PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS. BOOKS.

France since 1830. By THOMAS RAINES, Esq., Author of " A Visit to St. Petersburg." In two volumes.

The History of Duelling : including narratives of the most remarkable personal encounters that have taken place from the earliest period to the present time. By J. G. MELLINGER, M.D., F.R.S., Author of " Curiosities of Medical Experience," &c. In two volumes.

Russia under Nicholas the First. Translated from the German, by Captain ANTHONY C. STERLING, Seventy-third Regiment.

[This little volume, translated from several papers appended to the " Conver- sations-Lexicon der Gegenwart," contains a very useful and informing view of the Russian empire, in its statistics, military force, institutions, &c. : together with matters of a more general kind—as the character of NICHOLAS, the diffi- culties by which he is surrounded, and the internal policy of the government. The work is also distinguished by a more rational spirit than is frequently dis- played by persons writing on Russia. The authors see clearly that the forced civilization of PETER the Great has more of show than reality, and has pro- bably retarded the natural advancement of the people. They also perceive that the Government is constantly threatened with danger from discontented nobles, or from the oppression and corruption that spring up everywhere in the absence of watchful control; whilst their facts indicate that the life and throne of NICHOLAS are only preserved by an incessant watchfulness and activity. if disease or sloth should overtake him, conspiracies could not be crushed in the bud, and might prove fatal.] The Origin, Progress, and Present Condition of the Fine Arts, in Great Hritain and Ireland. By W. B. SARSPIELD TAYLOR, Curator of the Living Model Academy. In two volumes. [Two volumes of ill-assorted scraps, picked up from WALPOLE'S anecdotes and other published sources, exhibition-catalogues included, and gleaned from pri- vate gossip, with some crude speculatious on early English architecture, and the dreadful doings of the Romans in Britain ; interlarded with a good deal of senseless-habble about the encouragement of foreign artists, and the frauds of picture-dealers. This undigested heap of the draff and !tasks of the history of art, which the compiler complacently states has cost hint two years' labour to scrape together, is put forth, under the influence of some unaccountable delu- sion, as an " entire history' in a " compendious form ": though whole pages are filled with barren notices of forgotten artists, foreign as well as English, and Mr. SARSFIELD TAYLOR figures in half a dozen places, VANDYKE is dismissed in a few lines, and such painters as GAINSBOROUGH and WILSON are not even mentioned; while the " present condition " of British art is left to be inferred from a guide-book account of the various societies of artists, and collections of pictures in England, and lists of the Royal Academicians, and the Directors of the British Institution.] The Parlour Window ; or Anecdotes, Original Remarks on Books, &c• By the Reverend EDWARD MARGIN, Author of " Pleasures arising from a Love of Books."

[The title of this little volume implies it is a book to be read at leisure, or by snatches, in the old-fashioned window-seats, or, since these are no longer the mode, in any other place not devoted to study. The choice of the title also indicates the training of the author; who belougs to a time when publica- tion was a matter to be seriously weighed and carefully prepared for, and men did not thrust upon the public any thing. that came uppermost. Hence, what- .- ever was the character of the author's mind, or the nature of his subject, he did the best he could do, and presented the reader with the cream of his thoughts. Such is the Reverend EDWARD MARGIN'S Parlour Window ; an olla podrida of criticism, commentary, observation, and anecdote, partly the result of reading, partly of discourse and experience ; generally agreeable and readable, though rarely profound, and sometimes with a minuteness almost trivial, but always carefully! done ; and involving, we imagine, much excision, either on paper or in the mind.] Some Account of my Cousin Nicholas. By Tuomas INGOLDSBY, Esq., Author of the " Ingoldsby Legends." To which is added, The Rubber of Life. In three volumes.

[A reprint of a magazine fiction, recounting a series of practical jokes, in the periphrastic style of prose-spinning, with the addition of a story of slang and sentimentalism to eke out the standard measure of three volumes. The verbal facility which contributes so materially to the amusing effect of this author's comic verses, is fatal where there is no jingle of rhyme and metrical fluency to please the ear: the glittering web of verbiage that veils the meaning is tiresome for a continuance; and not the less so because the ideas themselves prove to be worthless. The popularity of Incomisar's name, which induced this repub- lication, will receive no increase from it.]

My Opinion of Her; A Sister's Love ; and Tice Nun of Florence. By GUIDO SORELLI, of Florence; Author of " My Confessions," &c. [We will not say that there is more truth than gallantry is My Opinion of Her, but there is certainly not much of flattery towards the sex in substance, though the style is unexceptionable. The work is a kind of narrative of the Fall, from Scripture, intermingled with many texts in which the patriarchs and Solomon—experienced men—were wont to warn their comates against the wiles of the better half of creation; GUIDO SORELLI stringing the whole toge- ther with commentaries and illustrations drawn from modern manners, and putting forth this conclusion—that very few women since the Fall are helps meet for man, whilst death, or the apprehension of their death, render the ex- ceptions a source of anxiety to their husbands. The work is curious in itself, and still more so for its English by a foreigner; and being plentifully inter- spersed with quotations from Muaorr, translated into Italian by GUIDO SORELLI, it will be useful, too, to the student. A remark which applies to the poems—A Sister's Love and The Nun of Florence.]

Gems of Sacred Literature. In two volumes. Gems of Sacred Poetry. In two volumes.

[These four volumes are indeed perfect gems in.the art of getting-up, whether we look at the time, the bindina.. or the O1 contents unworthy of the outwirri case. In the Gems of Sacred Poetry, the reader is presented with a series of selections from poets of all ages in English literature ; regard being made to the excellence of the production, and not to the repute of the author, for several serious poets of merit were stigmatized by the "wits of Charles's days." The extracts which form the Gems of Sacred Literature are generally from authors better known, at least by name, to theo- logical readers: but there are few, we suspect, except divinity students, who have read the works of the majority of the writers from whom the selections are made. A brief biographical notice is prefixed to each series of specimens ; so that, besides the absolute merit of the collection in a relig,io-literary point of view, these volumes furnish a coup d'ceil of the progress of our language, with a brief biography of the men who assisted to form it.] Nyren's Cricketer's Guide ; containing full directions for playing this ele- gant and manly game. By JOHN NYREN, many years player in the famous old Hambledon Club, and in the Marylebone Club. The whole collected and edited by CHARLES COWDEN CLARKE, Author of " Prose Tales from Chaucer," " Adam the Gardener," &c. Second edition, corrected and improved. [A pleasant and useful little manual. Others besides players of the game may read with interest the author's lively account of " the cricketers of my time." Though it is long since we wielded a bat, we join in JOHN NYREN'S .:rest against the modern innovation of throwing instead of bowling the larriage. By the Author of " The Inheritance," &c. Revised by the Author. (Standard Novels, No. LXXXIII.) The Practical Self-Teaching Grammar of the English Language. By W. J. SIMMONITE, M.M.S M.U.S.

SERIALS.

Rudiments of Music. For use in schools, and for private instruction. Parts I. and II. (Chambers's Educational Course.)

[Part L, prepared by Mr. ROBERT Scuuurzn, who was engaged in teaching

music in the schools of Holland, contains the rudiments of musical notation as applicable to singing ; a variety of exercises on intervals, and a few on the commoner scales ; upwards of thirty lesson-tunes, with appropriate words, in one, two, and three parts : and all this, including a neat binding, for one shilling and fonrpence. Part II., a separate volume of the same size, appearance, and price, is devoted to Psalmody ; containing a good collection of plain tunes, harmonized in four parts, and set to sacred words.] Johnson's Philosophic Nuts; or the Philosophy of Things as developed from the study of the Philosophy of Words, No. IV.

Brande's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, Part HI.

The New Statistical Account of Scotland, No. XXV. Charles O'Malley, No. XIII. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall's Ireland, Part VI,.

Master Humpl rey's Clock, Part XIL Encycloptidia Britannica, Part CXXIIL History of Napoleon, Part XXVII. Thomas's Translation of the Devil on Two Sticks, Parts XI. and XIL British Butterflies and their Transformations, No. IX.

Fox's Book of Martyrs, Part IL

Works of Josephus, Part XIL Mallon Lescaut, Parts VII. and VIII.

London, Part I.

Floreston, Part V.

Guide to Service—The Cowherd.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Pictorial Illustrations to the Waverley Novels, Part I.—" Waverley." ..[A set of eight vignettes, engraved on wood in the most finished manner, in- tended to bind up with the serial edition of Scores Novels now publishing, and having the recommendations of prettiness and cheapness. The landscape and architectural scenes are the best ; they are both picturesque and charac- teristic.] Sibson's Illustrations of Master Humphrey's Clock, No. XL Illustrated Shaltspere, Part XXIII.

Canadian Scenery Illustrated, Part XIII.

The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated, Part Pictorial History of Palestine, Part XIX. Pictorial History of England, Part L. Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, Part XXXI.—" Macbeth."

PERIODICALS.

Westminster Review, Part LXIX.

Church of England Quarterly Review, No. XVIII. Magazines for April—Black wood's, Dublin University, Tait's, Colonial, Monthly Chronicle, Bentley's Miscellany, English Journal, British Miscellany, Churchman, Polytechnic Journal, Floricultural, Florist's Journal, British Farmer's, Farmer's, Sportsman, Teetotaller, Mirror, Belle Assemblee, Ladies' Cabinet, Theatrical Chronicle.

PAMPHLETS.

Case of Mr. APLeod ; in whose person the Crown of Great Britain is arraigned for felony. By DAVID Unounanr, Esq. Considerations on the Constitution of the Church of Scotland; on the nature, intention, and advantages of an Established Church, particularly of the Scottish Establishment ; and on the modes of appointing ministers to vacant parishes. By PAT. FORBES, D.D., &c. The Fluctuations of Trade ; or the secret of foreseeing when prices are going to rise or fall : with an exposition of the power and workings of the Bank of England in reference to those important subjects. By H. J. WRIGHT, Esq.

Daily Bread; or Taxation without Representation resisted : being a. plan for the abolition of the Bread-tax. By One of the Millions. Mammon; or Covetousness the Sin of the Christian Church. By the Reverend JOHN HARRIS, D.D., Author of " The Great Teacher," &c.