PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

• Booxs.

Treatise on the improvement of the Navigation of Rivers; with a new Theory of the cause of the existence of Bars. By WILLIAM ALEX- ANDER BROOKS, M. Inst. C. E.

The Election; a Poem, in seven books.

Summer Morning; a Poem. By THOMAS MILLER, Author of" A Day in the Woods, Sec.

The Zincali; or an Account of the Gypsies of Spain. With an miginal collection of their Songs and Poetry, and a copious Dictionary of their Language. By GEORGE Boanow, late Agent of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Spain. In two vols. Popular Cyclopedia of Natural Science : Vegetable Physiology. (Pub- lished by the Society for the Promotion of Popular Instruction.) Eva Von Troth ; a Chronicle of the sixteenth century. Translated from the German of WILHELM BLUMENHAGEN, by LOUISA ADDISON. With other Tales from the German. In two vols.

[A German "romance of history," founded on the religious feuds that sprang up with the spread of LUTHER 's doctrines; the Burghers of Brunswick and the Sovereign of the Dutchy being the antagonist parties. The interest of the story, however, turns upon love-adventures of a melodramatic kind, in which probability and consistency of character are little regarded: conse- quently the incidents, elaborately as they are described, want life and reality.

i The other two fictions are love-tales, n which the puerility of the subjects becomes ludicrous from the solemn tone and exaggerated style of the narra- tives.]

Colin Clink. By CHARLES HOOTON, Esq. In three vols. [A novel familiar to the readers of Bentley's .11Ftscellany, where it originally appeared, month by month.] Anti-Popery; or Popery Unreasonable, Unscriptural, and Novel. By JOHN ROGERS. A new edition, altered and amended.

[Mr. ROGERS is a person who, without any vocation that we can discover, either derived from Episcopal ordination' Kirk induction, or State licence duly paid for, is indefatigable in his attacks upon Popery ; but without a success cor- respondent to his zeal. He has a sort of glimmering common sense view of the unscriptaral doctrines of Romanian, and of the abuses likely to result from its discipline ; but there is nothing new in his notions : the novelty is in his style ; for though its virulence may be paralleled easily enough in the out- pourings of the regular controvertists, they generally have more of measure and polish in their evil-speaking. Yet amid his horrots of Antichrist, the author finds time to attend to the vernacular, and proposes to improve the English language by writing " perhap " for perhaps, " nowafter " for hereafter, and other changes of a like kind. This book is a second edition, amended by omitting "some remarks not re- lating to Popery." To the present volume is prefixed a long string of pane- gyrics from various journals both religious and secular ; in which this coarse and uninstructed person is cried op as a champion of Protestantism, a very David to slay Goliah. Both the Herald and the Times seem to have puffed the book for the sake of the subject ; the Times recommending the "erudition" of the author, the Herald astonished at his learning ! The scholarship and theo- logical knowledge of the Standard seem to have saved that good hater of Popery from committing itself to Mr. ROGERS.] The Revelation of God in His Word; shown in a graphic delineation of Holy Scripture for its friends and enemies. Translated from the Ger- man of DX. T. W. GESS, Assistant at Beutlingen, and Director of the School Conference, by W. BROWN, A.M., Minister, Tobermore. (The Biblical Cabinet, Vol. XXXI.) [A commentary upon the Scriptures, partly condensing into one view the Scriptural narrative of each book, as well as the doctrines to be deduced from it ; partly defending the authenticity of the respective writings, or an- swering critical objections urged against the authors—such as the insufficiency of the Mosaic account of the early age of the world. GESS, however, appears to have been so far influenced by the speculative notions of his countrymen as to admit that the narrative of the early and patriarchal ages was derived by Mons from tradition.] Washington ; an Essay. By M. Grizor. Translated from the French, by PAUL PARNELL, Esq. [If our memory does not deceive us, this is a translation of the same prefatory remarks on the career and character of WASHINGTON which Mr. REEVE pub- lished some months since under the sanction of M. GUIZOT, with perhaps a little additional matter, and a few notes. The merit of the original work is scarcely so striking as to have required a translation at all, and one would cer- tainly have sufficed. The chief point in the present edition is, that it is smaller, and we suppose cheaper, than Mr. REEVE'S.] The Fancy-work Book : containing instructions in the various kinds of fancy needle-work, now in fashionable use. Second edition. [Plain and concise directions for the use of young needlewomen ; but whether sufficient or not, we leave them to determine.] A New Check Journal, upon the principle of double-entry ; combining the advantages of the day-book, journal, and cash-book ; the whole familiarly explained, and forming a complete and practical system a book-keeping by double-entry : with copious illustrations of interest- accounts, joint adventures, and joint purchases ; and a new and more simple method of book-keeping, or double-entry by single. To which is now appended, Observations on the most effectual means of Prevent- ing and Detecting Forgery, Fraud, Error, and Embezzlement, both in cash transactions and in the receipt and delivery of goods. By GEORGE JACKSON, Accountant. The sixth edition.

Houlston's Scrap-Book; or Literary Miscellany of Rational Recreation. [tint for the date in the titlepage, this collection of extracts might be taken to have been made five-and-twenty years ago, from the current literature of that day : the "gentle dulness" of the prose and verse may, however, snit the readers for whose edification it appears to be intended.]

SERIALS.

Bells and Pomegranates. No. I.—Pippa Passes. By RolinnT Brtowx- nco, Author of" Paracelsus."

[This is a publication intended to comprise a series of" dranatical pieces " by the author of Paracelsus' and to appear at intervals ; the object of the writer being to procure by such means their Introduction to the stage. Allowance is to be made for every first number ; especially when it exhibits only part of a play, and that part of necessity the least stirring in its action and the least in- teresting from its passion. But, judging with this qualification, the scheme of Mr. BROWNING is not likely to conduct to the wished-for end, unless he greatly change his mode of execution. In Pippa Passes, (which title apparently means that Pippa, the heroine, only passes over the stage, talking to herseffi and stimulating the conduct of others by her appearance,) though there is nearly enough letterpress for a short tragedy, we are merely introduced to the actors, and apparently not to all. So far as we have yet the means of judging, Pippa Passes is not a drama, but scenes in dialogue, without coherence Of action; not devoid of good thoughts poetically expressed, but perfectly ineffective from being in a wrong place. Nor does the moral tone appear to be of the kind likely to be tolerated on the stage, or approved of anywhere. In one scene, a young wife and her paramour discuss their loves and the murder of the "old husband," needlessly, openly, wantonly, tediously, and without a touch of com- punction, sentiment, or true passion. In another scene, common courtesans of the poorest class are introduced; one gloating, naturally enough pethaps, ovep what such people in England call a" blow-out," to which an admirer had lately treated her, and giving the recipe by which she wheedles her dupes. The story itself, as we gather from the last pages, will probably turn upon the endeavours of an uncle to get his niece, brought up as a peasant, (novel incident! ) in- veigled to Rome as a prostitute, in order that he may get possession of her property—novelly again!]

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Polish Exiles conducted by Bashkiers on their way to Siberia. Painted by WILLIAM ALLAN, R.A., President of the Royal Scottish Academy of Painting, &c. ; engraved by WILLIAM HOWISON, A.R.S.A.

PAMPHLETS.

Stammering, and other Imperfections of Speech, treated by Surgical Oper-

ations on the Throat; being the substance of a paper read before the Westminster Medical Society, March 20th, 1841. By TAMES YEARSLE M.R.C.S., Author of "Contributions to Aural Surgery," Surgeon to the Institution for curing Diseases of the Ear. [The novelty of Mr. YEARSLEY'S view consists in his opinion "that in the great majority of stammerers, the tonsils and uvula are in a diseased state, and may be removed with advantage ; and that these operations may, in particular, be applied to the relief of stammering and imperfect speech." Mr. YEARSLEY was first led to this theory of the subject from having frequently observed deafness produced or aggravated by diseases of the throat, or perhaps coexistent with them ; and his treatment of these affections having improved the voice as well as the hearing, the author was induced to pursue the hint to cases of pure stammering. Whatever may be the eventual success of this method over DiErrEarnAcn's,. Mr. YEARSLEY speaks both of the operation and of himself with no small confidence. Of twenty cases exhibited by him at length, all were improved to some degree, and many cured ; of about seventy abridged cases, only some half-a-dozen failed; and of fifty-two cases occurring in his private practice, he gives these results—

Cured 6 Great improvement, which with many will doubtless end in cure 22 Slight improvement 16

No better 8

Total 52.]

Remarks respectfully submitted to the consideration of the British Par- liament, upon a Despatch, dated 10th April 1840, from Sir Howard Douglas, Bart., Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands, to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Minister of the Colonies. By Count YIARDO CAPODISTRLAS. Translated from the Italian.

Police Returns, showing name, age, occupation' sex, country, residence, weekly earnings, nature of the dwellings, and other particulars of one thousand and thirty-eight destitute persons within the city of Glasgow. By H. MILLER, City Marshal and Superintendent of Police. Thoughts on the Abuses of the present system of Competition in Architec- ture; with an outline of a Plan for their Remedy. In a Letter to Earl De Grey, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects. By HENRY AUSTIN. Doings in Downing Street by an Ex-Colonial Queen's Advocate. Leicester Gaol. By A. BALANCE, Esq., of the Middle Temple.