PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852. By Sir Archibald Alison, Bart., D.C.L. Volume III.

Lectures on Architecture and Painting. Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853. By John Ruskin, Author of "The Stones of Venice," &c. With Illustrations drawn by the Author.

The Old Printer and the Modern Press. By Charles Knight.

The Iron Cousin; or Mutual Influence. Dv Mary Cowden Clarke, Author of "The Girlhood of Shakspere's Heroines," &c. In two volumes.

Turkey, Russia, the Black Sea, and Circassia. By Captain Spencer, Author of "Travels in Circassia," 8ce. With coloured Illustrations, numerous Engravings, and a Map.

Russia and the War. By Captain Jesse, (late Unattached,) Author of Murray's "Handbook for Russia," &c.

A Personal Narrative of a Tour of Military Inspection in various

parts of European Turkey, performed, from August to November 1853, in company with the Military and Scientific Commission under General Prim, Conte de Reuss, accredited by her Majesty the Queen of Spain to his Highness the Sultan Abdul-Medjed. By Captain G. Rhodes, (94th Regiment,) an Honorary Member of the Commission.

A Handbook for Travellers in Turkey : describing Constantinople, Eu- ropean Turkey, Asia Minor, Armenia, and Mesopotamia. With new Travelling Maps and Plans. Third edition, revised and greatly aug- mented.

The Friends, and other Poems. By Warwick Beechwood. [The author of this volume considers that the taste for poetry is reviving among us; adducing as proofs, the encouragement given to new editions of our standard poets, and the sale of contemporary English and American poems. The taste for poetry has never been extinct ; the greater circula- tion of poems arises from the greater number of readers and the greater cheapness of books. It is very questionable whether there is a larger de- mand than formerly for occasional poems on trite subjects, or for tales that have been imitated from old ballads, or drawn from prose stories, without any further change than the necessity of verse-making constrains. Such is the character of the greater part of these poems; the exception being, the description of a law-student's labours in "The Friends," with some critical sketches of men at the bar, including Follett. These are fresh and real, though some parts may be rather overdone: this shows the importance which a subject and knowledge of it is even to what people call the inspira- tion of poetry.]

The Sentence of Kaires, and other Poems. By Henry Nutcombe Oxen- ham, M.A., late Scholar of Balliol College, Oxford. [This volume is creditable as a memorial of verse-writing begun in school- days and continued for some years afterwards. The versification is suffi- cient; the thoughts and images are removed from prose ; but the subjects are common, and if not imitative, very like those of the mass of rhymers ; neither does the treatment rise much above the average.] Eing _Nutcracker, and the Poor Loy Reinhold; a Christmas Story. With Pictures. Rendered into English Verse from the celebrated German Work of Heinrich Hoffman. By A. H.

[The story of a poor sick child, who is carried by an angel in a vision to a Christmas tree and a collection of wonderful toys ; on waking from which sleep, he finds himself cured, and the toys which he dreamed about waiting his acceptance. The supernatural is not very consistently managed; but the feeling is good, the execution capital. There are a vast many poems ad- dressed to adults, that have not the nice appreciation of natural beauty, of homely affection, or of refined poverty, that distinguish Xing Nutcracker. The little book is prettily got up.]

Songs and Small Poems of the Holy Scriptures : also the Lamentations of Jeremiah. New and literal Translations from the Hebrew Text of Vander Hooght, 1705. [A. praiseworthy attempt to exhibit the songs and small poems of Scripture more poetically, by a closer translation than that of the authorized version, and a form of the text which at all events is not continuous prose. The attempt is not successful. The time-honoured music of the old version has the charm of early association, independently of its own transcendent power, with which other versions, however able they may be, try to compete in vain. Besides this irremediable evil, the present effort after metrical arrangement results in stiffness and sometimes lame inversions.]

The Representatives of the Greek Preposition tiva. By T. Hewitt Key, M.A. [Thistractate, read by its author at two meetings of the Philological Society, is a highly ingenious and successful attempt to trace the Protean transform- ations of the Greek preposition dye through the principal European lan- guages, both those in use at present and those from which they are derived. There is nothing in the study of language more puzzling than the exact force of prepositions in composition with verbs, and he may be pro- nounced a finished scholar in any language who can use such com- pounds with propriety. Even in our own language, we should most of us be baffled to render the true meaning of, and to trace to their true etymology, the various prepositional prefixes united to our verbs. The difficulty is immensely increased by a tendency to merge in a common form prefixes which have a different origin. Who, for instance, could doubt at first sight that the prefix in undertake is the common English word under— beneath ; yet it is most probable that it is nothing but the Greek dva—up or upon, after a variety of transformations. We commend Mr. Key's essay as a very interesting study of-the process of such transformations—as a sped- men of a sort of investigation most necessary to the student who would me his own or any other language intelligently.] .Family Prayers for One Month, by various Authors. Abridged edition. To which have been added, Prayers for Particular Occasions, and Petitions in Time of War. Arranged and edited by the Reverend Charles Hodgson, M.A., Rector of Barton-le-Street, Yorkshire.

[A series of daily prayers for the mornings and evenings of a month, with an appendix of special petitions and prayers. They are written by a number of clergymen, including the Archbishop of Canterbury and several digni- taries, and were originally published to assist in supplying the funds for a school-room for Barton-le-Street. The object of this volume is to answer a similar purpose for a chapel. The edition is described as abridged ; which probably refers to number, not length, as some of the prayers seem long enough as it is.]

The Days in Paradise : in six Lectures. By the Reverend John N. Pearson, M.A., late Incumbent of Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells, Author of "The Life of Archbishop Leighton," &c. [Six sermons on the leading events which occurred in Paradise—the creation of man and of woman, the temptation and fall, the judgment and expulsion. The pictures of the subject are rather gorgeously presented—for example, the fragrance and appearance of the fruit of the tree of knowledge : the ob- vious lessons are clearly impressed.] The Cross and the Crescent as Standards in War: their Origin, Pro- gress, and the Abuses of the Cross as devised and enforced by the Bishops of Rome. By James J. Macintyre, Author of "The Influence of Aristocracies on Revolutions," &c.

[Except a concluding chapter of no great novelty or moment, "the Cross and the Crescent" of this volume has no relation to the present war. The volume is an olla about the origin of the use of the cross and the crescent as symbols or standards in war, as well as of symbolic banners of other kinds. With this disquisition are combined occasional notices of the wars them- selves, and some sharp attacks upon the Papal system. There is a good deal of curious matter in the volume, as well as extensive reading, for it cannot be called learning.]

Lessons on the _Phenomena of Industrial Life, and the Conditions of Industrial Success. Edited by the Reverend Richard Dawes, M.A., Dean of Hereford, Author of "Suggestive Hints towards Improved Secular Instruction," &c.

LA series of essays on the principal topics of political economy,—as wages, profits, rent, taxes, and numerous other questions. They are intended pri- marily as a class-book for teachers and advanced pupils of schools ; the ob- ject of the author and editor being to encourage the study of the subject as a necessary part of education.]

I,etters from the Nile. By J. W. Clayton, 13th Light Dragoons. [Letters descriptive of an ascent of the Nile and the voyage to Egypt. They are light and unaffected, but not striking.] Some Account of the Canterbury Settlement, New Zealand. By the Reverend R. B. Paul, M.A., Commissary of the Bishop of New Zea- land, and late Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

[A very tiny but useful guide for intending emigrants, done with intelli- gence and in an impartial spirit.] The third edition of Dr. Harvey's charming companion for the sea-side is rendered still more complete by a chapter from the pen of Yarrell, on the fishes of our seas, the modes of taking them, and their characteristics as ar- ticles of diet, as well in relation to each other as to meats. The cheap issue of Dr. Hanna's "Life of Chalmers" has reached its close ; to be followed by a cheap edition of the selected works of the great preacher. Except a seventh edition of a "Manual for Articled Clerks," the other reprints are heap novels.

The Sea-side Book; being an Introduction to the Natural History of the British Coasts. By W. H. Harvey, M.D., M R.I.A., Keeper of the Herbarium of the University of Dublin, and Professor of Botany to the Royal Dublin Society. Third edition : with a Chapter on Fish and Fish Diet, by Mr. Farrell.

Memoirs of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. By his Son-in-law, the Reverend William Hanna, LL.D. Volume II.

A Manual for Articled Clerks: containing Courses of Study as well in Common law, Conveyancing, Equity, Bankruptcy, and Criminal Law, as in Constitutional, Roman-Civil, Ecclesiastical, Colonial, and Inter- national Laws, and Medical Jurisprudence, &c. &c. &c. Seventh edition. By J. J. S. Wharton, Esq., M.A., Oxon., Barrister-at-law, Author of "The Law Lexicon," &c.

Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lyt- ton, Bart., M.P. (The Railway Library.) The Blithedale Romance. By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Author of "The Scarlet Letter," &c. (Select Library of Fiction.) Mary -Barton. By the Author of "Ruth," &c. (Select Library of Fiction.)

Maps.

A Hand Atlas for Class Teaching, comprising twenty-nine coloured Maps. By Walter M'Leod, F.11.G.S., Head Master of the Model School, and Master of Method in the Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea ; Author of "An Atlas of Scripture Geography," &e. [An atlas of the most general modern maps, with ancient Greece, ancient Italy, and Palestine. The maps are very email; in fact, the atlas would go into a breast-pocket. The principal divisions are clearly marked, and a general distinctness is obtained by only inserting leading names.]

PAMPHLETS.

The Il'ar of God's Sending ; a Sermon preached in Willesden Church, on the occasion of the Fast. By the Reverend IL W. Burton, M.A., Vicar.

War, its Evils and Duties ; a Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, on 26th April, the day ap- pointed for General Humiliation and Prayer. By John, Bishop of Lincoln. Easter and the Eastern Crisis, a Sermon for the present time: preached in the Parish Church of Chippenham, Wilts. Children instead of Fathers ; a Christmas Ordination Sermon, preached at St. John's Church, Red River, on Sunday, December 2.5, 1853. By David Ander- son, D.D., Lord Bishop of Rupert's Land, A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Rupert's Land, at his Tri- ennial Visitation, in July and Decem- ber 18.53. By David Anderson, D.D., Lord Bishop of Rupert's Land.

The Synoclicon. To KaBoXucov. The Catholic. An Occasional Periodical. The „Principles of the Church Illus. trated in Passing Events. Nos. I. to Turkey Redeemed from existing Abuses. A Hint to European Diplomatists, re- lative to the future Political and Com- mercial State of Turkey, 8tc. By F. A. Neale, Esq., Author of "Eight Years in Palestine"; and many years con- nected with the Consular Service in Syria.

Cronstat and the Russian Fleet. Re- printed from Fraser's Magazine, for May 1854.

Metropolitan Commission of Sewers. Re- port upon the moot advantageous mode of dealing with the Sewage Matter of the Metropolis, with a view to the Pre- paration of Sewage Manure. By Thomas Wicksteed, Esq., Civil Engineer.

Practical Working of the Municipal Cor- poration and Public Health Acts, exem- plified in the case of Le Feuvre versus Lankester, and other matters. By Colonel Stanley Bullock, late of the East India Company's Service, Madras Presidency.