PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. r Boons.

Trqz.ds on the Shores of the Baltic. Extended to Moscow. By S. S.

Hill. ; , •,., „ ,•

• History of the American _Revolution. By George.Bancroft, Correspond- ing Member of the. French Institute and • of_the Royal Academy of

Berlin. Volume III. ,

Jig Friends and Acquaintance ; being Memorials, .Mind-Portraits, and Personal Recollections of deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Cen- tury; with Selections from their unpublished Letters., By I"; G. Tat- naore, Author of "Chatsworth, or the Romance -of a 'Week,' 8ze: Triatand Triumph ;, a Novel. By the Anther of "The Blackemith's Daughter,", &e. In three volumes.

Tom Thornton ; or IastBesourees. In three volumes. Crewe Rise;. a Novel. By John (}ordy.40Ireson. In three volumes. Germany from 1760 to 1814; or Sketches,of German Life, from the De- ' cay of the Empire to the.Expulsion.of the French. By Mrs. Austin. The Last of the MI Squires I- fi AS ke tch ,by Cedric Oldacre, Esq., of Sax- Normanbury, some time of Christ ,Chureh, Oxon,

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Romance of Travel, from Treat tolhe Isle of Pourbon,'Braa ,S.c. By Dr. Yvan, Physician to theBeientific Mission-. sent by France to China, &e. With Illustratio4s. " {Dr. Yvan, known as jaMt-authkof the, only connected' story we have of Us ,presetlt Chineserehelifeli;*iie'10.h Man to the Mission to China which left France in I8e2.' ticeontit' of his outward voyage, including stoppages at Teneriffe, Brazil, the Cape, end the Isle of Bourbon. There is much smartness, though little novelty, in his observations: the hest parts are the description of what French slavery was in the Isle of Bourbon when he saw it, and the contrast between the industry and com- fort of the Cape and the very opposites at Rio. As the book is written in a lively manner, and takes things from the French point of view, it ia easy reading, especially to those who are not tired of voyages. Romance of Travel. is a proper title; for some of .the,stories and adventures ate not only French. in their sentiment and colouring, but seem to carry marks of being improved

in the French way.] . . . " ,, .

The Cruise of the Steam- Yacht _nil II Star, to _England, _Russia, Den: mark, France, Spain, Italy, Tarki,y, Madeira, ise. By the 114verenel . John, Overten Cpoffiett, L.D., Author of the "History of Alis,sions,"

&c. ,

[The store of the Reverend Dr. Choules's obSerrations and reflections as - he voyaged with the American millionaire Mr. Vanderbilt to England; 'Ben- oit/4 ,Ritsin, Frimcd;, and the; Mediterranean ; including reports of the speeehes* the reuniona held in honour of the enterprising owner. Al-, thoughitorvoyage was. nuule Miring the diplomatic difficulties which ter- miiqt$m> the present war, and Dr. Choules visited Cronstadt St. Peters- burg, Ind, Constantinoplo, he tells nothing that can inform or interest upon that toPre. The whole, in fact, is a slight commonplace affair, hardly worth reprinting,—for we suppose the volume is an American reprint.] . England and Russia : eomprising- the 'Voyages of -John Tradescent the . Elder, Sir Hugh Willoughby, Richard Chancellor, Nelson., and others, to the White Sea, &e. By Dr. J. Hamel. Translated by John Studdy

Leigh, IF lt.G.S. .

[Be. I. Hamel came to England in 181.1. in the suite of the Emperor. Alexan: der. and made some investigations in reference to the.early English voyages to Resale, Mt 'ivell as to -the business of the Russia Company... From the• matter collected he in part compiled the work of which this volatile is a, translation.- The present. istate of public affairs of coursobas prompted the undertaking ; but the :book has no bearing upon the subject. A few pic- tures of the Russian court, of the condition of the people and the country, and of the state of business in the sixteenth and seienteenth centuries, will be found in the volume. • Beyond this, England and Russia is a dry affair of archmology of all sorts, cumbrous in plan, lifeless in execution.] Islancioe, its Rise and Prevress ; or the. Present and Past Condition ofi the Turks. . By F. A. Neale, Author Of "Eight Tears in Syria." In two volumes. . [The stet,' 'of Islamist-h at least 'till its decline, has been told by'various author in More or less sufficient forme, from our older writers down tq the late Dr. Taylor7e,very popular History of Mahometanism. The peculiar feature of Mr. Neale's book is that he brings the story down to the present time. - The literary characteristic is an attempt after light reading by means of flowery writing, that occupies space which would have been better filled by facts or remarks.] •

The Wife's Manual; or Prayers; Thoughts, and Songs, on several aces- ' • along of a Matron's Life.- By the Reverend W. Calvert, 31.A., Rector

of St. Anthelin's, and one of the Minor Canons of St. Paul's. [A series pf poems on the incidents and feelings of married life, from the wedding-day till death. Considered strictly, there may , be a want of cori. sistency in snme of the topics in order te eiribrace all the events of marriage, —as annffectionate, an estranged husband; and the pieces are sometimes as much religious as domestic or hymeneal. Poetry they hardly reach, except occasionally when the subject is poetical in itself,--as the verses on the death of 4 little daughter. But The Wife's Manual is airelegant produc- tion; tender and pious in sentiment, close and expressive in style, and the verse quite equal to the great bulk of the religious poetry which takes a pernianent pliree'in our national collections.1 The Rights of British and Neutral ("eminence, as- affected by recent Royal Declarations and Orders in Council..• By John Mosack, of the Middle Temple, Burrister-at-law ; Author of "A Treatise on the Conflict of Laws of England and Scotland," &c. - [A tiseful little-book, of a sound and popular character ; its popularity, how- ever, arising from the clearness of its views and the,plain terseness of its expressions, not from any attempt at "popularizing science." The prominent object is to point out the legal effect of the late Orders in CdUneil: com- bined with this is a review of the belligerent rights claimed and Rated. upon bytreat Britain in the last war. some of.which rights are affilded by tho Wins, but rather suspended than renounced:]

illx.eelsior : Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature. Vo- -.1.1 .ffinue I.

[The numbers of a periodical collected into a volume. Both its title and its titlepago,!yould Indicate progress as one ol its objects; and so it 19, but not in:the social and political meaning usually attached to the word. Litera- ture, science, and in a lesser degree -religion, are-treated , in the book. - They are handhit in 4 fresh,. popular,. and earnest manner : the .ecience , talresahm lone of natural history, or astronomy and geology in the less abtute aspects ; the tales breathe a kindly spirit, which is undoubtedly a,

s sicial progress.]

.726velrflions of an All-Round Collar: an Episode in the Life of a Young' Gentleman. Edited hy his Laundress, With Illustrations from De-

signs by Gestigellt Thomson. . . . [The story of an attempted seductionof his laundress's daughter by a young gentleman of fashion "at) gin tinw he is reakOng serious proposals to a lady in his own rank a lite. ' The idea and the s6ridnierits die Stale enough ; but the received tone of modern society is caught, and the thing cleverly man-

agettitTits way.] ' : , . . . Acre (sires de Wencaque, par Fkielon. With Notes, by C. J. Delillei ' Pronsbi- at .Christle Hoi,pital.and the City of Loudon School ;, Au- : thortof .'The Beginnerla Own,French :Book," &e. (Foreign Classics.) [This edition of Telemachus is the first of a new; series, of French classics, which will appear ander the superintendence of two editors; the English to mark ffanditliettliies, the French editor to explain them, assisted by his oollAberateutt, itheing: the opinion of the superintendent (whom we take to be Mo. Long) that ehe•language is as much es one man can master. riskichia.A4p1puittory, vammutical, and critical annotations, there will be general notes, which in the present volume are furnished by Mr. Longi] _Elements of . ritlemetie for the use of Schools :, with Tables for the Re- diction of Mpound .Numbers to Decimals; &al ' Bf William Scott MA., F.IC.S., Examiner in Mathematics of Candidates for Commis- , Sions in heel Majesty's Service, .&c., . ; .' ,. .

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[The number of elenientary books on- arithmetic is already so great that there Is little ,to...sity ■of the mew.ones that ,are frequently appearing. Mr. Scott's exposition of principleSonirikes .us, as being thorough, but probably fuller than is needed for the kind of pupils to whom the appearance of the 1.1fiume. wtesslOndicato Oat it is\ addressed.] .." ,Scirefmrd, thud Sulfran,mWorrica., and Prophet of the Caucasus. Trans- lated from the German of Dr. F. Wagner and F. Bodenstedt, by

is 41edisacoRes.WtmAll.. , Me Trave)14714.ibrary.) . .,. tikttlyougitAte inforteation goroished,'hy Ve,gtier has already'qppeared, and Peehops thatfrenalodeusted00 acceattiftle, yet thcir comb Dia single shilling volume of Messrs. Longman's Traveller's Library, forms a timely publication.]

Report of Twenty-one Years' Experience of the Dick Bequest for elevating the character and position of the Parochial Schools and Schoolmasters in the Counties of Aberdeen, Banf, and Moray; em- bracing an Exposition of the designs and operation of the Parish

' Presented to the'crustees by Allan • Menzies, Writer; tio the Signet, Professor of- Conveyancing in the 'University of Edinhttrgh; t .1 clerk. to,the Trustees. .

Foremost among the new editions stands the third vnlume of

"Murray's British Classics," with its map of Western Asia, showing the marChei Of Julian and Heraelius: Dr. Winslow reprints front, the pages of the Lancet and the Journal of Psychological .Meelieine, his " Lectures on Insimity," delivered before the. United Medical Societies of London and Westminster. The important information and 'agreeable anecdotes of Dr. Robert Lee's " Alexander and Nicholas" have already carried it to a second edition. Mr. Matthew Arnold, in a new preface to a second (though in sortie sense it may he called a third) edition of his "Poems," stilt holds to is theory of the past being fitter than the present for the subjects of poetry.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Remote Empire. By Ed- ward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. Edited, with additional Notes, by William Smith, LL.D. In eight' volumes: Volume III With Portrait and Maps. (Murray's British Classics.) Lettsomian lectures on Insanity. By Forbes Wiuslew, M.D., D.C.., late President of the Medical Society, London, &e.

The Last Days of Alexander and the First Days of Nicholas, Em- perors of Russia. By Robert Lee, M.D., F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London. Second edition.

Poems. By Matthew Arnold. Second edition.

Poetical Works of William Cowper. Volume HI. With Selections from the Works of Robert Lloyd, Nathaniel Cotton, Henry Brooke, Erasmus Darwin, and William Harley. Edited by RobertBell. (The Annotated Edition of the English Poets.) ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

The TVorks of Eminent Masters, in Painting, Sculpture, Agchilecture, , and Decorative Art. Volume I.

[This publication labours under some of the disadvantages inherent in make- shifts. The wood-cuts which form its most prominent feature are ahnost wholly French, and of course belong originally to some French work. They have since been used in the Art Jounced, and in a previous serial experiment of their present publisher, Mr. Cassell, consisting of biographies and speci- mens of the famous painters. The form in which they now appear is not sufficiently distinctive ; the biographies aforesaid being diffused through the volume without method or connexion, and interspersed with casual anec- dotes, notes, and notices, sometimes of the art-exhibitions actually open. With all this, there is sufficient sketchy information and smart criticism, and enough of the atmosphere of art about the whole to make the book an agreeable one to dip into. Of the wood-cuts several are admirable—too good for being printed a fourth or fifth time on ordinary paper ; others, ,however, have that woodenness which is the natural character of wood-cuts done with- out superior artistic feeling. The artists illustrated in this first volume ine . miscellaneous; from Rembrandt to Westall, and from Diirer to Millais.] Portrait of Lieutenant Bellot, of the Imperial Navy of France. En- graved from the Original Picture painted expressly for Lady Frank- lin; and dedicated, by special permission, to IL L M. Napoleon ILI.

Emperor of the French. [A very creditable engraving from a portrait of similar merit by Mr. Stephen Pearce, which is to be seen by explorers of the Octagon Room at the Royal Academy Exhibition. The gallant Ballot must have been a good deal like what he said he had acquired the title of—" a little Britielmr." There as just a hint of the Frenchman in his solid and lively face, but on the 50101.0 he has very much the cut of an Englishman. The portrait is said to have been "painted during numerous sittings, just before Lieutenant Bellot sailed on his last Arctic voyage" : and Mr. Pearce has had a snuffbox presented to him by the French Emperor at a personal interview, in testimony of the donor's approval of the work.] PA3IPHLRTS.

Illessia and' EttrOpe or the probable, Consequences of the present War. By Count ,Valerian li.rasinasi, Author of ." The Ifistory of- the Reformation in Poland," 8.:c.

Aulkentfe Report qf,Eossuth's Speeches on. the War in the East, and the Alliance with Austria, at Sheffield, J,une 5, and at Nottingliant. June 12, 1854: The Latter' Pays. ltailways, Steam, and -Emigration, with its conaequerrt rapid Peopling 01 the Deserts, 8ze.

Uni io• of Charah,and State Vindicated.

Being the substance tA a Lecture de- livered in the Temperance Hall, Leeds !bad, Bradford; by Mr. W. Clark.

Tite,Efills CheilisatianAn the.Fortanes of lice Atedicat ,Profession. , An Address, read before the Medical Society 'or Southampton. 7th February 1854. by Henry Daymatf, Esq.. M.R.C.S., , Letter to 14.1tightlfonsurable Lord John Bussellatons the Right 21onourable F. II:ennerly, relative to his Removal flow the Mice of Commissioner qf Aroods, Forests, and Land Revenue of the Crown; with Lord John Bussoli's Reply; and Remarks and CurreStoond- '//dInie's C'hiwity. A Letter to Benjamin Nibitolls,,Esq,, Mayor of Mancheater... ' on the past blanagemenV of thip Cha- rsty, with Suggestions for be future application or its large surplus income. By Alexander liar.

'The'neelith Annual fifisors of.the Na- tional Temperance Socwty. 1853-'54.