PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Annals of Windsor : being a History of the Castle and Town ; with some Ac- count of Eton and Places Adjacent. By Robert Richard Tighe, Esq., and James Edward Davies, Esq., Barrister-at-law. Volumes I. and II.

The Catechism of Positive Religion. Translated from the French of Auguste Comte, hy Richard Congreve.

-Essays and Remains of the Reverend Robert Alfred Vaughan. Edited, with a Memoir, by the Reverend Robert Vaughan, D.D. In two volumes. Essays on History, Biography. Geography, Engineering, ,tc. Contributed to the Quarterly Review by the late Earl of Ellesmere.

God's Acre ; or Historical Notices relating to Churchyards. By Mrs. Stone, Authoress of " History of the Art of Needlework," &c.

The Wayfarers; or Toil and Rest. By Mrs. P. M. Latham.

Cream, By Charles Reade, Author of "White Lies," 8r.c. Contains Jack of All Trades, a Matter-of-fact Romance ; and the Autobiography of a Thief. The Old Palace. By Julia Tilt, Author of "May Hamilton," &c. In two vo- lumes.

Traturactions of the National Association for the Promotion of Social Science.—The authorized edition of the addresses delivered by Lords Brougham, Stanley, John Russell, and other speakers to the Association at Birmingham last autumn; prefaced by the Reverend Sydney. Turner's Sermon, and an account of the formation of the Society and its objects, by Mr. Hastings. Papers follow by various thoughtful and able men, on law, education, punishment, reformation, public health, and social mummy, almost any one of which would furnish a theme for discussion on subjects connected with the improvement of society. The newspaper reports at the time might give the public the more salient points of the questions addressed to the meeting, but here are the results of the Se - eiety's labours very carefully edited and completely presented. The vo - one is a storehouse of materials for the social reformer.

Eaples and Sing Ferdinand, By Elizabeth Dawbarn.—A volume on a timely subject, but failing of effect from want of literary skill if ant of Painstaking. It is a mere compilation, often passing towards tittle raere than scissors-work, at least in the account of the present Nine and his father, which fills '-wo-thirds of the volume. This wholesale aPpropriaticm has been done without the care requisite to attain con- siateney ; for something like opposite opinions will occasionally be found,

as if two writers with different conclusions had been drawn upon and no attempt made to reconcile their discrepancies. However, there are a good many anecdotes and alleged characteristics of the present King, with a pretty full account of his sayings and doings. The history of Naples, which precedes the story of Bombs and his father, is brief and ex- hibited by leading events—as the revolt of Massaniello, instead of by continuous narrative.

The Life and Times of Hugh Miller. By Thomas N. Brown.—This is not exactly a life of Hugh Miller, but commentaries 031 the auto- biographical matter found in his works and on the works themselves. In the religious controversies connected with the Patronage question that ended in the establishment of the Free Church, commentary passes into history, with Miller as the leading figure. With that provincial tendency to exaggeration which is sometimes found in Scottish writers, Miller is painted as the " representative man " of modern Scotland, Burns and Scott being both set aside ; while the Witness newspaper appears as the great gun of the disruption, and more influential than Candlish and various other men including Chalmers himself. The great preacher is represented as not only loving lords, but as rather subdued

by them. Knox stood =awed in the presence of the feudal Barons of Scotland, a veritable king of men among the proudest of earth's nobility. Chalmers was ever somewhat unmanned in the company of a lord"; ; though" luckily, he did not sacrifice the cause to this weakness, but bore up against it. The book, treated as it is, scarcely supplies any general public want, but seems a vehicle for the promulgation of its author's opinions and notions.

Homer's Batrachomyomachia, Hymns, and Epigrams. Hesiod's Works and .Days. Museue Hero and .Leander. Juvenal' s Fifth Satire. Translated by George Chapman. With Introduction and Notes, by Richard Hooper,. M.A., F.S.A.—By this volume, which, in addition to the meek-heroic and the hymns once ascribed to Homer, contains the "Hero and Leander" of the pseudo-Musteus, the "Works and Days" of Hesiod, and the Fifth Satire of Juvenal, the whole of George Chap- man's translations are brought to a close, being now published for the first time in a collected form. Every one of the pieces it contains has been hitherto esteemed a literary rarity; and Mr. R. Hooper, who edits the collection, may be regarded as a benefactor by every student of old English literature. That nothing may be wanting, the curious title- page prefixed to the original folio edition of the Batrachomyomachia, and exhibiting portraits of Homer and Chapman, is here reproduced. It should be stated, that this reprint of Chapman's translation, and the collection of Crashaw's works noticed in a previous column, belong to the valuable "library of old authors" now in course of publication by Mr. Smith.

The Microscope, its Revelations and Applications in Science and Art. By John Ferguson, Minister of the Free Church, Bridge of Allan.—A popular exposition of the more striking facts in natural history, phy- siology,. &c., which the microscope has brought to light ; and the specu- lations in reference to life which some of its discoveries have suggested. The literary part is very well done, though with a touch of pulpit man- ner. The logic is impeachable. A purpose of the author is to overthrow the theories of spontaneous generation and development that various modem writers have entertained; but so far as this is done, it is done not by his own arguments, but by quotations from other authors, and that not always in connexion with microscopic discovery.

Christianity in China, Tartary, and Thibet. By M. PAbbit Hue, Author of "The Chinese Empire," &c. Volume III.—Completes the Abbe Hue's compilation on the progress and fortunes of Romanism in China and the adjacent regions. The latter part of the narrative, coming down to the times of Louis the Fourteenth, has from its more modern character a greater general interest than the previous volumes.

A Catechism on Chemistry; including Heat, Magnetism, and Electricity. By the Rev. j. W. Neat, M.A.—The principal characteristic of this elementary manual is the expositional manner in which the answers are given to the questions, instead of the hard dogmatic way that is usual in catechisms. The little book may claim the merit of cleameaa if not "originality" "in its arrangement, and simplicity in its statements" ; and it is likely to be useful in tuition.

JEschylus, ex novissima reeensione Frederici A. Poley.—Another vo- lume of Messrs. Deighton's very neat editions of "Cambridge Greek and Latin Testa," worthy of ranking with the far-famed Elzevirs. To the text of the dramas, printed in a remarkably clear and legible type but not too large for the size of the book, is appended an index of the most note-worthy words, with references to their place in the text.

Exercises adapted to the New and Complete Course of the French Lan- guage. By A. A. De Charente, French Master in the Royal Military Academy.—A series of progressive exercises on pronunciation and acci- dence, intended to be used in conjunction with the author's grammar, whose rules the exercises illustrate, and to which rules continual refer- ence is made. The book demands patience and perseverance, but it will do its work thoroughly, not only as regards what it primarily professes to teach, but in the store of words and phrases the pupil will have laid up, when he has gone through the (not large) volume.

New Friends : a Taloa for Children. By the Author of "Julian and his Playfellows."—A story of bad children made good and good children made better. It differs little from other stories of a similar kind, except in a tendency to exaggeration.

The most popular reprint of the week is the fifth volume of Macau- lay's History; which closes with the acquittal of TorrV

conduct in the naval action off &achy Head. Deal t e discovery of the Jacobite plot that followed. A valuable if r.c from its nature so popular a work, is Poulett Scrape's second etrozIf "The Geology of the Extinct Volcanoes of Central France,",1..'n Lgot up and artistically MUM- trated. A fifth edition of Lora Lindsars " noly Land," the original work being now twentr ,years old, is sent forth in " Bohn's Illustrated Li- brary " P1a the same publisher completes the seventh edition of Man- ton', Wonders of Geology. Of a kindred generic subject so far as science is in question, is a second edition of Sir David Brewster' "Kaleidoscope." The History of England from the Accession of James the Second. By Lord Macaulay. Volume V. The Geology and Extinct Volcanoes of Central France. By G. Ponlett Scrope, M.P., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c. Second edition, enlarged and improved, with Il- lustrative Maps, Views, and Panoramic Sketches.

Letters on Egypt, .Edona, and the Holy Land. By Lord Lindsay. Fifth edi- tion,. with additional Preface and Notes, and Illustrated by numerous En- gravings. The Wonders of Geology ; or a Familiar Exposition of Geological Phenomena. By Gideon Algernon- Mantel, LLD., F.It.S., F.G.S. Seventh edition, re- vised and augmented, by T. Rupert Jones, F.G.S. In two volumes. Volume II. (Bohn's Scientific Library.) The Kaleidoscope, its History, Theory, and Construction; with its Application to the Fine and Useful Arts. By Sir David Brewster, K.H., D.C.L., I.R.S., &c. &e. &c. Second edition, greatly enlarged. With Engravings. NEW SERIAL.

Tales from Blackwood. No. I. Published Monthly.-This is the new literary undertaking of the week or the times,-a selection of the various tales that have appeared in Blackwood's Magazine for this forty years past; serious, satirical, broad, sentimental, comic, romantic, and, let us say, without exaggeration and with memory glancing back upon the past, sometimes thrilling. A first number can only offer a true spe- cimen of the material part, and that is capital,-a good paper, a clear type of size untrying to the eye, and capable of being read in the jolt- ing of a railway-carriage, if the " oscillations " do not divert the mind from fancy to reality. There is about a hundred pages for sixpence ; the first number giving a tale for twopence ! We have Vanderdeeken's Message Home, a story of the Flying Dutchman ; the Floating Beacon, one of those stories of " situation " for which Maga has always been celebrated; and Professor Aytoun's Glenmutehltin Railway, a humorous exposure of the frauds of the railway mania.