PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
THE tide of publication still runs strong ; and there are not only many publications before us, but many of mark. Of these the principal at-e- l. Mr. LOVER'S Rory OlIore : an excellent story of Irish cha- racter, Irish incident, Irish peasant life, and Irish politics, so far as politics affect time happiness of the masses. Had Parliament permitted, we should gladly have occupied a considerable portion of our columns with a notice of this characteristically humorous work : but no matter, it will keep.
2. Gentleman Jack, by the author of "Cavendish," appears to be the biography of an aristocratical enthusiast bent upon a sea life, and who takes to it in the olden times of severe discipline, hard service, and rapid ratio of mortality from both causes. The hero soon appears to be engaged, if not in the mutiny at the Nore, at least in the fleet at the time, and we suppose goes through the leading events of the war.
3. A first volume of Mr. AUHER'S Rise and Progress of the British Power in India. The official position of the author as Secre- tory to the Court of Directors, has doubtless given him access to the best authorities, and rendered him familiar with many points of his gigantic subject. The specific and business-like character of his book on China, are to us a tolerably sure guarantee for valuable information clearly conveyed. How far he will possess the skilful arrangement, the characteristic narrative, the compre- hensive philosophy, and the nervous eloquence of a great historian, is to be seen.
4. A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands, by JOHN W I LLI AMS, is an account of the adventures and observations of the author during a mission of many years among the less known islands of the vast Polynesian Archipelago. The writer modestly eschews all pretensions to authorship; but, if he has sucessfully fulfilled his own intentions, he will have produced a very singular work, for his object is to present the reader with the impressions which savage life has left upon him—to give, in his own words "a cast of his own mind." From a dip here and there, we think one very curious point will occupy a prominent s
position—the manner in which shrewd but untaught heathen first receive the statements necessary to instruct them in the doctrines of revealed religion.
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