PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

The Greek and the Turk; or Powers and Prospects in the Levant. By Eyre Evans Crowe. Life in the Mission, the Camp, and the Zendnd ; or Six Years in India. By Mrs. Colin Mackenzie. In three volumes. Theory of Politics : an Inquiry into the Foundations of Governments and the Causes and Progress of Political Revolutions. By Richard Hildreth, Author of " The History of the United States of America," &c.

What I Heard, Saw, and Did at the Australian Gold-Fields, By G. Rudston Read, late Crown Land Commissioner, Assistant at Mount Alexander' and Territorial Magistrate for the Colony of Victoria.

Progress of „Russia in the West, North, and South, by Opening the Sources of Opinion and Appropriating the Channels of Wealth and Power. By David Urquhart.

Life in the Clearings versus the Bush. By Mrs. Moodie, Author of 'Roughing it in the Bush," &c.

The Flower of a Day : an original Drama, in a Prologue and three Acts. By Don Francisco Camprodon. Translated from the Spanish, with a few Remarks on the Modern Drama of Spain, by William Biddulph Parker.

[This translation of Camprodon's Flower of a Day, is a speculation to try whether Mr. Parker should risk a larger venture to introduce the modern Spanish drama to the British public. We suspect that he will find his pub- lisher's advice was sound when he dissuaded him from the larger attempt. The plot of The Flower of a Day is rather pretty than striking ; turning upon the fickleness of Lola, the lady who marries the Marquis Montero while her true love Diego is absent in America ; the dramatic interest consisting in the meeting of the lovers when Diego returns, and the husband's groundless jealousy. To English taste the theme will appear ill managed. In the earlier scenes it is spun out by long dialogues and narratives unrelieved by incident, while the latter part is disfigured by overstrained and false senti- ment: nor does the writing make amends for the dramatic deficiency.] Gertrude and Emeline, and other Poems. By a Manchester Lady. [In these poems, some of which are the efforts of very early youth, the "Manchester Lady" exhibits fancy and fluency, with traits of tenderness, and a nice appreciation of beauty. A good deal more, however, is requisite before she can take rank as a poetess,—more reality, without losing sight of the ideal, a choice of subjects less common and with more interest, greater terseness and weight of diction.] Poets of England and America ; being Selections from the best Authors of .both Countries, designed as a Companion to all Lovers of Poetry. With an Introductory Essay.

[This selection has been made by the editor from his own reading, without reference to previous collections ; and embraces a very wide range of au- thors, with some little-known if not out-of-the-way specimens. With such a field to gather from as the "Poets of England and America," it would have been difficult to avoid producing a various and attractive volume ; but individual liking rather than general criticism has guided the editor on se- veral occasions.]

The Old House by the River. By the Author of "The Owl Creek Letters."

[American forest adventures with game or in search of it, some sketches of Red and Pale-face hunters, with a few tales of social life, form the substance of this book. The manner is a far-off imitation of Washington Irving, without his humour, his polish, or his breadth. The writer of these papers wants the difficult art of giving interest to minute circumstances, and ob- trudes his own personal likes and dislikes too much upon the reader. These deficiencies rather overlay the interest of his better subjects; but this being put aside, we doubt whether he is equal to his higher themes,—such —such as the bear-hunt, the remorseful death of a hunter who had sought refuge in the woods from memories of the past, and the last hours of an old Indian chief whose recollection went back to the memory of his tribe's independence.] Mental Portraits; or Studies of Character. By Henry F. Tuckerman, Author of "Artist Life," &c. [A collection of compositions known by the word " characters." With the exception of Richard Savage, "the Literary Adventurer," and Daniel Boone, "the Pioneer," they are all individuals of this age, with qualities sufficiently marked to enable Mr. Tuckerman to represent them as types, by tagging an epithet to their name, though not always happily,—as "the Civilian : Governeur Morris."] The Industrial Movement in Ireland, as illustrated by the National Exhibition of 1852. By John Francis Maguire, M.P., Mayor of Cork. [The volume refers to the Cork Exhibition of last year, not the Dublin Exhibition of this summer. It gives an account of the origin of the under- taking, and then treats successively the different class of articles that ap- peared in the exhibition. Mr. Maguire bespeaks indulgence, on account of the multifarious duties that employ his time—Magistrate, M.P., and journalist ; but the last vocation has rather assisted his volume. It is a series of papers pleasantly written, in a somewhat Milesian style, about the subjects exhibited, rather than a technically critical exposition of the different articles : but there is a good deal of information respecting them mixed up with questions of politics, political economy, Irish prejudices against Irish manufactures, and so forth.] Church Expansion. By the Reverend C. B. Pearson, M.A., Prebendary of Sarum, and Rector of Knebwortb. [Intellectual expansion, rather than material extension, is the object of the Reverend C. B. Pearson. He would have another service, shorter and simpler with a view to daily use. He recommends intoning the service, as a means of exciting gr er attention in the congregation, and avoiding a cold Or affected mode of reading the prayers. He would introduce itinerant or

missionary preachers, as a help or addition to the parochial clergy ; ho would also increase the regular staff of the clergy in large parishes, and improve the education of clergymen, not merely in learning and divinity but in rhetorical accomplishments. The suggestions are sensible, though not perhaps attainable. The book is very well written.]

Rough Pencilling. of a .Rough Trip to Rangoon in 1846. [A Calcutta publication, in which the pencillings claim equal attention with the letterpress. The sketches of Rangoon, and of some nautical incidents on the way thither, are rough, but clear and vigorous, with that literal and everyday truth which an artist is apt to disregard in his desire for effects. The letterpress is either private letters or a continuation in the same man- ner, descriptive of a trip to Rangoon made in the year 1846. They are na- tural, and not wanting in variety or interest, from their pen-and-ink sketches of the people ; but they have the same amateur character which distinguishes the author's pencil.] The Gold-Finder of Australia; How he Went, How he Fared, and How he Made his Fortune. Edited by John Sheerer. Illustrated with forty-eight magnificent Engravings, from Authentic Sketches taken in the Colony.

[This publication professes to be a compilation from various sources, grounded on an individual experience. It contains a good deal more than the Dig- gings; embracing the aborigines, natural history, and agricultural occupa- tions. It is done with a certain degree of cleverness, and is cheap enough.]

Biographical Sketches of Great Monarchs, for Young People. By Vis- count Cranbourne.

[Charlemagne, Alfred, and William the Conqueror, are the three monarchs of this juvenile volume. The facts in the lives of each are succinctly told; but the manner in which these three undoubtedly great monarchs influenced the civilization of modern Europe, if they did not affect the forms of its de- velopment, are not sufficiently exhibited.] Lake Lore, or an Antiquarian Guide to some of the Ruins and Recol- lections of Killarney. By A. B. R.

[This assistant guide refers to the past rather than the present ; unless it be the Introduction, which tells with some forced vivacity how wet weather at Killarney induced the writer to escape from ennui by collecting the stories and legends of the various places in the Lake district.]

The Interpretation of the Apocalypse, and the chief Prophetical Scrip- tures connected with it. By William Henry Scott, ILA., late Fellow of Brasenose College, Oxford.

Poetical Chronology of Inventions, Discoveries, Battles, and of Eminent Men, from the Conquest to the Present Time. Exhibiting their effects on the History of Great Britain ; elucidated by a Catechism in Prose subjoined to each page. By theReverend E. C. Brewer, D.D., Trinity Hall, Cambridge ; Author of "Guide to Science," &o. 'Second edition, revised and improved. Ireland Considered as a Field for Investment or Residence. By Wil- liam Bullock Webster, Esq. Second edition. The Agricultural Instructor, or Young Farmer's Class Book. Second edition, rewritten and greatly improved. By Edinund Murphy, A.B. Professor of Agriculture in Queen's College, Cork. (Rural Hand- books.) Florian and Crescenz. By Berthold Auerbach. Translated by Ilea Taylor. (Reading for Travellers.)

PAMPHLETS. •

Russia and Turkey: the present Crisis Foreseen and Foretold. The Republication of a series of Letters, which at their respective dates

appeared in the columns of some of our Public Journals. -

Turkey and Christendom : an Historical Sketch of the Relations be- tween the Ottoman Empire and the States of Europe. Reprinted, with additions, from No. craxxill. of the Edinburgh Review. The Double Government, the Civil Service, and the India Reform Agi- tation. By Henry Lushington, Author of "A Great Country's Little Wars; or England, Affghanisan, and Scinde." Plan for the Future Government of India. By James Silk Buckingham. City Improvements and Mr. Charles Pearson. Its Public Monuments a Disgrace to England, as exemplified in the Co- lossal Statues which disfigure the Metropolis and other Cities. Report of the Proceedings of the London Auxiliary Conunittee of the Scottish Episcopal Church Society To which is prefixed a Sermon preached at Lambeth Church on Sunday, June 1863, by the Right Reverend the Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway.

A Letter to his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin, 'on the Nature, Go- vernment, and Tendency of Miss Sellon's Establishment at Plymouth, called the "Sisters of Mercy." By the Reverend W. G. Cookesley, M.A. With the Archbishop's Reply, &e. Fifth edition.