PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boom.

17re _Expedition for the Survey of the _Rivers Euphrates and Tigris, carried on by order of the British Government, in the years 1835, 1836, and 1837; preceded by,Geographical and Historical Notices of the Regions situated between the Rivera Nile and Indus. In four vo- lumes. With fourteen Maps and Charts, and embellished with ninety- seven Plates, besides numerous Wood-cuts. By Lieutenant-Colonel Chesney, RA., F.R.S., &c. Colonel in Asia ; Commander of the Ex- pedition. By. Authority. -Volumes Land

Histoij of the Romans under Me Empire. By Charles kferival RD., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Volumes I. and H.

Hylton House and its Inmates ; a Novel. By the Author of "The Henpecked Husband," &c. In three volumes.

Memorials of the Castle of Edinburgh. By James Grant, Author of " Memoirs of Birkaldy of Grange, &c. {Since somebody invented the mode of making a -varied, aneedotical,'biogra- 'phioal, historical, and interesting volume by taking a celebrated building like the Tuileries, or the Tower, and telling -its story and the stories of those connected with it, there have been numerous works of the kind, owing to the comparative facility with-which-they were done when the example had once been set. Of the different books of this nature that have fallen in our way, we do not remember one &stiles equalled Mr. Grant's Memorials of the Castle of Edinburgh. It is not merely that the subject itself abounds in

character, incident, and variety, permittin,„e the display of "many-coloured life" from the most rugged times of .feudaliam to the days when Gem* the Third was King; the story is, exceedingly well told. Innarratives of this kind

. there is gen-wally too much either of the dryness of the mere antiquary or the forced effects of the litterateur. Iiir.Grant avoids 'both faults. His style partakes of the varying nature of his subjects, yet always retains a raciness

a:tang:from his sympathy with the old Scottish 'Chieftains and cavaliers, and his.Jacobite leanings. Perhaps, indeed, his national and his Stuart sympa- Shim are both a little too _fiercely felt and too strongly.expressed. To say that at the-Union "Scotland for ever lost her name among the nations, and so forth, is something like an Englishman wailing for the days of Brute the Trojan, or a Welshman for the times of the "Bound Table."]

'Common Sense versus Common Law. By William Massey, Esq., Bare riater-at-law.

[A-plain, searching, andeensible examination of the ,most.glaring-defects of the common law, with suggestions for their reform. Mr. Massey takes uo an

action at its very first step, the summons ; traces it through all its various athles, showing the manner in which justice is delayed or defeated by forms

or chicanery; and examines-the present system of special-pleading and rules

of evidence. The proposed remedies eoneist in the substitution of a plain statement for the present • and the reception of the :testimony of

plaintiff or defendant, husband or wife, leasing the ,-jury to judge of their credibility. In addition to a complete view of an action at law, an analysis of its different ,phases, and the author's proposals for improvement, the book contains -a variety of incidental remarks on our established practice of law, distinguished by native acumen and professional caution.] Ile Jamaica Movement for Promoting the Enforcement of 'the :Blase- trade Treaties,and the Suppremion of the Slave-trade ; with State- ments of Fact, Convention, and Law. Prepared at the request of the _Kingston - Committee. j" Extremes meet." The West Indians seem-tole taking a 'leaf out of the book of their old opponents the Aati-Slavery folk, and to be commencing an

agitation—perhaps a little 'too elate in 'the day. A -society has been eeta- -Ulhed in Jamaica (which mill ,doubtlees have its branches) to -press upon Government the rigid enforcement of the treaties for putting down the slave- tattle ; the Colonists and the habitues of Exeter Hall.being the partiestothe plan. The volume before us, "printed for gratuitous eircidation, contains an account of-the formation of this society, reports of the different meetings that -have been held-in Jamaica on the-subect extracts from the debates in :Parliament, statements ofthe -manner in whiah the treaties are violated, and a long story implicating the manufacturing interest of this country, and a B irmtngham firm in particular, in second-hand.slave-trading.] The Dunrke .Directory for 1850. Carefully compiled from actual sur- vey and the best sources of information.

ffe know not whether any other than Metropolitan and County directories eve been published ; but if they have, -they •have escaped our eight or memory. The Ilirectotrof "bonny :Dundee" comes to us as the find of its race ; and a very good book it is. The model is doubtless the great Post- office Dirootory-af London ; the Magistrates and Council, with other muni- cipal and public persons or bodies, taking the lead, and .being duly followed by lietsal names, streets, and trades. The -leaser extent of places and per- sons;, however,. allows the whole to be more readily displayed ; the troops, as it ware, aro better kept in hand. One singularity strikes us, so far as we min judge. rom inspection and the advertisements ; Dundee can now boast of a directory, but not of a pianoforte tumor.] The l'rincipal Roots of the Greek Language, simplified by a Display of their lmeorporation into the English 'Tongue, on -the same-plan as '"fidell's Latin -Roots." By W. H. Hall. Q►Phe principle-on which these lists are arranged is to assist the memory of tae pupil by i assoction of 'ideas,AO that the Greek word shall recall some i

term used in English, if it do not immediately suggest the corresponding thing. The-grammatical classification of substantive, adjective, and verb, is also adopted. 'The compiler states, " that after these roots and the vocabu- lary -of derivatives shall have been acquired, a pupil will not require to con- sult his dictionary more than about once on an average in every hundred monis he may meet with in the authors usually •read.")

Pnwtical Ventilation as applied to Public, Domestic, and Agricultural ".". Structures; 'being an elucidation of plans and suggestions, of easy ap-

plieation, for van every species of architectural-structure. With Remarks on Heating, &c. By Robert Scott Burn, Engineer. [The substance of this book consists of what the compiler considers the beat practical and economical systems of ventilation, with some additions of his own. He treats in-separate-sections of the best modes of ventilating public edifieemprivate houses, and agriculturalbialdinge, withsome hints on ships, ateam-boats, and railway carriages. He has also added a chapter omheating The Last of the Abencerrages ; or the Fall of Granada. With ether Poems. Ey Thomas Roscoe. [This volume-consists of-the piece which gives the title, another.= Alfred, -and a 'variety of miscellaneous-poems, many of which have already appeared. Mr. Roscoe succeeds best na the ballad. He can versify a story very well, when tradition gives him the incidents and persons ready to -his hand: he is not so mueh at home in loftier themes, that require a longer and imam sustained flight, and test the imagination and invention.]

:Flowers ; their Moral, Language, and Poetry. Editedbyll. 'G. Adams. [A-rhapsody on flowers' an account of the symbols they represent, and in- -numerable -poetical extracts from various authors, with-some original -verses by the editor. It is a cheap book.]

TA:10 the Second; a Tragedy. IlyN. ]toile.

The roprints are numerous. "Sick Calls" is a-series of tales bya Tarnish priest; with which he is supposed to become acquainted in his minis- terial capacity. The idea has probably been suggested by Mr. 'Warren% "Diary of a Physician,'-to which they bear a good deal of •resemblance. The ":Account of the ltuinated Abbey of Cwmhir" was originally read before a Welsh antiquarian society, then published in their journal, ,and is now reprinted. It contains a precis of the history of this remarkable Welsh abbey, its architectural character, and a description of the ruins. "A Plea for the Faithful Restoration of Ancient Churches" has also been read before two provincial societies, and has now been printed -with additional matter. The object of the writer is to explain the principles on which these restorations-should -be made, and furnish hints to the restorers. " War" was originally read before the Bristol Athenaeum, and has been ,en- larged : the author is opposed to the Peace PeoPle, justifying a necessary war; but-that scarcely meets the case, as they say wars are unnecessasy. The new edition of " TheilastDays of Pompeii "--the collected numbers ofthe cheap is'. sue—forms a handsome book, with a new preface, onthe merits and popularitf of the romance. The new edition of Clarksotfs Life of Penn is chiefly remark- able for a preface in which Macaulay's estimate of the great Quaker,..itabis History of England, is examined. As in all other eases, we believe, in which the statements of the historian's .brilliant imagination are scrutinized, .hfc. 'Macaulay is convicted of invention or perversion ; but the success of the,Quas her apologist isnot so great, or his statement so telling, as that of some other of "Macaulay's met-silents. We take "The Early Conflicts of Christianity", to be the reprint of an American book, at least it is by an American divine: it is a descriptive account of the &dimities Christianity had to contend with from Judaism, Grecian philosophy, the licentious spirit of the age; barbarism, and mythology. "The Mercy Seat," by another American, is also, very probably, a reprint : it is a series of chapters or rather of sermons on the sentences of the lord's Prayer, with some general remarks on prayer. The remaining five, as the titles express, are merely • papers" reprinted from the ".Archmologia Camitrensiii," and differ but little from Mr. Beer's amount of .the "ruinated " abbey which also appeared in that journal. Sink 'Calls, from the.Diary of a Missionary.Priest. _Mostly republished from "Dolman's. Magazine." By the Reverend Edward Erma, M.A. u- Historical and Descriptive Account of ,the dluinated Abbey of Oternhir, in the County of ;Radnor. By the Reverend- W. J. Rem: M.A., sic Reprinted from X,VI. -of -the "Archaiol4a:Cambrerrsis," with corrections and additions.

A Plea for the Faithful. Restoration of our Ancient 'C7surehes, To which.are added some Miscellaneous Remarks on other subjeets-con- nected with-the Restoration of -Churches, and the ,revival of Pointed Architecture. By George Gilbert Scott, Architect.

War .Religiously, Morally, and Historically Considered. By T. F. Aiken, Advocate. .

The _Last .Days of l'ontyii. BY Sir Edward $ulwer Lytton, Bart. With a Frontispiece, VA-Tablet K. 'Browne.

Memoirs of thel314ic and Private Life of William Penn, By Thomas

Clarkson, Wow edition, with a Preface in reply to the "Charges against fais character made by Mr. Macaiday inhis History of Eng- land," by W. E. Forster.

The Early Conflicts-of -Christianity. By the Reverend William Ilium

ham Kip, D.D. "

The Mercy Seat. Thoughts suggested brtlie Lord's prayer. Bygler- diner•Spring, D.D., Pastor of Brick Presbyterian Church, in-the city of New York.

Notes on the Architectural Antiquities of the District 'of -Gower, Ist Glamorganshire. By Edward A. Freeman, .MA. Ite,printed•from!the. " Archreolog,ia Cambrensis."

Druidic Stones. 'By the Reverend J. Williams. Reprinted _foam the "Archreologia Cambrensis."

Observations on the Stone of -St. Codfan, at Torn. By 3. 0. West- wood, Esq., F.S.A., &e. ; and the ReVerend.J. Williams (Al Ithel). Re- printed from the " Arellseologia Cambrensis."

The Inundation of Centre 'R Gwaelod ; or the Lowland Hundred. the Rcverend'G. Edwards, M.A. Reprinted from the -" Archieologia Cambrensis."

Te»werance and Total Abstinence; or the Use and Abuse of Alcoholic Liquors in Health and Disease. By Spencer Thomson, M.D., Snnr ts.

An Encyclopaedia ofGardening; comprising the Theory and 'Predict of 'Horticulture, 'Floricultuie, Arboriculture, and'landscape Garden- ing; including all the latest improvements, a general history of gar- dening in all countries, and a statistical view of its 'present state; with suggestions for its-future progress in the British files. By-J. -C.

Loudon, F.L.S., &e. illustrated with many hundred eugraviega on wood, hy Branston. A new edition, corrected and improved, by Mrs. Loudon. Part L

An Essay on the Origin and Development of Window Tracery in land ; with numerous Illustrations. By Edward A. Freeman, 111-A ., late Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. Part I.

Pamanuses _The Spirit of the World and the Spirit which is God. _A Sermon-ad, dressed to the newly confirmed, and prepatory to the Holy Commnnion on Easter Even, 1800. By John Jackson, MA., _Rector of St-Jamea Westminster.

.Remarks on Dr. Wiseman's Sermon on the 'Gorham Case. By Henry DrummeauL

A Review of the Gorham Case, &c. A letter to the Lord Bishop of Salisbury. _By John David Chambers, MA., .Recorder of New Sarum. The _Decay of Traditional Faith, and the Reestablishment of Faith upon Philosophy. Two Lectures, delivered at Finsbury Chapel, South. Place. By Henry Ireaon, A.M.

Church and State. Reprinted from the April Number of the "Christian Remoubrancer."

The Clergy and.the 'Commons ; or the Right of the National Convocation to sit m Parliament ?Vindicated. By a Layman.

Karriage ; its Origin, Uses, and Duties. A Discourse delivered in the New Jerusalem Chunch, Cross Street, Hatton Barden, London, March 3,1850. By :the Reverend W. Bruce.

Queen's College, London. A Letter to the Right Honourable and Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Landon, &c. By Frederick Denison Maurice, ILA., .Cheplain of Lincoln's Inn.

Observations on -the Cambridge System, partly in -reply to, partly sug- .g_ested:by, 1VhewelFs recent Educational Publications. By A. IL Wratialaw, ILA.

A Voice from the North.; or'the Foundation and' hilosophy of Legis- lative and .Governmental Principles.; &c. In a series of Letters, dedi- cated and addressed tothe Leading British Statesmen of the Day. By a Minister of the Church of Scotland.

Ecclesiastical Restoration and Reform. No. II. The Education Ques- tion Practically Considered, &e. By Walter Blunt, M.A.

Duty of the Rich. By an Engliahman.

The Art of False Reasoning _Exemplified ; in some Extracts from the Report of Sir Robert Peel's Speech of July 7th 1849.

17w A. B. C. of-Colonization. In a series of Letters. By Mrs. Chis- holm. No. T.

_Letter to the Shareholders of the Great Indian Peninsula .Railway Company, from J. Chapman, its Founder and late Manager.