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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boom.

Sketches of Brazil, including new Views on Tropical and European Fever, with Remarks on a premature Decay of the System incident to Europeans on their return from Hot Climates. By Robert Dundas„ &c. ; for twenty-three years Medical Superintendent of the Bri- tish Hospital, Bahia. Scenes and Adventures in Central America. Edited by Frederick Hard- man, Esq., Author of "Peninsular Scenes and Sketches," &c. Meliora ; or Better Times to Come. Being the Contributions of Many Men touching the Present State and Prospects of Society. Edited by Viscount Ingestre. Wynville, or Clubs and Coteries; a Novel. By the Author of "The Age of Pitt and Fox." In three volumes.

Sixteen Months at the Gold-Diggings. By Daniel B. Woods.

A School Atlas of General and Descriptive Geography; exhibiting the Actual and Comparative Extent of all the Countries in the World, with their present Political Divisions ; founded on the most recent Discoveries and Rectifications. By Alex. Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., Geographer in Ordinary to her Majesty for Scotland, &c.

A School Atlas of Physical Geography; illustrating, in a series of

Original Designs, the Elementary Facts of Geology, Hydrology, Meteo- rology, and Natural History. By Alex.. Keith Johnston, F.R.S.E., &c. [These two publications are important contributions to educational litera- ture ; distinguished for new matter as well as for a better mode of pre- seating the old to the eye, and for facilitating reference, which in maps is all in all. The School Atlas of General and Descriptive Geography brings down its information to the latest period ; but this, though an important, Is a very small part of its merit. Let the atlas be opened at any part, the examiner is immediately struck with the clearness of the engraving, the vividness of the colouring, and a definite distinctness which gives an air of almost beauty to the map, in part arising from the neatness of the engraver, in part from the new mode adopted of printing in colours. On looking further, it is found that all water, whether a mighty ocean or a slender stream, is printed throughout in one uniform tint of blue, so that the eye instantly perceives the proportionate masses of land and water, while it can readily follow every river from its source to its embouchure. The space usually left vacant on tlae border-frame of the map is filled up with the names of the adjacent countries, and the capitals and seaports that correspond in latitude. The maps are larger than those in ge- neral use, and are drawn to a series of scales : thus, the maps of the British Isles are each 37 miles to an inch—France, Switzerland, Belgium, and the other principal countries of Europe, 70 miles to an inch, and so on ; and this scale is stated on the map as well as in a table. There is an elaborate index of names of places, and the maps are more numerous than in many educational atlases—twenty-two in number.

The Physical School Atlas is upon the plan of Mr. Johnston's two larger works, and presents in seventeen maps of great beauty the various natural features or phienomena of the glebe. Three maps are devoted to hydrology; exhibiting the ocean currents, the lakes and river systems of the world. Seven are assigned to geology in a large sense ; three to meteorology ; four to natural history, or the distribution of vegetable and animal life, the races- of man, and the different forms of religion over the globe. There is also a frontispiece, showing the various signs and modes of engraving in chart°. graphy.]

The Farce of Isle ; a Novel. By Lord B , Author of "Masters and Workmen." In three volumes.

[This is a clever fiction, designed to hold up to censure the vices and con- ventional practices of society; but the book itself is as conventional as the evils it would stigmatize. There is a genius and an artist, heir to a large estate which he is kept out of by the old mode of abstracting documents that prove a marriage. This hero, Leonard Marston, is a sort of centre, round which the incidents and persons conglomerate. There is a pleasant, un- principled, intriguing baronet ; a selfish, scheming, artifieal man of fashion, tormented hy his City pedigree, which he aims at conquering by a high match ; there is a clever, agreeable scion of nobility, who wastes his talents on the trifles of society ; and a beautiful girl, whose good dispositions are soilecl by the feverish vanities of the world. All these have more or less to o with Leonard Marston; the lady, in fact, playing with his affections, and then rejecting him. On the other side are a poor weaver and his daughter, the heroine ; who serve to exhibit the evils that press upon the poor, as well as the virtues that do or may distinguish them, Leonard regaining his pro-

pty the zeal and courage of Kate D'Arcy. The evils the writer se-

lects censure undoubtedly exist ; but they are embodied in a way so little like life that we must take leave to doubt my Lord B 's acquaintance with society.] Verdicts.

[Characters of some of the most eminent authors of the present generation, dead as well as living, exhibited in verse with a passable framework. They show a general justness of appreciation, with occasionally some nice remarks, and the versification is neat and tripping ; but the "verdicts" are too ex- panded for poetry. They are prose sketches put into verse.]

Memoirs and Correspondence 0/ Mallet du Pan, illustrative of the His- tory of the French Revolution. Collected and arranged by A. Sayous, late Professor of the Academy of Geneva. In two volumes. (An English version of the original French work, reviewed in the Spectator of the 27th December. The intrinsic value of the matter, and the extrinsic interest imparted to the book by the present condition of foreign affairs, have no doubt prompted the translation. It will be found a repertory of in- forming and instructive matter relative to the first French Revolution.] Researches and Observations on Scrofulous Disease of the External Lym- phatic Glands. With Cases, showing its connexion with Pulmo- nary Consumption and other Diseases. By Thomas Balman, M.D., M.R.C.S., &c. LA revised reprint of a course of lectures, which appeared in the London Me- dical Gazette on their delivery at St. Ann's Dispensary, Liverpool. They relate to the causes, pathology, and treatment of scrofulous disease ; the sec- tions referring to the causes being the most original and striking. The posi- tion of Dr. Batman has enabled him to collect a number of facts relating to the disease, which be has arranged tabularly as regards sex, age, tempera- ment, hereditary predisposition, and directly exciting causes, accompanying his statistics with annotations.] The, Duties, Rights, and Liabilities of Justices of the Peace. By Thomas W. Saunders, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law. [A. series of mays on what the unpaid Justice of the Peace will have to do, as well as how, when, and where he ought to do it. The book is not de- signed to teach law so much as practice.] Popish Legends, or Bible Truths. By Catherine Sinclair, Author of "The Business of Life," "Lard and Lady Harcourt," &c.

[The object of this book appears to be to provide an antidote to the proselytizing system of Rome, by contrasting pictures of Bible truths and Popish practices or doctrines. The body of the book is introduced by a species of preface, containing lively anecdotieal traits of some of the saints of the Romish Church : thus, the great gun of Paris, Saint Vincent de Paul, "was an agree- able man, only he cheated at cards."]

How to See the British Museum. In four visits. By W. Blanchard Jerrold.

Li! well-arranged companion for the visitor to the British Museum ; point- s. g out the principal objects worth seeing, and combining with the directions inbrming remarks on art, history, and natural history.)

A System of English. Grammar ; founded on the Philoeophy of Language and the Practice of the best Authors, &c. By C. W. Con- non, M.A. Second edition.

Music, and the Art of Dress. Two Essays reprinted from the Quar- terly Review. (Murray's Reading for the Rail.)

MAP.

-el Map showing the Places in England and Wales sending Members to Parliament, with the Numbers Returned, Division of Counties, and Population, &c.; and the Contributory Boroughs as proposed by the Bill to Amend the Parliamentary Representation.

PAMPHLETS.

Notes of Interviews with the Ministers and Principal Statesmen of France, in Reference to the Domestic and Foreign Policy of Louis Na- poleon. By P. O'Brien, Esq. _Letter to Captain Fitzroy on Rifle Corps. By Henry Drummond, Bula M.P. -Memorandum on the Necessity of a Secretary of State for our Defence and War .Establishments, &e. Letter to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. By W. Penny, late in Command of an Expedition for the Search of Sir John Frank- lin. With an Appendix. 27e Plasent Crisis, &c. B a Whig. Miss Sellon and the "Sisters of Mercy." An Exposure of the Constitu- tion, Rules, &c. of their Society. By the Reverend James Spurrell, A.M. Reasons for Abjuring Allegiance to the See of Rome. A Letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury. By Pierce Connelly, M.A.

On the Studying and Teaching of Languages : Two Lectures delivered in the Marischal College of Aberdeen By John Stuart Blackie, Pro- fessor of Humanity.

The Manchester and Salford Education Big (Ur. Entwisle's and the Reverend Hugh Stowell'a,) Infidel in its Principle and Dangerous in its Tendency. Second edition. The Voluntary :stem of the Church of England versus the Camped- wry System o the Manchester and Salford Education Bill. A Let- ter to Henry Hoare, Esq. By James Bradby Sweet, M.A. Three Letters to Lord John Russell upon the subject of the Gold in Aus- tralia. By F. S. T. 2%e Prize .Yinay on the Application of recent Inventions collected at the Great Exhibition of 1851 to the purposes of .Practical Banking. By Granville Sharp.