“We are happy to announce a fifth edition of this most useful and intelligent work. The author, Mr. Robert Macnish, has done more service to the cause of sobriety, by describing in this book the lamentable results of immoderate indulgence in intoxicating fluids, than all the Temperance Societies in England. In fact, if Mr. Buckingham and his fellow-twaddlers of the celebrated drunken committee, instead of recommending absurd and impracticable legal enactments for the prevention of drunkenness, had prevailed on parliament to grant a sum of money for the dissemination of Macnish’s ‘Anatomy,’ they would have taken the most effectual means to check an evil which is really of a sad and devastating character. We remember once hearing a worthy gentleman advise an unhappy infidel to read Bishop Watson’s reply to Tom Paine’s Age of Reason, remarking, ‘if you study that book, Sir, you cannot be an unbeliever.’ Without seeking to weaken the force of the good Christian’s injunction, _we_ say to all who are in danger of contracting the truly horrible habit of intoxication, read Macnish on Drunkenness.”—_London Weekly Despatch._ XXI. M’Phun’s Catechisms of Useful Knowledge. Seventh Edition, price Sixpence, sewed; One Shilling, bound in Red Leather, Gilt Edges, No. I. MISCELLANEOUS ELEMENTARY KNOWLEDGE. “This little Catechism contains a very great quantity of information upon subjects of which nobody ought to be ignorant, and arranged in such a manner that it may be taught with advantage to, and learned with ease by, children at a very early period. The simpler questions are left without any answer, so that the children may exercise their own ingenuity in solving them. This we think a decided improvement. We are glad also to see so considerable a portion of it devoted to an account of the Books of Scripture, and to an explanation of some of the most important words which frequently occur in them. We are quite sure that this will be found extremely useful ‘in fixing the outline of Scripture History in the youthful mind, and in exciting the desire of a more extensive acquaintance with the Inspired Records.’ While we can very strongly recommend this Catechism to schools for the use of children, we may add, that there are many who are children no longer who might read it over with no small advantage.”—_Edinburgh Christian Instructor._ XXII. Price Sixpence, No. II. THE SHORTER CATECHISM, With NOTES; CATECHISMS for CHILDREN, by ISAAC WATTS, D. D.; and a Collection of HYMNS, by various Authors. XXIII. FOR THE USE OF ITALIAN STUDENTS. Second Edition, price 2s. 6d. Economy of Human Life—in Italian. L’ECONOMIA DELLA VITA UMANA DI DODSLEY. Tradotta Da B. Aloisi.