NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Evening Star, Issue 3196, 19 May 1873, Page 2

NOTICES OF BOOKS.

Wo have received from Messrs Keith and Wiikie the first of a now 12mo. edition of the Waverloy Novels, to be completed in 25 volumes, it is beautifully bound in cloth ; the type is clear and legible ; the size so portable as fairly to entitle it to be called what is professed of it, “a pocket edition,’’and the price is so low as to ensure it a place on the shelves of every library, however humble. The volume before us contains “ Wayerley ” complete. A portrait of Sir Walter Scott, and a cleverly executed vignette of Waverley’spnsentation to Prince Charles, illustrate this volume.

Messrs Fergusson and Mitchell have forwarded us a copy of one of the most useful works that merchants can possess : A “Customs Guide” for 1873. It has been compiled by Mr Alexander Rose, an officer in the Customs Department, Auckland, and is not merely of use Provincially but Colonially. Mr Rose very pertinently adopts the maxim Ignorantia non excusat legem, and in order that there may be no excuse for ignorance, he has compiled a work epitomising the various Acts in force, and detailing a’l that is necessary to be known regarding Customs regulations, forms, duties of officers, passenger ships’ regulations, import duties, weights, measures, and money with their equivalents in foreign standards, and a mass of useful knowledge brought into one volume that few have th<means of getting together without great loss of time and risk of mistake. The labor in rolled in the publication of such a work may be estimated when we state that it comprises 2SB pages of rea ling matter, including several elaborate tables and forms for facili tatiug Customs business. We have no doubi that so useful a work will command a large sale.