PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Prom February Ism to February 20th.

Books.

Egypt under Mehemet Ali. By Prince Puckler Muskau. Translated from the German by H. Evans Lloyd, Esq. In two volumes. Volume II. Narrative of the United States Exploring Ezpedition, during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. By Cherie,' Wilkes, U.S.N., Commander of the Expedition, Sm. In five volumes, and an Atlas. Atlas.

The Goldmakers' Village. Translated from the German of H. Zschokke. ["Another, and another, and another." The Goldmakers' Village is an im- portation from Young Germany; though the pure Saxon ideas of social reform take a more humble and practical, or at least hard-working shape, than those of our British breed. Oswald, the hero of the tale, confines his efforts to his native village, and puts his own hand to the plough by turning village-schoolmaster, parish-officer, and mystic adviser to the villagers, who believe him to deal with the Devil. However, what by teaching the young, managing the parish affairs, and promising boundless wealth after a persistence in a certain course of good con- duct for "seven years and seven weeks, '(which leads to the same result as the fable of the old man and his buried treasure,) Oswald restores prosperity to the Golden Valley. How far the details by which this miracle is accomplished may be probable, or generally possible in German villages, we do not undertake to decide—they look very like the schemes with ever prosperous endings that figure in our didactic fic- tions both for old and young. The tale is curious, however, for the different social q-Mime it indicates, the character of the evils it would remedy, and the remedies themselves. The society is primitively agricultural, where each man has his own bit of greund--or had tall he pledged it; the Mak evils are the vices of the poor ; their idleness, dirt, and drunkenness—the last encouraged by the parish-officers, who keep publics. In The Goldmakers' Village there is no assault upon the rich, or the towns, or the manufacturing system: the reform is to be individual, personal So far from attacking Malthus, Z,schokke is a disciple—at least pau- pers are forbidden to marry under the new regime; and instead of railing at the work-house and its test, the reformers of the Golden Valley improve upon it. They turn their poor-house into a new bastile, and clap the paupers into it, noksts miens; syllogistically defending the deed. "The principle on which the Overseers thus assumed the right of disposing of the poor and separating them from their children, was this= Whoever is not in a situation to support himself, and has no one to depend upon, must be supported by the parish; and whoever is supported by the parish is under its control and superintendence until they are enabled to provide for their own subsistence. This is but just and right.'" The caw-trait which Young Germany and Young England have in common is that each looks to the Church, but not to its older ministers. The German, however, is much more narrow in his expectations from this source than the Englishman.]

"Efforts" and A drentures of Roby Rattler, Gent.

[This bulky-adore of more than six hundred pages is an imitation of the style of the periodical novel, which Boa and Lever have made popular; for the text is Illustrated by cuts something like theirs, and the entire volume has the same appearance as their completed books. The intellectual model of this writer is chiefly Lever; hie• eFtoek consisting of tavern-scenes, the taxer portion of society, roguish lawyers, swindling adventmors,, efforts to cheat the rightful heir out of his estate, and the other means by which a " cut-along " series of inci- dents are spun out till the end. Who is the hero of this farrago is not worth while to inquire. The most laboured and conspicuous personage is one Floss. In England he is a super-ingenious swindler; in New South 'Wales, a codoint Julius Omar and Begarn fannroo in a small wary,—heading bushrangers, bafiling the Government, burying-victims alive, and numerous other atrocities, which are wound. up by his own crucifixion, detailed through nine pages. As a series of stirriisr scenes representing life, even in the extravagant mode of this school, .Raby Ratt., is far inferior to any of ite models; and the word-spinning redun- dmey of the author mars the-effect of his conceptions such as they are. He is not devoid of a certain forced kind of power. The chace of Floss by the bush- rangers whom he is about to betray, with dingoes (Native dogs) and Native trackers, is done with an almost fascinating effect; and parts of Floss's creel- Sidon may challenge the same praise. Both, however, are mjured by the writer's redundancy, and a blilesian straining after force. The death, or dying rather of Floss, is pursued to a minuteness which is at once tedious and disgusting.]

The Antiqvswien and Architectural Year-Book, for 1845.

[The object of this publication is to include in an annual volume such contribu- tions on British antiquities and the progress of architecture in this country as used formerly to appear in the Gentleman's Magazine. Each volume is intended to record the researches made in the previous year, and to describe the new churches built and what restorations there have been of old ones; and to include miscellaneous communications of antiquaries, architects, and amateurs. The papers in the present volume are arranged under the heads of" Primeval Anti- qiuries," by which are meant Roman and Druidical remains; "Medieval Antiquities"; "Ecclesiastical Archibecture " ; and "Bibliography," which last is a re- view of books on cognate subjects. Those on Spires and Towers, Stained Glass and Encaustic Tiles, contain some useful information and good criticism on these subjects: bat points are mooted rather than settled.] The Midshipman's Friend; or Eats for the Cockpit. By Arthur Parry Eardley- ihnot, Lieutenant Royal Navy.. [This. publication consists of three main divisions. The first gives nautical directions respecting the management of a ship, chiefly in reference to operations connected with sailmg. The second embraces a variety of advice to the Middy. that is and the Captain that is to be, incidentally involving an exposition of Mr. Eardley-Wilmot's views of the-economy and management of the service. The third considers flogging and impressment; the naval officer pronouncing that the power of flogging must be retained, and suggesting the establishment of naval barracks, or, as Young England would say, monasteries, where Jack might be boarded and lodged, and employed in jobbing about the docks and harbour till wanted. Lieutenant Eardley-Wilmoes opinions are of the preserving kind. He improves upon Cassio's idea that "the Lieutenant must be saved before tler Ancient "—he would not even give him a chance. Only gentlemen born and bred should be permitted to enter the Navy, unless as Jacks.]

The Histcrry of the Rabbis, the Ribs, and the Rabs; with an Account of the Trinity Brethren, or Rabbi-a-labs, and a short notice of the Rubs. By Grotius Gdlipotius, Historiographer to the Royal Colleges.

[An allegorical jen d'esprit on the present differences in the medical profession, excited, or rather perhaps drawn to a head, by Sir James Graham's Bill. The author is familiar with the subject of his theme, and has some learning and humour: but his allegory so obscures the points of his history, that we suspect his hits will only tell with the profession.] The Christian's Economy of Bunion Life. By the Author of " Floreston, or the New Lord of the .nor."

[In externals—size, arrangement, and mode of composition—this little book is an imitation of Dodsley's Economy .of Human Life. The subject of Christian duty gives something of variety to its Ideas; but that is all. Neither the morality nor the theology is very new; and the mere peculiarity of an imitative Oriental man- ner and an affectedly sententious style only attracts in the original]

SERIALS

The Cid ; a short Chronicle, founded on the early Poetry of Spain. By George Dennis. (Knight's iVeekly Volume.)

[The story of the Cid, deduced from the ballad poetry of Spain, and one or two Chroniclers; told in a mixture of prose and verse, the latter of course a version of the ballads. It is a revised and improved reprint of a series of papers that origi- nally appeared in the Penny Magazine, with an introduction on the ballad poetry of Spam.]

Stray Leaves from the Getman; or Select Essays from Zschekke. Trans- lated by the Reverend W. B. Flower, BA., &c. No I.

ILLuirraxran Woreks AND Plums.

Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels. Volume VII.

[Contains The Fortunes of Nigel and Peveril of the Peak. The illustrations of this volume are rich in interest and character. They include many very curious and authentic views of Old London, as it appeared in the reigns of James the First and Charles the Second; showing the Palaces at Whitehall and St. James's, Greenwich and the Tower, the castles and mansions of the nobility, and the streets at those periods, peopled with figures in appropriate costumes. Holler's minute etchings have been converted into live .pictures, and big° Jones's design for a Royal Palace, of which the Banquetinrhouse at Whitehall is but a frag- ment, reappears in its full magnificence. There are numerous portraits of re- markable personages who lived- in those times; and some poetical designs by Mulready and Gilbert, superior in point of character and dramatic force to most that have appeared before.]

MAPS.

Wykl's Railroad Map of England and Wales.

[A well-timed and serviceable outline map; showing the existing railroads, the new lines favourably reported on by the Board of 1 rade' i and those not counte- nanced by Government. The indications of the three classes are so marked that each is perceived at a glance.]