PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Nervous System and its Functions. By HERBERT MAIO, F.R.S.,

• Senior Surgeon of the Middlesex Hospital, &c.

This work is of too scientific and abstruse a character to have much interest for any except the pbysioloOst, or the few speculative minds which take an in- terest in the curious and difficult questions it throes out, and in some measure attempts to answer. Is vitality a separate force in nature, or the result of combination? What nerves cause motion, what sensation ? Do particular portions of the nervous system influence particular passions or qualities? al the faculties depend upon the shape or volume of the brain ? To follow these speculations in Mr. MAYO'S volume requires a considerable knowledge of ana- tomy; • but the anatomist or the physiologist will be repaid for his trouble. Small as is the book, The Nervous System and its Functions contains the re- sults of much and long inquiry ; presenting the pith of the modern discoveries that have been made, since BELL first broached the subject in 1814, by MA- JENDIE, BELL, the author himself, and other anatomists, with an examination of the theory that has been advanced upon each ascertained fact, or an announce- ment of the conclusion to which it tends.] Village Pencillings, in Prose and Verse. By ELIZABETH PIERCE.

[A pleasant volume, by the wife of a clergyman; the themes chiefly on rural and domestic subjects, and the treatment displaying an amiable feeling, though the prose is somewhat deficient in condensation and the verse in spirit.] Tales of the Munster Festivals. Third series. The Rivals, and Tracea Ambition. (The Works of Gerald Griffin, Esq. Volume IV.)

A Trip Home, with some Home-spun Yarns.

[A series of letters, apparently written by some one coming from the West Indian Colonies to England. They describe a voyage, and a series of sight- seeing excursions in England, intermingled with some stories and anecdotes. Here and there the letters contain some pleasant though feeble description, and the brief account of Torquay may be read with interest by any invalid contemplating a change of residence ; but the book is very prolix and dis- cursive.]

The Use and Study of History. By W. TORRENS M'CuLtacter, LL. B., Member of the Royal Irish Academy, &c. [A series of lectures delivered before a Mechanics Institution in Dublin, and published at the request of the class. This sort of "particular desire" is so readily procured that it is a very uncertain test of merit; but Mr. TORRENS 111'CULLAGLI has stuff in him. Rawness, unsound views, erroneous opinions, and no small self-confidence, can easily be pointed out in these lectures ; and an objection may be urged to the style, as too rhetorical even for oral delivery. But Mr. M'CuLtan ft has read and thought for himself; he brings a keen per- ception' if not a very critical acumen, to test his reading ; and vivifies his study by something which resembles, if it is not, imagination. The more ge- neral disquisition as to the use of history is rather inflated; but the questions, What is History ? and what is not History ? are treated with ability, though smacking of CARLYLE'S manner; and the survey of the different original historians, from HERODOTUB IO CLARENDON and 13IHINET, is a striking and powerful piece of writing. Numerous faults may be pointed out in The Use and Study of History, but it contains more of promise than half-a-dozen well- manufactured compilations.]

From May 6th to May 12th...

BOOKS.

The War in Syria. By Commodore Sir Cnkarses NAPIER, K.C.B., &c. In two volumes. History of Scotland. By PATRICK FRASER TITLES, Esq. V olume VIII.

Poems, chiefly of Early and Late Years ; including "The Borderers," a Tragedy. By WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. Talis Qualls, or Tales of the Jury-Room. By GERALD GRIFFIN, Esq., Author of " Gisippus," &c. In three volumes.

Works of the Honourable and Very Reverend William Herbert, Dean of Manchester, &c., excepting those on Botany and Natural History ; with additions and corrections by the Author. In two volumes.

LThe Honourable and Very Reverend WILL/AM HERBERT is an accomplished iguist and a multifarious writer. In Greek, Latin, Spanish, Italian, and Scandinavian, he is skilled ; he has written poetry, criticism, and sermons, be- sides books on botany and natural history. If the reader wishes to know more about him, he may assume that he was an old Whig and Edinburgh Reviewer, and had no inconsiderable reputation in the beginning of the cen- tury, wheu GEORGE the Third was King. These two volumes contain the collected works of the literary veteran excepting his productions on botany and natural history, and his epic poem Of Attila. The first volume principally consists of translations or imitations of Scaedinavian poetry, that may still be read with pleasure for the character of the poetry and the information of the notes ; the second contains reviews and sermons.]

Some Loose Leaves from my Portfolio.

[A good-sized volume of that mediocrity in poetry—that " paulum a inunmes decessit, vergit ad imum "—which HORACE declared was uuendumble by men,. gods, or columns • but to which the mechanical appliances of the present times offer a fearful facility for publication.]

Egmont; a Tragedy, in five acts. Translated from the German of

GOETHE.

[An American translation.]

The Knights Temp/an. By C. G. A.DDISON, Esq., of the Inner Temple. Second edition.

[A. second edition, in less than six months, of a work like Mr. ADDISON'S Knights Tempters, shows the hold which that singular Order yet obtains over the public mind,—unless the modern Templars are smitten with& holy zeal, and contemplate a crusade for the recovery of Palestine in company with the Jews, which might account for the demand. The present edition is enlarged by "more then two bandred and fifty pages " ; a good deal of the new matter, we think, relating to the Decimations against the Order. The account of the cToenniceprineetZurch seems to be omitted, and with advantage as far as unity is The Complete Works of Michael De Montaigne: comprising the Essays translated by COTTON; the Letters; the Journey into Germany and Italy, now first translated; a Life, by the Editor; Notes from all the Commentators; the Doges of MM. JAY and VILLEMAIN ; a Biblio- graphical Notice of all the Editions, and copious Indexes. By WILLIAM HAZLITT.

[The periodical publication of this agreeable and sensible old writer, which we noted on its first appearance, is now complete, and forms a very handsome volume, illustrated by a portrait of MONTAIGNE and a vignette of his château. It is the most perfect edition extant.] Consumption, the New Cure: Asthma, the New Remedy. In which is de- monstrated the fallacy of the present method of treating diseases of the chest by the lancet, purgatives, and mercury; with a new mode of cure, applicable also to disorders of the digestive organs and other complaints. By W. HAMILTON KITTOE, M.D., Author of the "Pocket-Book of Practical Medicine," &c.

This is a popular medical book, and something more. Its getting-up is neat, its form petite; the quantity of reading will not frighten any one; and as the quality is superficial or common, with the exception of Dr. KITTOE'S promises, its comprehension will not be difficult, though it may not convey very specific information. The "new cure" of consumption, so far as it is tuld, strikes us as being very much like the old ones—that consumption is curable which is cured. The "new remedy" for asthma is more peculiar, as asthma is a dis- order that is generally speaking only palliated : but Dr. KITTOE'S announce- ment of the remedies is as old as GOLDSMITH'S Dr. Rock—" the medicines em- ployed are perfectly innoxious, and can be administered to the swat delicate con- stitution, under any circumstances." The treatment of consumption, so far as we can gather it from the vague style in which it is couched, does not sub- stantially differ in principle frem that now in use: but the asthmatic remedies are a secret ; and it is right to inform the reader, that to announce the power of cure without stating the means employed, is unprofessional—the act Itself is empirical.] Chemistry of the Four Ancient Elements, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water; an Essay, founded upon Lectures delivered before her most gracious Majesty the Queen. By Thomas GRIFFITHS, Lecturer on Chemistry and Medical Physics at Saint Bartholomew's Hospital. [This work is founded upon a series of lectures delivered before her Majesty, and we may presume it represents the royal road to chemistry: so let those who know nothing of the science, and wish to acquire as much as can be taught without trouble, hasten and buy Mr. GRIFFITH'S little volume. From it they may learn the principal chemical facts respecting fire, air, earth, and water; be enabled to talk in proper phrase about oxygen, carbon, &c.; and back their discourse by performing a variety of curious, easy, and inexpensive expe- riments. They will also have a list of the real elements as at present known, with a sketch of the rise of alchemy, and its transmutation into chemistry. The illustrative cuts exhibiting the experiments are neatly elegant.] The ConchologiS t's Book of Species : containing descriptions of six hun- .dred species of Univalves, with numerous illustrations. By SYLVA.- NUS HANLEY, B.A., Oxford, Author of the Text to the Exotic Con- chology, &c. Second edition, enlarged. With a glossary of terms, in- dex to the genera and their localities, &c.

[An index and glossary of terms has been added to this second edition of a useful little work, whose object is to guide the young conchologist in the choice of specimens.]

The Hand-book of Turning : containing instructions in concentric, ellip- tic, and eccentric turning ; also various plates of chucks, tools, and in- struments, and directions for using the eccentric cutter, drill, vertical cutter, and circular root; with patterns, and instructions for working them.

[This is an elegant little book, full of engravings of turning-tools, and patterns to be cut by them, with directions for producing the complicated specimens, recipes for a variety of useful pastes and washes necessary for the turner, a full 'description of the lathe, and an historical account of the art. Of the prac- tice of turning we know nothing ; but one omission in the book strikes us— though directions are given how to handle the tools and turn particular pattern; the principles of the art, it seems to us, are not succinctly unfolded. If any one attempted the practice of turning from this book alone, we suspect he would exemplify the proverbial danger of playing with edge-tools. With some practical instruction, it would be a useful companion, and on matters, perhaps, which a mere turner might be better able to do than to describe.] A Catalogue of Works in all departments of English Literature, classified; with a general alphabetical Index. [A list of the modern works on sale by Messrs. LONG MAN, though brought out by other publishers, which we may presume includes all the standard or popu- lar publications for which there is a demand. The catalogue is classified, and there is a copious index of authors' name; or the titles of the works. For country residents, or still more for persons in India or the Colonies, this book of books must be very useful.] Leila in England; a Continuation of "Leila, or the Island." By ANN FRASER TYTLER, Author of "Mary and Florence, or Grave and Gay." Petit Musee de Litterature Frangaise, or the French Speaker; a chrono- logical and critical table of the eminent Writers of France, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, illustrated with selections in prose and verse, from the best authors in the three last periods. By M. LE PAGE, Professor of the French Language, Author of " L'Echo de

• Paris," &c.

A Few Words of Advice to Cadets, and other Young Persons proceeding to India. By MERRY KERR. S_cond edition.

SERIALS.

The Chess-Player's Chronicle. Volume IL Thornton's History of the British Empire us India, VoL III. Part L The Gaberlunzie's Wallet, Parts ILL to V. Cumbe Abbey ; an Historical Tale of the reign of James,I; with illus- trations engraved on wood. No. L

PERIODICALS.

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Nos. CXVL and OXVIL New York Arcturus for March.

Asiatic Journal for May.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Parsra, during the awful Ceremony that preceded the Banishment of its brave Christian Inhabitants and the Entrance of All Pasha. Painted by JAMES and GEORGE FOGGO.

(A lithograph, by the Messrs. Focioo, of their great picture, representing the disinterment of the dead preparatory to burning the bodies on a funeral pile. It Is an elaborate composition, crowded with figures; the principal group being composed of the priests and elders consecrating the ghastly work, which is ac- tively carried on before them. The subject is a revolting one, and the style in which it is treated does not reconcile it to the taste: the artists' efforts to attain grandeur and pathos are too conspicuous in the exaggerated action and expression of the figures. The lithographic print is elaborate, but heavy.) Roberts's Sketches of Me Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, Part II.

[The second part of this noble work sustains its high reputation by the lute- rest of the subjects and the beauty of the execution. The three large plates are—a distant view of Jerusalem, showing the surrounding country and the bill on which the city is built, a vast expanse of rocky heights scantily en- lived by trees of stunted growth ; the Pool of Bethesda, or a vast reservoir SO called, now dry and surrounded by houses, with minarets rising above their clustered domes ; and the Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre, beneath the dome of the church, the entrance flanked by a double file of colossal candlesticks, and huge banners waving above, while Turks, Greeks, and Monks, are grouped around. The vignettes are less remarkable than those in the First Part. The figures in all of the views are well thrown in, and give life and character to the scenes.] Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part IL

PAMPHLETS.

A Speech on International Copyright, delivered at the Dinner to Charles Dickens, at the City Hotel, New York, 19th February 1842. By COR- NELIUS MATHEWS. (Revised by the Speaker.) Reply to an American's Examination of the Right of Search ; with Observations on some of the Questions at issue between Great Britain and the United States, and on certain Positions assumed by the North American Government. By an Englishman. The Justice and Utility of a .Property-Tax, as a means of restoring the revenue, placing it upon a permanent basis, and affording facilities for the development of the commercial and manufacturing resources of the country. By a True Conservative. The Catacombs; an Allegory, taken from a work of the last century, and edited by MARY ANN KELTY. Emigration to the United States. A Letter addressed to Mr. Pitkethley, of Huddersfield, Yorkshire. By Dr. JOEIN SMYLES, twelve years resi- dent in that country. With the Writer's Observations on the People, the Government, Education, &c.; also, Remarks on the Fitness of the Territory of Wisconsin as a Residence for English Emigrants.