PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From May 4th to May 11th.

BOOKS.

Days and Nights of Salmon-Fishing in the Tweed; with a short Account of the Natural History and Habits of the Salmon, instructions to sports- men, anecdotes, &c.- By WILLIAM SCROPE, Esq., F.L.S., Author of "The Art of Deer-Stalking." Illustrated by lithographs and wood- engravings, by L. HAGUE, T. LANDSEER, and S. WILLIAMS, from paintings by Sir DAVID WILKIE, EDWIN LANDSEER, R.A., CHARLES LANDSEER, WILLIAM SIMSON, and EDWARD COOKE.

On Spasm, Languor, Palsy, and other Disorders termed Nervous of the Muscular System. By JAMES ARTHUR WILSON, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians, and Physician to St. George's Hospital. The Irish Sketch-Book. By M. A. TITMARSIL With numerous engra- vings on wood, drawn by the Author. In two volumes. Letters from the Pyrenees, during three months' Pedestrian Wanderings amidst the wildest scenes of the French and Spanish Mountains, in the summer of 1842. By T. CLIFTON Penis, B.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. With Sketches by the Author, taken on the spot.

The Highlands, the Scottish Martyrs, and other Poems. By the Reverend JAMES G. SMALL.

[Uhl volume consists of juvenile poems, and a few larger ones, two of which were written for prizes at college. Some of them have been kept beside the 'author for the nine years prescribed by Henson; and they are now published, that he " may remove all temptation to the further prosecution of the fascinating set " of poetry, as he can have " little expectation of finding leisure among those more important avocations to which he looks forward with the hope that they Amy occepy all his thoughts." In a religious view, the ministry, no doubt, is a more important avocation than any other ; and as regards excellence, perhaps less attainable than even poetry itself. But HORACE has another rule besides the "nonureque prematur in annum." Strange it is, that in a pursuit which requires a combination of the greatest genius with the highest art, men should fancy that their juvenile and college efforts, or the effusions of leisure, or the attraction of a new thought which they soon got tired of and left unfinished, any be given to the public on chance! Men employ a tolerable lawyer, and must put up with a middling divine, but the authority already quoted assures us " Mediocribus ease poetis Non homines, non Di, non coneessere columns.

This mediocrity is the character of Mr. SMALL. Except in a careful versi- fication, a scholarly finish, and a knowledge of the mechanics of poetry, he differs nothing from numbers of other versifiers. However, he has gotten what the school can teach. " The Highlands " is the longest poem, and any one who is curious may see what tutoring can do. It opens with a proper in- troduction, and plunges into the subject in mediae res : there is then an artful digression to Imagination, followed by an appeal to the Local Spirits of the Highlands, who are requested to call up the past to the poet; which natu- rally leads to the ancient Caledonians, whence the sequence is easy to Ossian, and then to the conversion of the Pagans by St. Columba: the poet then starts for Staffs in a sailing-boat; he describes the scenery of coast and isle, and re- turning to the main-land, mingles the description of landscape with historical allusions. Except that the poem is long as regards " duration of time," and perhaps the other alternative of Sir Fretful, there is nothing to be objected to in all this. But the vivida via of poetical genius is wanting. The style is an imitation of BYRON in Childe Harold, but not a gross or injudicious one.] Principia ; a Series of Essays on the Principles of Evil manifesting them- selves in these last times in Religion, Philosophy, and Politics. By S. R. BOSANQUET, Esq.

[The earlier of these essays have appeared in the British Critic, the remainder are original. The plan of the author is to examine the state of Christendom, especially in Great Britain - comparing it with the letter of Scripture, or rather with the interpretation of 'Scripture by the strictest sect of the Church, and finding it, of course, very much wanting. His immediate end is not so clearly discernible, as it partakes somewhat of the obscurity of the prophecies he aims at illustrating. if we rightly interpret his views, he recognizes the Image of the Beast and the Final Apostacy in the signs of the present times ; and he reckons "the number of the Beast" to be six hundred threescore and six,— though we do not trace the application. Our National. Debt haa got far beyond this in millions.

It will,be seen that Mr. BOSANQUET is an enthusiast ; but he is a shrewd andoble enthusiast, with much of good feeling, in spite of his book being a perpetual denunciation, or series ot hits at the practice and character of the age. Taken in conjunction with CARLYLE'S Past and Present, and some other book.s lately published of different .style, inferior merit, but kindred ob- jects, Erincepier is not devoid of interest for its suggestions. It indicates that both the physical and moral state of the goer is at least exciting attention with a view to improvement, and that an effort is on foot against the moneymaking meannesses and materialism of the age—using the word ".materialism " as opposed to mind, and not in any doctrinal sense.] The Infivence of Aristocracies on the .Revolutions of Nations; considered in relation to the present circumstances of the British Empire. By ,JasszaJ. Mecum:RE.

LThisis a good subject for political disquisition, but the author is quite an-

equal to his theme. Goodness or badness, spirit or dulness, are beside the question : Mr. MACINTYRE is no more capable of calmly and comprehensively treating a question of political philosophy than a person devoid of ear and voice is capable of singing. We of necessity see many instances of people who overrate their capacities ; but, looking at the bulk of the volume, tft book is about the biggest example we have met with.

In so large a subject, which involves a consideration of the most remarkable nations and epochs in the history of the world, scattered passages of sonic sort of merit may be found in more than four hundred pages ; but, whatever justice these may have in themselves, is vitiated, so far as we have seen, by the temper and prejudices of the author.] The Grandeur of the Law; or the Legal Peers of England : with sketches of their professional career. By EDWARD Foss, Esq., F.S.A. This is a curious though a somewhat dry and lawyerlike series of notices of tarnilies that have been ennobled by the law, or derived from law that wealth and consideration which eventually raised them to the Peerage: and its pages sometimes produce a surprise. " The blood of all the Howards" turns out, after all, to be a very common fluid : it seems the founder of the family was only a lawyer temp. Edw. I. The arrangement of the notices is titular,—Dukes, Marquises, and so forth; there are double indexes to the contents, with an alphabetical list of all the Chancellors, Keepers, and Judges, who are represented in the present House of Lords. The book exhibits marks of great painstaking, and we have no doubt is accurate. Some of the notices have already appeared in the Legal Observer ; and the publication is merely a sort of offshoot of a larger work on which Mr. Foss has been for some time engaged.] The Baths of Germany, considered with reference to their remedial efficacy in chronic diseases : with an Appendix on the Cold Water Cure. By EDWIN LEE, Esq., Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, &c.; Author of " The Mineral Springs of England," &c. Second edition, considerably improved, with the addition of general remarks on mineral waters, and notices of some of the French and Swiss baths. • [The chief feature of this second edition, beyond the general improvements mentioned on the titlepage, is the Appendix on the Cold Water Cure. The remarks on this rage are characterized by moderation and good sense. Mr. LEE thinks there is no doubt that some disorders in some constitutions may be benefited by treatment in which a judicious use of cold water is involved, but that the selection of the cases is a matter of the nicest discrimination, or severe injury and even fatal results may follow. This faculty PRIESSNITZ, the inventor of the cold water cure, appears to possess in a high degree as regards his own objects. He generally sees whether there is any serious illness or an enfeebled constitution, and such patients he sends away ; Dr. EHRENBERG states the average of the dismissals at seven in eight. Those received are for the most part persons who only require regimen and change of air and scene. Yet, in despite of this precaution, some go away uncured, and some die.] The History of the Life of Richard Cceur-de- Lion, King of England. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq., Author of " The History of Charlemagne," Sm. Volume III.

[This volume contains a little more matter directly relating to the hero than its predecessors, but not much. Of the 430 pages of which the volume con- sists, the first 150 bring down the history of the Crusades to 1176, thirteen years before the accession of RICHARD Caur-de-Lion ; 120- pages at the end of the volume carry on the same story till the capture of Jerusalem by SALADIN ; about 100 more are devoted to the disturbances in the Anglo- Norman provinces, and the minutiae of French politics under the last years of HENRY the Second ; leaving some 60 pages to RICHARD'S accession and the early acts of his reign in preparing for the Crusades. This is unexampled in our experience—three bulky octavos to bring the hero of the biography on the scene.] Questions for Examination on Tytler's Elements of General History, and Dr. Nares' Continuation. By the Reverend C. LENNY, B.D., St. Johnls College, Cambridge. [A judicious selection of questions for the examination of students in general history; embracing facts rather than opinions or conclusions, though there are some of the latter kind. But the use of these questions must, in our opinion, greatly depend upon the teacher—who should employ them as a hint or help, rather than take them literally. An examination upon what the pupil has read, if adapted to his character, will not only induce attention to what he reads, but habits of consideration and inquiry. A system of mechanical questioning from a book is perhaps liable to create mere rote learning, to be forgotten when it has answered its purpose.] Practical Hints on Cricket, for the direction and guidance of beginners. By a Wykhamist. To which are added, the Laws of Cricket, as revised by the Marylebone Club. [A useful little book for persons who have advanced beyond the alphabet of the game, and wish to form a system or theory of playing, without exactly knowing how to proceed. The author seems a person of sense ; and the remarks which he intersperses among his specific directions will enable the tyro to adapt his play to his own peculiarities, if he be a cricketer of reflection.] Jest and Earnest; a Series of Sketches. By ARTHUR WALLBRIDGE. Second edition.

[A. series of literary sketches on contemporary subjects, somewhat wordy, wish an ambition of smartness, but clever, and evidently readable or they would not have reached a second edition.1 SERIALS.

One Hundred Romances of Real Life. Selected by LEIGH HUN (Popular Library of Modern Authors. Copyright editions.) This is a reprint from Mr. LEIGH HUNT'S London Journal, of curious trials, singular crimes, deeds of love and revenge, intermingled with incidents of a humorous kind or notices of remarkable individuals. Some of the stories rest, we think, on questionable authority, and some appear to verge upon fiction; but we can cordially join in the opinion of the editor, that "a work more fitted to be laid on the table, whether of drawing-room or parlour, of hotel or country- inn, or to accompany the traveller in coach or post-chaise, it might not be easy to conceive; since it unites in an extreme degree the advantages of quick and exciting perusal with lasting and useful interest."] Popular Cyclopedia of Practical Science, Part IV.—Mechanical Philo- sophy, Horology, and Astronomy. By WILLIAM B. CARPENTER,M.D., Author of " Principles of General and Comparative Physiology," &c. Thornton's History of the British Empire in India, Volume V. Part. IL Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature, Part V.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Portraits of the Cabal Prisoners, 6-c. Sketched by Lieutenant VINCENT EYRE ; lithographed by LOWES DICKINSON. [To beguile the tedium of captivity, Lieutenant EYRE, equally expert with pen and pencil, sketched the portraits of his fellow-prisoners and views of their places of confinement : these have been lithographed by Mr. Lowers DICKINSON, and are published in a form to bind up with the Journals of- Lady Sete and Lieutenant EYRE. They possess an interest beyond that of mere illustrations of those intrepid volumes ; and the portrait of Lady SALE alone— the only one of this Intrepid woman in the country—is sufficient to attract attention to these records of the retreat from Cabe' : though not unfeminine in feature, there is an expression of cool determination in the well-marked mouth and compressed lips, that gives an air of masculine firmness to her countenance, and bespeaks the fidelity of the resemblance. Among other sketches by Lieutenant EYRE, are portraits of Major POTVINGER, Captains MACKENZIE, BYGHAVE, LAWRENCE, TROUP, COROLLA, and ANDERSON; Lieutenants WALLER, MIEN, BAUGHTON, Mrs. WALLER, and Mrs. EYRE; with views of the Prison at Cabal, the Caves of Bameean, and the Fort where General ELPHINSTONE died. The officers are all in Oriental costumes, with beards and turbans; which become them well, and give an air of dignity and nobleness to the person. The likenesses have every appearance of being cha- racteristic, and are so considered by the friends of the parties; and to the fidelity with which they have been copied by Mr. DICKINSON all can bear testimony who have-seen the originals. Portraits of Lieutenant EYRE-who looks a handsome, manly, and intelli- gent young soldier - of Sir WILLIAM MACNAGEITEN, Sir ALEXANDER -BURNES, and Captain SKINNER, taken from miniatures belonging to their families, and Of AKHBAR KHAN and SHAH SoorAn, from sketches by Mr.

• VmstE, are added.] PAMPHLETS.

A Letter addressed to B. Ferrand, Esq., 17LP., on the subject of Oda, eating Waste Lands, for the improvement of the people ; including a scheme for a general cottage allotment, with a statistical analysis of the agricultural, manufactural, and commercial population and finances. By JOHN DEBELLTUCKETT. Suppression of the Opium-Trade. The Speech of the Right Honourable Lord ASHLEY, M.P., in the House of Commons, on Tuesday 4th April

1843. Published by permission, and corrected by his Lordship.