PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

A Gratnntar and _Dictionary of the Malay Language ; with a Pre- liminary Dissertation. By John Crawfurd, F.R.S., Author of the " History of the Indian Archipelago." In two volumes. Mount Athos, Thessaly, and Epirus; a Diary of a Journey from Con- stantinople to Corfu. By George Ferguson Bowen, Esq., MA., Fel- low of Brasenose College, Oxford. Life in Bombay and the Neighbouring Out-Stations. With Illus- trations.

hearts and Altars. By Robert Bell, Author of " The Ladder of Gold," &c. In three volumes.

The Invasions and the Projected Invasions of _England, from the Saxon Times; with Remarks on the Present Emergencies. By E. S. Creasy, M.A., Professor of History in the University of London, &c.

Confessions of Country Quarters ; being some Passages in the Life of Somerset Cavendish Cobb, Esq., late Captain in the One-Hundred- and-twentieth Foot (Camberwell Rangers). By Captain Charles Knox, Author of " Hardness." In three volumes.

Letters of Percy Bysshe Shelley. With an Introductiory Essay, by Robert Browning. [" An opportunity having presented itself for the acquisition of a series of unedited letters by Shelley," Mr. Moxon determined on securing them as an addendum to the correspondence already published by him. In this point of view, and as throwing some further light on the character and biography of Shelley, they are not without use; but they have little further interest. The letters, twenty-five in number, extend from 1811 to 1821. They are written on questiona of criticism, political opinion, and private circum-

stances ; the most interesting of the latter being the Chancery suit respect- ing the education of his children. Mr. Browning has introduced the letters by a prefatory essay, in which he discusses the difference between the sub- jective and the objective ; applies his ideas on those matters to Shelley's ease ; and takes a very just yet charitable view of his life and opinions.] The Clouds of Aristophanes. The Greek Text, with a Translation into corresponding Metres, and Original Notes. [To translate Aristophanes is an impossibility ; but this translation into cor- responding metres will give the English reader a very good idea of the cele- brated Clouds, and, what is of more importance, may be perused with plea- sure. It is not a mere dryly correct version, but a spirited piece, thou,gh more free and animated in the rhyming parts than the blank verse. The translation is not so lax as Mr. Walsh's ; and while it as distinctly indicates where the original is very. free-spoken, it is not so free in itself. The ver- sion is accompanied by the Greek text and by notes.]

The Coquet-Dale Fishing Songs. Now first collected and edited by a North Country Angler. [A volume of angler's songs, that were chiefly written by a veteran angler of "the North countrie," now defunct, assisted by a friend of the name of Doubleday. To each song is prefixed an account of the circumstances under which it was composed, with some critical remarks from another friend, Night White. The whole is prefaced by a description of the topographical, piscatorial, and natural beauties of Coquet-Dale. The images of the songs are drawn from the district and the art they commemorate; the dialect is perhaps more Scottish than Northumbrian; the style of the songs is alto- gether imitative Scotch.]

The Queen's Court Manuscript ; with other Ancient Bohemian Poems. Translated from the Original Slavonic into English verse. By A. H. Wratislaw, M.A. [The version of these "ancient Bohemian poems " is made from a native translation into modern Bohemian ; so that the preservation of the character of the original in English is problematical. The images and ideas are doubt- less retained, and throw light on the manners of the thirteenth century ; • in which point of view they have an arehreological interest. The style of Mr. Wratislaw is that of the simple old English ballad.]

Our Navigation and Mercantile Marine Laws Considered, with a view to their general Revision and Consolidation ; also an Inquiry into the principal Maritime Institutions. By W. S. Lindsay. [The matter of pamphlets in the form of a good-sized volume. The true subjects of Mr. Lindsay are the complicated nature of our mercantile marine laws and the needless expenses and inconveniences to which the shipowner is still exposed although his protection has been swept away. These true grievances, however, are mixed up with various other matters, which en- cumber the main topics, and diminish the effect of the writer's facts by over- laying them.]

Opinions and Policy of the Eight Honourable Viscount Palmerston, G.C.B., MP., &c., as Minister, Diplomatist, and Statesman, during more than Forty Years of Public Life. With a Memoir, by George Henry Francis, Esq., Editor of " Maxims and Opinions of the Duke of Wellington," &o.

[A selection from the speeches of Lord Palmerston ; beginning with his de- fence of the bombardment of Copenhagen and the seizure of the Danish fleet, in opposition to Mr. Ponsonby's motion of February 1808. The extracts are prefaced by a notice of the ex-Secretary's public life, of no great merit.] History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth till the Over- throw of the French Empire, with particular reference to Mental Cul- tivation and Progress. By F. C. Schlosser. Translated by D. Davison, M.A. Volume VIII.

[The eighth volume of a translation of Schlosser's History, which has been in the course of publication for some years past.] Polonius ; a Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances.

[A selection of opinions and remarks on a variety of subjects from a variety of authors, classed under particular heads. It is judiciously done, but is not quite so remarkable as the compiler's free criticisms on other collections might lead one to expect.] The Solar System; or the Sun, Moon, and Planets. By J. IL Hind. [An endeavour to give a popular descriptive account of our planetary sys- tem, to those who have not time or inclination for "any regular study of the principles of the science."] A Picture-Book for a Noah's Ark; with Descriptions of Two Hundred Animals.

[Intended to accompany the to called "Noah's Ark," and containing easy and brief descriptions of animals.] Wilhelm Tell : a Drama, by Frederick Von Schiller. The Original Ger- man edition ; with a complete Vocabulary. By Feick Lebahn.

Two new editions of the week are of some mark and value ; Mr. Sharpe's "History of Egypt," and the late Hartley Coleridge's "Northern Worthies." " The Human Hand " is the revised edition of a poem published upwards of twenty years ago, before the Bridgewater Treatises appeared. " Homoeopathy in 1851 " is a collection of tracts, pamphlets, or letters, that have appeared during the year in favour of the doctrines of Hahnemann, mostly of a con- troversial nature.

The History of Egypt, from the Earliest Times till the Conquest by the Arabs A.D. 640. By Samuel Sharp. In two volumes. The third edition.

Lives of Northern Worthies. By Hartley Coleridge. Edited by his Brother. A new edition, with the Corrections of the Author, and the Marginal Observations of S. T. Coleridge. In three volumes. The Human Hand, and other Poems. By the Reverend Charles Frederick Watkins, Vicar of Brix worth. Second edition.

Homeopathy in 1851. Edited by J. Rutherfurd Russell, M.D. The Horse; its Varieties, Breeding, and Management. By H. D. Richardson. A new edition, revised and enlarged, by M. M. Milburn. (Richardson's Rural Handbooks..)

PAMPHLETS.

The French in England, &c. Thoughts on National Defence. By Rear-Admiral Bowles. Second edition, corrected and enlarged. Speeches delivered by his Grace the Duke of Newcastle to his Tenantry, at the Rent-audit for Michaelmas 1851.

Words by a Working Man about Education, in a Letter to Lord John Russell.

Memorial regardingg Amendments in the Scottish Poor-law, proposed by Wm. P. Alison, M.D., &c. Revised and adopted by a Committee formed

from the Managers of several Charitable Institutions in Edinburgh. Notes on Ireland and the Land Question. By Vincent Scully,Esq., Q.C. Education the Business of Life ; a Sermon. By the Reverend I. W. Phillott, M.A., Rector of Staunton-on-Wye, Hereford, &c. A Letter to the Council of the Society of Ar;.s, on Elementary Educa- tion in the Arts of Design. F

nYn. By D. R. Hay, .R.&E. On the Union of Hydropathy with Homeopathy. By Leopold Stummes, M.D., at Malvern.