PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Selections from the Despatches and General Orders of Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington. By Lieutenant-Colonel GURWOOD, Esquire to his Grace as Knight of the Bath.

A Narrative of the March and Operations of the Army of the Indus its the Expedition to Afghanistan, in the years 1838-1839. Illustrated by a map, views of Candahar, Ghoznee and Cabool, and various tables. Comprising also the History of the booranee Empire, from its foun- dation to the present time. By Major W. HOUGH, Forty-eighth Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, &a ; Author of "Practice of Courts Martial," etc.

Alice, or the Rye-House Plot; a Dramatic Legend of the Turf; in three acts. By Wittier.' PARR ISAACSON, of Newmarket. [This is altogether a sporting drama : written by a sporting man, on a sporting subject, played and published at a sporting place, and the profits to be devoted to a sporting purpose—the "Newmarket Town Racing Fund." The title of the "Rye-House Plot" indicates the scene and characters ; but the story turns much less upon the real conspiracy against Charles the Second, than upon the loyalty, love, and danger of Alice, a Newmarket maiden, who defeats the object of the conspirators, though by so doing she risks her life, and is only rescued by a coup de thilitre. Racing is mixed up with politics and love, in the first two acts, m the manner of a man who thinks it quite as important as either of these pursuits or passions; and though the piece has no pretension to poetry, art, or dramatic spirit, it has a simplicity of conduct and discourse, with a bustle of exits andontrances, that we dare say might render it bearable enough to is jockey audience at Neivinark.et, alive to the tricks of the turf, and to the effect which might be produced on the movements of a royal brother—by poisoning his "winning horse."] Pocahontas, and other Poems. By Mrs. L. H. SIGOURNEY. Poems, Religious and Elegiac. By Mrs,. L. H. SIGOURNEY. [These two neat volumes contain a selection from the poems of the American Mrs. Smointimir; the classification adopted relating more to the nature of the titles than to any particular distinction in their imagery or verse. And, sooth to say, the productions scarcely admitted of any other arrangement.. With a fluent style, a musical ear, and an elegant taste, Mrs. ,Sinonassy is devoid of raciness in her own mind, and wauts the depth and keenness of per- ception to detect the raciness of her own aubjects. Instead of varying her style with her themes, she bends her themes to the uniformity of her style; and allows her facility of versification to tempt her into such diffusiveness, that the prose narrative of the incident she selects as the groundwork of her poem is sometimes more effective than-the poem itself. The admiration and imitation of Mrs. 'Unisys has been deeply injurious to the American taste ; but as very many admire the English poetess, we may say that Mrs. SIGOURNEY is an alter ident—an American Hawke&

This opinion is to be applied generally : there are a few poems where.the incident itself, or some peculiar fitness between the writer and the subject, enables Mrs. SIGOURNEY to reach a high degree of tender beauty.]

The Poems and Plays of James Thomson. (Smith's Standard Library.) The Linwoods ; or Sixty Years since in America. By Miss SEDGW1014 Author of " Home," &c. (Smith's Standard Library.) Tales by the Reverend Crabbe LL.B. (Smith's Standard Library.) [Of these additions to" Smith's Standard Library," Tsiousori's Poems and Plays may-be-recommended as the only complete edition of the writer which is now readily attainable; containing, in addition to his tragedies and masque, the poems of" Britannia" and " -Liberty." The Linwoods is one of the beat of Miss SEDGWICK'S novels ; and by far the best picture of genuine old Ame- rican manners, both in the yeomen and the gentry, that the reader can peruse. Of Citaansz's Borough it is needless to speak.] Comic Tales and Sketches. Edited and Illustrated by Mr. MICHAEL ANGELO Tirmansn, Author of "The Paris Sketch-Book," &c. lit two vole.

[The " Yellowplush Papers," which form the first and best volume of this col- lection of magazine articles, contain one of the cleverest stories of the "dia- mond-cut-diamond" that have enlivened the scoundrel chronicles of the day; and the flunky's orthography ludicrously heightens the sarcastic style of the narrative : often as bad spelling has been pressed into their service by comic writers, it has never been more amusingly employed than by Yellowplush ; and his editor, Mr. TITMARSH, is too good a judge of effect to alter a letter. " Major Gahagan " is an Irish fire-eater, with a strong dash of Muuchausen; whose adventures, though not humourless, are merely monstrous ex- aggerations without regard to consistency. The other extravaganzas are marked by the broad, grotesque description, and caustic, cynical humour, that characterize Yellowplush : but one soon wearies of scenes and incidents where tricksters and dupes figure in all the phases of scoundrelism, and you only see the seamy side of society. The aquatint sketches of Mr. TITMARSH are racy in their drollery : he hits off character in a look, and there is no mistaking his meaning.] Regulus, the Noblest .Rosenn of them All; a Tragedy, in five acts. By JACOB JONES, Esq., Barrister-at-Law, Author of "Spartacus," &c. Deutsche Arnaranten ; a Selection of masterpieces, in prose and verse, by the most esteemed and popular German Authors. By WILHELM KLAUER-KLATTOWSKI, of Schwerin in Mecklenburgh.

[This is the best selected and arranged work of the kind we have seen. The selections are good in themselves, characteristic of their respective authors, and collectively characteristic of German literature. They are also arranged in a manner that implies both taste and intelligence in the editor : the book is a piece of literary mosaic, so skilfully arranged that it leaves a pleasing and useful impression on the mind. We can recommend Deutsche Arnaranten as a useful text-book for students of German, and as a collection which any one may read with pleasure and advantage.] Eutropii Breviarum Historic Romance; with a summary, a complete dictionary, and an index of proper names. [4-neat and useful addition of this much-used abbreviator of Roman His- tory; containing an argument or summary of each book in English, and a

complete vocabulary of the words met with, which not only saves the expense of a dictionary till the pupil is better able to use one' but, by presenting him with only one or two meanings to a word, saves him from the puzzles which many definitions inflict upon the young construer.] An Elementary History of Rome. By THOMAS KEIGHTLEY, Author of "The History of Greece," &c. [Another of the indefatigable Mr. KEIGHTLEY'S historical publications, and a very useful one for children. It tells in a brief, spirited, and interesting man- ner, the story of Roman History from Eneas to the accession of Augustus.] Observations on the Formation and Adaptation of Public Buildings and Apartments to the laws which regulate the formation and propagation of Sound, as consistent with the economy of Speech. By Wu,Ltais SHAND, Esq. [The republication of a paper read at the last meeting of the British Associa- tion. The arrangement and style of Mr. SHAND are not particularly lucid or attractive, but the principle he promulgates is important and deserving of in- vestigation—that sound depends less upon the form of a room than upon the materials of which it is constructed; solid, hard, dull, and hollow bodies, having in different circumstances a beneficial or injurious effect upon the vibrations of the air.] Practical Astronomy for the Unlearned. With numerous engravings. By the Reverend GEORGE JEANS, ELA.,Pembroke College, Oxford,&c. [This work was originally planned as a series of lectures to be delivered for the

Louth Astronomical Society ; but " circumstances " preventing the fulfilment of this intention, the author has revised and published his labours. Though bearing traces of having been originally designed for oral delivery, it is perhaps better adapted for private perusal than to fix the attention of a mixed audience;

for Mr. JEANS is pleasant, but not rapid or striking. There is a misnomer in the title, which he puts upon his publisher ; for he principally handles, not

astronomy, but telescopes, their principles, mode of manufacture, and manner of using—not, in short, the subject, but the tools by which the subject can be made available.]

Progressive Geography. By WILLIAM STEVEN, D.D., &c.

[This little work has two features—the fulness of its particular information, names of places filling almost every page ; and the maps contained within itself, which, though of necessity small, are beautifully clear, and are designed to be studied in conjunction with the text. By means of this double course of learning properly carried out, the forms of countries, with the names and positions of the places they contain, will be imprinted on the mind of the pupil. Without it, we should suspect that the work is too good—too made up of essences for little digestions.]

The Resources of Australia; and the prospects and capabilities of the New Settlements, with a special notice of Port Phillip, and Remarks on the

Internal Government of New South Wales : the whole comprising infor- mation essential to emigrants, being the result of fourteen years expe- rience of an Australian Colonist.

[The author of this publication states that he has spent "upwards of fourteen years as a settler in the wilderness of Australia." He must therefore, we pre-

sume, have a competent knowledge of Colonial life, and have picked up A good

many practical facts useful to the intending emigrants. Unluckily, however, be 'prefers to tell what be thinks, rather than what he has seen ; and as his powers of thought are not of the highest, his lucubrations have a very limited value. The best point which he makes, amidst a mass of generalities, is the fitness of New Holland for a pastoral country, and the little probability that it will ever be available for agriculture. This, indeed, is not very new, any snore than the conclusion he draws from it—that the price of land is much too high in South Australia ever to pay for grazing purposes.] The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections. Compiled by H. S. Surrn.

CA compact record of the statistics of election-struggles in counties and bo- roughs for upwards of a century past—we lighted upon a date as far back as 1678—arranged alphabetically, under each of the four beads, English, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish : the names of the unsuccessful candidates are printed in Italics; the plumpers are in many cases distinguished from the split votes; the occasion of the election is sometimes mentioned; and the politics (where they are ascertained) and colours of the candidates, with other incidental de- tails, are given. In part of the volume the uncontested elections since the Reform Bill are inserted ; a course to be in all cases followed in future editions. The information thus clearly set forth is made as complete as pos- sible; but the compiler, aware of many inaccuracies that he had no means of correcting, solicits communications of facts, to enable him to revise the tables. He deserves this assistance; for his plan is excellent, combining brevity with the utmost distinctness and neatness.]

The Parliamentary Pocket Companion, for 1841, (ninth year); including a compendious Peerage. By CHARLES R. DODD, Esq., Author of" The Peerage, Baronetage, Knightage," &c.

[This indispensable guide to both Houses of Parliament is corrected to the present time, comprising every change in the House of Commons to the exiat- mg vacancy for Nottingham.]

Supplement to the Second Edition of British History Chronologically Arranged, from the first invasion by the Romans to the accession of Queen VICTORIA. By Joon WADE, Vice-President and Member of the Historical Section of the Institut d'Afrique of Paris. [This supplement to Mr. WADE'S valuable and useful chronology of facts in British History, consists of tables of contemporary sovereigns from the time of Egbert to the present reign ; and of the relative value of gold and silver money in this country at different periods; lists of treaties between European nations, from the fourteenth century ; of geographical discoveries by Europeans, and of remarkable public works in England; and an alphabetical account of the pro- gress of legislation and taxation.] The Golden Rules of Life' selected from the Works of the best Authors, Ancient and Modern. By the Author of "A. Voice from the Poison Palaces." Fourth edition.

SERIALS.

Ma.rwdrs Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington, Part XII.

[This part completes Mr. MAXWELL'S military of the Duke of Welling- ton ; bringing down the narrative to the battle of Waterloo, ancIthe occupation of Paris; where he stops, to escape the taking-off of NET. The part opens with the battle of Toulouse, but the greatest part of it consists of the campaign of Waterloo.]

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Philip II. of Spain and Henry of England. By Sir ANTONIO Mon. G. P. HARDENG, del. ; JOSEPH 'liming, sculpsit. [This print, with its accompanying description, is the first of a series of rare and curious historical portraits, for the publication of which the "Granger Society" was formed ; and its execution is very creditable to all parties con-. cerned. The original picture is at Woburn Abbey, and represents Queen. Mary seated in a chair under a canopy of state, and her young husband standing before her, in front of his chair. The feeble character and dreamy look of Philip are strongly contrasted by the masculine vigour and determina- tion of Mary ; whose capacious and prominent forehead denotes a powerful ta- tellect. The rich costumes and the furniture of the apartment are elaborately set forth ; and from the window a view of Old St. Paul's is seen.] A Series of Anatomical Plates, Fasciculi LXXXVII. and LXXXVILI. etallic Engravings in Relief, for letterpress printing ; being a greatly improved substitute for wood-engravings, called Acrography. By ttta Inventor, Louis SCHoNBERG.

PAMPHLETS.

" What will the Irish Lords do?" A Letter to the Earl of Listowel, M.P. for St. Alban's, one of the Lords of the Bedchamber to her Ma- jesty. By "A Joint of the Tail."

Incompetency of Dr. Henderson as an Umpire on the Philology of the word Baptism, proved from the unsoundness said extravagance of the princi- ples of interpretation implied in his Letter to Mr. Brandram with re- ference to that question. By ALEXANDER Casson, A.M.

Refutation of the Assertions of Sir Howard Douglas, in his Despatch of the 10th April 1840, concerning the Faction which he imagined to exist in the Ionian Islands, addressed to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Secretary for the Colonies to her Britannic Majesty. By GIO- VANN/ PETRIZZOPOLO.

Observations on Railway Monopolies, and Remedial Measures. By ALIX ANDER GORDON, Mem. Inst. of C. Engineers.