin, by Himself, in 2 vols.; Italy since the Congress of Vienna, by Gretton; Burgoyne's Chronological Account of India; The Story of Cawnpore, by one of the only two survivors - Captain Mowbray Thomson; a new Life of General Havelock, with a History of his Military Career, by the Hon. J. T. Headley; and a Life of Mary Stuart, by Lamartine.

In Literature, Science, and Art.-The Two Paths, being Lectures on Art, and its application to Decoration and Manufactures, by John Ruskin, M.A.; Harding's Lessons on Art, a new edition; Althaus' Treatise on Electricity; a Second Volume of Choice Notes from Notes and Queries-Folk Lore; and a very copious and well-arranged Catalogue of Willis and Sotheran's Stock, that may well be classed as a contribution to Literature.

In Fiction. Out of the Depths, the Story of a Woman's Life; Miriam Copley, by J. C. Jeaffreson, in 3 vols.; Confidences, by the Author of Rita, in 1 vol.; and The Wife's Temptation, in 2 vols.

In Theology.-The Book of Genesis in Hebrew, with revised Text by Wright, in 8vo.; Chandieu's Spiritual Eating of the Body of Christ; Riadore's Initia Sacra, or Doctrine of the Church of England; Lent Lectures delivered at Manchester; De Domini's Life, and Contemporaneous Church History; Bonar's Christ and His Church in the Psalms; and Eadie's Paul

the Preacher.

In Law and Jurisprudence.-Webster's Parliamentary Costs of Private Bills; Public Statutes relating to the Law, 1857-9, edited by Bigg; and Cole's Oaths in Common Law. Amongst New Editions and Republications the most noteworthy are a 22d edition of the Boy's Own Book; Recreations in Shooting, by Craven, in Mr. Bohn's Illustrated Library; a 10th edition of Bloxham's Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture; a 4th edition of Browning's Aurora Leigh; a Scripture and Prayer Book Glossary of Obsolete Words and Phrases, by the Rev.

John Booker, A.M., 4th edition.

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Messrs. Longman and Co. promise a bountiful supply: their list of forthcoming includes A Journal kept in Turkey and Greece in the Autumn of 1857, by Nassau W. Senior, Esq., in 1 vol. post 8vo.; First Impressions of the New World on Two Travellers from the Old; Shakspeare's Medical Knowledge, by Dr. J. C. Bucknill; Sir J. E. Tennent's work on Ceylon, in 2 vols. ; a new work on Popular Astronomy, by the Rev. J. W. Webb; a Manual of Practical Chemistry, by Mr. W. Odling, M.A., Professor at Guy's Hospital; and one of the first books of those previously announced will be the Recollections by Samuel Rogers, being brief

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records, by his own pen, of personal and conversational intercourse with Charles James Fox, Grattan, Porson, Horne Tooke, Talleyrand, Lord Erskine, Sir Walter Scott, Lord Grenville, and the Duke of Wellington. These recollections form a single volume fep. 8vo. edited by the Author's Nephew, Mr. William Sharpe. The circumstance that Mr. Rogers wrote a Preface, which was found prefixed to these papers, indicates to the Editor the intention of his uncle that they should be published.

Messrs. Chapman and Hall announce a new book by Mr. Walter White, who may well be termed the home traveller,-Northumberland and the Border; and a novel, in 3 vols. by George Meredith, entitled The Ordeal of Richard Peverel, a History of Father and Son.

Messrs. John W. Parker and Son announce Notes on Hospitals, by Miss Nightingale, being two papers read before the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science, with Evidence given to the Royal Commissioners on the State of the Army in 1857; and have also in the press The Life and Times of George Canning.

Mr. Bentley announces The Military Opinions of General Sir John Fox Burgoyne, Bart., G.C.B., in 8vo. The same publisher wishes us to explain that The Village Belles, by Miss Manning, Author of Mary Powell, although designated a reprint, is virtually a new book: it was published twenty years since, in 3 vols.; is unknown to the present generation, having long been out of print; and the present work, in 1 vol., was printed from MS., having been rewritten. Messrs. Hurst and Blackett announce for publication in June, A Mother's Trial, by the Authoress of The Discipline of Life, with illustrations by Birket Foster, in 1 vol.; Realities of Paris Life, by the Author of Flemish Interiors, in 3 vols., with illustrations; Helen Lindsay, or the Trial of Faith, by a Clergyman's Daughter, in 2 vols; and Through the Shadows, a novel, by the Author of Sidney Gray, &c., in 3 vols.

Our friend and co-P.C. of the Illustrated News, in his Table-Talk this week, hints at the probable forthcoming of the Life of a Publisher. If we collect his meaning aright, and the publisher he points at, the book will be very welcome, and cannot fail of interest to the literary world. From the same loquacious and generally well-informed source, we learn that "Some nine months hence, and the Bible will be out of print. Do not be startled! the London monopoly will be out. The right of Her Majesty's printers in London lapses, like similar rights of Her Majesty's printers in Edinburgh and Dublin have lapsed. The right to reprint the Bible should be universal (accuracy, with severe penalties for lapses, included), and should be open alike to Mr. Kent and to Mr. Routledge, to Spottiswoode and Stationers' Hall."

Messrs. Smith, Elder, and Co. will shortly commence a monthly miscellany under the powerful editorship of Mr. Thackeray, who, it is understood, will not only contribute an original serial tale, but throw all his energy and influence into creating it a national favourite.

Messrs. Bradbury and Evans's statement of facts connected with the break-up of Household Words is before the world,-clear, concise, and useful to their accompanying announcement of Once a Week, for which there seems every prospect of success: some of the best writers of the day have enlisted under the banner of Mr. Samuel Lucas, the new editor, and the feature of illustrations is entrusted to one universally esteemed as a leader in the art-Mr. John Leech, who will have the able assistance of Messrs. Tenniel, Millais, Browne, &c.

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Meantime, as announced in our last, Mr. Dickens having become by purchase the sole prietor of the title of Household Words, has the satisfaction of closing the work himself, by a parting address to his readers, on the last page of the 19th volume, at which point the old favourite merges into All the Year Round: this latter, presenting the inducement of a subscribing point, without the incubus of back volumes, starts with three times the number of supporters, the editor assures us, that Household Words left off with.

Messrs. Chapman and Hall have purchased the back stock and plates of Household Words, and will keep up a supply both of volumes and numbers for some time to come.

Messrs. Saunders and Otley have apparently renewed their old publishing vigour their list includes a new tale by Miss Yonge, the Author of the Heir of Redclyffe, now appearing in the Constitutional Press, under the title of Hopes and Fears; Harriette Browne's School Days, in 1 vol.; a new edition of the old well-known novel, Almack's; A Memoir of Mr. Charles Kean; and three new novels, each in 1 vol., Chances and Changes, The Northumbrian Abbots, and the Confessions of a Too Generous Young Lady.

Messrs. Groombridge announce for immediate publication, another of the Hon. Mrs. Ward's familiar books in Science,-Telescope Teachings, with illustrations in colours.

Mr. James Blackwood announces a new volume, called Hawksview, by Holme Lee; Manners and Customs of the English Nation, from the Invasion of Julius Cæsar till the Present Time, by John Brookes; Our Living Painters, their Lives and Works, a series of nearly one hundred brief notices of contemporary artists of the English school; England subsists by Miracle. The same publisher also commences a series of publications under the title of Monthly Library, comprising several already-established works of merit, and others reprinted from the American: the list of volumes for publication during the ensuing twelve months will be found in the present Circular. Messrs. Atchley and Co., publishers of scientific works, announce The Handbook of Specifications, or Practical Guide to the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor, and Builder, in drawing up Specifications, &c., by Professor T. L. Donaldson, of the London University, with illustrations.

Mr. J. F. Hope announces for publication during June, Sheridan and his Times, by an Octogenarian, in 2 vols.; Historical Recollections of the Reign of William IV., in 2 vols.; and several works of fiction.

Ingenuity seems at work for titles to new weeklies: a New York journal announces one similar to All the Year Round, under the title of Upstairs and Downstairs and in my Lady's Chamber. A new daily paper is announced under the title of the Daily London Journal, to commence on June 1st. This will make the number of London daily papers 21.

The old-established and respected monthly review, known as the Eclectic, has passed from the hands of Messrs. Jackson and Walford to those of Messrs. Judd and Glass, of New Bridge Street, by whom it will in future be published. The Rev. Henry Christmas has, it is stated, undertaken the editorship of the Literary Gazette.

The Welcome Guest, a recently-established penny weekly miscellany of considerable merit, has commenced the publication of a tale by Mr. G. W. Curtis, the American author, under the title of Trumps; it reminds one of all the excellence of Vanity Fair.

Mr. John Lilwall, the well-known and indefatigable promoter of early closing hours, has started a Mercantile Circular, intended to be issued monthly, and adapted to the wants of wholesale houses, merchants, shippers, London and provincial mercers, &c. The first number is published. We wish Mr. Lilwall the success he merits.

At a special meeting of the committee of the Literary Fund on Wednesday last, the subject of the proposition recently submitted by Charles Dickens and Mr. Elwin, relative to an offer of a reversionary gift of a library and £10,000, was discussed; and after a conference with these gentlemen, the committee came to the decision, by a majority of thirteen to seven, that no sufficient evidence of any benefits to accrue to the charity was before them to justify their recommendation of the adoption of the proposal to the Society.

The Board of Trade have assigned a portion of the building of the South Kensington Museum to the Commissioners of Patents, for the formation of a museum of models.

A singular application of the stereoscope has recently been suggested by Professor Dove, of Berlin, of which the following brief description is taken from The Times:-"If two accurately identical copies of ordinary print be placed side by side in the stereoscope they will not offer any unusual appearance. But if there be the slightest, although inappreciable, difference between the copies, as, for instance, in the interval separating the same words, the difference will be made evident in the stereoscope, by the elevation into relief (or the reverse) of the corresponding space above the adjoining parts." M. Dove proposes this as an infallible means of distinguishing a forged bank-note from a genuine one, &c.

A trade more ingenious than honourable has just been put a stop to by the summary treatment bestowed upon fit by Mr. Fores of Piccadilly: it seems that for some little time a person has been in the habit of purchasing of him guinea prints, and carefully erasing the title and imprint, so as to baffle detection, has disposed of them even to connoisseurs as proofs before letters, at three guineas. The culprit has been committed to take his trial; but as the trick may be attempted in other parts of the country, we call attention to it.

AUCTION SALES DURING THE NEXT FORTNIGHT.-June 1, 2, and 3, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, the continuation of a collection of rare and curious books, especially rich in AngloAmerican literature.-June 2, by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, a collection of photographic, chemical, and philosophical works.-June 2 and 3, by Mr. Lewis, the library of a gentleman.-June 6 and following days, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, the MS. library of the late Dawson Turner, Esq.-June 6 and four following days, by Mr. Hodgson, a large collection of new books, copyrights, and plates.-June 7 and three following evenings, by Mr. Lewis, a collection of engravings. June 11, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, the very select library of an artist.June 8, 9, and 10, by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, the theological, classical, and antiquarian library of the late Rev. Charles Wellbeloved.-June 11, by the same, a portion of the library of J. H. Markland.-June 13, by the same, a collection of rare and curious works illustrating the English drama and early English literature.-June 15 and three following days, by the same, the valuable library of the late Edwin Cottingham.-June 14, 15, 16, and 17, by Messrs. Puttick and Simpson, a collection of rare tracts and curious books. And early in June, by Messrs. Southgate, important remainders and copyrights of the late Mr. Bogue and other publishers.

NEW WORKS

PUBLISHED FROM THE 14TH TO THE 31st of May.

ABBOTSFORD, and Scenery of the Tweed: Fourteen
Views, in oil colours, with descriptive letterpress. 1s.
(Nelson)...
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AINSWORTH.-A New Abridgment of Ainsworth's Dic-
tionary, English and Latin, for the use of Grammar
Schools; with several Alterations and Improvements for
the special purpose of facilitating the labour and in-
creasing the knowledge of the Young Scholar. By John
Dymock. 36th edit. 18mo. pp. 800, cloth, 58. (Tegg)[1738
ALEXANDER (J. W.)-Revival Lessons. By James W.
Alexander. 12mo. (Edinburgh) pp. 90, sewed, 6d.
(Hamilton)

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ANTIPODES. Rambles at the Antipodes: a Series of
Sketches of Moreton Bay, New Zealand, the Murray
River, and South Australia, and the Overland Route;
with 2 Maps and 12 tinted Lithographs of Australian
Life. By S. T. Gill. 12mo. pp. 220, cloth, 3s. 6d.
(W. H. Smith)
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ARCHER'S (The) GUIDE, or, Instructions for the Use of the Long Dow. 18mo. pp. 54, cloth, 1s. (Myers) [1742 BALFOUR (J. H.)- Botany and Religion; or, Illustrations of the Works of God in the Structure, Functions, Arrangements, and General Distribution of Plants. Sd edit. much enlarged, 12mo. (Edinburgh) with upwards of 260 illustrations, pp. 470, cl. 6s. 6d. (Longman).. [1743 BAMFORD (S.) - Early Days. 2d edit. 12mo. (Manchester) cloth, 2s. 6d. (Simpkin)

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BUSK (H.)-The Rifle, and How to Use it; comprising a Description of that valuable Weapon in all its Varieties: with an Account of its Origin. By Hans Busk. 4th edit. considerably enlarged and improved, with illustrations, 12mo. pp. 223, half-bound, 2s. 6d. (Routledge) [1766 |