If, when speaking of the discovery of electro-magnetism by Professor Oersted, Sir John Herschel did not hesitate to declare "that the Electric Telegraph, and other wonders of modern science, were but mere effervescences from the surface of this deep recondite discovery which Oersted had liberated, and which was yet to burst with all its mighty force upon the world," he paid only a just compliment to the merits of the great physicist--and he really did no more--it is obvious that Mr. Bohn, in giving as a new volume of his _Scientific Library_, a translation of _The Soul in Nature, with Supplementary Contributions_, by Hans Christian Oersted, has rendered a great service to scientific men. And it would seem, moreover, from the dedication of the translators, that in executing their labour they have been fulfilling Oersted's own wish, that a true representation of his views of nature should be presented to the English public.
BOOKS RECEIVED.--_The Honey Bee._ _Music, and the Art of Dress._ We have thus, in two handsomely and legibly printed shilling numbers of Murray's _Reading for the Rail_, three Essays from the Quarterly, which all who have read them will be glad to read again, and which all will gladly read who never read before.
THE ARCHÆOLOGICAL JOURNAL, the First Five Volumes, complete. Also the Extra Volumes of Winchester, York, Norwich, and Lincoln; published by the Archæological Society.
JOANNIS LELANDI COLLECTANEA. Vol. V. 1774.
BISHOP PATRICK'S COMMENTARY ON THE BIBLE. The Volumes containing Joshua and Judges. Small 4to.
KENT'S ANTHEMS. Vol. I. folio. Edited by Joseph Corfe.
MACULLOCH'S HIGHLANDS AND ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND.
BACK'S OVERLAND JOURNEY IN THE ARCTIC REGIONS, 8vo.
L'HISTOIRE DE LA SAINCTE BIBLE, par Royaumonde: à Paris, 1701.
JOHNSON'S (DR. S.) WORKS, by MURPHY. Trade Edition of 1816, in 8vo. Vol. XII. only.
SCOTT'S CONTINUATION OF MILNER'S CHURCH HISTORY. Vol. II. Part II. 8vo.
WINKELMAN'S REFLECTIONS ON THE PAINTING OF THE GREEKS, translated by FUSELI. London, 1765. 8vo.
ROYAL PROCLAMATIONS IN ENGLAND IN THE YEAR 1688, EXTENDING TO AND INCLUDING THE YEAR 1707. London, folio.
TYRWITT'S SOLID REASONS FOR PHILOSOPHIZING. Winchester, 1652.
BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY. The first two Volumes. In Numbers preferred.