are familiar to all naturalists as of the most interesting description, and as unique in this country; and it is to be hoped no tourist will think of a trip thither without availing himself of the great additions to his intellectual amusement which is afforded to him by this admirable guidebook. MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES. UNDER the title of a Financial, Monetary, and Statistical History of England from the Revolution of 1688 to the Present Time, Mr. Thomas Doubleday, author of the "True Law of Population," &c., has indited a philippic against ministers of state, fund-holders, and all who differ from him in his particular views of monetary matters. The Rev. T. D. Gregg, Chaplain of St. Nicholas within, Dublin, has attempted to show, in a very able work, designated Free Thoughts on Protestant Matters, that a system of legislation on church principles would be the panacea for the evils of Ireland and the empire. The work is powerfully written by the well known and distinguished predicator, and if church principles could only bring about divine principles, the proposed panacea would be undoubtedly adequate and satisfactory. A curious little work has fallen into our hands, having for title simply Political Fame, but which treats of such interesting subjects as literary statesmen and political novelists, as well as of more hackneyed themes, as the responsibility of politicians, Young England, Radicalism, Right and Might considered historically, &c. &c. There is a good deal of (originality in the work, and a vein of speculative wisdom, which, if not always founded upon sound data, or emanating from a matured judgment, has at least the merit of being suggestive and amusing. Dr. Bushnan has published under the title of Observations on Hydropathy, what is in reality a guide to the principal cold water establishments of Germany. Whether there still remain many to follow such igni fatui, and avail themselves of such a guide, is as doubtful as the prolonged existence of the establishments themselves. Mr. George Finlay, a name well known to all who are familiar with modern Greece, has, we strongly suspect, in his little pamphlet, On the Site of the Holy Sepulchre, settled a long discussed question in the topography of Jerusalem, and that by strictly historical evidence, that Constantine fixed on the true site, as at present traditionally handed down. It is to be regretted that Mr. Finlay had not considered Mr. Cox Dautrey's views, as given in his recent little work, the "Bible in Palestine," as well as Dr. Robinson's; both being opposed to the present admitted site. The Essays on Human Rights and their Political Guarantees, by E. P. Hurlbut, Counsellor at Law in the city of New York, are ushered in under the auspices of a great name-George Combe-and are, if possible still further recommended by their own intrinsic and philosophic value, and a cheap form of publication, which places them within the reach of all classes. Mr. Joseph Adshead is a most persevering opponent of the existing prison system. He has followed up his greater work, Prisons and Prisoners, which we noticed some time back, by a pamphlet entitled, Our Present Gaol System deeply depraving to the Prisoner, and a Positive Evil to the Community. As this is no doubt the case, it is sincerely to be hoped that Mr. Adshead's perseverance in denouncing the system may ultimately be productive of ameliorations. The Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Character of Henry Hatcher, author of the History of Salisbury, is, we believe, to form a part of a more interesting work, which we are happy to see is forthcoming, The Autobiography of John Britton, F.S.A. The Pilgrim of India, an Eastern Tale, and other Poems, by James Hutchinson, Esq., published by Mr. Pickering, is a work that merited a notice of more than a few lines. It is, in fact, a poem full of feeling and information. -The Vision of Peace, by W. J. Edge, Rector of Waldringfield, Suffolk, also deserves a kindly notice, for the objects more than for the execution of the little poem. Haisborough Hall is a strange, we had almost said an extraordinary, production. The hero," Hunks," having quarrelled with his father on account of his love for a poor girl, is sent to sea in a slave-ship, is nearly murdered by the crew, but finds refuge in Brazil, where he lives to become an infidel and a misanthrope, and then returns to England to put such felicitous principles in action as a "parish officer." We almost suspect a satire at the bottom of this "heroic" poem. SERIALS.-We have seen, with infinite pleasure and gratification, some of the early numbers of the New Testament, illustrated by Heath, and publishing in 2s. parts, by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. It will be a truly superb work, there is no falling off as it proceeds in the execution, and, as for choice of subject for illustration, it can have no rival. We have also received the second and third numbers of Dr. Trail's new translations, and Houlston's and Stoneman's new illustrated edition of the Works of Josephus. This is also a most splendid work, and does honour to the spirit and enterprise of its publishers. We hope to notice the work at length as it proceeds. The publication of the collective edition of Mr. G. P R. James's works has devolved itself upon the house of Parry, Blenkarn, and Co., who have just issued the eleventh volume, comprising the admirable tale of "The Gentleman of the Old School." Mr. Hurst has commenced the publication of a Juvenile Library, to be entirely written, it appears, by a pen well versed in that particular line—that of Captain Marryat. It is sufficient, after such an intimation, to tell our young friends that the first shilling number opens with the "Children of the New Forest," illustrated by Master Frank Marryat. Two new Atlases have been commenced at the same time in numbers, one by Mr. Wyld, the well-known geographer, in folio, at 1s. 6d., the other by Mr. Sharpe, in 4to., and published at 1s. by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. Mr. Sharpe's maps present a very novel feature, and we are inclined to think a very important improvement in corresponding in their scale, one with the other. It is surprising what false notions are imbibed by young people of the comparative extent of countries, by the habit of reference to maps upon varying scales. Besides, it led to national absurdities. French Atlases have always their own provinces twice the size of China, and the United States Atlases are devoted one-half to the "States," such being given in imposing magnitude, and the other half to the rest of the world, every country of which falls into insignificance by the side of a single " State." We have received a third volume of An Ecclesiastical Biography, by Walter F. Hook, D.D., vicar of Leeds, and although we have not had an opportunity of examining the preceding volumes, still we can see that the work is in every respect one of an important and comprehensive character, and which contains, or is to contain, the lives both of ancient fathers and of distinguished modern Divines, of all classes and persuasions. Dr. W. H. Robertson of Buxton has commenced the publication of his Treatise on Diet and Regimen, in quarterly parts. This new edition is materially improved and adapted to the present state of knowledge. The Parlour Library, which is to supply novel readers with works at the extraordinary low price of one shilling, has opened with The Black Prophet, a Tale of the Irish Famine, by William Carleton. The subject is ill-chosen and terribly Irish. The sad realities of suffering forbid the martyrdom of fiction, but the author has accomplished his task with his wellknown power and ability. The monthly volume of Bohn's Standard Library contains the first volume of a most important work: The History of Painting in Italy, translated from the Italian of the Abate Luigi Lanzi, by Thomas Roscoe.-The second volume of the Select Writings of Robert Chambers, is still occupied with the familiar and humorous essays of this fertile and popular author. The complete work will certainly be a deserving monument to a deserving man. Four parts of the completion of the Chronicles of the Bastille, illustrated by Robert Cruikshank, have come to hand; the story appears to be full of stirring interest, but we must defer a notice of it till completed.-A Comprehensive Tune-Book, edited by H. L Cauntlett, musical doctor, appears to possess high claims of merit, character, and cheapness. It is to be published monthly by Houlston and Stoneman.-Part I. of Diseases of the Million, with antipathic indications, is rather out of our path, nor is the principle of publishing medicine for the masses a judicious one. THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE AND HUMORIST. CONTENTS FOR JUNE. THE PRIEST OF ISIS. AN EGYPTIAN ROMANCE. BY THE AU- I KNOW THOU ART NOT CHANGED TO ME. BY J. E. CARPENTER, A GRAYBEARD'S GOSSIP ABOUT HIS LITERARY ACQUAINTANCE. STREET HARMONIES AND Discords 136 137 FAMINE'S BURNT OFFERING. BY CYRUS REDDING, ESQ. REDDING, ESQ. 152 ADRIEN ROUX; OR, THE ADVENTURES OF A COURIER. BY DUD- A VISIT TO THE GRAVES OF THE FOLLOWERS HENGIST HORSA. BY THOMAS WRIGHT, M.A. EXHIBITION OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY THE OPERA-JENNY LIND LITERATURE:-A Year of Consolation. By Mrs. Butler (late TO CORRESPONDENTS. Mr. AINSWORTH begs it to be distinctly understood that no Contributions whatever sent him, either for the NEW MONTHLY or AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINES will be returned. All articles are sent at the risk of the writers, who should invariably keep copies. THE JUNE NUMBER OF AINSWORTH'S MAGAZINE. EDITED BY W. HARRISON AINSWORTH, ESQ. Contents. I. JAMES THE SECOND; OR, THE REVOLUTION OF 1688. BOOK THE SECOND.-Chap. VI. What happened in the Picture Gallery BOOK THE THIRD.—The Conspiracy.—Chap. I. The Meeting at Mrs. II. THE PROTESTANT BURIAL-GROUND AT ROME. BY NICHO- III. RAFFAELLE, LORD OF RAVENNA, CALLED THE MAGNANIMOUS. BY THOMAS ROSCOE, ESQ. IV. THEODORE CALVI, THE CORSICAN. Chap. I. A Mysterious Assassination and Robbery.-Chap. II. Theodore Calvi.-Chap. III. The Prison Yard.—Chap. IV. The Three Convicts. -Chap. V. The Cell of the Condemned.-Chap. VI. The Mystery unravelled. Chap. VII. The Convict Capitalists.—Chap. VIII. Trompe la Mort's first Appearance in Comedy.-Chap. IX. Conclusion. V. THE FEITICEIRA AND THE MAGIC CAVERN. BY W. H. G. KINGSTON, ESQ. VI. RICHARD HARDRESS. A PASSAGE IN THE HISTORY OF EDITH CARLETON. BY EDWARD KENEALY, LL.B. VII. BERITOLA. BY ROBERT SNOW, ESQ. VIII. MAXIMS FOR THE NEWLY MARRIED. IX. AN EVENING WITH THEOPHILUS CHEFFINS, AND A MORNING AT BOW-STREET. EXTRACTS FROM THE "DIARY OF A FORTUNATE." BY W. M. MORRISON, ESQ. X. LAUNCELOT WIDGE. BY CHARLES HOOTON, ESQ. CHAPTER THE TWENTIETH.-Launcelot attends a Parish Statute; hires a Score of Bumpkins for his Father-A Terrific Conflict and Fearful Pursuit of Messrs. Launcelot and Stretcher. CHAPTER THE TWENTY-FIRST.-Mrs. Widge encounters her Husband and the Widow Stiff face to face in Fosselthorpe Church-yard-What happened therein. CHAPTER THE TWENTY-SECOND.-Mr. Stretcher gives a brief Insight into his Profession, and assists Launcelot in finding a Bachelor's Hall; with a Supper at Mrs. Neverdone's. CHAPMAN AND HALL, 186, STRAND. NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. THE PRIEST OF ISIS. BY THE AUTHOR OF "AZETH, THE EGYPTIAN." I. THE LOVELESS LAW. Ir had been the day of the solemn ceremony in Phile, when the priests celebrated the mystic burial of that dread god, whose name none might breathe aloud. The sad death of the king-deity, Osiris, by the hand of the cruel Typhon, had been again recalled to the minds of men; and the history of his interment, after his scattered members had been found by the persevering love of Isis, and, under her watchful care conveyed to this holy isle, again enacted. The jars, whose number was the same as the number of the days of the year, had been replenished with the milk of the sacred heifer-emblematic of the peace, richness, and innocence, spread over the earth during the joint sovereignty of these twinconsorts. The tomb had been crowned with flowers. A mournful ceremony-but how true its acted mythe! For are not flowers-those sweet children of gladness-the soft words of life which nature speaks in every chamber of the universe? Ay! even through the articulation of the rock and the desert-sand does she utter this universal language of life! And are not these flowers, when hung round the tomb of a god, her promises of a bright resurrection-her assurances of the nullity of death of the truth of an immortality? The tomb was crowned with young blossoms; the cold sarcophagus was garlanded with the dearest creations of life laden with the night-dews, perfumed with odour from the skies, their colours part of the very orb of fire. And these wove the robe of the coffined deity. It was indeed a beautiful mythe, this yearly celebration of the burial of Osiris at Philæ, veiling the tomb, and making the grave a place of beauty! The silent guest of the banquets, with his flowery crown and glistening robe, he was a warning of annihilation in the midst of life; but this festival of the island was a promise of life in the midst of decay. It was the holiest and the most significant of all the rites in use among the sons of Khemi;* for it was the cord which bound this state of being with that which is unseen, before the altar of Besa.† Nature herself confessed its solemnity and deep import. For a spell lay around the islet, so that not a wing beat from its groves, nor a bright-scaled fish leaped about its shores, during the solemnisation. ‡ A silence, like that of death, reigned over the holy place, and the meanest, as the grandest, child of animation was hushed in the stillness of awe. The very shadows fell heavier and more intense in depth, and the sun's path through the heavens seemed stiller and slower. But now the moonlight again brooded over the island, enwrapping its The Black Land, or the Land of Khem (Ham), Egypt. †The Egyptian God of Death. ‡_An ancient tradition, cited by Plutarch, and a little altered by the author. June.-VOL. LXXX. No. CCCXVIII. K |