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Pasigraphical Dictionary and Grammar. By Anton Bachmaier, President of the Pasigraphical Society of Munich.

Pasigraphisches Wörterbuch zum Gebrauche für die Deutsche Sprache. Verfasst von Anton Bachmaier. Dictionnaire Pasigraphique, précédé de la Grammaire. Redigé par Antoine Bachmaier. (Trübner.)

Some of our readers may not be aware of the exact nature of pasigraphy: "Pasigraphy," says the editor of these little volumes, "teaches people to communicate with one another in writing by means of numbers, which convey the same ideas in all languages, thus it reunites people whom languages separate." Although this system cannot possess all the advantages of a language, it is a faithful interpreter of all languages that accept it, as any one will feel convinced who will take the trouble to test it by means of these three dictionaries; and the principle will apply as equally to three hundred as to three languages, provided dictionaries be prepared for the purpose. The utility of such a system is evident, and no less so the ingenuity with which M. Bachmaier has overcome its difficulties. The conceptions communicable are 4,334; and when it is remembered how few are the words in ordinary use, it will be seen what great progress M. Bachmaier has made in solving the problem of an universal language, or, at all events, an universal means of intercommunication for ordinary purposes between all nations and languages.

The Builders of Babel. By Dominick M'Causland, Q.C., D.C.L., &c. (Bentley.)

This is a book which may safely be recommended to those who are honestly and earnestly seeking for the harmony that must exist between the well-ascertained facts of science and the rightly understood words of revelation. Mr. M'Causland, in the conviction that præhistoric archæology, like every other science, only serves to set the seal of truth on the sacred record, in the volume before us brings the recent discoveries which this new science has won for history to bear in bridging over the misty gulf which has hitherto intervened between the history of the Hametic and Japhetic branches of the great human family in the Book of Genesis, and the Grecian Era.

Reminiscences of Fifty Years. By Mark Boyd. (Longmans.)

When an intelligent man who has passed fifty years of a busy life, which has brought him in contact with men high in both services, active politicians, and intelligent men of business, sits down to write his reminiscences, he can hardly fail to record a good deal which is amusing, and a good deal which, if not amusing, is worth knowing. Such is Mr. Boyd's book; which, though certainly not equal to Dean Ramsay's, which suggested it, contains some very interesting anecdotes; while in many cases, if the anecdotes are not very remarkable, they derive interest and value from the remarkable men of whom they are related.

BOOKS RECEIVED.-Popular Tables by Charles M. Willich. Seventh edition, edited by Montague Marriott, Barrister-at-Law. (Longmans.) The great value and utility of these Tables have been so generally recognised that we may content ourselves with calling attention to this seventh edition, in which the various Tables, &c. have been brought down to the present day.

The Mac Callum More. A History of the Argyll Family, from the earliest Times. By the Rev. Hely Smith. (Bemrose.) A well-timed little book full of the information which the recent marriage of the Princess

Louise to Lord Lorne naturally leads many to inquire after.

Routledge's Illustrated Natural History. By the Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A., F.L.S. Part I. (Routledge.) There can be little doubt that this new issue of Mr. Wood's pleasantly written and beautifully illustrated Natural History will share the popularity which so deservedly attended the original edition.

THE conclusion of Lord Dalling's Biography and Letters of Lord Palmerston, will, it is understood, appear in the course of the present year.

REPORT speaks very favourably of the approaching Exhibition of the Royal Academy, which, it is said, will contain a considerable number of works by eminent French artists.

WE are requested to state that the title, "Won-not Wooed," which designates a "serial" novel, commenced in Chambers's Journal on November 29, 1870, was notified in connection with a "drama in five acts, and in verse," in The Athenæum of October 30, 1869-having originated with the writer of the play referred to.

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