PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

A Second Series of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians; including their Religion, Agriculture, &c.; derived from a comparison of the paintings, sculptures, and monuments still existing, with the ac- counts of ancient authors. By Sir J. GARDNER WILKINSON, F.R.S.,

&c., Author of " A General View of Egypt, and Topography of Thebes," &c. Two volumes, and a volume of Plates.

The Principal Baths of Germany considered with reference to their Reme- dial Efficacy in Chronic Disease. By EDWIN LEE, Esq.,:M.H.C.S., &c. Part the second-Central and Southern Germany; with an appendix on the Cold Water Cure.

The 3Iineral Springs of England, and their curative efficacy : with Re- marks on Bathing, and on Artificial Mineral Waters. By EDWIN LEE, Esq., M.R.C.S., &c.; Author of " The Baths of Germany," &c.

Diplomatic Transactions in Central Asia, from 1834 to 1839.

fIn 1839, JAMES FINLAY and Co., with about fifty other Glasgow believers in RQUHART, addressed an epistle to their political Pope, requesting his opinion on 4• our commercial and political relations with Turkey and the East," and "particularly on the correspondence laid before Parliament relative to Afghan- istan and Persia." Nothing loath, the oracle. as soon as health and avoca- tions permitted, drew up a reply, great part of which was published in the Glasgow Herald more than a twelvemonth since. As happens to most men in authority, whose words are precious, these letters were reprinted during UR- QunART's absence ; and they are now revised, completed, and published in a goodly quarto, with all the "lights" that the infallible has since received, without the effect "of altering his opinion." The text requires a couple more works to he read with advantage : " the Exposition of the Boundary Difference between Great Britain and the United Stales, will be found a useful intro- duction," and a "copy of the Correspondence relative to Persia and Af- ghanistan, presented by the Foreign Office, is necessary for reference in perusing this volume."]

History of the French Revolution till the Death of Robespierre. By DAVID WEMYSS JOBSON.

The first volume of this work, which appears periodically in numbers, is now completed ; bringing down the narration to the close of the Reign of Terror. It is fluent and readable, running rapidly over the leading events, and de- lineating the principal persons: but the narrative is superficial, the views are often unsound, the characters not remarkable fur discrimination ; and the whole is deficient in oneness, as if the writer took a paragraph first from one writer and then another.] Vie Course of Truth, or the Church of the Redeemed : a Poem, in six books. By the Reverend WILLIAM STONE, M.A. [A poem in well-sounding Miltonic blank verse; taking Scriptural history from the Creation to the death of Solomon for its narrative, and intermingling Jewish historical events with Christian theology and some general views of ethics. The sort of politics the Reverend WILLIAM STONE professes may be gathered from a note to the text which describes David as shrinking from smiting Saul. "If ever" says be, "a professedly godly nation was guilty of sacrilegious murder, it was when England basely profaned the Divine rights of the Throne, and Charles the First, her Christian and Protestant monarch, was dragged to the scaffold by his infatuated subjects. The King might have stretched his civil prerogative beyond due limit ; yet he invaded no rights of ecclesiastical privilege, nor infringed upon the sacred and sworn inviolability of the national creed; consequently, his people were neither justified in resorting, in the first instance, to physical force, nor pardonable in seeking and eventually shedding his blood."] Glenullyn ; or the Son of the Attainted. In three vols. [A hotchpotch of slang and fine writing, Highland coarseness and Cockney vulgarity, interlarded with a profusion of platitudes, and a few bits of descrip- tion ; the whole tied together by an attempt at a story, too absurd to be ludicrous. ] St. Antholin's, or Old Churches and New ; a Tale for the Times. By FRANCIS E. PAGET, M.A., Rector of Elford, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Norwich. [An arrangement for paying church-rates, and for a liberal and tasteful outlay of the money when collected, in the attractive guise of a clever and amusing fiction. This one•sided pleading, with its illustrative evidence, made for the nonce, includes the law of the case : and the advocate can be sarcastic as well as sentimental upon occasion-his appeal to the pockets of parishioners and the consciences of churchwardens is likelier to make converts to his views than a more solemn exhortation, upon the principle that ROWLAND HILL'S pulpit badinage proved more efficacious in the cause of charity than the most pathetic addresses. The wood-cut representing " Mr. Compu's design fur the cheap church " is a felicitous graphic satire on the pasteboard deformities of " Car- penters' Gothic," that disfigure so many old churchyards, and at least one modern cemetery.] An Introduction to Shakspere's Midsummer Night's Dream. By JAMES ORCHARD HALLIWELL, Esq., F.R.S., &c.

[A volume of notes and illustrations to this beautiful play, principally of an antiquarian nature, and showing an extensive acquaintance with old English literature. Some allusions in the text, not satisfactorily explained by previous commentators, are traced to their origin ; and the probable sources whence the poet derived suggestions of ideas are given in curious quotations from contem- porary productions. Mr. HALLtwEra. is in favour of the fitness of this play for the stage, though old PEPYS pronounced it "insipid and ridiculous " when represented in 1662 ; and he contends for the more common orthography of the great dramatist's name, " Shakespeare."] The Grammar of the English Language truly made Easy and Amusing, by the invention of three hundred moveable Parts of Speech. By GEORGE MUDIE, Author of " The Illuminated Temple of Letters," &c. [That this grammar is " truly amusing," we can vouch, having set a party of children in a roar of laughter in the attempt to test the efficacy of its instruc- tion : this excess of the amusing quality prevented our forming an opinion by experiment of its raciness, though the juvenile critics pronounced it to be equally excessive in its simplicity. Mr. Minim has taken such extreme pains to make himself understood, that his meaning is obscured by the medium through which it is expressed; the student is blinded by " excess of light."

For instance, the changes are rung upon the sentence " Charles gave an apple to Jane," until the words sound as if they had no sense at all ; and the ex- planations are so elaborate, that, " egad, the interpreter is the harder to be understood of the two." This extraordinary production is otherwise remark- able for the over-ingenuity of its inventor: it is half-book half-box, the box containing the " moveable parts of speech " printed on strips of card ; and it is as troublesome to pick out from the heap of separate words any particular one as it is difficult to extract a meaning from the verbose repetitions of the text.] Exercises in Orthography and Composition, on an entirely new plan ; con- taining much valuable information on various subjects. By HENRY HOPKINS, Conductor of a School at Birmingham.

[A lesson-book of great practical utility, on an excellent plan. It is compiled by a schoolmaster for the purpose of teaching pupils the value of different words and the right way of using them, as well as the spelling, by means of a series of progressive exercises, consisting of correct sentences, some of them containing useful facts, in which words of similar sound but different meaning are employed : these are to be written out by the pupils from the book, until they can write them correctly from dictation, and thoroughly understand the import and grammatical construction.]

SERIALS.

The Hebrew and English Holy Bible. The Hebrew reprinted from the text of HEIDENUEIAL The English version compared with the original and carefully revised by the late SOLOMON BENNETT, Author of " The Molten Sea,' &c. Edited by Filene's BARHAAI, Esq., Editor of Collier's " Ecclesiastical History." Part I.

George St. George Julian, No. IV.

Brayley's Topographical History of Surrey, No. IV.

Madame Riofrey's Governesses, or Modern Education, No. IV.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Corfu, taken from the Upper Citadel. From nature and on stone, by J. CATER, Esq.

[A panoramic view, live feet in length, of this beautiful island ; drawn with minute accuracy of detail with pen and ink, in the manner of etching, and printed in tinted lithography. The execution is very elaborate, and, so far as this peculiar style of drawing admits, effective; and as the performance of an amateur, it possesses great merit.]

Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge, No. XIII.

Heath's Waverley Gallery, Part XII.

PERIODICALS.

Magazines-Monthly Law. MAPS.

Atlas of Constructive Geography. By W. INGRES, Esq., F.R.G.S., &e. No. IL PAMPHLETS.

Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, 6-e. 6-c., on Australian Emigration.

Debate at the East India House, on Wednesday 17th March 1841, on a Resolution of the Honourable Court of Directors to erect a Statue of the Marquis Wellesley, K.G., in the Court-room of the Proprietors. A Statistical Sketch of the Island of Chusan, with a brief note on the geology of China. By Lieutenant OIICHTERLONY, F.G.S., of the Madras Engineers. Case of Mir. Ytt'Leod, in whose person the Crown of Great Britain is arraigned for felony. Second Edition, revised. By DAVID URQUHART, Esq. Reply to Tait's Magazine and Mr. Cobden.

Notice of an Article on Charges against Lord Palmerston, in the "Dublin University Magazine."

A Statement of the Satisfactory Results which have attended Emigration to Upper Canada, from the establishment of the Canada Company until the present period ; comprising statistical tables, and other important information, communicated by respectable residents in the various town- ships of Upper Canada. With a General Map of the Province. Com- piled for the guidance of Emigrants.

Hornceopathy Explained, and Objections answered.

An Appeal to Parliament, the Medical Profession, and the Public, on the present state of Dental Surgery. By GEORGE WAITE, Esq., Surgeon- Dentist, M.R.C.S., &c.