New Works announced for Publication. Parochial Sermons. By the Rev. J. H. NEWMAN.

Practica! Sermons. By the Rev. R. C. COXE.

The Third Part of the Rev. C. GIRDLESTONE'S Popular Commentary on the New Testament.

Twelve Sermons upon Advent. By the Rev. J. H. B. MOUNTAIN.

Scripture Biography. By the Rev. R. W. EVANS, M. A. author of the Rectory of Valehead.

A Concordance to the Prayer-book Version of the Psalms. By the Rev. C. GIRDLESTONE.

History of the Church in Scotland. By the Rev. Dr. RUSSELL.

Memoirs and Remains of Bishop Lowth. By the Rev. P. HALL.

A new Atlas of Classical Geography. By the Rev. J. P. BEAN.

Essays and Letters on Theological Subjects. By the Rev. JAMES HARGREAVES.

The Architectural Magazine, or Popular Journal of Improvements in Architecture, Building, and Furnishing, &c. By J. C. LOUDON, F. L. S. &c.

A Selection from the Lyric Poems of Goëthe, with a few translations in English and Italian. By the Rev. Mr. Haw

TREY.

A reprint of Goethe's' Faust, in German, with an Introduction and Notes. By Dr. A. BERNAYS.

A second series of the Naval SketchBook, containing some curious facts regarding Portugal. By Capt. GLASCOCK.

In monthly parts, beginning with Germany, Lays and Legends of various Nations, illustrative of their Traditions, Popular Literature, and Superstitions. By J. W. THOмs, editor of the Early English Prose Romances.

A New Synopsis of Nosology, founded on the Principles of Pathological Anatomy. By Dr. WEATHERHEAD.

The Sea-Service; or, Popular Sketches of Ship-building, Navigation, and Naval Warfare. By the author of "A Tour in Spain."

The First Monthly Part of a new work on Natural History. By HENRY WOODS, F.Z.S.

A correct copy of the Contract for the Iuilding of Catterick Church in the County of York, dated in 1412, illustrated with Remarks and Notes by the Rev. James Raine, M A. Librarian of Durham Cathedral, &c. and with thirteen quarto plates of Views, Elevations, and Details. By ANTHONY SALVIN, Esq. F.S.A. Ar

chitect.

A new edition of the Poetical works of S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq. which will be comprised in three volumes, uniformly printed with the Aldine edition of the Poets, and which will contain many new poems, now first published.

The Pilgrims of the Rhine; with embellishments illustrating the scenes through which the Pilgrims are made to wander.

Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad, by Mrs. JAMESON, containing information on Germany, and the state of the arts in that country, collected during her residence there.

A new novel by the author of "Mothers and Daughters," to be entitled "The Hamiltons."

A new edition of Traits and Traditions of Portugal. By Miss PURDOE.

SIR EGERTON BRYDGES' new biographical work, entitled " Imaginative Biography.”

The Language of Flowers, with plates. An Attempt to discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, with notices of above three thousand Edifices. By THO RICKMAN, Architect, F.S A.

Physiognomy founded on Physiology. By Mr. WALKER.

Catherine de Medicis, or the Rival Faiths.

Sir T. DICK LAUDER'S Natural History, containing thirty-six coloured plates of the Feline Species

Life of Cowper. By the Rev. Dr. J. S. MEMES, of Edinburgh.

The First Volume of a Voyage round the World, including Trave's in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, &c. &c. By Mr. HOLMAN, the celebrated Blind Traveller.

Original Pieces, by some of the most eminent Writers of the day, on subjects connected with the evils of Slavery, or the prospects of the emancipated Negroes.

Education Reform. By THO. WYSE, jun. Esq. late M.P. for the County of Tipperary.

Life of Sir Matthew Hale, Knt. Lord Chief Justice of England. By J. B. WILLIAMS, Esq. L.L.D., F.S.A.

A New Edition of Italy. By JOSIAH CONDER.

The Short-Hand Standard atten pted, by an Analysis of the Circle. By Tho. MOATE.

Cicone, a Tale of Married Life. By Mrs. LEMAN GRIMSTONE.

According to the Supplement to BENT'S LITERARY ADVERTISER, which contains a list of the new Books and principal Engravings published in London during the

year 1833, it appears that the number of new Books is 1160, exclusive of new editions, pamphlets, or periodicals, being 20 less than in 1832. The number of Engravings is 74 (including 34 Portraits), 13 of which are engraved in the line manner, 48 in mezzotinto, and 13 in chalk, aquatint, &c. The number of Engravings published in 1832, was 99 (including 40 Portraits), viz. 15 in line, 57 in mezzotinto, and 27 in chalk, aquatint, &c.

ST. DAVID'S COLLEGE.

The Bishop of Salisbury has founded four Annual Exhibitions of 10 each, two of them in part derived from legacies bequeathed by Francis Burton, esq. late Justice of the N. W. circuit, and Mrs. Hannah More; two to be called "Eldon Exhibitions," one "Burton," and the other, in honour of its munificent founder, the "Burgess."- John Jones, esq. of Dery Ormond, has founded one Annual Exhibition of 10%. to be called the "Dery Ormond."

ROYAL SOCIETY.

Feb. 6. J. W. Lubbock, esq. V.P. in

the chair.

The following gentlemen were elected Fellows-Capt. Chesney, of the R. Art.; Thomas Copeland, esq., Rt. Hon. Sir Edward Cust, K.C.B.; James Horne, esq.; John Russell Reeves, esq. of Canton; Lt. Col. Wm. Henry Sykes, E. I. C.'s service; John Waterhouse, esq.

The reading of Mr. Faraday's "Experimental Researches on Electricity,

seventh series," was continued.

Feb. 13. The Duke of Sussex, Pres. Mr. Faraday's paper was concluded; and the reading commenced of a dissertation on the Nature of Death, by A. P. W. Philip, M.D. F.R.S.

Feb. 20. H. R. H. the President in the chair.-Dr. Philip's essay was concluded. A short paper on the Tides, by Mr. Lubbock, was also read: with a few remarks by Sir John Hall, respecting the influence of the Winds on the Tides of the Port of London. Also a paper descriptive of the operations adopted for the recovery of the specie and other property from his Majesty's ship Thetis, sunk at Cape Fryon, on the South American

coast.

ROYAL SOCIETY OF LITERATURE. Feb. 5. Colonel Leake in the chair. Mr. Hamilton read part of the translation of a memoir on" The Birds" of Aristophanes, by Mr. Süvern, which is published in the volume of Transactions of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin for the year 1827, printed in 1830. The author's object is to prove that the

poet's purpose in writing this comedy, which was exhibited at Athens in the 3d year of the ninety-first Olympiad, or 414 B.C., being the eighteenth year of the Peloponnesian War, was to expose to the Athenian people the folly of the great Sicilian expedition, which had sailed from the port of Piræus the year before, the issue of which was still uncertain, the Salaminian galley which had been despatched to fetch back Alcibiades, that he might undergo his trial, not being yet returned.

GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Jan 8. Read, On the old red sandstone in the counties of Hereford. Brecknock, and Caermarthen, with collateral observations on the dislocations which affect the north-west margin of the South Wales coal basin, by R. I. Murchison, esq.

Jan. 22. A memoir by Mr. Murchison, on the structure and classification of fordshire, and parts of Wales, and on the the transition rocks of Shropshire, Herelines of disturbance which have affected that series of deposits, including the valley of elevation of Woolhope. The author has discovered that, in the Abberley hills, the regular order of strata is reversed along a distance of some miles; a phenomenon which he considers to have been caused by the eruption of the contiguous rocks of pseudo-volcanic origin. Mr. Murchison pointed out the hopelessness of boring for coal, within the area of the old red sandstone, or in any of the underlying transition rocks.

Feb. 5. Read, 1. On some of the faults which affect the coalfield of Colebrook dale, and on the occurrence of trilobites and marine testacea, associated with fresh-water shells, in the iron-stone of that district; by Mr. Prestwich; 2. an account of the coal-field of the forest of Wyre, near Stourport, Shropshire, by the Rev. Thos. England; 3. on the freshwater formation of Cerdagne, in the Pyrenees, and on the evidences which that chain affords of obliterated lakes at different altitudes, by Mr. Lyell.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

On the 14th Dec an interesting communication was made to the Society by Capt. Burnes, who, in 1830, left Bombay, charged with a Mission to the Court of Runjeet Sing, at Lahore, which he was directed to convey, if possible, up the Indus, that he might at the same time examine the navigable course of that river. He visited in succession Tatta, situated 70 miles up the Indus, at the head of the Delta, through which it discharges itself into the sea by eleven mouths, the outermost of which are 125

miles apart-Hyderabad, the present capital of Sinde, but not containing above 20,000 inhabitants-Sebroun, an ancient fortress, probably of the time of Alexander-Bukbur, a strong fort built on an island in the Indus, 300 miles from its mouth Roree, nearly opposite to Bukhur, where the banks are 40 feet high, and so precipitous, that the inhabitants draw water from the river out of their windows-Sukhur, nearly opposite Roree -Moultan, where the waters of the Punjab join the Indus in one stream and finally Lahore, a city containing 80,000 inhabitants, and the military capital of the Sikhs; their commercial capital, Amritan, being still larger, and said to contain 120,000 inhabitants. Here he was introduced to Runjeet Sing, the celebrated chief of the Sikhs, by whom he was so well received, that he now conceived the idea of penetrating, with his countenance and assistance, through Caubul, in a direction north-west, into Tartary.

In April 1832 they set forth, and proceeded first to Ramnuggur, where they crossed the Acesinus, and thence to Pindee Dadun Khan, to examine a remarkable salt range, called the Zylum, which extends in a direction N. W. and S.E., causing a break or step in the country of nearly 500 feet height, and extensively worked in many places, especially at Pindee Dadun Khan, where the salt is embarked on the Hydaspes, in country boats, called zohruks, some of which exceed 100 feet in length, and carry 500 maunds. Turning hence directly east, and ascending consequently the Zylum, they left the productions of the Indus behind, and entered on a vast plain, extending quite to the base of the Himalaya range, and abounding in the grain and fruits of Europe. At a place called Raivil Pindee on this plain, they visited some very remarkable ruins, of the Grecian form of architecture, and about which they procured a number of coins bearing Greek inscriptions; and thence deflecting again to the north-west, they forded the Indus a few miles above Attock.

Leaving Attock, a place of great strength, our travellers next proceeded to Peshawur, and thus gradually increased their elevation above the level of the sea, from 1000 feet at Lahore, to 1700 and 1800 at Attock and Peshawur. The ascent hence, however, to Caubul was much more rapid, that city being 6000 feet above the level of the sea, and enjoying a most delicious climate, with all the finest European fruits in great perfection in its gardens. Our travellers joined a large caravan, to proceed to Bokhara

through the Hindoo Koorh, wich set out on the 16th of May. The descent into the plain of Tartary from these passes is also of the most singular and almost appalling description, being along a narrow valley, about 250 yards wide, bounded on each side by limestone cliffs, many hundred feet high, and so precipitous, as literally to exclude the sun at mid-day. Captain Burnes thus travelled above seventy miles, without either seeing the sun or pole-star, so as to obtain an observation for latitude.

Khoolen was the first town in the plain of Tartary reached by our travellers. The Khan of Khoondooz, a bandit chief of considerable power and influence, captured Captain Burnes, and carried him off to Khoondooz, on the Oxus, about 100 miles east of Khoolen; but from Khoolen the party proceeded to Balkh, once a great city, but now almost deserted, from the insalubrity of its air. thence crossed the Oxus at Khojusalu, about sixty miles north of Balkh, where it is about 900 yards wide.

They

At Bokhara, where they next arrived, our travellers remained two months, having, after encountering some preliminary difficulties, been most graciously received and effectively protected by the Grand Vizier. The city of Bokhara is of great extent, the walls being eight miles in circumference, and the population 160,000, by whom a great trade is maintained with China, India, Persia, and Russia. Mosques and other public buildings are also very numerous and splendid.

Quitting Bokhara, the travellers recrossed the Oxus at Chanjui. From Chanjui the party plunged into the great desert of Khorasan, (a sea of sand, raised occasionally into hillocks, but moveable with the least breath of wind,) and travelled over this waste, on camels, to Mushed, following the course of the river Attruck to the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea. This track Capt. Burnes found firmer than what he had previously traversed, and girdled in (as far as he could learn at least, to the bay of Balkh), by a low mountain range, which divides it from the Caspian. This range does not appear in our maps, but it is constantly crossed by caravans between Astrabad and Khiva. From Astrabad, Captain Burnes followed the southern shore of the Caspian as far as Saree, then reached the Elburz chain in a direction nearly south, and proceeding through Persia by Tehran, Ispahan, Shiraz, and Bushire, embarked at this latter port, and having touched at Ormus and Muscat, returned to Bombay, after twenty-seven months absence.

Jan. 27. W. R. Hamilton, esq. V.P. in the chair. An abstract was read of the Journal of a Tour in the Himmaleh, performed in 1827, by Captain Clement Johnson, 11th Dragoons. Having formed a party with two of the officers of his regiment, Captain Johnson left Cawnpore on the evening of the first of April; and after a journey in palanquins of about 350 miles, arrived at Hurdwar during the period of the great Hindoo fair, held there in the early part of April. The situation of Hurdwar is near where the united streams of the Bagerutty and Alacnunda, forming what is called the Ganga, or river, (Ganges) issue from the mountains into the plains. It is consequently held sacred; and the assembling of persons from the most remote parts of India to perform their ablutions and devotions at it, led ultimately to the institution of a fair or mercantile meeting. Capt. Johnson considered, from what he saw and learned, that the usual estimate of the visitors at Hurdwar, one year with another, being two millions of souls, was rather below than above the true average. From Hurdwar the travellers proceeded up the valley of Deyrah, and across the successive ridges of low hills which here skirt the Himmaleh to Barahaut, whence, quitting the course of the Bagerutty, they crossed to Catnaur, on the Jumna. They thence proceeded up to Jumnotri, and visited the celebrated hot springs, at an elevation of 10,840 feet, which are usually considered the sources of the Jumna; and which, as such, terminated the researches in this direction, of Hodgson and Frazer. The snowy peaks of the Himmaleh had an extraordinary appearance, the acclivities of the mountains being concealed by the clouds, and the loftiest points starting from the blue sky above. Capt. Johnson and his party proceeded as far as Nako, an eminence about nineteen thousand feet above the level of the sea; thence to Changree Sang, by which they conceived they could easily enter the Chinese territory, but the peremptory instructions given by Lord Amherst forbade their approaching it; consequently they returned in the end of August.

Feb. 10. Several letters were read from and concerning Capt. Back. Three from him were dated Norway House, (Jack River, Lake Winnipeg,) 27th June last, and detailed his proceedings at some length. The Secretary then gave an account to the Society-1. Of such particulars regarding Mr. Lander's expedition up the Quorra, as he had been enabled to collect from Mr. Mac Gregor Laird, who had accompanied it: 2. Of a proposed expedition into the interior of Africa, from Dalagoa Bay, of which the GENT. MAG. VOL. I.

object was chiefly commercial, but which was of so much promise, both in this respect, and also as regarded geographical discovery, that the Council had resolved to subscribe 50l. towards it from the funds of the Society: 3. Of a similar expedition into the mountainous interior behind British Guiana, which offered so many advantages, both commercial and scientific, yet was opposed by so many difficulties, that the Council had voted 50l. towards its equipment, and 50%. a-year more, for three years certain, towards its subsequent maintenance.

REPAIRS OF BATH ABBEY.

We have received several letters in reference to this subject; but our correspondents must be contented with our recording facts, as our space is very inadequate to enter at any length upon a controversy, the discussion of which has already occupied a great portion of the Bath newspapers for several successive weeks. It seems that we were imperfectly informed respecting the London architects whom the Corporation resolved to consult; Mr. Hosking was one of those proposed, but the two selected were Sir Jeffrey Wyatville and Sir Robert Smirke. Both these gentlemen have declined the invitation; and the Corporation thereupon, at a meeting held on the 14th Feb. determined that the repairs should proceed, as designed by their architect Mr. Manners, without any further attempt to obtain a more authoritative opinion.

The statements given in our last number were principally derived from the remarks of Mr. Alderman Clark. The champion of the opponent party has been Dr. John Ford Davis, also one of the Aldermen; and he enumerates, as his supporters, Mr. Edw. Garbett, who has published some Observations on the Abbey; Mr. Garbett the elder, the superintending architect of Winchester Cathedral; Mr. Britton, the architectural antiquary; and Mr. Goodridge, an architect of Bath. In defence of the proposed parapet, he also quoted the late Mr. John Carter, who, in his view of the Abbey, drawn for the Society of Antiquaries, has encircled the building with a parapet taken from the western end, although it is acknowledged without the embattlement. Mr. Carter's authority is, therefore, rather opposed to a deep and florid parapet. We will quote, however, the defence made by the architect, Mr. Geo. P. Manners, in a printed Letter dated Feb. 3, for this portion of his design: "With regard to the character of the battlemented parapet which I have erected on the north aile of the choir, I think I 2 R

may say I have Bishop King himself for my authority, he having given me an example over the west door, which I have followed; with this only variation, that I have made it a pierced instead of a panelled battlement. Its height also gives increased elevation to the ailes, which are low. A panelled battlement would have been more cumbrous, and would have obscured the windows."

The works now intended have been enumerated as follow: that pinnacles be erected on all the ailes, on the nave and choir, on the transepts, on the turrets of the main tower, and on those of the eastern and western fronts; that the gable ends of the choir be cut down and reduced to their original elevation; that a battlemented parapet be erected on all the ailes; that the flying buttresses be completed; and the gable of the north transept prepared for the clock. Of the completion of the flying buttresses we fully approve, as a restoration which was very essential; the other proposed works are chiefly additions, and must admit of a variety of opinions; but against the erection of pinnacles upon the turrets of the two fronts, and more particularly upon the tower, we must enter our decided protest; we found our opinion upon the various views in Mr. Britton's History of the Abbey, in some of which pinnacles are placed on the turrets, and in others not; and we appeal to Plate V. as displaying to advantage the good effect of their omission. Dr. Davis allows that the towers of York and Durham Cathedrals are other examples of their absence, though he states they are found at Canterbury; but the pinnacles at Canterbury are themselves a distinct design, and not placed upon turrets, as is now intended at Bath. The Bath turrets are already, as we conceive, sufficiently ornamented with panel-work and battlements, without pinnacles.

We perceive that Mr. Britton has announced an Appendix to his History, in which he proposes to give " a particular account of the origin, design, and architectural peculiarities of the church, and to endeavour to show that pinnacles and parapets, to such an edifice, are essential features." Mr. Edward Davis announces the first part of a series of Drawings illustrative of Prior Birde's Oratory, the repairs of which we noticed in our last.

PRESERVATION OF THE CITY CHURCHES.

We are happy to state that on the 13th Feb. the Committee of the Corporation appointed in relation to taking down Churches in the City, reported to the Court of Common Council, that it was

inexpedient for the Court to take further proceedings upon the subject; which Report was unanimously agreed to, and the Citizens of London have to thank his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Lord Bishop of London, for their firmness in withholding their sanction to the measure. The Report, which has only just been printed, will probably call for further comment at some future period, as it contains an evident effort to make it appear (however untruly and failing in its purpose) that his Grace and the Lord Bishop in the first instance countenanced the principle of the measure; but, instead of taking down Churches and rebuilding them in the environs of the Metropolis (which we need scarcely say could not be expected to be carried into effect), their Lordships seem chiefly to have had in view the consolidation of small parishes, without taking down the Churches unless imperious necessity required, and such necessity did not appear to exist.

The attempt which was made at the same Court of Common Council, to sanction the measure by an isolated Petition from the united parishes of St. Mary Somerset and St. Mary Mounthaw, Upper Thames-street, for the removal of their Church, does not at all overcome the strong objections which were made to the principle of the obnoxious object, by numerous other parishes in the City of London.

NORTHERN SCHOOLS.

Mr. N. Carlisle, Sec. S.A. has consented to receive contributions, with a view to the establishment of schools upon our national plan, in the Feroe Islands, in Iceland, and in Greenland. Mr. Carlisle has circulated an interesting account of these Northern Regions, and has made out a case likely, we trust, to excite the feelings of the benevolent.

PARIS GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.

At the meeting of this Society on the 20th of Dec. the Duke of Orleans announced his desire to be enrolled among its members, and, at the same time, placed a sum of eighty pounds at its disposal, for the purchase of a prize, to be awarded to the traveller who should make the most useful discovery during the years 1834 and 1835. The Duke de Cases, as President, afterwards passed a high eulogium on Capt. Ross, for the skill and courage which he had displayed; and paid a feeling tribute to the memory of Victor Jacquemont, who had been prematurely called from his earthly pursuits, after exploring the chain of the Himaleh.