PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles -James Napier. G.C.B. By Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Napier, R.C.B.,&e. 8r.c. In four volumes. Volumes L and II. With Portraits.

The Life of Michael Angelo Buonarroti ; with Translations of many of his Poems and Letters. Also, Memoirs of Savonarola, Raphael, and Vittoria Colonna. By John S. Harford, Esq., D.C.L., F.H.B., Member of the Academy of Painting of St. Luke at Rome, and of the Roman Archseological Society. In two volumes.

Personal Narrative of the Origin and Progress of the Caoutchoue or IndiaEubber Manufacture in England. By Thomas Hancock, of the firm of Charles Macintosh and Co. With Engravings ; and an Appendix, containing the Specifications of the Author's Patents.

Elizabeth de Valois, Queen of Spain, and the Court of Philip II. From numerous Unpublished Sources, in the Archives of France, Italy, and Spain. By Martha Walker Freer, Author of "The Life of Marguerite D'Angouleme," Re. In two volumes.

77e True Theory of Representation in a State. By George Ilarris, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law.—From the preface we learn that this book is the expansion of a scheme promulgated some years since in a pamphlet, which obtained the approval of "influential personages of both parties." Beyond the broad principle that representation should not be based on population, but represent the various classes and interests of a state, (in which idea, however, there is no novelty,) the theory of Mr. Harris appears to us impracticable, and a mere project for a total change in the constitution of the House of Commons. There are, he says' six interests to be represented—" 1. Virtue ; 2. Intelligence ; 3. Order ; 4. Property ; 5. The Professional Interest ; 6. The Popular Interest." The Popular interest is to be upheld by universal suffiuge, Virtue is at present represented, in a small way, by the bench of Bishops. Mr. Harris proposes that clergymen should be eligible to the House of Commons, unless a real active Convocation were established, of Dissenters as well as Churchmen, but sitting separately, with a kind of tribunitian veto over all legislation that touches upon religion. Societies would return Members, some of whose " interests " seem to have influence enough already : the Railway Companies of the Three Kingdoms are to return eight Members ; the different Legal bodies to return no fewer than twenty-eight Members ; various contrivances endeavouring to check indirect and compel direct representation.

Parliamentary Precedents: being Decisions of the Rt. Hon. C. S. Lefevre, Speaker of the House of Commons, on Points of Order, Rules of Debate, and the General Practice of the House. By the Hon. Robert Bourke, Barrister-at-law.--The nature and subjects of this volume are very succinctly stated in the title • but no idea is conveyed by the title of the interest which really attaches to the book. The misbehaviour of honourable Members during the whole of Mr. Lefevre's Speakership is here recorded, with what came of it ; the principle deducible from their disorder or other misdoings being stated at the outset, and the proceedings following in the form of a report, curt and official, bukcharacteristic. ParliaMentary Precedents is quite a vade-mecum for every M.P. who would not be naughty, or would get out of a scrape.

Ceylon, Past and Present. By Sir George Barrow.—A compilation originally intended to give an account of Knox's curious adventures in the island ; but Sir George was led on to embrace a brief notice of the history and antiquities of Ceylon, with a description of its present state. The book has been prompted rather by individual taste than by any want of actual information upon the subject ; few countries having had so many and such good works written about them, from Dr. Davy in 1821 to Baker in 1855. Most of these original books, however, are somewhat special in their subjects; at least their authors did not contemplate a general account. In this point of view, Sir George Barrow's volume will be useful; for we know of nothing that tells so many things about Ceylon in so small a compass.

A History of Rome, from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the .Empire. By Henry G. Liddell, D.D.—When this useful history of Rome originally appeared, it was noticed at length in our columns.* The present edition has been "slightly abridged,' to better adapt it to "wants wants of younger students, and to make it range with the History of Greece by Dr. Smith." The volume has two features : it is crowded with views, plans, and copies of ancient coins and sculptures, not only striking as works of art but illustrative of the men and the times ; and the typographical getting-up is a model of neatness and cheapness. We have seldom or ever seen so much matter so clearly exhibited, at so moderate a price.

A Manual of Latin Prose Composition. By the Reverend Henry Musgrave Wilkins, M.A., &c., Author of "Notes for Latin Lyrics."—Intended for the higher classes of schools. The first part consists of passages translated "almost literally" from Latin writers, accompanied by foot-notes to assist in the retranslation by the pupil. The second part contains passages from the best English prose authors, followed by a version adapted to a literal translation into Latin. A third contains skeleton subjects for themes. The whole is preceded by an elaborate essay on the characteristic differences of the English and Latin languages and composition.

An .Elementary School History of England. By Y. j. Farnham. Part I. From the British Period to Richard III.—The prominent and wellknown facts of the subject told, in a plain but somewhat complimentary manner. Thus, in reference to the Druids, the child is informed—" Unlike the kind ministers of the Gospel now, whose great aim is to do good and to lead us into the way of salvation, the Druids exercised a tyrannical authority over the people," &e.

Six Lectures on the Book of Common Prayer. By Charles Parsons &kid, 13.D. Professor of Lath in the Queen's University, and Chaplain to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland.—Though preached from texts, and delivered in church on Sundays, these sermons are pure lectures ; the subject being an exposition and defence of the Prayer-book with a slight sketch of ita history. The author is opposed to Tractarianism and

Popery, but in England he would be called High Church. There is nothing very striking in. his treatment.

Ugo .Bassi: a Tale of the Italian Revolution. By Speranza.—A confused story, in which IJgo Bassi is betrayed to the Austrians by Anselmo a priest, whose sister, Bianca, has a patriotic admiration and Platonic love for the hero. The verse is the merest echo of Byron in The Giaour and The Siege of Corinth.

The second volume of the cheap and collected edition of Carlyle's Works completes the history of the French Revolution. The third volume of the Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of Professor Wilson is mainly occupied with papers on Burns ; there are also notices of Coleridge, Tupper, and Macaulay's Ballads. The second edition of "Faust" is an American translation, somewhat wanting in vigour and life ; you rather get a notion of the work than the work itself. Except the annual volume of the "Shilling Peerage," the other reprints are novels. A cheaper and single-volume edition of Mr. Reade's last, "It is Never too Late to Mend," from Mr. Bentley ; a very neat and cheap edition of Mrs. Norton's "Stuart of Dunleath," from Mr. Hodgson ; and a Parlour Library copy of "My Aunt Pontypool," by james.

The French Revolution : a History. By Thomas Carlyle. In two volumes. Essays Critical and Imaginative. By Professor Wilson. Volume III. (The

Works of Professor Wilson, of the University of Edinburgh, edited by his Son-in-law, Professor Ferrier. Volume VII.)

Faust : a Tragedy. Translated from the German of Goethe, with Notes, by Charles T, Brooks. Second edition.

"It is Never too Late to Mend" : a Matter-of-Fact Romance. By Charles Heade, Author of" Christie .Tohnstone," Re. New edition. Stuart of Dunleath. By the Honourable Mrs. Norton, Author of 'The Undying One," Re.

My Aunt Pontypool: a Novel. By G. P. R. James. Hardwicke's Shilling Peerage for 1857. Containing an alphabetical List of the House of Leeds; with a complete List of the Scotch and Irish Peers, Temporal and Spiritual, who are not Members of the House of Lords, Re. Re. Compiled by Edward Walford, Esq., M.A., Re.