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PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

An Historical, Political, and Statistical Account of Ceylon and its Depend- encies. By Charles Pridham, Esq., BA., F.R.G.S.; Author of " History of the Mauritius," &c. In two volumes. The Nemesis of Faith. By J. A. Fronde, M.A., Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

Introductory Lectures delivered at Queen's College, London.

The Emigrant Family; or the Story of an Australian Settler. By the Author of " Settlers and Convicts." In three volumes.

The Course of a Revolution; or the Parthenopsean Republic. An 'Historical Tale of 1798, illustrative of the tendencies of the Fraternity and Equal- ity of 1848. In three volumes. Labour and Other Capital; the Rights of Each Secured, and the Wrongs of Both Eradicated; or an Exposition of the Cause why few are wealthy and many poor, and the delineation of a system, which, without infringing the rights of property, will give to labour its just reward. By Edward Kellogg, Author of " Currency, the Evil and the Remedy." A Tour in Sutherlandshire; with Extracts from the Field-Books of a Sportsman and Naturalist. By Charles St. John, Esq., Author of " Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands." With Wood-cuts. In two volumes.

Recollections of an Old Soldier: a Biographical Sketch of the late Colonel Tidy, C.B., Twenty-fourth Regiinent With Anecdotes of his Contempo- raries. By Mrs. Ward, Authoress of "Five Years in Kafirland," &c.

The Inheritance of Evil; or the Consequence of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister.

[Like many didactic fictions, The Inheritance of Evil assumes that marriage with a deceased wife's sister is the sin it denounces-' and then, by a series of ex- ternal circumstances, some of them having no logical connexion with the princi- pal subject, proceeding to overwhelm the sinners with misfortunes and "judg- ments."] Tales of Faith and Providence. By the Reverend W. B. Flower, B.A., &c. [A series of religions tales designed for theyoung, and mostly founded upon anecdotes connected with the early Christians.] The Field and the Factory; a Poem, in two Cantos. With Notes. By Wil- liam Erie Mayne.

[An attack upon factories, machinery, steam, railways, and scientific improve- ments, especially if they conduce to luxury, with a panegyric on agriculture; written in the heroic measure, and in the style of Pope's followers.]

Poetry Past and Present. A Colleption for Every-day Reading and Amuse- ment. By the Editor of "Church Poetry," fee. [A selection of poetry, made with considerable taste from a wide range of authors, little read or eminent, old or modem. The arrangement has some novelty; the poems being classed according to the mood or feeling of the writer—as Longings, Forebodings; or his subject—as Foreign Scenes. The volume is prettily got up.] The Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus Simplifies[, and Applied to the Solution of various useful Problems in Practical athe- matics and Mechanics. By Thomas Tate, Mathematical Master of the National Society's Training College, Battersea, &c.

[" The object of this work is to explain, illustrate, and apply the fundamental principles of the calculus, in such a manner as to bring them within the com- prehension of a student having merely a knowledge of ordinary algebra and trigonometry "; and to serve as an introduction to more elaborate works.]

Life in the Far West. By George Frederick Buxton, Author of " Travels

in Mexico, &c."

[A reprint of the spirited papers descriptive of life in the far West, which ap- peared in Blackwoods Magazine from the pen of Mr. Ruxton, prematurely. cut off while entering upon further adventures. A feeling and friendly memoir is prefixed to the papers.] Sermons preached in Grosvenor Chapel London. By the Reverend Matthew Kinsey, M.A., formerly Assistant Minister of Grosvenor Chapel, now Cu- rate of Bolas, Salop.

[Twenty sermons on miscellaneous subjects. The views of Mr. Kinsey are strictly Anglican and Protestant, opposed to the tenets and practices of Rome, and to the gloomy spirit of Dissent. Ile holds the doctrine of spiritual existence and direct influence.]

The Calling of a Medical Student: Four Sermons preached in the Chapel of King's College, London. By Edward Hayes Plumptre, MA., Chaplain and Divinity Lecture. [The hospital, the dissecting-room' work, and leisure, are the subjects of these discourses ; some Christian dangers being pointed out as specially attending each, and some religions and moral aims enforced.] Shadows of the New Creation; or the Night of Sorrow and the Morning of Joy.

[A series of religions outpourings, in fourteen papers, having the character of the mystical "discourse."]

Unreformed Abuses in Church and State; with a Preliminary Tractate on the Continental Revolutions. By John Wade, Author of " The History and Political Philosophy of the Productive Classes," ffec. [A series of articles on the finances, the legal, ecclesiastical, and legislative ' abuses " that obtain amongst us, with other topics less amenable to classi- fication. The facts are not very new; the tone and views are " strong." Mr. Wade suggests the desirableness of an " equitable adjustment"—not a payment, like Mr. Rigby Wason—of the National Debt.] The First Poetical Reading-Book, for the use of Families and behools, &c. By Walter el'Leod, Head Master of the Model School, Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea, &c. The Second Reading-Book, for the use of Families and Schools. By Walter M‘Leod. [Both these publications are well arranged and well presented for the pupil. The Poetical Reading-Book is a superior compilation, almost all the specimens being of a high kind.' Goethe's Autobiography and Travels. Volume IL (Bohn's Standard Li- ary) Brbmi&'s Popular Antiquities. Volume II. (Bobn's Antiquarian Library.) Emma. By Miss Austin. (Parlour Library, Volume W.) A Grammar of the Spanish Language; in a series of Lectures; with copious Examples and Exercises, written with the new Spanish orthography, &c. By Emanuel Del Mar, Professor of the Spanish Language. Fifth edition, &c. ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Gailhabaud's Ancient and Modern Architecture. Parts XCVTI. to CX. Portrait of Mr. Faraday.

NEW PERIODICAL.

The Journal of Design. With numerous Illustrations. No. L March 1849.

ences of a Gaol Chaplain; comprising Recollections of Ministerial teroourse with Criminals of various classes, with their Confessions. New edition, with new Preface, and Additions. (Bentley's Standard Novels.)

SERIAL.

The History of Scotland. By Robert Chambers. Part I. (Bentley's Ca- binet Library.) The Chemistry of Vegetable and Animal Physiology. By Dr. G. J. Molder. Translated from the Dutch by Dr. P. F. H. Fromberg; with an Introduc- tion and Notes, by James F. W. Johnston, F.R S., &c. Part IV. Political and Social Economy, its Practical Applications. By John Hill Burton. Part IL (Chambers's Instructive and Entertaning Library.)

MAPS.

Atlas of Physical Geography. Constructed by Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S., formerly in Professor Berghans's Geographical Establishment at Potsdam, and Assistant for many years in preparing his great Physical Atlas. With Descriptive Letterpress, embracing a General View of the Physical Plaenomena of the Globe. By the Reverend Thomas Milner, ALA., Author of " The Gallery of Nature," &c. Part L Allen's Map of the Punjaub and Sikh Territories, 1849.

PAMPHLETS.

A Letter to the Editor of "The English Review," from Julius Charles Hare, M.A. With a Letter from Professor Maurice to the Author. Speech of Daniel Whittle Barmy, Esq., on Moving for a 'Select Committee

to Inquire into the Crown Lands, &c.

Documents concerning the Question of the Danubian Principalities. By D. Bratiano.

Letters to the Editor of " The Times," in Answer to those of "Emeritus" on Ordnance Estimates. By David. On Education as connected with the Sanatory Movement in Newcastle-upon- Tyne and Gateshead. By George Robinson, M.D. Urgent Reasons for Reviving the Synodal Functions of the Church. By the Reverend T. P. Wright, M.A., Incumbent of St. Philip's, Dalston. A Plain Statement of the Grounds on which it is contended that Marriage within the Prohibited Degrees is Forbidden in Scripture. By Hugh Bennett, M.A., Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, and Curate of Lyme Regis, Dorset.

The Next Step respectfully suggested to the Senate of the University of

Cam . By one of its Members. Proposals or Remedying the Abuses and Promoting the Efficiency of the Established Church in Ireland, &c. By a Beneficed Clergyman. Another Plea for Tenant-Right, on the grounds of Justice, &c. By C. H.

Lattimore.

A Few Words on the Encouragement given to Slavery and the Slave-trade by recent Measures, and chiefly by the Sugar Bill of 1846. By Stephen Cave, Esq., M.A., Barrister-at-law. The Employment of the People and Capital of Great Britain in her man Colonies, Explained in a Letter from Major Robert Carmhicael-Smyth to his friend the Author of " The Clockmaker," &c. With a Map by Wyld. .Demoniacal Possession, its Nature and Cessation; an Essay. By the Reve- rend Thomas Woodward, MA., &c. Naval Financial Reform. A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir F. T. Baring, Batt, M.P. By Jedediah Stephens Tucker.