Murray's _Official Handbook of Church and State, containing the Names,
Duties, and Powers of the principal Civil, Military, Judicial, and
Ecclesiastical Authorities of the United Kingdom and Colonies; with
Lists of the Members of the Legislature, Peers, Baronets, &c._, is, as
to its objects, sufficiently described by its ample title-page. An
examination of its pages will show the great amount of information
illustrative of the rise, nature, and peculiar duties of the numerous
branches of the executive government of this vast empire, which the
editor justly claims the credit of having sought for from various
sources, and now for the first time gathered together. It must soon,
therefore, find its way on to the desks of all men in office--not indeed
as superseding the old Red Books and Official Calendars--but as an
indispensable companion to them.
When speaking of the translation of Huc's _Travels in Tartary, Thibet,
and China_, which we noticed some few weeks since, we gave our readers
the best possible evidence of the value of the work. That Messrs.
Longman have done wisely in including a condensed translation of these
interesting _Recollections of a Journey through Tartary, Thibet, and
China_, from the practised pen of Mrs. Percy Sinnett, in their
_Traveller's Library_, we cannot therefore doubt; and we shall be much
surprised if the book does not prove to be one of the most popular in
the admirable series of which it forms the 14th and 15th Parts.
By way of answering the inquiry of a correspondent, and for the purpose
of forwarding the very admirable and important objects of _The
Chronological Institute_, we have procured a copy of the prospectus
which has been circulated by its projectors, and have inserted it in
full in our advertising columns.