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PIJRLICATIONS RECEIVED._

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The War in the East, from the Year 1853 till. July I85: an His- torico-Critical Sketch of the. Campaigns on the Danube, in Asia, and in the Crimea ; with a Glance at the probable Contingencies of the next Campaign. By General George Klapka, Author of "Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary," &c. Translated from the original Manuscript by Lieutenant-Colonel A. Mednyiinezky.

The Phasis of Matter; being an Outline of the Discoveries and Appli- cations of Modern Chemistry. By T. Lindley Kemp, M.D. In two . volumes.

Recollections of Russia, during Thirty-three Years' Residence. By a German Nobleman. Revised and translated, with the Author's sanc- tion, by Lascelles Wrarall. (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Lite- rature. 'Volume VIII.) A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland : comprising a translation from F. M-arten's Voyage to Spitzbergen ; a translation from Isme Be is Peyrier's " Iliatoire du Greenland," and "God's Power and Providence in the Preservation of Eight Men in Greenland Nine Months and Twelve Dayes." Edited by Adam White, Esq., of the British Museum.

Old books of travel, whose popular attraction does not tempt a publisher to reprint them though well worthy of circulation by a society, may possess an interest of three kinds. They may exhibit strange and stirring adven- tures, borne with a brave simplicity and expressed in a style quaint but strong, and markedly exhibiting the characteristics of their age: and such was H.awkina's Voyage, the first volume published by the Hakluyt Society. They may throw a valuable light upon the manners and history of our own or foreign countries : as will doubtless be the case in the forthcoming "Collection of Embassies to Russia in the Reigns of Queen Elizabeth and King James I," to be shortly published by the same Society. Through a special aubjeot, a limited field of observation and adventure, or a natural want of comprehensiveness in thaauthor, they may only possess a limited and special interest, curious to those who study the subject as a pursuit, but not of much attraction to others : the "Colleotion of Documents on Spitz- bergemand Greenland" in the volume before us belongs to the last class. The accounts are three in number. The first contains a narrative of Mar- ten's Voyage to Spitsbergen in 1671; less remarkable for the voyage itself than for the author's observations on the country, climate, productions, ice, sea, &e., which, though unscientific—they could not then be otherwise—are very accurate and sensible : to these the editor, Mr. White, has added a va- riety of information from later voyagers. The " Histoire du Greenland" is a ecnipilation • a claw of composition to which the Hakluyt Society is rather. partial, though we think origmal works should as a rule be the choice of a society. The last document is a narrative of the wintering of eight seamen who were unfortunately left upon the coast of Greenland in 1630-'31. It is an interesting narrative of danger braved and hardship borne in a plain old English spirit. In a popular point of view, it is the most attractive of the three reprints. The original tract is very scarce ; the text has been re- printed in Churchill., and we think in less established collections, at lead in part.. The volume ni well edited,, and illustrated by fac-simile maps.] A Manual of Marine Zoology for the British Isles. By Phillip Henry Geese' A.L.S. Part L [The objects of Mr. Geese's Marine ZoOlogy is to furnish a handbook for the sea-side, by which the loiterer, if he likes to undergo the trouble, may draw amusement and instruction from almost every pool of water that the tide leaves behind it This, however, cannot be done without preliminary acquirement; and that can only be gained by some pains and study. A bird, a beast, a fish, or a plant, is readily recognised, if its peculiar species or family may not be so easily settled. The creatures described by Mr. Geese cannot always be seen, except perhaps by a practised naked eye; it is almost as difficult to detect many of them, not in their particular family but as animantia at all. To those who are disposed to undergo the trouble of mastering the rudi- ments of marine zoology. This volume will be found of considerable advantage. In fact, when completed by the second part, it will be the only work of the kind. The information, collected, condensed, revised, and extended by Mr. Gomm, could only be obtained by the purchase and study of many volumes, able and original, no.doubt, but costly. "Thirty pounds would not purchase the books necessary for the identification of the marine animals of Great *Rain." They would, however, contain fuller accounts of the animals themselves, and perhaps better satisfy or instruct the reader. This, Dix-. Geese may say, was not intended by him. He gives, and very ably, *gene- ral account of each class : to give more would extend his work beyond a Pocket-book. The objection would not apply to some general' hints for set- ting about becoming a zoologist, as well as fuller information touching the Particular coasts or places where particular animantia are most likely to be found; as M. done, for example, in local books of botany. This might be worth supplying in a new edition.] Canada : an Essay, to which was awarded the First Prize by the Paris Exhibition Committee of Canada. By J. Sheridan Hogan. [Facts mingled with incidental descriptions respecting Canada; and, as the reader may suppose from the tribunal which awarded the author his prize, not to the disadvantage of the country. Geographical, geologica], commer- cial, industrial, populational, educational information, as well as facts r2lbating to things in general, are put forward by Mr. Hogan, sometimes ularly, sometimes_ descriptively. He mingles with these statistical mat- ters various individual pictures. yHe also does a little in the comparative waV, and makes out a good enough case in favour of the progress of Canada yersus the United States. For example, between 1800 and 1850 the pope- tallo n of the United States increased nearly 400 per cent ; between 1811 and 1.851 the population 'of Upper Canada increased 1100 percent The more correct comparison perhaps might be with some of the Western States, or with both the Canadas.] A Phraseological English-Latin Dictionary, for the use of Eton, Win- chester, Harrow, and Rugby Schools ; and King's College, London. By C. D. Yonge, Author of "An English-Greek Lexicon," &e. [A very capital book either for the somewhat. advanced pupil who wishes a dictionary to aid him in his exercises, the student who aims at acquiring an idiomatic Latin style, or the adult with a knowledge of the language who wishes to examine the differences between the structure and ex sions of the English and Latin tongues, by a short and ready though mentary mode of proceeding. Mr. Yonge's arrangement is thus. He gives the leading Latin word, which generally corresponds to the English, and then proceeds to illustrate the idiomatic characteristics through various shades of meaning, by phrases, which contain the peculiar application of the English word. The plan is judicious; the author confining himself to words that are useful, and giving the authorities of his example& Thai Phraseolo- gical English-.Latin Dictionary is the best—we were going to say the only really useful Anglo-Latin dictionary we ever met with.] Catherine, the Egyptian Slave in, 1852. By the Reverend W. Z. Beamont, M.A., }elbow of Trinity College, Cambridge; late Principal of the English College in Jerusalem. [This fiction is founded on a fact and written for a purpose. Catherine, titte heroine, is a Bosnian Greek and an Austrian. subject, who has been carried off and sold as a slave to Zoheirah, the favourite of the late Mehemet Ali. Thebeauty of what might be called the Queen-mother is on the wane, and she is envious of the fair Bosnian. In &freak of rage she sends Catherine as a present to a brutal slave-dealer;, and in her struggles, escape, protection by an Austrian Jew, abandonment by the Austrian Consul after a show of re- sistance, and various ether adventures, consists the story. The author is acquainted with Cairene life, if not practically, through Lane - ha writes with the purpose of depicting the vices and brutalities of the Miihometans. He wants the art, however, perhaps the genius, to embody his knowledge and his object in fiction.. When his Easterns discourse, they speak English ideas as well as words. The costumes, manners, and. charaoterietio vices of the Orientals, are exhibited while the essential story is standing still. With a certain class of readers Catherine the Egyptian Slave will be popular, but it wants life.] The Pillage Lesson-Book; for the use of Schools. By Martin Doyle, Author of "Hints to Small Farmers," &c. [The Village Lesson-Book contains lessons on seven varieties of rustic work in which young boys may be employed—ea pig-keeping. They. are written in a. plain, homely, intelligible style, with a knowledge of the subject.] A Sunday-Book for the Toting.; or Habits of Patriarchal Timeein the East.

[The professed object of this little book is to apply to the illustration of Scripture the information furnished by modern travellers respecting Oriental manners and customs. This is not very successfully done. A Sunday-Book is in reality a curt compendium of Patriarchal history to the death of Joseph.] The reprints are not numerous; but two are valuable for high character, sound learning, and extensive knowledge of books or life • and, by a curious eninddence, both relate to English history. Mr. Murray continues. his cheap edition of Hallam's works, by the first,volume of the 'Constitutional History." Mr. Griffin sends forth a first volume of another reprint of Brougham's "Statesmen of the Time-of George the Third," and in a well- looking form. The new edition of "My Novel" forms one of Mr. Bout- ledge's cheap issue of Sir Bulwer Lytton'a fictions.

The Constitutional History of England, from the Accession of Henry VII. to the Death of George IL By Henry Hallam, LL.D., F.R.A.S., Foreign Associate of the Institute of France. In three volumes. Volume I. Eighth edition.

Historical Sketches of Statesmen who flourished in the Time of George III. By Henry, Lord Brougham, F.R.S., Member of the National Institute of France, and of the Royal Academy of Naples. Volume I.

HY Nord, by Pisistratus Caxton: or Varieties in. English Life. In two volumes.

PAMPHLETS.

On the Causes of the Defects existing in Lund', M.D. By James Makenzie Bios-

am, Esq,

British Mines considered as a Means of Investment: with Particulars of the principal Dividend and Progressive Mines in England and Wales. Third edition. By .1. H. Murchison, Esq., F.G.S., Fellow of the Statistical So- ciety, &c. The proposed Decimal Coinage, and hi _Application to the various Rules of Anthsnetio; with an Explanation of the Chinese Abacus, or Swaripau. By the Reverend Frederick Calder, /lead Master of the Grammar School, Chesterfield.

our Army, and in our Military Ar- rangements. By Aletheia.

Report an the Laws and Ordonnances in force in Prance for the Regulation of _Noxious Trades and Occupations. By Dr. Waller Lewis, Medical. Officer to the General Post-office. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by com- mand of her Majesty.

The Climate of the Island of Madeira; 'or the Errors and Misrepresentations on this subject contained in a recent work on Climate by T. H. Burgess, M.D., 'considered in a Letter to George