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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

Winnan and her Master. By Lady Moneta:v, In 2 vols.

/Wats, chilfly Dramatic. Edited by TlIONAS hluii LOWE, Dean of Exeter.

Memoirs of the Life nf Sir Samuel Rooting, written hy Himself ; with a Selectiomn from his Correspondence. Edited by his Sous. In 3 vols. Miss Aylmer, or the Mahl's Husband. In 3 vols.

Rivalry. By I.IrNnv NIthrox. hi 3 vols.

China and its Resources, and l'eculiarities, physical, political, social, and commercial ; with a 'View of the Opium Question and a Notice of Assatn. By Roam: er Monis. [A politikus compendium of the geography, laws, customs, literature, and com- merce of China, with a notice of the capabilities of Assam for the growth of tea, told some remarks on the Opium Win. 'rite starting-point or Mr. MUDin is this—that China, as a state, lets refused to hold intercourse with other states, and therefore they are not entitled to make war upon it. The volume is illus- trated by maps of China and Assam.] Kew and its Gardens. By Foam:RICK SCIIEEit, Esq. [A gossiping account of the curiosities and memorabilia of this courtly vil- lage, and of the gardens in particular ; the writer's object being to call public attentien to the value of the botanic treasares they contain. and to the scien- tific importance of preserving and increasing the collectien of plants. Though the report that the Botanic Garden was about to be di.smantled has been con- tradicted officially, there scénas hut too much reason to suppose that such an idea was entertained. and Might have been carried into effect had not the na- turalists made a sfir : as it is, stieree does not benefit to the extent it would were the advantages the gardens afford improved as they might be by spirited and judicious management. The pleasure-gardens, too, ought to be more fre- quent)) open to the public. An agitator is wanted at Kew—but one of sterner stuff than 31r. Seneen.]

Analscount in Iliyh Life. [A series of tales supposed to be written by a prty of fasitionables, confined in the country by wet westlier. And really, people in high life might amuse themselves in a much worse Ivay ; fin the 'tunics ate told in a light and lively manner, though the skill is not of the 14'11-at order.]

Tales vf the Kings of Englaod ; Stories of Csinps and Battle- fields,'Want and Victories, fun. ti the old historisns. liv STI:1,11EN PERCY.

it 1111rsery " romance of history," compiled front modern fiction as well as trtml ohl history : very well calsidsted to interest young readers ; and recom- mended to their notice bv several Inatitn1 it ood-cuts by. KIRCHNER from spirited and effective desiglis by J. GI Li:I:tea] The Eglintoun Tournament, am? (;■ 'Weems) l'omiAefl; ill a Conversation between the Slellies of King ;hates the Fifth of Scotland, aunt Sir David Lindsay of the Ntottnt. 1 yon Kins-at -Aron in the Elysiail Fields. By Plertm BCC 11 AN, .a.s.S.

[Another account of the Egl lullotto foolery. oh :eh le !mule tin text,if.dn-thae irocitstsye, rambling, long-winded diFcmirso lilt a of' Brunswick in particular. nobility, knieliths el, and all s ,ess and conditions of men apropos to Pters:a Buell .t N's I ni ii ot What a gentleman is,— which, like many other " definitions," deb...., sin thing : the pretence of a

dialogue only goes to show that there me pro lielous s in Elysium.]

Omehyn's nurist ; or a ne v in hr to Noah and South Wales and the Wye: dcseribing every et. interest in Hitt most pic- turesque country, and contain ilia ise ell needful information on the

subject of travelling expenses, hula, rilteil with a map. [Concise. business-like, and unpretendisg t ritten v s p. destrian tourist, who has played the cicerone before. tai utuls uu'1't5u,tu Ile tin's, c' pa.turesque

scenes with a sense of their h it hiat hull; Attu affeeted captures, rum is

mindfill conatint soil economy.]

The Law of of Exchange owl Promi,ssory _Vides. By a Barrister. (Tyits's Legal Wild-books.)

[ A ustful manual for the cotintinsaliouse; Inielly describing. the origin and nature of " bills," defining clearly the requisitee ta illeir nithrlity, the respon- sibility of the several pities to them, and the rill iuttm circumstances affecting their legal value as securities.]

'The Philosophy of it H,oppy Futurity. estahli:hed on the sure Evidence or the Bible, ihthithed nil of the Fituha of the Royal Berkshire

Hospital. By tit NI en Ill Esq. [A curious collection of die 1..xls at' Scripture a biell either expressly or by

iniplica:ion locution a future I if t. viol nee, 30 11111 nil Ii TIbieS fIr asecrtoining the of' Dollars in Sterling, at :Illy rate of exchange between England and the United States of A.nerica, from 95 to 125. By es.ssius3.3onst Josys.

S ER IA LS.

.BC1r8 Life inf Mary Queen of snits. (Popular Library. of Modern A uthors.) [To the events of MARY'S career no additional particulars eould be added; but Dlr. BELL has undertaken her defence, and thus gives a feature to his work.

He also displays industry, and he has brought together in a readable shape as much as any one not a professional historian will care to learn about the Queen of Scots.]

Master Humphrey's Clock. By "Bor." Nos. II. and III. (There is little interest in the second number of Master -Humphrey ; the third is much better. Ile this week gives us a description of his three friends, "the deaf gentleman," Jack Redburn, and a crony of Jack's; all of them kind-hearted oddities, who, weary of the world, amuse themselves with their own crotchets and each other's company. The "clock-case" furnishes a con- fession of a man condemned for the murder of his nephew; in which the horrors of bloodguiltiness are depicted with powerful effect and the minuteness of reality, though a little overdone.] Sir Henry Cacendish's Debates of the _Muse of Commons during the Thirteenth Parliament of Great .Britain, which met in May 176S and was dissolved in Julie 1774, commonly called the Unreported Parlia- ment. Drawn up from the Notes of the Right Honourable Baronet, Member for Losieithiel in that Parliament and now first published by ' J. WRIGUT, Editor of the Parliamentdry Hietory, ex. Part I.

PAMPHLETS,

The Claims of the Pe(ph. ; a Letter to the Aristocracy and the Priest- hood.

Corrected Report of' 110 Spfede of Sir George Stai,nton, on Sir James Graham's motion on the Chhat Trade, in the Douse of Commons, 7th April 1840; with an Appendix, containing Itcsolntions on the China Trade, moved iii the Hones of Commons, 13th June 1833.