PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From Montreal comes a noteworthy book, entitled AEcuAIA ; on, STUDIES OF THE COSMOGONY AND NATURAL HISTORY OF THE HE- BREW Bearer:rims. Its purpose is indicated by the significant motto on the title-page, which is borrowed from Professor Whewell—" The two sciences (Theology and Geology) may conspire, not by having any part in common, but because, though widely diverse in their lines, both point to a mysterious and invisible origin of the world." The author is a professor of geology, but he states that the work is not intended as a treatise on the elements of that science with theological applications, nor as an attempt to establish a scheme of reconciliation between geology and the Bible. It is the result of a series of exegetical studies of the first chapter of Genesis, in connexion with the numerous incidental re- ferences to nature and creation in other parts of Scripture; and is de- signed to afford to geologists and the readers of geological works " a digest of the comical doctrines to be found in the Hebrew Scriptures, when treated strictly according to the method of interpretation proper to such documents, but with the actual state of geological science full in view." Although throughout the main part of his work Dr. Dawson adheres to the principle of not seeking to reconcile Scripture and natural science, he appends to it a final chapter of "Comparisons and Conclu- sions," in which he points "certain manifest and remarkable correspond- ences" between the teachings of geology and those of revelation. Tax PRE-ADAMITE MAN is the title of a curious speculative work by an anonymous geologist and orthodox biblical student, who does not hesitate to admit with M. Boucher de Perthes and others that stone im- plements of human manufacture have been found in the drift near Amiens and Abbeville, and elsewhere, and that they must have belonged to men who lived in times immeasurably more remote than the creation of Adam. For this belief the author thinks he finds sure warrant in the first and second chapters of Genesis, for upon close examination he perceives that they record two distinct creations of man. The first chapter, and the first three verses of the second, form, in his opinion, a complete narrative of the creation of the earth, the vegetable and animal kingdoms, and of man (verse 4), with the institution of the sabbath ; and this narrative is to- tally distinct in form and in subject from that which begins with the fourth verse of the second chapter, and relates among other things the creation of Adam and Eve after tho first race, the contemporaries of the megathe- rium, had become extinct—probably in the glacial period. To the ques- tion, why have not bodily remains of these pre-adamite men been found as well as their implements ? our author replies that the search for them has been very far from exhaustive. The strata in which they lie may be covered with ocean waters or with the snows and ice of the polar regions. He also hazards a conjecture that the angels, of whose crea- tion Scripture gives no explicit account, are no other than his pre- adaznite men, who have risen from the dead with glorified bodies—which it is therefore useless to seek for underground.

The Member of Sunderland, the only shipowner of note, if we mistake not, who stands by the principles of free trade in all their bearings, has

published a book on the present state of Oun MERCHANT SHIPPING, and has dedicated it to another staunch free-trader, the President of the Board of Trade. Mr. Lindsay deprecates retaliatory measures for the purpose of extorting reciprocity from our maritime rivals, but thinks that the exer- tions of our Foreign Minister may be usefully employed in represent- ing to foreign Governments the advantages which will accrue to their people from the adoption of our own free system. He also insists on the redemption of the pledge given when the Navigation Laws were re- pealed, that the unfair burdens and restrictions affecting merchant ship- ping should be removed. Meanwhile, he writes to convince his fellow shipowners that the repeal of the Navigation Laws has had nothing to do with the depression of which they now complain, and that they will best promote their own interests by abandoning their dreams of protec- tion, and turning their attention to the removal of those burdens and restrictions which still fetter our maritime enterprise.

The Nonni AMERICAN REVIEW of this month contains an able paper on " the China Question," which is particularly deserving of attention in England, as representing the aspect in which that question appears to in- telligent and candid observers whose point of view is different from our own.

A cursory survey of the HISTORICAL RECORD OF THE. FIFTY-SECOND REGIMENT, leads us to think it will prove one of the most important contributions to military literature that we have had for many years. At a future period we shall make a closer acquaintance with the record of this distinguished Regiment.

Colonel Adye's book is what it professes to be, A REVIEW OF THE CRIMEAN Weal from the point of view of a staff-officer. We shall ad- vert to it again when we have before us Mr. Hinglake's promised his- tory of the war.

TRAVELS IN EASTERN AFRICA is the title of two interesting volumes by Mr. APLeod, late British Consul at Mozambique, whose resolute op- position to the slave trade has made his name familiar to the readers of English newspapers.

Tim HANDBOOK or Delay HUSBANDRY is the first of a new and cheap series in preparation by Mr. Morton, the Agricultural Gazette. Each handbook, complete in itself, will comprise one section of farm practice, and it is intended that the series shall form a handy library of reference for the Farmer, the Bailiff, and the Working Man.

Boons.

Historical Record of the Fifty-second Regiment (Oxfordshire Light Infan- try) from the Year 1755 to the Year 1858. Compiled under the direction of the Committee, and edited by W. S. Moorsom, M.I.C.E.,late Captain Fifty- second Light Infantry, and D.Q.M.G.

A Review of the Crimean War, to the Winter of 1851-5. By Lieutenant-Ge-

neral John Adye, C.B., last Assistant Adjutant-General, Royal Artillery. Travels in Eastern Africa ; with the Narrative of a Residence in Mozam-

bique. By Lyons M'Leod, Esq., late Consul at Mozambique. In two volumes.

Our Merchant Shipping; its present state considered. By W. S. Lindsay, Esq., M.P.

Lectures on the English Language. By George P. Marsh.

The Confessional ; a view of Romanism in its actual principles, aims, and workings. Drawn up chiefly from Authoritative Papal Sources, and earnestly recommended to the dispassionate consideration of Christendom. By John B. Beard, D.D.

Corayda ; a Tale of Faith and Chivalry : and other Poems. By Ernest Jones. Learn and Teach. A Poem, in two Parts. By Chandos Hoskyns Abrahall. Poetry for Play Hours. By Gerda Fay. With eight Illustrations. Handbook of Dairy Husbandry. By John Chabners Morton.

Photographs from Original Sketches in the Holy Land and Syria; by Conway Shipley, Esq. Part I.

The Epigrams of Martial. Translated into English Prose. Each accompanied by one or more verse translations, from the works of English Poets, and various other sources.

A Manual of Etymology ; or, First Steps to a Knowledge of the English Lan- guage. By Robert Sullivan, LL.D., T.C.D.

Lethelier. By Edward Heneage Deering. In two volumes.

The Hallow Isle Tragedy. In three volumes.

the Doll's Pic-Nit. By M. A.

Lectures on the Mountains ; or the Highlands and Highlanders as they were and as they are. First Series.

A Handy Book on the Law of Master and Servant, Employer and Employed, as regards their Civil Rights. By James Walter Smith, Esq., LL.D., Barrister-at-Law.

NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.

The Life and Theatrical Times of Charles Kean, F.S.A. By John William Cole. in two volumes.

Old Leaves gathered from Household Words. By W. Henry Wills. A Dictionary of the English Language, for the Use of Schools, and for General Reference. By Robert Sullivan, LL.D., T.C.D., Barrister-at-Law, mac. Tenth

edition, improved and enlarged.

Handbook of the Court; the Peerage ; the House of Commons. Tenth Year. The Sea Lions, or the Lost Sealers. By J. Fennimore Cooper. Illustrated from Drawings by F. 0. C. Darley.

Auld Lang Syne. By Robert Burns. Illustrated by George Harvey, Hunting Songs and Miscellaneous Terse*. By R. E. Egerton Warburton.