PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From March 22d to March 28th.

Books.

Gaston de Foix ; a Romance of the Sixteenth Century. In three volumes.

The Forester's Daughter; a Tale of the Reformation. By the Author of " Seymour of Sudley," &c. In three volumes.

Courtenay of Walreddon ; a Romance of the West. By Mrs. BRAY, Author of "Henry de Pomeroy," &c. In three volumes.

The Poems and Ballads of Schiller. Translated by Sir EDWARD Bor.- aVER LITTON, But.; with a brief sketch of Schiller's Life. In two volumes.

The Cardinal De Retz ; a Literary Curiosity. From the Original Memoirs. By the Author of " The Maid's Husband," &c. In two volumes.

The Three Kingdoms. England, Scotland, Ireland. By the Viscount D'ARLINCOURT. In two volumes.

Scenes and Tales of Country Life; with Recollections of Natural His- tory. By EDWARD JESSE, Esq., Surveyor of her Majesty's Parks, Palaces, &c. With wood-cuts.

The Poems of Sir Robert Aytoun. Edited by CHARLES ROGER, Dunino, from a MS. in his possession, and other authentic sources. [Sir ROBERT AYTOUN was a Scotch gentleman, who was born about 1570 and died in 1638. His education was learned, his accomplishment considerable, and his amiability great, softening even the ruggedness of BEN JONSON. He gained the favour of King JAMES by a Latin poem on his accession to the English throne ; was advanced by him to several offices about the Court, and sub- sequently knighted. Sir ROBERT employed his leisure in writing verses both Latin and English. The Latin were printed in the Deflate Poetarum Scoto- rum ; and a few of his English poems, it is supposed, were published anony- mously. The bulk of them, however, remained in manuscript ; and they are

now printed by Mr. ROGER, a manuscript volume in his possession, which is held by the learned in such matters to he a true transcript from an original, subject to the errors of the transcriber, assumed to have been a youth. The editor has also added the English poems previously published, which he attributes to AYTOUN on internal evidence, and reprinted the Lltin poems.

This publication is a proper one, deserving encouragement from those who have a taste for what may he termed literary specimens of other times! but the genius of Sir ROBERT AYTOUN will not procure him present popularity. He was an accomplished scholar, and a pleasant versifier, but not a poet. Both in subject and in style his verses are a mere imitation of the fashion of his day, which fluctuated between the scholastic profundity of the metaphysical poets and a courtly conceit of a less learned kind.]

Silent Love ; a Poem. By the late JAMES WILSON, Esq.

[A posthumous poem by a Paisley apothecary ; who, having been crossed in love, retired from business about 1780, and remained cross for the rest of his life, which closed in 1807. The poem was left as a sacred deposit in the hands of his landlady, till 1832 ; when, on her death, it fell into the possession of her son, who published it. Silent Love appears to be popular in Scotland ; and Northern critic has compared the late JAMES WILSON, Esq. to POPE and 'LASSO ! This is the third edition, and prettily got-up.]

The Manchester Keepsake ; a Spring Gift for 1844. Edited by WILLIAM GASPEY.

[A. pretty little brochure of pretty poetry, principally on domestic or national topics, contributed by various writers to Mr. GASPEy'S Spring Gift. The verses are not of the highest class, but they are all easy and agreeable, and the variety prevents the possibility of tediousness.] The Irish Question Considered in its Integrity. By Viscount WELLEsLEY.- [A good-sized volume upon the subject of Ireland and O'CONNELL. So far as we have ascertained, it is of the nature of pure outpourings, without much coherence or connexion, of one part with another. It is very like the talk of politicians of a certain calibre; and we think it easy to produce a similar book, by employing a short-hand writer to take down the discourse of any gentleman whose position enables him to speak without interruption or contradiction.]

A Manual of Arithmetic, adapted for the use of schools, private tutors,

and families. By GEORGE HUTTON, late Arithmetical Master in King's

College School.

[This able work aims at teaching arithmetic as a science as well as an art. It has an advantage, we think, over many books in its examples, which appear to us progressive and sufficient, without being too numerous. The distinguishing feature of the Manual of Arithmetic, however, is its explanations of the prin- ciples of the rules • whereas in common books the rules only are given, and their practice rather performed by rote than as an intelligent operation.] The Rule of Three not a Rule of Proportion, but a rule illustrating Pro- portion ; and a method of solution proposed which does not require the use of Proportion, with numerous examples. By the Reverend J. COT- TERILL, Rector of Blakeney, Norfolk. [The object of this little treatise is to establish a less mechanical mode of working sums in the " rule of three"; in which the question of proportion is proved instead of being assumed.]

History of Holland, from the beginning of the Tenth to the end of the Eighteenth Century. By C. M. DAVIEs. Volume the third. [Lest we may not have an opportunity of recurring to this publication, the general character of which has been noticed at length upon two former occasions, it may be stated that the third volume completes the subject; bringing down the history of Holland to the year 1794, when the government of the Stadt- holder was overthrown by the French Revolutionists.]

Outlines of the History of Ireland, for schools and families, from the ear- liest period to the Union in 1800. With Questions for examination, and Illustrations on wood. [A compilation designed for the use of schools and young people; intended to be impartial, but animated by a Protestant spirit, though not of a gross kind.] Thoughts on Physical Education, and the true mode of Improving the Condition of Man. By CHARLES CALDWELL, M.D., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence, Louisville, Ken- tucky. With a Recommendatory Preface, by GEORGE COMBE. Se- cond British edition.

[A cheap double-column publication.] SERIALS.

Murray's Colonial and Home Library, No. VII.—Irby and Mangles's- Travels in the Holy Land.

On the Pathological Connexions of the Throat and Ear, with statistical details of cases admitted at the Institution for Diseases of the Ear. (Contributions to Aural Surgery, No. V.) By JAMES YEARSLEY, M.R.C.S.E., Surgeon to the Institution, Author of "A Treatise on Diseases of the Throat," &c.

Martin Chuzzlewit, No. XVI.

New Statistical Account of Scotland, No. XLVIII.

PERIODICALS.

The Banker's Magazine, and Journal of the Money-Market, No. I.

New Parley Library, Part L Foreign Quarterly Review, No. LXV. Church of England Quarterly Review, No. XXX.

Magazines for April—Blackwood's, Tait's, Fraser's, Chambers's Journal,

Churchman's. PAMPHLETS.

The Effect of an Alteration in the Sugar-Duties on the Condition of the

People of England and the Negro Race Considered. By MACGREGOR LAIRD, Esq. Letters on the Factory Act, as it affects the Cotton Manufacture; ad-

dressed, in the Spring of 1837, to the Right Honourable the President of the Board of Trade. By Nassau W. Samoa, Esq. Second edition.