PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Military Event8 in Italy, 1848-1849. Translated from the German, by the Earl of Ellesmere.

The Lexington Papers ; or some Account of the Courts of London and Vienna at the Conclusion of the Seventeenth Century. Extracted from the Official and Private Correspondence of Robert Sutton, Lord Lexington, British Minister at Vienna, 1694-1698. Selected from the Originals at Kelham, and edited, with Notes, by the Honourable H. Manners Sutton.

Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections of Manchester. Intended to illustrate the Progress of Public Opinion from 1792 to 1832. By Archibald Prentice.

Foreign Reminiscences. By Henry Richard Lord Holland : Edited by his Son, Henry Edward Lord Holland.

The Planetary System; its Order and Physical Structure. By J. P. Niehol, LL.D., Professor of Astronomy in the University of Glasgow, Author of "The Architecture of the Heavens," &c.

Sermons in Sonnets; with a Text on the New Year ; and other Poems. By Chimney Hare Townshend.

Scenes from Italian. L. By L. Merlotti, Author of "Italy, Past and Present.'

The Maiden and. Married' Life of Mary Powell, afterwards Mistress _Milton.

e success-of "The Diary of Lady Willoughby" seems to have prompted the present work. The "Life of Mary Powell" is, however, superior to its predecessor in the interest of its persons and incidents, as well as in the na- ture of its story, which has more action : there is love, marriage, quarrel, and reconciliation ; the true facts being added to, not altered. It is a clever and pleasing book ; albeit the class to which it belongs is "neither fish nor flesh "—neither fiction nor fact.]

What was Said in the Woods. Translated from the German of Gustav zu. Puthtz.

[Tales narrated by the poppy, the fir-tree, a streamlet, and a pebble. They are more fanciful and digressive than needs be when inanimate objects are speakers, whether their speech is used as a means of imparting a knowledge aLnatural. history or expressing a sentiment.] The Professor's Wife. From the German of Berthold Auerbach. [An ill-conceived story, full of digressions, and that kind of overwrought and weakly sentiment which has brought ridicule on many German fictions. The story was-not worth translating.] Ihe Old Tree ; or Filial Piety.

[A Romanist story, designed to illustrate filial piety by a daughter who sacrifices her lover to her father ; a sacrifice which is the means of preserv- ing his soul by inducing hint to enter a monastery. The story is well written.]

Stories that Might be True, with other Poems. By Dora GreenwelL [A few tales and many occasional poems. on various subjects; some of the subjects fresher than is usual with minor poets, being on incidents "that might be true" connected with emigrant life and feelings. The execution is smooth and elegant, but the treatment and style are rather too conven- tional. Dora Grcenwell wants independence if not originality of mind, depth of thought, and greater strength of composition.] The Wary of Hats; a Heroic Poem. By Peter Crook, Esq. &c.

[A Romanist satire on the Church of England, prompted, no doubt, by the present agitation ; in which all the evils that can be truly told of "parson- dam" are brought together, with some that are rather traditional than real; the writer of course forgetting the greater vices that can be predicated of the Raleigh priests, and. the greater evils of the system of the priesthood. The ; 'wise is equable, with less of dog,grel than frequently characterizes modern ' so-called satires; but it is not poetry.]

Tales from Catland, for little Kittens. By an Old Tabby. With four Illustrations by Harrison Weir.

[Mm Weir shows here a power- in the paint and characteristic treatment of animals, of- which we-had not seen any previous sample from his hand ; and his designs are etched cleverly and with breadth. The tales are marred by tile direct enforcement of social morals, whichthe child votes a bore, and the more mature reader a mistake.]

The Life and Death of Little Red .Ridinghood : a Tragedy, adapted from the German-of Ludwig Tieck, by Jane Browning Smith. With Illustrations by John Mulreadv. [Why versify Red Ridinghood ? Perhaps it is hopeless to imagine that Mr Zeck, even. after, reading his own book, will perceive that the tale does. not It-tain by the amplification of the grandmother into a pious old lady who reads her Bible, being too.lsane to go to church, and opines that

"The flowers seem to breathe prayer "; orhy making "the huntsman" pop his head through the window, shoot the woff; and observe, "Vengeance o'ertakes the wicked, soon or late : " but we willanswer for other readers. Airs. Smith's renderingis respectable: vshiah ismere tlian oambesaid for Mr. John.Mulreades lithographs.]:

Peter Little and the Lucky Sixpence; the Frog's Lecture, and other Stories.

[Various tales in,verse, a few of which are. old acquaintancea illustratbd:by pretty wood-outs. The verse is in. a more-groton,-up style than is always found in juvenile poetry.]

Science Simplified, and Philosophy, Natural and Experintental,,Made

Easy. By the Reverend-David Author of the "Pre- ceptor's Assistant," &e. Second Berk*:

[Catechisms on seven subjects of natural philosophy, in which the elements of each are explained with a grasp of principles and a.clearness of' style.]

"Guess if You Can !" A Collection of- Original Enigmas and Cha- rades; in Verse.. Together with-fifty, in the French Language. By. as LAY.

The new editions or collections of periodical publications- call for no par- ticular remark, with two exceptions. 'Ile new- edition of Mr. Hogarth's agreeable history of the Opera, which he modestly styles " Memoirs,"-has been thoroughly revised, and condensed; chiefly by the-omission of less im- portant details relating to the earlier portion of the subject ; while the more remarkable events- connected with the progress of opera- since the first appearance of the work have been added. The work is also printed:in a smaller and less expensive form—it is in fact a. cheap edition. The "Mis- cellaneous. Works" of Mackintosh, which we noticed- at large on the.appear- ance of the first edition in three volumes, is now compressed into a. single volume with double columns.

Memoirs of the Opera in Italy, France, Germany, and England. By George Ilbgartli, Secretary of the Philharmonic Society of London,. and Honorary, Member of the Philharmonic Society of Paris. A new edition of the "Musical Drama." In two volumes.

The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable Sir James Mackin- tosh. Complete in one volume.

The Vade-Meeum of Fly-fishing for Trout : being a complete Practical Treatise on that branch of the Art of Angling; will:L.1)1Mo and copious Instructions for the Manufacture of Artificial Flies. Illustrated by numerous Engravings. By G. R. Pultuan, Author of "Rustle Sketches," &c. Third edition, rewritten and greatly enlarged. Oracles from the British Poets; a Drawingroom Table-Book and Plea- sant Companion for a Round Party. By. James Smith, Author of "Ruud Records." [A second edition.] C7eambers's Papers for the People. Volume VI.

The Family Friend. Volume ILI.

NEW PERIODIcATS AND SERIALS.

The New Year has produced the usual number of new. periodicals, &c. None of them are of sufficient mark to require notice, and their titles indi- cate their subjects: They are all cheap, sixpence being the highest price of the new periodicals.

The Monthly Christian Spectator, for January 1851. No. I The Family Tutor and School Companion. No. I.

The English Republic : God and the People. Edited by W. J. Lin* tom No. I—January.

Collected Edition of the Writings of .Douglas „remold. Part I. January 1.

Familiar Things ; a Cyclopedia of Entertaining Knowledge ; being useful Information, popularly arranged. Illustrated with Wood- engravings. No. I. January.

Leigh Hunt's Journal; a Miscellany for the Cultivation: of- the Me,- morable, the Progressive, and the Beautiful. Part L December: Family Pastime, or Home made Happy.

ALMANACKS.

Whitaker's Clergyman's Diary and Ecclesiastical Calendar, for the Year of our Lord 1851.

[This little book contains the usual matter of a pocket almaimek; but its features of novelty and distinction axe the diary and the ecclesiastical statis, tics. In the diary, each day furnishes full information.connected with-the church service; the statistics answer the purpose of a. directory to the lead- ing dignitaries of the church, besides giving a variety, of information con, nected with church patronage, the value of benefices, &e.] The Literary and Scientific Register and Almanac/c, for 1851. By J. W. a Gutch, MR.C.S.L., &c.

The Banking. Almanac/c, Directory,. Year-book, and Diary, for 1851;

PAMPHLETS.

Reasons for .Not Signing an Address to Her Majesty on the Sidtject of the recent so-called Papal Aggression. By the Earl of St. Germane: Second edition.

Political Opinions on the Roman Catholic Questions expressed in Par- liament. and in Public by the Right Honourable _Lord John. Russell, MLP By a Barrister.

_Letter to Cardinal Wiseman, in Answer to his "Remarks on Lady- Morgan's Statements regarding & Peter's Chair." By Sydney Lady Morgan.

Sabbaths ; an Inquiry into the Origin of Septenary Institutions, and the Authority for a Sabbatical Observance of the Mndern Sunday. Revised by the Author, and reprinted from- this-Westminster and Fo- reign Quarterly Review for October 1850.

Thoughts on the Holy Scriptures ; witlia.Selection of important Dates. and Tables, to assist the. Memory of Youth.

Reasons for the Protest.

Abstract of Reports from the Conimissioner of the Southern Whak Fishery Cotnpany to the Directors.

On Happiness in its relations to Work and Knowledge. An Intro- ductory Lecture, delivered before the Members ofthe ChichesterLito- rary Society and Mechanics Institute. By John Forbes; M.D., &c. The Handbook of Mesmerism By Thomas. Bucklandi, late. Secretary to the Mesmeric Infirmary.

• Spectator 1846; page 785,