by Dr. Jenner on his becoming Physician to Her Majesty. Mr. James Lorimer, Advocate, has been appointed Professor of Public Law in the University of Edinburgh; and Mr. John Nicol, B.A., of Balliol College, Oxford, to the New Professorship of English Language and Literature in the University of Glasgow. The Academy of Sciences of Göttingen announce the publication of the collected works of Gauss the celebrated mathematician, including the manuscripts left at his decease. The works will appear in seven volumes quarto, under the titles, I. Disquisitiones Arithmetica; II. Höhere Arithmetik; III. Analysis; IV. Geometrie und Methode der kleinsten Quadrate; V. Mathematische Physik; VI. Astronomie; VII. Theoria Motus Corporum Coelestium. The first six volumes will occupy about five or six years in publication; the seventh volume will appear later. The copyright interest on the Theoria Motûs will not expire for some time. The New York papers announce the advent to this country of a Mohawk Indian, en route to Oxford, for the purpose of finishing his education. Oronhyatekha is reported to be twenty-one years of age, and to be from the Reservation of the Six Nations, near Brantford, upon the Grand River, Canada West. For two years past he has been a member of Kenyon College, Ohio, and upon the late visit of the Prince of Wales, the royal party became much interested in him. He comes under the auspices of Henry L. Acland, M.D., F.R.S., late physician to the royal party, and then and now Regius Professor of Medicine in Oxford University. We learn from the "Critic" that Messrs. Longman and Co. project the issue of a new series of wall maps for schools. It is thought by many teachers that the maps at present in use are faulty in the following respect. They do not give the physical features of countries with sufficient clearness and distinctness; the mountains are too frequently a confused mass of black, without any attempt to show the ranges, the peaks, and depressions; the rivers are laid down in a manner which renders it often impossible to say where they rise; places of importance, in a commercial point of view, are omitted; and the positions of cities and towns are not given with that accuracy which is essential to sound teaching. It is believed that these evils can only be remedied by having two maps for each country; one, in which the physical features the mountains, plains, rivers, &c.-shall be clearly and boldly delineated; and another, which shall contain, in addition to the physical features, the political divisions, cities, towns, &c. Upon this plan a map of England and Wales will shortly be published, and, if it meet with favour, it will be followed by others. A new arrangement has been made of the State Papers kept at the Foreign Office, which will probably lead to dispositions more favourable to historical inquiries at the Record Office. It is to be hoped that none of these papers will be lost or damaged in their various removals from one depository to another. Those of a date prior to 1760, together with their custodian, Mr. Lemon, are now lodged at Fetter-lane, and may be consulted by any one obtaining an order from the Master of the Rolls. The Domestic and Colonial papers, on the contrary, are to be lodged in the Record Office, and none succeeding in date the year 1688 are to be open to the public. The Medical Council will hold their first meeting for this session on Wednesday, the 14th May. Mr. George Cooper, of Brentford, has been ap. pointed by the Society of Apothecaries of London as their representative, in room of Mr. Nussey deceased. MONTHLY RECORD OF SCIENCE THE sixth meeting of the National Association for the promotion of Social Science will be held in London, from the 5th to the 14th of June next, and the Corporation of the City of London has, we learn, granted the use of the Guildhall, with the courts and offices adjoining, for the purposes of the meeting. Much interest is manifested in the City with regard to the approaching meeting, and the Fishmongers' Company, with their usual liberality, have contributed a donation of fifty guineas to the fund that is being raised to defray the local expenses. Papers to be read at the meeting are to be submitted before the 20th of May to the executive committee. Lord Brougham has presided at three of the five meetings already held. The six departments into which the Association is divided include jurisprudence, education, punishment and reformation, public health, social economy, and trade and international law; the last-named department being established at the Glasgow meeting in 1860. The reception committee, in addition to the Lord Mayor and many gentlemen of eminence connected with commercial pursuits, comprises the names of a large number of men of the highest scientific reputation. A new planet has been discovered by Mr. Safford, which raises the number of asteroids now known to seventy-two. It is observed that the newly found member of our system has the least mean distance yet recognised among the minor planets. A new star, a companion of Sirius, has also been discovered by Mr. Clark. The discovery has been confirmed by two eminent observers on each side of the Atlantic-by Professor Bond, at the Observatory of Harvard College, U.S., and by M. Chacornac at the Observatory of Paris. Some time since a short notice appeared in the "Geologist Magazine" of the discovery by Herman von Meyer, of the impression of a feather in the lithographic slate of Solenhofen. An article from the pen of the well known Professor Wagner has since appeared in the "Sitzungsberichte der Münchner Akad. der Wiss." entitled, "On a New Fossil Reptile furnished with Feathers," in which is described the skeleton of a reptile from the lithographic stone of Pappenheim, in the possession of M. Harberlein, and in which the extraordinary association of feathers on the anterior limbs and tail is exhibited. These feathers agree in configuration exactly with those of birds. The new science of spectrum analysis has received a heavy blow from the recent experiments which have been carried on by Dr. Tyndall and by Professors Roscoe and Clifton, for the purpose of ascertaining the influence of high temperatures on metallic spectra. For a long time it was supposed that each system of bright bands in the spectra of the various metals remained absolutely the same, whether the incandescence of the vapour was pro duced by the comparatively low temperature of the coal-gas flame, the higher temperature of the oxyhydrogen flame, or the intense heat of the electric discharge; and it was consequently assumed that inferences drawn from the well known appearance of a metallic spectrum at the temperature of the coal-gas flame, might be safely employed in speculations involving vastly higher temperatures than we are acquainted with on this globe, such as, for example, that of the sun. Later experience has, however, shown that this opinion must be greatly modified, and the discovery by Dr. Tyndall of a blue line in the spectrum of lithium, followed by similar observations by other experimentalists, has conclusively proved that an increase of temperature gives rise to new lines in a metallic spectrum. Further, Professors Roscoe and Clifton have just shown that not only do new lines appear at the high temperature of the intense electric spark, but that the broad bands characteristic of the metal or metallic compound at the low temperature of the flame or weak spark, totally disappear at the higher temperature, being replaced by bright lines. The speculations of Kirchoff and Bunsen on the constitution of the solar body, which have recently attracted so much attention, cannot fail to be greatly modified by this discovery, as it must be obvious that at the enormous temperature of the sun's incandescent atmosphere, known spectra might be so altered in appearance by the introduction of new lines, consequent upon the increased heat, that observers would fail to recognize them. Professors Roscoe and Clinton have proposed a very plausible explanation for the phenomena observed in their experiments, by suggesting that at the lower temperature of the gas flame, or weak spark, the spectrum observed is produced by the glowing vapour of some compound, probably the oxide of the difficulty-reducible metal, whereas at the enormously high temperature of the intense electric spark, these compounds are split up, and thus the true spectrum of the metal is obtained. It was found that in none of the spectra, of the more easily reducible alkaline metals (potassium, sodium, lithium), could any deviation or disappearance of the maxima of light be noticed on change of temperature. The annual meeting of the Acclimatisation Society was held at the society's offices, 3, Dukestreet, Adelphi, on the 25th March, Higford Burr, Esq., in the chair, when the second annual Report was presented by the Secretaries. The society now numbers 41 patrons and 24 life members, besides annual subscribers. The balance sheet for the year shows a balance at the banker's of 4221. 14s. 4d., besides a sum of 150l. in hand for Chinese sheep. Through the kindness of his Grace the Duke of Newcastle, Her Majesty's Secretary to the Colonies, who is also one of the patrons of the society, the Governors of our Colonies throughout the world have been communicated with, with a view of enlisting their aid on behalf of the society. In consequence of this, relations of the most. satisfactory character have been established with Queensland, Australia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward's Island, New Zealand, and South Africa. A gentleman residing at South Africa is also prepared to send supplies of the eland and other useful animals. During the past year, the society has imported Chinese sheep, which are recommended as extremely fruitful in breeding, excellent for eating, hardy in their nature, and obtainable at a low cost; in fact, the very sheep for cottagers. There have been also several satisfactory experiments by members in the way of acclimatising and hybridising foreign deer. The society is also endeavouring to acclimatise the guan and the curassow-both birds from Central America, and both likely to be valuable additions to our domestic poultry. Among the other birds to which the society is paying attention, and which it hopes to introduce in abundance, may be named the Talegalla (or Australian mound-building turkey), the Australian and African bustards, the Wonga-Wonga pigeon, a great variety of ducks and water-fowl, the Honduras turkey, the Chinese sand grouse, Canadian grouse, prairie grouse, American quail and gelinotte. Various valuable crosses of ducks have been obtained. In the way of vegetables, the society is making strenuous endeavours to introduce the Dioscorea Batatas, or Chinese yam. vegetable is reported to be excellent for eating, and not difficult of cultivation. A specimen was exhibited, weighing 3lbs. 150z., and a supply of tubers for planting has been issued to twelve members of the society. Several experiments of great prospective value are now fairly in progress, with every prospect of success, and channels for commencing others of still greater importance have been opened. The system upon which the society is arranged may now be said to be in good working order, and opportunities are offered for conducting experiments of the highest importance, if the means of bearing the expenses are provided. It must be remembered that in bringing over mammals, birds, and fishes from abroad, not only must the original cost and expense of transport be borne by the society, but it is also necessary to offer rewards to the ships' officers who take charge of the creatures during the voyage, as an inducement to give their zealous co-operation. The Council looks forward, indeed, with confident expectation to the time when the society will, like the French Société Impériale d'Acclimatation, number its members by thousands, and possess gardens and other appliances, provided by the Government, for the conduct of its operations, similar to those which the French society is fortunate enough to possess. This By the last American mail we receive the intelligence that the inhabitants of the Red River colony, British North America, have inaugurated, under the auspices of the Governor of the settlement, and of the Bishop of Rupert's Land, a scientific association under the title of "The Institute of Rupert's Land," which promises to produce important results, in collecting and disseminating information respecting the extensive territories of the Hudson's Bay Company in North America. This immense region,occupying an area nearly equal to the whole of Europe, has hitherto remained almost a sealed land to the traveller and to the man of science. The expeditions of Franklin, Back, and Richardson, have, it is true, passed at different periods rapidly and hastily through the country on their way to the scene of their explorations in the Arctic Seas, and more recently the Colonial Office, and the Provincial Government of Canada, have each despatched expeditions to explore the comparatively narrow strip of country watered by the Red River and the Sascatchewan. A geological map of the country, and an ethnological map of the Indian tribes inhabiting it, by Mr.A.K. Isbister, have also recently been published by order of the House of Commons, among the Parliamentary Papers relating to the Hudson's Bay Company. But beyond this the immense continent stretching from the frontiers of Canada to the Arctic Sea still remains practically a terra incognita to science. The object of the Institute of Rupert's Land is to dispel the ignorance which has hitherto prevailed respecting the condition and resources of this extensive and important territory by aiding and encouraging scientific exploration, and by directing and systematising the observations of individual travellers, missionaries, and traders in all parts of the country, and publishing from time to time the results, so far as they may prove interesting to science. Copies of the inaugural address of the bishop of Rupert's Land have been extensively circulated among the leading literary and scientific societies of England, Canada, and the United States. The "Toronto Journal of Education" for March contains the following announcement (curious, if true) under the head of "New Hudson's Bay Animal":"The captain of a whaler from the Shetland Isles has lately discovered an entirely new amphibious animal. It belongs to the mammifera, is shaped somewhat like the tamanti, manatere, and dugong, those singular tropical animals which form the link between the hippopotamus and the purely aquatic mammals; has paws Ike the bear, and, anomalously enough, eight of these, which, spread out in the water, disclose webs between the fingers; a triple eye-lid, like the crocodile, and a voice described as very plaintive; it spends its days on land, its nights in the water, and is thus invisible during the whole period of Arctic darkness. The captain has brought his prize to Shetland. It lives on seaweed, and thrives heartily." " class-book and submits to the same training. The The schools are opened at early dawn, and the M.A., Pembroke College; Rev. Edward Hill, M.A., the Chichele Professorship of Modern History, which was submitted to the House. The next meeting of the Association of Professors and Tutors will be held on Friday, May 9, in the Balliol Common-room at 8 p.m. The subjects for discussion are:-1. Whether any measures can be taken for making the Professorial and Tutorial systems work better together by a regular division of subjects and hours for lectures. 2. That Pass Exa The teachers are usually unsuccessful candidates for preferment and office, who, not having habits of business or a disposition to labour, turn pedagogues. They receive tuition fees from their pupils.minations should not take place before the seventh or The fee is proportioned to the means of the parent, List in any of the four Final Schools should be aceighth week of term. 3. That a place in the Honour and varies from three to twelve dollars a year, with cepted in lieu of the double Testamur. an occasional gift of food or fruit.-Dean's China Mission. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, MARCH 29. THE Ireland Scholarship has been awarded to Mr. C. P. Ilbert, Scholar of Balliol College. The Examiners have also mentioned as deserving of commendation Mr. H. C. Ogle, Demy of Magdalen College, and Mr. A. S. Chavasse, scholar of Balliol College. Mr. Charles Sankey, from Marlborough School, was this day elected Lusby Scholar at Magdalen Hall. At the same time, Mr. Thomas Cooke Sanders, from Rossall School, was elected Macbride Scholar, and Mr. W. E. Deane, of St. Mary-hall, was elected Lucy Exhibitioner. An election to three postmasterships and to one scholarship, on the foundation of Thomas Jackson, will take place at Merton College on Saturday, May 3. The postmasterships are of the annual value of £70, and are tenable for five years from election. The Scholarship is of the annual value of 50l., and is tenable for five years from election. One of the postmasterships will be awarded solely for annual value of £25, tenable for three years, will proficiency in mathematics. Two exhibitions, of the also be awarded to deserving candidates. Candidates must be under 20 years of age, and, if members of the University, must not have exceeded three terms of standing. The examination will commence on Wednesday, April 30. Candidates should call upon the Warden on Tuesday, April 29, with certificates of baptism and testimonials of good conduct. APRIL 4. The Examination for Classical Demyships at Magdalen College has terminated. There was no election, as none of the candidates came up to the required standard. APRIL 8. The following list comprises the principal educational journals published in the United States during the past year: "The Massachusetts Teacher," Boston; "The New Hampshire Journal of Education," Concord; "The Maine Teacher; "The Vermont School Journal," West Brattleboro'; "The Rhode Island Schoolmaster," Providence ; "The Connecticut Common School Journal, In the Convocation holden on Saturday, the 12th Hartford; "The New York Teacher," Albany; ult., at 10 o'clock, the names of the following ger"The Pennsylvania School Journal." Lancaster; tlemen, who have been nominated Examiners under "The Ohio Educational Monthly," Columbus; the statute De Examinatione Candidatorum qui non "The Indiana School Journal, Indianopolis; sunt de corpore Universitatis were submitted to the "The Illinois Teacher," Peoria; "The Wisconsin approbation of the House :-Rev. William Jacobson, Journal of Education," Madison; "The Iowa D D., Christ Church; Rev. Charles Balston, B.D., Instructor," Davenport. Corpus Christi College; Rev. Edward H. Hansell, B.D., Magdalen College; Rev. Arthur W. Haddan, B.D., Trinity College: Rev. George Hext, B.D., Corpus Christi College; Rev. Thomas E. Espin, P D., Lincoln College; Rev. William R. Browell, CHINA. In China there is no royal road to learning, but every boy, whatever his rank, takes the same CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 29. ST.CATHERINE'S COLLEGE OPEN SCHOLARSHIPS. There will be an Examination at St. Catherine's College on Thursday, June 12, and Friday, June 13, for two Scholarships, open to all persons who shall not have commenced residence in the University. The Scholarships will be tenable till the Scholarship Examination in the College next following. Each of them will be of the value of £40 a-year, with rooms rent free. The Examinations for each will be partly classical and partly mathematical. The classical part will comprise translation of passages from the best Greek and Latin authors, and composition in those languages. The mathematical part will be limited to papers in Euclid, arithmetic, algebra, and trigonometry. Each candidate must forward to one of the Tutors of the College, on or before Monday, June 2, a certificate of good conduct from a graduate of Oxford or Cambridge. The successful candidates will be required to enter their names on the boards of the College immediately after their election, and to commence residence in the following October. Particulars respecting the conduct of the examinsfurnished by the Rev. F. J. Jameson, or the Rev. E. tion and the accommodation of the candidates will be W. Crabtree, Tutor of the College. German. To the candidates for Foundation Scholarships two additional papers will be set, one on moral philosophy in connection with the principles of jurisprudence, and the other on the elements of the natural sciences in connection with medicine; and in awarding two of these Scholarships considerable importance will be attached to any special proficiency in the legal or in the medical subject. Persons who have not been entered at any College in the University, or who have not resided one entire term in any such College, are eligible to the Minor Scholarships, which will be of the value of £30 per annum, and tenable for two years, if the holder be not elected before the end of that time to a Foundation Scholarship. Students of the College, or of any other College in the University, who have not kept more than six terms, will be eligible to the Foundation Scholarships, which will be of the value of £50 per annum, with rooms and commons, and tenable for three years. Those Foundation Scholars who shall obtain a first class in any Tripos will be entitled to hold their Scholarships till they are of standing for the degree of Master of Arts, or, if they should be elected Fellows of the College before that time, until such election. No one elected Scholar will receive any emoluments until he has commenced residence as a student of the College. Satisfactory testimonials as to their moral character must be sent to the Master by all candidates for these Scholarships on or before Wednesday, the 28th of May. A Meeting of the Council was held on the 29th of March. Present:- Mr. A. Hill, Vice-President, in the Chair; Dr. Adams, Dr. Aldom, Mr. Bidlake, Mr. Clennell, Mr. Heath, Mr. Herbert, Rev. W. Hodgson, Mr. Isbister, Rev. Dr. Jacob, Rev. W. T. Jones, Mr. Kimber, Mr. Long, Dr. Palmer, Mr. R. Palmer, Dr. Pearce, Dr. Pinches, Mr. W. J. Reynolds, Dr. Schaible, Dr. Wm. Smith, Dr. White, and Dr. E. T. Wilson. It was Resolved, That the Midsummer Examination of Teachers should commence on Thursday, June 19th; and that the Half-yearly General Meeting should be held on Saturday, June 28th. The thanks of the Council were voted to the Rev. W. T. Jones, for his recent liberal donation to the Benevolent Fund; and to Mr. Isbister, for his kindness in defraying, during a period of two years, part of the incidental expences connected with the College offices. The thanks of the Council were also voted to Messrs. Hachette, and to the Editor of the "Graduated Series of Reading-Lesson Books," for their respective donations to the College Library. The Quarterly Report of the Finance Committee was laid before the Council, and adopted. The Rev. L. J. Bernays, M.A., and the Rev. E. H. Gifford, M.A., were re-elected Members of the Council. The following were elected Members of the College:- Miss M. E. Arthur, Coleshill Street, Pimlico. CORRESPONDENCE. To the Editor of the Educational Times. Eneid, we ought to consider that Virgil left the poem unfinished, and that Tucca and Varius, its revisers, may have left many irreSIR,-You invite classical criticism. May gularities of versification standing, which its I be allowed to ask "R. W." on what autho-author, if he had lived to give it further corrity he makes the second syllable in plebecula rection, would have removed. short? I always took my old friends Horace and Persius as my authorities for its quantity: his nam plebecula gaudet. NOTANS. the verse in the Eclogues, a portion of his INQUIRER. [Plebecula is a misprint for plebicola.—ED.]munications from our readers on questions re- 1, [We shall be glad to receive similar comlating to disputed points in classical criticism. (To the Editor of the Educational Times. It has been suggested to us by several valued SIR,-Will you allow me to offer one or two friends, that a department devoted to classical remarks on two passages of Virgil, about "Notes" and "Queries," would be a useful which I see some discussion in a contemporary addition to this Journal. We shall be happy scholastic publication, in an article on Yonge's to receive any suggestions or assistance from recent edition of Virgil? One of them is Ecl. correspondents desirous of contributing to this ii. 56:department.-ED.] ETON COLLEGE. On the 11th ult., the whole form, 139; unplaced, 4. Total 702. Lower School The non-elision in the well known verse of Third form, 97; second form, 10; first form, 5; Catullus is exactly similar:unplaced, 1. Total 815. Hỹmēn,|ō Hýmě|næě, Hymen ades, o Hymenæe! Heyne indeed observes on Virgil's line, Ne hiatus offendat, aspiratio in honos fortius est efferenda. But, pace tanti viri, I would say that the observation is quite needless, for h goes for nothing in Latin verse. Wagner, whom Conington follows, tells us the h is here a semi-consonant, which it is not; but if it were, how would it affect the verse? If it were even a whole consonant, it would not lengthen a short vowel before it. Many greater liberties are taken by Virgil with vowels, and with diphthongs, than this, e. g.: Insulæ Ionio in magno, quas dira Celano- Where vowels and diphthongs are not only left unelided, but at the same time shortened.' The other verse is, as it is generally, I be lieve universally, read, ap Sancta ad vos anima, atque istius inscia culpæ in which Mr. Yonge reads nescia, with the probation of the writer of the article to which I refer. But as there is no authority for nescia, I should reject a mere arbitrary innovation, and scan the line Sanct' ad võs ǎni]mā āt qu' Istlus | inscia | culpæ, considering the ǎ in animă as lengthened by the ictus metricus. This is no greater liberty, though of a different kind, than is shown in Insula Ionio, or in the line of Propertius: Omphalě in tantum formæ processit honorem. In the one case a syllable is left unelided, and made short, in the other it is left unelided and made long; one in the arsis, the other in the thesis. Similarly, que is made long by the ictus metricus, or in the arsis, in Limina qui laurusque deli―― THE NEWCASTLE SCHOLARSHIP.-The follow- The adoption of the Educational Times as the Journal of the College of Preceptors, has made no change whatever in the Proprietorship of the Periodical, in which the College has no pecuniary interest. Gough Square, Fleet Street; or to Mr. W. Wesley, *** Advertisements may be sent to the Publisher, No. No. 2, Queen's Head Passage, Paternoster Row. THE EDUCATIONAL TIMES. IN another column will be found an interesting report of a Meeting held on the 1st of April in York, to consider the propriety of applying to Parliament for a Scholastic Registration Bill. The Meeting consisted entirely, school took their departure for the Easter holi- we believe, of schoolmasters and persons endays, and will return to the College on the 7th, gaged in the work of tuition; and from the 8th, and 9th days of May inst. There were 815 students in the various forms, as follows: Upper reports it will be seen that those present unaniSchool-Sixth form, 20; fifth form, upper divi- mously recognised the necessity of some test sion, 135; fifth form, middle division, 104; fifth being legalised for the exclusion of incompetent form, lower division, 143; remove, 157; fourth men from the profession of teaching. The wonder is, that in the year of grace 1862 there should be a necessity for such agitation; that one of the most important callings, that of educating the youth of this country, should be still, as it were, a kind of debateable land into which quacks of every kind may venture, [and wherein they may, unreproved, play the most fantastic tricks. We have long ceased to intrust the care of our lives and our properties to any but persons supposed to be competent; but the minds of our sons and daughters are, as it were, the vilia corpora upon which every pretender may make his mischievous experiments. No doubt public opinion has done a good deal MARLBOROUGH COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.-Mr. for the scholastic profession. It has furnished P. C. Ilbert, of Balliol College, who has just gained the Ireland Scholarship, in the University the schools for our higher classes with teachers of Oxford; Mr. T. L. Papillon, of Balliol Col- of rare skill and learning. No "heaven-born" lege, who has gained the Hertford Scholarship; Mr. E. L. Scott, of Lincoln College, who has preceptor has a chance of gaining admission gained the Boden Scholarship for Sanserit; and into Harrow, Eton, or Rugby. Very many Mr. A. Robinson, of University College, who was schools, too, of much humbler pretensions, can proxime accessit for the junior mathematical scho- have no more efficient masters than those who larship, were all educated at Marlborough College. Fremantle. JAMES LONSDALE, M.A., DUNCAN MATHIAS, M.A., Examiners. The two classes are arranged in alphabetical order. Charles Cameron, the captain of Eton, a candidate for the Scholarship, was prevented from going in for the examination in consequence of serious accident, which has incapacitated him for the present from any serious study. a Excluded QUEEN ELIZABETH'S SCHOOL, IPSWICH.-This at present guide their destinies. But it remains school has within one week carried off the only a stern and saddening fact, that a man, howopen College Scholarships at Cambridge which have been as yet competed for this year,-viz., ever gross his ignorance may be, and unsatis two at Caius College, one for classical, the other factory his character, may set up a school, for mathematical proficiency, and a third at Em- and, if he can only get pupils, work a terrible manuel College for classical proficiency. A fund of nearly 1000l. has been raised for founding an amount of mischief. This remark applies even "Albert" Scholarship, in commemoration of the more strongly to the other sex. laying of the foundation stone of the new school from University degrees, and debarred from buildings in 1851. opportunities of proving what their education really has been, women have often had only to sit down and draw up imaginary prospectuses of their knowledge of all languages, arts, and sciences, from moulding wax-flowers to decy phering hieroglyphics, to strike awe into the of heart, and extract money from the pockets, many a Paterfamilias. The success of such PHARMACEUTICAL SOCIETY OF GREAT BRI- : Argles, Robert Clapham. London. would-be educators has often been co-exten. Lancet very considerably understates the case and Riddle as the groundwork of the sive with their impudence; and no person when he sets down the total sum annually dictionary before us. The history of the has a greater right to complain of the existing given by the various Colleges of Cambridge to various steps by which the work has been system than the educated governess or school- Undergraduates at 20,0001. brought to its present completeness is a very Yet even this interesting one. In the first place, Dr. Freund mistress who disdains the arts of puffery. Ano- amount is a magnificent annual contribution revised Andrews's translation throughout. He ther point deserving of notice was dwelt on by to the cause of polite learning. One point corrected many of the etymologies previously Canon Robinson at the York Meeting. At pre- calls for notice. A very few years ago the given, and pointed out in many instances the sent the schoolmaster, per se, has no status. majority of the Scholarships and Fellowships Sancrit languages. Moreover, he contributed analogy subsisting between the Latin and He may be a man of profound learning, and a in the University were limited to Englishmen, a considerable amount of fresh materials cclskilful teacher and administrator; but, unless and often to Englishmen born in some par-lected by himself since the publication of his he be a clergyman, he can hardly hope or ex- ticular county or town. Now a notice that Wörterbuch, which materials consisted partly pect to enjoy any of the prizes of his calling. these honours and rewards are of new words, partly of new meanings of 66 open to all her words. At present, too, it is undoubtedly true that Majesty's subjects," constantly meets the eye Freund was next entrusted to Mr. Riddle, in The copy thus corrected by Dr. many persons enter Holy Orders simply that of the reader in the Cambridge Calendar. Many order that he might revise, enlarge, and alter they may get on in the scholastic profession. of the Fellowships, however, are still forfeited it as he thought best. Mr. Riddle's revised This will be more or less the case, so long as it after a short time by holders who refuse to take copy was then consigned to Mr. White, that he, is open to any one to assume, at a moment's Holy Orders. We believe this regulation works it the groundwork of the present dictionary, in conjunction with his coadjutor, might make notice, the name and functions of a teacher. badly, and that it leads many youths into the and embody in it a large amount of additional We heartily hope that the proposition ventilated clerical profession whose hearts are not in their matter collected in a long course of reading. at York will not fall to the ground, and that work; and thus makes many a man, who Mr. White's portion of the work has been carried out in the following way :the morally and intellectually halt, maimed, dares not be honest for the nonce, a life-long and blind will be excluded by law from the hypocrite. On the other hand, there appears Scholastic profession, as they are now from the to be a growing distaste for Holy Orders among professions of Law, Physic, and Divinity. the young men of the present generation, and it is of course desirable that the persons elected the University. The question is perhaps a into College livings should be men of mark in vexed one, as to whether every Fellow should Holy Orders; but enough has been said to not be allowed the option of refusing to take show that Cambridge is essentially a liberal University, and that the honours and rewards at her disposal are very considerable. REVIEWS, NOTICES, &c. each word have been stated, the origin of the A ings of compound words, especially verbs formed, in part, of a preposition, I have been careful to exhibit such meanings separately, according to the respective powers of each member, instead of allowing them to be massed together (as in dictionaries in general) in one long string of interpretations which are at A Latin-English Dictionary, pp. 2103. By times, for want of methodical arrangement, Rev. John T. White, M.A., of Corpus Christi wholly irreconcilable with one another. College, Oxford, and Rev. J. E. Riddle, M.A., reference to the articles alumnus, æger, arbor, of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. London: Long- alvus, oppidum, talla, sto, ago, actor, irrumpo, man, Green, Longman, and Roberts. 1862. irrideo, amongst others, in the following pages. MR. WHITE informs us, in the preface to the will elucidate what has just been stated. ponderous volume before us, that he and his Furthermore, when the origin of the word has coadjutor, the late Rev. J. E. Riddle, have been pointed out, its literal or fundamental spent upwards of nine years in enlarging and meaning is placed between parentheses. Lastly, revising Dr. Andrews's Latin-English Diction- the several meanings are classified according ary, which, as doubtless most of our readers are When we add that this plan has been carried out with remarkable accuracy and care, it will In another page will be found a tabulated account, taken from the Lancet of the 12th April, of the Scholarships and Exhibitions of Cambridge University. The writer, in commenting upon this table, justly remarks that "the document is of great importance," and further adds, that "the table has been carefully collated from the Cambridge Calendar, and from papers supplied by the Tutors of the Colleges, and shows, with something like official accuracy, the number and value of the Scholarships." The special purpose of the writer is to point out to the young medical student the bounteous aid which the University of Cambridge holds out to him, if he be deserving of it. Of course, this aid is by no means limited to students of medicine; and the future clergyman, lawyer, or civil servant is equally invited to share in the good things offered. The table, though apparently drawn up with some care, is by no aware, is itself a translation of Dr. Freund's Wörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache. That means strictly accurate. For instance, St. the two competent scholars just mentioned Peter's College has twelve open Scholarships have employed their time wisely and diligently, Quantæ molis erat librum hunc excondere. of the value of 607. each instead of four, as we have abundant proof in nearly every page The plan suggested by Dr. Freund for clasgiven in the table of the Lancet. The Trinity of this work. The labour of these nine years, sifying the meanings of each word appears to Hall Scholarships range from 137. to 601. portion of that which has been required to be found stated at length in the Preface to As it is, however, to however, represents but a comparatively small us a very excellent one. instead of from 201. to 601. as stated. King's bring the dictionary before us to its present Andrews's Translation (from which it has College, perhaps the wealthiest foundation at perfection. It was, we believe, in the year been reproduced in the pages before us,) we Cambridge, is altogether omitted in the calcu. 1718 or 1719 that Forcellini determined to do not think it necessary to requote it at prelation. This College has no less than forty-work, after various interruptions and delays, the introduction of words to a large extent compile an original Latin dictionary. This sent. A notable point in the present work is eight Scholarships, each worth 807. per annum, was completed in 1761 and published in 1771, which belong to Ecclesiastical or Patristic with (in certain cases) rooms and tuition free. unfortunately some two years after the death Latinity. The Editor alludes to another trait By a regulation made by the Commissioners, of the learned and painstaking scholar who in his work, the carrying out of which he found twenty-four at least of these are to be Open Forcellini's great dictionary it was that Dr. taking, viz., the classification of quotations had made it the labour of a long life. On to be the most laborious part of his underScholarships. Magdalene College has six (in- Freund based his Wörterbuch der Latein- according to the principles of syntax. This stead of three) Scholarships of the value of ischen Sprache, a work which was in many classification required, of course, that the 201. per annum. When the number of Scholar-respects a vast improvement upon Forcellini's passages should be quoted at length, and exships at Downing College is completed, the previous labours. As we before stated, Dr. amined by the Editor. He found, however, number will be ten of 50%. each per annum. Andrews, and the translation by the American one if he were to attempt to complete it unFreund's Wörterbuch was translated by Dr. that his task would thus be a never-ending On the whole, we believe that the writer in the scholar has been employed by Mr. White aided, and accordingly he called in the assist be seen |