PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

A History of Architecture. By Edward A. Freeman, M.A., late Fellow of Trinity College, Osford. Selections from the Poems and Letters of Bernard Barton. Edited by his Daughter. The Romance of die Peerage; or Curiosities of Family History. By George Lillie Craik. Volume IlL The Anti-Materialist; denying the Reality of Matter, and vindicating the Universality of Spirit. By John Dudley, Clerk, Author of "Neology," Ses The Philosophy of Huniast Knowledge; or a Critical Analysis of the three great Questions, What Knows? What is Known? What are the Laws of Knowing By John Jones Osborn. Sir Edward Graham; or Railway Speculators. By Catherine Sinclair, Author of " The Journey of Life," &c. In three volumes. Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange. By John Francis, Author of the "History of the Bank of England, its 'Times and Tra- ditions."

Religious Teachings; being Sermons preached on various occasions, and short Addresses to Boys at a Public School. By the Reverend H. Highton, M.A., &c.

[Several circumstances concur to give these sermons and "short addresses" a distinctive character. The author is a strong Protestant; and although his com- positions are not controversial, his Anti-Popery and Anti-Tractarian opinions come out strongly, and colour his "teachings.' As an Assistant-Master of Rugby School, he was in the habit of addressing his boarders on the Sunday even- ings; and these short discourses have a species of originality from the aptness of the topics to the persons addressed. Mr. lighten has also peculiar views oa the subject of the coming of Christ and the reign of the saints on earth; or rather, he looks upon the Millennium as of uncertain but possibly of early approach, as- signing to it more prominence than is now the custom amongst divines to do. In addition to all these, the preacher is full of matter, is clear in his arrangement, and possesses a close and forcible style, at once scholarly and of the world.] Apostolical Sketches; or Some Incidents in the Lives of the First Teachers

Considered. By the Reverend Thomas Sworde, M.A., &c. [Mr. Sworde's Apostolical Sketches are also separated from the common ran of sermons by his choice of subject. His niue discourses are all occupied with some incident or some character conspicuously concerned with the foundation of Chris- tianity; as the Conversion of St. Paul, his Preaching at Athens, the Incredulity of St. Thomas. The reader therefore has biography, manners, and their applica- tion to Christian conduct, as well as the usual hortative or explanation.]

An Exposition of the Church Catechism; in the form of Brief Illustrative Lectures' with Qaestions appended. By thd"Reverend John Booker, A.M., Vicar of Killurin.

[Ins great measure a compilation; designed for clergymen who examine thejn- venile part of their flocks in the Catechism, but available also for school or family use.] The Revelations of an Orderly; being an Attempt to Expose the Abuses of Administration by the relation of Every-day Occurrences in the Ma- fussil Courts. By Panchkouree Khan. [An English edition of a series of sketches which originally appeared in a Be- mires periodical, and were afterwards reprinted in India in a collected form. The chief object of the author is to expose the abuses of what we should call the Po- lice Courts; the corruption of the officers, and the acts by which they hoodwink the English Magistrates or play upon their weaknesses. Besides these topics, the superstitions of the Hindoos, the crimes, disgusting vices, and bestialities of their priests, and the swindling arts of the native chevaliers d'industrie' are handled. The character of the narrative resembles that of the Spanish and French novels of adventure and the form is autobiographical; the "orderly, a combination of the sheriff's-Officer and police-inspector, telling his exploits and pre- senting his observations in the first person. There are a good many pictures of Indian life and character in the book; perhaps true, but rather too crowded, and too literal for the effect of general vraisemblance, while from their mode of pre sentation they want the force of actual fact.] Harry and Archie; or First and Last Communion.

[A tale iu the style of the old religious tracts, but with more of literary power and largeness of view. It is designed to illustrate the importance of receiving the coin- muaion; but its true moral seems to be the necessity of firmness of character.]

Sketches of Cantabs. By John Smith, (of Smith Hall,) Gent.

[A series of characters to be found at the University,—as the Reading Cantab, the Fast Cantab,—done after the manner which Theophrastus originated, except that they often seem portraits rather than generalizations, and somewhat literal too.]

Songs, Ballads, and Sacred Songs. By Thomas Moore. [This edition embraces the National and Sacred Melodies, the author's miscells. neous songs, with a few ballads, and some occasional pieces, that if not quite lyrics are as near that class as any other. The volume ranges with the separate editions of the "Irish Melodies" and "Leila Reokh."] First Book of Poetry for Elementary Schools. Selected by the Reverend F. C. Cook, MA., &c. [Chiefly pieces of a moral and religions kind, or impressive of elevated ideas Some of them appear above the elementary design of the book; but the compiler "behaves that there are few pieces in the volume which, with proper care" "7"., be made interesting to boys and girls in the upperclasses of most National Schools- It is a good selection of modern poetry, and very cheap.] The Outlaw's Confession, Heir of Alva, and other Poems. By Deathre:a Fairclough. [The subjects of the two principal poems are commonplace romantic tales, were tied in the manner of Byron.]

The Patriot; a Tragedy, in five acts. By George Stephens.

Lectures on Electricity and Galvanism, in their Physiological and Thera- poetical Relations, delivered at the Royal College of Physicians. Revised and extended. By Golding Bird, A.M., M.D., Sze., Fellow of the College. [These lectures were reported in the Medical Gazette, and attracted so much attention that the anther was induced to publish them in a separate form, not onlv by "request of friends," but what is of more consequence, at the suggestion of Lis publishers. The lectures contain a clear resume of the principles of elec- rieity and galvanism so far as they have been discovered, with the limitation and t extent of their medical utility.] The Statutes and Parts of Statutes of the Session of Parliament 1849 (12 and 13 Viet.) relating to Magistrates, Parochial and Municipal Law; with Introductions. Notes, and copious Index. By Adam Bittleston and Edward W. Cox, Esquires, Barristers-at-law; Editors of "The Magis- trate." [The object of this publication is stated in the title: should the work be approved of it will be made a "Magistrate's Annual." The introductions and notes are plain and comprehensive without being overlaid.] A Grammar, with a Selection of Dialogues and Familiar Phrases, and a Short Vocabulary in Modern Arabic. Edited by Fletcher Hayes, M.A., &e.

rim outline of the Arabic grammar, with dialogues on common subjects, intended for Eastern tourists and travellers by the overland route. Such is the progress of the world.]

Outee-Mer; a Pilgrimage beyond :the Sea. By Henry Wadsworth Long- fellow.

[A cheap and pretty re E riot.] The Ten Commandments. By the Author of "Hymns and Scenes of Child- hood," &c. [The Commandments versified.] [The titles of the following new editions sufficiently explain themselves.] Callus; or Roman Scenes of the Time of Augustus. With Notes and Ex- curses illustrative of the Manners and Customs of the Romans. By Pro- fessor W. A. Becker. Translated by the Reverend Frederick Metcalfe, M.A., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford, Sie. Second edition. An Examination of Calvinism, and especially of its present Modified Forms, by the test of Holy Scripture, and the unanimous Teaching of the Church. Together with a View of the Rise of the Predestinarian Doctrines. By the Reverend W. Houghton, Curate of the parishes of Sennen and S. Levan, in the Deanery of S. Buryan, Cornwall. Second edition, revised and greatly enlarged. The Practice of Poor Removals, as regulated by the recent Statutes, 9 and 10 Viet. c. 66, and it and 12 Viet. c. 31. With Observations, Forms, and all the Cases decided to the end of Trinity Term 1849. By Edward W. Cox, Esq., Barrister-at-law. Second edition.

The Education of the Feelings. By Charles Bray. Second edition.

SERIALS.

The Finchley Manuals of Industry. No. I. Cooking; or Practical and Eco- nomical Training for those who are to be Servants, Wives, and Mothers. Prepared for the use of the National and Industrial Schools of the Holy Trinity, at Finchley. [A very concise and clear introduction to the art and mystery of plain cookery; with MEM housewifely adjuncts; the directions being retraced and illustrated in explanatory dialogue, calculated to impress the ratiouale and practice of a well- ordered kitchen more strongly on the understanding and memory. While good cookery turns the irksome function of feeding to a pleasure, and can convert fru- gality into a feast, ignorance of the art of preparing food needlessly adds to the hardships of poverty, to its bad temper, and sometimes perchance to its crimes. If a soft answer turneth away wrath, a well-cooked morsel may avert even mur- der. The little volume will be a useful exercise for girls seeking service in fami- lies of the humbler middle class.]

Life of Oliver Goldsmith. By Washington Irving. In two parts. (Mur- ray's Rome and Colonial Library.)

ILLUSTRATED WORKS.

Choice Examples of Art IVorkmanship, Mediaeval and Modern. Part I. [An octavo fascicums, of handsome paper, containing four plates, with brief ex- planatory letterpress. The examples in this first number are-the silver cup in the British Museum, apocryphally ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini; a has-relief representing the vintage, by Thorwaldsen-boys plucking and pressing grapes; fragment of an altar [a carved canopy] in the Convent Blauberen, sculptured by Georga Syrlein; and a gilt vase of the sixteenth century at Nuremberg; the two last copied from Die Ornamentik des Mittelalters, by Charles ileidoleff. The drawings are simply and effectively executed, the effect being heightened by a very slight tinting. It may be objected that Thorwaldsen's has-relief belongs to sculpture rather than to what is to be understood by "art-workmanship"; but it was suggested by Anacreon's goblet, and the author of the text before us desires that it should be applied as the ornament of a goblet.] Gailhaboucts Ancient and Modern Architecture. Parts CXV. to CXXVI.

ALMANACK.

The Comic Almanack and Diary, for 1850.

[Contains the usual amount of fun and comicality, with we think some slight dif- ference of arrangement. Cruikshank's cuts are capital: in Gilray's days, the frontispieee-"A New Court of Queen's Bench," where a court, jury, and bar of ladies, are trying a criminal for breach of promise-would have been reckoned cheap at the cost of the whole book.]

PAMPHLETS.

A Letter to the Right Honourable Viscount Morpeth, s1LP., on the Past, the Present, and the Probable Future Supply of Water to London, and Sanitary Reform. By John Londe Taliberner.

The Impracticability of the Henley. on-Thames Project for Supplying Lon- don with Water from the Henley-on. Thames Reach Exposed, &c. In a Correspondence with the "Morning Chronicle." By John Londe Tab-

Some Notes of a Tour in England, Scotland, and Ireland, made with a view to the Inquiry, Whether our Labouring Population be really Re- dundant? In Letters to the Editor of the "Morning Chronicle." By G. I'oulett Scrope, Esq., M.P.

A Letter to Purnell Brataby Purnell, Esq, Chairman to the Court of Quarter-Sessions for the County of Gloucester. fly Gilbert Bolden, Esq Solicitor to the Alleged Lunatics' Friend Suciety, London.

The Education of the People, in its Plata and Results; a Lecture, delivered by a Clergyman of the Diocese of Hereford. Crown Property in North Wales, its Management and Appropriation; Nyttla a Reply to Mr. James Wyatt's (the Peurhyn Agent) Letter to the Tunes touching the Hundred of Uchaf. By Owen Owen Roberts.

Chambers and Tribunals of Commerce, and proposed General Chamber of Commerce in Liverpool. By Leone Levi.

The Reviewer Reviewed; or a Letter to the Right Jlonourable Stuart Wort- ley, M.P., en the New Marriage Act. Remarks on Naval Courts-.Martial. By Sir Frederick Nicholson, Bart. Ca.tain