PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

_Memoirs of Sir Robert Strange; Ent., Engraver, Member of several Foreign Academics of Design ; and of his Brother-in-law, Andrew Luntisden, Private Secretary to the Stuart .Princes, and Author of " The Antiquities of Rome." By James Dennistoun, of Dennistoun. In two volumes.

_Narrative of My Afissions to Constantinople and St. Petersburg, in the years 1829 and 1830. By Baron Muffiing. Translated by David Jar- dine, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law.

.Wanderings in Corsica ; its history and its Heroes. Translated from the German of Ferdinand Gregorovius, by Alexander Muir. Volumes I. and II. (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, Volumes V. and VI.) • -Philosophical Essays. With many new and important Additions. By Dugald Stewart, Ese. Edited by Sir William Hamilton, Bart. (The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart, Esq., F.R.SS., &c. Volume V.) The Bulgarian, the Turk, and the German. By A. A. Paton, Author of "Berrie, the Youngest Member of the European Family."

_English : Past and Present. Five Lectures. By Richard Chenevix Trench, B.D.

Selections from the Records of the Government of India. (Foreign Department) Published by Authority. No. VI. General Report on the Administration of the Punjab Territories, comprising the Punjab Proper and the Cis and Trans-Sutlej States, for the years 1851-52 and 1852-'53.

This Calcutta volume contains a review of the proceedings of Government and the progress of the people in the lately ceded Punjab and the Sutlej States. It is perhaps so far an ex parte account, that the official reporters will naturally make the best of things. Still, the improvement under the more regular government of the British appears evident ; a disposition is as evident on the part of the rulers to regard essentials, and put aside mere formalism when it interferes with work to be done. The subjects handled are political events, changes and improvements in the military defences, criminal and civil justice, revenue, and public works. The reports under all these heads are full of facts, which often throw a light upon the con- dition and character of the people; sometimes they furnish hints as to the management of the business of government in a newly-conquered country, where a good deal must be left to individual discretion. The multifarious nature of the topics successively treated of necessarily induces a brevity which runs into curtness, and, so far as general interest is in question, gives the accounts too much of an official air, considered from a literary point of view.]

A School History of Modern Europe, from the Reformation to the Fall of Napoleon. With Chronological Tables, and Questions for Exami- nation. By John Lord, A.M. [This volume is less a regular history than a series of essays on historical epochs or reigns which have had a decisive influence on the progress of Eu- rope. The author begins with a sketch of the state of European society in the fourteenth century ; then takes up successively as subjects, Luther, Charles the Fifth, and the English Reformation to the accession of Eliza- beth; Henry the Eighth appearing as the principal figure, but neither Ed- ward the Sixth nor Mary being overlooked. In like manner, other distinc- tive subjects of an age—as the Revolution of 1688, or of men who stamped their character upon the age—as Cromwell, Louis the Fourteenth—are handled, down to Napoleon Bonaparte. With the fall of Bonaparte the ex- positional narrative terminates; but an appendix contains a chronological summary to 1854. The divisions are broad and distinctive ; the style clear, if it has not the rhetorical force or brilliancy of some modern historians or essayists : but the work would be improved for pupils if the facts were more numerous and specific. The oldfashioned school-book may have been too full of dry parti- culars to impart interest : there is a tendency now, perhaps, to fall into the other extreme, and lose the specific in generals, not always to be grasped except by persons already acquainted with the subject.]

Landmarks of the History of England. By the Reverend James White. (The 'Useful Library.)

[This work originated in a series of lectures for the author's parishioners and others, delivered at the district Mechanics Institute in the Isle of Wight ; and the mode of the lecture is still preserved. This origin has its advantages and disadvantages. The colloquial form gives ease to the man- ner, life and homely simplicity to the illustrations or enfercements. On the other hand, it induces a familiarity and occasionally a diction unsuited to the theme, with now and then a tone better fitted to the sermon than the historical lecture. Mr. White's book, however, is a readable and rapid summary of English history ; impressing the mind by traits of character in ruling men and classes, rather than by "historical actions." Neither is the condition of the people at large forgotten, or the features of the country at different periods. Mr. White, like Mr. Lord, often overlooks or curtly no- tices particular events.] The Life and Times of Salvator Rosa. By Lady Morgan, Author of " O'Donnel," &c. New edition. [The principal speculation of the week is a new edition of Lady Morgan's writings, beginning with one of the most solid of her works, the "Life of Salvator Rosa." When it first appeared, upwards of thirty years ago, political politics ran higher than they do now. In the life of the fiery painter-poet, calumniated by the serviles of the tyrants of Italy as a man of irregular life and "low " tastes and habits, the writer had an opportunity of infusing into her book her own spirit versus the spirit of the Holy Alliance Time shows that the "Wild Irish Girl" was right in sub- stance, if her manner was somewhat over-vivacious. Compared with modern writers of the rhetorical school, or with modern Milesian orators, Lady Morgan has pith and nerve. Her imagery may be somewhat forced, her sentiment overcharged ; but the images are drawn from nature, her senti- ments are real. There is also the presence of unmistakeable power and spirit, if a little run to seed. The quarto of 1823 now forms a sightly octavo, with the original portrait, and, what is no mean recommendation in this age of expansion, one volume.] The Butterflies of Great Britain, with their Transformations, Delinea- ted and Described. By J. 0. Westwood, Esq., F.L.8., &c.

[The Butterflies of Great Britain is a new edition with additions both of plates and letterpress : and a handsome volume it forma. The beauty and etherial character of the butterfly render it by far the moat striking of the insect tribe. It is also the moat hilarious to capture, and the most attractive to study, whether under the microscope or " waving wide its gladsome wing." Its transformations, if not so attractive to the eye, are stranger to the mind; so strange, that only experience would induce a belief in their possibility; so wonderful, that they furnish one of the strongest illustrations or argu- ments for the resurrection. The person who wishes to study butterflies and their transformations in a book and an easy chair, or to examine the subject for himself in the fields and the cabinet, or merely to possess a handsome volume, cannot do better than procure Mr. Westwood's Buffet:flies of Great Britain.]

O'Byrne's Naval Annual, for 18.55.

[A publication which is useful to all, and indispensable to the naval officer who would have the events of the year at hand in a compact form. In addi- tion to information of a practical kind as an official naval directory, O'Byrne's Naval Annual proposes ter tell the story of the year, with biographical notices of the principal officers employed. In the present volume, there are lists of the Baltic and Black Sea fleets, as well as of the White Sea and Pacific squa- drons ; notices of the professional career of the Admirals and Commanders ; all the Gazettes, and some descriptive extracts,—to which the authority might as well have been affixed, though they seem chiefly from the public journals. There are also accounts of the French, Terkiah, and Russian navies.]

The First-Form Latin Gramtnar, on Analytical Principles. By Ed- ward Baines, M.A., Rector of hluntisharn, Hunts, and formerly Fel- low and Senior Tutor of Christ's College, Cambridge. [This little book was composed by the Senior Cambridge Tutor for his own children, after an unsatisfactory examination of existing elementary gram-

mats. Its principle is that which is called, after the German originators, the " crude form." Its leading feature is the clear and simple account of the reason for the formal or dogmatic rule. The book would be improved, we think;by the insertion of examples of the declension of nouns and the conjugation of verbs, (so far as the early exercises require,) in addition to the illustrative exercises.]

The Principles of Colouring in Painting. By Charles Martel.

[A little pamphlet-volume, seemingly got up with an express view to its practical use by painters themselves, as it is published by Messrs. Winsor and Newton, the artists' colourmen. It is founded on Chevreul's book upon the laws of colour, especially in simultaneous contrast, recently published in an English rendering by Mr. Martel; and is done with discretion, and in a workmanlike style.]

Lays of Love and Heroism ; Legends, Lyrics, and other Poems. By Eleanor Darby, Author of "The Sweet South."

[Lays, Legends, Lyrics, and occasional poems., form the contents of this vo- lume. The verses exhibit a fluency and facility of style, more than a fe- cundity of thought, though the writer is never at a loss ; but there is gene- rally a lack of poetical strength and vigour. The legends are the beat ; and of these the best is "A Prussian Legend,"—the story of a man who ob- tains boundless wealth from the Devil, on condition of never entering "the city of Rome " ; the fiend, however, raises a storm, and drives the Chevalier von Domhardt to take refuge in a country inn with that sign. The tale is told in the style of Ingoldaby or of Hood's grave burlesque.] Soldiers and Sailors in Peace as in War. By Herbert Byng Hall, K.S.F.' late of the 7th Royal Fusiliers, Author of "Spain and the Seat of War in Spain." [.Stories, or shall we say actual facts dressed up to look like stories, descrip- tive of the hardships, risks, and good feeling of the two services. These are told rather diffusely, but with a genial spirit. The profits are to be given to the Patriotic Fund.]

The Drama of Life. • [A number of papers of the class called sketches, chiefly descriptive of French and English life and character.] The Lamp of Love. By Christian Henry Bateman. Second series. [A moral and religious miscellany of prose and verse, designed for young people. It is partly original, and partly selected.] Catalogue of the Museum of London Antiquities, collected by and the property of Charles Roach Smith, Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature, &c.

inherit:an ; a Poem. By George Small, Gunner, Royal Artillery.

The third volume of Dr. Chalmers's " Select Works " commences his Ser- mons ; and the first volume is about as rich a one as could be found in pul- pit oratory. First we have the celebrated Astronomical Discourses, and the Sermons of a kindred character on " the Two Kingdoms." These are fol- lowed by sermons on a subject of even more practical import, the Commer- cial Discourses ; after which come Sermons on Public Occasions. The other new editions explain themselves ; but we may note Bulwer's "Disowned," and Mrs. Hall's " Whiteboy," as copyright books, at once cheap and po- pular.

Sermons. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. Volume L (Select Works of Thomas Chalmers, D.D. LL.D. Edited by his Son-in-law, the Reverend William Hanna, LL.D. Volume The Disowned. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P. (The Railway Library.) The Whiteboy ; a Story of Ireland in 1852. By Mrs. S. C. Hall. Cheap edition. Castle Avon. By the:Author of "Emilia Wyndham," &c. (The Par- lour Library.) One Hundred Sonnets translated after the Italian of .Petrarea ; with Notes, and a Life of Petrareh. By Susan Wollaston. Second edition. Sacred Melodies for Sabbath Schools and Families. Edited by Reverend C. H. Bateman. New and greatly enlarged edition.

MAPS.

New Map of Europe; one large sheet, engraved from the most recent authorities, on the scale of 80 miles to the inch ; coloured with the greatest precision, and accompanied by a map of the telegraphic lines and descriptive letterpress. [A case map, mounted on canvass, containing all that the title promises. The largeness of the scale allows the Russian Empire and the seat of war to be exhibited very distinctly, in particular places as well as in the rela- tive bearings.] Palms.

The Seat of War in the East : from Drawings taken on the spot by William Simpson. (Colnaghi's Authentic Series, Part IL). [This second part demonstrates the great advantage of employing a clever designer ill the transfer of the original drawings to the stone. The first plate, the Charge of the Heavy Cavalry Brigade on the 25th October, has a meagre level effect. The second and third, lithographed by Mr. Morin and Mr. Charles Haghe respectively, and representing the second charge of the Guards when they retook the two-gun battery at Inkerman, and Lord Rag- lan's Head-quarters at Khutor Karagateh, are of much more artistic quality, —doing, however, no more than justice to Mr. Simpson, according. to what we hear reported of the original designs. The subject of the Guards, with which the artist had requested the publishers to be specially particular, has movement and point. The fourth plate, neat and agreeable in tint, is a dis- tant view of Lord Raglan's Head-quarters before Sebastopol. As with the first.part, skeleton plates are issued as a key. They do not, however, al- ways supply as muoh as might be desired : for instance, in the second plate, the two-gun battery, itself not very recognizable, is not pointed out at all on the key. A fifth member of the "Authentic Series," but published separately from Mr. Simpson's works, is a portrait of General Sir De Lacy Evans, after a photograph by Mr. Fenton.]

An Episode of the Battle of the Alma. [Messrs. Colnaghi have the primacy,,,but not the monopoly, of the war-field of art. The large lithograph before us, published by Mr. Welsh, of St. James's Street, represents the exploit of Lieutenants Lindsay and Thistle- thwayte, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, who after a gallant defence, assisted by Captain Drummond, succeeded in planting their colours on the heights. Of average merit as a work of art, this appears to be the production of amateurs ; being stated to be " painted by A. F. De Prades, Esq.," and " lithographed by A. Laby, Esq." ; with what amount of personal or authentic knowledge of the subject, does not appear.] PAMPHLETS.

The War Policy of Commerce. By J. L. The Industrial Capacities of South Wales. By Jelinger Symons, Esq., Barrister- at-law.

Le Chili Considere sow le rapport de son Agriculture et de r Emigration Euro- peenne . Par Benjamin Viguna Mac- kenna, du Chili.

The One Thing Needful.

Ricardo, Esq., M.P. The Earl of Aberdeen.

Agriculture, Past and Present. Being two Introductory Lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh, by John Wilson, F.R.S.E., Professor of Agri- culture in the University of Edinburgh. Remarks on the Right Honourable J. W. Music and Husiciant, (especially Eng- Croker's Review of the Memoirs of lish,) to the Days of Henry Purcell. Thomas Moore, in the Quarterly. By A brief Historical Sketch. By the Nemesis. Reverend Richard Hooper, M.A.