PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From December 27th to January 2d. BOOB& Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen. 1398— 1570.

Parochialia; or Church, School, and Parish. The Church System and Services, practically Considered. By John Sandford, MA., Vicar of Dunchurch, &c.

'The Collegian's Guide; or Recollections of College Days, setting forth the Advantages and Temptations of an University Education. By the Reverend **** **** • * , M.A., — College, Oxford.

Recollections of Military Service in 1813, 1814, and 1815, through Germany, Holland, and France; including some Details of the Battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. By Thomas Morris, late Sergeant of the Second Battalion of the Seventy-third Regiment of Foot.

The Juryman's Guide. By Sir George Stephen. {When we look at the strange sort of verdicts that are frequently returned, and She wrong principles, or want of all principle, by which the Jury must be influenced, a code of instructions to guide jurymen to a right conclusion must be allowed to be a desideratum. The Juryman's Guide, by Sir George Stephen, scarcely supplies this want; for the facetious Knight has neither the authority nor perhaps the ability to fulfil self-inntrr. His tract is the work of a well-informed, keen-minded man, whose 1 • faculties have been sharpened rather than expanded by his profession, and who rings. a good deal of expenenas to bear upon the subject; which, perhaps, as often influences the possessor's views as conducts him to a sound conclusion. Sometimes the partisan peeps out too, as well as the attorney-at-law, and the phrase applied to jurymen, in the parsgraph where an allusion is made to Mr. Lulueta's trial, a " dozen perjured fools,* 146,) might as well have been spared; for though the words are used in a gen'eral way, every one who remembers the trial will be at no loss to point the application. The tract, however, is readable, and attractively written, and will form a useful reading-book for the million of householders, though it cannot be implicitly trusted as a guide.] Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrate Animals, designed especially for the Use of Students. By Rudolph Wagner, M.D. Professor of Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in the University of Gottingen, &c. Edited from the German, by Alfred Talk, M.R.C.L. [Mr. Tulk has rendered a good service to the student by his translation of Wagner's elaborate work on the Elements of the Comparative Anatomy of the Vertebrate Animals. In the compass of little more than sixty pages, the pupil may take a survey of the organs, tegumentary, osseous, muscular, and nervous systems of the mammalia, where they differ from man, who is made the type of comparison. About the same quantity of reading will carry him through birds, and something like a hundred pages each through reptiles and fishes. Mr. Tulk hats added to each division a Bat of the principal works that treat of the branches of the subjects which are compendiously handled by Wagner,—a judicious plan, but not so new in this country as he seems to suppose. It will be understood that this work is of a strictly scientific character, only noting points of difference, and presuming a competent knowledge of anatomy on the part of the student.]

The Pilgrim of Beauty, the Cottager's Sabbath, and other Poems ; now first collected. By Sainuel Mullen. With twenty-three vignettes, engraved by W. R. Smith, from designs by H. Warren.

[The two principal poems in this very handsome octavo have before appeared in print; though the ,• Pilgrim of Beauty" has not till now been completed. It would not be inferred from the preface that there has been a demand on the part of the public for a reprint of the in but this has not prevented the author from enshrining. all his effusions in a volume that in beauty of typography and embellishments is worthy to range with the poetical works of Rogers and Byron. These lucubrations have amused the scanty leisure and diverted the mind of a man of active occupations, whose taste and ear for metre led him to pour forth his thoughts and feelings in verse: and very elegant and sensible verses they are; but they are devoid of original or poetical ideas, and are not remarkable for that felicity of expression which coupled with rhyme often passes for poetry.: Both the longer pieces are in the Spenserian stanza; and so imitative are they in character that the reader is in turn reminded of every English poet who has used this metre—Spenser alone excepted. The smaller pieces are alike suggestive of similar reminiscences.

The vignettes are very pretty pictures of home and foreign scenes, designed in an elegant style, with pleasing arrangements of sunlight and shade. And, by a carious coincidence, it happens that Mr. Warren's landscapes also remind us of those of other artists: Turner's effects may be frequently traced; and those of Creswick and Martin are likewise discernible.] Waldgrore, or the Fortunes of Bertram; a Tale of 1746. In two volumes. [The author of this novel appears to have designed to make the Rebellion of 1745 a source of historical interest, but was unable to manage so large a subject. His hero, Bertram intended to have joined the Pretender's army, but thought better of it ; still, that intention involves him in trouble, pursuit by the officers of justice and exile. There is an attempt at depicting English life among the country gentry a hundred years since; but the whole is poor and fiat.]

The Works of G. P. R. James, Esq. Revised and corrected by the Author. With an Introductory Preface. Volume III. The Huguenot.

[ This able though rather heavy novel, which we noticed at length on its first appearance,* has received some emendations to fit it for its place in the collected series of Mr. James's fictions. The author has also added a preface, in which he tells the story of his book : his own portrait is the embellishment.]

The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge. New Series, 1844.

[The fourth volume of the new series displays the usual variety of useful and entertaining matter, with the wonted number of excellent wood-cuts.] Geography Generalized By Robert Sullivan, Esq., A.M., T.C.D. Third edition , enlarged and improved.

The Spelling-Book Superseded. By Robert Sullivan, Esq., A.M., T.C.D. Sixth edition, enlarged. [New editions of two of .Mr. Sullivan's excellent little educational works. The Geography Generalized has received considerable additions, both in the maps and in some new chapters that have been added on several useful subjects.] SERIALS.

Chapman and Hall's Monthly Series. Mount Sorel ; or the Heiress of the De Veres. By the Author of" The Two Old Men's Tales." Part L The plan of this new speculation is to publish original fictions in monthly parts, tor about half the price at which they are issued in three volumes; four parts, as a general rule, comprising a complete novel or romance, and forming two volumes. The fictions are to be by writers of some eminence; and the first number commences with a domestic tale of the last century by the wellknown author of The Two Old Men's Tales. From the specimen before us, we conceive the attraction of Mount Sorel will depend more upon description and minute analysis of character and motives, than rapid narrative or stirring incident; a style of composition for which the writers cast of mind and limited experience Of life is the best fitted.] The O'Donoghue; a Tale of Ireland Fifty Years Ago. By Harry Lorrequer. No. I.

[This is a novel by Mr. Lever, which he is publishing in monthly numbers. To judge from the first part, it is one of the most promising of his fictions. With all the movement that is his forte there is more show of a serious purpose in it. We are introduced to an ancient Irish family, living in half-concealed half-reckless poverty, having been dispossessed by confiscation ; and to a wealthy English banker, the new owner of the estate, who visits it hot with inopportune and nnsuitable plans of improvement. The banker has a daughter ; the O'Donogyue two sons, a strange Scotch brother-in-law, and divers hangers-on; and a variety of embroilments seem to lower in the distance. All this earlier part is picturesque and striking.] The Life of Sir Thomas Gresham. (Knight's Weekly Volume.) The facts for this life of the founder of the Royal Exchange are chiefly dnivni from the elaborate biography by Mr. Burgon, published a few years since: but it derives its colouring from a bolder and more uncompromising spirit of inquiry, especially in reference to the jobbing manner by winch the munificent foundations of Gresham were defeated.] M. G. Lewis's Negro Lift in the West Indies. (Murray's Home and Colonial Library.) [Another addition of a dear copyright work to Mr. Murray's Colonial Library; and by no means the least interesting of the series, for its lively unaffected . Spectator, 15th December 1838, page 1187. sketches of West Indian scenery and Negro character. It now possesses a kind of historical interest, from depicting the Jamaica Coloured race in a state of Slavery.]

Practical Sermons, adapted to the course of the Christian Year in the Book of Common Prayer. By Dignitaries and other Clergymen of the United Church of England and Ireland. Part L It is a judicious plan of Mr. Parker to present the Churchman with a series of sermons bythe most noted living Anglican divines: for, if discourses as good, or even better, may be found in theological literature, they want the mode of the day; and to general readers, a contemporary style of thought and composition is almost as requisite as a contemporary fashion of dress to secure a favourable reception.]

PERIODICALS.

Parker's London Magazinewherein Facts and Events are Chronicled, Men and Manners Discussed, Books and other sources of Knowledge Considered, and divers matters duly set forth, to the edification and entertainment of the Reader. No. L Douglas Jerrokl's Shilling Magazine. No.

George Cruikshank's Table-Book. Edited by Gilbert A. k Beckett. No. I. The Arcluzological Album; or Museum of National Antiquities. Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., &c. The Illustrations by Frederick W. 1Fairholt, F.S.A. No. L [A periodical devoted to antiquarian researches illustrative of the customs and arts of our forefathers. It appears to have originated with some members of the British Archreological Association ; and this number is devoted to a report of the proceedings at the first meeting of the Association at Canterbury last autumn, 'illustrated with etchings and wood-cuts.] The Student, and Young Men's Advocate.

r This new series of a cheap magazine is chiefly addressed to the trading youth of

Great Britain, and its main object is to advocate early sho '

p-shuttinos. 'The number contains some good articles of a solid informing kind ; but it wants more vivacity in its lighter papers' and seems to require editing. It is deficient in distinctness of character, and that unity in variety which can only be imparted by one directing mind.]

• ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Old England; a Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Baronial, Municipakand Popular Antiquities. Volume L [This is a picture-book of antiquarian lore, so far as our own country is concerned, popularized and made attractive to the general reader by means of a multitude of cuts selected from the various pictonal publications of Mr. Charles Knight. The text is a narrative commentary on the pictures; which it illustrates by a continuous account of the condition, habits, and arts of "Old England," during the British, Roman and Anglo-Saxon periods, and from the Norman Conpest to the fifteenth century; whereat this volume closes. In other words, it is a visible history of the progress of civilization in this country, at once amusing and informing.] The Beauties of the Opera, Part X. "The Jewess."

Roberts's Sketches in the Holy Land, Egypt, Arabia, and Syria, Part XVIIL

ALMANACKS.

The Anglo-Indian and Colonial Almanack, and Civil, Military, and Commercial Directory, for 1845. [To each page of the calendar is appended a very 'useful chronology of European connexion with India, in the shape of foot-notes, forming a complete skeleton of Anglo-Indian history. " The home information respecting the Board of Control, the India House, and the various Colleges for the civil or military candidate for the East, is minute and full : so is that for the three Presidencies, including the civil and military services, and a commercial directory to the extent of public companies, agents, and so forth. The colonial information is more spare, and only extends to the Australasian Colonies.]