PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

I'he Lily and the &e; an Apolrgue of the Crystal Palace. By Samuel Warren, F.R.S.

Le Morvan [a District in Prance,] its Wild Sports, Vineyards, and Forests; ilia. Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Subjects. By Henri De Crignelle, Auden °Meier de Dragons. Translated from the Original Manuscript in French, by Captain Jesse, Author of "Notes

• of a Half-pay."

God in Disease; or the Manifestations of Design in Morbid Pine- nomena. By James F. Duncan, M.D. 8re. [The arguments or views of Dr. Duncan are various enough, but his main object is to trace design in disease. While he confines himself to the medi- cal branch of his theme —as the uses of pain, the beneficence, so to speak, visible in the efforts maid adaptations of the constitution to preserve life or restore health,—he is fall and interesting; though some of his expositions have not the novelty he seems to attach to them. His theological argu- ments partake of the Sermon, and are a little Muse. The spiritual use of sickness is a field so well cultivated as to be exhausted : many will demur to some of the Doctor's other views The notion of Satanic agency as a cause of sickness will not receive much favour at preserrt, any more than the theory to which Dr. Duncan finally inclines—that every attack of illness is of the nature of a special intervention. In logical result Dr. Duncan suc- ceeds no better than many authors of higher pretensions—as some of the writers of the Bridgewater Treatises. The mind is as often thrown back upon. Necessity as brought to perceive manifestations of Design.]

Foreshadows ; or Lectures on Our Lord's Miracles, as Earnests of the Age to Come. By the Reverend John Cumming, D.D., Author of "Apoca- lyptic Sketches."

[From taking the miracles of Christ as the subject of a series of lectures Dr. Cumming attains a unity • but the main interest of the book is owing to its frequent allusions to contemporary events and opinions, which give it a pre- Sent and lifelike character. The sermons, too, have a natural and familiar air, originating in their mode of publication. They were preached from notes, and published, at the desire of the congregation, from an accurate re- port. They consequently want, as their author says, "the exact polish ree suiting, from-elaborate writing" ; but they more than make up for this by their almost gossipy crivergenee of topic and diffusion of style.]

Lectures for the Use of Sick Persons. By the Reverend H. B. Bacon, M.A.

[XL Bacon was induced to write these lectures because he felt conscious of a want of fluency in addressing the sick. He, or any one else, who should commit the lectures-to memory, would no doubt conquer any want of glibness in speech; but some of the original deficiency would remain. The lectures want the ease, the variety, he appositeness of conversatMn. Even if in- tended to be spoken off to the invalid in lieu of the Sunday sermon, they smack too much of the pulpit and its formality. There is too much for one: the individual is put instead of a congregation, and made more prominent than he may like. In other respects.the dimming are plain and appropri- ate, and the texts well improvedJ The Triumph; or the Coming Age of Christianity. Selections from Authors, chiefly Religious and Philosophical, &e. Edited by I. M. Morgan.

[A. selection of passages, both in prose and verse, bearing_upon the principle inculcated by many writers, and more especially in the New Testament, of universal brotherhood, or 'love." It is one of the many signs of the times, —one of the straws to show the feelings existing in numerous minds, which the Great Exhibition has stimulated to development] Flowers and Heraldry ; or Floral Emblems and Heraldic Figures. By Robert Tyas, RA. With twenty-four Emblazoned Plates. [A clever and attractive volume both in its matter and appearance. The object of Mr. Tyas is to insinuate, as it were, a taste for and knowledge of heraldry, by using flowers in the formation of coat& of arms. Before the reader reaches the heraldic "language of flowers," the author briefty and clearly expounds the terma of the science, and then illustrates each branch of it by a coat of arms formed from flowers, the sentiment of the motto havinga reference to the blossom& used. By this means, the student is interested while systematically instructed; and if at all a horticulturist, he may make himself a herald in no time. He might have done it, not perhaps more quickly, but with fewer words, had Mr. Tyas been more sparing of his poeti- cal quotationsand discursive remarks ; but they doubtless relieve the science, and the book is addressed to ladies.]

Mr. Mackenna's extended and revised edition of the late Dr. Cooke Tay- lor's "History of India" is the most remarkable reprint. The additional matter reaches to about one-sixth of the work ; embracing the administra- tions of Lords Ellenborough and Dalhousie' including the elm of the Affghan affair, ancl the stirring wars of Seinde and the Sikhs.

Ancient and Modern India. By theists W. Cooke Taylor, LLD. Re- vised and Continued to the present time, by P. J. Mackenna, Esq. Second edition, with great amendments and improvements.

Adelaide Lindsey; a NoveL Edited by the Author of "Emilia Wynd- ham." (Railway Library.)

Mosses from an Old Manse. By Nathaniel Hawthorne. (The Popular Library.)

NEW Pmucancar..

The American Magazine. By Brother Jonathan. Part I. [Tales, sketches, poetry, and papers that may be ranked under the title of essays, selected largely if not wholly from American writings, and published in London under the title of The American Magazine.] Patreurarre.

Protective Measures in behalf of the Established Church, considered in a Charge to the Dioceses of Dublin, Glandalagh, and Kildare; de- livered August 1851. By Richard Whately, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin.

A Letter to the Clergy of the Diocese of Exeter, on certain Statements of the Archdeacon of Middlesex in the "Prefatory Epistle" to the w oad edition of his Cheep. By Henry lord Bishop of Exeter.

The God of Revelation hie 0101. Interpreter. A Sermon preached in Hope Street Church, Liverpool. By James Martineau. Cautions for the Times. Addressed to the Parishioners of a Parish in England, by their former Rector. Nos. I. to X.

A Brief History of the Short Catechism of the Church of England, and the Advantage of Catechetical Instruction " openly in the church." By the Reverend W. Chambers, B.D. Cases of Conscience ; or Lessons in Morals, for the Use of the Laity. By Pascal the Younger. Second edition. With a Prefatory Letter to

the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone MP.A letter on Reform of the Superior Courts of Common La18. By R. P.

Collier, of the Inner Temple, Eaq., Barrister-at-law, Recorder of Pen- zance.

What is to be _Done with our Convicts?

Catalogue of the Turkish Sullen of the Great Exhibition of Mc In- dustry of AU Nations. 1851. Spanish Bonds. A Report. of the Public Meeting held an 19th August 1851.

A Giants at the Country Times, &c. By William Walter Good.