Hospital of St. Cross, bearing the motto "Have mercy, have mynde," are excellent examples from, we believe, a very rich repository; the wall tiles from the church of Great Malvern are curious and uncommon specimens of encaustic tiles being made to substitute embroidered tapestry, for effect. Of these separate examples have been given, and they are judiciously brought into combination as an ornamental border to the letter-press description. Oriental Cylinders. No. I. By A. Cullimore. In this publication are represented forty-one Babylonian or Persepolitan cylinders, drawn from casts made by Mr. Doubleday from these objects in different collections. Much discussion has been raised about the meaning and application of these amulets, and the interpretation of their inscriptions; but the works yet published on the subject, as those of Rich, Ouseley, Landseer, Tournefort, Tassie, and others, do not contain so many engravings all together as are found in this number. A work of this nature has long been required, as it is only by bringing together all the varieties of cylinders that anything can be made out of them. No two of these gems are duplicates. The majority have inscriptions in the Babylo nian cuneiform, but some in the Persepolitan character, one of which, from Mr. Salt's collection in the Museum, contains the name of Darius, who is represented transfixing with his arrows a lion. Many of the subjects are astrological, the constellations and some zodiacal signs occurring on them; but a great deal has yet to be done towards elucidating these amulets, and the present work will diffuse far and wide a knowledge of the different emblems found on them. It is intended to comprise all the cylinders known or published. Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes. Translated from the German by the Rev. H. H. Arnold, B.A.-Mr. Arnold has made some valuable additions to our school literature by his translations from the works of the most popular German critics. The small volume from which the "Hand-book" before us is taken, is an abridgment of the same author's larger work on this subject, which was published about twelve years since in six vols. It however contains all that is essential to the purposes for which it is intended; and we trust it will soon make its way into our academies, where it will be an useful assistant in the art of Latin composition. by Augustus Grotefend; translated from the German by the Rev. H. H. Arnold, B.A. Edited by the Rev. T. K. Arnold, M.A. &c.-A very useful work on Latin prose composition, with notes, and excursuses from the German by the lamented Augustus Grotefend. The Natural Principles and Analogy of the Harmony of Form. By D. R. Hay, Decorative Painter to the Queen. Edinburgh. This is an application of the harmonic proportions of music to architecture, shewing that the harmonic symmetry of beautiful forms, as of buildings, is the result of the harmonic proportions to each other of their chief lines; or that when the chief lines of a building or other form bear to each other those proportions of the parts of the monochord, or the velocities of their vibrations, which sound the notes of a common musical chord, the harmony of the form is perceived by the mind through the eye, as that of the notes is through the ear. We are fearful that some of our readers who may never have turned their minds to the mysteries of harmony, and the known identity of the laws of sound and colour, to us a strong proof of the truth of the undulatory theory of light, may smile to see in some of Mr. Hay's plates, the melody of ancient public buildings given in musical notes, and may take his theory to be a fanciful one; but we give it our most hearty commendation, believing it to be the master principle of beauty, which the Greeks so well understood, and applied so happily in their best works of art. We have now in our folio some architectural designs which we drew in trial of the principle of harmonic proportion, for we are not architects, and can therefore recommend it on good grounds, though we did not get our dimensions from the inscription of geometrical figures like Mr. Hay, but by the interpolation or addition of a new term, (x,) in an algebraic harmonic proportion. Mr. Hay seems to be a little inaccurate where he states (p. 15,) that the circle, ellipsis, and volute, are all the varieties of which the curved line is capable, since there are innumerable other curves, algebraic and transcendental, as essentially different from those three, as they are from each other; and we think he is rather obscure (in p. 19,) where he says, without affording his readers any thing like a proof of it, that the periphery of an equilateral triangle is to the circumference of a circle in which it is inscribed, as the third note is to the tonic, or as 4 to 5, since this is only approximately true, for, Materials for Translation into Latin: if it could be shown to be absolutely so, no less a problem than that of the rectification, and consequently the quadrature, of the circle would be solved, and we think that he would do well to give, in a second edition, a definition with numerical examples of harmonic proportion, and a table of harmonic numbers. Phonography; or the writing of sounds. By V. D. De Stains, Graduate of the University of Paris.-This work is divided into two parts, logography, or universal writing of speech, and musicography, or symbolical writing of music; the first of which offers a new set of phonetic characters as a substitute for our degenerated logographic system, and the second a reformation of our musical notation; a short-hand form of each system being joined to it. As the best opinion of a system of this kind is that conceived from a trial of it, which we have not made, it would be as unjust in us to condemn it, as it would be rash to praise it wholly; and therefore we will barely say that we think the logographic characters rather ingeniously contrived, though it is no recommendation of them that they run so wide in crooked scrawls above and below the reading line; and that the musicography, unless it should partially fail in cases where the tonic changes frequently in modulations, seems to give the pitch much better than the length of the note. We think that the chapter on the analysis of speech is excellent, and we will allow the author to rail at the anomalies of our spelling-book; but when he says that "in Spain and Italy, where all letters are pronounced in an almost invariable manner, there are but few mad people; in France we find a greater number, owing to the great quantity of mute letters; and in England, where the spelling-book is the most complicated, there are more insane people than in any other part of the civilized world;" we are almost inclined to think that too much orthographical learning has made him mad. Mr. De Stains, although friendly to the learning of modern languages, yet seemingly forgetting that mankind have an historical as well as a geographical extension, asks us (in p. 4,) "why does a reasonable being (one who has not spelt himself mad!) consecrate so much of his youthful years to the study of the classics?" a question which, as we have not room to answer it at length, we shall leave our classical readers to answer for themselves; though Mr. De Stains seems to have enriched his own mind from the lore of some ancient authorities which have never fallen into our hands, as (in p. 18,) he speaks of an original language which was lost by our disgraced father at his fall, and gives us to understand (p. 36,) that the confusion of tongues happened at the building of the pyramids. The Sacred Scriptures in Hebrew and English. By the Rev. D. A. De Sola, Minister of the congregation of Spanish and Portuguese Jews, J. L. Lendenthal, Reader and Secretary to the new Synagogue, and Morris J. Raphael. 8vo. part I. The Hebrew text, in excellent type, with a new English translation and critical and explanatory notes; most valuable to the Hebrew Bible student, and not less so, in our opinion, as coming from the hands of Hebrew gentlemen; for, however they may differ from us in their interpretation of some of the prophecies, yet, as like Timothy they have known the Hebrew scriptures from childhood, their critical expositions must be worthy of all attention. The note to Genesis XV. 15, in favour of the doctrine of the seventh article of our church, brings to our minds a contradiction of it in a book commonly given along with it to candidates for holy orders, Grotius; for while the article says that 66 they are not to be heard which feign that the old fathers did look only for transitory promises," Grotius says "Moses nihil promisit supra hujus vitæ bona." Roman Forgeries and Falsifications; or, an Examination of Counterfeit and Corrupted Records, with especial reference to Popery. By the Rev. R. Gibbings, M.A. Part 1. 8vo. pp. xXXV. 141. - The Dublin University Magazine, alluding to Dr. Thomas James, "the well-known exposer of Roman corruptions, and the mysteries of the Index Expurgatorius," says, "We can name one of our University, who inherits the zeal, the diligence, the learning, and the projects of James, . .. the reverend Richard Gibbings, whose profound and recondite researches in one of the most curious and neglected parts of learning, have already given an earnest of what he might be expected to effect, did the arrangements of Trinity College allow any means of providing for those who . . . . prefer ecclesiastical literature to mathematics." (Feb. 1841, p. 173.) Since this paragraph, which comes opportunely for our purpose, was written, Mr. Gibbings has received preferment; as he says in the preface," through the kindness of the heads of my college, it is now my lot to undertake the important duties of a parish;" but the writer meant, that some arrangement should have been made within the college, which would have enabled him to prosecute his studies. The volume before us was composed at his new residence under the disadvantage of residing "in a remote part of Ireland, and at a great distance from any public library," which accounts for the quotations being much fewer than the references. The subjects discussed in this first part of the projected work, are the Epistle of Abgarus, the Letters of the Virgin to Ignatius, to the Florentines, to the Messinese, and to Glaucoplutus, the Apostolical Canons and Constitutions, and the Decree of the Council of Antioch on Image-Worship. We think the word Roman in the title, might have been advantageously omitted, as the following words, with especial reference to Popery, are quite sufficient and more precise. For instance, the Epistle of Abgarus, as given in Eusebius, supposing it to be spurious, is certainly not a Roman forgery, nor is it admitted by all Romanists, for Erasmus, Du Pin, and Ceillier, reject it; but the subject was probably included on account of the handkerchief, said to have been presented by our Lord, to King Abgarus, and preserved at Rome. The work exhibits great learning, and a large assemblage of references, which make it an excellent manual for the student to take with him into a library; and there is candour about it, which affords a good practical lesson, along with the copious information it contains. It deserves encouragement, as an Appendix to our various Ecclesiastical Histories. A Treatise on the Origin of Expiatory Sacrifice. By G. S. Faber, B.D. 8vo. pp. xxviii. 297. (New Edition.)—We remember the controversy, about the origin of Expiatory Sacrifice, begun by Mr. Davison, and followed up by Professor Nicol, Mr. Faber, and others, whose names we cannot so readily specify. Mr. Davison contended for its Mosaic origin, (in which he has been partly followed by the late Mr. Conybeare), while Mr. Faber maintains it to be patriarchal, or rather Adamic. The question turns mainly on Genesis, iv. 7., where Mr. Davison renders the word nson Chat. tath, (translated simply sin in our version), by punishment of sin, and Mr. Faber, after Lightfoot and Archbishop Magee, by sin-offering. Indeed the book is chiefly a lengthened exegesis of that text. Mr. Faber argues ably, and certainly any other rendering is clogged with grammatical difficulty. So decidedly did Dr. Nicol, the Hebrew Professor at Oxford, adopt that view, that in a sermon preached before the University, he remarked, "If it be objected that this interpretation is only an atom in the scale, we may answer, that it is an atom against nothing." A tabular View of the Variations of the Communion and Baptismal offices of the Church of England, from the year 1549 to 1662. By F. Bulley, B.D. 8vo. pp. xxxv. 304. This is a work of some research, as well as labour in arranging the materials. Its chief sources are the Liturgies of 1549, 1552, 1559, 1603, 1662, and the Scotch Book of 1637. A copious appendix is subjoined, containing extracts from various writers, statutes, and proclamations; and particularly the recent judgment of Sir H. Jenner, in the case of Martin v. Escott. A further reference to the other formularies of our church would have modified the author's language, and counterbalanced some of his extracts from individual writers. Thus, at p. x. he speaks of "the great commemorative sacrifice in the Eucharist," a term which the Homilies discourage, since they say, "we must then take heed, lest, of the memory, it be made a sacrifice." (Homily concerning the Sacrament, part 1, p. 410, ed. Oxon, 1822.)* He quotes Mr. Palmer's words, that "the Church of England herself has never formally condemned prayers for the dead," (p. 168,) without mentioning, that the contrary is the case. A church cannot condemn a tenet more formally, than by causing it to be preached against, as in the third part of the Homily concerning prayer, where the subject occupies nearly three octavo pages. (p. 312-314.) The passage begins thus,-"Now, to entreat of that question, whether we ought to pray for them that are departed out of this world, or no?" And the answer is virtually summed up in this clause: "Let us not dream. . . . of prayer for the souls of men that are dead."-To call a tenet a dream, is the most formal condemnation possible. It is right, however, to mention, that Mr. Bulley gives the words of Guest, addressed to Sir W. Cecil, against the practice. The phrase, partial suppression, applied to variations in the Liturgy, is improper. (p. xxx.) What is meant by traditionary testimonies, distinct from the Liturgy? for whatever is implied in those words, had better have been specified. Not to multiply remarks, we would advise the author to go carefully through the labour of revision, not only in the matter of this volume, but also sometimes in its tone and spirit. *For Commemorative Sacrifice, it would be easy to substitute,-Commemo◄ ration of a Sacrifice. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. NEW PUBLICATIONS. History and Biography. The History of the Rebellion and Civil Wars in England. By EDWARD, Earl of Clarendon. Also his Life, written by himself. A new edition, from the original MS. with copious indexes. Royal 8vo, (Oxford), 218. The Campaign of 1812 in Russia. 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