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matter , of course all made subsidiary to the great object , that of making the brethren acquainted with Bro . GreatRex . Each copy of the Album contains one or more specimens of Bro . GreatRex's talent—the copy upon our table displays admirable portraits in miniature of Bro . Watson , P . M . No . 23 and Bro . Coulcher , W . M . No . 1055 ; both wonderfully exact . '

Scottish Masonic Calendar and Poclcel Book for 1859 Glasgow : Bro . John Davidson . London : Bro . Richard Spencer . —Our Brethren in Scotland have long been without a proper annual Calendar—an attempt made to establish one some years since not having proved remunerative , and it not being as with us the property of the Supreme Grand Lodge . The present attempt to resuscitate the publication , which if merit receives its fair award , will be most certainly successful , is made under the patronage

of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Glasgow ; the editor being our esteemed friend Bro . Donald Campbell , Substitute Provincial Grand Master of Glasgow . The Calendar not only contains a list of the Scottish Lodges and Chapters but those of England and Ireland , with a variety of other information which cannot prove otherwise than of interest to the Mason . Bro . Campbell has well performed his task , and we trust the work will receive the patronage it deserves .

History of the British hnvpire in India . By Bro . E . II . NOLAN , Ph . D . Parts 20 and 21 . London : James S . Virtue . —We have before us , in these parts , the completion of the first , and the commencement of the second volume of this work , of which we have before spoken in terms of commendation . The first volume closes with what maybe called the termination of the supremacy of the Dutch in India , about 1666 ; for as our learned brother , in concluding his volume , truly says , " Henceforth the history of the Dutch is involved in that of the

English and French , who successively became the leading powers amongst European nations in the East ; and in the records of their progress , will be found the decline of a power once all powerful , and even felt still , in the East . " The second volume commences with the progress of the East India Company , from the establishment of factories in continental India to the first settlement on tho Hoogly ; and promises to be equally interesting with any previous portion of the

work . There is one characteristic of the works published by the Messrs . Virtue , that the engravings are admirably executed , and the author has always the advantage of being placed before his readers in excellent typography . The parts before us are illustrated with a beautiful map of China , and two steel engravings , the Fort of Gwalior , and a portrait of Gholab Singh , which a few years since , it would have been impossible to obtain , excepting at a cost far exceeding that of the work to which they are now only used as accessories .

Hints for the Table ; or , the Economy of Good Lining ; with a fern Words on Wines . London : Kent and Co . ( late Bogue ) . This is a most admirable little work which we presume , though it is not so stated , to have emanated from the able pen of our industrious friend , Mr . John Timbs . It is not a cookery book , but a dissertation on the philosophy of good living at moderate cost . Whilst pointing out the peculiar attributes of almost every imaginable kind of dish and drinkthe text is most agreeablrelieved with

, y anecdotes of the table and of those who have been distinguished as oou vivants . The" Advantages of Promptitude and the Dangers ofDelay ; hy Bro . HENRY HISEBOIIOUGUSHAUJIAX . London : G . J . Stevenson , Paternoster How . This . 2 D 2