PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The Earnest Student ; being Memorials of John Mackintosh. By the Reverend Norman Macleod, Minister of the Barony Parish, Glasgow.

Fashion and Famine; or Contrasts in Society. By Mrs. Ann S. Stephens. (Bentley's Railway Library.) The Shady Side. By a Pastor's Wife.

The Encyclopedia Britanniea ; or Dictionary of Arta, Sciences, and General Literature. Eighth edition. Volume VI. [The present volume of this national work is rich and varied in its principal, articles, and well tilled up by subordinates, though greater graduation of scale might be adopted with advantage in some cases. The volume opens with Burning Glasses, and closes with Climate ; taking between the extremei3 the kindred subjects of Capillary Action, Chemistry, Chloroform, Chromatics, Cannon, and Carpentry. In history and geography we have Canada, Caucasus, Ceylon, China. Biography presents Calvin, Canning, the two Catherines of Russia, Cato, the Cavendish, Cartes, (id cat Descartes,) Byron ; plenty of Butlers, the Bishop figuring fully, the author of Hudibras rather too curtly ; and a whole clan of Campbells, among whom towers Tom, by a kindred genius. Among the less reducible to classification are Caste, (op- posing the favourable views of Robertson and Dubois,) the Celia), Chess, Chivalry, and Christianity.] A Shilling Cookery for the People. Embracing an entirely new system of Plain Cookery and Domestic Economy. By Alexis Boyer, Author of "This Modern Housewife," &c. [It is somewhere observed by the Brothers Chambers, that all their cheap publications circulated among a higher class than that for which they were originally intended. The taste of the mass for whom they were written was not hit, but both the taste and the pockets of those above them were. In Soyer's "Shilling Cookery," we dare say the popular taste will be hit well enough ; for it is a book to make the mouth water. And simplified receipts for making soups, entrees, sauces, pies, puddings, and what not, besides dressing fish, joints, poultry, and game, relieved with anecdotes apropos, are cheap enough for a shilling; especially when effects are aimed at by the simplest implements—" such humble utensils as the gridiron, frying-pan, iron pan, and black pot." But what avails skill or tools without material to work upon ? Where are "the people" to get ducks, geese, and tur- keys? where the subject-matter for hare soup—unless, indeed, they are poachers ? It is probable that this book, after all, will share the fate of the Chambers's publications, and circulate principally among a somewhat higher class than that for which it was originally designed, in spite of its author's travels among the cottagers to get at cottage cookery.] Progressive Exercises in Latin Prose ; with References to the " Hints on Latin Writing." By Edward Walford, M.A. ; late Scholar of I3alliol College, Oxford, and formerly Assistant-Master of Tuubridge School.

Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse. Second Series. To which is prefixed a Grammar of Latin Poetry. By Edward Walford, M.A.

[Both these books are intended for pupils who are well advanced beyond the iudiments. The "Exercises in Latin Prose" are designed to cu:tivate a good style, and to familiarize the student with the niceties of the language. The second series of " Exercises in Verse " goes still further : the passages that follow the grammar begin with comparatively easy bits for translation into Latin verse, gradually proceeding to passages from English poets, that require a good Latinist to conquer, and a genuine poet to turn into Latin verse.]

New Series of Latin Exercises. No. I. Little Arthur's Latin Primer; or Latin Etymology and Syntax for Little Boys. By the Reverend Alfred Barrett, M.A., of Worcester College, Oxford. [Little Arthur's Latin Primer is just such shook as a judicious Latin scho- lar with an aptitude for teaching would use viva voce with his own pupils. By means of numerous words continually dwelt upon, the little boy will gradually acquire a vocabulary ; by dint of declining and conjugating, he will become familiar with their inflexions ; and by translating Latin into English, and vice versa, he will get accustomed to the combination of words iuto sen- tences. The book is designed for young pupils, and its motto might be "slow and sure."] The Works of Horace followed by English Introductions and Notes : abridged and adapted for School use, from the.edition of Fr. Debner. [A well-printed text of Horace, with brief and useful notes. There are also short introductions to each poem, giving an account of its scope and the ohs jects with which it was written.] Tours in Ulster : a Handbook to the Antiquities and Scenery of the North of Ireland. By J. B. Doyle. With numerous Illustrations, chiefly from the Author's Sketch-book. [A very capital book for those who intend to make a tour into Ulster, or to explore the provinces; owing to the clearness with which the different routes are laid down, the fulness with which everything worth seeing is pointed out, and the manner in which the legends or anecdotes associated with a place are presented. The book is well got up : it is illustrated by VieWIT printed in colours, and by wood-cut portraits of the local celebrities,—as Sir Emerson Teunent and Dr. Cooke at Belfast.] The Diverting, Pathetic, and Humorous Advent,wes of Hr. Syden- ham Greenfinch, Gentleman, and of his Friends in London. Com- piled from the MS. at present in the possession of Tom Hawkins, Esq., M.A., F.S.A., and (what is more important) LF.O.T.H. With numerous Illustrations by W. M'Connell. [A sort of "Tom and Jerry" story, diluted for the more delicate tastes Ot this age. Mr. Sydenham Greenfinch is brought to town, for the first time,, by his friend Toni Hawkins, a "fast" and rusticated Oxonian, and intro- duced to " Mr. Sell " ; the trio seeing the sights of London, and Mr. Greenfinch losing some of his verdure before be departs.]

Except a new edition of Chalmers's "Lectures on the Romans," embraced. in his Select Works, and containing a speaking likeness of the Doctor at the age of forty-four, the reprints all take the popular direction of cheapness. Messrs. Chapmeu and Hall have published Miss Jewsbury's striking tale of "The Half-Sisters" as a cheap edition ; Messrs. Routledge include in their

week's issue Mrs. Grey's "Sybil Lennard, Fashion and Famine. an the "Sunny Memories" of Mrs. Stowe. ' The choice of living subjects for themes, as much as the merits of the verse, has carried "Songs of the Pro— sent" to a new edition, also in the eheap farm. Lectures on the Epistle to the Burnam. By Thomas Chalmers, D.D.s LLD. Volume I. (Select Works of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. Edited by his Son-in-Law, the Reverend William Hanna, LL.D. Volume I.) The Half-Sisters : a Tale. By Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury, Author of "Zoe," &c. Cheap edition. . (Select Library of Fiction.)

• apeolaror, June 10, 1854; pap 622.

Sybil .Lennard. By Mrs. Grey, Author of "The Gambler's Wife," &e. (The Parlour Library.) Fashion and Famine. By Mrs. Ann S., Stephens. Tenth thousand. Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands. By Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabo,," &c. Twentieth thousand.' Songs of the Present. By Archer Gurney.

MAPS AND PRINTS.

The Crimea. By James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen and H.R.H. Prince Albert. . [iris juneta ia uno. u11Ore.we have the town hod harixiiir of Sebastopol, with its approaehes,-in one division; the Black Sea, and its eircumjacent territories, 111 another ; inn third, and by far the largest, are the Crimea and the Peninwila of KertchOyith the roads clearly laid down, and the character'

indicated by shading.] f•; '• •

`.Portrait. of Co.dintil .Wiseman. `Pointed by J. R. Herbert, RA.; en-

:- graved by G. -Raphael Ward. .

[An_npproyable work of ,ft, and a very: good likeness ; although possibly Cardinal Wiseman is made a little younger-looking than lie' has been since he became "His Eminence." The mow •familiar face is a ponderous and thoroughly priestly one; not remarkable for rethienient, but' full of broad capacity, plausibility, and wholeness: Mr. Herbert, besides robing his Sit, tet in the cardinalate vestures, gives father a glut of ecclesiastical accessory ; in the hand a breviary, to the side n conspicuous crucifix and rosary, in the baekground corner the coat of arms surmounted with the cardinal's hat. The. Original of this carefully-engraved half-length belongs to St. Mary's College, Oscott]