PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From November 11th to November 19th,

BOOKS.

Elements of Chemistry; including the most recent Discoveries and Appli- cations of the science to Medicine and Pharmacy, and to the Arts. Illustrated by 236 wood-cuts. By ROBERT KANE, M.D., M.R.I.A., c.

Hours in Norway : Poems. To which is added, a Version of OCHLEN- SCHLAGER'S Axel and Valborg, a Tragedy. By. ROBERT MEASON LAING.

LThe scene of the translation or imitation of the Danish tragedy, in this volume, is laid in Norway, during the twelfth century;- though the manners appear to belong to an earlier period. The plot turns upon the difficulties of two lovers, whom religion and a monarch's passion conspire to thwart; but the Pope's dis- pensation removes one obstacle, and the King's generosity the other. As the end, however, is to be tragical, Axel, the lover, is killed, through assuming the King's garb to divert the attention of his enemies ; the King is slain in the pursuit, endeavouring to revenge his liegenian's death ; and Valborg, the lady, dies upon her lover's body, whilst his friend is singing a sort of dirge. There is not enough of spirit in the treatment or dialogue to redeem the want of dra- matic action, or, to English notions, of business-like purpose in the plot. The other poems are miscellaneous; chiefly on Norwegian subjects, with Norwegian names in them, if not images. They are of respectable merit, though often somewhat crude in plan. The best is A Winter's Day."] The Prophecy of Balaam, the Queen's Choice, and other Poems. By HELEN Lowe, Author of" Cephalus and Procris," &c. [1n this volume the writer has attempted a higher flight than in Cephalus and Procris, without so much success. Both the productions named in the title- page are dramas, though rather resembling what are called dramatic poems than a play designed for representation. The propriety of the dramatic form, where the dramatic purpose is not aimed at, may be questioned ; but we sus- pect a large interest, and a complex story, with various persons and fortunes, to be in say shape above the powers of HELEN.LOWE; whose genius is more adapted to single and simple themes. Poetical passages are liberally sprinkled through the volume ; but the incidents, wanting connexion, inspire little inte- rest, and the dramatis personte are devoid of life.] The Bard, and Minor Poems. By JOHN WALKER ORD, Author of "England," a Poem, Sze. Collected and edited by JOHN LODGE. [Mr. Oam as known to those whose duty it is tomote the occurrences of lite- rature, as a writer of verses, so well sounding, arid 'stocked with imagery, that if not poetry they would to many people "serve the taro as well." It ap- ipftr• asbowever, that the bard himself has got regardless of the "idle trade"; and Mr. LODGE has therefore deemed it "a duty" to collect and string together the gems of which their producer was neglectful : not, perhaps, forgetful, Since The Bard, though written when, the author was, nineteen, had not, that- hat we we know of, been published, and we take it he has supplied themannscript. The other poems are miscellaneous, written upon any thing and every thing,s..., " Lines near a Waterfall " ; Lines to a piece of White Heath "; " Lines to a Lady of Nineteen"; " Lines on the Death of the Earl of Durham," saying nothing of the Earl of Denim,' that might not be said of any man who kept footmen—that he died notwithstanding the number of his lackeys.] Illustrations of the Tragedies of 2Escliyhts and' S'ophorles, from the Greek,' Latin, and English Poets; with an Introauctoly • Essay. By 3. F. BOYES, M.A., of St. John's College, Oxford. "The Suppliants."

a The Seven against Thebes." " Prometheus Chained."

[This, we think, is the continuation offislesion we noticed on its first appear- - anee—an exhibition of parallel passages in Greek, Latin, and English authors; the two elder Greek tragedians being the basis of comparison. The rending of- the compiler in the present part exhibits a still wider range than before among, English authors : some of his parallels are perhaps more remote than his former ones, at least as regards design; for there is always a difference to be drawn between a casual coincidence and a derived or borrowed idea,—for example, It is exceedingly questionable whether so obvious a jingle as the iteration of a word " Therthely lam wrapped in a toothy wede."

was imitated by our old mystery-writer from the miser° miserere of Luens-, TIOS, or from. any body-else.] The Etthdan,ami Geoffrey Selwood. By CHARLOTTE ADAMS, Author of a The Child of the Atlantic," &c.

[A couple of juvenile tales; The Etonian illustrating the vice cf. extravagance, Geoffrey Se/wood of selfishness. They are written with a certain degree of literary cleverness, and are doubtless well-intentioned ; but the intention is, better than the plan. The incidents that conduce to the reformation of the offenders are not at all probable, and the selfish nnarniability of Master Selwood. is too in-the-grain to have been reformed at all. The Etonian is a better tale, bating the father's theatrical disguise of a money-lender to test his son by usurious proposals affecting the fortune of his brothers and sisters. These kind of tricks should be kept out of juvenile didactic books, if not out of fashionable novels.] The Recreation : 1642. A Gift-Book for Young Readers. Embracing such subjects as arc particularly fitted to interest and improve the youth- ful mind. Embellished with engravings. [Like its predecessor, a very interesting selection of prose and verse, fitted, as the titlepage truly says, to interest and improve the youthful mind. The. prose consists of personal narratives and adventures, scenes and incidents of foreign travel, sketches in natural history, &c. ; much of it taken from the most interesting publications of the past and present year. The poetry, we think, is not so well-selected as the prose. The striking passages of SCOTT and BYRON are too well known to require a place in a work of this kind, and perhaps "The Iceberg" not known enough.] The Christian Offering; Lyrical Poems and Prose Pieces, Sacred and Miscellaneous. By GEORGE B. SCOTT, Author of a The Beauty of Holiness," and other Poems, Ste. [In form, a species of Annual or New-Year's Gift, but not intended to be pe- riodically continued. In other respects it resembles that class of publications ; having plates, prose, and poetry, each of an agreeable kind. In the Christian's Offering, however, the topics and treatment are of a grave, but they are not of a sectarian cast.] The Life of Christians during the First Three Centuries of the Church. A series of Sermons on Church History. By Dr. Coe. LUDW. COUARD. Translated from the German by LEOPOLD J. BERNATH. (Biblical Cabinet, No. XXXIII.)

[Although dealing with theological, or more strictly perhaps with religious topics, this series of sermons will impart some information respecting the habits of life of the primitive Christians, and a good deal as regards their reli- gious feelings and conduct. Its manner is much Who commended—a grafting of Christian feeling upon German simplicity.] The Biblical Geography of Asia Minor, Phoenicia, raid Arabia. By

E. F. C. ROSENMULLER, D.D., Ordinary Professor of Oriental Lan- guages in the University of Leipsic. Translated from the German hy the Reverend H. MORREN, A.M. With an Appendix. (Biblical Cabinet, No. %XXIV.) [The completion of ROSENMULLER'S elaborate exposition of the Scripture geography of Asia, exclusive of Palestine. The present volume contains- Asia Minor, Phtenicia, and Arabia : the translator has added qualifying or additional notes from the latest travellers, where requisite.] Advice to the Bilious; or Treatise on Disease of the Liver, its causes, its nature, and its cure. By ROWLAND EAST, Member of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Licentiate of Apothecaries Hall, &e.

[A popular, perhaps a supetfficial exposition of the author's views of the liver ; which he holds to be the cause of more systematic disorders than is generally supposed.]

The Warning. Translated from the German. With Designs in Asro- graphy, by J. M. WRIGHT. [The story of a child stolen by robbers, and unexpectedly restored to her mo- ther by her uncle who like herself had been supposed dead. It is told with that mixture of the literal and romantic characteristic of German fictions; and the translation is rather formal in its elesant simplicity. The designs are nu- merous, and of a superior character to the common run of these things.]

SsaiaLs.

Charles Lamb's Letters, Part H. Johnson's Philosophic Nuts, No. X.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Finden's Gallery of Beauty, or Court of Queen Victoria. Edited by P. G. PATMORE.

[A superb volume of portraits of sixteen Court beauties, with the Queen at their head ; dieing a collection of the plates from Fine/en's Female Aristocracy, with the addition of nonsense verses to each. CHALON has contributed three of his peculiar pictures : the rest, with the exception of Mr. LANE'S perk* portrait of the Queen, are by Joao HATTER; whose mannerism does not wholly obscure every trait of nature, though it is sufficient to raise a doubt of the fidelity of the likenesses. The most expressive and beautiful face in the volume is that of the Marchioness of Douro, which approximates to the Meal; and the most lively and unaffected resemblance is that of Lady Ashley : but these, though in a less degree than others, are marred by Mr. BATTER'S habi- tual attempts to improve upon Nature in the formation of eyes. The engrav- ings are mostly smooth and delicate, though here and there a touch of harsh- ness disturbs the evenness of the effect. There is great taste io the binding of this volume : the central ornament on the covers is a device of original and elegant design, combining lightness with intricacy and richness, and bekutifully cut.] The Illustrated Shakspere, Part XXX.

MAPS..

Map of the Countries between India and England.

[A neatly-engraved pocket-case map of the countries between England and Infra, exhibiting the new eteatn-routes,—one direct to Alexandria, thence

to Suez, and down the Red Sea ; the other by land through France to Mar- seilles, thence to Beyrcint, and then across the Desert, descending the Euphrates to the Persian Gulf. By a contrivance, occupying what would otherwise be a vacant space, a map of Africa is also given with the Cape route.] PAMPHLETS.

Statistics of Education in Bristol. By a Committee of the Statistical Society of Bristol. (From the Quarterly Journal of the Statistical Society of London, October 1841.) The Budget; a Series of Letters on Financial, Commercial, and Colo- nial Policy. By a Member of the Political Economy Club. No. III.

Belief for the Unemployed Emigration and Colonization considered, with special reference to the Australasian Colonies of South Australia and New Zealand ; with some proofs of their rich natural resources, and of their capabilities of furnishing productive employment for innumer- able labourers and small capitalists, unable to procure remunerative oc- cupation at home. By WILLIAM CARPENTER.