PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From July latt to July 2ath. BOOKS.

Sketches of Residence and Travels in Brazil; embracing Historical and Geogra*ical Notices of the Empire and its several Provinces. By the Reverend Daniel P. Kidder, A.M. In two volumes. With Illustrations. Volume I.

The Duties of the Christian Ministry; with a View of the Primitive and .Apostolical Church, and the danger of departure from its doctrine and discipline. A Sermon, preached at an Ordination held in the Church of St. Peter, Colombo, by George Trevor, Lord Bishop of Madras. By the Reverend B. Bailey, M.A., Senior Colonial Chaplain of the Island of Ceylon. With Notes and an Appendix, containing copious extracts from various authors.

This volume contains a sermon preached at Colombo, on the occasion of or- daining Native missionaries by the Bishop of Madras, on his visit to the Wand of Ceylon. The text, from 2 Timothy IL 15, is applicable enough; but on An occasion so peculiar, and calling, as one would think, for an inculcation of broad and general truths, the Senior Colonial Chaplain can find no fitter subject Sor the pulpit than the Apostolical succession; which he urges after the boldest fashion. Whether stated curtly, as he of necessity states it, the question could 'be properly understood by the natives, we cannot tell: unless they had been pre- -viously familiarized with the subject, we should say. not. But it would be clear In any one who could follow the preacher's language, that Christendom was divided into various religious sections; that such of these sections as had not bishops were not churches; and that such missionaries as were on the island and not connected with the Chaplain belonged to no church at all. These views, and points con- 'fleeted with them, are more fully handled in an appendix, and sometimes in a style even less praiseworthy, because involving reflections on others; whilst the 'Reverend B. Bailey is crying out that all "true Churchmen" are subjected to a " moralpersecution." Towards the close of the sermon, some reflections on a niiiiistefs duty are put forth: but they are general, and deficient in closeness of application.]

Credit the Life of Commerce; being a Defence of the British Merchant against the unjust and demoralizing tendency of the recent alterations in the Laws of Debtor and Creditor; with an Outline of Remedial Measures. By J. H. Elliott.

Dir. Elliott represents himself as a merchant, who knows nothing of law, and cares little for education, but who desires to have the power of imprisoning his debtors, and is wroth with the late Insolvency Acts. The principle of these laws bably was fair enough—that mere poverty is not ipso .facto a subject of immis ent. The error lay in not providing a better machinery and means of investigating each particular case of insolvency, so as to insure punishment to the reckless or fraudulent debtor, while it discharged the unfortunate on clearly ascertaining his case and his poverty. The practical difficulties in the way of giving effect to these ideas—the question of the extent to which fear of impri- sonment may stimulate exertion, or procure payment from friends—the certainty 'that a customer of such a stamp is in nine cases out of ten not worth having, and that those who supply him are not much better than he, since they charge a price (for the risk) which is not short of fraudulent—together with the en- couragement which a summary power gives to imprudent and not over honest credit—are all beyond Mr. Elliott's thoughts. He cannot distinguish between Slimes of force, crimes of fraud, and transactions of credit; and some of his in- silences of hardship would be dearly punishable in the courts for fraud. How- ever, his zeal against lawyers, gentlemen, and the debtor class, makes him amusing; and he is not devoid of a hardheaded shrewdness. ITN own proposal is to treat cases of debt summarily before a Magistrate. A creditor is to accuse his debtor of non-payment: the Magistrate inquires—if the insolvent is unfortunate, Be is to be dismissed; if not, punished; and endeavours in all cases are made to get at his goods. This is the principle of our present laws: the difficulty lies in working it out.] The Beekeeper's Manual; founded on the experience, daring many centuries of the Apiarians in Poland. By Dobrogost Chylinski.

[The object of this neat little book is to give an acoount of the Polish sys- tem of managing bees, and manufacturing the honey, wax, and so forth; not merely with a view to introduce an improved system, but to establish a new 'branch of wealth and industry for the agriculturists. The main distinctions be- tween the Polish and British inodes seem to be, that the Poles make their hives of woad partially bound with rope, Which are cleaner and guard more effectually against damp and insects than our straw; place the hives upon dry ground, pre- viously prepared; leave more honey for the winter support of the bees, and con- duct the whole with greater care and attention—make more a business of it. The minutke of the management of the bees, and the manufacturing of the honey and wax—for manufactory it seems to be—will be found described by Dohrogos,

Chylinski, and will be worth considering by the British bee-keeper; but we fear the author hardly makes sufficient allowance for national circumstances in hoping for a very great extension of bee-keeping in Britain. The sugar-cane, the whale, the fat of beeves and sheep, render us less dependent upon honey and wax than Poland; our closely cultivated country has not such ample means of providing flowers for the bees; and agricultural wages, low as they are, are perhaps too high to admit of people's whole time being devoted to the bee, as Dobrogost Chyliuski describes it to be in the large apiaries of Poland.]

The Countess Faustina • a Novel. Translated from the German of the Countess Ida Von Kahn-Hahn. By A. E. I. In two volumes.

[The Countess Faustina is a species of German Mary Wolstoncroft, standing up for the rights of women theoretically and practically. At an early age, she LS persuaded into a good match with a Count IN !Demon; but, finding that she cannot love him, she enters into a platonic attachment with a certain Andlatt. The Count having wounded this person, Countess Faustian goes to nurse him, and

remains to live with him. On her husband's death, they are separated for awhile; when she meets with Mario Count Mengen, and, after a short struggle, turns off the old love and takes to the new. In conclusion, Andlau dies; Faustina gets Mario's consent to a divorce, in order to take the veil; when she dies too. At an earlier period, a certain Herr Von Wallford, who is in love with Faustina and fancies himself jilted, comes to take leave of her; puts a pistol into his mouth, and blows his brains out whilst he has got hold of her hand.

The filling-up is worthy of the outline. Everything is extravagant; the moral tone (for there is nothing very gross in the language or ideas) such as befits the conduct; the sentiment Werterish. The scene in which Faustina sketches her position to Mario, and consents to marry him instead of living with him, wants but a few heightening-touches to rival Canning's burlesque on the University of GOttingen.] The Bosom Friend; a Novel. By the Author of "The Gambler's Wife," &c. In three volumes.

[It is with Mrs. Grey as with a superior artist, Mrs. Gore; continual writing does not improve her. The earlier works of Mrs. Grey with which we are ac- quainted were faulty through a loosely-constructed story, and a deficient morality in some of her principal persons: but these defects were balanced by nice delinea- tion of character, and a truthful exhibition of such society as she appears to have been acquainted with, the outer regions of fashionable life. Her late productions may have a more reg-ular fable according to the circulating library idea, but she has substituted the incidents and persons of the melodrama for her former transcripts from real life, and she appears to think she can obviate the moral objection by bringing religion upon the tapis. The Gambler's Wife made use of the saving effects of grace: in The Bosom Friend, the arts of the Romanists are the staple material; and we have the Jesuits as they used to be painted in the olden time, with a Jesuit's niece representing the old popular notion of the Italian woman, breathing vengeance and all sorts of things; which being associated withmodem manners, and often of a rather theatrical stamp, form a very incongruous mixture] Chronicles of the Bastik. First Series. " TheBertaudiere"; an Historical Romance.

[The completion of the first part of a story, or rather of a succession of rapid and flashy incidents strung together, originally published in parts. The time is that of Louis the Fourteenth: and the book seems to have as much merit as some other hebdomadal or monthly fictions that appear with high names. The author, in his preface, is zealous to deny a report that the Chronicles of the Bastile is a translation from the French.] Legends of the Isles, and other Poems. By Charles Mackay, Author of the Salamandrine," &c.

[Some of the poems in this publication have appeared before; but, toting the volume as it stands, it consists of two divisions. The first contains desenptiv,e or narrative ballads, chiefly upon Scottish incidents or scenery; the second put consists of miscellaneous poems. Of these productions the ballads are the most interesting, from the story they contain- and they are better adapted to the diffuse exuberance of Mr. Mackay's style ;Ian songs or occasional poems where closeness and condensation are necessary to excellence. The great merit of Mr. Mackay is fertility and fluency; imagery and verses flow from him with an almost "fatal facility," and he reflects with sufficient spirit the old ballad style. He is apt, however, to extend his story too far, so that the reader thinks it over before it is • and though he has caught the air, he has missed the spirit of the heroic ballad.]

A New French Grammar, with Exercises. By F. A.Wolski, Master of tha Foreign Language Department in the High School of Glasgow. [The chief features of this grammar appear to be its adaptation for class use and the introduction of modern improvements, or rather, perhaps, :of the modern style of teaching. In other points of view it makes no pretension to novelty or discovery, and deals not in promises of the" short and easy" kind. Bat it seems an able and a useful work—full and elaborate without complexity, and teaching thoroughly what it undertakes.]

Geog?aphy Generalized; or an Introduction to the Study of Geography, on the principles of classification and comparison. With Maps and Illustrations; and an Introduction to Astronomy. By Robert Sullivan, Esq., A.M., T.C.D. Fourth edition, enlarged and improved.

The Spelling-book Superseded; or a new and easy method of teaching the spelling, meaning, pronunciation, and etymology, of all the difficult words in the English language; with exercises on verbal distinctions. By Robed Sullivan, Esq., A.M. T.C.D. Seventh edition, enlarged. [New editions of two of Alr. Sullivan's valuabe educational books, which we formerly noticed at somee length.]

A Dictionary of the Scottish Language; comprehending all the Words in common use in the Writings of Scott, Burns, Wilson, Ramsay, and other

popular Scottish authors. By Captain Thomas Brown, M.W.S., &c.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

The Pencil of Nature. By H. Fox Talbot, F.R.S. No. IV.

[Every number of this curious collection of sun-linmings affords some new illus- tration of the true principles of art exemplified in the operations of nature directed by science. A near view of the cloisters of Lacock Abbey, thickly covered with ivy, shows the effect of light and shade on a dense mass of foliage in a striking manner; and a view of the tower of Christchurch, Oxford, from the street opposite, exemplifies the effect of shade and the foreshortening of the architectural lines of a building seen sideways in sharp perspective.]