so widening the area of time in which a given quantity of intellectual effort may be made.

We cannot but regret that there is a very wide-spread desire among novices in self-culture to effect by great dashes at certain studies a perceptible degree of progress, a common grudge at the slow, time-taking advances in any study they are capable of making. We ourselves do not believe in the success of these immense strokes and strides in study. As, however, the love of intellectual effort shines in the student's heart, notwithstanding this faith in the power of "grind" and "cram," we hesitate to discourage it, and shall rather hope that the repetition of each act of study may deepen the student's babits into constancy. We consent, therefore, to this alteration, as a variety in conducting the classes which may make them more suitable as inducements and enticements to the beginning of a course of steady intellectual endeavour; and hence, as excitants in some of the good resolutions and efforts which may be productive hereafter of good effects.

The plan we offer to do our best to work out, for the benefit of those of our readers who desire to pursue a course of self-culture, is as follows, viz. :

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We shall open directory courses of study on certain text-books hereafter to be named, but purposely chosen for utility combined with moderateness of price, upon such of the following subjects as may be found suitable and interesting to the parties for whom these courses are intended, which may easily be shown and made known by a notification addressed to the editor, of the intention of any reader to do his best to pursue a course of study in any one or more of them, viz.:

Arithmetic, Book-keeping, Composition, Geography, Geology, Grammar (English), History, Literature (English), Logic, Moral Philosophy, Political Economy, Phonography, Rhetoric, Writing, Latin, Greek, French, and German.

On the application of a sufficient number of persons desirous of studying any of the above branches-for which preliminary arrangements have been made the classes will be commenced, the text-books will be assigned, and the course to be pursued will be pointed out. It will be competent to the students to send in any number of exercises, performed according to the directions given, within three months from the commencement of the class. These will be registered on the cover as received, and will be arranged and noted in a class register once each quarter.

As the conducting of this course will involve expense in the transmission, assorting, and re-transmitting to the several collaborators of the exercises received, as well as in correspondence regarding them, it is requisite that a fee of one shilling per annum be paid by each student on enrolment into any one class; but having been enrolled in one, a fee of sixpence only will be charged for entrance into each subsequent class.

We commend the foregoing scheme to the honest consideration of our readers, in the hope that they will aid us in carrying out its provisions-1st, by joining it themselves at once, if they feel the need of it; and 2nd, by pointing out to others the main elements of the plan, and its adaptability to their

case.

Besides the advantage of registration according to merit, there is offered to those who make the most perceptible progress in any of the branches of the course, attested "certificates of merit," forming at once an honourable reward and a proof of industry and intelligence.

In addition to the new logic classwhich will, if wished, be opened for beginners, we design to supply a—

Course of practical exercises in Logic, for those who have attained an acquaintance with its theory.

We also propose to supply a series of queries to which replies will be expected, founded on "Butler's Analogy

of Religion," a work which possesses special merits as affording a training in the science of controversy to those who desire to learn to read thinkingly, and

to study, not the mere thought presented to the mind, but the mode in which ideas flow from and follow one another in their course.

M. BANIM is to issue "The Town of the Cascades."

Edward Walford, editor of "Men of the Time," "County Families," &c., is sub-editor of " Once a Week."

Mr. Smiles, author of "Self-Help," &c., is to manage the Railway News, a weekly paper.

The Mayfair Magazine is to be placed in the museum of the vanities of Mayfair-by abandonment.

M. Edgar Quinet (b. 1803), author of "The Philosophy of the History of France," &c., has in the press a work entitled, "La Révolution."

It seems that "Staunton's Library Shakspere" is a reprint of the text and notes of Routledge's "Illustrated Shakspere," and is not editorially superintended by the nominal editor-who received £1,000 for his labour on the latter work from December, 1856, to May, 1860. Dyce's edition of "The Works of William Shakspere" has been begun, and is favourably spoken of as containing a text of great value.

The "Essays on Language and Literature," contributed to the Transactions of the Philological Society, &c., by Thomas Watts, of the British Museum, are in preparation as a collective edition.

Samuel Bailey is preparing a supplement to his volume "On the Received Text of Shakspere's Dramatic Writings, and its Improvement."

A new edition of the whole works of Chaucer (of whom see a memoir in British Controversialist, 1860, vol. i.) is to be issued from the Clarendon press, Oxford, by Mr. Earle, who will

revise, as far as possible, from the original MSS.

Mr. D. W. Godfrey, originator and editor of the English Churchman, is dead.

Algernon Thelwell, Professor of Elocution at King's College, and author of "Lectures and Exercises on that art, died 9th December, aged 68.

Ludwig Börne's (1786 1837) works, in twelve volumes, have just been issued in a complete edition. He was an author of much humour, skill, and effectiveness.

Edmund Yates (b. 1827), author of "After Office Hours," &c., formerly sub, is now editor of Temple Bar, in which he will commence a new tale in February.

The autograph MSS. of the "Scienza Nuova" of Vico (of whom see a memoir in British Controversialist, April, 1858), has been acquired by the National Library of Italy; also several letters of Tasso and Metastasio.

A new edition of the works of Bishop Berkeley (1684-1753) is to be issued from the Clarendon press, Oxford, edited by the Rev. A. C. Fraser, Pro fessor of Logic, Edinburgh, and by the Rev. Henry John Rose, B.D., one of the editors of the " Encyclopædia Metropolitana."

Dr. Strang, the celebrated statistician, author of "Glasgow and its Clubs," &c., died 8th December.

It is said that an autobiography of Geo. A. Sala, originally composed in French, is soon to be issued.

A fac-simile reproduction of the first folio of Shakspere's Plays (1623), in 14 parts, 12s. each, to form a volume

of 900 pages, by E. W. Ashbee, the lithographer, is to begin this month. Published by Messrs. Longman. Eight guineas will then furnish the Shakspere student with a power of reference now attainable, and even rarely, at a cost of nearly £400.

The author of "The Man of the Hour" is Mr. A. Gladstone, nephew of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is said to contain portraits of " City men."

A Dante Festival is to be held in May, 1865, in commemoration of the 500th birthday of the poet, at Florence.

A biography of Archbishop Whately is in preparation by his son, Rev. Edward Whately, chiefly from his own memoranda and correspondence. Selections from his sermons, and from his! commonplace-book, are also in the

press.

A new work on " Church and State," by Lord Robert Montague, is promised by Messrs. Longman.

Sir Benjamin Brodie's works are to be issued in a collected edition, with an autobiographical memoir edited by Mr. C. Hawkins.

The Longmans have had moveable types of the Egyptian character produced expressly for the completion of Bunsen's work on "Egypt's Place in Universal History."

The census of 1861 enumerates the "authors, editors, and writers" of England and Wales as 1,528 males and 145 females, an increase altogether of five dozen over those of 1851; 24 of the former. 36 of the latter.

Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" is being translated into Arabic by Sheikh Faris Effendi Shedrak.

Rev. Orby Shipley is editing "Lyra Messianica," original and selected.

Dr. C. Mackay (b. 1814), author of "Voices from the Crowd," &c., has in the press Studies from the Antique, and Sketches from Nature," a book of poems.

"Lives of the Lord Mayors of London," by Mrs. Hall, are announced.

Henry Fawcett, M.A., author of a "Manual of Political Economy," has

been appointed (unendowed?) Professor of that science at Cambridge.

Rev. J. B. M'Caul is preparing a Biography of his father, Dr. A. M'Caul.

Messrs. Murray promise Vols. I. to III. of a new edition of Pope's Works, with new Life, Introduction, and Notes, by the Rev. Whitwell Elwin, editor of the Quarterly.

Wm. Robson, author of "The Old Playgoer," ," "The Great Sieges of History," translator of Michaud's "Crusades," Bonnechose's "France," &c., died 17th Nov., aged 78.

J. Neuberg's translation of Carlyle's "Frederick" has been issued as a people's edition.

Prescott's "Life," by George Tickner, is out.

Cousin, it is said, has bequeathed his extensive library to the State.

Imm. Bekker, professor of Greek, Berlin (where he was born, 1785), has republished in one work all that he has written on Homer for half a century.

Investigations regarding Rome," by Theod. Mommsen, are promised.

P. B. Duncan, author of an "Essay on Sculpture," &c., died 12th inst., aged 92.

An authorized Commentary on the Scriptures has been projected by the Speaker of the House of Commons. It is to be edited by the Archbishop of York, and thirty of the best men in the Church of England have been chosen as collaborateurs.

Prof. Goldstücker is preparing a "Concise Grammar and Dictionary of Sanscrit."

Renan is preparing "Lives of the Apostles."

A memoir of Madame de Lamartine, with specimens of her literary productions, will shortly appear.

Prof. J. R. Lowell, author of "Biglow Papers," &c., is to edit a "Collection of Old English Plays," and Kichard G. White is to edit a new edition of Shakspere.