PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The current week gives further token of reviving publication. Besides the books noticed in preceding pages, Messrs. Longman have issued the History of English Railways, by the gossipy raconteur of facts and anecdotes connected with the Bank of England and the Stock Exchange, Mr. Francis. Messrs. Col- burn, and Smith and Elder, have furnished two novels of the day. There are two books of travels by Americans—probably reprints. Dr. Cheevees "Sand- wich Islands" is in the main an account of the state of religion there : Mr. Colton's "Deck and Pelt" is more various in its field ;. containing a narra- tive of a voyage from Norfolk to California, in an American frigate of which he was chaplain.

A History of the English Railway; its Social Relations, and Revela-

tions. 1820-1845. By John Francis Author of "The History of

the Bank of England, its Times and Traditions," &c. In two volumes The Livingstones ; a Story of Real Life. In three volumes. Florence Sackrille, or Self-Dependence ; an Autobiography. By Mrs.

Bunbury. In three volumes.

Life in the Sandwich Islands ; or the Heart of the Pacific, as it Was and Is. By the Reverend Henry T. Cheever, Author of The Island World of the Pacific."

Deck and Port; or Incidents of a Cruise to California. With Sketches of Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, Lima, Honolulu, and San Francisco. By the Reverend Walter Colton, Author of "A Visit to Constanti- nokle and Athens."

A Naturalist's Sojourn in Jamaica. By Philip Henry Gosse, A.L.S., &c. ; assisted by Richard Hill, Esq., &c.

The Whale. By Herman Melville, Author of "Typee," &c. In three volumes.

E:rposition of the Gospel according to St. _Luke, in a series of Lectures. By James 'Thomson, D.D., Minister of the parish of Eccles, Berwick- shire. In three volumes.

[The third volume of this work completes a series which has been in the course of publication since 1849. The exposition is not of the character of annotation or commentary, but a series of lectures on the events in the life of the Saviour as narrated by Luke, and of other circumstances that bear upon his mission—as the teaching of John the Baptist. The word " lecture " in the present case is not a synonyme for sermon : a lay expositional cha- racter pervades the work, without losing sight of its religious subject or re- ligious object. Dr. Thomson does not aim at high eloquence, or nice refine- ments of theology, but contents himself with a plain and clear exposition of the lessons to be derived from the miracles and other incidents in the life of Christ. Those who do not object to so elaborate a work, will find the expo- sitional lectures well adapted to private or family reading—more appropriate in their tone, in fact, than if they partook more of the sermon. The Doctor of course is Anti-Papal.]

The New Criminal Law Statutes, from 1817 to 1851; together with a Digest of all the Criminal Law Reports during the same period ; with Notes and a copious Index. By Edward W. Cox, Is' q., Editor of Cox's Criminal Law Cases, and W. St. Leger Babington, Esq., LLD., Barristers-at-law.

[The texts of the statutes affecting the criminal law, passed during the last four years, with explanatory and suggestive foot-notes, preceded by a well- arranged and careful digest of the criminal cases that have been decided within the same period. It is a useful book, as well to the professional man as to the humorist or satirist : no invention could reach the contradiction and absurdity of the sages of the law.] Commercial Law, its Principles and Administration; or the Mercan- tile Law of Great Britain compared with the Codes and Laws of Com- merce of other Mercantile Countries, and the Institutes of Justinian. By Leone Levi, Member of the Society for Promoting the Amendment of the Law, &c. Voluele II. Part I.

[The first part of the second volume of Mr. Leone Levi's elaborate and use- ful digest of the Commercial Law of civilized nations contains Bills of Ex- change, Marine Insurance, and Average, presented as nearly as possible in juxtaposition.]

What shall we Hare for Dinner? Satisfactorily Answered by numerous Bills of Fare for from Two to Eighteen Persons. By Lady Maria Clutterbuck.

[A. number of bills of fare for a small, a middling, or a large dinner-party, followed by recipes for some of the peculiar dishes named in the bills. From the predominance of toasted cheese, we can well believe that the late Sir John Clutterbuck, Alderman and lover of good dinners, had a capital digestion. We doubt, however, whether the general domestic difficulties, feelingly re- ferred to by the Alderman's relict, originate so much in the matter as in the manner. Special dishes of dislike or disagreement apart, any dinner may be pronounced good, where the materials are good, the cookery good, and the ser- vice good. It is the failure in one or all of these points that constitutes the bane of private life—the skeleton in every house ; not the difficulty of choosing dishes.]

The Farming of Someraetshire. By Thomas Dyke Acland jun., and William &urge.

[ar. Acland's portion in this publication is a reprint from his prize essay Published in the Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society, with a revision, and some additions on tenant-right. Mr. Sturge was a competitor on the same occasion, and the rival reports now appear in friendly junction.]

Luther; or Rome and the Reformation. By Robert Montgomery,

M.A. Author of "The Christian Life." Sixth edition, revised and enlarged.

ILLIISTRA.TED WORKS Alen Parrs.

771c Illustrated Exhibition Alwanack for 1852.

[This publication differs from others of its class in the number of its wood- cuts. There are two to each month, besides a fac-simile of the illustrations to the Saxon Calendar, four designs to illustrate the seasons, and various others of a miscellaneous kind. The most interesting are the bird's-eye View of the Champs Elysees, and the diagram of Leon Foucault's pendulum, visibly proving the diurnal motion of the earth. There is money's-worth for money.] I. C. Adams, A.M., ColL Din i Johannis apud Cantabrigienses Socius ; Neptune calculo monstratus, A. D. 1845. Painted by Thomas Meg- ford ; engraved by Samuel Cousins, A.R.A. • [Against the dense background of trashy portraits of conspicuous nobodies, this of our distinguished astronomer relieves itself to great advantage. Its artist, Mr. Mogford, is generally to be known by a solid unaffected style, free from pettiness and prettiness, and from the commonplaces of accessory and of attribute, which threaten our actual school of portraiture with the death of inanition. On the present occasion, he has been fortunate in having a sitter not only intellectually but pictorially interesting. An earnest manly face gave scope for the production of the best points of isis style; and he has

made the moat of his opportunity. The cooperation of Mr. Cousins as en- graver is a further condition of success, completing a work in all respects satisfactory.]

Antiquarian Gle,anings in the North of England. Drawn and etched by W. B. Scott. Nos. III. and IV.

PAMPHLETS.

The Progress and Prospects of Christianity in the United State* of America, &c. By R. Baird, D.D., &c.

A Letter on Beforin of the Superior Courts of Common Law, to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell. By R. P. Collier, Esq.

Kossuth and "The Times." By the Author of "The Revelations of Russia."

The Present Criaie in Egypt, in Relation to our Overland Communica- tion with India. No. U.