PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.
Books.
In and Around Stamboul. By Mrs. Edmund Honiby. In two volumes. Essays by the late George Brimley, M.A., Librarian of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge. Edited by William George Clark, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, and Public Orator in the University of Cambridge.
Aspects of Paris. By Edward Copping, Author of " Alfieri and Goldoni; their Lives and Adventures."
For and Against, or Queen Margaret's Badge. A Domestic Chronicle of the Fifteenth Century. By Frances M. Wilbraham. In two volumes. Easton and its Inhabitants; or Sketches of Life in a Country Town. By L. E. The Odd:Confidant ; or " Handsome is that Handsome Does." By Dot.
The Children's Bower ; or What You _Like. By Kenelm Henry Digbv. In two volumes.—An extremely pleasant style—a wide extent of read- ing, beginning with Homer and the Bible, and coming down through classics, fathers, saints, poets, dramatists, essayists, and memoir-writers, to Charles Lamb, Leigh Hunt, Longfellow, and Carlyle—a poetical feel- ing in description, as well as in sentiment and thought, with that genial unction that often distinguishes the Roman Catholic mystic—are all neutralized in The Children's Bawer by a want of plan, or indeed of any definite purpose. From the title, and the description of a child's funeral at the outset, the reader might expect a talc; if he cursorily turned over the pages of a few chapters he might conclude the book was a series of essays; if he dipped here and there, and lighted upon certain passages, he might infer that the book was a family memorial to the character and lives of seven children, two of whom were dead. A further examination would pronounce that the work was a species of outpouring, whose theme was children' but which the desultory character of the writer's mind continually leads him to vary, in a mode resembling the "de om- nibus."
Extraits Choisis, or Selections from Modern French Writers. Bp the Author of "Amy Herbert."—Sixteen well-chosen extracts from Victor Hugo; Lamartine, Dumas Emile Souvostre, and a few other modern French authors. A vocabulary has been-added of the words least likely to be known, or more truly perhaps of words least likely to be found in common dictionaries.
A Concise and Easy System of Book-keeping far Solicitors, &c. By William Mackenzie, Selleitor.—Simple and easy enough, but, simple as it is, there is much need of it, if there be any truth in the author's state, ment as to the way in which many solicitors keep their accounts. Some, he ea s, " scarcely keep any account-books at all ; others depend upon casual loose memoranda made from time to time of business transacted'; and so on. Mr. Mackenzie further intimates at the close of his expo. sition that " a great deal is lost as regards proper charges" by this nn. gligence. The case, however, is rare, we imagine, where the client finds that a sufficient bill of costs is not made out somehow.
The Practice of Probate and Administration under 20 and 21 Viet., Cap. 77. By Charles Wycliffe Goodwin, M.A., of Lincoln's Inn, Banis- ter-at-law.—A popular expositional analysis of the New Court of Pro- bate Act, followed by the Act itself, with the Rules and Orders.
Islets of the Channel. By Walter Cooper Deady, Author of " The Beautiful Islets of Britain," &c. &c.—A slight but pleasant descriptive account of the Channel Islands, prettily got up. It seems rather pub- lished from a love of the subject, than for any necessity for such a little. book.
It is possible that one of the books in the following list may require further consideration ; namely, the late Hugh Miller's Ramble "among, the fossiliferous deposits of the Hebrides " and his successive annual ex- cursions in Scotland with geological objects, reprinted from the columns of the Edinburgh newspaper the Witness, where they originally ap- peared as a series of articles. The Roxburghshire of Mr. Jeffrey might fall under the same category—for it has been considerably altered. since the original edition of 1836 ; but it seems hardly to be called a current publication. The preface to the first volume is dated. January 1855, and the date on the titlepage of both volumes is 1857. The titles of the other books almost tell their own story. Mr. Bohn reprints Mr. Jesse's memoirs of the two Pretenders and some of their ad- herents for his " Historical Library," illustrating the volume with por- traits. The same publisher continues his enlarged and improved edition of Lowndes' " Bibliographer's Manual."
The Cruise of the Betsy; or a Summer Ramble among the Fossiliferous Deposita of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist, or Ten Thousand Miles over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland. By Hugh Miller, Author of " The Old Bed Sandstone," hr. The History and Antiquities of Roxburghshire and adjacent Districts, from the most remote period to the present time. By Alexander Jeffrey, Author of " Guide to the Antiquities of the Border," he. Memorial of an Only Daughter. Bx her Mother, the Authoress of " Shady Side."
Memoirs of the Pretenders and their Adherents. By John Heneage Jesse,. Author of " Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stu- arts." he. New edition, complete in one volume, with a General Index, and additional Portraits.
The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature. By William Thomas Lowndes. New edition, revised, corrected, and enlarged. In Eight Parts, forming four volumes. Part II. A Handy Book on Property Law, in a series of Letters by Lord St. Leonardo. Sixth edition.
The Initials. A Novel. By the Author of " Quits I" he. New edition. Types of Womanhood. In four series. The Night Side of London. By J. Ewing Ritchie, Author of the " London Pulpit," he. Second edition, revised.
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