PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booss.

The Mediterranean; a Memoir, Physical, Historical, and Nautical. By Rear-Admiral William Henry Smyth, K.S.F., one of the Board of Visitors of the Royal Observatory; some time Foreign Secretary and Vice-President of the Royal Society, &c.

A Visit to Portugal and Madeira. By the Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley. The Knout and the Russians; or the Muscovite Empire, the Czar, and his People. By Germain de Lagny. Translated from the French by John Bridgeman.

Practical Observations on Gout and its Complications, and on the Treat- ment of Joints stiffened by Gouty Deposits. By T. Spencer Wells, F.R.0 S.E., &c., late Assistant-Surgeon in Malta Hospital.

Progress and Prejudice. By Mrs. Gore. In three volumes.

Purple Tints of Paris. Character and Manners in the New Empire. By Boyle St. John, Author of "Village Life in Egypt," &c. In two volumes.

Old German Theology, a Hundred Years before the Reformation. With a Preface by Martin Luther. Translated from the German, by Mrs. Malcolm, Daughter of the late Archbishop of York. [Martin Luther published this tractate, by a member of the Teutonic Order and of the Secret Society of " Gottesfreunde," in 1518, a year before he de- nied the authority of the Pope and two years before he separated from the Church. Its title was Eyn Deutsch Theologia ; "probably," says the trans- lator, "not only meaning that it was written in the German language, but also that, in opposition to Roman theology, it might be particularly appro- priated for the great movement which the German theologians had Just commenced, and which brought about the Reformation of the sixteenth cen- tury." The book has since passed through more than fifty-five editions and translations, according to Mr. Ffeiffer, who • in 1851, published an edition from a manuscript copy in Prince L5wenseein's library. This fact is suffi- cient to attest its possession of qualities attractive to religious minds. We may say that its character is what is called " mystical " • the predominant idea impressed being the reality of the union between 'God and man as the ground of all that is right and good, in man. Sin is the weakening of this union, and the consequent tendency of man to seek his object in something short of the absolute best ; salvation, the restoration of the union. "If," says the writer in an early page of the book, "the fall is to be reme- died, God must become man in me, so that he shall take upon himself all

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that s in me, both inward and outward, that there be nothing in me that should strive against God, or hinder his work." "And in this restoration and remedy- ing I neither can nor may have any part, but must merely suffer God alone to do and work; and I submit to him, his work, and his will." The cha- racter of this mysticism is intellectual, not emotional—the mysticism of a speculative mind, not a passionate heart—more akin to Pascal than Madame Guyon. It is not of a nature for criticism in our columns, but we can re- commend it as having a charm of devotional reflection, and not without a deep interest as a high specimen of a particular condition of intellect, which

philosophers generally have to contemplate out of themselves. The trans- lator's work appears to be well executed, as the style corresponds to the age and intellectual peculiarities of the writer.]

The Schools of Doubt and the School of Faith, by Count Agenor de Gasparin. Translated by Robert B. Watson, B.A. [A French or rather Genevese Protestant work, equally opposed to Popery and Rationalism ; although the author deems the former a more dangerous and hopeless condition than the latter. The main object of the Count de Gasparin is to bring back the Protestant world to an implicit belief in the inspiration of the whole Bible—" not to give up a line of written revelation"; casting aside altogether the critical process which even some pious Protest- ants have adopted. The book is written with the clearness and vivacity of a Frenchman : it is more successful perhaps in attack than defence.] The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. By Ed- ward Gibbon, Esq. With Notes by Dean Milman and M. Guizot. Edited, with additional Notes, by William Smith, LL.D. In eight volumes. Volume I. With Portrait and Maps. (Murray's British Classics.) [This volume of "Murray's British Classics" heralds a work of more biblio- polio importance than that with which the speculation began. The works of Goldsmith, consisting of various and independent productions, have appeared in every variety of form and price ; the additions in Mr. Cunningham's edition being of secondary importance, and his typographical accuracy of more curiosity than attraction to the general reader. The Decline and Fall is a far snore elaborate, extensive, and sustained work, a good edition of which can- not be procured at a low price, and which, whether from prejudice or well- founded opinion, is expected to appear in a portlier form, a statelier garb, and at a higher price than poems, plays, and essays, which in reality are all of Goldsmith's miscellaneous works that the general public care to have. Hence, independently of substantial improvement, this series deserves patronage more than the series with which the British Classics started.

There is, moreover, substantial if not extensive improvement in the edition itself. Dr. Smith has appended new and terse notes embodying the in- formation discovered or the views deduced since Gibbon wrote, which modify the statements or conclusions of the historian. He has sometimes condensed the notes of /Union, Guizot, and Wenck ; and to Gibbon's own references to authorities he has added references to the best modern editions, contained within brackets. The text has been printed from the latest revised edition, and Gibbon's autobiography with Lord Sheffield's sequel prefixed to the His- tory. The paper and typography are of the first class.]

.Russia Self-Condemned. Secret and Inedited Documents connected with Russian History and Diplomacy, of important bearing on the present crisis in European Polities. Translated and edited by John Reynell Morell.

[The translation of a French book, published some time since, we think. It contains various Russian state papers, some going back to the sixteenth cen- tury, but the majority having reference to Poland and the last Turkish war. It is in fact a blue-book about the past, probably known already to those who care for the contents ; certainly not wanted to prove what most people are now well convinced of, the duplicity, cruelty, and grasping ambition of Russia.]

The Bille-Ifu.sket : a practical Treatise on the Enfield-Pritchett Rifle, recently adopted in the British service. By Captain Jervis-White Jervis, Royal Artillery ; Author of the "Manual of Field Opera- tions," &e.

[This is less a treatise on the "Enfield-Pritchett rifle," said to be the greatest improvement that has yet been made in fire-arms, than an account of the principles on which explosive projectiles rest, and a general history of their practical application. It is a scientific and informing hook on the manufactures of gunpowder and muskets, as well as on the theory and prac- tice of projectiles and "the aim."] The Golden Spell, and other Poems.

[The titlepage of this volume is dated 18o3: so it has been long upon the road. The Golden Spell is a good idea imperfectly developed. A maiden is sent by her dying fattier to dare the terrors of a magic cave, in order to ob- tain a charm which shall save his life. The spell, however, only gives its possessor power to muse death by a wish ; and the maiden, after the death of her father, causes the doom of her lover by wishing him dead, in a mo- ment of anger. The obvious moral of the evil of enormous power and the care with which it should be exercised is lost sight of. Indeed, the whole thing is treated without art, and without much knowledge of foreign man- ners. The scene is in the far East, yet we are introduced to clocks and a Christian chieftain. There are a variety of miscellaneous poems, pretty, but nothing more.] Germ Thoughts; in Morals, Politics, Education, and Philosophy. By Joseph Hine, Author of the "One Hundred Original Tales for Chil- dren."

[A small book with a large self-sufficiency. Mr. Joseph Hine seems to have flattered himself that in this volume of commonplace and often egotistical or weak remarks he has bestowed many hundred proverbs on the world ; though he evidently does not himself understand what a proverb is, missing its two great characteristics, comprehensive truth tested by large experience.]

27m Lost Child, a Tale of London Streets ; and other Stories, in words of two syllables. By Mrs. Besset, Author of " The Black Princess." [Four juvenile tales, mostly i words of two syllables, designed to point a moral or impart infornaation.]

Mr. Mitchell has brought out a fourth edition of his "Newspaper Press Directory," in a new form, better adapted to ready reference and a place on the desk : he proposes to make it a sort of semi-annual, to be issued every six months, with "all additions" that time may bring ; and the price is reduced to "one florin." " Tractarianism no Novelty is the reprint of the "Faith and Practice of a Church-of-England Man," originally pub- lished at the time when the Seven Bishops were sent to the Tower by James the Second. The object of the present editor is to show that the antiquity justifies the present practices of the Tractarians: but some of the Bishops were afterwards non-jurors. The titles of the other reprints explain them- selves.

The Newspaper Press Directory: containing full particulars relative to each Journal published in the United Kingdom and the British Isles, &c. Fourth edition, entirely revised. By Charles Mitchell.

2'raetarianisin (so-called by the prejudiced and misinformed) no Novel- ty; as exemplified in the Confessions of the Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man of the ever-memorable epoch 1688.

The Eye in Health and Disease : with an Account of the Optometer, for the adaptation of Glasses, for impaired, aged, or defective sight ; being the substance of Lectures delivered at the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital. By Alfred Smee, F.A.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England, to the Central London Ophthalmic Hospital, &c. Second edition.

On the Loss of Teeth, and the but Means of Restoring them. By Tho- mas Howard, Surgeon-Dentist. Fourth edition. Poetical Works of John Dryden. Edited by Robert BelL Volume IL (Annotated Edition of the English Poets.)

NEW PERIODICAL.

The Journal of Classical and Sacred Philology. No. I. March 1854. [This new Classical and Biblical periodical goes further than philology. The article on the Birds of Aristophanea, opposing Siivern's theory., and the paper on the Dating of Ancient History, suggesting a new mode of reckoning, have not much to do with philology in a common sense. A. paper on Lucretius, though dealing a good deaf with readings and manu-. scripts, yet considers the general character of his poetry and philosophy. Various smaller papers are more limited to questions of words; besides which,. there is a great amount of scholastic news, as it were condensed from foreign. journals, with reviews and a list of new books.

Of course the attraction of this periodical is limited to scholars. To them, it will be useful. The larger articles will bring before them points relating to ancient history and literature, after the manner of "leaders" and reviews in modern journals. The shorter papers may grow into something like "Notes and Queries," where a man may ask about or furnish small informs.- tion, often curious. The lists and foreign abstracts will gather together what may be called the miscellanea of passing classical gossip and facts. We see from the prospectus that it is a labour of scholarly love and expected loss at first : upwards of thirty members of Cambridge University undertake to "guarantee the undertaking from immediate loss." Though conducted by resident members, cooperation is invited from all quarters: though sacred philology will form a feature in the work as in the title, "controversial and dogmatic theology will be altogether avoided."]

PAMPHLETS.

Shall Macy Lire or Die' By Thomas Carlyle, Esq., Advocate.

A Word to the British Public before en- tering into Hostilities with Russia. Minutes on the Resignation of the late Ge- neral Sir Charles Napier of the Cam- ,nand of the Army hi India. By Field- Marshal the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Dalhousie, and General Sir Charles Napier, &c.

Two Letters to the Most Noble James An- drew Marquis of Dalhousie on the best Policy to be pursued in Pegu, &c. By M. F. Crisp.

Observations on the Charac'er and Con- duct of the Prince Consort, in reference to the Aspersions on his Royal High- ness.

Lord Palmerston and Prince Albert. Let- ters by William Coningliam, li:.q.„ to- gether with the "Suppressed Pamph- let," entitled " Palmerston : what has' he done ? " by "One of the People." Speech of the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, in the House of Com- mons, 31s1 January 1854.

Fire Letters on Electoral Reform. By a Working Man. Reprinted from the Glasgow Sentinel.

Speech of the Right Honourable Earl Grey, in the House of Lords, on Tues- day, 14th February 1854.

Magisterial Reform, suggested in a Let- ter to Viscount Palmerston, &c. By Sir George Stephen, Barrister. A Letter to the Right Honourable the Earl of Derby, D.C.L., Chancellor of the University of Oxford, on University and College Reform. By Henry Bristow Wilson, B.D., Vicar of Great Stough- ton, Hunts, late Fellow and Tutor of St. John's College, and formerly Pro- fessor of Anglo-Saxon.

City of London Corporation Inquiry. By Alexander Pulling, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law.

Remarks on the Reorganization of the Civil Service, and its bearing on Edu- cational Progress. In a Letter ad- dressed to the Right Honourable the Earl of Aberdeen, &c. By the Reve- rend Richard Dawes, M.A., Dean of Hereford.

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton's Speech de- livered at the Leeds Mechanics' Institu- tion, on Wednesday, 25th January 1854. A Plea for National Education, with Religion and without Rates. By Wil- liam Francis Wilkinson, MA. Vicar of St. Werburgles, Derby.

D-ade Schools. A Letter to the Reverend Charles Richson, M.A.' in reply to Opinions on "Trade Schools necessary to promote National Education," ex- pressed in his Lecture delivered at the Mechanics' Institution, Manchester. By Edmund Pollen

The Establishment of a School of juris- prudence in the L niversity of Oxford : considered and advocated in a Letter to the Reverend Dr. Hawkins, Provost of Oriel College. By J. J. Hooper, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-law, and Fellow of Oriel College.

The Impolicy of the Partnership Law. By Edward Warner, M.P.

A Letter to R. B. Crowder, Esq., ALP., on Mining Partnerships, upon the Cost- Book System, as carried on within the &armories of Cornwall and Devon. By Robert Walker Childs.

Two Sermons on the Prospect of a Gene- ral War. By the Reverend James Shergold Boone, Incumbent of St. John's, Paddington.

A Discourse on Church Discipline and the Burial Service. By Charles John Vaughan, SAD., Head Master of Har- row School, &c.

A Home for the Outcast.

The Tides and Currents in and connected with the Polar Sea indicative of the pro- bability of a North-east Passage to the Pacific ; with Reasons for persevering in the Search for Sir J. Franklin and the Party under his command. By John Murray, Civil Engineer, H. Inst. C. E.

Passages from the Life of Cicero. A Lec- ture by the Reverend C. J. Vaughan, D.D., Head Master of Harrow School. delivered before the Young Men's Association, in Exeter Hall, 24th Janu- ary 1854.

Correspondence between the Eight ge, nourable J. TV. Croker and the Dight .Honourable Lord John Russell, on some Passages of " Moore's Dior)." With a Postscript by Mr. Croker, explana- tory of Mr. Moore's Acquaintance and Correspondence with him.