PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

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BooKs.

The English Universities. From the German of V. A. HUBER, Pro- fessor of Western Literature at Marburg. An abridged translation, edited by FRANCIS W. NEWAIAN, Professor of the Greek and Latin

Classics at Manchester New College, and formerly Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford. In three volumes.

4 Treatise on Food and Diet: with observations on the dietetical regimen suited for disordered states of the digestive organs; and an account of the dietaries of some of the principal Metropolitan and other establish. ments for paupers, lunatics, criminals, children, the sick, &c. By JONATHAN PEREIRA, M.D., F.R.S.,

The History of Etruria. Part I. Tarchun and his Times. From the Foundation of Tarquinia to the Foundation of Rome. By Mrs.

HAMILTON GRAY.

Marmaduke Wyvil, or the Maid's Revenge ; an Historical Romance. By HENRY WM. HERBERT, Esq., Author of " Oliver Cromwell," &c. In three volumes.

The History of Ancient America, Anterior to the Time of Columbus : proving the identity of the Aborigines with the Tyrians and Israelites ; and the Introduction of Christianity into the Western Hemisphere by

the Apostle St. Thomas. By GEORGE JONES, F.S.V. The Tyrian Era. [A strange volume on a strange subject. The purpose of M r. JONES is far beyond that of previous investigators into the origin of the peoples of America, ambi- tiously large as some of them may have been. They have been content with a single people—Jews, Welsh, Midayan, or what not, as the thought might strike; and they confined their lueubrations to general disquisition, without attempting history as a record of events. Mr. JONES undertakes to prove that they were two peoples,—the Red. Indian races, which descended from the Jews; the Mexicans and other Southern natives, who were the descendants of some Tyrians that fled from the destruction of Tyre by ALEXANDER the Great a further difference arising from the Mexicans having either received Christianity, or been inoculated with some of its doctrines by the preaching of St. THosbris the Apostle. The disquisitions touching the Jews and Christians are to be reserved for other volumes, as well as the history of the fugitive Tyrians after they had arrived at Florida. The present book contains a survey of the dis- coveries of Mr. STEPHENS in Central America ; a comparison of the ancient Mexicans and Tyrians, upon the principle of a river in Wales and a river in Macedon ; a particular account of the Tyrian circumnavigation of Africa, including their discovery of the Canary Isles ; with a general history of Tyre till its destruction under ALEXANDER, and a narrative of the escape of the fugitives in a " few Sidonian vessels," first to the Fortunate (Canary) Isles, which they must have reached in August or September, and left in " October," (fearful lest the Macedonians, or some one else, should pursue them into the Atlantic,) arriving at " Florida" in not more than a month. " Consequently," as Mr. Jos:Es says, " the first landing of a branch of the human family in ancient America, would be in the last month of autumn, three hundred and thirty-two years before the Christian sera."

It seems needless to offer any criticism on such notions as these; but sie may say that the execution is worthy of the idea. There is not a proof or a shadow of proof in the volume, not a reason or the semblance of a reason ; and the style is appropriate to the thoughts—" fluent nonsense "—" the madness of poetry without the inspiration.")

Ancient History, remodelled from ROLLIN, with notes and extracts from modern authors. In three volumes. By MARY SHOOLBRED [The object of the editor has been to strip Itorams's Ancient History of its prolixity and tautology, so as to bring the mass of information that his work contains into a size which will render it available for the purposes of instruc- tion. The fair reviver of ROLLIN has alio' added new matter, correcting 'the ideas of the historian as to the character of the countries, by the descrip- tions of modern travellers, or giving, from the same source, an account of cus- toms referred to, besides illustrating ancient history by passages descriptive of parallel events in modern times—as lielows&L's and NAPOLEON'S passage of the Alps.

To the character of a philosophical historian ROLLIN has no claim ; and his pretensions to that of a poetical narrator are even less, if less be possible. His utility arises from the extent of his subject and the fulness of his treatment. He tells the story of every ancient nation, and he tells it as it came down to us from aucient writers. His credulity, or, if you please, his reliance upon his au- thorities, rendered him a butt for the wit of VOLTAIRE : but modern research has shown that the Frenchman's maxim " n'en croyez rien," applied to remote ages and a state of civilization different from his own, might exhibit as much credulity in another form as that which he ridiculed. At all events, the facts are exhibited as they are recorded, and nowhere will there be found so full a view of the less classical nations of antiquity—as the Carthaginians and the Egyptians—in so readable a form ; for his boyish simplicity is perhaps better relished by the young than a severer and more powerful style. This quality, under the hands of his fair editor, renders his narrative attractive, without, so far as we have gone, inducing crudeness or omitting essential facts.] Handbook for Travellers in France : being a Guide to Normandy, Brittany, the Rivers Loire, Seine, Rhone, and Garonne ; the French Alps, Dauphine, Provence, and the Pyrenees; with descriptions of the principal routes, railways, the approaches to Italy, the chief watering- places, &c. With five travelling-maps. [This volume contains a complete guide to France excepting Paris ; for which city, beyond some information necessary on the first arrival, the tourist is re- ferred to GALIGNANI'S publication. The plan pursued is much the same as in the previous handbooks: the country is mapped out into routes or districts, and full information given respecting each, both as regards the general ad- vantages and drawbacks of the line and the particular objects to be seen along it. In France, however, from the extent of the country, these routes are very much multiplied ; the tourist being not merely accompanied along the prin- cipal lines of communication and the Pyrenees, but carried through the pro- vincial districts of the country. To accomplish this effectually, recourse has been had to numerous writers, obscure as well as eminent, old as well as modern, besides the knowledge picked up in personal explorations. In addition to ample tables of monies, weights, and measures, and a good map of France, there are maps of the Pyrenees, and of the rivers Rhone, Loire, and Seine. The introductory chapters, too, will be found interesting and useful. Much as has been written on France, a practical mind employed in practical matters has imparted a new air to what seemed well known.] The Handbook of Taste; or How to Observe Works of Art, especially Cartes eta, Pictures, and Statues. By FABIUS PICTOR.

[A sensible, intelligent, and well-timed little book. The principles of the arts of design are briefly and simply stated ; and their application in the exercise of taste and judgment is pointed out, and exemplified by reference to celebrated and accessible pictures and statues. There are many otherwise well-informed persons who will find this unpre'ending manual useful in guiding them to a correct and satisfactory appreciation of the qualities of works of art ; because it enables them to assign a reason for their likes and dislikes.]

The True Enjoyment of Angling. By HENRY PHILLIPS, Esq.

[Many members of the musical profession ride some bobby by way of relaxation. PHILLIPS has several. He paints: he is a picture-fancier, and talks learnedly about " Raffaelles, Correggios, and stuff": he has an appetite for illustra- tion, and his library contains several ehoicey-enriched works—his Minn& especially : but, above all, be is an angler. He will talk soberly with you about music ; rationally, though learnedly, about pictures ; but mention the rod and line—describe a trout-stream—call up the ghost of a fly—and his eye sparkles with enthusiasm, his face beams, and his speech grows warm and elo- quent. In this little book, his soul is poured out in poetical prose and song, the song accompanied by musical notes: and his music is not that of the prin- cipal bass at the Ancient Concerts—recondite and orchestral, Handelian or Purcellish ; but the " Heigh, trollie, lo " of a jolly fisherman,—that is, it is just what it ought to he.]

Productive Farming; or a familiar digest of the recent discoveries of LIEBEG, DAVY, and other celebrated writers on vegetable chemistry ; showing how the results of English tillage might be greatly augmented. By JOSEPH A. SMITH. [ A compilation, whose object is to prevent the late discoveries of LIEBE% and other writers on chemical agriculture, in a popular form, so as to be intelligible to the farmer who does not understand chemistry ; or more properly, by start- ing wi:h an outline of chemistry, to make what follows understood. In pur- pose, arrangement, and general matter, Productive Farming differs little from two or three other works that have been lately published on the same sub- ject, except that Mr. SMITH deals more in extraneous matter. The intro- ductory argument on the utility of chemistry to agriculture, if wanted at all, might have been advantageously shortened.]

A Short and Easy Catechism ; for the use of young persons of the Church of England. Compiled from authentic sources.

Questions for Self-Examination ; designed primarily for the use of young persons. Second edition.

SERIALS.

History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth till the Over-

throw of the French Empire ; with particular reference to mental cul- tivation and progress. By F. C. SCHLOSSER, Privy Councillor, and Professor of History in the University of Heidelberg. Translated, with a Preface and Notes, by D. DAVISON, M.A. Part I. (Foreign Library.) [Professor F. C. SCHLOSSER is a German lecturer, who has published Cart of a work on the " History of the Eighteenth Century," which has attained a Continental reputation. The portion that has already appeared in Germany seems to relate to the facts or events of history: this part, which Mr. DAvitiow, a pupil of the Professor, has translated under his superintendence, treats of the spirit of the age as represented in its leading authors. The work is there- fore a notice of certain writers, so far as those writers exhibited the character and opinions of the day, or reacted upon it. In England, he takes Loom, SHAFTESBURY, and BoLuscortoirE, with several all but forgotten Deistical writers, to illustrate the new practical and free-thinking philosophy, as opposed to the religion of the Church and the philosophy of the Schools ; ADDISON, STEELE, SWIFT, and ARBOTHNOT, as representing general literature or belles lettres ; and POPE for poetry. MONTESQUIEU and VOLTAIRE are leading French authors; their followers or contemporaries being more sum- marily dismissed ; as well as the female wits who formed coteries in Paris. The literature of Germany is only begun. The volume, it will be understood, does not contain a biographical notice of the lives of these authors, nor any critical account of their works, or scarcely of their general literary character ; but merely of such productions and such literary qualities as may be said to belong to them in common with their con- temporaries, or to have had some influence in overthrowing old systems of opinions or in advancing new, the new ending in the French Revolution. In going over so wide a field with so large an object, it is difficult for an able man to avoid striking out new and sometimes cogent thoughts; and Sormosszo's accounts of the lesser writers both of France and England, as well as of the Parisian coteries, will be found useful, although from the nature of his plan incomplete. But his book rather exhibits a German professor working out a theory of his own, than a philosopher deducing conclusions from recorded facts; and he wanders very often in English questions. Upon ADDISON and English periodicals he seems altogether wrong, and his judgment of the Rape of the Lock is purely absurd—that poem is too sportive for the German's compre- hension.] ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS. Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part XXX.

PAMPHLETS.

Thoughts suggested by the late Ecclesiastical Movement in Scotland; being a ttiscourse, the substance of which was delivered in York Street Chapel, Dublin, 28th May 1843. By WILLIAM URWICK, D.D.

An Examination of the Medical Regulations, commonly called the Medical Boon, of the Honourable Court of Directors, East India Company, dated 18th July 1842. By Madras Medical Officers.

What David Did; a Reply to the Queen's Letter. Containing Reasons for not urging upon the parishioners of Hinton Charterhouse a collec- tion in behalf of the Society for the Building of Churches. By the Reverend THOMAS SPENCER, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath, and late Fellow of St. John's College, Cam- bridge. Village Dialogues, between the Honourable and Reverend Allcraft In- cubus, A.M., Rector of Reep'erndou it, and nephew to the Earl of Coningforce ; his wife, son, and daughters ; his friends, the Reverend Dr. Hookem, Sir James Gammon, and others. By llowbsorD HILL the Younger.