PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The Nature and Ofre of the State. By Andrew Coventry Dick. The Poetry of Science, or Studies of the Physical Phenomena of Nature.

By Robert Hunt, Author of " Researches on Light," &c.; Keeper of Mining Records, Museum of Practical Geology.

Campaign in France in the Year 1792. Translated from the German of Goethe. By Robert Farie, Barrister-at-law.

Pathologia Indica ; or the Anatomy of Indian Diseases, based upon morbid specimens, from all parts of the Indian empire, in the Museum of the Calcutta Medical College. Illustrated by detailed Cases; with the Pre- scriptions and Treatment Employed, and Comments, Physiological, His- torical, and Practical. By Allen Webb, B.D1.S., Professor of Descriptive and Surgical Anatomy in the Calcutta Medical College, &c. Second edi- tion. In two parts.

The object of this work is to give an idea of the nature and treatment of Indian

, by a selection from the most remarkable cases furnished by the Company's MMedical-u6reBrs to the Medical Board at Calcutta, and by a selected catalogue of morbid specimens of preparations from the museum at the same capital. The "cases " give a full description of the symptoms and treatment; the catalogue, besides a description of the specimen, an account of the subject whence it was taken, Dr. Webb frequently adding remarks. He also contributes general obser- vations, sometimes in the form of notes, sometimes as an introduction to the sections; exhibiting a sensible knowledge of Indian diseases, and some very cu- rious professional learning-classical, Arabian, and Oriental, as well as modern. The book will be found very useful, especially to medical men proceeding to India; since the representation of facts, with a guiding commentary, is the next best substitute for experience in the treatment of disease, or the actual inspection of the morbid preparations. An examination of the museum itself on arriving at Calcutta, as suggested by Dr. Webb, is the best thing to correct erroneous ideas touching alleged peculiarities of Indian.pathology, which frequently have no real existence, though assumed by medical works of authority in this country. The conclusion Dr. Webb draws from his long and wide Oriental experience is, that the general effects of the climate upon the human frame have been much exagge- rated. It may aggravate the virulence and violence of certain disorders, as fevers and cholera; but that is probably about its extent: moral evil is at the bottom of much which is ascribed to climate, especially as regards the natives.] The History of Bahawalpur; with Notices of the adjacent Countries of Sindh, Atghanistan, Mutton, and the West of India. By Shahamet Ali, Author ofd" The Sikhs and Afghans."

[Bahawalpur-laid down in most maps as Daoudpootra, the capital alone being marked as Bahawalpur-is a district adjacent to the present seat of war; the Khan having lately assisted Edwardes, and his family having always continued friendly to the English since their first connexion with Elphinstone in the early part of the century.

The history proper in this book is the translation of an abridgment of the "family annals of Nawab Bahawal Khan." It was made under the direction of Captain Cunningham; was turned into English by Shahamet Ali, as an exercise in India; and is now published, with some official documents and original re- marks, in consequence of the manner in which the ruler of Bahawalpur has lately come before the public. The story begins with the eighth century of the Chris- tian era; passing rapidly over some periods, and dwelling fully upon others. The narrative has more incident and a less juvenile character than some native me- moirs; but the remoteness and smallness of the subject, the want of unity or end in the history, with the blue book " character of the volume, render it of little interest to English readers, unless they have some object in view in consulting it.] The Rights of Property; a Refutation of Communism and Socialism. By Adolphe Thiers. [A translation of the pspers by M. Thiers which originally appeared in the Con- stitutionnel. The arrangement is perhaps too systematic or elementary for Eng- lish readers, and some of the arguments are without much fundamental novelty, as the subject has long since been settled in England for students and thinkers. But, like his speech on substitutes, the general idea of which was taken from Adam Smith,' M. Thiers has so well enforced his positions, by new illustrations drawn from contemporary experience or knowledge, and directly applicable to the business in hand, that established truths come before us with all the effects of novelty and the interest of a current topic,•set off by a style animated and close, yet facile and fluent.] Parochial Sermons, Preached at Lee, Kent. By William Francis Sims M.A., &c. [The eightand-twenty sermons in this volume are plainly and popularly written, on some of the topics wherein doctrine is predominant; morality being considered, and rightly, a fruit of faith. The plainness and brevity of the discourses render • Wealth of Nations, Book V. Chap. I., Part I.

them available for family use; but they have not originality of matter or force of composition to require notice in a literary point of view. The author is strongly opposed to Tractariauism.]

Poems. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Professor of Modern Languages and Belles-Lettres in Cambridge University, U. S. [A neat enough edition of this American poet's works, with a memoir.]

SERIAL.

The Mysteries of London; or Lights and Shadows of London Life.. By Thomas Miller, Author of " Godfrey Malvern," &c. Part I. Third series. [The Mysteries of London, in this first part, turn upon the life of street tumbles, beggars, and that class of persons; whose sayings and doings are presented with a slauigieh cleverness. The hero of the story, Charley, is the natural son of a baronet, whose mother end grandmother are reduced to vagrancy; the old woman out of revenge stealing the baronet's legitimate daughter, to make a tumbler of her. From this degradation she is rescued by accident; but the old woman, dis- covering her asylum, is again upon the pursuit of her revenge, which is baffled in her first attempt by Charley. In addition to this source of movement, there is a forged will; so that there appears no lack of a certain sort of suburban horrors, though not very new in substance.]

ALMANACRS.

Dietrichsen and Hannay's Royal Almanack; and Nautical and Astronomi- cal Ephemeris for the year 1849 of our Lord, being the first after Bissex- tile or Leap-Year. Oliver and Boyd's Threepenny Al:oarlock and Daily Remembrancer for 1849. [These almanacks were among the first to take advantage of the abolition of the duty, to put forward a large mass of useful information at a low price, instead of the mere prettiness, which "flaunts, and goes down an unregarded thing ": and this distinguishing characteristic they still maintain.]

lifer.

Sketch of the Fortifications of Moulton.