scenes and objects will escape notice or fail of due appreciation unless an informant be at hand qualified to proffer the needed suggestions without indulging in wearisome garrulity. Mr. Hare seems to us to meet very well the requirements of this office, his book being a happy medium between the concise though comprehensive, and for ordinary purposes indispensable, manual of Baedeker and the voluminous works of Timbs and Cunningham. * * * * * _Books Received._ Putnam's Art Hand-books. Edited by Susan N. Carter, Principal of the "Women's Art-School, Cooper Union." "Landscape Painting" and "Sketching from Nature." New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Current Discussion: A Collection from the Chief English Essays on Questions of the Times. By Edward L. Burlingame. Second volume: Questions of Belief. New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Economic Monographs: France and the United States; Suffrage in Cities; Our Revenue System and the Civil Service--shall they be Reformed? New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons. Off on a Comet: A Journey through Planetary Space. From the French of Jules Verne, by Edward Roth. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger. A Year Worth Living: A Story of a Place and of a People one cannot afford Not to Know. By William M. Baker. Boston: Lee & Shepard. The Voyages and Adventures of Vasco da Gama. By George M. Towle. Boston: Lee & Shepard. The Fall of Damascus: An Historical Novel. By Charles Wells Russell. Boston: Lee & Shepard. Adventures of a Consul Abroad. By Samuel Sampleton, Esq. Boston: Lee & Shepard. The Future State (Christian Union Extras). New York: Christian Union Print. * * * * * _New Music Received._ The Broken Ring, and The Young Recruit: Part-songs for Male Voices. Composed and arranged by A.H. Rosewig. (Lotus Club Collection.) Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co. Strew Sweet Flowers o'er my Grave: Song and Chorus. Words and Music by M.C. Vandercook. Arranged by D.H. Straight. Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co. Monthly Journal of Music and General Miscellany. Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co. Latest and Best Lancers. By Frank Green. Philadelphia: W.H. Boner & Co. FOOTNOTES: [1] _Gentleman's Magazine_, 1807. [2] Fuller's _Worthies_. [3] _Churches of Bristol._ [4] Taylor's _Book about Bristol_. [5] _The Churchgoer._ [6] The documents are given in full in the appendix of Dr. J.J. Chaponniere's memoir in vol. iv. of the _Mem. de la Soc. Archeol. de Geneve_. The former is signed by Bonivard, apostolic prothonotary and _poet-laureate_.