PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

The Life of John Sterling. By Thomas Carlyle.

Hours and _Dap.. By Thomas Burbidge.

The Amiens of Animale. By Edward P. Thompson. Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All NfitiOW, 185E O cial Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue. By the Authority a the Royal Commission. In three volumes. Post-office London Directory, 1852. Letts's Diary, and Bills Due Book, and Almanack, for 1852.

[Some years ago, the appearance of the first Annuals, like the first touch of frwt, indicated the approaching winter. The present week has heralded a more solid and useful kind of annual, as well as a little frost. The Post- office Directory and Letts's Diary are among the publications received.

That gigantic volume The Post-office Directory maintains its character as a fitting representative of the largest city in the world ; excelling all books in bulk, as London excels all towns. And as the Metropolis contains various other districts besides the City, so does the Directory contain many directories, yet all answering some specific purpose. There is the Official Directory,—and, by the by, it is cunous to see how often the same name occurs together as if public employment were too good a thing to let out of the family. There is the Street Directory, where we may find the man if we know his residence but have forgotten his name ; the Commercial Di- rectory, where we may find the name if the residence has escaped us ; then there are the Trades, Law, and Banking Directories, where it is possible to hunt up a man if we know his vocation but cannot without assistance recall either his name or address. There are also other directing classifications,—as Court, Parliamentary, Conveyance, Postal ; form- ing an unparalleled work, which, however, has been three-and-fifty years growing to its present size. The present volume appears early : the demand, owing to the influx of strangers consequent upon the Great Exhibition, hav- ing exhausted the current edition for 1851; and what would London be with- out its Directory ? Great exertions, it is stated, have been made to bring down the changes to the latest moment : as a proof of it, the alterations con- sequent upon the death of Lord Liverpool may be instanced. Letts's Diary. Among Letts manifold memorials of time, its flight, and how we have passed it, from the pigmy that goes into a waistcoat-pocket to the folio thatlies upon the business-table, No. 10 has reached us ; being a kind of medium between 1 and 55. This volume, like most of its brethren, is more than a diary ; containing, in fact, the specific and general informa- tion of an almanack and of a public directory upon a certain scale.] _Dialogues of the _Early Church. I. Rome. IL Smyrna. III. Car- thage. By Henry Hayman, M.A. [The loving spirit and sustaining faith of the early Christians, under the sufferings caused by the Roman persecutions, is one feature of these dia- logues; the characteristics of the heathen philosophers and the populace another. Scholarly knowledge of his subject and elegance of style are pos- sessed by Mr. Hayman ; he wants dramatic power. The names, the forms, the matter, are of the early Christian ages ; the manner and even the thoughts and feelings of the interlocutors, are of our day. The events which give occasion to the discourses are somewhat artificial.] Tales of a London Parish, &c. By the Author of "Tales of Eirkbeck." Edited by the Reverend W. J. E. Bennett, M.A.

[A dozen stories, supposed to be collected by the " priest " of a London parish, descriptive of the influence of religion upon various characters and conditions. They are written with elegance, but the story sometimes appears to suffer in congruity from the religious bias ; the conversion is not always a logical sequitur : but this is perhaps the truth in point of fact. From cer- tain passages the " priest" evidently belongs to the "Anglican branch of the Catholic Church," but the general leaning inclines more to Romanism than to Protestantism.]

The Popes : an Historical Summary ; comprising a period of 1784 years, from Linus to Phis IX. Carefully compiled from the best ecclesiasti- cal authorities, and illustrated with numerous Notes. By G. A. F. Wilks, M.D.

[A list of all the Popes from the first to the present, with the leading facts and chronology of their pontificates. Dr. Wilke has well digested his mat- ter, and the volume will be found very useful as a summary of events or for purposes of reference. The object of the compiler is to expose the religious and secular usurpations of the Papacy ; but to do this impressively, would require more space than he has allowed himself.]

A Practical Introduction to English Composition. By Robert Arm- strong. Part L [This. book is formally divided into four sections ; the first and second books exercising the pupil on simple and compound sentences, the third book em- bracing punctuation, and the fourth giving skeleton themes which the pupil is to fill up. We suspect that a better mode is to set a theme from something within the tyro's own knowledge, either relating to his studies or experience.] An Elementary Course of Practical Mathematics, for the use of Schools. Part III. By James Elliot. Logarithms and Plane Trigonometry. [Completes a useful series of elementary mathematics by an accomplished mathematician.] The Port-Royal Logic, translated from the French ; with Introduction, Notes, and Appendix. By Thomas Spencer Baynes, B.A. Second edition, enlarged.

ILLUSTRATED WORSE AND Plume.

Sentiments and Similes of William Shakespeare. A Classified Selection

of Similes, Definitions, Descriptions, and other Remarkable Passages in

the Plays and Poems of Shakespeare. By Henry Noel Humphreys. [A small classified gleaning from the exhaustless harvest-field. It is a book for the eye,—unless to say so of anything extracted from Shakspere be a con- tradiction in terms. sumptuously bound in leather and carved wood, (if wood indeed there be in these days of pasteboard and papier-mache,) and printed with gilding and device after the fashion used in Shakspere's own days. As such the style adopted must be deemed the most appropriate ; and it is less familiar than that of some other revivals, although m intrinsic beauty it occupies lower ground.] His Grace the Duke of Norfolk, KG., &c." Painted by T. M. Joy, Esq.; engraved by G. Zobel. [Mr. Mitchell has published an engraving by Mr. Zobel from Mr. Joy's por- trait of the Premier Peer. The artistic claims of the work are just about what might be expected from the painter's name ; there is not much in its treatment or disposition to compensate for any lack of interest for which he maybe less directly responsible. The portrait appears at a moment when its circle of possible clients has changed : to whose suffrages we leave it, as of a merely average merit in itself, which requires to be met half-way.]

PAMPHLETS.

Brief Notice of the Causes of the Caffre War. By Sir A. Stockenstrom, Bart. In a Letter to a Friend.

Copies of Correspondence with Lord John Russell on Representative Government at the Cape of Good Hope. Papers relative to the Establishment of a Representative Legislature at the Cape of Good Hope. What are Tribunals of Commerce ? Addressed to the Commercial Com- munity. By Edward H. Stanley.