PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The History of India. By the Honourable MOUNTSTUART ELPHIN.• STONE. Vols. I. and II.

A Guide to the Loan Societies of London.

Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation ; with an Inquiry into the comparative merits of different Mineral Waters, the Maladies to which they are applicable, and those in which they are inju- rious. By JAMES .T caisson, M.D., Physician Extraordinary to the late King.

Notes on the United States of North America, during a Phrenological Visit in 1838-9-40. By GEORGE COMUE. In three vols.

Italy and the Italian Islands, from the earliest ages to the present time. By Witt.i.tm SeAmeNc, Esq., Professor of Rhetoric in the University of Edinburgh.' With Engravings on Wood by JACKSON, and illustra- tive Maps and Plans on Steel. In three vols. (Edinburgh Cabinet Library.) Waldemar, surnamed Seir, or the Victorious. Translated from the Danish of B. S. INGEMANN, by a Lady. Ii, three vols. [B. S. INGEMANN is the most popular of Danish novelists, and has devoted his labours to illustrate the history of his country. Unluckily for his reputation with those who take no national interest in his theme, he has altogether proceeded upon a principle which he misapplies. "According to my view of the subject," says he in his preface to Prince Otto of Denmark, "it is as im- possible that a delineation of a series of characters and events should lose its poetic interest by closely adhering to facts, as it is certain that history and human life contain a mine of poetic treasure and store of thought." This opinion is true, with two qualifications,—first, that the "facts, characters, and events" should contain in themselves the spirit or germs of poetry ; and second, that the delineator should have the art to evolve and the genius to vivify them. Speaking with that allowance which must always be made for a foreigner judging by means of a translation, M. Ittozaiatiti is deficient in both of the qualities desiderated. In selecting the reign of Waldemar the Victo- rious as the subject of a romance, he chose a story deficient in unity—not merely unity of action, but unity of interest ; the events he has taken are not very striking; and his mode of treatment generally resembles the dry style of a chronicler, frequently falling down to the inanity and commonplace of a modern news-compiler. These defects in the main story are not redeemed by any thing in the underplot. The unconnected history of Waldemar (for omissions, and the form of a romance, deprive the story of the consecutive narration of a history) is rather disturbed than relieved by a couple of love affairs, which in- spire little interest from their want of vitality. The work is translated, and well translated, by a lady resident in Denmark. It has also had the advantage of M. INOEMANN'S superintendence in part, and of a revision by an English editor, who, judging from his preface, is a person of critical ability.] The Opinions of Lord Holland, as recorded in the Journals of the House of Lords, from 1797 to 1841. Collected and edited by D. C. MOYLAN, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.

[It was a happy idea of the Duke of SUSSEX—far to him Mr. MOYLAN inti- mates be was indebted for the hint—to collect the Protests of Lord HOLLAND as an exemplar of his character and a monument to his fame. Commencing in 1798, and continued to the close of the session of 1839, they embody old Whig constitutional principles in plain and idiomatic English, and form at once a narrative and a commentary upon the essence of politics for forty eventful years. It is, however, an indicative estimate of the character of Lord HOLLAND as a statesman and office-holder, that his best monument should be found in Protests, and an equally significant hint of the trammels of office, that we discover no protest against the GREY Coercion Bill, though such a class a protests are to be found under the LIVERPOOL Administration.] Memoir on the Radical Cure of Stuttering by a Surgical Operation. By J. F. DIEPTENBACH. Translated from the German by JOSEPH TRAVERS, late House Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital.

[During the present year the celebrated M. DIEFFENBACH has operated upon aixteen patients to cure the distressing affliction of stuttering, and with a suc- cessful result. The operation is too technical to explain to general readers ; but the principle is, to work a change in the nervous influence (to which M. DIEFFENBACH attributes the impediment) by cutting nearly through the root of the tongue, or to make a wedge-shaped incision ; the last method being recommended as the most efficacious. The operation, however, is attended with considerable risk, unless in very competent hands : according to the inventor, "it never can be performed by one who has not the temperament of an operator."

Mr. JOSEPH TB.A.VERS, the translator of the Memoir, attended the lectures of DIEFFENBACH ; and he has rather endeavoured to convey the ideas than the words of the illustrious surgeon ; "a mode approved by M. Dieffenbach himself, to whom the revision of this translation has been submitted." In these days of large books, it is something to say that this Memoir, on so novel and important an operation, does not exceed twenty pages.] Mineral Teeth, their merits and manufacture; with observations on those cases in which they are or are not apPlicable, and on the best means of preserving artificial teeth. By EDWIN SAUNDERS, M.R.C.S., Sze., Author of "Advice on the Care of the Teeth," &c.

Some Inquiries into the Effects of Fermented Liquors. By a Water- Drinker. Third edition, revised.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, collected by Himself. In ten vols. VI.—" Lallah Rookh."

[-This volume contains the greater part of " Lallah Rookh "; the preface being devoted to an account of the production of the poem, and of the very liberal manner in which the house of LONGMAN behaved through the whole matter of negotiation, writing, and publishing.] Fiasco, or the Conspiracy of Genoa ; a Tragedy. Translated from the German of FRIEDERICH VON SCHILLER. In five acts.

Miscellaneous Verses. By Sir FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE, Bart., Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. Second edition.

Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau. By an Old Man. Sixth Edition. [A cheap and most beautiful edition of this attractive work ; which, whatever may be its medical or scientific merits, is still the agreeable book of the Baths of Germany.] Europe in 1840. Translated from the German of WoLra.a.tao MENZEL. The Law and Practice relating to the Constitution and Management of Assurance, .Banking, and other Joint Stock Companies. By SWINTON BOULT, Secretary to the Liverpool Fire and Life Insurance Company.

SERIALS.

Waverley Novels. Vol. I.—" Waverley." Waverley Novels. Vol 1. Part 1.—" Waverley." [This is the cheapest and boldest speculation of the time, fertile as it is in cheap literary speculations—the entire novel of Waverlegs with all the intro- ductions and notes, for four shillings, with a choice of editions for the pur- chaser. Those who have little space to spare, who grudge the cost of book- cases, and who do not object to double columns, may purchase the large edition, which will comprise the whole of the Waverley Novels in five volumes. Those who prefer a pocket size may choose the small octavo, bound to their hand and ready for the book-shelf, which will extend to twenty-five volumes; the cost of each edition being the same. The larger edition appears the best adapted for separate purchase. We have called this`edition the cheapest of modern times, and we have not spoken at random. Regard being had to typographical elegance as well as to nominal price, Mr. SMITH'S "Standard Library" reprints are about the ne plus ultra of any thing we have seen. His edition of Mrs. 1NCHBALD'S Simple Story contains somewhat more than ninety pages at a price of two shillings ; Waverley upwards of one hundred and eighty for four shillings. It must be remembered, too, that Waverley is copyright, the Simple Story the reprint of a public property. Some consideration must also be had to the gigantic nature and duplex form of the Waverley editions—fifty volumes of warranted issue.

It is curious to speculate upon the cause of this speculation. Is it a sign of a still growing taste for reading, with a consequently increasing market, which the holders ot copyrights find it their interest to supply ? or is it the approach- ing extinction of copyright in the earlier novels, ( Waverley expiring, we be- lieve, in I842,) that induces the owners to take time by the forelock and sup- ply the cheap market before the free trader can came in for a share ?] The Works of Montaigne, edited by WILLIAM HAZLITT. Part I. [The indefatigable WILLIAM HAZLITT the younger is again in the field with an edition of "old Montaigne "; a writer who formed the delight of our forefathers, and whose reputation has always stood high with men of the first genius and critical sagacity. But he has higher ground to rest upon than the absolute merit of his works. Excepting the drama, they are, as Ilara.sai has remarked, "the first provocatio ad populum—the first appeal from the porch and the academy to the haunts of busy and idle men." In his Essays will be found the original of what has since done so much in popular- izing literature, disseminating political freedom, and softening public opinion— the modern "article." The French journals of the learned, the more mis- cellaneous " Classics " of England, the Magazine, the Review, and the Journal, may all be traced up to /HONTAIGNE ; and so far as vivacity and agreeableness are concerned, without much advance upon their prototypes.] Instructions for the Discrimination of Minerals by simple Chemical Experiments. By Fueriz Vois KOBELL, Professor of Mineralogy in the University of Munich. Translated from the German by ROBERT CORBET CAMPBELL. (Griffin's Scientific Miscellany, No. V.) Roscoe's Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales, Part II. Germany and the German Empire. IL (Corner's Historical Library, Part XV.) .Forbes's History of British Starfishes, Parts IV., V., and VI.

PERIODICALS.

Magazines for March—Asiatic Journal, Citizen. The World in the year 1840: Retrospect of the chief Events, civil, politi- cal, and religious, of the past year, in chronological order. EA collection of" articles" from the Britannia Conservative newspaper, form- ing a batch of comments on the principal events and circumstances of the year.] A Protest against Coercion of Conscience and the Exaction of Church- Rates; with preliminary observations on church-building. By a Lei- ce-tershire Nonconformist.

Four Letters addressed to the Lords Justices of Ireland, on the subject of a system of Central and LocalManagement ix conjunction with the Poor- Laws for Ireland. By J. L. W. NAPER, Esq. The Queen's Bench Examined upon the Principles of Alkohol Teetotaller, by the House of Commons Prison Report, and the Bench Observer, with a view to temperance moral reform. Addressed to Thomas Chapman. Esq., Marshal of the Queen's Bench, by a late prisoner in 1840, through the cruel debtor tyrannical imprisonment law, GEO. C. Smirn, The Outcry against the New Poor-law; or Who is the Poor Man's Friend? By the Reverend THOMAS SPENCER, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Hinton Charterhouse, near Bath, &c.

The New Poor-law Explained and Vindicated. A Plain Address to the labouring classes among his parishioners, by J. H. GURNEY, M.A., Curate of Lutterworth. Fourth edition, with a Prefatory Letter and Appendix. A Letter to _Mr. William Lovett, some time resident in Warwick Gaol. The Church and the Clergy; a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, by a Clergyman of the Church of England. Craig's Patent Rotatory Steam-Engine, Explained and Illustrated ; with a concise review of the invention of the piston-engine, and a com- parative estimate of their relative power and advantages. Objections to the County Courts Bill, now before Parliament ; showing its tendency to destroy altogether the legal remedies it proposes to improve, and the disastrous effects it is calculated to inevitably produce on the commercial interests of the country. By GILBERT ABBOTT MBECKET, Esq., of Gray's Inn, Barrister-at-law.