PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Books.

The Life of Beethoven; including his Correspondence with his friends, numerous characteristic traits, and remarks on his musical works. Edited by IGNAce MOSCHELES, Esq., Pianist to his Royal Highness Prince Albert. In two vols.

A Personal Narrative of a Journey to the Source of the River Oams, by the route of the Indus, Kabul, and Badakhshan, performed under the sanction of the Supreme Government of India, in the years 1836, 1837, and 1838. By Lieutenant Jour; Wool), of the East India Company's Navy.

The Martyrs of Science, or the Lives of Galileo, Tycho Bralie, and Kepler. By Sir DAVID BREWSTER, K.H., D.C.L.

Engines of War; or Historical and Experimental Observations on An- cient and Modern Warlike Machines and Implements, including the manufacture of guns, gunpowder, and swords, with remarks on bronze, iron, steel, &c. By HENRY WILKINSON, M.R.A.S., &c.

Junius. "A Letter to an Honourable Brigadier-General, Commander in Chief of his Majesty's Forces in Canada." London, 1760. New first ascribed to Junius. To which is added, "A Refutation of the Letter, &c., by an Officer." With incidental notices of Lords Townsbend and Sackville, Sir Philip Francis, and others. Edited by N. W. &moss, of the British Museum.

The Spas of England, and principal Sea-Bathing Places. By A. B. GaAsvu.LE, MD., F.R.S., Author of " The Spas of Germany," &c.— Northern Spas.

Manners and Customs of the Japanese, in the nineteenth century. From recent Dutch visiters of Japan, and the German of Dr. Ph. Fr. Von Siebold.

Report to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, from the Poor Law Commissioners, on the Training of Pauper Children; with appen- dices. The Moneyed Man, or the Lesson of a Life. By HORACE Satrra, Esq., Author of " Brambletye House," &c. In three vols. - Cecil; or the Adventures of a Coxcomb. A Novel. In three vole, Vivia Pcrpetua ; a Dramatic Poem, in five acts. By SARAH FLOWER ADAMS.

[The subject of this dramatic poem is the family misery which sprang from the religious persecutions under the Roman Empire when one member em- braced the new religion the others retaining the old. In this view the scheme of the work is well designed : for the anguish of the haughty Roman, the father of Vivia, is not theological, but worldly ; it is not the religious apostacy of his daughter from the established creed that shocks and shakes him, but her alli- ance with low persons in a denounced and secret superstition. This merit in the design is animated by a vein of poetical feeling pervading the work ; but the fatal facility of the "Dramatic Poem " injures the general effect. Action

is the one thing essential to a drama ; and when representation is aimed at the author generally pays some sort of attention to this point : when a dra- matic poem is attempted, rapidity and coherence ornory are too frequently lost sight of for sentiment and description, or the temptation of single scenes. Hence the defects of Mkt Perpetua ; where a good design, a few effective situations, and some knowledge of stage-effect, are overlaid by long speeches that approach to reverie, and scenes that act subordinate incidents, or describe events instead of representing them.] The Poetical Works of Reginald Heber, late Bishop of Calcutta. [This volume contains a complete collection of Bishop HEBER'S published poems, with a few original additions ; and will form a welcome present to the numerous admirers of the sincere Christian and amiable man. It has hap- pened to HEBER, however, as to many besides, to have eminence assigned bun in one branch of intellectual exertion for his success in some other, and an the strength of his personal character. His verses are smooth and pleasing, but the ideas are mostly commonplace, and his style is a reproduction. In his Hymns this has sometimes an almost ludicrous effect, similar to that which arises from setting psalms to convivial tunes. The curious in minute criticism may often trace the source of this imitation, now to MOORE'S Irish Melodies, now to other writers. Here is an example, that originated in reading" Scots wha ha'e wi' Wallace bled"— " From foes that would the laud devour;

From guilty pride, and lust of power; From wild sedition's lawless hour;

From yoke of slavery;

From blinded zeal by faction led; From giddy change, by fancy bred ; From poisonous Error's serpent head, Good Lord, preserve us free !"]

The Priest of the Nile ; a Talc of Ancient Egypt. By Mrs. CHARLES TINSLEY. In two vols.

[This work is an attempt to infuse an average amount of historical reading into the old circulating library novel ; or, perhaps, to speak more truly, it de- rives its origin from a perusal of the Minerva Press and Moortz's Epicurean. It is, however, a creditable production in its way. The writer has fluency in her style, fancy in her descriptions, and melodramatic power in her situations. She has also read Roman., and other writers of a similar stamp ; so that there is more stuff in her book than is often found in the lower class of novels. It is true that the spirit which pervades boudoirs and banquets, shows and courts, smacks more of modern England than ancient Egypt : but authors of much wider celebrity than Mrs. TINSLEY commit the same error.] Corse De Leon ; or the Brigand. A Romance. By G. P. R. JAS, Esq., Author of 'The Rona," &e. Iihree vois.

The Green Book; or Gleanings from the writing-desk of a Literary Agi- tator. By Jon s CORNELIUS O'CALLAGHAN. [A collection of papers in prose and verse ; made, says Mr. O'CarzeonAN, in consequence of having read in the Quarterly Review, that two societies to which be once belonged "exhibited public proofs that its labours were not fri- volous or unproductive." Though the assertion of the reviewer might be tree, the evidence adduced by Mr. O'CALLAGHAN is not a proof of it. The verses. in the volume are of various kinds—political, religious, and anacreontic; the last being the best. The prose is indifferent—crude, rambling, and indistinct in aim.] A Manual of Chemistry. By RICHARD D. HOBLTN, A.M., Oxon, Au- thor of a "Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine and the Collateral Sciences." Illustrated by seventy-five engravings. [Mr. HOBLTN is known as the author of a Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine, whose general character we praised on its first appearance, and which we have now used for some years without having ever found it fail us. His Manua/ of Chemistry is likewise entitled to general praise, for the grasp of its subject, the distinctness of its arrangement, the fulness of its matter, and the clearness of its style, as well as for the force with which the points of the subject are frequently impressed upon the mind by the selection of some striking fact. We suspect, however, that its merit requires use to be fully ap- preciated. An example may give an idea of what we mean : if a tyro studied the Introduction in the most effectual way in which any thing can be studied— that is, by mastering the matter of the original, and reducing it by analysis to the tabular form, we think very little of Mr. HOBLTN'S expositional part could be much more shortly expressed; and this is the test of a condensed style.] A Manual of British Ornithology; being a short description of the Birds of Great Britain and Ireland, including the essential characters of the species, genera, families, and orders. 'By WILLIAM Macorr.a.rvaav, A.M, M.W.S., &c. Part I.—The Land Birds.

[The substance, if not the ipsissima eerier, of the scientific parts of Mr. APGILLivsAr's History of British Birds, arranged and condensed into a pocket volume for the use of such persons as desire to cultivate an acquaint- ance with the delightful pursuit of ornithology.] The Phonarthon, or Natural System of the Sounds of Speech; a test of pronunciation for all languages : also the Phonarithrnon, and the Pho- nodion. To which is added, a practical application of the Phonarthon to English and French pronunciation, and to the reading of Hebrew, &c. By the Reverend WILLIAM ZENRY HENSLOWE, M.A., &c., Author of Sermons addressed to the Royal Regiment of Artillery, in the Barrack Chapel at Woolwich. [The reverend author of this volume was formerly a preacher to the Artillery at Woolwich, where his orations were stopped by the authorities. Had he ad- dressed the corps and the cadets to the same kind of effect as he does the public in The Phonarthon, we suspect he would have been allowed to lecture them to this day. So far as we can comprehend his purpose, he divides articulation into two kinds—pubnoncri or "song sound," and oral or "speech sound "; and he wishes to overturn the present notation of music, (whether vocal or instru- mental,) and the preset alphabetical mode of teaching, by plans grounded on his perception of these two sounds." The book is published by subscription ; and though every one must appreciate the motives of the subscribers, we opine the "senior and successful relation" whose letter he publishes in his preface, but who refused his guinea, took the soundest view uf the ease.] The Progress and Prospects of Society.

[A series of speculations la political economy, ending thus. After a variety

of changes foreseen and traced out by the author, he predicts a sort of intel- lectual Utopian state, where all shall be equal, population and subsistence be exactly adjusted to each other, and everybody go naked. The population-check is to be brought about by a law forbidding marriage until a certain age : but this legal check would not always be sufficient, since we learn from Dr. GRANVILLE'S Spas of England, that in one-tenth of the births at Preston the ceremony of marriage had been dispensed with. The state of nudity, which is one of the "Prospects of Society, is justified by a variety of reasons Scriptural and otherwise: its necessity is thus logically deduced. All the land being wanted for food, none will be spared to produce clothes : the growth of a man's hair will not suffice to furnish him with garments ; and though some texture might be woven from the integuments, &c. of fish, yet as the fish, when caught, will most probably be all eaten up, this supply, in its nature limited and uncertain, is prac- tically nil. " Consequently , metals will be by far the cheapest, if not the only materials for making clothes": but as the author judiciously observes soon after, "a metallic dress, though never so finely woven would be particularly disagreeable in the sun, and not very pleasant in the shade"; hence; ex neces- sitate, people will go without clothes. The reader, after this, may suspect irony in The Progress and Prospects of Society; hut it seems written in good faith. The satire is subjective, not objective.] Bills of Costs in Chancery, as well on the part of the Plaintiff as Defend- ant. With Notes and Index. The latest Cases on all the new orders. By GEORGE FA.REEN junior, Esq., Chancery Barrister.

The Practice of the Common Law Courts, and Practical Lawyer's Pocket-Book; containing full forms and directions in every stage of proceedings in the conduct of an action at law. By ROBERT ALLEN, Esq., A.M., F.S.A. 'Barrister-at-Law ; Author of "The Practice of the Court for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors," &c. [Two practical professional publications, which present by means of the tabular form the pith of a great deal of knowledge and information in a small compass. The Practice of the Common Law Courts is a vade-mecum to be carried in the pocket and referred to at any moment. The Bills of Costs is nearly as portable; but we suppose that full preparation is made by a lawyer when taxation is threatened to his bill.] Selections from the Proverbs and Book of Ecclesiastes, in English, French, Italian, and German; intended for the use of young persons studying those languages.

The Wine Question settled in accordance with the Inductions of Science and the Facts of History. In which particular reference is made to the character of ancient drinks, especially the Wines of Scripture. By the Reverend B. PARSONS, of Ebley, Author of "Anti-Bacchus."

The Rights of the Necessitous, considered in connexion with reason, law, and Scripture; in reply to the assault made by property on poverty in the New Poor-law. An original Poem. By a Working Man.

SERIALS.

Fox's Book of Martyrs. Edited by the Reverend JOHN CUMMING, MA. Part L [A republication, in a popular shape, of old JOHN Fox's famous chronicle of the cruelties inflicted on Christians not belonging to the State Church by their persecutors of different countries and creeds, beginning with the Jews and -Gentiles of old, and bringing down the record of bigotry and suffering to the time when the Roman Catholic faith was predominant in this country. This edition is reprinted from the first English translation of 1563 ; and is to include the substance of the work, omitting only the Latin quotations and other matters deemed superfluous; and the wood-cuts, of modern design, will include any accessional details considered to be authentic or characteristic. The object of the reverend editor is made apparent in his Anti-Popery sermon, which forme the "Introduction."] Commentaries on the Epistles of St. Paul to the Galatians and Ephesians. By JOHN CALVIN. Translated from the Original, by the Rev. WIL- LIAM PRINGLE, Auchterarder. (Biblical Cabinet, Vol. XXX.) [A translation of the soundest and most catholic works of the great founder of Calvinism ; which will afford to the religious world a ready means of com- paring his views of his doctrine with the views of his interpreters, and furnish to the literary reader a striking specimen of the critical commentary of the sixteenth century.] Governesses, or Modern Education. By Madame B. RIOFRET. No. II, The Works of Josephus, Part XI.

Magazines for February—Colonial, Asiatic Journal.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRMTS.

Portraits of the Children of the Mobility. Drawn from nature, by J. LEECH. With Memoirs and characteristic Sketches, by the Author of "The Comic English Grammar." [A capital skit upon the last fashionable " annual " folly. Mr. LEECH has sketched the kennel costume of his groups of shoeless beggars, bare-legged sweeps, ragged schoolboys, and rough and saucy errand-boys, in a style of exag- geration commensurate with Mr. ALFRED CHALON'S drawingroom darlings, all curls, feathers, and flounces. The character of the urchin democracy of the gutter, however, would have been more effectively represented had Mr. LEECH been true to nature, instead of indulging in caricature on the one hand and sentiment on the other. The coarse manner of sketching is not unsuitable : the studies seem made with a broom rather than a pencil. The descriptions burlesque the courtly style of slipslop very amusingly, and a vein of satire runs through the pleasantry ; the travesties of tributary strain., too, are very happy.] The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated. From drawings made expressly for this work. by W. IL BARTLETT. The literary department by N. P. WILLIS, Esq. Part L [A cheap and pretty series of views of Ireland, serving to illustrate a tour by the author of " Pencillings by the Way." Mr. WILLIS sets out in the mood of one inclined to be pleased with the country and the people, and willing to avoid politics and polemics : and so far as we have accompanied him, he proves an agreeable companion enough, though an occasional touch of the extra-sen- timental may cause a smile. Mr. BARTLETT'S near views of objects, such as " Kilkenny Castle" and the " Cross of Clonmacnoise," are more effective than the more extended scenes, which are deficient in vigour and expanse : the pleasing is his forte rather than the grand. The plates are very neatly en- graved, and the work is altogether well got up.] Canadian Scenery Illustrated, Part X1L

PAMPHLETS.

A Letter to the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, on Protection to - Original Designs and Patterns printed upon Woven Fabricsa Illustrated with plates. Second edition. By JAMES TwomsoN, P.11. S., &es .4 Letter to the Bight Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., on Copyright in Original Designs and Patterns for Printing. By JAMES THOMSON. -Notes on the Present State of Calico-Printing in Belgium, with prefatory

Observations on the Competition and Tariff of different countries. By

JAMES THOMSON.

The Policy of Piracy, as a branch of national industry and a source of commercial wealth; with illustrations, statistical, geographical, and moral. Expounded and enforced in the Evidence before the Select Corn. mittee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the expe. fluency of extending the Copyright of Designs, of Daniel Lee, Esq., Magistrate of the Borough of Manchester, &c.

[These pamphlets all relate to the subject of Copyright of Designs in Printed Fabrics ; and not only throw light upon the particular subject discussed, but incidentally convey a good deal of general information respecting the cotton- trade. Thus it appears from Mr. THOMSON'S Letter, that the relic of the London calico-printing, which the rapid progress of the Northern manufactures has not destroyed, or rather cannot destroy, is still the elite of the trade "one small remnant, and that the choicest, still exists, sheltered only by superior taste and fancy." It is curious to observe too, that one source of this excel- lence is in the predominance of band-labour. Taking one of the largest pro- ducing-houses in the North, 100,000 of their pieces would require the annual labour of 100 hands: this proportion rises gradually through various manufac- tures till it becomes 553 in THostsost and Brothers, and at last reaches 650 in the house of SwAssLANn, "representing the fine trade of London." In France, this proportion of hands to production is more than doubled ; but Mr.anomsoss attributes much of this to the superior activity of English work- men ; "the greater care bestowed upon them, (the French prints,) and the more laboured nature of their styles," not being equal to the disproportion in produce. The Notes present a good view of the state of the cotton-trade in Belgium ; which is painted as in a declining state, not able to maintain itself in spite of duties all but prohibitory. The _Policy of Piracy is a skit upon Mr. LEE, a Magistrate and manufacturer of Manchester, who displayed before the COM.. mittee a strong preference of " policy " to "justice," and gave a somewhat boastful account of the annual extent of his trade : " I cannot give the yards, I can give the miles ; 11,137 miles, I make of it." (Question 4,404.) The plan of the brochure is to exhibit an analysis of Mr. LEE'S evidence under different heads, with occasional comments; and the execution has some of the quiet irony of the older satirists.] Letter to Charles Wood, Esq., MP., on Money, and the means of econo- mizing the use of it. By GEORGE WARDE NoRmAN, Esq. Currency and Banking. A review of some of the principles and plans that have recently engaged public attention with reference to the administration of the Currency. By JAMES WILLIAM GILBART. The Nature and State of the English' Drama. A Lecture delivered at a meeting of the Syncretic Association, at the Gallery of British Artists, Suffolk Street, on Thursday, 28th January 1841. By F. G. Toratues, Secretary to the Shakspere Society, Author of "The Past and Present State of Dramatic Art and Literature," &c.

The Present Position of the Dramatic Poet in England, being the outline of a Lecture &livered at a meeting of the Syncretic Association, Suf- folk Street Gallery, on Thursday, February 4, 1841. By JOBB A BERACD, Esq., Author of "The Roman Brother," a Tragedy.

The Report of the Resident Physician of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, presented to the Court of Quarter-Sessions for Middlesex, at the Mi- chaelmas Sessions 1840.

Six Letters addressed to the President of Bethlehem Hospital, respecting the Management of that Establishment, founded upon the Report of the Parliamentary Commissioners in the Session of 1538; with some Remarks upon the Report of the two Physicians appointed to inquire into the treatment of the Criminal Lunatics in the Hospital. By PhiJanthropos. The Austrian Treaty Analyzed, and its baneful tendency exposed. By WILLIAM CARGILL, Esq. .An Appeal to the British Public in favour of an important National Ins- provetnent in Commerce and Education. A plan for abolishing fractions, and reducing calculations in commerce and mensuration, within the compass of the first four simple rules of arithmetic. By JOHN FELTON, Author of "A Simplified Latin Grammar," &c. The Premier Dissected; or Comments on the Public Life and Character of the Right Hon. William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne. By the Author of "The Court Doctor Dissected."

Popular View of Life Assurance. Containing an outline of its origin and progress ; an explanation of its leading principles ; remarks on po- pular prejudices and objections; the necessary procedure in effecting assurances ; examples applicable to almost every imaginable case ; a statement of the law as applicable to life assurance. To which are added, a condensed view of the principles of all English and Scottish Life Offices of note ; with their several rates of premium for home and foreign assurances, numerous mortality and other useful tables, and every in- formation likely to interest the intending assurer. By WILLIAM ST. CLAUS.

The Young Woman's Guide : containing correct rules for the pursuits of millinery, dress and corset-making ; illustrated by lithographic plans ; with many useful remarks to young women and servants of every deno- mination. By Mrs. THOMAS WILLIMOTT, Projector of the Domestic

Female Institution. • 's