PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

Turkey, its History and Progress; from the Journals and Correspond- ence of Sir James Porter, fifteen years Ambassador at Constantinople. Continued to the Present Time, with a Memoir of Sir James Porter, by his Grandson, Sir George Larpent, Bart. In two volumes.

Gleanings from Piccadilly to Pera. By John Oldmixon, Esq., Com- mander R.N.

The Anvdr-i Suhaili : or Lights of Canopus ; being the Persian Ver- sion of the Fables of Pilpay ; or the Book "Balilah and Damnah," rendered into Persian by Husain Vii'izu'l-Kashiff, Literally Trans- lated into Prose and Verse. By. Edward B. Eastwick, F.R.S., F.S.A., M.R.A.S., &c. ; Professor of Oriental Languages, and Librarian in the East India College, Haileybury ; and Translator of the " Gulist5.n," Sze.

An Inquiry into the Principles of Church Authority ; or Reasons for recalling my Subscription to the Royal Supremacy. By the Reverend R. J. Wilberforce, M.A.

The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Esq., F.R.SS., Honorary Member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg, &c., Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh. Edited by Sir William Hamilton, Bart., Advocate, A.M. (Oxon.) &e. ; Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the University of Edin- burgh. Volume III. Poems. By William Bell Scott.: Lives of the Meet Eminent English Poets, with Critical Observations on their Works. By Samuel Johnson. With Notes, corrective and ex- planatory, by Peter Cunningham, F.S.A. In three volumes. -Vo- lume I. (Murray's British Classics.) Athens and the Peloponnese ; with Sketches of Northern Greece. From the German of Hermann Heffner. (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature. Volume II.) The Baltic, its Gates, Shores, and Cities; with a Notice of the White Sea. By the Reverend Thomas Milner, M.A., F.R.G.S.

[A skilful presentation, by a practised hand, of the most striking and import- ant facts connected with the history and geography of the Baltic and the adjacent countries ; including a notice of the White Sea, and the early com- munications of England with Muscovy. The salient points of the different features both of land and water are well selected, and exhibited with a fresh- ness not always found even in original observers. The result of a good deal of curious old reading is infused into the book, which contains the best and fullest account of "the Baltic" that can be found in a single volume. The delays or difficulties met with in that quarter by the Allied fleets are an advantage to Mr. Milner,—they render his book timely, which otherwise would have been too late.]

A Visit to the Seat of War in the North. Translated from the Ger- man, by Lascelles Wraxall. (Reading for Travellers.)

[This account of the waters and cities of the Baltic is not a narrative of travels, but a "visit" which the reader himself pays in the company of the writer; who carries him all round the sea and its gulfs from the Sound back again, much after the plan of Mr. Milner, though less elaborately. The geography is diversified with anecdotes, chiefly of fighting.]

Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon History. By Ann Hawkshaw. [Ninety-eight sonnets on subjects of English history, from the first peopling of the island till the Norman Conquest. They are various in subject, skilful in the use of metre, and graceful in sentiment. These sentiments, indeed, are too feminine in cast, and often not sufficiently appropriate : but for the prose anecdote or fact on the opposite page, the reader might sometimes be at a loss to know on what the poem was written.] Our Holiday: a Week in Paris. By Percy B. St. John. (Besides the farce and fun which distinguish shilling books of this class, Mr. Percy B. St. John's Holiday exhibits more solid qualities ; real sketches of French manners and character, with some thoughtful illustrations of the evils of French society, whether affecting natives or foreigners.] The Sphere and Duties of Government. Translated from the German of Baron Wilhelm Von Humboldt, by Joseph Coulthard junior. (The Catholic Series. No. XII.) [A translation of William Humboldt's work on Government, to which a double allusion has already been made in this journal, in connexion with the late Mr. Chapman and his paper in the Westminster Review.]

Hositard

Among the reprints, Mr. Hepworth Dixon's new edition of " John

Among claims attention, less for the additions and revision almost reach- ing to rewriting, than for a "curiosity of literature" connected with its non-publication: for a long time no bookseller would bring out the book ; it " went the round of the trade " in vain ; the author could not even give it away ; at last " chance" induced its publication, and it reached a third edition within the year. The "second impression" of "The Poetry of Germany" seems a foreign printed book ; intended as a specimen of German poets, and a help to Ger- mans studying English, or Englishmen studying German. It contains se- lections from more than seventy poets, arranged in chronological order, beginning with Arndt, born in 1769. The English version is printed oppo- site to the original; and, if not highly poetical, it is easy and readable.

The rest explain themselves : two, it will be seen, are reprints of Cooper's novels.

John Howard: a Memoir. By Hepworth Dixon. A new edition.

The Poetry of Germany. Consisting of Selections from upwards of seventy of the most celebrated Poets, translated into English Verse, with the Original Text on the opposite page, by Alfred Baskerville: Second impression.

The Watering-Places of England, considered with reference to their Medical Topography. By Edwin Lee, Member of the Royal Medical Academics of Turin, Naples, &c. Third edition, considerably im. proved.

Constructive Exercises for Teaching the Elements of the Latin Lan- guage, on a system of Analysis and Synthesis. With Latin Reading. Lessons and copious Vocabularies. By John Robson, B.A. Lend., &e.; Author of "Constructive Greek Exercises." Third edition, revised.

The Deer-slayer; or the First War-Path : a Tale. By J. Fenimore Cooper, Author of "The Pathfinder," &c.

The Oak Openings; or the Bee-hunter. By J._Fenimore Cooper, Author of " The Deer-slayer," &c.

Partnership with Limited Liability. Reprinted, with Additions, from the Westminster Review for October 1853. (Chapman's Library for the People.) NEW PERIODICALS.

The Statist ; a Magazine of Statistical and Actuarial Information, both Popular and Scientific. Edited by R. Thompson Jopling, Esq., F.S.S. October 1854. No. I.

[However important statistics may be, experience shows that statistical works are far from popular. Many of the authors proceed too much on the " nothing like leather " principle. Instead of selecting a few broad facts and briefly stating the conclusions they establish, statists accumulate figures upon figures in their commentaries, till the reader is fairly overwhelmed. Tables can be skipped, but discussion tempts like what gardeners call a " maze."

The Statist is not altogether without the professional failing alluded to. The subjects are curious and important. Among them are Cholera, Deaths from Accidents, and Health and Longevity, with advice to come—in the next number—as to the means of attaining them. A paper on Games of Chance is also begun. A portion of the magazine is devoted to notices of books having a relation to statistics.] The West of Scotland _Magazine ; a Monthly Journal of Literature and Politics. October 1854. No. I.

[A cheap monthly periodical, published at Glasgow ; the West of Scotland being, it seems, deficient in magazine literature. The subjects of the papers have not much bearing on actual affairs. The decline of Spanish national character, an attack upon all styles of architecture for the Presbyterian Church except the bare and ugly, and a vague essay on American literature, are remote from the day, and are rendered remoter still by a dry and jog- trot treatment. " Our Summer Trip on the Continent," the narrative of a young lady's Continental tour, is better—slight enough, but real.]

PRINT.

The Battle of the Alma. Drawn and lithographed by A. Maclure. [Neither news nor picturing of the war keeps us waiting long : the battle of the Alma was fought on the 20th of September, and on the 10th of October the print of it was published. There is nothing to show from what, if any, special sources of information Mr. Maclure has worked, or whether he has had to trust to the general accounts for his representation of the battle ; probably the latter. In the left foreground we have the British staff; behind, the wooden bridge and the village of Burliuk on fire ; the middle distance being occupied by the main body of the Allied army. Towards the centre, the strong field-work taken by the Guards and Highlanders, and the fortified heights parallel with the river. Hence, the eye follows the wonderful Zouaves winding along the shore and scaling the cliffs ; and so into the right- hand corner, where we find ships shelling the left flank of the Russians ; and, "looming in the distance," Sebastopol. The Russians themselves scarcely seem anywhere at first, but one finds them out at last arrayed behind the bursting shells and rolling smoke on the opposite bank of the river. The lithograph does not by any means want for picturesqueness in the manner in which it has turned the incidents of the battle to account.]