PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

A History of the Sikhs, from Hie Origin of the Nation to the Battles of the Sutlej. By Joseph Davy Cunningham, Lieutenant of Engineers, and Cap- tain to the Army of India. Visits to Monasteries in the Levant. By the Honoarable Robert Curzon jun. With numerous Wood-cots. Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River; being a Narrative of the Expedition fitted out by John Jacob Astor, to esta- blish the "Pacific Fur Company"; with an Account of some Indian Tribes on the Coast of the Pacific. By Alexander Roes, one of the Ad- venturers. Mardi, and a Voyage Thither. By Herman Melville, Author of " Typee," &c.. In three volumes. Perils, Pastimes, and Pleasures of an Emigrant in Australia, Vancouver's Island, and California. The Ship, its Origin and Progress; being a general History from its first Invention to the latest Improvements; forming a complete Account of the Naval Events of the Ancients, the Middle Ages, end the Modern Epochs,

to the close of 1848. Illustrated with twenty-four Plates, Diagrams, and numerous Wood-engravings. By Francis Steinitz.

History of England during the Thirty Years' Peace: 1816-1846. By Harriet Martineau. Volume I.

Statistics of Coal. The Geographical and Geological Distribution of Fossil Fuel, or Mineral Combustibles employed in the Arts and Manufactures ; their Production, Consumption, Commercial Distribution, Prices, Duties, and International Regulations in all parts of the World. Including Sta- tistical Tables, &c. Illustrated with Coloured Maps and Diagrams. By Richard Cowling Taylor, F.G.S., &e. The Female Poets of America. By Rufus Wilmot Griswold.

The Attributes of the Soul from the Cradle, and the Philosophy of the Di- vine Mother; detecting the False Basis or Fundamental Error of the Schools, and Developing the Perfect Education of Man. By Robert Pem- berton, Esq.

[" This work is especially addressed to the Sovereigns, Rulers, and Guardians of the Divine Race, in every nation and kingdom on the globe, as well as to all the .]earned men of the Christian world." The subject is more important than this large announcement and the generalities of the title might lead one to suppose; being an investigation of the "attributes" of the infant mind, and the best mode of training up a child in the way he should go: but the author occasionally gambols from his matter.]

Elements of Electro-Biology, or the Voltaic Mechanism of Man; of Electra-Pathology, especially of the Nervous System ; sod of Electra Therapeutics. By Alfred Smee, F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England, &c. Illustrated with numerous Engravings on Wood.

[An exposition of the theories or hypotheses of Mr. Since, on questions connected with the physiology of man, using physiology in the largest sense, and an account of experiments he has instituted to support his views.]

Rhymes of Travel, Ballads and Poems. By Bayard Taylor, Author of " Views a-Foot," dic. Second edition. [The author of this volume is an American printer, who before he was legally out of his time made the tour of a part of Europe on foot,* subsisting on the proceeds of poetry he contributed to some American journals and the stipend of an irre- gular foreign correspondentabip. This volume contains a selection from the fugitive poems he has printed in various periodicals; many of the subjects, as the title implies, being suggested during his European travels.] A Dictionary of Shakspere Quotations; being a Collection of the Maxims, Proverbs, and most remarkable Passages in the Plays and Poems of Shalt. spere; arranged in alphabetical order. By C. J. Walbran.

[The alphabetical order in this selection has no other principle of arrangement than the first letter that begins the passage. The most useful feature is a neatly displayed marginal reference to every quotation.]

On the Management of the Skin as a means of Promoting and Preserving Health. By Erasmus Wilson, F.R.S. Third edition. [A neat and cheap edition of Mr. Erasmus Wilson's excellent work on the skin, hair, and nails, which we noticed at large on its first appearance.] The First Book of Geography; specially adapted as a Text-book for Begin-

ners, at Home or at School, and as a Guide to the Young Teacher. By

Hugo Reid, Principal of the People's College, Nottingham, &c. [`The feature of this little publication consists in the explanatory nature of its matter and the conversational tone of its style. It is a -natural, not a formal first book.] Adams's Pocket Descriptive Guide to the Environs of the Metropolis; embracing Berkshire, Hertfordshire' Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex,

in a circuit of thirty miles round London. By E. L. Blanchard. [A curt account of the various pleasant excursions that may be made in all directions round London, with the modes of making them.]

Gertrude; a Tragedy, in five acts. By M. Tertius Collins.

Church Holidays. The History and the Mystery of Good Friday. By

Robert Robinson, of Cambridge. With an introduction and Sketch of the Author. New edition.

The Child's Own Prayer-Book; a Help to Devotion. By the Mother of a Family. The Australian Emigrant's Complete Guide; containing a Descriptive His- tory of Australia, an Account of the Climate, Soil, and Natural Pro- ductions of Western Australia, South Australia, and Swan. River Settle- ment, &e. By Samuel Butler, Esq. New edition.

SERIAL.

Adventures is the Libyan Desert and the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. By Bayle St. John. (Murray's Home and Colonial Library).

ILLUSTRATED WORK.

Landscape Painting in Oil- Colours, Explained in Letters on the Theory and Practice of the Art; and Illustrated by Examples from the several Schools. By John Barnet, F.R.S., Author of "Practical Hints on Painting,"-&c.

PAMPHLETS.

Marriage with a Deceased Wife's Sister. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconary of Huntingdon, at the Visitation in 1842. By John Banks Hollingworth, D.D., Archdeacon of Huntingdon. The Sound Polity of the existing Law of Marriage, as Prohibiting the Union of a Widower with his Deceased Wife's Sister, Vindicated. By George Wray.

A Voice from the Place of St. Morwenna, in the Rocky Land, uttered to the Sisters of Mercy, at the Tamar Month. By the Vicar of Morwens- tow.

Introducta7 Lecture delivered at the Opening of the Metropolitan Evening Classes or Young Men. By F. D. Maurice, M.A., Professor of Divinity in King a College, London, &c. The Auckland Islands; a short Account of their Climate, Soil, and Pro- ductions, &e. By Charles Enderby, Esq., F.R.S. War in the Punjaub. No. L Three Months in the Marches of Moulton. Memoir of Charles Govan Duffy, Esq., as a Student, Journalist, and Or-

ganizer. With Selections from his Poems and Essays. Reprinted from " The New York Nation."

* Views A-Foot. Reviewed in the Spectator for 1847, page III.