PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boma.

Mountains and ifokhals ; or Recollections of a burnt Journal. By Frank M.arryat, Author of " Borneo and the Eastern Archipelago." With Illustrations by the Author.

Fabiola ; or the Church of the Catacombs.

Hammon ; or the Hardships of an Heiress. By Mrs. Gore. In three volumes.

Gwen, or the Cousins. By A. M. Goodrich, Author of " Claudia." Poetical Works of James Thomson. Edited by Robert Bell. Volume I. (The Annotated Edition of the English Poets.) War Lyrics. By A. and L. IA few of these lyrics are familiar to the poetical readers of the Spectator, having already appeared in its pages, as " War Music," " To the Friends of the Dead," the Sonnet to young Clutterbuck, "A Vote of Thanks." The new poems included in the collection exhibit the qualities which procured the enumerated pieces admission into our columns. Freshness of feeling and conception, appropriate imagery, a remarkable power of realizing dis- tinct pictures and presenting them in succession as parts of a leading sub- ject without losing sight of the whole, are their leading features. To these may be added the rare quality of terseness: as soon as the image is pre- sented it is left, without producing the weakness or weariness of diffusion. Above all, a poetical spirit is visible, though struggling through a deficiency of mere mechanical skill, only attainable by practice, and the possession of which, as we very well know, is too often offered as a substitute for every- thing else.] Curiosities of London : exhibiting the most Rare and Remarkable Ob- jects of Interest in the Metropolis ; with nearly Fifty Years' Personal Recollections. By John Timbe, F.S.A., Author of "A Picturesque Promenade round Dorking," and Editor of " Laccaaica," " The Year- Book of Facts," &c. [The reader is told in the preface that the plan of this volume was formed twenty-seven years ago, and has since been continuously kept in mind. Lifelong observation, books, conversation, and tradition, have each contri- buted to swell the facts that find a place in the Curiosities of London. These facts are numerous, briefly stated, and well brought together; nor do we know -where so much information respecting the Metropolis can be found in a single -volume, or even in many volumes. The arrangement adopted by Mr. Timhs is alphabetical, and in a number of subjects in groups,—as Churches, Inns of Court. This plan facilitates reference to particular features, more especially as regards strangers. It is not so favourable for presenting a com- plete or continuous coup d nil on several things,—as, for example, the pro- gress of London. The facts of the volume will indeed furnish matter for this, or other general views ; but the reader must collect them for himself.] The History and Poetry of Finger-Rings. By Charles Edwards, Coun-

sellor-at-law, New York.

his volume is one of the best American books that has appeared of late. It is true that the subject is limited, perhaps narrow ; for the history, ar- chreology, uses, curiosities, and sentiment of finger-rings, with the addition of personal anecdote or gossip, do not seem to promise much. Mr. Counsellor Edwards, of New York, has, however, made an interesting book. He has collected an immense number of widely-scattered facts, arranged them well, and presented them concisely, constantly authenticating his statements by reference to authorities. It has the least of verbiage and the most of matter in a brief compass of any American books that we have met : the author's profession probably has contributed to this result. The most obvious fault of Mr. Edwards is insufficient discrimination as regards his authorities. The Causes Mares of M. Dumas, for instance, is not a work of high credit as to facts.] Summer Tours in Central Europe, 1453-'4. Bavaria, Austrian Tyrol, North Italy, Savoy, Piedmont, &o. By John Barrow, Esq. [A plain and unaffected narrative of one of Mr. Barrow's annual tours, not without interest to read for its descriptions of the places he went to, what he saw, and how he managed, though dealing rather with particular facts than broad pictures. The principal use of the book is as a companion to those who like to pursue the same route in their autumnal trip.] Self-proving Examples in the four first Rules of Arithmetic, simple and compound, especially adapted for self-practice as well as school or family. use. fly Alexander J. Ellis, B.A., formerly Scholar of Tri- nity College, Cambridge.

[The object of this book is to produce a ready and rapid computator. It differs from other publications on the same subjects by a more systematic arrangement and a more scientific method. The reader must not suppose that the " at eight" of the author can be attained by a simple perusal of the rules or once working the questions. The power of deciding at a glance, which looks to the unaccustomed like intuition, is the result of long-con- tinued exercise, as the writer allows in his preface. There is no other way of acquiring the art of ready reckoning.]

Grammatical Exercises on the Hoods, Tenses, and Syntax of Attic Greek. With a copious Vocabulary. For the use of Schools. By James Ferguson, M.D., Rector of the West End Academy, Aberdeen ; and Editor of " Xenophon's Anabasis, Books I and U., with copious Vocabulary," &c. [A. series of progressive exercises, selected from the purest Greek writers ;

commencing with the verb and its nominative, and proceeding to compound sentences. It is a useful book for the pupil to take up when he has gone through his grammar.]

Du Unspeakable ; or the Life and Adventures of a Stammerer.

The Riches of Poverty ; a Tale. By Mrs. Eccles. A Beginning without an End ; an Allegory. By M. A. E. C. [The tales of the week are not remarkable. The Unspeakable, an autobio- graphy of a stammerer, is an indifferent attempt to make not congenital but superinduced impediment of speech a source of interest in fiction. The Riches of Poverty aims at showing how reverse of circumstances may be- come advantageous ; and the idea is a good one, had it been better de- veloped, and the story not so much encumbered by subordinate or collateral matters. The allegory of A Beginning without an End is a sort of history of the soul. It (the soul) observes creation, the fall, the death of Cain, and the various passions of man with the consequences they produce. The book is written with an imitative species of eloquence ; but the idea is not very felicitous or freshly treated.] Poetical Enigmas. By Frederick J. Walthew. [These verses are not first-rate, nor, we should say, the enigmas either ; but we are no judges of that matter. However, they may serve the purpose of amusing a social circle.] Lord Brougham's revised and extended edition of "The Philosophers of the Time of George the Third" is undoubtedly the most valuable and read- able reprint in our list. Widely different, but amusing in its way, is the new edition of Mr. Francis's "Chronicles of the Stock Exchange.' "The Speeches of Eminent British Statesmen" were all delivered by departed orators, except Lord John Russell's speech on introducing the Reform Bill. The Essays of Mr. Rogers is the supplementary volume of articles added to the new edition, and published to range with the former selection. Lives of Philosophers of the Time of George III. By Henry, Lord Brougham, F.R.S., etc. (Works of lienry, Lord Brougham.) Chronicles and Characters of the Stock Exchange. By John Francis, Author of the "History of the Bank of England, its Times and Tra- ditions." New edition.

Speeches of Eminent British Statesmen during the Thirty-nine Years' Peace. First series. From the Close of the War to the Passing of the Reform Bill.

Essays, selected from Contributions] to the Edinburgh Review. By Henry Rogers. Volume The Alpha, or the First Principle of the Human Hind ; as revealed to Remus Randolph, in a Reverie, and verified to his satisfaction in a Dream : being a Philosophical Inquiry into the Constitution of Hu- man Happiness and the Nature of Truth. By Edward N. Dennys. Second edition.

A Complete Course of Instruction in the French Language. In three

parts. By Andre Sears, Professor of the Frenoh Language and Lite-

rature in the Collegiate Institution, Liverpool. Second edition. The Stepmother. By G. P. R. James, Esq. (The Parlour Library.)

Now PERIODICAL.

Journal of the Dublin Statistical Society. Eighth Session. Part I. [The selected papers of the Dublin Statistical Society have hitherto been published singly, and therefore liable to be lost. The aim of this journal is to remedy that defect. The contents of the present monthly part are to some degree formal explanations, with a general address by Mr. Pim. The most interesting paper is one by Dr. Hancock, on " What a perfect Income- tax of ten per cent could produce " ; and-which he estimates at nearly fifty millions (49,232,0001.) In this calculation, however, he includes labourers —in fact, income of every kind and amount. If there were any mode by which the whole income of the country could be ascertained and got at, a percentage to cover the whole expenses of the state would be the fairest of taxes. But this cannot be : even with the 7d. in the pound and the 1501. exemption, the evasions were enormous and scandalous. A minister of fi- nance must tax as he can, not as he would. Dr. Hancock's speculation de- serves perusal.] ILLtrsmanin WORES AND PRINTs.

The Royal Gallery of Art. Edited by S. C. Hall, F.S.A. Part 111. [IInwin's " Cupid and Psyche," Armitage's " Battle of Meeanee," and a "Windmill" by Ruyadael, are the subjects of this part; a selection possess- ing the interest of diversity. The Meeanee, which, it may be recollected, received a 5001. prize at Westminster Hall, has been engraved sharply and with telling oppositions of light and shade, by Mr. J. B. Allen : the print, however, does not give the idea of so large-sized a work as the picture is. The Windmill is pretty, but with little character or meaning.]

PAMPHLETS.

A Few Words addressed to his Grace the An Historical Sketch of Carlisle Cathe- .Duk.e of Newcastle, by an Englishman, dral. A Lecture delivered at the Car-

on the Proximate Causes, the Prin- lisle Mechanics Institution. By the ciples, and the conclusive Terms, of Very Reverend A. C. Tait, D.C.L., the Russian War. Dean of Carlisle.

A Voice: a War Ministry.

Should the Money required to pay the Expenses of the War be raised by Loans or by Taxes?

Free Trade in Land : an Inquiry into the Social and Commercial Influence of the Laws of Succession and the System of Entails as affecting the Land, the Farmer, and the Labourer ; with Obser- vations on the Transfer of Land. By James Beal.

The State of the Highlands is 1854.

A Review of the Evidence before the Se- cond Court-Martial on Lieutenant Perry. By a Civilian. The Slaulay of the People in France. By the Abbe Moho*, Chaplain to the Em- peror of France. Translated from the French, with Introduction, by Selina Bunbury.

On the Academical Study of Latin : an Inaugural Lecture delivered in the Theatre, Oxford, Dec. 2, 1854. By John Connington, M.A., Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, and Fellow of University College.

A Lecture on Respiration: being the Sixth of a Series of Plain and Simple Lectures on the Education of Man. By Thomas Hopley.