PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

Adventures and Recollections of alone: Landmann, late of the Corps of Royal Engineers. In two volumes.

Louisa. From the German of Voss. By James Cochrane, Translator of "Herman and Dorothea."

If simplicity is to be deemed the highest merit of a poem, Toss's Louisa has it in perfection. A birthday party, a visit, a wedding, and the festivities which follow, are the subjects of the piece : and they would be well enough if they were not wiredrawn in treatment, and pervaded by a mixture of Ger- man sentiment and small-beer. The commonest details of common life are presented in a style of mawkish domesticity and overdone kindliness, which would be insufferable if it were not ludicrous. This speech of the pastor, after the birthday dinner, -is a specimen of what we are called upon to re- ceive as poetry- " But interrupted the father, expressing himself with decision : ' Needless apologies these. Was the ground-rice pudding mismanaged ? Verily, no. Was the sauce that belonged to it vapid or tasteless?

Were not the pears new pulled, and the carrots like sugar for sweetness ? And what was wrong with the ham, and the dried goose-breast. and the herring? What with the young roast lamb, and the salad so cooling and wholesome? Was not the vinegar sharp? and the oil of Provence, was it rancid ? Were not the Dernot cherries, as well as Morelles, of the best sort ?

Were not the radishes pungent and short, and the butter like kernels ? Was not the nourishing bread well leavened and white It is shameful God's good gifts to disparage from mere politeness and fashion. Dear son, take my Louise by the arm, and away to the forest : Longer we must not remain. Ho? mother, come here till I kiss thee.' "

The translator has a preface in defence of hexameter verses ; the objection to which, he says, is nothing better than " vox populi vox Dei." If this were all, it would be sufficient, since the voice of the people must finally de- cide upon the claims of poetry, more especially upon metre. But the true objection to hexameters is, that they are not suited to the nature and genius of our language.] The Poetry of Childhood; a Poem. By Goodwyn Barmby.

[The plan of this poem is of an elder day. The infancy and training of a child are described with digressions to cognate sub'ects—as the tales with which childhood is amused. There are touching and natural thoughts and images; but the piece is crude and defective as a whole, from the want of patient art or sustained genius.]

Songs of Past Roars. By Mrs. Jackson Villiers Tuthill.

[A variety of songs and occasional poems.]

Moral Tales. By Madame Guizot. Translated from the French, by Mrs. L Burke. With Illustrations by 0. R. Campbell. juvenile tales of the late Madame Guizot have now been published Fong enough to try their merits by the test of time; and among those best able to judge of her merits, the French people, they have stood the trial. In addition to the novelty which foreign manners impart to the incidents and illustrations, a higher and more rational tone of reflection will be found in these tales than generally accompanies stories expressly didactic. They are also free from that false sentiment and theatrical manner which often injure French fiction.] Bogue' e Guides for Travellers. Belgium and the Rhine. With Maps and Plane.

[The first number of a series of guides adapted to the changes which railways have made in the mode of locomotion. The days of the public and pri- vate carriage are gone by ; it may be said that the days of exploration and varied observation are gone by too. All is now done by the rut of the rail- way, and Mr. Bogue's book is founded on that idea. Ms routes for Belgium and the Rhine follow the lines of the iron road, with passing notices of the towns on the route, and of what is to be seen in transitu from the car- riage. A full account in alphabetical order is given of the larger cities—the termini, as it were, where the traveller is likely to stop ; the whole done in a careful, sensible, and workmanlike manner. General information is fur- nished about passports, coins, &c., after the manner of Murray's Hand- books • to the plan of which publications Belgium and the Rhine is also in- debted in other respects. The volume is well illustrated by maps and plans, and is of a handy size.] History of the Bishopric of Lincoln ; from its Commencement at Sid- nacester or Lindisse, its connexion with Lichfield and Leicester, its junction with Dorchester, until the seat of the See was fixed at Lin- coln, immediately after the Conquest. By Adam Stark, Author of the "History of Gainsburgh." [This volume is lees a history of the bishopric of Lincoln than an account of Britain under the Romans, Saxons, and Danes, till the Conquest ; the intro- duction of Christianity, especially into the ancient diocese of Lindisse, form- ing a conspicuous feature of the volume. The end of the writer as regards his more limited subject, is to show that modern Lincoln was not in fact an- cient Lindisse, whichplace was identical with Sidnacester. This view he supports by a variety of arguments; closing his book with the establishment of the see of Lincoln by Rufus. The volume is agreeably written, though it does not exhibit much originality or research, except as regards its speoifio object, Lindisse versus Lincoln.] The Anticleptie Gradus : founded on Quieherat's Thesaurus Poeticus Lingua Latina. Edited by the Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A., Rector of Lyndon, &c. [This anti-pilfering Gradus professes to do all for the student which was ac- complished by the old Gradus ad Parnassum, and a good deal more ; ex- cept that it does not indulge idleness by finding ready-made lines or portions pl and authority, so of lines. It gives the meaning of as to form a " sufficient Latin dictionary Latin poets." It con- tains di 91:11: rfrocii.Ntv.hte beett912, 9 tains a careful selection of words, " which, though not really synonymous, are yet so nearly related in meaning that one may occasionally be used for the other " ; subject, however, to the pupil's own self-questioning, and to an examination of the real sense of the term [required—he must not, for example, use " ponderosus" for " gravis" when he means weight of cha- racter. Mr. Arnold has also selected epithets and phrases to help the flight of the unfledged poet; and has included much useful matter in the intro- duction.] _Eclogee Herodotem, Part I. (Arnold's School Classics.) .Ecloyee Aristophanicee, Part IL From the Birds. (Arnold's School Classics.) [Two useful editions for Greek pupils. The selections from Herodotus em- brace the stories of Solon and Cyrus, and the account of the customs of the Persians and Egyptians. The critical and explanatory notes are selected from the labours of American editors.] A Manual of Arithmetic. By Walter M'Leod. (Gleig's School Series.) The Analogy between the Miracles and _Doctrines of Scripture. The Essay which obtained the Norrisian Prize for the year 1852. By the

Reverend Francis T. Jameson, B.A.

Martin Beck; or the Story of an Australian Settler. By Alexander Harris, Author of " Settlers and Convicts." (The Railway Library.)

PAMPHLETS.

The Way of Peace. A Sermon preached at the late Visitation of the Venerable the Archdeacon of St, Albans. By Joseph Williams Blokes- ley, B.D.

A Letter to the Fellowe of the Royal Society of Antiquaries, on the present Condition and future Prospects of the Society. By Sir For- tunatus Dwarris, Knight, &c.

Lettre de M. Charles Mathews aux Auteurs Drametiques de la /ranee, With a Translation according to the terms of the International Con- vention.