PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

The Essence of Christianity. By Ludwig Feuerbach. Translated from the second German edition, by Marian Evans, Translator of "Strauss's Life of Jesus." (Chapman's Quarterly Series, No. VI.)

The Military Achievements of Field-lfarshal the Duke of Wellington, contrasted with those of Alexander, Pyrrhus, Hannibal, Cmsar, Marl- borough, Napoleon, and other celebrated Commanders. By a Penin- sular and Waterloo Officer, Author of "Military Memoirs of an In- fantry Officer," &c. In two volumes.

Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," &c. With Illustrations. Two volumes.

Temper ; a Tale. By Emilia Marryat, daughter of the late Captain Marryat, Author of "Peter Simple," &c. In three volumes.

The Nations of Russia and Turkey and their Destiny. By Ivan Gob- yin, Author of "The Caucasus." Part II.

[This second part of M. Golovin's work is of a very miscellaneous charac- ter. In addition to brief geographical accounts of many of the peoples or provinces composing Russia and Turkey, and a proposed new constitution for Russia, the book contains what may be called notices of men, institutions, and literature. Anecdotes illustrative of manners are freely intermingled ; some of them of a very scandalous kind, yet not so bad as many which the author is obliged to suppress from a regard to decorum.]

Notes on Spain ; with a special Account of Malaga and its Climate. By Edwin Lee, Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine of "Vienna, &c. Nice and its Climate; with Notices of the Coast from Marseilles to Genoa. By Edwin Lee, Corresponding and Honorary Member of the Medical Academies and Societies of Vienna, &c. Translated from the French, with additional Observations on the Influence of Climate on Pulmonary Consumption.

[Kr. Edwin Lee's account of Nice may be recommended to those who wish a description of the town and its environs, as it is fuller in particulars than works where many places are treated of. The choice of climate in reference to disease is, however, the main characteristic of both books, and there is not much that is new in reference to either country. Mr. Lee considers that Spain should be cautiously recommended to invalids, on account of the absence of society, and all the conveniences that Englishmen are accustomed to. The presence of these things at Nice is what to a great extent induces him to recommend it. Of course the nature of the disease is the great point in all cases of climate.]

The Grammar School Boys ;. a Tale of School-boy Life. By Ms. Bur. bury, Author of "Florence Sackville," &c.

[A story apparently designed to defend grammar schools from the accusations brought against them by educational reformers. But the story really illus- trates the importance of industry, resolution, and honesty, and the punish- ment which finally overtakes trickery and falsehood however artfully carried on. The story is cleverly told, and with dramatic character ; but events are too much bent to forward didactic purposes, as indeed is usually the case with instructive tales.

The Young Poet's Assistant. A few Hints on the Composition of Poetry. By an Old Reviewer. [What could. an "old reviewer" mean by stimulating an artificial creation of verse? Is he utterly without bowels of compassion ? However, his di- rections will not practically go very far towards the snaking of poets. The larger part is a description of what poetry ought to be ; the "hints" being of a very general kind.] The Electric Telegraph of Fun. Edited and Illustrated by Alfred Crow- quill, Author of A Bundle of Crowquills," &o.

[A selection of anecdotes of what the compiler thinks a funny kind : in fact, it is a jest-book.]

The Second German Book : a Syntax and Etymological Vocabulary, with copious Reading Lessons and Exercises. By the late Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A., Rector of Lyndon, and formerly Fel- low of Trinity College, Cambridge, and J. W. Fradersdorff, Phil. Dr., of the Taylor Institute, Oxford.

The great reprint of the week is Mr. Murray's new and enlarged edition of the Life of Bishop Ken, got up in a style of befitting gravity, rather sug- gesting than imitating the old manner of printing. We may return to the work if opportunity offer.

Messrs. Black have sent forth a revised edition of the hints on gardening, by the Reverend Dr. Burgess, originally published in the Gardener's Chro- nicle. They are offered by an amateur to amateurs, of small land and mo- derate means ; and convey much useful information in a pleasant way.

The life of Thomas _Ken, Bishop of Bath and Wells. By a Layman. Parts L and II. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

The Amateur Gardener's Year-Book. A Guide for those who cultivate their own Gardens, in the Principles and Practice of Horticulture. By the Reverend Henry Burgess, LL.D. and Ph. D., Member of the Royal Society of Literature.

Guide to Government Situations. Showing the extent, nature, and value of the Government Civil Patronage at Home and Abroad ; with the manner of its disposal. Tenth edition, revised and enlarged.

Mers.

Atlas of Universal Historical Geography; a Series of upwards of thirty Maps and Plans, embracing the three divisions of Sacred and Classical, Mediveval, and Modern Geography. The whole forming a complete Geographical Chronology, from the period of the Noachic Deluge to that of the General Peace 1815. With a Memoir to each Map. [A not unsuccessful attempt to impress the features of historical geography by the eye, with the accompaniment of explanatory letterpress for those who cannot at once take in the general idea, or who want particulars. The maps begin with the first colonization after the Flood, and come down through ancient, classical, and mediceval history, to the present age. It is a striking and suggestive work ; the apace occupied by all peoples, as well as the changes that tune has brought, impressing the reader as he turns over the pages.

Th i

e style of engraving s quaint, like the mode of getting up the old-new

hooka, now in vogue.]

°over's Two-Shilling Physical Atlas ; comprising eight Maps, engraved on Steel and Lithotixited. With Descriptive Letterpress, by the Editor of the "Atlas of Universal Geography."

[Another useful publication by Mr. Gover. Besides the globe projected on

the horizon of London, so as to show more clearly the proportions of land and water on the globe, there are maps of the Quarters of tho World and the British Isles. These maps not only contain characteristics indications of the different regions,-as the lines of vegetation, Tropical rains, currenta of air and ocean,-but are models of execution. They are accompanied by explanatory letterpress.]

PAMPHLETS.

Dangers to England of the Alliance with the Hen of the Coup d'Etat. To which are added, the Personal Confessions of the December Con- spirators, and some Biographical Notices of the most notorious of them. By Victor Schoelcher, Representative of the People.

The Irish Tenant-Bight Question. By W. Pollard-Urquhart, Esq., M.P.