Among the most recent curiosities of advertising is the following, which appears daily in the Times and the other morning journals:"Setting aside the Penny Papers, the circulation of the Pall-Mall Gazette already greatly exceeds that of any other Daily Journal (Morning or Evening), the Times alone excepted." Fancy the roach saying-"When the salmon, the grayling, the chub, and the trout are away, I am the biggest fish that swims in the river, the pike alone excepted!"

Captain Mayne Reid appeared before the Commissioners in Bankruptcy on the 10th inst., to pass his examination and ask for his order of discharge. His debts and liabilities were represented to amount to £7,490, of which £4,242 were to secured creditors, and of the balance, £1,387 were without value. The Captain's assets are thus returned:-Doubtful debtors, £269; property surrendered to assignees, £755; property in the hands of creditors, including a mansion called the Ranche [Mexican for countryhouse), at Gerrard's Cross, Bucks; the copyright of the "Headless Horseman," and other works, £9.794. On the part of the assignees, the case submitted presented very favourable features, and it was estimated that a balance of £4,000 would remain, after realization of the property surrendered and in the hands of creditors. Messrs. Osborne and Stevens, of Uxbridge, opposed, and disputed the statement as to the value of the “mansion," as it was called. Upon examination, the bankrupt stated that there were debts of £249 due to him at the time of his bankruptcy. Messrs. Chapman and Hall were amongst his debtors. Mr. S. O. Beeton, the publisher, owed him £250; but he had not entered that, as he doubted whether it would be paid. Mr. Brown, publisher of the " Boys' Journal," owed him £100 for literary services; but there had been accommodation transactions between them. About three years ago he commenced building a mansion for his own residence, which was valued at £7,000, more than the whole of his debts. It was leasehold property, held from Brasennose College, Oxford, for 80 years, at £25 a year. He had other property in the shape of copyrights; also freehold and leasehold property. He had a riding horse, a horse for his brougham, two ponies, a pony carriage, and other horses, when he was bankrupt.-The Commissioner, without calling upon the bankrupt's counsel, said that he was of pinion that nothing had been shown to delay his discharge. The property at Gerrard's Cross was endently of considerable value, and he did not think the bankrupt was amenable to the charge of contracting debts without reasonable means of payment. The accounts had been carefully examined, and certitied to be correct; the order of discharge was therefore granted.

The average circulation of the Daily Telegraph during the past year is stated to have been 138,704 The abolition of the compulsory stamp deprives advertisers of any practical test as to the numbers of daily and weekly newspapers actually printed.

A fire broke out in Salisbury Square during the night of the 17th, on the premises of an analytical chemist, whereby some damage was done to the printing-office and stock of Lloyd's Weekly Napaper, and the warehouse of Mr. W. Bone, bookbinder.

By a fire which took place in Newgate Market, on the morning of Monday, the 21st, some of the printed stock in the warehouse of Messrs. Virtue, publishers, Ivy Lane, sustained damage by water and removal.

DRAMATIC COPYRIGHT.- Dramatic authors seem to be a difficult class of people to deal with. Mr. Lacy wrote a farce which he sold to his landlord-or, rather, gave him--in part payment of the latter's claim for rent. His landlord was the proprietor and manager of the "Cabinet," a private theatre in the Euston Road; and, when he became possessor of the farce, he granted permission to Mr. Toole, the Adelphi comedian, to play it. This Mr. Toole did, it appears, in several provincial theatres; and afterwards Mr. Lacy brought an action against him in the Court of Common Pleas te recover £12, for six 40s. penalties. On the hearing of the case, on the 17th, the landlord put in the following letter, signed by the author, dated, December 12, 1863 :

"In anwer to your letter of the 10th instant, I beg to say that I accept the offer you therein make me, and agree to the conditions you propose for cancelling my debt to you, viz., to let you have my drama of Doing for the Best' in discharge of £10 of the sum due, and to furnish you with a little piece in a couple of months in payment of the balance."

Mr. Lacy contended that he meant to give his landlord liberty only to produce the farce at the "Cabinet," and not to allow him to license other persons to play it; but the judge held that the plaintiff's letter was an absolute assignment of the copyright; and the jury, taking the same view, gave a verdict for the defendant. Authors should be cautious, when they write letters, to say just what they mean, and no more; and that the judge was of that opinion is clear, for he gave the plaintiff leave to "move the full Court" to reverse the jury's decision. On a subsequent application for a rule to enter a verdict for the plaintiff, it was argued, on his behalf, that the copyright in a printed book was assigned in a certain way; but that the Act said nothing about the mode in which the right of representation in a drama should be assigned. The Dramatic Copyright Act said, however, that no assignment of the copyright of any book shall convey a right to perform any piece, or musical composition, unless an entry were made at Stationers' Hall, of the express intention of the parties that such right should pass by such assignment. Mr. Justice Keating said that the point was of some importance, and therefore granted the rule.

The Government has acceded to the expressed desire of the East-enders for a local museum, and has sanctioned the removal of the "Brompton Boilers" to a piece of parish ground near Victoria Park. The estimated cost of the removal and re-erection of the " Boilers" is £20,000. It is understood that there will be no difficulty in stocking the new East End Museum; many resident gentleman offering the gift or loan of curiosities, and the authorities of the British Museum and other governmental establishments presenting objects which exist in duplicate. The idea of an East End Museum was originally started by Mr. Barber Beaumont, but in this country it takes thirty years to mature and carry into practice any notion, however good, that does not originate with some member of the government or the aristocracy.

In 1831, the notorious bookseller Carlile was fined £10 at Guildhall for selling a cotton handkerchief having an almanack printed on it. The defendant pleaded that, a recent Act of Parliament, 1 William IV. c. 17, freed all printed cotton goods from taxes; but the plea availed him nothing.

The Reader has committed suicide-it has done so deliberately. For two or three weeks its leading article pointed to this mode of terminating a painful existence. The Reader was commenced in January, 1863, by some gentlemen, who believed that a literary journal, conducted by men of high principle, uninfluenced by any considerations of trade or profit, criticising books solely on the score of their merits or demerits, and irrespective of their source. could not fail to be successful. The first editor was Mr. J. Malcolm Ludlow, and the second, Professor Masson; they secured as contributors a large number of the most erudite men of the time-but the work did not succeed. Many of the articles were excellent essays upon the subjects of the works under review, but were not reviews at all. The writers strove to show how much better they themselves could have written, had they attempted the work, and, in proof of this, they appended their names or initials to their articles. The reading public did not appreciate this style of writing-it required information about the books themselves -facts, not opinions. This disgusted the projectors of the Reader, and, after losing a considerable sum of money, they retired from the field, leaving the work in the hands of a more mercenary class of men. It several times afterwards changed hands, and, having ceased to have either influence or circulation, there was at last no other course open to the latest proprietor, than that which has just been taken.

Mr. Theodore Martin, the intimate friend and confrère of the late professor Aytoun, and joint author of the "Bon Gaultier" ballads, is busily engaged upon a biography of the deceased. It will contain copious selections from his correspondence, and will probably be published during the summer.

We perceive that the long-promised volume by Mr. Thomas Purnell, entitled "Literature and its Professors," is at length announced by Messrs. Bell and Daldy, as "ready.' We propose to notice this volume at some length in our next, feeling sure that all who are interested in the aesthetics of literature will gladly welcome its appearance.

London Society for this month is capital; it is very properly a Valentine number, and will furnish abundant means, of conversation between gentlemen who send and ladies who receive billets-doux containing flaming hearts, Hymen's torches, or Cupid's archery.

The discussion respecting the alteration made in the "Christian Year," after Mr. Keble's death, has not yet come to an end; the executors appear to feel that they have no discretionary power, but must obey their trust to the very letter. This is much to be regretted, as there can be little doubt that the usefulness of the book will be impaired.

The French are introducing the word boot-jack into their vocabulary: dry toast is becoming an article of daily consumption, and they are trying to find some equivalent for toast-rack. The French jaws bend more readily to the toast than to its English name.

The Portuary Kalendar, for 1867, is a little work, deserving notice on account of the solemn silliness of its compiler, who appears to be in the communion of the Church of England, but to have very medieval proclivities. The compilers of the Prayer Book were guilty of 66 gross negligence and carelessness," he says, in not preparing a kalendar worthy of the name, but, fortunately, we are now set right; and

such as wish to act correctly, may obtain a copy of this "Portuary" from Messrs. Parker. The compiler has succeeded in discovering that the feast of St. Alban should be the 22nd, and not the 17th of June, but he is disposed to acquit the compilers of the Common Prayer Book of any other blame than that of "simple inadvertence," for committing so serious a crime. It is hard to say how many persons may not have been led astray by the oversight, and have commemorated St. Alban on the wrong day; by so doing we may infer that their misdirected work has been in vain. The author of this little work has also just ready a 'Portuary for the use of the Laity;" and has had an English translation of the Sarum Missal in MS. for three years. This he will publish as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers' names have been enrolled.

It will be a cause for regret that Mr. J. E. B. Mayor has found it necessary to resign the office of University Librarian at Cambridge, the reason given being "that there is not any recognised sphere of activity for the Librarian." He also considers that the Librarian ought to be entrusted with the liberty of purchasing books without obtaining the previous sanction of the Syndicate.

Messrs. Blackie and Son announce that they will shortly publish an English__Dictionary, Etymological, Pronouncing, and Explanatory, for the use of schools, by John Ogilvie, LL.D., editor of the "Imperial" and the "Student's Dictionaries. They have also in the press "A Digest of Nautical Terms; or, Naval Terms and Phrases, old and new, registered and explained. Compiled, during service in every rank of the Royal Navy, by the late Admiral Henry Smyth, F.R.S., F.RA.S., F.R.G.S., &c., and edited by Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., F. R. A. S., F. R. G. S., &c."

A second edition of Mr. Nathaniel Holmes' "has

essay on the " 'Authorship of Shakspeare been issued by Messrs. Hurd and Houghton, of New York. In January, 1856, an article appeared in "Putnam's Magazine," in which doubts were thrown on the generally-accepted fact that Shakspeare was the author of the plays and poems attributed to him; and it was somewhat positively intimated that Lord Bacon's was the real hand by which the said plays and poems had been penned. This ingenious theory created some little discussion among the critics of the day, but it was almost universally pronounced to be untenable. This article was found to have been written by Miss Delia Bacon, who in the following year published her speculations, under the title of "The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspeare Unfolded," with a preface by Nathaniel Hawthorne. But, meanwhile, Mr. Holmes had his attention directed to this tempting theme; and, considering the fact that no scrap of Shakspeare's actual writing-other than his will and his signature to various legal documents-has come down to us, and the remarkable silence of contemporary writers as to his manuscript plays and poems, he has arrived at the conclusion that Shakspeare was rather the editor of other men's works than an original author; and that to Bacon must be given the palm. theory, which is both an enlargement and a condensation of Miss Delia Bacon's notion, he submits to "the consideration and judgment of the general jury of candid readers," in a thick and by no means unattractive volume, printed at the celebrated Riverside Press, near Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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COPYRIGHT.-The re-hearing of the case between Messrs. Wood and Boosey came on at the Court of Queen's Bench on the 12th inst. The original action was for the alleged infringement of the copyright in the pianoforte score of Nicolai's opera the "Merry Wives of Windsor." The plaintiff was nonsuited, and he now moved to set aside the nousuit and have a verdict entered in his favour. The opera was produced in Berlin in 1849, and in the following year the representative of the composer, now deceased, assigned his score to Mr. Wood, the plaintiff, which assignment was registered at Stationers' Hall, pursuant to the International Copyright Act. Mr. Boosey employed M. Bresler to make a pianoforte arrangement of the overture and principal airs in the opera, which arrangement he published The Lord Chief Justice, in delivering judgment, said--"The question was whether the requirements of the Copyright Act had been complied with. It had been admitted that the pianoforte arrangement, the subject of the action, had not been made by Otto Nicolai, the composer of the opera, and, further, that it had not been published until after Nicolai's death. They had then to consider whether the arrangement was the work of Nicolai or of M. Bresler, by whom it had been actually made. If it were the work of the latter, then the defendant was entitled to judgment, the name of M. Bresler not appearing on the registry, and the plaintiff not having the copyright of his work. It had been contended that in effect, although not in fact, the arrangement was the work of Nicolai, being founded upon the opera which had emanated from his mind, and had been the offspring of his musical genins. That was, no doubt, an ingenious way of putting it; but every one acquainted with masic knew that it was no ordinary matter to make an arrangement such as that referred to from the full score of the opera. To do so required musical attainments of a high order. It seemed to him impossible for any musician, however eminent as a composer or an executant, with the original score of an opera before him, to play from it on a separate instrument. The eye and mind would be unable to bring the whole before them for the purpose. The arrangement from the opera was a work that required not only time and reflection, but great skill, and he could not bring his mind to consider that such an arrangement as that in question was, or should be regarded as, other than a substantive and separate work. To hold that it was not would, he thought, lead to serious consequences. It must, therefore, be taken that the arrangement was the work of M. Bresler, and his name not appearing in the register, the action could not be maintained. It was not necessary in the present case to decide the other point raised as to the address of Mr. Wood not appearing on the register; but he was inclined to think that such was not necessary in the case of an assignee, although it clearly was in the case of an original proprietor. Under all the circumstances, the rule to set aside the nonsuit must be discharged. This would not, however, prevent the plaintiff, with fresh evidence, trying his right should the copyright in other portions of the work be infringed." From this judgment it will be seen that great precision is necessary when publishers make an entry at Stationers' Hall.

The Head Mastership of the Birmingham and Edgbaston Proprietary School, lately vacated by Dr. Badham, has been conferred on Mr. Robertson, Rector of the Inverness Royal Academy.

Mr. R. H. Major, who is well known as an authority on the history of navigation and all matters connected with geography, has been appointed Keeper of the Maps and Charts of the British Museum; and Mr. Charles Rien, Professor of Persian at University College, has been promoted to the post of Keeper of the Oriental MSS. in the national collection.

Louis Rochford, of Dalston, described as a printseller and picture-frame dealer, was fined £50 and £4 4s. costs, at the Worship-street police court, on the 20th inst., for having "knowingly sold twenty printed copies of two prints, the property of Mr. Henry Graves." The prints so pirated were respectively entitled, "Train up a child in the way he should go,' and "Ordered on Foreign Service;" the title of the latter on the spurious copies being altered to that of "The Soldier's Destiny." In each case the pirated copies were of German manufacture.

Dr. Manning, Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, has written to one of the newspapers denying a statement that he is connected, either directly or indirectly, with the Westminster Gazette, a new Roman Catholic journal; or that he has ever written a line in its columns.

A subscription has been commenced for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to Mr. George Glenny, who has passed a long life in the praiseworthy attempt to improve the gardens and gardening of rich and poor. Her Majesty has sent a donation of fifty pounds, and we trust that the effort will be successful. Mr. Glenny is now in his 73rd year.

We hear that the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, the distinguished American clergyman, and brother to Mrs. Stowe, is engaged to write for Bonner's Ledger, a New York paper of large circulation, and that he has a retaining fee of 25,000 dollars, or £5,000. Possibly-though the news would astonish some people-Mr. Spurgeon or the Rev. Mr. Binney, would not object to write for the Daily Telegraph or Weekly Dispatch at the same rate.

The Daily News, of January 15, understands that "a new political and literary paper, to be called The Chronicle, will shortly make its appearance among our weekly contemporaries. Its origin is due to persons connected with the late Home and Foreign Review, the principal contributors to which will form part of its staff. Its politics will be frankly liberal, and its literary department will include a systematic criticism of all the leading publications in this country and abroad."

A portrait has been published in an illustrated sporting paper by permission of Sir Richard Mayne," of "Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre." The portrait represents the great political bogey as a rather good-looking, benevolent man of fifty, with a long beard, and a somewhat bald head. Mr. Stephens says, that after his escape from gaol he remained some time in Ireland, and owes his escape partly to the attachment of friends, but more than all to the fact of his never having had his portrait taken till after he got to America.

Mr. Goldwin Smith has delivered his promised series of lectures on the Political History of England, at the Town Hall, Manchester. Beginning with "John Pym and the Parliamentary Struggle against Charles the First," and thence passing to Cromwell and the Revolution, he professed to Pitt, and the events and causes which have led to the civilization of England under Victoria. The lectures will, no doubt, be shortly published.

Messrs. Houlston & Wright will, on the 1st of March, commence the publication of a new serial, The Churchman's Shilling Magazine and Family Treasury, under the editorship of the Rev. R. H. Baynes. It will be illustrated. Amongst the contributors are the names of the Rev. W. Alexander, Miss Ada Cambridge, and the Rev. A. Brodrick.

We are informed that the "Ante-Nicene Library," noticed in our last, already numbers three archbishops, and a good part of the bench of bishops, among the list of subscribers. May we suggest to the spirited publishers that a complete translation of all the apocryphal Gospels is a work much wanted? in proof of which we may mention that the incomplete and unsatisfactory work of Hone's is constantly in demand.

Mr. Wesley, of Fleet Street, has sent us a series of his "Double Copy Copy-books," the peculiarity of which is that whilst head lines" are given to every page, the same copies are also given as a set of moveable slips, so that when the first line has been written, the corresponding slip copy may be torn off and placed immediately above the line that is to be next written upon. When that has been copied, the slip may be placed above the next line, and so on, till the copy is finished. The first four books of the series have the copies outlined half down the page. We think the plan by which the pupil is prevented from copying his own writing instead of what is set before him, is much more serviceable-it is certainly more economic-than that usually adopted. The writing paper is good, and the headings not too difficult for the beginner.

From Mr. Vere Foster we have also received a set of his "Palmerston" series of copy-books. These have been designed chiefly for the use of the Irish National Schools, the Commissioners of which have purchased 850,000 of them. Among the characteristics of the series are its compactness, its freedom, combined with legibility, the absence of large hand, and the useful instruction that is conveyed by the passages given as head lines to be copied. The series commences with the straight stroke, and goes on methodically till the pupil is able to copy any passage set before him.

OBITUARY.

Jan. 1, at Brussels, aged 89, Mrs. Mary Westwood, formerly of Enfield. Those who are acquainted with the life of Charles Lamb will remember the name of Mrs. Westwood in connection with Lamb's residence at Enfield.

Jan. 3, at 10, Ovington Square, aged 67, Robert Lemon, Esq., for many years connected with the State Paper Office, and editor of several volumes published in connection with the Record Office.

January 7. At Homerton, aged 76. James Edmeston, Esq., a well-known hymn-writer. From Mr. Miller's recently published volume,* we learn that Mr. Edmeston was brought up as an Independent, but that his own inclination led him to become an Evangelical Churchman, and that he followed the profession of an architect and surveyor. At the age of 18 he began to write for the press, and in 1817 published a volume of poems. This was followed by a tale; and he from time to time contributed hymns

Our Hymns, their Authors and Origin" (Jackson, Walford, and Hodder), by Josiah Millar-a book we have much pleasure in naming. Although it only professes to give an account of the writers who have contributed to the New Congregational Hymn Book, it in reality furnishes an amount of information on the subject of our hymnody that we cannot obtain elsewhere.

to the "Evangelical" and other magazines. One of these hymns, commencing

"Saviour breathe an evening blessing,"

has found its way into a large number of collections. Some of his hymns for children are said to be but little inferior to those of Jane Taylor.

Jan. 7, at Hammersmith, aged 63, William Kidd, the genial gossipper. Mr. Kidd was apprenticed to Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock in Paternoster Row, and about the year 1828 commenced business on his own account. Here

he published "The Gentleman in Black," of which, we believe, he was the author; "Burns's Address to the Deil,"with illustrations by Landseer; and several other volumes of facetiæ, all well illustrated, and which are now highly prized by collectors. He then commenced a serial, a kind of every-day book, called the "Anniversary Calendar." This appears to have been successful, as before its completion he removed to Regent Street, and published Guides to all the popular places of resort-a Domestic Library, a Fashionable Library, an Entertaining Library, and a Useful Library. We do not know whether these were all successful, but after a time he sold his business to Mr. Gilbert, and, we believe, afterwards removed to Tavistock Street, and then to the Strand, where he commenced "Kidd's Own Journal," a work which reached five volumes, and was discontinued, much to his regret. From that time he turned his attention to natural history, especially to those birds and animals which may be termed domestic pets. He constructed an aviary at his house at Hammersmith, and in this collected a large number of birds of various sorts, and, it is said, introduced some four-footed pets that he thought he had tamed -rats. These could not resist their original instinct, and the birds fell victims. Mr. Kidd was disheartened by his failure, and could not find courage enough to re-people the aviary. For some years before his death he had turned his attention to lecturing, or, as he termed it, gossipping, and succeeded not only in gaining the ears, but also the hearts of all with whom he came in contact. He had long been suffering from chest disease, and unable to resist the inclement weather which prevailed at the commencement of this month, he quietly finished a useful life, regretted by all who knew him.

Jan. 10, in Upper George Street, Bryanstone Square, aged 73, Mr. Thomas Egley, for many years a well-known bookseller in New Bond Street.

Jan. 11, at the Retreat, Sydenham, aged 62, Mr. George Baxter, a well-known wood engraver, the inventor and patentee of oil-colour picture printing. Mr. Baxter was the second son of the late Mr. John Baxter, printer and publisher, of Lewes, where he was born in 1806. Early in life he evinced a taste for drawing, and his pencil was constantly employed in his father's esta blishment for the illustration of several local histories. After having successfully employed his graver upon them, he placed himself under Mr. Williams, an eminent wood engraver, to finish himself in the practical details of his art. So vigorously did he apply himself, that in a few months his instructor pronounced him to be equal to himself in finish and detail.

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of his earliest works was the illustration of an Agricultural Annual, published by his father at Lewes; but finding more scope for his genius, he, in or about 1830, came to London, where he married a daughter of the late Mr. Robert Harrild, then of Friday Street, manufacturer of

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printers' composition rollers. These, the invention of a German, were unknown to this country till Mr. Harrild introduced them, and by his untiring energy, and in spite of much prejudice and opposition on the part of the men, got them into every printing-office in the kingdom.

The earliest London-printed volume to which we have seen Mr. Baxter's name is "The Missionary Annual" for 1833, which contains seventeen admirably engraved illustrations, evidencing an amount of conscientious manipulation such as was rare even in those days, and which is entirely unknown to our modern wood-cutters. About this time he began to turn his attention to colour printing; but unfortunately we are unable to trace his progress, as we possess but one early specimen-"The Chain Bridge at New Shoreham.” the colours of which are but little more than tints, being a reproduction of a sepia drawing; but we believe his earliest work in oil was a butterfly, and his last a representation of the Dogs of St. Bernard. The plan pursued by Mr. Baxter, and by which he obtained such wonderful results, was as simple as it was ingenious. The first, or "key" plate, was an impression in black or some neutral tint from an engraved steel plate; the several colours being afterwards printed over the first from a succession of woodcuts, so arranged that each colour fell into its proper place; or sometimes this plan was reversed the colours being printed first, and the key-block last. Numerous attempts were made to invade his patent, but they were none of them successful; and ever since the expiration of the patent no colour-printer seems to have attained the thorough success achieved by

Mr. Baxter.

One of his most finished efforts appeared as a frontispiece to "Williams's Misionary Enterprise in the South Seas." This was soon followed by a portrait of Mr. Knill, the Baptist missionary. He also published some excellent portraits of John Williams and Queen Pomare. His fame was now established, and had he been less of an artist and more a man of the world, he might have accumulated a large fortune. Love of art, however, tempted him to spend more time over his pictures than his patrons could afford to pay him for; and disgusted with this niggardly patronage, he published a large number of pictures, large and small, on his own account; but others reaped larger profits than himself even then. He retired from business about seven years ago, and settled at Sydenham. He met with an accident some three months ago while getting into an omnibus at the Mansion House; another omnibus being close behind him, the pole of which struck him in the neck. The following day he was seized with paralysis, and suffered also from concussion of the brain, for which he was under treatment, when apoplexy set in, and he died the following day. Among some of his works may be mentioned his miniatures of her Majesty and the late Prince Consort, and a copy of Rubens "Descent from the Cross," from the original at Antwerp. He received the gold medal of Austria for the execution of pictures of the Austrian gems; a gold medal from the King of Sweden; and a silver medal from the Emperor of the French, for pictures exhibited in Paris in 1855. His best original production is the aniniature drawing of the Baptism of the Prince of Wales, which was shown at the Great Exhibition of 1851, the likenesses of the Royal family and personages present being excellent. The late King of Prussia was in treaty for the purchase of it at the time of his death.

Jan. 12, at Blackburn, aged 88, Mr Thomas Ainsworth, father of Mr. James Ainsworth, publisher, of Manchester. Mr. Ainsworth was one of the oldest members connected with the number trade, having commenced to canvass for orders in the year 1813. He was also an ancient member of the Lancashire Methodists, with which body he had been 67 years connected.

Jan. 16th, aged 70, Dr. William Marsden, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, author of a work on Malignant Cholera. His name is identified with the foundation of the Royal Free Hospital and the Cancer Hospital. He was a member of the Royal Institution, and, among other appointments, held that of Referee to the Defence Assurance Office.

Jan. 16, at Eden Place, Kentish Town, aged 82, Joseph Guy, author of the Victoria Spelling Book, and a large number of other educational works. The deceased was known as Joseph Guy, junior, his father having borne the same Christian name, and having preceded him as an educational author. In 1806, Joseph Guy, senior, kept a school at Bristol, and for the use of his own scholars had prepared the "New British Spelling Book." A copy of this fell into the hands of Mr. Cradock, who had just commenced business; he at once saw its value, and endeavoured, unsuccessfully, to interest some other members of the trade. They not only declined to join in the purchase, but laughed at the idea of a new spelling-book, when Main's was in such demand! Undeterred by this, Mr. Cradock purchased the book, and soon disposed of 10,000 copies. Guy after this was attached to the Royal Military College at Great Marlow, but we are unacquainted with his after career, or when he died. He compiled a "New British Expositor," School Geographies, Arithmetics, and Grammars, many of which are still in demand. His son, just deceased, was entered at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, and, like his father, produced quite a library of school books. Having acted as private tutor, and having been practically engaged in school-keeping, he knew the requirements of the young; hence the usefulness of those works he compiled and wrote. They are still in constant use in a large number of schools, and it will gratify many of our readers to know that the original proprietor, Mr. Charles Cradock, still enjoys an interest in them, and we hope may do so for some time to come, although he is now in his 82nd year. Mr. Guy was never married. His remains were laid in the Highgate Cemetery, where a stone will be erected to his memory.

Jan. 17, at Jordanhill, N. B., aged 84, James Smith, Esq., F.R.S., author of a work on the "Life and Voyages of St. Paul, and well-known as an ardent geologist and local archaeologist.

Jan. 18, aged 43, Dr. Brinton, F.R.S. He was well known as the author of several valuable medical works, and at the time of his death held the post of physician and clinical lecturer at St. Thomas's Hospital.

Jan. 21, at Cambridge, aged 45, Francis Eliza, the much respected widow of the late Mr. Daniel Macmillan, bookseller and publisher.

Jan. 21, aged 82, D. B. Hickie, Esq., LL.D., Head Master of the Grammar School, Hawkshead, Windermere, author and editor of several school books.

Jan. 22, at Plymouth, aged 75, Sir William Snow Harris, author of a work "On the Nature of Thunderstorms;" on "The Effects of Lightning on Floating Bodies ;" and the "Rudiments of Electricity;" but better known as the inventor and adapter of lightning conductors to ships.