THE CONFESSIONS OF AN ETONIAN.*

THERE may be some exaggeration in this little work, but still its perusal cannot be too earnestly recommended to all who trust their sons for their education to an establishment, which, with all its fame, still abounds in absurd and antiquated customs.

INDIAN CORRESPONDENCE.+

THIS is a tribute to the memory of George Augustus Addison, a descendant of the great essayist, and many years secretary to Sir Stamford Raffles. The records of the "Mofussil Magazine" will have more interest with Indian than with English readers, but there is more than enough in this correspondence to attest a cultivated literary taste, an amiable disposition, and abilities of high promise, which were cut off by a too early death.

MR. WYLD'S "POST MAP OF EUROPE."

WE cannot too strongly recommend to tourists and others going abroad as the most compact guide to posts, distances, roads, railroads, packet routes, &c., the "Post Map of Europe," published by Mr. Wyld, geographer to the queen, Charing-cross. It was originally compiled as a companion to Murray's hand-books, to which it remains an indispensable complement.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTICES.

THE schoolboy history of Lucretia still affords field for the tragic dramatist. "Tarquin and the Consulate," a tragedy, in five acts, by Richard Newton Greaves, brings to life again Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, "King of Rome," and Lucius Junius Brutus, "a reputed idiot," in poetry of a purer order, the author deems, than is essential to dramatic composition.-How can we do otherwise than speak favourably of "Infancy and Parental Love," a didactic and domestic poem, by the Rev. Christopher Blencow Dunn? It is a poem dedicated to a great and worthy object, to teach mothers to be really and strictly "mothers-nurses in fact-labouring in their avocation with patient and love-strung nerves, which set weariness at defiance."-"The Year of the World," a philosophical poem on "Redemption from the Fall," by William B. Scott, deserves to be read and enjoyed by all who have a taste for the ultratranscendental in poetry, religion, or philosophy. It is a truly remarkable work, and the illustrations are creditable to the Newcastle Government School of Design.-The ninth volume of the works of G. P. R. James, Esq., revised and corrected by the author, contains "Darnley; or, the Field of the Cloth of Gold," one of the earliest, and yet one of the most popular of the author's works; and the ninth volume of Mr. Bohn's Standard Library contains, at a low price, a work indispensable to every library, "Beckmann's History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins," enlarged by Drs. Francis and Griffith.

* The Confessions of an Etonian. By J. E. M. Saunders and Ottley, Conduit

street.

† Original Familiar Correspondence between Residents in India, including Sketches of Java, &c. 1 vol. Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh.