PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Greville ; or a Season in Paris. By Mrs. Gortn, Authoress of " Mrs. Armitage," &c. In three vols.

The Domestic Management of the Sick-room, necessary, in aid of Medical Treatment, for the Cure of Diseases. By ANTHONY TODD THOMSON, M.D., F.L.S., &c.

Slavery and the Internal Slave-trade in the United States of North Ame- rica: being Replies to Questions transmitted by the British and Fo- reign Anti-Slavery Society, for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave- trade throughout the world. Presented to the General Anti-Slavery Convention, held. in London, June 1840. By the Executive Committee of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

The New Tale of a Tub ; an Adventure in Verse. By F. W. N. BAY. LEY. With illustrations, designed by Lieutenant J. S. COTTON, litho- graphed by AUBRY. Notes of an Overland Journey through France and Egypt to Bombay. By the late Miss EMMA ROBERTS. With a Memoir. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, collected by Himself. In ten vole. Vol. IV.—Irish Melodies; National Airs ; Sacred Songs. The Schoolfellows; or a By-way to Fame. By RICHARD JOHNS, Au- thor of " Legend and Romance—African and European," &c. In three vols.

Henry of Monmouth; or the Field of Agincourt. By Major Mum,. In three vols.

The Thirst for Gold. By HANNAH D. BuRDON, Author of " Seymour of Sudley," &c. In three vols. Memoirs of the Lift of the Right Hon. Warren Hastings, first Governor- General of Bengal : compiled from Original Papers, by the Reverend G. R. GLEIO, M.A. &c., Author of the Life of Sir Thomas Monro. In three vole. Vol.

A Natural History of Braid, and Foreign Quadrupeds : containing many modern discoveries, original observations, and numerous anecdotes. By JAMES H. FENNELL.

The Civil History of the Jews, from Joshua to Hndrian ; with a Pre- liminary Chapter on the Mosaic History. By the Reverend 0. CocK- ATNE, M.A.

[This is a very respectable compilation, and something more—the plan judi- dons, the treatment critical, and the style clear. Separating the religious from the civil, or rather from the political and military history of the Jews, Mr. COCKA.YNE is able to consider human apart from miraculous events ; the Mosaic history and its theocracy being discussed in an introductory chap- ter. One feature of his work is a steady reference to the geography of Scrip- ture, rendered more full and certain by late travellers who visited the Scrip- tural regions under the patronage of MEHEMET ALL Another point is the author's freedom from prejudice when treating of the later events of Jewish history. The volume is illustrated by maps embodying the latest discoveries.] An Elementary History of England. By THOMAS KEIGHTLET, Author of "Mythology of Greece and Italy," &c.

[This, the third History of England Mr. KEIGHTLEY has published, is in- tended for children ; and is well enough adapted to answer the -purpose of attracting their attention and stimulating their curiosity. Instead of a dry connected narrative, the author takes out as it were the most striking events

or persons of each reign, and presents them in succession. By this means, almost every lesson or section js a whole in itself.] The Adventures, Sufferings, and Observations of James Wood, a native of Ipswich : containing, amongst other things, a description of various places lying between the Gulfs of Darien and St. Lawrence, with an account of the manners of the inhabitants of the places described. In- terspersed with remarks to those who intend to emigrate.

[A simple, straightforward narrative, by a plain and intelligent man, of the dangers and privations he experienced during three years' wanderings in search of a healthy and advantageous labour-field on the other side of the Atlantic; intended as a guide and caution to emigrants. JAMES Wool, was one of a great number of persons, who, deceived by the flattering statements of a bubble company, embarked in three ships for Vera Paz, near Guatemala; and one of the few who escaped death from the baleful effects of the swampy. soil of a hot and moist climate, or from starvation. Though the victim of an iniquitous and unprincipled scheme, the writer relates the sufferings and wrongs he and his fellow dupes endured with temperate indignation ; and, apart from its im- mediate purpose, his story has a strong human interest.]

The Ladies' Companion to the Flower Garden ; being an alphabetical ar- rangement of all the ornamental plants usually grown in gardens and shrubberies; with full directions for their culture. By Mrs. LOUDON. [Besides the information indicated in the titlepage, this volume furnishes many practical hints, that will soon enable its purchaser to save its price, and herself much trouble. There are also a good many directions of a larger and more general kind than relate to the cultivation of single plants—as the forma- tion of shrubberies, rock-work, seats, &c. ; in all of which the good taste springing from sound principle is predominant. As the exterior appearance of the volume entitles it to a place in the boudoir, as well as in the summer-house or seed-house, it may be expected that few ladies who amuse themselves with flowers will be without it.]

A Manual of Logarithms and Practical Mathematics, for the use of students, engineers, navigators, and surveyors; comprising tables of logarithms of numbers, logarithmic sines and tangents, natural sines and tangents ; barometric tables for calculating the heights of moun- tains; and various others used in navigation, surveying, &c. With an Introduction containing an explanation of the construction and use of the tables ; also a great variety of formulae for compound interest and annuities, mensuration, mechanics, and plane and spherical trigonome- try. By JAMES TROTTER, of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, Author of " Lessons in Arithmetic," &c,

The Cardinal Virtues; or Morals and Manners Connected. By HAM-. RIETTE CAMPBELL, Author of "The Only Daughter." In two vole. [A series of agreeable little stories, illustrating good qualities, and recom- mending their practice by the force of example.] The Disowned. (Works of Sir E. L. Bulwer, Bart., M.P., M.A.) Ethelstan ; or the Battle of Brunanburh. A Dramatic Chronicle, in five acts. By GEORGE DARLET, Author of "Thomas 4 Becket." .Recollections, &c.; Miscellaneous Poems. By JOHN JONAS JONSON.

SERIALS.

A Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art : comprising the history,

description, and scientific principles of every branch of human knowledge, with the derivation and definition of all the terms in general use. Illustrated by engravings. on wood. Edited by W. T. BRANDE, F.R.S.L. and E. ; and assisted in the various departments by JOSEPH Cant, riv, Esq., THOMAS GALLOWAY, F.R.S., JOSEPH GWILT, F.S.A., J. LINDLEY, Ph. D., J. C. LOUDON, F.L.S., J. R. 41.‘Cur,Locis, Esq., HERMAN MERIVALE, A.M., Reverend CHARLES MERIVALE, and RICHARD OWEN, F.R.S. Part I.

[This serial is intended to supply the want of an explanatory book of reference between the dictionary and cyclopedia. The array of contributors is strong; and so far as we have glanced at the work, its information appears sound as well as condensed, and with some of the animation which a vein of original thinking gives to compilation. The illustrative wood-cute are rather sparingly distributed in this part : in " architecture," for example, the plan of the Greek temple as contrasted with the Gothic cathedral is not shown.] Atlas of Constructive Geography, for the use of students. Physical Geo- graphy. Part I.—The Eastern Hemisphere. By W. HUGHES, Esq., F.R.G.S., Professor of Geography in the College of Civil Engineers. No. I.

[The first of a series of maps for the study of the geographical features of the Earth, on a new and excellent plan, successfully adopted in the Military Aca- demy at Carlberg, near Stockholm, by Dr. AGHEN, Professor of Geography : its object is to impress upon the mind of the student the actual and relative positions and physical characteristics of the different countries, by requiring him to draw the map of each from his own knowledge. The ordinary school practice is to set the learner to copy the maps ; but by this new method he is made to construct them. A model-map, having the outlines or boundaries of continents, the mountains, rivers, lakes, &c., accurately defined, but without names, serves the student as a reference for verification and filling-in the lesser details : accompanying this is a blank sheet, ruled with the meridian and paralf lel lines, on which he is to mark down certain points indicating the principal places on the coast-line. The precise spots are ascertained by reference to classified tables of places, arranged under different heads; the latitude and lon- gitude of each being accurately given. When all are marked, lines drawn from point to point will describe the rough outline ; which has then to be finished from the model. Nothing can be more complete and satisfactory than this method.

The first part contains a model and a skeleton map on a large scale of the Western hemisphere, and sixteen quarto pages of letterpress, principally occu- pied with tables of the various places to be laid down in the map by the student.] A Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Surgery. By Tr:Lomas AN- DREW, M.D. Part HI.

[A popular exposition of the different terms in medicine, varying from little more than a definition to a short essay on the subject. The compilation is readable; its general directions are judicious; and it properly directs the reader to seek for medical advice in any disease of importance, instead of attempting to quack himself.] The Family Reader of the New Testament. By the Reverend J. E. RIDDLE, M.A. No. L The Northumbrian Mirror ; or Young Student's Literary and Mathema- tical Companion. No. I.—New series.

Johnson's Philosophic Nuts ; or the Philosophy of Things developed from the study of the Philosophy of Words. No. IL History of Napoleon, Part XXIV. Floreston ; or the New Lord of the Manor. Parts I. IL IIL Gideon Giles the Roper. By Taos's!) MILLER. Nos. VL VIL IX. X. PERIODICALS.

The Railroad Quarterly Journal.

[The new ways of iron have had their newspaper for sonic time, and now they are provided with a quarterly journal. An allowance must always be made for the first trip of a new machine ; so many unforeseen hitches arise in practice, and things, even to the most experienced eye, put on such a different air in private to what they do in public. The points which strike us as being most wanted are breadth and relief: the tone of the writers is that of men who have lived so much in the atmosphere of "sharpers and directors" that they have uncon- sciously fallen into a technical style of thinking and speaking about them and their ways. The subjects selected, if not entirely limited to railway details or railway profits, all smack of the shop, and want a more general cha- racter to excite general interest. In one sense, indeed, this minuteness is not without advantage. The first article contains an account of authenticated and recorded accidents on railways in 1840: and a fearful series it exhibits— upwards of eighty closely-printed pages devoted to the annals of maiming and manslaying]

The British Miscellany. January 1841. [The first monthly part of a weekly periodical, which differs from other maga- zines in having wood-cuts; and is enlivened by two pleasant papers by LEIGH HUNT in his best style, namely, " The Inside of an Omnibus," and " i3eds and Bed-rooms " : Miss SvnicELAND is one of the contributors in the way of fiction; and a series of papers on chess are to be a feature.] Magazines for February—Blackwood, Tait, London University, Flori- cultural.

ALMANACILS.

The London Almanack, Official Register, and County Calendar, for Eng- land and Wales, for the year 1841. Compiled from public documents, and the communications of official authorities.

This volume is one of the most extensive and complete publications of its

kind which has ever appeared. Divided into seven parts, the first contains an elaborate almanack, with full tables of the usual character, which are appended to calendars, including lists of all the newspapers, with indications of their po- litics, the amount of their circulation, and tables of the railroads now open, toge- ther with their length, number of shares, paid-up capital, &c. The second part is devoted to honours, from the Royal Family and the Peerage down to simple Knights. The third part chiefly consists of business information con- nected with public authorities—as Parliament, the Public and Legal Offices, the Army, Navy, &c., and a full list of all the beneficed clergy. Educational establishments, including a catalogue of endowed grammar-schools, form the fourth part ; the fifth embraces the municipal and commercial establishments of London; the county authorities of England and Wales are exhibited in the sixth; and the seventh, under the head of British Statistics, contains a variety of information of a financial and commercial kind, as well as of a purely statis- tical nature.]

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

_Niches Cities and Towns of Scotland. Part II.—Perth.

[The plan of this work is so good, and it is "got up" in so careful a manner so far as the mechanical part is concerned, that we must, in justice to the spi- rited proprietors, point out the glaring defects of the drawings ; and we do so the more readily, because the artist, whoever he is, has a feeling for the effects of nature and taste in art, worthy of better things. This part contains six sheets of views of some of the most striking features, picturesque and archi- tectural, of " the fair city " of Perth; a map with vignettes, and two full and closely-written pages of description. The views are well chosen, and two or three of them are effective ; but the art is essentially bad : they are what is called "slight sketches "—which means unfinished drawings, part outline, part shade—having all the imperfections without any of the beauties of a masterly sketch: the buildings are skeletons of form, the landscapes ghosts of effect. The distant view of Perth is a smudge with a tree, a bank, and a house : the river-scene is the shadow of a boat and a bridge floating in vacancy : the two street-views are little more than coarse and formal outlines; and the meadow- scene is adorned with two groups of clothes-props scribbled over at top. This last, by the way, has a tolerable group of figures, which are the nearest ap- proximation to the human form in the set. The moonlit-view of St. John's Church is striking ; but the venerable Gothic fabric is insubstantial ; and the surrounding houses are evidently unfinished. The two little street-views below have aim and shade; and being small, their defects are not so conspicuous. The perspective peep down the 'Watergate' with the white gable-end brought out by a cast shadow, is a pretty sketch. If all the views were on this small scale, they would be passable : but as they enlarge, the poverty of the artist's resources becomes glaringly evident ; and their unsatisfactory character is ma- nifest even to those who do not know in what it consists.

The artist is a pupil of the " Smudge " school : he has acquired the board- ing-school " style ' with the addition, however, of perspective ; and he has im- proved his taste by looking at the works of other artists, as well as at nature. If he wishes to do justice to his talent, he will study the science of his art, and exchange his feeble, slovenly mannerism, for a firm, vigorous style : it will take him less time than he may imagine, for he has the stuff in him that will make a good artist.]

Sibson's Illustrations to Master Humphrey's Clock, No. VIIL The Illustrated Shakspere, Part XXI.

Portrait of Richard Blagden, Esq., Surgeon-Accoucheur to the Queen. The Spectator, with illustrations in Acrography. Vol. L PAMPHLETS.

Facts and Suggestions respecting the Masters' Offices.

[The Masters in Chancery are a class of officers who ascertain the facts and points in a suit, upon which the superior judges have to decide, besides settling many important matters themselves; and, whatever be the cause, they are very unpopular with the profession, and as a matter of course, out of it. The object of this pamphlet is to defend these functionaries from the aspersions that have been thrown upon them, by showing that their duties are of a neces- sary, onerous, and laborious nature, and are upon the whole efficiently dis- charged ; although the Master may prefer reading his papers at home instead of in his office. Some suggestions for the improvement of business are also thrown out. The pamphlet is attributed to one of the younger Masters, and bears traces of Mr. SENIOR'S neatness of statement ; but the long minuteness and technical nature of the statements themselves militate against their general interest. The pamphlet will be read by all who are directly affected by the subject; but the world at large will scarcely venture into the dull precincts of the Masters' offices.]

Temperance versus Abstinence ; or a Refutation of the Doctrines of Tee- totalism. By a Lover of Truth.

LA rational argument, supported by Scriptural precepts and medical opinions, an favour of a moderate use of fermented liquors, as conducive to health as well as social enjoyment.] Brandy and Salt; a Remedy for various external and internal Complaints, discovered by WILLIAM LEE, Esq., of La Ferte Imbault, in France, in the year 1830; containing ample directions for making and applying it. By J. H. VALLANCE.

Facts and Arguments for the Repeal of the Legislative Union Considered. The British Government and the Idolatry of Ceylon. By R. SPENCE HARDY, Wesleyan Missionary.

Facts and Fallacies in the Evidence takers by the Committee on Banks of Issue- exhibiting aggressions in the Bank of England, and oppressions on the British community. To which are added, extraordinary sugges- tions of Currency Remedies for town and country bankers ; in a Letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer. By ABEL MONITOR, Esq., Poli- tical Economist.

A Further Appeal to the Government and People of Great Britain against • the proposed Niger Expedition : a Letter addressed to the Right Hon. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies, &c. By ROBERT JAMIESON, Esq.

Hints to the People, by One of Themselves. Household Suffrage and Equal Electoral Districts shown to be unfavour- able to good government and purity of election, as well as calculated to destroy the influence of towns, strengthen the aristocracy, and perpe- tuate the Corn-law. In Letters to HAMER STANSFELD, Esq. By the Editors of the Leeds Mercury.

Two Sermons on the Redeemer and the Redemption; addressed to Jews and all other denominations.

Intervention and its Fruits ; a Letter addressed to her Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.