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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The pressure on our space last week compelled us to forego our intention of noticing the principal magazines of the month, Blackwood, Fraser, the Cornhill, and Macmillan, all of which are putting forth their best strength in a race of honourable rivalry. We can now only indicate in the briefest manner a few articles deserving of special attention among many which are scarcely inferior to them in merit. Our list includes the Reverend Mr. Blakesley's paper (in Macmillan) on "M. de Lessees and the Suez Canal," marked with the accurate learning and practical good sense of the "Hertfordshire Incumbent ; " seventeen " Unpublished Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley," contributed to Fraser by Mr. Peacock, and which we hope to see reprinted in a more permanent form along with Mr. Peacock's reminiscences of the poet which appeared in previous numbers ; "Student Life in Scotland" in the Go' rnhill Magazine; and "Nelson and Caracciolo" in Blackwood. The writer of the last- named article has complied with a suggestion we offered in a notice of the January number of the magazine, and has devoted a special paper to the explosion of the slanderous charges against Nelson with respect to the transactions that took place in the Bay of Naples in the year 1799. We congratulate the writer in Blackwood, and all true Englishmen, on the perfectly satisfactory manner in which he has accomplished his sa- cred task. He has proved by a plain statement of well-authenticated facts, that the charges in question are "infamous and groundless calum- nies."

With one grand exception, novels and reprints continue to be almost the sole productions of the 'press. The exception is Professor Owen's

PALEONTOLOGY, OR A SYSTEMATIC Sl7MEARY OF FOLTINCT ANI3f.A.LS AND THEIR GEOLOGICAL REMAINS. The publication of this work will probably mark an epoch in the history of the science which explores the stratified records of the earth's vicissitudes and of its extinct inhabitants ; but it is of too strictly technical a character, as its title indicates, to be easily digested by readers who have not been accustomed to feed on the strong meat of scientific research.

Boons.

Paleontology; or a Systematic Summary of Extinct Animals and their Geo- logical Relations. By Richard Owen, F.H.B., &e.

The Voyage of the Lady. By the Author of " The Three Paths." In two volumes.

One Trial. A Novel. In two volumes. By H. R. C.

Bengala ; or Some Time Ago. By Mrs. Vidal. In two volumes.

The Washington:. A Tale of a Country Parish in the 17th Century. Based on Authentic Documents. By John Nassau Simpkinson, Rector of Brington, Northants.

Tried in the Fire. A Tale. By Mrs. Mackenzie Daniel. In three volumes. Say and Seal. By the Author of " Wide Wide World."

Harry Birkett ; the Story of a Man who Helped Himself. By the Author of " Town Life," &c.

Italia Awakened. A Poem. By Major Webster Gordon, Sixty-sixth Regi- ment.

The Pope's Bights and Wrongs. An Historical Sketch.

Essays on the Indian Army and Oude. By the late Sir Henry Lawrence, Bart., A.C.B. (" Friend of India" Press.) Abrive de PHistoire de France, from the Earliest Time to the Year 1860, com- piled expressly for the use of schools and students graduating for the Com- petitive Examinations. By Leon Contanseau.

Grammar of Household Words in Four Languages ; adapted to the separate or simultaneous study of English, German, French, and Italian. By J. de Pax Tyrel.

My Norske Note Book; or, a Month in Norway. By a Lady.

The Causes and Treatment of Imperfect Digestion. By Arthur Leared, M.B. NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.

Biographies by Lord Macaulay, contributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica. With Notes of his Connexion with Edinburgh, and Extracts from his Letters and Speeches.

The Season-Ticket.

The History of the Unreformed Parliament and its Sessions. By Walter Bage- hot. Reprinted from the " National Review."

Tales from "Blackwood." Vol. VIII.

The Sailor's Horn-Book for the Law of Storms : being a Practical Exposition of the Theory of the Law of Storms, and its Uses to Mariners of all Classes, in all Parts of the World, shown by Transparent Storm Cards and Useful Lessons. By Henry Plddington. Third edition, enlarged and improved.