PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Prom January 9th to January 15th.

Boons.

Mannamt Cape; a Novel. By the Author of "The Clandestine Marriage." In three volumes,

Russia ?auk?. the Autocrat Nicholas the Firvt. By Ivan Golivine, a Russian subject. In two volumes. The History of the French, Walloon, Dutch., and other Foreign Protestant Refugees settled in England, from the Reign of Henry VIII. to the Revo- cation of -the Edict- of Nantes. By John Sontherden Burn, Author of " The History of Parish Registers," &c. Enterprise in Tropical Australia. By G. Windsor Earl, M.R.A.S., linguist to the North Australian Expedition, and Commissioner of Crown I ands for Port Essington. The Life and Times of Henry Clay. By Calvin Colton, Author of the "Junius Tracts," &c. In two volumes. Volume II.

The week has been almost unexampled in new editions; works, no doubt, of varying grade and varying merit, but all enjoying some sort of repute, or they would not stand as they do.

Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers and the Investigation of Truth.

By John Abercrombie, M.D. Oxon and Fxlin , V.P.R.S. Twelfth edition. The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings. By John Abercrombie, M.D. Oxon

and Edin., V.P.R.S.E. Seventh edition.

[What can be said, or where is the need of saying anything on books like these, when the first work has reached a twelfth, and its sequel a seventh edition, although engaged upon questions which involve metaphysical inquiries, and require close attention on the part of the reader; neither topics nor treatment, however, being of the nature of that popular bugbear metaphysics. There is nothing to say, but that Mr. Murray has done his duty in making the bodily form of the book popular, as efficiently as Dr. Abercrombie laboured at the immortal part. They are neat little volumes, and cheap.] The Railway Shareholder's Manual; or Practical Guide to all the Railways in the World, completed, in progress, and projected; forming an entire railway synopsis, indispensable to all interested in railway locomotion. To which is added, a correct List of Offices and Officers of existing and pro- jecte,d Railways. Seventh edition. By Henry Tuck. [This book is as different from the two before it as morals from railways; yet the " Practical Guide to all the Railways in the World" has reached the same num- ber of editions as " The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings," and probably, as rail- ways are wont to do, in shorter time. The featuffi of this edition is a preface against the Times, for that it has created a " panic" and "wantonly depreciated property worth millions, so as to be scarcely saleable at any price." The Times is a powerful organ of public opinion; but were it more powerful than it is, the Times would be unable to accomplish any such feat. if the Leading Journal were to be blamed in this matter at all, it should be for opening too faintly, and delaying the onslaught too long—for waiting till the smash was impending, so as to give to prognosis the appearance of causation, instead of warning more loudly when warning might have been of greater use. The crisis was in the nature of things; observers foresaw its approach months before it came; and the Spectator mapped its course very distinctly in July. Nor, according to Mr. Tuck's own account, was the property of very solid value. After naively telling us that a vast many of these projects are mere delusions, that never could comply with the Standing Orders if they even tried, he adds, that the aggregate number of the remainder is " made up of rival lines." He then gives a list of ten schemes, of which only one will probably pass, as they all propose to accomplish the same end. Mr. Tuck may call the shares in such lines ' property' —we call them counters.] The Standard Pronouncing Dictionary of the French and English Lan- guages. In two parts-Part L French and English; Part U. English and French. By Gabriel Surenne, F.A.S.E., French Teacher in Edin- burgh, &e. Fourth edition. [A demand of a solid and standard kind of work, reaching to a fourth edition, shows popularity and implies utility. At first sight the idea of a French pro- nouncing dictionary Nellie odd: it is not so, however, in reality. A pronouncing dictionary is of use as a guide, not as a teacher: it will settle the doubts of a person who understands French, but will not, we conceive, enable a person to speak who has not learned the elementary sounds. From our inspection, the easiest words seem to be the clearest; but many will require delicate care to avoid erroneous or broad pronunciation. For example—" Attirant, adj. a-ti-ran, attractive," may in an energetic month be turned into " Ah tyrant !"] Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets. Designed princi- pally, for the use of young persons at school and college. By Henry Nel- son Coleridge. [The work of Mr. Nelson Coleridge is rather a series of disquisitions on Homer and his works, admitted and ascribed, than an introduction to the Greek poets in general: but the condensed account of the facts and views connected with the life, times, and works of Homer, and of the "tale of Troy divine," with the summary of the arguments which deny the existence of either Troy or Homer, have ren- dered the book so attractive to the classical tyro and the English reader, as to have brought it to a third edition; which it well deserves.] Literary Florets, Poetic and Prosaic, miscellaneously Intertwined. By Thomas Cromwell, Phil. Dr., F.S.A.; Author of " Oliver Cromwell and his Times," &e. Second edition. [A mixture of original prose and verse, bearing more resemblance to the "ens" than to anything else, unless it be that some pieces of each class of composition occasionally extend to a greater length. The brevity and variety of the morceaux, coupled with their literary merit, which is respectable, have brought these re- flections and sketches to a second edition, and in a handsome garb.]

Supplement to Black's Treatise on Brewing. By William Black.

[This handles several new topics, and expands several old subjects with new lights, obtained since the publication of the third edition of the excellent Treatise on-Brewing, which we noticed on its first appearance. One topic is the Bavarian beer, which Liebig prefers to the English; and Mr. Black takes up the cudgels in favour of Britain,—though we think the superiority is likely to arise from the more natural simplicity of the Bavarian mode. According to Mr. Black's own subsequent showing, English beer is not any better than formerly, perhaps worse; not because the process has become scientific, but because avarice, competition, and the go-ahead principle, have endeavoured to make Science master Nature, instead of being satisfied with following her. There was a

time, for example, when beer was never brewed in the heats of summer: but such delay does not suit a railway generation. The brewers began with "fanners";

which Mr. Black thinks may be effectual with proper precaution. The brewers, however, would neither take the precaution nor be content with the fan, but have had recourse to refrigerators of all kind,,, and injured the beer.] Light in the Dwelling, or a Harmony of the Four Gospels; with very short and simple Remarks, adapted to reading at Family Prayers, and arranged in 365 sections, for every day of the year. By the Author of "The Peep of Day," Sic. Revised- and corrected by a Clergyman of the Church of E:ngland. [A species of short sermon, designed for private or family use on every day in the _year. The author selects Scriptural passages of some length, to which he gives a reference; and the. volume before us consists, of his ceminentary there-

upon. The design seems to be to carry the reader throbgh the life of Christ, in- terweaving doctrinal and moral lessons with the narrative; but the writer, be-

ginning with the year, does not follow the order of times or almanac-k chro- nology: thus, January the fifteenth is devoted to the Nativity, the previous- days treating of the preliminary events.] • The Three Grand Exhibitions of Man's Enmity to God. By David Thom, Bold Stregt Chapel, Liverpool. [This bulky volume of nearly six hundred pages is devoted to a subject w since the Reformation at least, has pretty constantly occupied the attention divines—the total depravity of human nature. The subject is obviously not adapted to a lay journal; and Mr. Thom's views appear to he of a quaint and singular character.]

Poems. By Edward Horatio Strype. [A collection of miscellaneous poems on common subjects, without much cha- racter of any sort. There are various pieces in blank verse; of which Words- worth's " Excursion" forms the model of style, _though Byron's " Dream" seems to have suggested the plan: and these are rather curious for their resemblance to poetry; but we have noticed that this kind of mingled reverie and common inci- dent seems easy enough.] A Sketch of the Life and some Account of the Writings of the late Dr. James Johnson. By his Son, Henry James Johnson,. Senior Assistant Surgeon and Lecturer on Anatomy to St. George's Hospital. [A vigorous and rapid sketch, reprinted from the Medco-Chwurgical Review, of the career and character—the &acuities and the energy that overcame them— of the well-known Dr. James Johnson, author of various works, in which sound sense and medical sagacity were popularized by a striking style and a quaint humour.] Oregon: the Claim of the United States to Oregon, as stated in the Letters of the Honourable J. C. Calhoun and the Honourable J. Buchanan (Ame- rican Secretaries of State,) to the Right Honourable R. Pakenham, her Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary. With an Appendix, containing the Counter-Statement of Mr. Pakenham to the American Secretaries of State; and a Map, showing the boundary-line proposed by each party.

[An American reprint of documents laid before Congress.]

SERIALS.

A Kew Universal Etymological and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Eng- lish Language; embracing all the terms used in art, science, and lite- rature. Parts I. to III.

(This dictionary is based upon Johnson for definition and Walker for pronuncia- tion; but its feature will be several thousand words introduced into use since their day, especially in science and art.] ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Portraits and Memoirs of the most I llustrious Personages of Great Briiaiss. By Edmund Lodge, Esq., Norroy King at Arms, F.S.A. Cabinet edition. Numbers L, IL, and I1L [A remarkably neat and cheap edition of Lodge's Portraits, published in monthly numbers. The new set of plates engraved for this edition are faithfully copied from the larger series, except that the figures are viguettes. The absence of dark backgrounds has the effect of throwing out the heads in bolder relief: certainly they stand out stronger against the white paper; and the features and expression of each physiognomy are preserved with fidelity and spirit.]

Dobbs and Co.'s Embossed Tableaux, after the Works of the Great Masters. [These card-hoard bas-reliefs seem to be susceptible of such sharpness and deli- cacy of outline, as well as boldness of projection, that it would be quite possible to make paper .a substitute for plaster as a mediuip for multiplying miniature copies of sculptured groups and medallions. And there are so many fine works of art 'which can only be reproduced in some form of colourless relief, that there can be noised for transforming fine pictures into bad sculpture, as Messrs. Dobbs have done in the case of two or three of Wilkie's pictures, by these " embossed tableaux." Raffaelle's Cartoons—being lees unsuited to such a metamorphosis, and skilfully translated into sculpturesque style by Mr. Henning—suffer less by the process; but the practice is utterly destructive of the true art both of paint- ing and sculpture. If Messrs. Dobbs want subjects, there are the matchless pictures in relief that form the panels of the celebrated Gates of Ghiberti for the Baptistery. at Florence, and those of Pisano, only less beautiful; with other designs that might be reproduced in miniature with good effect, and which for the portfolio or framing would be preferable to engravings, if well done.]

NOTE.

We have received a polite "remonstrance" from the Reverend R. C. Core, in reference to an incidental remark in our brief notice of his volume of Poems, Scriptural, Claisical, and Miscellaneous. The remonstrance refers to a matter of "Fact not of Fancy," and its subject will be gathered from anotherquotation: "The fact is, that thelittle book exhibits almost every legitimate metre known to our language except the Pindaric." The difference originates in attributing different ideas to the same word. " Old Pindaric" seems to bring Pinder himself to the mind of Mr. Case. We intended todesignate that mode of irregular-not to say licentious versification, which, begun by Cowley, afterwards grew to such a pitch as to provoke the remark, "that a man who could do nothing else fancied he could imitate Pinder." P "measure" would have been a better word than "metre" if it conveys the idea of an arrangement of lines rather than of syllables. Should Mr. Core, in his quiet Vicarage, be able to conceive the pressure upon a journalist in London, he will pardon the oversight which did not select the sitter of two synonymes.