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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

Personal Adventures during the Indian Rebellion in Rohiletmd. Futtehohur. and Oude. By William Edwards, Esq., B.C.8. Judge of Bermes and late Magistrate and Collector of Budeon in Rohilcund. .Eight Months' Campaign against the Bengal Sepoy Army, during the Mutiny of 1857. By Colonel George Bourchier, C.B., Bengal Horse Artillery, late Commanding No. 17, Light Field Battery.

English Surnames and their Place in the Teutonic Family. By Robert Fergu- son. Author of" The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland." Novels and Novelists, from Elizabeth to Victoria. By J. Cordy Jeaffreson.

Author of" Crewe Rise," &c. In two volumes.

Sea Drift. By Rear Admiral Hercules Robinson.

The Story of a Boulder, or Gleanings from the Note-Book of a Field Geologist. By Archibald Geikie, of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.—Taking a holiday in "the leafy month of June," Mr. Geikie found himself in a beautiful ravine not far from Edinburgh. A large boulder attracted his eye, and seating himself upon it, he naturally be- gan an examination. "The rock consisted of a hard grey sandstone, finely laminated above, and getting pebbly and conglomerate below. The included pebbles were well worn, and belonged to various kinds of rock. The upper part of the block was all rounded, smoothed, and deeply grooved, and when split open displayed numerous stems and leaflets of plants converted into a black coal)* substance. The plants were easily recognizable as well-known organisms of the carboniferous strata." All these traits would have been passed unnoticed by the eye of ignorance ; or if observed have been listlessly dismissed as a puzzle it could not solve. To the geologist this boulder was "as a book where men may read strange matters." How came the block there at all ? by what means was it grooved ? and how did the con- glomerate mass adhere to it and the pebbles become rounded ? Why, by and through an iceberg ; and this leads to an account of icebergs ; and a description of their geological operations and results. Then the traces of stems, and leaflets in the stone itself give rise, not only to a narrative of the formation of coal, but to a view of the vegetation and other condi- tions of the world at the time it was formed. And thus we proceed, till from the seat upon the boulder the reader has been carried through many of the principles and wonders of geology ; and, what is as much to the purpose, in a popular exposition travelling pleasantly all the way. Every- thing is made clear almost to demonstration ; and if there is a little too much of dramatic manner, many will relish it, while it certainly has the effect of force and vivacity. The text is accompanied by wood-cuts.

An Historico-Critical Introduction to the Canonical Books of the New Testament. By W. M. L. De Wette. Translated from the fifth im- proved and enlarged edition by Frederick Wrothingham.—It is upwards of thirty years since this historical and critical account of the languages and text of the New Testament, with a critical examination of each book, WU first published. Since then, four more editions have been called for ; in 1830, 1834, 1842, and 1848, each receiving alterations and ad- ditions, till death stopped further revision. A translation of De Wette's "Introduction to the Old Testament" appeared in 1843; we are not cer- tain as to the New ; but a Divinity scholar who wanted the book could always obtain it. This American translation seems, therefore, scarcely required ; especially as the translator admits that "some of the questions discussed in it have so changed their aspect as to require a different treat- ment." The book, however, is a vast storehouse not only of criticism, hut of facts.

Latin Sujixes. By the Rev. J. T. White, M.A., First Master of the Latin School, Christ's Hospital.—A new mode of readily acquiring a "word-knowledge " of Latin as separate from inflection and construction knowledge. The object proposed is to simplify the acquisition of Latin words by reducing them to classes, each class having a root which shows "whence any given word springs and what is the notion at the foundation of it," the suffix extending or otherwise varying the sense of the root. Substantives, adjectives, verbs and adverbs, are the parts of speech exhibited by the author. The classes and their subdivisions are very numerous, and it is not easy to fairly exhibit the system of Mr. White in its strength, its weakness, and its average. The following is not the best specimen of the system ; but it will give a notion of his method, though not of its extent. nubo, to cover : ea:a nub-es, [the covering thing], cloud. tundo, to beat • IUD tad-es, [the beating thing], mallet. veho, to carry • FEE relt-es [the carrying thing], carriage. idler, to slip • LAD lab-es, [the slipping thing], earth-slip. sordeo to be filthy - SOILD sord-es, [the filthy thing], filth, dirt. agnate°, to be filthy :....stivah squat-es, [the filthy thing], filth, dirt.

Wyoming ; its History, Stirring Incidents, and Romantic Adventures. By George Peck, D.D.—Although the philological propriety may be doubtful which ascribes incidents and adventures to a district, the title sufficiently indicates the nature of this American publication. Dr. Peck describes the valley which Campbell has made famous by his Gertrude of Wyoming ; tells the story of the settlement by Yankee Squatters in op- position to the "proprietaries "—the Penn Family before the Revolution ; discusses with fatiguing elaboration the massacre by the Indians that forms an incident in Campbell's poem; furnishes biographical notices of some of the inhabitants, and narrates some "stirring incidents and romantic adventures, "that have taken place in the valley. Wyoming is a poor book ; minute and flat. The only feature of interest is the latent indica- tion of American life in the last century, which is sometimes perceptible.

Hadji in Syria; or Three Years in Jerusalem. By Mrs. Sarah Bar- clay Johnson.—Another American book. It seems the fair writer ori- ginally declined to publish her Syrian observations, "knowing how well the public have already been supplied with works on the Holy Land." These judicious scruples were overcome by request of friends " ; and hence the Hadji in Syria. It is a slight affair, giving an account of what the writer thought the memorable things she observed during her sojourn at Jerusalem and its neighbourhood, as well as on her journey thither from Beyrout. The Holy Land has been so thoroughly ex- hausted, that only a "genius," or a traveller with a special subject of which he was complete master, could infuse much interest into an ac- count of a Syrian tour.

NEW SERIAL,

A History of the British Sea-Anemones and Madrepores. By Philip Henry Gosse, F.R.S. Parts I. II. III.—Mr. Gosse intends to combine in this publication the results of his own observations, the contributions of his friends, and the authenticated matter of the principal writers on sea-anemones, so as to produce a popular descriptive history, especially designed for the use of sea-side visitors. Starting with the terms and a general description of the animantia—which would have been better ac- companied by diagrams or cuts, the author gives an account of the genera with particular descriptions of their species, illustrating the text by coloured plates to bring the objects before the eye. He also indicates the localities where particular species will be found ; describes many of them as they appear in their natural haunts, or the aquarium, and adds useful directions for their capture and after treatment. The work is plainly and agreeably written, and the plates instructive as well as pretty.

The reprints of the week like the other publications are somewhat scant in number and slight in character ; but the titles sufficiently cats their nature. The two novels are cheap books.

The Rifleman's Manual; or Rifles and how to use them. By Hans Busk, M.A., of Trinity College. Cambridge, of the Middle Temple, First Lieutenant Victoria Rifles. Second edition. Illustrated with numerous engravings. Mark Wilton, the Merchant's Clerk. By Charles B. Tayler, MA., Author of " Records of a Good Man's Life," &c.

Nightshade. By Wm. Johnston, M.A. A new edition, revised and corrected. With a Preface by the Reverend George Gthillan.