PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From March 18th to March 24th.

BOOKS.

The Expectant; a Novel. By Miss ELLEN PICKERING, Author of "Nan Darrell," &c. In three volumes.

I Watched the Heavens; a Poem. By V., Author of "IX. Poems." Poems from Eastern Sources ; The Steadfast Prince; and other Poems. By RICHARD CHENEY'S TRENCH.

Journal of a Tour to Waterloo and Paris, in company with Sir Walter Scott, in 1815. By the late JOHN SCOT?, Esq. [Mr. SCOTT accompanied his celebrated namesake in his tour to Paris by Belgium and Waterloo; the narrative of which has been given in Paul's Letters to his Kinsfolk. Little novelty of subject is therefore to be expected; and "the late JOHN SCOTT, Esq.," was not the sort of mind to impart any in- terest to matters beyond such obvious points as glared upon the observer. His journal repeats the same story as Sir WALTER Scorr's, or garners up his leavings, mingling here and there an anecdote of the great man. But, though commonplace enough, the book is not disagreeable. There is no affectation, no obscurity : the visits to men, places, sights, and galas, are chronicled, both on the Continent and the home tour, without fatiguing the reader if without amusing him. The most interesting passage is the reminiscence of Bintow, with whom the party dined on their return journey through London ] 771e Hand-Book of Needlework. By Miss LAMBERT. With numerous

illustrations.

[One of Mr. MURRAY'S series of Band-books, which seem destined to em- brace all the arts of life as well as all the sights in the world. Miss LAM- BERT'S treatise is one of practical utility, its information being the product of experience: after sketching the history of needlework from the Bayeux Tapestry to Miss LINWOOD'S worsted-work pictures, including the Gobelin Tapestry, it proceeds to describe the various kinds of materials used, such as wool, silk, gold thread, heads, &c. ; the canvas, patterns, frames, and imple- ments, required; the different kinds of stitches; the mode of working certain patterns and shapes ; the processes of embroidery, knitting, and netting : and it concludes with a chapter of royal needlewomen, and a poem by JOHN TAYLOR, the water-poet, in praise of the needle. The volume is very hand- somely got up, and illustrated profusely with wood-cuts; nothing seems want- ing to its completeness.]

The Year-Book of Natural History, for Young Persons. By Mrs.

LOUDON.

[This delightful little book is calculated not only to engage the attention of the young reader during its perusal, but by the information it gives to excite a lively interest in the various objects that meet the curious eye of the intelligent observer in his everyday path. Mrs. LOUDON possesses in a: remarkable degree

i the faculty of describing n a simple, clear, and easy manner, the phainomena of nature as seen in plants, insects, and animals.

The Year-Book of Natural History consists of twelve conversations, one for every month in the year, that actually took place between Mrs. LOUDON and her daughter, with occasional interlocutors ; and each conversation relates to certain natural objects or appearances incidental to the season : thus, the finding a snail or a caterpillar, hearing the chirps of a bird or the hum of a bee, the culling of a field-flower, the sight of flies on a pond, a stumble over a mole- hill, or any casual occurrence, serves to introduce a subject that is pursued until the httle querist is satisfied, or the conversation is broken off. The ex- planations of the structure of plants and the habits of living creatures are il- lustrated by wood-cute, which are numerous and well executed.]

Trevor Hastinges, or the Battle of Tewkesbury. By the Author of "Henry of Monmouth." In three volumes. [A tale of the " Wars of the Roses," in which historical incidents are spun out with a far more than satisfying minuteness of detail and amplification of dia- logue. The description of robbers' caves and pitched battles are picturesque enough as regards costume, but the adventures are deficient in animation; the characters have not flesh and blood reality ; and the fate of the hero and heroine excites no continuous interest.] The Bath Subscription-Ball, and other Poems. [The first poem in this brochure has for its theme a ball that was given some years ago at Bath; and, so far as we can make out the subject, it differed nothing from any other subscription-ball, and fell short of many. The other poems are of a "miscellaneous " kind.

Among the various trash which issues from the press in the form of verse, by persons who have not even acquired the mechanical powers of scanning, this publication is about the worst that has fallen in our way. Publishers should themselves interfere to prevent this infliction.]

A Voice in Ramah ; or Lament of the Poor African, a fettered exile, afar from his fatherland. A Poem, in five cantos. By ANDREW STEINMETZ. [The feeling which dictated this attempt to plead the cause of the slave in verse, by one of African descent, and the benevolent purpose of the writer to devote any profits arising from the sale of the volume to the relief of the rela- tives of those who perished in the disastrous Niger Expedition preclude criti- cism, and will recommend the book to the encouragement of all holding Anti- slavery opinions.]

The Works of William Jay, collected and revised by himself. Volume IL—" Morning and Evening Exercises." [This collected edition of the works of the well-known Nonconformist divine contains the Morning and Evening Exercises from April to June, now printed together for the first time.] The Book of Thought ; or Observations and Passages relating to Religion, Morals, Manners, and Characters. Selected from various writers. With an index.

[A collection of passages noted by the compiler in the coarse of his reading; the greater part of them being prose, but a few consisting of poetical extracts. The collection is of a various nature,—sometimes a sentence, sometimes a page; and is not devoid of use and amusement, though made upon no definite princi- ple. It is in fact a reader's commonplace book.; which seems to us an odd sort of thing to publish.] A Treatise on Fresco, Encaustic, and Tempera Painting; being the sub- stance of Lectures delivered at the Society of British Artists, and at the School of Design, Leicester Square, in the years 1838-39-40. By En- IMMO LATILLA, Mew. Soc. Brit. Art.

[A book of great pretension and little worth : a mere catchpenny advertise- ment, wherein the writer shows off his learning by some "bald disjointed chat" about Greek and Italian art; and tells what he has gleaned from the books he has consulted, adding a modicum of information of his own—common, we should suppose, to all house-decorators.] Fables et (Euvres Diverse, de J. La Fontaine; avec des Notes, et one nouvelle Notice our sa Vie, par C. A. WALCHENAER, Secretaire Per- petuel de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres. Wstoire de Charles ; et Ilisteire de Russie sous Pierre le Grand. Par VOLTAIRE.

Aventures de Telimague ; suivies du Recueil des Fables composes pour Teducation de Monseigneur le Due de Bourgogne. Par F.ENELON, Arebevilque de Cambrai. [An addition to Messrs. DIDOT'S series of cheap and elegant French Classics; which form altogether the best and most available works published for acquir- ing a knowledge of the treasures of French literature.] One Centenary of Sonnets ; dedicated to her most Gracious Majesty Queen Victoria, by her Majesty's faithful liege and servant, Tfloates HAW- Kins, Esq.

Power Of the Passions ; and other Poems. By Mrs. KATHARINE AUGUSTA WARE.

Faust; a Tragedy. By J. W. GOETHE. Part 11. as completed in 1831. Translated into English verse. Second edition.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

The Young Waltonians. Painted by JOHN CONSTABLE, R.A.; en- graved by DAVID LUCAS.

[An effective mezzotint of one of CONSTABLE'S picturesque transcripts of English rural scenery : a river running through meads with a clump of trees, a cloudy sky and a bright moist atmosphere: two urchins angling in the stream give the title to this homely and pleasing picture; the print of which is dedi- cated to the lovers of angling.] Benevolence. Preparatory Etching for a highly-finished mezzotint en- graving. Painted by W. DRUMMOND ; engraved by W. H. EGLETON. [An unfinished plate of a design, representing two benevolent ladies relieving a distressed family. Of the merits of the expression and execution we can pronounce no opinion in this stage of the engraving ; but it strikes us that the contiast between the looks of the handsome, well-fed, and well-dressed be- 'towers of charity, and the famishing recipients, is not sufficiently marked.] Brochedon's Daly, Part III.

Quain's Series of Anatomical Plates, Fasciculus XCVIII. MAPS.

Plan of the City of Cabal and its Environs. By JAMES WELD. Bolzhara, Cabool, Beloochistan, &c.

The Punjab, with part of Afghanistan, Kashmeer, Shade, &c. PAMPHLETS.

Argument for the General Relief of the Country from Taxation, and eventually from the Corn-laws, by an Assessment on Property. An Earnest Plea both for the Poor and for the Bich. & Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., First Lord of the Treasury, &c.; in which is shown how the New Poor-law machinery may be made the instrument of diffusing immediate and universal blessings through- out the land. By a Parochial Clergyman. Principles of Money; with their application to the Reform of the Cur- rency and of Banking, and to the relief of financial difficulties. By JOHN WADE.

Lord Brougham's Speech on the Income-Tax, in the House of Lords, 17th March 1842.