PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From February 205h to February 261h.

BOOKS.

Narrative of a Four-Months Residence among the Natives of a Valley of the Marquesas Islands; or a Peep at Polynesian Life. By Herman Mel- ville. (Murray's Hume and Colonial Library.)

Essays on Subjects connected with the Literature, Popular Superstitions, and History qf England in the Middle Ages. By Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A., Honorary Member of the Royal Society of Literature, &c. In two volumes.

The Lift Everlasting: in which are considered the intermediate life, the new body and the world, the man in heaven, angels, the final consummate of life. By John Whitley, D.D., Rector of Ballymackey, and Chancellor of Killeloe.

The Philosophy of Trade; Or Outlines of a Theory of Profits and Prices, including an Examination of the principles which determine the relative value of Corn, Labour, and Currency. By Patrick James Stirling.

The True Grandeur of Nations; an Oration delivered before the Authorities of the City of Boston, 4th July 1845. By Charles Sumner. [This brochure contains an oration in favour of universal peace, delivered at Boston on the 4th of last July, the anniversary of American Independence; and the mere conception of it indicates great moral courage, much more its public delivery on a day when the Yankee militia masters and marches, with the spirit- stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, and all the pomp, pride, and circumstance of glorious war, except the "royal banner," while every "stump orator" is charged brimful against the " Britishers." It is equally significant, though in another way., that the audience listened to this hortative with approbation, even when advising peace should England seize "the whole of Oregon," (which, by the by, she has never thought of doing,) and that the Oration is published at the re- quest of the Municipality. A formal discourse on a frequent subject can seldom do more than urge its standard topics with individual force, appropriate illustrations, and apt applica- tion to current events; all which Mr. Sumner accomplishes. His style, though approaching the measured character of the pulpit, indistinct; and his sentences are exceedingly well cut, to use a phrase of the atelier, which indicates the removal of all that is not wanted, as well as the presence of all that is requisite, together with cleanness of workmanship. The miseries of war are well impressed by a few striking examples from modern history; its general uselessness is shown by the fact that the status antebellum is mostly the expressed or implied basis of all treaties of peace; its enormous cost is proved by the startling expense of the European; armies and navies, as well as by the large sums spent upon the services in Ame- rica, compared with the civil establishments. The questions of Texas (then not fettled) and Oregon are alluded to, to show that a war about them would not be justifiable on Christian principles and that it is a mockery to call any such wars honourable or defensive. Dr.lrinlon had preached a sermon before the Artillery Company upholding war; and he is touched upon in the Oration, and more fully in a note. Some a the positions may be considered extreme, at all events in the present state of the world; but Mr. Sumner's Oration is entitled to consideration for itself; and still more for the occasion which produced it.]

Marco Visconti. From the Italian of Thomas Grossi. (Bin us' Fireside. Library.)

The Magic Ring; a Knightly Romance. By the late Baron de la Motto Fouque. A new Translation, complete in one volume. (Burns' Fireside Library.) The Maid of Orleans; a Romantic Tragedy. Translated from the German of Frederick Von Schiller. (Burns' Fireside Library.) William Tell. From the German of Schiller. (Burns' Fireside Library.) rIn due time Mr. Burns' Fireside Library will fill a moderate-sized bookcase by itself. We have already chronicled whole batches of his little books, and here is another; consisting of works, too, that not many years since would have challenged attention as efforts of mark, conferring at least a temporary dis- tinction. What would have been said, even "when George the Third was King," of an historical novel translated from the Italian, a knightly romance from the German, and two historical plays from Schiller, when even little Lewis became a literary star on the strength of a few ballads; and what would have been thought of the ornamental coloured covers in which they are clothed ? Yet now they pass as common occurrences, thanks to the conjoint march of mind and mechanics.] The Parlour Novelist; a Series of Works of Fiction by the most celebratedAuthors. Volume II. "The Commander of Malta."

[This is the second volume of what appears to be a new speculation, designed to comprise approved fictions, copyright or translated, in one single volume. We have not seen the first of these publications, but we believe it consisted of the Tales of the O'Hara Family. The present volume contains a translation of Eugene Sue's Commander of Malta. if the part and this volume are the WW1 thing, the Parlour Novelist is one of the cheapest publications of the day.] Protection to Home Industry: some Cases of its Advantages considered. The substance of two Lectures delivered before the University of Dublin, in Michaelmas Term 1840. To which is added, an Appendix, containing dissertations on some points connected with the subject By Isaac Butt, blim.LL.D, formerly Professor of Political Economy in the University of [These two lectures were delivered at the time when the Repeal people were urging Ireland to a non-importation of British goods; the question, from its temporary and therefore attractive character, being made a text for Dr. Butt's class. The lectures seem to be worthy of attentive consideration, if it be only to examine some fallacies' we guess, from a glance, they will be found to contain. Lest we should not be able to return to them quickly, we may as well say that they have not been published with any view to the present crisis, but were " in type, and but for unavoidable delays in their pro,rress through the press, would have been published weeks before the declaration of the Ministerial intentions."] The Philosophy of Wealth. By John Crawford. Second edition. [The Philosophy of Wealth is a contribution towards the science of getting rich oil promises to laiy. Mr. Crawford is a disciple of Attsvood and John Taylor: indeed, it was chiefly to popularize the Currency system of the latter that this little book was first published, in 1837. The question of Free Trade seems to have induced the reprint of this new edition; for while the Protectionists antici- pate starvation from the superabundance of provisions, the Currency-doctors anticipate a similar effect from lack of paper money-extremes meeting.]

The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour JeSZ44 Christ, translated out of the original Greek and with the former Translations diligently com- pared and revised, ghis Majesty's special command. Appointed to be read in Churches. Accompanied throughout with a brief Hermeneutic and Exegetical Commentary and Revised Version. By T. J. Hussey, D.D., Rector of Hayes, Kent.

[Thisvolume, containing the whole of the New Testament, completes Dr. Ens- soy's excellent edition of the Scriptures; the general character of which we have formerly explained. As a family book, we know not a better in a bibliographical point of view-or in a literary, if the reader does not wish a dictionary in the form of diverting notes. The work forms three handsome volumes, with a type large enough for any eyes, without the cumbrous magnitude of the old folios and quartos.] The Life and Pontificate of Leo the Tenth. By William Roscoe. In two volumes. Volume Ii. (Bogue's European Library.)

[This completes Mr. Rogue's edition of the Life of Leo in his European Library: the second volume of Mr. Bohn's Standard Library we chronicled last week.] The New Tinton; a Romance of London. In four parts. Part IV.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Fauna Antigua Sivalensis; being the Fossil Zoology of the Sewalik Hills, in the North of India. By Hugh Falconer, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., &c.- and Preby T. Cautley, F.G.S, Captain in the Bengal Artillery, &c. (Edited by Hugh Falconer.) Part L-Proboscidea. [This' is the commencement of a work that will be, when completed, a valuable and interesting addition to fossil zoology. Its object, to use the authors' words, "is to make known the numerous fossil animals which have been discovered in the North of India by the authors and other inquirers during the last twelve years; and to develop the bearings of these discoveries on the physical and geolo- gical history of India during a great part of the tertiary period." The Sewalik range of hills, skirting the Southern base of the Himalayahs, has, we are told, proved more abundant in varieties of fossil animals than any other region yet explored; and the authors during the twelve years of their sojourn in India investigated an extent of country of several hundred miles along the Sewalik range; collect- ing vast numbers of specimens, one portion of which is in the British Museum, and others are in the Museum of the India House. These and other collections made by Indian officers will furnish the materials for the undertaking; in which the authors will be aided by eminent naturalists. The work commences with the Elephant group, in which India is particularly rich; and the collection includes perfect crania of five distinct species, with several detached jaws and teeth of all ages from the young to the adult animals. The descriptions are not, however, confined to the Sewalik fossils, though the delineations are.

The plates and the text are of a different size; the letterpress being in octavo, and the plates in folio. From a glance at the descriptions, we perceive that the authors take a different view from preceding naturalists of the generic and spe- cific divisions of Mastodons and Elephants. The plates in the first _part are twelve in number, and drawn upon stone by

Messrs. G. Scharf and G. H. Ford, from the fossils themselves. Scharf is famous for his delineations of fossil bones- and these skulls and jaws of elephants are in his best style. But he has found formidable rival in the field of bone and stone in his coadjutor Mr. Ford; and in drawing teeth he is excelled by him. The most minute and elaborate drawings of the most patient and skilful German draughtsmen are surpassed by these litho,graphs of Mr. G. H. Ford, in close ac- curacy and delicacy of detail, and yet with a picturesque effect. The sections of teeth show the distinctive texture and markings of the several layers of bone with microscopic minuteness; the cut surfaces appear as smooth as polished marble or spar, and as intricately and variously veined; while the rounded ex- ternal forms exhibit the projections, hollows and characteristic substance and forms of the bones. The grinding surfaces of teeth are no less accurately de- lineated than the sections. The lithographers, Hullmandel and Walton have done their part admirably; and altogether the work is got up in a handsome style.]

The Oriental Album. By E. Prisse, Esq. Part I.

[This large and handsome work is intended to illustrate the human families in the Valley of the Nile, their costumes, usages, and modes of life; and is to con- sist of five parts, each containing six lithographic drawings and descriptive letter- press with wood-cuts. The costumes of Nubians, Arabs, and the Fellahs, groups of camels and dro- medaries, and an interior of a peasant-dwelling in Upper Egypt-which seems as though the people potted their children in gigantic gallipots-are the subject of the plates in the first part. The drawings are bold, effective, and elaborate; and characterized by that minute attention to the details of costume which distin- guishes the French school of art, of which these lithographs are specimens. The drawing of the figures is not such as might be expected from the best French artists, and the style is somewhat stiff and coarse: the figures have the fixed look of models, and the peculiarities of the camels ond other animals appear exagge- rated. The costumes are the most carefully delineated; and it is for these par- ticulars that the work is most valuable. The architecture and scenery of the country are introduced in the backgrounds, but the figures are the principal features of the pictures. The letterpress we cannot judge of, as only a specimen- sheet accompanied the copy of the plates sent to us; but the force and elaboration of the wood-cuts, representing landscapes as well as dwellings, furniture, and ornaments, are quite equal to the lithographs. The typography, too, is beautiful;

i in short, the work s got up in the best Parisian style, by French artists and printers.] Manual of Elementary Practice in Drawing Real Objects; showing the Practical Application of the Principles of Perspective and Light and Shade to Sketching from Nature. By Augustus Oakley Deacon, Author of "Elements of Perspective Drawing."

[This is an unpretending and useful book of plain directions for practising draw- ing at home without any other instruction. By observing the rules laid down by Mr. Deacon, an intelligent person, he says, will be able to delineate correctly the form of any common object in a room; beginning with a box and gradually as- cending by chairs, steps, and " what-not," to a complete interior.

This is not an attempt, however, to teach without a master, but only intended As a guide to practice by the learner in the absence of the teacher: it places the

means of self-improvement in the way of any one having a desire to begin or ad- vance unaided; the furniture of a room being substituted for models.

Another book of the same kind for elementary practice in drawing flowers and shrubs within-doors, as a preparation for studying foliage and landscape out-of- doors, is desirable as a sequel to this book, which goes no further than simple ob- jects of fixed and regular form.]