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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The History of the Bailie Campaign of 1854. From Documents and other materials furnished by Vice-Admiral Sir C. Napier, H.C.B. Edited by G. Butler Earp, formerly Member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand.

The Constittetion of the Animal Creation, as expressed in Structural Appendages. By G. Calvert Holland, M.D.' Honorary Physician to the Sheffield General Infirmary. formerly President of the Huntenan and Royal Physical Societies, Edinburgh, and Bachelor of Letters of the University of Pans. Travels in Bohemia, with a Walk through the Highlands of Saxony. By an Old Traveller. In two volumes.

ZOO Pears Ago. Sy the Reverend Charles Kingsley, F.S.A.. F.L.S., Ste_ Au thor of" Westward Ho I" In three volumes.

The Egyptians in the Time of the Pharaoh,: being a Companion to the Crystal Palace Egyptian Collection, By Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson, D.C.L., Are., Author of the Private Life, Manners, and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. To which is added, an Introduction to the Study of the Egyptian Hieroglyphs. By Samuel Birch.

Boy-Princes; or Scions of .Royalty cut of in Youth. By John G. Edgar, Author of "The Boyhood of Great Men."—The subject of the present volume is hardly so good as that of one or two of the other publications of Mr. Edgar. Few princes who die early have much opportunity of distinguishing themselves, and mere expectation unsupported by action is best left in vagueness, for it is dissipated by a definite account. The majority of the "Boy-Princes" in this volume scarcely bear a biography; though there are names which excite or possess historical interest,—as the son of Robert Duke of Normandy, the true heir of the Conqueror; Arthur of Brittany, memorable in Shakspere's King John, and the Duke of Iteichstadt, memorable in our day. Some of them are scarcely to be called boy-princes. Gaston do Foix was a hero. Edward the Fifth and Edward the Sixth of England, Francis the Second of France, the husband of Mary Queen of Scots, and Charles the Ninth, hero of St. Bartholomew, are monarchs that sufficiently figure in history. In fact, Don Carlos, Prince Henry the son of James the First, and the poor Dauphin, called in mockery Louis the Seventeenth, are the only subjects properly available. The execution is anecdotical and readable, with a good deal of digression into history.

_Five Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge, November 1856. By Richard Chenevix Trench, D.D., Dean of Westminster.— The nature and character of Christ is the subject of these sermons. It would seem a theme that admitted of being driven home to actual life ; but Dean Trench on this occasion enters into the regions of theology, perhaps tempted there by the professional character of his congregation. There are passages with a lifelike spirit—as the comment on the " tristis senectus," the forlorn old age of the Roman poet, and the way in which men disappoint the promise of their youth; but these are few and far between.

Catalogue of the pno Books in the _Library of the Society of Writers to Her Majesty's Signet in Scotland. By William Ivory, W. S. one of the Curators of the Library.—A curious collection of works relating to law and jurisprudence, especially Scottish law, systematically arranged; each class being generally preceded by brief and pregnant notes explanatory of the subjects to which the books relate—as the Federal and State Courts of America, the Courts of England. The classification, an index of names, and the moderate extent of the books under each head, render reference very easy. The book is not published, but we believe it may be procured on application at the Library, at a price below the actual cost.

The Care of the Sick. By Richard Barwell, F.R.C.S., AssistantSurgeon to Charing Cross Hospital.—Classes have been opened at what may be called Frederick Maurice's Working Men's College, for the instruction of women in various branches of useful knowledge. To reading, writing, music, and the like, Mr. Barwell added these lectures on the care of the sick, the economy and management of the sick-room, and such treatment of common accidents or slight disease as may be necessary before medical advice can be procured. The information is not strictly new, though it will be new to the classes for whom this book is published ; it is plainly and practically stated, and sensibly enforced. The lectures are followed by an appendix of receipts for plain cheap cookery for the sick.

Valisneria ; or a Midsummer Day's Bream. By Mrs. Pfeiffer.—A double tale, one part being of this world, the other of pure fancy, leading the reader among the spirits of flowers, to point a moral that points itself. There is no occasion to tell us, by an elaborate and not very felicitous allegory, that a young pair who isolate themselves in an Italian retirement will soon get somewhat tired of life, which to be happy and vigorous requires to be stimulated by change and the discharge of duties. The reader draws this conclusion even before the long "day's dream" that is to lead him to it begins. The story is well written, so far as language and sentiment go; but the imaginative part wants the interest which arises from a probable and well-connected plot. In this Valisneria is so deficient, that if it were presented by itself it is doubtful whether the lesson it aims at teaching would be understood.

Lucy Aylmer. By the Author of "The Curate of Overton."—The leading incident of this novel consists in a weak-minded Tractarian Minister becoming a "pervert" to Popery. As a consequence, he neglects his wife, whom he has a notion of leaving for a monastery, and whom he is finally a means of killing through the medium of disease of the heart. There is nothing new in the idea. It was rather fashionable as a plot some years ago, when " perverts " to Romanism made more noise, if they were not more numerous than they are now. The execution is pretty, rather than anything higher. The author cannot rise to true pathos or passion, though there are scenes containing the elements of both. The more level every-day parts of the tale are feeble.

The Heroes of Asgard; or the Week and its Story. By the Author of " Mia and Charlie,' and her Sister.—A narrative of the principal mythological stories of the North, the heroes of which, as Odin and Thor, have given their names to the days of the week. The matter is presented with the now somewhat worn framework of a family party, by the elders of which the tales are told to the juveniles. The little introductory story, and the colloquial comments, may possibly give variety and relief; but we should have thought the information might have been more directly and quite as attractively conveyed without the dramatic auxiliaries.

Notes upon Thuorlides, Original and Compiled. By John G. Sheppard, MA., &c., and Lewis Evans, MA., &c.—The primary object of these Notes is to "furnish University students with that amount -of information which their second examination is likely to require." Their character is grammatical, or rather perhaps philological ; for though much and varied information on the condition, manners, and customs of ancient Greece, with illustrations from other times and peoples, will be found scattered through the volume, it originates in discussions on meaning. The commentary is fresh, spirited, and sensible.

German for the English. No. I. First Reading Book. By A. Sonnenschein and J. S. Stallybrass.—A series of exercises in the form of easy poems, accompanied by an interlined translation and notes, followed by a couple of pieces where the version is free. The feature of the little book, however, is an attempt to show how German words are transformed into English by mere changes of letters, and classified lists of prefixes and affixea.

Condensation in one or more forms characterizes the leading reprints of the week. Mr. Thornton illustrates both modes, mind and matter, type and composition. He has compressed his "Gazetteer of India," published in 1854 in four octavos, into one single volume, by "retrenching some few redundancies, and by adopting an enlarged page and distributing the matter into two separate columns." The omissions, however, would not seem to have reduced the quantity ; for much new matter has been introduced, rendered necessary by the changes which have recently taken place in our Eastern possessions. It is altogether a work of authority, not only in itself but in its collaterals. It is compiled by" authority of the Court" ; and at successive general meetings successive " Chairs " have turned critical and "borne ample testimony to the utility of the publication."

• Mr. Murray has compressed Byron's Works into something like a pocket volume ; the type small of course, but of remarkable clearness. The poems are accompanied by an engraving of Thorwaldsen's statue of Byron in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Messrs. Chapman and Hall have commenced a typographical condensation of "Charles O'Malley," in the course of their new edition of Lever's Works. Such is the interest still attaching to the sufferings of the Army in the East, and perhaps to the very important subject of nurses and nursing, that a Lady Volunteer's "Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari" has reached a third edition. The fourth edition of Dr. Noad's Manual of Electricity speaks for itself. "The Churchman's Year-Book" is a clerical annual.

A Gazetteer of the Territories under the Government of the East India Company, and of the Native States on the Continent of India. Compiled, by the authority of the Hon. Court of Directors, and chiefly from Documents in their possession, by Edward Thornton, Esq., Author of the "History of the Itntish Empire in India." Corrected to the latest period by the Author.

The Poetical Works of Lord Byron, complete. New edition, the text carefully revised. With Portrait.

Charles O'Halley, the Irish Erayoon. By Charles Lever. With Illustrations by H. K. Browne. In two 'volumes.

Eastern Hospitals and English 21Turses : the Narrative of Twelve Months' Experience in the Hospitals of Koulali and Scutari By a Lady Volunteer. ' Third edition, revised.

A Hamm' of Electricity; including Galvanism, Magnestism, Diamagnetism, Electro-Dynamics, Magneto-Electricity, and the Electric Telegraph. By Henry M. Noad, Ph.D., F.C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry at St. George's Hospital, Author of " Chemical Manipulation and Analysis," lee. Fourth edition, entirely rewritten. Part II. Magnetism and the Electric Telegraph. The Churchman's Year-Book for 1857; or Ecclesiastical Annual Register • being a Record of Facts and Proceedings in Connexion with the Church of England during the Year 1856.

NEW MAGZZINE.

The Brighton Quarterly Magazine. No. L—This new periodical is published "in connexion" with Brighton College ; though two of the articles seem the production of maturer minds than most collegians possess,— namely, an article on Rogers, partly founded on his lately-published TableTalk; and "Milk," the commencement of a series of chemical papers on our food and clothing. The more apparently juvenile papers do not rise above the average. The tale from the German, "The First Love of Henri Quatre," has appeared already, we think, in some annual or similar collection. "Modern Poetry" treats of Tennyson, Bailey, Dobell, and Aytoun. Besides these, there are an essay on Reading, the commencement of an original story, miscellaneous thoughts under the head of" Scraps from our Portfolio," and a good deal of poetry both serious and "light." The future numbers must be stronger in topics and matter, if they are to excite an interest beyond the alumni of the College.