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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boo's.

William Penn ; an Historical Biography. With an extra Chapter on • "The Macaulay Charges." By William Hepworth Dixon, Author of "Life of Howard." With a Portrait.

Italy in 1848. By L. Mariotti.

Local 'Self-Government and Centralization : the Characteristics of each, and its Practical Tendencies as affecting Social, Moral, and Political Welfare and Progress. Including Comprehensive Outlines of the Eng- lish Constitution. With copious Index. By J. Tou]min Smith, Esq., Barrister-at-law.

Recollections of a Rifleman's Wife at Home and Abroad. By Mrs. Fitz Maurice.

The Chronicle of Battel Abbey, from 1066 to 1176. Now first trans- lated, with Notes, and an Abstract of the subsequent History of the establishment, by Mark Antony Lower M.A., Member of the Societies of Antiquaries of Normandy and of America, &c.

The Middle Night.

Yeast : a Problem. Reprinted, with corrections and additions, from Fraser's Magazine.

Verses of Prectioin and Lyrics of love. By T. Gerald Massey, Work- ing Man.

[These poems by a working man would have been better had they been worse ; with less mechanical merit—more ruggedness in the execution. The ideas are of the Chartist school, perhaps a shade beyond it; and the expression of such ideas is often Red Republican enough ; but the general style—the mind of the book—is imitative. Mr. Gerald Massey writes be- cause he has read poetry, not because he has felt it. In a few pieces the style harmonizes better with the ideas, especially "Hope on, Hope even" ; but as yet Mr. Massey rather writes rhetoric in verse than poetry.]

Musgrave, a Story of GiLsland Spa ; and other Tales. By Mrs. Gordon,

Author of " Kingsconnell," &c. In two volumes. [Four tales or legends descriptive of English and Scottish country life or superstition with sufficient story to give an interest to the accessory or sub- ordinate material. The style is elegant, the writer's acquaintance with the life she undertakes to describe considerable, and the tales cleverly told, with a sprinkling of humour • but her manner is rather conventional : the book wants that novelty which arises from an original mind looking at fresh sub- jects. Mrs. Gordon, by the by; has perpetrated an Episcopal aggression : she ignores the Presbyterian Kirk, and calls the Episcopal the Church of Scotland.]

2'he Statutes and parts of Statutes of the Session of Parliament 1850 (13 and 14 Victoria) relating to Magistrates, Parochial and Muni- cipal Law; with Introduction, Notes, and copious Index. By Adam Bittleston and Edward W. Cox, Esqrs., Barristers-at-law. [A magistrate's and parish-officer's " annual" ; containing such acts or parts of acts of the session as relate to their function, with brief explanatory notes. It is the second year.] Ellen Vans; or the Tale of a Day. By J. hf.

[A slight affair.]

By far the most numerous books of the week are new editions, continua- tions, &c. Foremost among them are Mr. Charles Knight's collected parts of his "National Edition of Shakspere " ; forming a sightly volume "fit for any company," and containing seven comedies. Entitled to equal rank is the Literal Translation of "The Iliad," in prose, by Mr. Buckley, included in Mr. Bohn's Classical Library. Something of harshness may occur occasionally in the inversions, literally adhered to, but the meaning and even the manner of Homer will be better got at than from translations in verse. Good effect from exact metaphrase is more possible with Homer than with any other poet, as Johnson has remarked-- 'The massy trunk of sentiment is safe by its solidity, but the blossoms of elocution easily drop away I have read of a man who, being by his ignorance of Greek compelled to gratify his curiosity with the Latin printed on the opposite page, declared that from the rude simplicity of the lines literally rendered, he formed nobler ideas of the Homeric majesty than from the laboured elegance of the most polished versions." This edition will be found alike useful as a companion for the study of the original or the perusal of Pope's version. It has brief notes. Mr. Lane's " Life at the Water Cure, with additional matter in the form of an olla of extracts of all sorts, followed by Sir Bulwer Lytton's "Confessions of a Water Patient," is chiefly remarkable for its cheapness and style ; a neat volume for eighteenpence. "Night and Morning," and "The Pilgrims of the Rhine," form two well-looking volumes of the cheap editions of the author's works. The other new editions tell their story in the title.

The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of lVilliam Shakspere. Edited by Charles Knight. The National Edition. Comedies. Vo- lume I.

The Iliad of Homer, literally translated, with Explanatory Notes. By Theodore Alois Buckley, B.A., of Christ Church. (Bohn's Classical Library.) Life at the Water Cure, or a Month at Malvern ; a Diary, by R. J. Lane, A.E., LA.; with the Sequel and Confessions of a Water- Patient, by Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart. Night and Morning. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. With a Frontispiece by Hablot K. Browne. The Pilgrims of the Rhine. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. With a Frontispiece by Birket Foster. General History of the Christian Religion and Church. Translated from the German of Dr. Augustus Neander, by Joseph Torrey. New edition, carefully revised, by the Reverend A. J. W. Morrison, B.A. Volume II. (Bohn's Standard Library)

Chemistry of the Four Ancient Elements, Fire, Air, Earth, and Water : an Essay founded upon Lectures delivered before her Most Gracious

Majesty the Queen. By Thomas Griffiths. Second edition. The Bromsgrove Latin Grammar. Third edition.

Monk; or the Fall of the Republic and the Restoration of the Monarchy in England, in 1660. By M. Guizot. Translated from the French, by Andrew R. Scoble. (Bohn's Shilling Series.) SERIAL.

Cautions for the Times. Addressed to the Parishioners of a Parish in England, by their former Rector. Nos. I to V. [A series of cheap tracts, the publication of which has been induced by the excitement on the "Papal Aggression." The first number recommends agi- tative and legislative quiescence on the Papal attempt ; because the truths of religion must be maintained by argument, not by law. But if not begging the question, this is treating it imperfectly ; since other topics than re religious truth are involved in the matter of the "Papal 'Aggression." As soon as the Cautions are fairly removed from politics to theology, they improve. There is, indeed, little that is new in their exposures of the falla- cies and frauds of Romayism—how could there be ? but the style is easy and English, the argument closely and plainly put in the mode of the time, the feeling liberal and genial. In a critical point of view their philosophy and moderation is a merit ; whether something more piquant and forcible would not be better adapted for popularity, is a question.]

PAMPHLETS.

Historical and Practical Remarks on the Papal Aggression. By the Author of "Plain Sermons on the Holy Sacraments and Services," &c. Notes of Some Conclusions arrived at 15th-25th January 1851, in several anferenees between certain Roman Catholic Priests and a Queen's Counsel. Edited by Charles Purton Cooper, Esq. Third edition.

The Government and the Irish Roman Catholic Members. Second edi- tion.

The New Penal Law Considered in its bearing upon Scotland; or two Letters addressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Arundel and Surrey. By the Right Reverend Bishop Gillis. An Appeal to the Archbishops and Bislwps of the United Church of England and Ireland. In two Letters by Presbyter Anglicanus. Reprinted, by request, from the Morning Post. The Huntyng and Fynding out of the Romish Fox, &c. Written by William Turner, Doctour of Physicke, &c. Amended and curtailed, with a short Account of the Author prefixed, by Robert Potts, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge. The Legend of Saint Peter's Chair. By Anthony Rich junior, B.A. Orations by Father Gaval:zi. Christian Socialism and its Opponents; a Lecture delivered at the Office of the Society for Promoting Working Men's Associations, 76 Char- lotte Street, Fitzroy Square. By J. M. Ludlow, Esq., Barrister-at- law. A Few Words on Indian Affairs, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell. By John Sullivan, Esq. Ceylon, and the Government of Lord Torrington ; containing a Correc- tion of the Errors in an Article in the Quarterly Review for Decem- ber 1850, entitled " The Mysteries of Ceylon. Thoughts on the Principles of Taxation, with reference to a Property- Tax, and its Exceptions. 'By Charles Babbage, Esq. Second edition, with additions.

Statistics of British Commerce. Intended as a Compendium of the Pro- duction, Manufacture, Imports and Exports, of the Traffic of the United Kingdon, in Agriculture, Minerals, . Merchandise, &c. By Braithwaite Poole, Esq. Part I. Adjustment of Taxation ; an Essay. By Elio.

Lord John Russell. Historical Notice of the Progress of the Ordnance Survey in Scotland. By Alexander Keith Johnston, Esq, F.R.S.E., &e. .(Extracted from the Proceedings of the Royal Society.)

An Essay explanatory of the Tempest Prognosticator, in the Building of the Great Exhibition for the Works of Industry of All Nations. Read before the Whitby Philosophical Society, February 27th 1851. By George-11erryweather, 11.D., Whitby, the Designer and Inventor. A Catalogue of Books published in the United Kingdom during the Year 1850, &c.

Supplement to .Dr. Herbert Mayo's Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions.