PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

New Zealand ; or Zelandia. the Britain of the South. With two Maps and seven coloured Views. By Charles Dursthouse, a New Zealand Colonist. In two volumes.

The Life of Handel. By -Victor Schcelcher.

The Meal Suitors : a Novel. By Mrs. Hubbaek, Authoress of " The Wife's Sister," 8m. In three volumes.

Dark and Fair. By Sir Charles Rockingham, Author of " Rockingham," Re.

In three volumes.

Glenwood Manor-House : a Novel. By Esther Bakewell.

The Manufacture of Iron in Great Britain; • with Remarks on the Employment of Capital in Ironworks and Collieries. By George Wilkie, Assoc. Inst. C. E., Civil Engineer.

2bas Brown's School-Days. By an Old Boy.

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The Press, the Pulpit, and the Platform ; or the Future of the French Empire.—There is little about the above three English "institutions" in this volume, and little of the French platform, seeing that it scarcely exists. Of the French Romanist press and pulpit there is quite enough. The book in fact is an attack upon the Royalists and the Papal clergy of France, especially the Jesuits, as well as on the Univers and its editor. Many charges are brought against all these parties ; the chief of which are hatred of England, love of Absolutism, and a conspiracy to restore the Bourbons, the first stage of which, by an attempt on the elections, is now in the act of development. That the priests and the Bourbonists, old or now, are hostile to England and the Emperor, is credible enough. It is very likely they have a revolutionary "idea," if it has not shape and consistence enough to be called a conspiracy. The book, however, is not of a kind which impresses credence in its author. He is not only crotchety but wild, though with a method and shrewdness in the monomania. Notes on the .Employment of Cavalry and Horse Artillery; with Instructions for the Evolutions of a Brigade. By R. A. Yule, Captain 9th: Lancers, and Brevet-Major.—A Calcutta publication. It is of a technical nature, treating of the best mode of employing cavalry and horse artillery in combination, and different cavalry regiments when brigaded together. It is partly original, partly compilation from the highest modern authorities ; the respective sources being carefully mentioned. The plan is both general and particular,—that is, the principles are first explained, and then the particular directions given. The text is illustrated by cuts for the more important manceuvres.

An Essay on Intuitive Morals. Part II. Practice of Morals.—The continuation of a treatise on ethics founded on an intuitive sense, in opposition to the theory of utility. The present part treats of religious offences—as blasphemy, apostacy, and wrong worship of any kind; religious faults—as thanklessness, prayerlessness, impenitence ; and religious obligations. The author belongs to the school of Theodore Parker, but in straitness of religious observance he is orthodox enough. The philosophy does not strike us as profound in itself or felicitously enforced. There is too much of dogmatism with too little to support it.

The Frithiof-Saga. Translated, in the Original Metres, from the Swedish of Esaias Tegner. By the Rev. W. L. Blackley, M.A.—The translator seems to have an impression that the " Frithjof " of Tegner has never been translated into English; but this is a mistake. The attempt has several times been made, one nearly twenty years ago*; even the peculiarity of preserving the original metres has also been essayed. The present version is smooth and pretty, though the restriction of the metres gives occasionally a corresponding restraint to the verse. Like the other translations we remember, there is too much of a modem air in the piece : it wants the ruggedness of the age in which the scene is laid.

The Barefooted Maiden : a Tale. By Berthold Auerbach.—The story of two German orphan peasant children, who, after going through various struggles and adventures, at last reach a haven of safety and comfort, the "barefooted girl" in a prosperous marriage, her brother as a famous herdsman. Independently of its own interest, the story forms a vehicle for a picture of German village life, done with that singular mixture of poetical feeling and simple literalness which distinguishes this writer.

English and Scottish Sketches. By an American.—An account of tours in Great Britain, and visits to some of its remarkable places, mixed with discussions, as on Nobility. The time has passed since the mere opinion of an American on the Mother-country had an interest from its rarity; and these papers have little of intrinsic weight or character; the

author by no means rising above the common run of his counti yeaen either in knowledge or power. The articles are light reading, more fitted for a second-rate magazine that for publication in a volume.

Essays. By Theophilus Parsons. (Second Series.)—An American book. The first series of the Essays we do not remember to have seen. The present half-dozen papers arc sometimes on lay subjects—as the Senses, the Seeming and the Actual; but in treatment they are sermons, as well in the tone and manner as in the style of reiteration, or, as it is called, improving. The author, indeed, though not calling them sermons, avows their serious, character and object, in connexion with "the New Church."

Dictionary of Synonymes and Paronyntes of the English language. By the Rev. John Oswald, Author of "An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language."—There is no lack of quantity in this dictionary of synonymes, but the so-called synomymes are often mere explanations of the meaning, such as would be found in any dictionary. It may be going too far to say, with some, that there is really no such thing as a synonyme ; for this infers a distinctness and precision of ideas which very few attain. Unless the person who consults this little book bring original discretion to the task, he will sometimes make a mess of his composition.

The Rationale of Arithmetical Teaching, by John Blain, late VicePrincipal of the Winchester Training School—Exercises in the first four rules in arithmetic, with rules ; though, properly speaking, these rules are often practical directions. Hints on teaching accompany the matter common to all books on arithmetic ; in which hints the use of the publication consists.

The Illustrated Historical and Picturesque Guide to Poole and Bournemouth, and the Surrounding Country. By Philip Brannow, Architect.— The second part of a series of guides designed to embrace that district of our coast which lies between the Isle of Wight and Portland Bill, or, to speak in more popular language, between Lymington and Weymouth. The first was devoted to Bournemouth, a young and rising wateringplace. The second publication treats of Poole, a town and port older than the Conquest, with a long history and many "capabilities." These two last features are prominent in the part before us, though such sights and watering-place amenities as Poole and its immediate vicinity present are not neglected. The history is a compilation from more elaborate works ; the "capabilities" are for the most part original. A useful map is attached.

• Spectator for 1838, page 638.

The reprints are various, but the continuations are of the greatest intrinsic importance : the conclusion of Carlyle's "Cromwell," and another volume of Professor Wilson's "Essays," entirely occupied with papers on Homer, save a single article on the Greek Drama. "Quiet Hours" is a religious book. The other titles tell their own story ; unless it be necessary to say that Lever's " Jack Hinton " forms a volume of his collected works.

Oliver CrontwelPs Letters and Speeches : with Elucidations. By Thomas Carlyle. In three volumes. Volume III.

Essays, Critical and Imaginative. By Professor Wilson. Volume IV. (Professor Wilson's Works, edited by Professor Ferrier, Volume VIII.) Jack Hinton, the Guardsman. By Charles Lever. With Illustrations by Browne.

The Fortunes of Glencore. By Charles Lever. In three volumes. Quiet Sours. By the Reverend John Pulsford. Second edition.

The Ware Theory of Light. By Humphrey Lloyd, D.D., D.C.L., F.R.S.S. L. and E., &c.; Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. Second edition, with Additions.