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money-changers , the advice is little better than heathen Greek to him . Let him tell us how those professions can thrive , in which men of the highest education are starving merely because they cannot dig , and to beg are ashamed . The author ' s advice is excellent : " Take care to reserve some sunshine for the evening of life . " Alas ! how many poor clergy see their sun go down whilst it is " yet day , " in penury and wretchedness because

they have no means of employing " their penny ! " "They must look to another world , " says the hypocritical money-hoarder . Very true ; but whymake an outcry then , if they cannot pay their grocer ' s bill in this ? - ——¦ " Transactions of the Surrey Archasologiccd Society for the years 1854 , 1855 . " London : J . Russell Smith , This eminent association has put forth its primary publication , containing some admirable papers by the Rev . O . F . Owen ( who we believe edited it ) , the Rev . T . Jessop , Dr . Bell , Messrs . Lance , Steinman , McDougall , and Corner . The engravings are of high merit , and the research and

knowledge displayed speak much for the society ' s efficiency . It is no wonder it succeech jj however ; for that most indefatigable of ail secretaries , G . Bish Webb , Esq ., never allows any work under his direction to hold a second place , if tact , talent , and energy , can place it in the first . The only fault we find with the society is that it gives its subscribers too much for their money : this volume alone far exceeds by value the annual payment . - " / Too" by Beelzebub . London : Hamblin . Good thoughts , beautiful images , a significant preface , and

some of the finest ore of poetry which has of late years been dug up from the mine of authorship , all contributed by one who signs himselfet Beelzebub . " To give the devil his due , he might claim originality ; but the author has given him more than his due in associating pure strains with such an individuality . Let H , Newton Goderich , Esq ., sign his own name in future , for we have no fear of its becoming great , if he pen such poetry as this : let him tell truth and shame the devil

" A Letter to the Earl of Shaftesbury on the Version of the Bible published ' by the Bible Society" by the Rev . S . C . Malan , M . A . London : Bell and Daldy . Nothing has saved Mr . Malan from being a bishop long since but his profound acquirements as a linguist , scholar , and theologian . We had recently occasion to notice his two other admirable works , and we have now a letter upon the most important topic , namely , a mistake in the translation of the Bible Society ' s copy of the Scriptures into Chinese , whereby a pantheistic exposition is given to the text . Of all the missionary societies , it appears that the Bible Society is the only one

which perseveres in this grave error , shortly we trust to be corrected , if that exemplary and useful peer , Lord Shaftesbury , attend to the clear arguments put forth in this pamphlet by probably the first Oriental scholar of the age . i ( A complete Guide to Government Appointments and to the Civil Service Examinations " by James C . Hurst . London : Relfe ( Brothers ) , Alder sgate-street . This is a most useful , indeed an indispensable guide to all candidates for official appointment ; and our perusal of it has rendered us highly pleased with the precision and arrangement of its contents . The book , we repeat , is admirable ; we only hope it may be punctiliously carried out .

Surrey Archaeological Society.

SURREY ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY .

The third annual general meeting of this society was held in the Girls' Industrial Schoolroom , at Croydon . The walla of the room were adorned with a large number of impressions or rubbings from monumental brasses on paper and calico , taken by means of " heelball . " These prints comprised a life-size portrait of Thomas Nelond ( Prior of

Lewes ) from Crawford Church , date 1433 ; a portrait of Nicholas Carew , and Isabella his wife , taken from a brass on the pavement in Beddington Church , 1432 ; Sir Reginald de Cobham , Lingheld Church , 1403 ( this brass is lying on an altar-tomb in the north chancel ) ; John and Isabella Leigh , from a brass in Beddington Church ; John Gaynesford , from Crowhurst Church . Near the old entrance-hall wore tables containing a number of pictorial , archaeological , and