hear that a new edition of
Professor Hunt's _Manual of Photography_ has just been issued, in which the
author, besides including all the most recent improvements, the process of
photographic etching, &c., has taken the opportunity of making such
alterations in the arrangements of the several divisions of the subject, as
have enabled him to place the various phenomena in a clearer view.

While on the subject of scientific publications, we notice the very able
volume just issued by Professor Beale, _The Microscope, and its Application
to Clinical Medicine_. Though addressed more particularly to medical
practitioners, it contains so much valuable instruction with respect to the
management of the microscope generally, as to render it a valuable guide to
all who are engaged in microscopic investigations.

Dr. Latham will lecture on Thursday next at the Beaumont Institution, Mile
End Road, _On the various Families of Mankind in the Russian and Turkish
Empires_. The Lecture is for the benefit of the Colet Schools of the very
poor district of St. Thomas, Stepney.

BOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Statistical Companion for 1854_, by T. C. Banfield,
Esq., is a most valuable compendium of a mass of statistical evidence
gathered from Parliamentary Blue Books, and other authentic sources, thus
supplying in one small volume the results of many very large
ones.--_Addison's Works, by Bishop Hurd_. Vol. III. of this cheap and
neatly-printed edition (which forms a part of Bohn's Series of _British
Classics_) contains Addison's Papers from _The Spectator_.--_Lives of the
Queens of England_, by Agnes Strickland, Vol. V., contains the Biographies
of Anne of Denmark, Henrietta Maria, and Catherine of Braganza.--_Poetical
Works of John Dryden_, edited by Robert Bell, Vol. III. This is the
concluding volume of Dryden in Mr. Bell's _Annotated Edition of the English
Poets_.--_Cyclopaedia Bibliographica_, Part XX. The first division of this
most useful library companion is fast drawing to a close, the present Part
extending from Vance (William Ford) to Wilcocks (Thomas).--_The
Retrospective Review_, No. VII., contains some amusing articles on Ancient
Paris, Davies the Epigrammatist, the Turks in the Seventeenth Century,
Astrology, &c.

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