came up, it is for the Duke to determine. But if his
Grace resolves to take any notice of that grave assertion,
perhaps he will also inform the English public at the
same time, whether it be really true (as Lamartine not
less gravely asserts) that, on the final charge of the
English cavalry, he ordered the curb-chains to be taken
off the bridles that the horses might plunge more
violently down hill; and that, to make the fatal launch
upon the French yet more precipitate and terrific, by
"intoxicating the men with liquid fire, whilst the sound
of the clarion should intoxicate the horses," he issued
orders on the field for a plentiful distribution of brandy
to the dragoons.

Professor Newman (of University College) has
supplied some useful additions to Niebuhr, and several
valuable illustrations of the early language and history
of Rome, in a small scholarlike volume called Regal
Rome. Mr. Grote, in a ninth and tenth volume, has
brought his great work of the History of Greece to the
triumphant close by Epaminondas of the struggle
between Sparta and Thebes. The leading subjects dealt
with in the volumes are the character and exploits of the
Theban General, the expedition of Cyrus, the Retreat
of the ten thousand, the Asian career of Agesilaüs, and
the victories of Pelopidas against the Lacedæmonians.
Strangely unlike such history as this, and yet in
subject allied to it also, we have next to mention a History
of the Island of Corfu, and of the Republic of the
Ionian Islands, by an intelligent officer of Artillery,
who has also published during the month a Manual of
Field Operations for the use of officers on service, in
which, amid other matters not uninteresting even to
the non-professional reader, will be found a rationale of
"street-fighting" upon the very latest and most
approved principles. Mr. Gladstone has completed his
translation of the third volume of Luigi Carlo Farini's
Roman State, or history of the modern troubles and
insurrection of Italy. Dr Whewell has made public
a series of eighteen short Lectures on the History of
Moral Philosophy in England, containing interesting
criticisms of the successive investigators of that science
from the Elizabethan divines down to Bentham. Colonel
Sabine has issued his third translated volume of
Humboldt's Cosmos, pursuing the astronomical portions
of the great philosopher's physical description of the
universe. And from Mr. Robert Grant we have received
a History of Physical Astronomy from the Earliest Ages
to the Middle of the Nineteenth Century, treated both
popularly and learnedly, and containing, in addition to
very careful notices of the early history and masters of the
science, and in especial of the establishment of Newton's
great theory of gravitation, certainly the most detailed
account which lias yet been given of the progress and
results of strictly modern research in the wide field of
celestial physics.

Several volumes of a light and miscellaneous kind have
also appeared during the month. Mr. Baxter has
published some notes of his last year's travel in Portugal,
Spain, and Italy, under the title of the Tagus and the
Tiber. Mr. Frederic Hardman has reproduced from the
lucubrations of a German settler, Scenes and Adventures
in Central America. Sir James Alexander has edited
some posthumous papers of his friend Sir Richard
Bonnycastle, on Canada as it was, is, and may be. An
ingenious city goldsmith has given the gold-digging
world the timely benefits of his experience, in a thin
little volume called the Gold Valuer, containing tables
for ascertaining the value of gold, familiar explanations
of the art of assaying, and other helps to keep the
Californian and Australian miners from going astray as
to the value of their gains. A Fellow of Brasenose
College, Mr. Bowen, who appears to be as well
acquainted with modern as with ancient Greek, has
favoured the world with his Diary of a Journey from
Constantinople to Corfu, taking the monasteries of
Mount Athos by the way, and riding through Thessaly
and Epirus. Doctor Henry Holland has published some
Chapters on Mental Physiology, treating of several moot
questions in modern medical science, with original
observation and philosophical candour. There has
appeared a fifth edition, with many interesting new
illustrations, of Sir Charles Bell's Bridgewater treatise
on The Hand. To Mr. Hushes we are indebted for
a most useful Manual of Geography; and Mr. Keith
Johnstone has issued two admirable School Atlases of
Physical and General and Descriptive Geography;
containing all the most recent discoveries and
rectifications. William and Mary Howitt have given
us a book, in two thick volumes, on the Literature and
Romance of Northern Europe, embodying copious translated
specimens both in verse and prose, very pleasingly
executed, of the most celebrated early as well as recent
writers of Sweden, Denmark, Norway, and Iceland.
Mr. Pashley, one of her Majesty's counsel, has issued an
elaborate treatise on Pauperism and the Poor Laws. Mr.
Campbell of the Bengal Civil Service has made public,
under the title of Modern India, a sketch of the entire
system of civil government of our Eastern empire, with
some account of the natives and their habitations, which
the committee about to sit on the renewal of the India
Charter will possibly find worth looking into. And
Mr. Seymour Tremenheere, shocked by the number of
poisonous doctrines and pernicious teachings on the
subject of government, which, in the course of his
experience as a government commissioner he has met with in
cheap and widely diffused publications, has done his best
to provide an antidote in a little volume on the Political
Experience of the Ancients in its bearings on Modern
Times; which is more likely, however, to attract the
attention of students already familiar with Aristotle,
Polybius, and Cicero, than of the parties for whom it is
intended.

But our list is not yet complete. The Registrar-
General has circulated a most striking Report on the
Mortality of Cholera in England in '48-9, from which it
appears that the victims of that terrible scourge during
its last visitation numbered not less than fifty-three
thousand two hundred and ninety-three, the deaths
having averaged many more than a thousand a day for
several days in succession. A volume of Miscellanies
by James Martineau, on religious and philosophical
themes, has been imported from America, as with the
author's sanction re-published in that country. Mr.
Bogue has imported from the same quarter The Walks
and Talks of an American Farmer in England. Mr.
Angus Reach has collected under the title of Claret and
Olives, his notes of a ramble in France from the
Garonne to the Rhone. A little volume in Mr. Murray's
"Reading for the Rail " has been devoted to anecdotes of
the British navy, exhibiting Deeds of Naval Daring:
and in the same agreeable series several popular papers
from the Quarterly Review have been reprinted, on
Music and The Art of Dress, on The Flower-Garden,
on The Honey-Bee, and on Theodore Hook. A new
series of" Readable Books," issued by Messrs. Vizetelly,
has commenced with a republication (from America)
of Mr. Edgar Poe's Tales of Mystery and Humour.
In another such series, in course of publication by Mr.
Routledge, a circulation of Michaud's History of the
Crusade has been commenced. Mr. Bohn has enriched
his various and excellent "libraries" by several
important books in their various departments, such as Sir
Thomas Browne's Works, Pye Smith's Connexion of
Science and Scripture, Humboldt's Cosmos, Plato,
Cicero, Sir Joshua Reynolds's Discourses, and Mr. Allen's
Battles of the British Navy. Mr. Van Voorst has
commenced a succession of small and valuable handbooks of
Outlines the Natural History of Europe, with a treatise
by Mr. Henfrey on the Vegetation of Europe, its
Conditions and Causes. The Hakluyt Society has
published some curious notes by one Captain Coats,
on the Geography of Hudson's Bay, a century and a
half ago. Mr. Hullah has published a Grammar of
Musical Harmony. And finally, to Mr. Robert
Rockliff we are indebted for a pleasant verse translation
of the Literary Fables of Yriarte, a collection
which differs from other fables in being devoted
exclusively to subjects connected with literature and literary
men.

The principal novels of the month have been Mrs.
Crowe's Adventures of a Beauty, Mr.Madden's Wynville
or Clubs and Coteries and the Court and the Desert translated
from the French, two anonymous novels called
the Perils of Fashion an Lena or the Silent Woman.
and an historical romance of old-English story entitled
the Lily of St. Paul's.