PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Books.

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Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology : Sermons. By Theodore Parker, Author of "A Discourse of Matters pertaining to Religion," &c. (Chapman's Quarterly Series.)

Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain. By Agnes Strickland, Author of "Lives of the Queens of England." Volume IV.

The .Pantropheon ; or History of Food and its Preparation, from the Earliest Ages of the World. By A. Soyer, Author of " The Gastro- nomic Regenerator," &c. Embellished with forty-two Steel Plates, illustrating the greatest Gastronomic Marvels of Antiquity.

Memoir of the late David Maitland Ma/spill Crichton, of Nether Ran- keilour. By the Reverend J. W. Taylor, Free Church, Hiatt and Criech.

[This book is founded on the mistaken principle of confounding local acti- vity with national labours, and substituting personal liking for general in- terest. The late David Maitland Makgill Crichton was a Scotch laird, of great personal strength and endurance, with much of the "perfervidum Inge- nium ' of his countrymen ; and these qualities he turned to good account as an elder and itinerant orator in favour of the Free Kirk. Beyond this limited range of public life he was unknown ; nor was his private life event- ful. He was born in 1801; called to the bar in 1822; retired in 1827; and lived for some years as a country gentleman in Fife, having succeeded to family estates through deaths and devise. When he became religious he was active in the General Assembly of the Church, and, as we have intimated, a great friend to the Secession. He died in 1851, of organic diseases brought on by over-exertion ; and this seems the moral of his life. Sound, as the pugilists would say, in wind and limb, he tried his constitution' not only in incessant travelling and speaking for the Free Church, but in feats without any plea of necessity. The coach to Edinburgh being one day full, he ran a race with it foe fifteen miles, and arrived at the same time ; and having done this once, he often did it again. When death from disease of the heart and other organic changes was over- taking at fifty a frame that might have lasted for eighty years, he admitted the folly. Allusion being made to his feat, he replied, with clinching truth, "A horse could have done it much better." The Reverend J. W. Taylor has done all he could with his subject re- lieving it by pictures of Scottish manners, and by notices of the Free Clitirch question, without overdoing either. But the want of large interest in the subject is too much for him, upon the scale on which the work is planned.] Quinti Horatii Flacci Opera Otnnia. With English Notes. By the Reverend A. J. Macleane, M.A., Head Master of King Edward's School, Rath.. Abridged from the larger edition in the " Bibliotheca Classica."

[An abridged or rather a recast edition of Mr. Macleane's larger edition of porace. This volume is designed for schools, and contains the broadest fea- tures of the previous edition, intended for deeper and more refined study than schoolboys will or perhaps can give. So far as regards the object of the poet, the scope of particular pieces, or the explanation of particular passages, this cheaper edition leaves nothing to be desired, as respects the under- standing of Horace.]

Baia; its History, Climate, Productions, and Field Sports; with No- tices of European Life and Manners, and of the various Travelling Routes. By .1. H. Stocqueler, Author of the "Oriental Interpreter.' With Illustrations.

[A clever compilation about the history and government of India, her cli- mate, productions, commerce, arts, and religion; with information how to get to India, and the cost, as well as what to do when you are there, either in the way of business or of field sports.] London Homes : including the Murder Hole ; the Drowning Dragoon; the Priest and the Curate ; Lady Mary Pierrepoint ; and Frank Van- &tart. By Catherine Sinclair, Author of "Beatrice," &c. [A series of tales and tracts, designed, like the author's Beatrice, to exhibit die arts and evil working of Popish priests, or to illustrate the miserable condition of the "homes" of the poor in London, or to impress the mis- chief of over-education. They seem to have been published separately, and collected into a volume.] Three Original Plays. By John Wynne. Tricks of the Time ; a Come- dy, in five acts. Napoleon the .First's First Love ; an Historical Comic Drama, in two acts. The Advocate of Durango; a Romantic Mexican Drama, in four acts.

["Fired that the house rejects him, s'death I'll print it" : but lir. Wynne goes further, and threatens the managers he will continue to write, and print as they reject. There is some cleverness about the writing, but a want of art both as regards the principles of the drama and the business of the stage.]

The Chalice of Nature, and other Poems. By Folliott Sandford Pierpoint.

[A. tiny volume of very creditable youthful poems.]

.French Confectionary adopted for English Families. By Miss Craw- ford, Author of "French Cookery adapted for English Families." LA large number of plain recipes for making pastes' tarts, cakes, biscuits, conserves, syrups, candies, and other things that fall under the head of confectionary ; the learning derived from the French.] The most notable book in the following list is the second edition of Earl Grey's clever defence of his own administration of Colonial affairs ; containing a good deal of additional documentary matter, inserted in the appendix. Some part of it has sprung into being since the author's retirement, the other part consists of papers which he did not feel at liberty to use till they had appeared officially,. The principal topics are West Indian affairs,—the Sugar portion of which is a subject of gratulation that Earl Grey persisted in refusing to encourage protection ; and the New Zealand business,—respect- ing which he now finals out how wrong it is in Government to refuse inquiry to those who have a grievance or are under charge. Of the other books, Mr. Newman's "History of the Hebrew Monarchy" is the most remarkable, and in point of permanent importance might take the pas of Lord Grey's gigantic pamphlet. A new preface defends the au- thor against some alleged unfairness of his critics. The pleasant and singu- lar tale about Albert Diirer, "The Artist's Married Life," appears now in a very cheap form.

It is needless to explain the principle of an 011endorfian book, with its large rivers of exercise, and its little islets of grammatical precept. 011en- dorfs own book, the "First German Book" of Dr. T. K. Arnold, and Dr. Heimann's "Fifty Lessons," have long ago illustrated a theory which is cer- tainly attended with practical advantages. This is one book snore of the same sort ; inferiority of paper being secured by publication at Bonn.

The Colonial Policy of Lord John Russell's Administration. By Earl Grey. In two volumes. Second edition, with additions.

A History of the Hebrew _Monarchy. From the Administration of Samuel to the Babylonish Captivity. By Francis William Newman, formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. Second edition. (Chap. man's Quarterly Series.) The Artist's Harried Life ; being that of Albert Diirer. Translated from the German of Leopold Schafer, by Mrs. J. R. Stodart. (Chap- man's Library for the People.) The Study of German Simplified, in a New Systematic and Practical Grammar, according to the Systems of 011endorf and Dr. Ahn. By H. Manheimer, formerly Professor of the German Language and Li- terature in several French and English Institutions at Brussels, now Professor of Modern Languages at Bonn; Author of "The Perfect Speaker." The second edition, carefully revised, greatly enlarged, and improved.

NEW PERIODICAL.

The London Quarterly Review. No. I. LA. new periodical of high class can only attain the distinction which secures the necessary support, by acting as the organ of a party, by some peculiarity of character, or by very great literary merit. Of these three modes the first is the surest, (and it may combine the other two qualities,) if the party is sufficiently numerous and wealthy ; which is perhaps the case with that of The _London Quarterly Review. Evangelical Protestantism appears to be its party' with a leaning to Dissent, possibly to Weslevanism ; but thoroughly opposed to Popery, and moderate towards the English as sepa- rated from the Anglican Church. The first number is a creditable specimen; though somewhat deficient in variety, and with hardly any papers strikingly above the average either in their subject matter or literary execution. The best paper is un- doubtedly the first, on "the Christian Populations of the Turkish Empire." It contains a good deal of statistical information ; presents a summary view of the ethnological geography, so to speak, of Turkey in Europe ; displays a competent knowledge of the various Christian sects ; and, without profess- ing to foresee the future, predicts the breaking-up of the Turkish empire, from the impossibility of Mahometaniem contributing to modern progress. The other nine articles are of a solid painstaking character, and deal with topins of current interest, but not of novelty ; neither is the treatment re- markable, though able and substained.] NEW SERIAL.

The Works of Samuel Warren, D.C.L., F.R.S. Part I. "Diary of a Late Physician."

[1( Complying with very numerous applications,_" Messrs. Blackwood have commenced a cheap reprint of the works of Mr. Warren, and open with his first and best, the _Diary of a Late Physician. When expensive editions in this country, reprints of all kinds in America, and translations on the Con- tinent of Europe, bear testimony to the merit of a novelist, criticism may vainly object to exaggeration in incident and fervid exuberance of style. The public like it ; or more truly, the defects are outweighed by the merits. And here they may have the author's entire works, in a neat double-column edition, at the cost of a shilling a month ; every shilling'sworth containing as much, we should say, as an old half-guinea volume.]

PAMPHLETS.

A Reply to the Reverend N. Davies's .Notes on the Cathedral Chotroh of St. David's, &c. By Llewelyn Lewellin, M.A., &c., Dean of St.. David's.

Grievances and .Pre8en7 Condition of our Indian Officers, considered. with a view to Improvement and Redress under future Indian Ad-

, ministration.

The Wine-Duties. By W. W. Whitmore,Esq.

NOTE ON THE LIFE OF BISHOP BATHURST.

We have received the following statement in reference to Mrs. This- tlethwayte's account of the manner in which her father, Bishop Bathurst, was deprived of the Lydney Park Estate, as quoted in the Spectator of August 27, page 826.

"Statement of Charles Bathurst, the Son' of Lydney Park, with reference to page 67. "Dr. Henry Bathurst was not the undoubted heir of Lydney, as being Mr. Poole Bathurst's eldest brother, because he was half-brother only ; and Mr. Charles Bragge was : that is, would have been after the death of his mother, and of his aunts, who had no children ; these ladies were the remaining members of Mr. Benjamin Bathurst's family by his first wife. "There are no such words in the will as the nearest relation who was to take the name of Bathurst'; nor aould there ever have been such words as the nearest relation of the name of Bathurst.' The will is not drawn in that short and very unusual manner ; but at great length, in the UMal manner; naming or specifying, in strict settlement or entail, the persons who were successively to take; of whom, after the death of the widow, his nephew Charles Bragge' is the first named, and I am the second. "After all this comes the provision, that Charles Bragge, &c., were to take the name of Bathurst. In this part of the will there is an erasure of two inches in length ; but nothing is written over it, and it appears very unimportant."