PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Scripture Lands; being a Visit to the Scenes of the Bible. By the Reve- rend W. J. Woodcock, St. Agnes, Nassau, New Providence. The K. and the Countess; a Romance. In three volumes. Owen G sr; or the Prince in Wales. An Historical Romance. In two volumes. A Treatise on Epidemic Cholera. By J. Rutherford Russell, M.D. With an Appendix of Cases treated in the Edinburgh Homoeopathic Dispensary 1848-49, and a Map showing the Course of the Cholera from India to Britain.

A Practical Treatise on Banking. By James. William Gilbert, F.RS., General Manager of the London and Westminster Bank. Fifth edition. In two volumes.

Liaf Mr. Gilbart's various works in connexion with Banks and Banking, his prac- tical treatise has been the most successful, probably from the insight it gives Into the arcane of banking, and its consequent use to men of business or speculation. i originally published in 1827, the book has steadily worked its way up to the fifth edition, and grown from one volume into two. In the present edition, Mr. Gilbert has incorporated matter from some of his other publications, and noticed the facts relating to the late change in currency and banking, without run- ning too much into disquisition, or losing the practical banker in the political economist. The work is useful for its expositions, which are clear and business- like; curious for its unconscious exemplification of banking morals, which seem resolvable into the arithmetical heresy that " number one is the greatest number.")

Description of the Lakes of Killarney, and the Surrounding Scenery

[By [By an arrangement made between the North-western and some other Railway Companies, the tourist may be carried to Killarney and back for 61. in the first class, and 4/. in the second class, with the privilege of travelling free on the branch-lines of the Great Southern and Western Irish Railway Company. This facility of reaching the celebrated Lakes, coupled with the comparative lull of agitation in Ireland and the disturbed state of the Continent, is likely to draw usitants to Ireland, whether the Queen shall go thither or not; and here is a little hand-book for the tourist. Unlike the generality of guide-books, it seems to be written con amore by an amateur, and contains more literature and freedom of manner than such publications usually possess: on the other hand, it wants

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some of that detailed information which if dry is necessary. It would be an im- vement in a new edition to give some account of the route between Dublin and lfillaruey, as well as a little information upon Cork and Bantry Bay. The letter- press is well illustrated by maps.] The Exodus; a Dramatic Poem. In three acts, and in rhyme.

The subject of this dramatic poem is the later miracles of Moses in Egypt and the destruction of Pharaoh and his host ; the usual kind of interest being sought for by making the chief Egyptian priest in love with Miriam. There is little dramatic art in the structure; description and discourse superseding action. The piece is written in rhyme, avowedly after the practice of Racine and the old French school. The author's imitation, however, passes beyond a mode of verse. The whole plan and style belong to another time, reminding the reader of the artifi cial tragedies of the days of Louis the Vourteenth and Queen Anne: and the change is really not without attraction ; at least it is more attractive than our haclmied imitations of the Elizabethan age.]

The Burger and Brighton Leonora; or Romance versus Railway. Dedi- cated, by permission, to all Desperate Daughters. By J. W. Warre Tyn- dale. Illustrated by K. A. Drake.

[A translation of Burger's ballad, with a travestie, in which Leonora is repre- sented by a Brighton belle, the spectre lover by a ward of the lady's father, who also, with the mother, appears m the piece. The distress is caused by a fa- voured swain not being invited " to call," and by a contrived elopement, when the father in disguise takes the part of the lover. The book is handsomely got up, and illustrated by coloured cuts; but the jeu d'esprit is scarcely happy enough to require such a rich garb.]

The Closing Years of Dean Swift's Life; with Remarks on Stella, and on some of his Writings hitherto unnoticed. By W. R. Wilde, M.R.LA., &c. Second edition, revised and enlarged. [We should hardly have supposed so much interest attached to Swift, as the rapid exhaustion of a first edition of Mr. Wilde's painstaking and ingenious essay im- plies: but the mystery attached to the Dean's connexion with Stella and Va- nessa' and the sympathy always connected with mental affections, may partly ac- count for it. The publication of the essay has been the means of placing further materials at Mr. Wilde's command; some of which he has incorporated in this edition.] The Nemesis of Faith. By J. A. Fronde, MA., late Fellow of Exeter Col- lege, Oxford. Second edition. [A new preface is prefixed to this edition; in which Mr. Fronde defends the moral object which he professes to inculcate by his work, endeavours to justify his representation of the mischief that the conventional hypocrisies of so- ciety inflict upon speculative minds with quick perception but infirm purpose, and reiterates the theological opinions that raised such an outcry on the first appearance of The Nemesis of Faith.] The Communion Table, or Communicant's Manual: a plain and practical

Exposition of the Lord's Supper. By the Reverend John Cumming, D.D., Minister of the Scottish National Church, Crown Court, Covent Garden. [Ten essays which would stand very well as sermons on the communion, and sub- jects connected with it or springing out of it. The literary merit is above the average, and the views are soundly Protestant.]

Glasgow Botanic Garden; or a Popular Guide to the Botanic Garden of Glasgow. [A good guide to a place of public ornament and utility, folly illustrated by cuts.] Popular Fallacies regarding General Interests; being a Translation of the 'Sophismes Economiques," by M. Frederick Bastiat, Member of the Insti- tute of France. With Notes, by G. R. Porter, F.R.S.

[A species of additional volume to the Parlour Library of Instruction, at the same low price.]

PAMPHLETS.

Sicily and England. A Sketch of Events in Sicily in 1812 and 1848. Il- lustrated by Vouchers and State Papers. Highland Destitution. Second Report of the Edinburgh Section of the Cen- tral Board for the Relief of Destitution in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland, for 1849. The "Royal Etchings." A Statement of Facts, &c. By Jasper Tomsett Judge. A Summary of the chief Arguments for and against Marriage with a Dece, Wifes Sister.

The Fifth Annual Repea of the Ragged School Union, &c. Lectures on the Actual Condition of the Metropolitan Grave-yards. By

George Alfred Walker, Surgeon, &c.

Observations on London Milk, &c. By IL Hodson Rugg, M.RC.S., &o. Hints to Emigrants, &e. By the Reverend D. R. Thomason, Secretary to the Philadelphia Emigrants' Friend Society. A Practical Method for the Extinction of Pauperism and Poor-Rates, &c. By J. H. Hodson. The Manuscript of the Middle Ages, and the Printed Book of Modern Times; a Lectors delivered by Mr. S. Treleaven, before the Members of the Exeter Literary Society, at the Athenmum, 23d March 1849. The Study of the Greek and Roman Classics, Considered in relation to the Duties of Elementary Teachers. A Paper read before the Quarterly AIM- elation of British Teachers, 3d February 1849. By Joshua G. Fitch.