PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

Life of Benjamin Robert Hayden, Historical Painter, from his Auto- biography and Journals. Edited and compiled by Tom Taylor, of the Inner Temple, Esq. In three volumes.

Narrative of a Journey round the Dead Sea and in the Bible Lands, in 1850 and 1851. By F. de Saulcy, Member of the French Institute. Edited, with Notes, by Count Edward de Warren. In two volumes. A -History of Roman Classical Literature. By R. W. Browne, M.A., Ph.D., Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Professor of Classical Literature in King's College, London.

The Story of Corfe Castle, and of Many who have Lived there. Col- lected from Ancient Chronicles and Records ; also from the Private Memoirs of a Family resident there in the time of the Civil Wars : which include various Particulars of the Court of Charles the First, when held at York and afterwards at Oxford. By the Right Honour- able George Bankes, M.P. for the County of Dorset.

On the Decline of Life in Health and Disease; being an Attempt to In- vestigate the Causes of Longevity ; and the best Means of attaining a Healthful Old Age. By Barnard Van Oven, M.D.

The Maid of Florence ; or Niccolb de' Lapi. By the Marquis Massimo D'Azeglio, ex-Prime Minister of Sardinia. Translated from the Italian by W. Felgate, M.A. In three volumes.

The Bridesmaid, Count Stephen, and other Poems. By Mary C. Hume. Papers Relative to the Obstruction of Public Business and the Organi- zation of the Civil Service. By Arthur Symonds, Esq.

History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena; from the Letters and Journals of the late Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, and Official Documents not before made public. By William Forsyth, M.A., Author of " Hortensius," &c. In three volumes.

Memorials of Indian Government ; being a Selection from the Papers of Henry St. George Tucker, late Director of the East India Company. Edited by John William Kaye.

A Cruise in the £gean. The Retrospect of a Summer Journey West- ward "from the Great City by Propoutic Sea." Including an As- cent of Mount Etna. By Walter Watson.

Meliora : or Better Times to Come. Being the Contributions of Many Men touching the Present State and Prospects of Society. Edited by Viscount Ingestre. Second series.

[The success of Lord Ingestre's first volume of papers by various writers, on the condition of the working classes and the best means of improving it, has given rise to a second collection of the same kind. The articles in this volume of lifeliora are twenty-one in number ; dealing with the question of the poor in various aspects, according to the nature and oppor- tunities of the writer. Sidney Godolphin Osborne, under the quaint title of "Immortal Sewerage," gives a quiet picture of the revolting details of Glasgow lodginghouses, followed by some useful reflections on the social dangers of such a population. "Notes of a Residence in Paris," by Montagu Gore, furnishes an interesting account of what is now being done, and successfully, to raise the condition of the poor in the French capital. " Rescued from the Beggars," by Dr. Guy, is a view of the evils of indiscriminate almsgiving, with an exhortation to the donors to apply the money to some better purpose, such as hospitals. There are several papers by writers of the working classes, descriptive of their evils, their causes, and what they think their remedies. In short, the volume is well worth the pe- rusal of the philanthropist, and might have been noticed at greater length in a season of less pressure.]

.Dissertation on the Origin and Connexion of the Gospels : with a Sy- nopsis of the Parallel Passages in the Original and Authorized Ver- sion, and Critical Notes. By James Smith, Esq., of Jordanhill, F.R.S., &c.

This work is the expansion of an opinion as regards the origin of the Gospels' broached by Mr. Smith in his nautical examination of the voyage of Paul. The Gospel of John, although written last, he considers to be original and independent ; of Mark, to be the translation of a narrative written by Peter in Hebrew ; the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, to be to a great extent what would now be termed compilations, derived from the in- formation of observers, and from writings of which the translation by Mark or the original narrative of Peter furnished a considerable portion. " I maintain that the Gospels of Mark and John are, in respect to matter, entirely original ; in the next place, that Matthew appears, from comparing the parallel pas- sages, to have taken about 500 verses from the original of Mark's Gospel ; but Mat- thew's Gospel consists of 1071 verses—hence the largest half of this Gospel is original. Luke appears to have taken 308 verses from Mark's (or rather Peter's) Memoir, and 120 from Matthew—in all, 428 ; but there are 1150 verses in Luke's Gospel—hence the largest portion of Luke's Gospel is also original. So that, of the four Gospels, two are entirely original ; and of the two remaining, the largest portion of each is composed of original matter. Now, as I trace all that portion of the Gos- pels of Matthew and Luke, which is not original, to the writings of Apostles, it is not easy to see in what manner their authority can be weakened by the process."

The volume consists of an elaborate exposition and defence of the theory, with a comparison by means of parallel passages from the three evangelists, to support the author's view.]

The Adventures of a Gentleman in Search of the Church of England. [Sketches of an Evangelical or Low Church family, and their favourite mi- nister; of two young 'Praetorian curates, and the manner of conducting the service at their church ; and of the true media via of safety, as exhibited by an excellent country parson, his amiable family, a pattern landlord, and a worthy village. Belleville and its various inhabitants may possibly be dis- covered in real provincial life, but we fear as a sort of rare avis. The picture of Rubric, the gentlemanly and scholarly Tractarian curate, is a favourable likeness, not exaggerated. The sketch of the "serious family" and the Honourable and Reverend Mr. Mild might have had more force and richness of colouring without ever passing the boundaries of the real. The book is supposed to be written by a returned colonist wishing to find the church of his youth.]

Poetic Sketches; or Thoughts in Verse. Written during the intervals of business. By Henry Fletcher. [These occasional poems of Mr. Fletcher may not take very high rank as poetry, but they differ materially and for the better from the mass of mis- cellaneous verses that are continually set before the public. Both in subject and in treatment they possess freshness, if not originality, arising from the serious nature of the topics and an appropriate style. Mottoes from Scrip- ture rather than texts, in the theological sense, are frequently made themes from which the poet inculcates practical lessons upon life and its duties, enforced truthfully, and in a style of befitting gravity, but removed from anything like sermon.]

Ion's Dream, and other Poems. By Jane Emily Herbert, Author of " The Bride of Imael," &c. [Subjects from Irish tradition or history abound in this volume, treated as regards style in too Irish a way. The writer has imagery and fluency, but an unfortunate redundancy, which diverts attention from the main thing by collaterals, subordinates, and even negatives. For example, the Dream opens with a full enumeration of countries where the scene is not laid.] Agnes Maynard; or Day-Dreams and Realities. By the Author of " The Garden in the Wilderness."

[The moral of impulsive love of admiration, and the evils which flow from a want of religious principle, are the topics embodied in this tale. Her i vanity and levity induce Agnes Maynard to reject the man she really loves; this rejection leading to her repentance, her improvement, and finally her death—the novel-reader will think without necessity. An amiable spirit runs through the work ; the incidents are of the common order, and the exe- cution not remarkable.]

_Preliminary Steps to the Study of the Endowment of Mind. By Na- thaniel Ogle. [A series of short papers on questions connected with the science of mind,— as Will, Consciousness,—designed to form an introduction to metaphysics. Mr. Ogle is en immaterialist, on old and somewhat dogmatic grounds.] An English-Latin Dictionary, for the use of Schools : being an Abridg- ment of Riddle and Arnold's Copious and Critical English-Latin Lexicon. By the Reverend J. C. Ebden, late Fellow and Tutor of Trinity, Hall, Cambridge.

[A careful and judicious abridgment of perhaps the most really original and philosophical English-Latin dictionary we have ; by which we mean, the best adapted for the purposes of the intelligent student or pupil who is aiming at writing Latin.] The Report of the Committee appointed by the Council of the Society of Arts to inquire into the subject of Industrial Instruction, with the Evidence on which the Report is founded. (Published under the sanction of the Council of the Society of Arts.) [An expose of the opinions of a great many persons to whom circulars were addressed on Industrial Education, illustrated by extracts; a much fuller selection from the opinions or evidence being published in the appendix.] Wealth and Labour; a Novel. By Lord B*******, Author of " Mas- ters and Workmen," &c. In three volumes.

Swiss Men and Swiss Mountains. By Robert Ferguson, Author of " The Pipe of Repose." (Traveller's Library.) Of the following long list, the freshest and upon the whole the most re- markable book for the lifelike picture it furnishes of actual war and its great practitioner the Duke of Wellington, is the second edition of the " Private Journal of Seymour Larpent," compressed into two volumes and published at a cheaper rate. The edition of " Jeffrey's Essays," in a large single volume with double columns, is a proof how wide the stream of reading runs in this country : one would hardly have thought that a series ofpapers in which criticism predominates over more brilliant or directly useful matter would have attained so much popularity. The reprints which follow are mostly cheap editions of standard works, whose nature is explained by their titles.

The Private Journal of F. Seymour Larpent, Judge-Advocate-General, attached to the Head-Quarters of Lord Wellington during the Penin- sular War, from 1812 to its Close. Edited by Sir George Larpent, Bart. In two volumes. Second edition, revised.

Contributions to the Edinburgh Review by Francis Jeffrey. Complete in one volume.

Waverley _Novels. Library Edition. Volume XV. " Peveril of the Peak.'

The Poetical Works of John Dryden. With Illustrations by John Franklin.

Ancient Spanish Ballads, Historical and Romantic. Translated by J. G. Lockhart, Esq. Fourth edition. (Murray's Railway Reading.) History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Ver- sailles. 1713-1783. By Lord Mahon. In seven volumes. Volume IV. 1748-1763. Third edition, revised.

The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral, with a Table of the Colours of Good and Evil. By Francis Bacon, Viscount St. Alban. Revised from the Early. Copies, with the References now first supplied, and a few Notes, by Thomas Markby, M.A.

Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. New edition.

The Wisdom and Genius of Shakspere. With Select and Original Notes, and Scriptural References ; the whole making a Text for the Philosopher, Moralist, Statesman, Poet, and Painter. By the Rever- end Thomas Price, late Chaplain in H.M. Convict Establishment at Woolwich. Second edition, enlarged.

Manual of Botany: comprising Vegetable Anatomy and Physiology, or the Structure and Functions of Plants, with Remarks on Classification. By William Macgillivray, A.M., LL.D., late Professor of Natural His- tory in Marischal College, Aberdeen, Author of Manuals of Geology, British Birds, &c. Second edition.

Outlines of Mental and Moral Science. By David Stuart, D.D. Second edition, enlarged.

The Rifle Rangers. By Captain Mayne Reid, Author of "The Scalp- Hunters." (Parlour Library.) NEW PERIODICALS.

The British Journal. A Home, Colonial, and General Magazine. No. I. The Illustrated London Magazine. Part I.

Hogg's Instructor. No. I.

[Each of these three new monthlies may be said to belong to the miscella- neous class ; having no special pursuit, and no very definite object beyond what passes under the general phraseology of " instruction and amusement." Tales, essays, sketches, papers on scientific and social subjects ; with poetry, reviews, and miscellanies, are more or less to be found in each. Probably Hogg's Instructor contains the most solid kind of articles ; while the belles lettres predominate in The Illustrated Magazine, which is distinguished, as its title would imply, by a number of good wood-cuts. Neither of the three is remarkable for novelty of style or distinctiveness, but they rank above the average of the new monthly publications we have seen of late. They are all low priced.]

PAMPHLETS.

Russian Turkey; or a Greek Empire the Inevitable Solution of the East- tern Question. By G. D. P. South Australia and the Gold-.Discoveries.

California and its Gold-Mines. Edited by Robert Allsop, of the Stock Exchange.

Practical Suggestions for Facilitating the Adoption of a Decimal Cur- rency. By. B. Rozzell. -

Occasional _Discourse on the Nigger Question. Communicated by T. Carlyle. Foreign Chaplaincies. Three Letters to the Lord Bishop of London, on the Necessity of Mission, &c. Alteration of Oaths Considered, in a Letter to the Earl of Derby; with an Appendix. By Mr. Alderman Salomons. Facts and Fantasies : a Sequel to Sights and Sounds ; the Mysteries of the Day. By Henry Spicer, Esq. Facts respecting Bhimji Jeevanji, the Parsi Physician of the Poor.

MAP.

Plan of the Encampment at Chobham Common, with the Surrounding Country.

[An ingenious pocket-map, which Mr. Wyld has produced with his usual alertness in supplying a demand of the passing day. It shows not only the Camp at Chobham, but " the surrounding country," with at least equal pro- minence, and all the railways and common roads communicating with the encampment.]