RE DE MAREVILLE.

Guernsey.

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Miscellaneous.

NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.

The new edition of Mr. Smee's valuable little work on _The Eye in Health
and Disease_, is one to which we desire to direct the attention of all our
readers, for the subject is one of great importance, and more especially to
reading men. Mr. Smee has obviously devoted great attention to the various
derangements to which this hardly-worked yet beautifully-delicate organ is
liable; and his remarks cannot fail to prove of great service to those who
require the assistance either of the oculist or the optician. To our
photographic readers, the present reprint will be of especial interest for
the very able paper "_On the Stereoscope and Binocular Perspective_," which
is appended to it.

_The Homeric Design of the Shield of Achilles_, by William Watkiss Lloyd. A
dissertation on a subject immortalised by the poetry of Homer and the
sculpture of Flaxman, which will well repay our classical readers for the
time spent in its perusal.

_Architectural Botany, setting forth the Geometrical Distribution of
Foliage, Flowers, Fruit_, &c.--a separately published extract from Mr.
W. P. Griffith's _Ancient Gothic Churches_--is a farther endeavour on the
part of the author to direct attention to the laws by which vegetable
productions were created and imitated by the early architects, and thereby
to contribute to securing greater beauty and precision on the part of their
successors to the decoration of churches.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--_Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, with Notes
by Milman and Guizot, edited by_ Dr. William Smith. The second volume of
this handsome edition, forming part of Murray's _British Classics_, extends
from the reign of Claudius to Julian's victories in Gaul.--_The
Archaeologia Cambrensis, New {339} Series, No. XVII._, has, in addition to
an excellent article by Mr. Hartshorne on Conway Castle, a number of other
papers on subjects connected with the Principality.--_Lives of the Queens
of England_, by Agnes Strickland, Vol. IV., is entirely dedicated to
Glorious Queen Bess, of whom we think far more highly than her
biographer.--_Poetical Works of William Cowper_, edited by Robert Bell,
Vol. I. Cowper is so great and deserved a favourite, that his works will
probably be among the most popular portion of Parker's _Annotated Edition
of the English Poets_.--_The Journal of Sacred Literature_, New