supplementary, needs no further remark from us than to say that it amply fulfils its purpose, and is quite indispensable to possessors of the former volume. The Town and Borough of Leominster; with Illustrations of its Ancient and Modern History. By the Rev. GEORGE FYLER TOWNSEND, M.A., Vicar of Leominster. Also, A Chapter on the Parish Church and Priory. By Edw. A. FREEMAN, Esq. (Leominster: S. Partridge; London: Arthur Hall and Co.) Leominster probably ought to date its origin from Roman times, but its certain history commences with Saxondom. A religious establishment was founded in it, A.D. 660, by Merewald, King of Mercia, which was rebuilt three centuries after by Earl Leofric, the husband of Lady Godiva, and one of its abbesses is connected with a piece of medieval scandal that may be read in the Saxon Chronicle sub anno 1046. Beyond these facts, Leofric's minster has little to distinguish it from other pleasant and thriving towns on the Welsh border, but it has had the fortune that more celebrated places sometimes want, in meeting with a chronicler who takes a real interest in its annals, and thinks no labour ill-bestowed to bring its claims for notice favourably before the world. The result is an 8vo. volume of some 350 pages, with several good illustrations, and a copious index, by means of which every item of intelli-. gence is made available to the curious reader. The book is dedicated by the author to his parishioners, and they will be strangely ungrateful if they do not give it a favourable reception. Mr. Freeman contributes a chapter of twenty pages descriptive of the ancient Priory, and its modern representative, which will interest architectural readers, but does not admit, advantageously, of a summary. Bacon's Essays, and Colours of Good and Evil. With Notes and Glossarial Index, by W. ALDIS WRIGHT, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. (Macmillan and Co.)-If all the members of Messrs. Macmillan's "Golden Treasury Series" should, either in the merit of each work or the labours of each Editor, be worthy of comparison with the present edition of Bacon, the Series will well deserve its name. We shall not be so absurd as to commend the Essays to the attention of the thoughtful-we should as soon think of commending Shakespeare-but we do most conscientiously advise them, if they wish to draw all the benefit from them that may be drawn, to put themselves under the guidance of Mr. Wright. Clerical Papers, by ONE OF OUR CLUB. (Oxford and London: J. H. and Jas. Parker.)-These papers, written originally for a Clerical Club, with the view of expressing in a brief and cursory manner the thoughts of many clergymen on certain plain and practical matters connected, more or less, with their public and private ministrations, seem to have answered their end, and have in a short space of time reached their second edition. They relate to the character that most wins its way in parochial work; to public ministrations in general, and pulpit ones in particular; and lastly, to education of the poor, and parochial teachers. These topics are all handled in a conciliatory tone, and the little work deserves a wide circulation. We would especially commend to the notice of supporters of schools for the labouring classes, the remarks on the kind of them-men, our author states, and we teachers now too commonly found in agree with him, in reality above their classes above them, restless and disconbusiness, treading on the heels of the tented, and doing anything rather than setting to their scholars an example of contentment in "the state to which it has pleased God to call them." The Reliquary, No. X. (London: J. R. Smith), does not confine itself to Derbyshire notabilities, but opens with a good paper, by Mr. Pidgeon of Shrewsbury, on the Ancient Guilds, Trading Companies, and far-famed Show of that ancient and important town. Among other articles is one by the Editor on Fairy Pipes," which exhibits a good deal of curious research, as does its companion, on "Old Broseleys," by Mr. Thursfield, the pair forming a serviceable addition to Mr. Fairholt's wellknown work, "Tobacco and its Associations." Some encaustic tiles recently found in Derby, on the site of the Blackfriars, give occasion for a description by Mr. Ll. Jewitt of Encaustic Paving Tiles in general, which is well illustrated in colours. Notes and Queries, Nos. XXI., XXII. (Lowestoft Tymms), still goes on very satisfactorily. Among various interesting papers in the present double Number are transcripts of a curious document relating to Yarmouth pier; extracts from the Institution Books of the See of Norwich, and from parish registers, and lists of round towers to Norfolk churches; beside heraldic notes, tradesmen's tokens, &c. Aphorisms of the Wise and Good. Illuminated by SAMUEL STANESBY. (Griffith and Farran.)- We believe it is generally understood, that, from some cause or other, there will not be so large an issue of handsome table-books this Christmas as has formerly been the case. Whether the impression may prove to be correct we must, like Francis Moore, physician, "leave it to time and the curious to discover;" but however it may be, we do not think that any more truly valuable work than Mr. Stanesby's will be issued, though there may be some both larger and dearer. His is a companion volume to the Shakspeare issued by him three years ago, is illuminated in the same style, and has a portrait of Milton for its frontispiece; GENT. MAG., Sept. 1859, p. 225. and its aphorisms are gathered with equal industry and good taste from the most diverse sources, from Solomon and Zoroaster to Sir Philip Sydney, Coleridge and Southey. CLERGYMEN, and others of our readers who are placed in positions that give them influence with their neighbours, will find a work well adapted to their use in The Penny Post. (Oxford and London: J. H. and Jas. Parker.)—This little monthly publication (the price of which is indicated by its title) has now been established twelve years, and each number contains brief articles on current Church topics, tales of country and home life, short essays, allegories, biographical sketches, and a variety of other matters, all treated in a sound, yet cheerful and attractive manner. It is to be considerably enlarged from the beginning of next year, and will thus become even more valuable than before as a vehicle for the diffusion of Church principles among all classes; for its conductors do not fall into the folly of addressing themselves to the poor exclusively. The Christian Knowledge Society's Almanacs, in all their varieties, have an engraving of Bristol Cathedral, and all the usual matter. We notice also a very serviceable addition in the shape of a neat glass frame for exhibiting the calendar pages month by month, which seems an English improvement on a French and German practice, and deserves to become general. The Life-boat, for October. (Office, 14, John-street, Adelphi.)-The storms that so lately swept our coasts, and the details that still fill the newspapers, give a painful interest to a paper by Admiral Fitzroy contained in this little periodical, which is published quarterly, and costs but twopence. It is entitled "Weather Reports and Forecasts in the Daily Newspapers," and with its dia grams is enough to convince the most sceptical of the extreme value of the cautionary signals employed by the Meteorological Department of the Board of Trade. From another paper we learn that there were no less than 1,494 shipwrecks on the British shores in the course of the year 1861, with the loss of 884 lives, but during the same time 4,624 were rescued from the most imminent peril, and a considerable proportion of these owed their deliverance to the truly benevolent Society which keeps up 123 life-boats in readiness at any moment for active service, and also liberally recompenses the crews of any other craft that may co-operate in its work of mercy. It has, since its formation in 1824, saved 12,680 lives, laid out £64,000 in life-boats, &c., distributed 81 gold and 713 silver medals, and paid £16,000 in rewards. If these simple facts are not enough to ensure such a degree of public support as shall give permanency to the Institution, we really do not know what will suffice. JUVENILE Books. Messrs. Griffith and Farran worthily maintain the fame of their house as the representative of good Mr. Newbery, who did so much to provide for the literary wants of his little friends in days when SYLVANUS URBAN was a century younger than he now is. It is not our present intention to go into the possible two-thousand years' old origin of " Jack the Giant-Killer," "Tom Thumb," &c., but we spare a few minutes to glance over some of the novelties in juvenile books provided for the new year by our friend Newbery's successors. For the very juvenile we have The Loves of Tom Tucker and Little Bo-Peep, by THOMAS HOOD, and next, Nursery Fun, by CHARLES BENNETT, both of them comical enough to disturb the nerves of even a practised reviewer, and really likely to produce almost alarming effects on the young. Indeed, if the oft-mentioned feat of "making a cat laugh" is to be accomplished, these works will probably do it. Young folks of a rather more advanced degree of growth may be recommended to peruse Fickle Flora and her Sea-side Friends, where they will learn all about Scarborough, and sea-weeds, and aquariums, and the folly of forsaking old friends for new faces into the bargain. MRS. BRODERIP (the daughter of Thomas Hood) will delight her readers with My Grandmother's Budget of Stories and Songs, which are some of the most lively and amusing that we have ever met with, and yet the child must be uncommonly dull who does not derive many useful lessons from them also. The same may fairly be said of Playroom Stories, or How to make Peace. One of the stories in particular, that of "So-Fat and Mew-Mew," will be irresistibly attractive to children, and, under the disguise of the adventures and mishaps of a discontented pet dog and cat, gives a good lesson to children who do not know when they are well off. We own we prefer it to the Abbé Bertin's tale of "The Children who wished to Govern themselves," in L'Ami des Enfans, so well known to juvenile French students. Scenes and Stories of the Rhine, and two books by MR. KINGSTON, Our Sailors, and Our Soldiers, belong to a more advanced class of readers. The sketches of Germany are really very pleasing and life-like, and Mr. Kingston puts the doings of the United Services vividly before the eyes of aspiring youth, many of whom may be tempted thereby to endeavour to emulate what they read of the naval and military achievements of the reign of Queen Victoria. A book of still higher class is MR. ADAMS' Memorable Battles in English History, which seems very well done, and to which we may devote some further notice at a future day. Monthly Entelligence. Foreign News, Domestic Occurrences, and Notes of the Month. THE American contest, so far as can be understood from the meagre and evidently one-sided accounts that reach Europe, would seem to have entered on a new phase, but even this is very differently interpreted according to the Northern or Southern prepossessions of statesmen in England and in France. The various State elections have gone decidedly against the party in power at Washington, and they are looked on as attempting to revenge themselves by suddenly displacing General M'Clellan, on the plea of his not being "whole-hearted in the war," and putting General Burnside in his place, who is expected to make a vigorous winter campaign in Virginia, and thus bring the contest to a triumphant conclusion for the North. People in Europe look on this as very unlikely to happen, if from no other cause, from the difficulties that Virginia is known to present to the march of large armies at this time of the year. In the meantime, the Emperor of the French has formally proposed to the British and Russian Governments to unite with him in proposing a six months' armistice to the belligerents, but his proposition has been regarded as premature; it is, however, considered likely to be renewed at a future period, and may perhaps then be agreed to. The Italian Parliament has met, and the Ratazzi Ministry have been exposed to such sharp attacks for the whole course of their policy both foreign and domestic, that their enforced retirement from office seems highly probable; but that this will lead to the surrender of Rome to Victor Emmanuel no one appears to believe. The ball has at last been extracted from the foot of Garibaldi, and so sanguine are his partisans as to his speedy recovery, that he is named by them as a probable candidate for the throne of Greece. France has lately been disturbed by rumours of plots against the life of the Emperor. A new boulevard in Paris was to have been opened by him on the 16th of last month; but the ceremony was suddenly postponed at the last moment, and the formal denials of official journals as to the supposed cause, do not obtain implicit credit. At home, the distress in Lancashire, though patiently borne, has naturally increased in intensity with the arrival of winter. Much newspaper controversy has arisen as to whether the manufacturers and landowners of the district have done all that they ought to relieve those to whom they are so greatly indebted for their own fortunes; but there is a determination apparent everywhere, not to let such a question interfere with the flow of the much-needed charity of the other parts of the Empire. APPOINTMENTS, PREFERMENTS, AND PROMOTIONS. The dates are those of the Gazette in which the Appointment or Return appeared. WAR OFFICE, Nov. 10, 1862. The Queen has been pleased, on the occasion of the coming of age of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, to give orders for the following promotions in the Army, and appointments to the Most Honourable Order of the Bath: Colonel His Royal Highness Albert Edward, Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall, K.G., K.S.I., &c., to be General. General the Right Hon. Sir Edward Blakeney, G.C.B., G.C.H.; General Hugh, Viscount Gough, K.P., G.C.B., K.S.I.; General His Royal Highness George William Frederick Charles, Duke of Cambridge, K.G., K.P., G.C.B., &c.; and General Colin, Lord Clyde, G.C.B., K.S.I., to be Field-Marshals. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the First Class, or Knights Grand Cross, of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, viz. : General Sir John Wright Guise, bart., K.C.B.; General Sir John Forster Fitzgerald, K.C.B.; Admiral the Earl of Lauderdale, K.C.B; Admiral Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.B. To be Ordinary Members of the Military Division of the Second Class, or Knights Commanders, of the said Most Honourable Order, viz. : Admiral the Hon. George Elliot, C.B.; General the Hon. Hugh Arbuthnott, C.B.; General Sir John Hanbury, knt.; General the Marquis of Tweeddale, K.T., C.B.; Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis, bart., C.B.; General Wm. Greenshields Power, C.B.; General Henry George Andrew Taylor, C.B., Madras Army; Admiral William Bowles, C.B.; General Alexander Lindsay, C.B., Bengal Army; General Sir James Henry Reynett, knt.; General Richard Lluellyn, C.B.; General Charles Grene Ellicombe, C.B.; Lieutenant-General George Turner, C.B.; Vice-Admiral William James Hope Johnstone; Lieutenant-General James Freeth; Lieutenant-General John Low, C.B., Madras Army; Lieutenant-General Sir James Charles Chatterton, bart.; LieutenantGeneral Alexander Kennedy Clark Kennedy, C.B.; Lieutenant-General Michael White, C.B.; Lieutenant-General David Capon, C.B., Bombay Army; Vice-Admiral James Scott, C.B.; Major-General Sir Abraham Josias Cloete, C.B.; Rear-Admiral Charles Talbot; Major-General William Henry Elliott; RearAdmiral John M'Dougal; Rear-Admiral Geo. Rodney Mundy, C.B.; Lieutenant-General Samuel Robert Wesley, Royal Marines. GENT. MAG, VOL. CCXIII. ADMIRALTY, Nov. 10. In pursuance of Her Majesty's pleasure,Admiral of the Red Sir Graham Eden Hamond, bart., G.C.B., has this day been promoted to be Admiral of the Fleet; and in consequence thereof, the. following promotions, also dated this day, have taken place : Admiral of the White the Right Hon. Anthony, Earl of Lauderdale, K. C. B., K. C., St. M. and St. G., to be Admiral of the Red. Admiral of the Blue Sir George Rose Sartorius, knt., to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Adm. of the Red Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.B., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Adm. of the White the Hon. Sir Montagu Stopford, K.C.B., to be Vice-Adm. of the Red. Vice-Adm. of the Blue James Scott, C.B., to be Vice-Adm. of the White. Rear-Adm. the Hon. Thos. Best, on the Reserved List, to be Vice-Adm. on the same list. Rear-Adm. of the Red Chas. Ramsay Drinkwater Bethune, C.B., to be Vice-Adm. of the Blue. Rear-Adm. of the White the Hon. Sir Hen. Keppel, K.C.B., to be Rear-Adm. of the Red. Rear-Adm. of the Blue Robert Fanshawe Stopford, to be Rear-Adm. of the White. Capt. Richard Collinson, C.B., to be RearAdm. of the Blue. Retired Vice-Adms. Augustus Baldwin and Henry Colins Deacon to have the rank and title of Retired Adm., under Order in Council of May 7, 1858. CIVIL, NAVAL, AND MILITARY. Oct. 28. Sir Andrew Buchanan, K.C. B., now H.M.'s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the King of the Netherlands, to be H.M.'s Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the King of Prussia. George Frere, esq., to be H.M.'s Judge, Edgar Leopold Layard, esq., to be H.M.'s Arbitrator, and William Tasker Smith, esq., to be Secretary or Registrar, in the Mixed Court established at the Cape of Good Hope, under the treaty of the 7th of April, 1862, between Great Britain and the United States, for the suppression of the African Slave Trade. George Skelton, esq., to be H.M.'s Judge, and William Smith, esq., to be Secretary or Registrar, in the Mixed Court established at Sierra Leone, under the Treaty of the 7th of April, 1862, between Great Britain and the United States, for the suppression of the African Slave Trade. 4 Z |