Jerome. It is true that the readings of these manuscripts

differ; and between the Dublin and the best Parisian manuscript there is the further variation of dialect, that of Dublin being more akin to the Italian language, while the Rocasunt of the translation resembles French. Still, Dr. Gilly is inclined to at- tribute them all to one common source, or at least to translations made as early as the twelfth or thirteenth century. These points are discussed in an introduction fall of antiquarian and bibliographical knowledge; and not only containing a descriptive account of the early translations into the European vernaculars of portions of the Scripture, but presenting a view of the Romaunt language which offers some curious suggestions on the origin of modern European tongues. In his conclusion Dr. Gilly differs from Raynonard and many other writers, and agrees with Mr. Cornewall Lewis, that though the root of the &meant was a corrupt Latin yet it was modified according to the country in which it was spoken. A Spaniard could understand a Frenchman or an Italian, or vice versa; but his dialect would differ from theirs—not to the same extent in which the modern languages differ from each other, but in some degree.

Of the various known manuscripts of this Romaunt Version, Dr. Gilly has chosen those of Dublin and Paris, as the best and moat characteristic. He has selected the Gospel. of St. John, as equally favourable with any other part of the New Testament for lingual purposes, while it furnishes as better test as to the doc- trinal views of those who translated and received it. The two texts are printed in juxtaposition, in a handsome style; and are illustrated by fac-similes of the dif- ferent manuscripts, as well as by critical notes. It is possible that Dr. Gilly may publish the whole of the New Testament at some future period.]

The Golden Garland of Inestimable Delights. By Mrs. Sherwood, and her Daughter, Mrs. Streeten, Author of the 'Fairchild Family," &c. [The Golden Garland is the story of a fashionable ladies' school, conducted first upon worldly ried afterwards upon religious principles, with the different effects tras.duced on the feelings and characters of many of the pupils by the two sys- As a fiction, it well maintains the reputation of its authors; possessing greater reality, and even interest, than some more ambitions-looking tales. Every- thing in The Golden Garland bears the stamp of truth. Mrs. Brandreth the governess, with her conscientious desire to do her duty to her pupils according to her lights, and the different pupils in their various aspects with the teachers or among themselves, are as consistent and spirited as dramatis personse. Only a person thoroughly acquainted with that little world a ladies' boarding- school could have done it.] Trafford, the Reward of Genius; and other Poems. By James limes Machin.

[The "reward of genius" into be killed by a review, which is taken from the stories about Keats; the earlier taste of Mr. Trafford for boating, and the dreamy sort of life led by him, appear to have been suggested by parts of Shelley's career: the love-story intermingled with these two is of the common kind in wild ro- mances, possible but not probable. There is fluency in the poem; but the com- position Is rather rhetorical blank verse than poetry. The miscellaneous pieces are better than "Trafford"; but they have rather the sound than the substance of poetry, though that sound is good.] Model Women and Children. Modelled by Horace Mayhew; Sculptured by H. G. Hine.

[A series of sketches after the style of the author's "Model Men," which we noted some time since. Some of the ladies are a trifle better than the " gents " —as the Model Wife and Daughter; but all have the Mayhews' wonted literal- ness.] Fardorougha the Miser; or the Convicts of Lisnamona. By William Carle- ton, Author of "Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry," "The Black Prophet," &c. (The Parlour Library.) [Fardorougha for a shilling. Mr. Carleton has also written an introduction, giving an account of the original sources of some of the incidents and characters aif-the novel although he raises the question whether this kind of illustration, as commenced by Scott, is proper, and decides it in the negative.] • Fivectical Introduction to H. Rose's Treatise on Chemical Analysis. Illus- trated by Synoptic Tables and numerous Formulas. By A. Normandy. EThis compilation is designed for those students who are not sufficiently advanced in chemical science to take up Mr. Normandy's translation of Rose's Traite d'Ana- lyse Chenzique. A typographical peculiarity attends the work, in having no paging; the paragraphs are numbered,—which is now no novelty in scientific treatises, though, being placed in the margin, they are more easily referred to; hat in lien. of the paging, the figures at the top denote the numbers of the para- graphs contained in the particular page.] A Practical Treatise of Chemical Analysis, including Tables for Calcula- tions in Analysis. By H. Rose. Translated from the French and the fourth German edition, with Notes and Additions, by A. Normandy. In two volumes. Volume IL—Quantitative.

An Introduction to Botany. By John Lindley, Ph.D., F.RS., Professor of Botany in the University College, London, Ste. With six copperplates and numerous wood-engravings. Fourth edition, with corrections and numerous additions. In two volumes.

[This new edition of Professor Lindley's well-known text-book contains the latest discoveries in botanical science; bringing down the subject to the present period.]

Solutions to the Questions of the General Examination at Easter 1848, con- ducted by her Majesty's Inspector of:Schools for Awarding Certificates; with Appendices, including the Examination Papers of the severallraining Institutions. By Two Certificated Battersea Masters, J. Goodall, Blue- Coat School, Northampton, and W. Hammond, Master of the Commercial Travellers' Schools.

[The nature of this volume is indicated by its title, as well as the class to whom it will chiefly be useful. Probably the best way of using it is for a per- son to attempt the solution of the questions himself, and then compare his answers with those of Messrs. Goodall and Hammond.]

Ready Guide to French Composition, or the French Grammar by Examples; giving models, as leading-strings, throughout accidence and syntax; and presenting a comparative view of the English and French idioms in their principal differences. By Monsieur Lepage, Professor of the French Language, &c. [There seems to us less novelty in this book than the author supposes. It Is in reality a series of exercises adapted to the rules of grammar, like any other exercise-book, but with faller examples. The best feature is the set of questions at the end of some of the exercises; in answering which, the pupil is compelled to express the rule himself.] Punch's Pocket-book for 1849.

fatcapital collection of wood-cuts and literary jeux d'esprit, in parody of the old esV and Gentlemen's Pocket-books. The useful information is set off with appropriate pictures: a blue devil in the shape of a taxgatherer oppressing John

ma bead-piece to the tax-tables, a learned gentleman addressing the court and jury precedes the law list, and so forth. The Sovereigns of Europe look es- pecially wo-begone.]

The Prose Works of John Milton. Volume IIL With a Preface' Prelimi-

nary Remarks, and Notes, by J. A. St. John. (Bohn's Standard Library.) The Standard Library Cyclopwdia of Political, Constitutional, Statistical,

and Forensic Knowledge, 4-c. In four volumes. Volume IL L'Echo de Paris. By Monsieur Lepage. Fifteenth edition.

SERIALS.

The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends and his greatest Enemy. By W. M. Thackeray, Author of "Vanity Fair," Sic. &c. Part I.

[Pendennis opens with greater promise than did Vanity Fair. There is not, in- deed, a greater number or variety of persons and perhaps no single character equals Rebecca Sharpe in the boldness and truth of its conception or the nicety of its delineation. But there is a greater breadth and largeness in the kind of life to which we are introduced, with the prospect of being carried into the real, ac- tive, busy, jostling world, instead of being limited to Russell Square and its vulgar respectability and slowness, or to scenes and people less interesting, even with their vices or their fashion. As the hero, Pendennis, is of the more worthy gen- der, his scrapes and peccadilloes will not be so distasteful as those of Rebecca; and unless Mr. Thackeray should turn Mrs. Pendennis into a rock ahead, there seems likely to be less of the lackadaisical than in the author's favourite lady in Vanity Fair. The story of Pendennis is evidently to contain his adventures in life. As yet we have got no further than his birth and education and the news of his en- tanglement by the arts of a strolling actress—the descendant of Irish kings, whose name is said to be Costigan, but who is known under the style and title of "Miss Fotheringay, of the Theatres Royal Drury Lane and Crow Street, and of the Norwich and Welsh Circuit." As far as the story has yet gone, everything is very good. The sketch of Pendennis's father, the retired apothecary, who sets up for a squire—his brother, Major Pendennis, who is left guardian to the hero— and various characters that only appear for a brief apace and then vanish for the time—are capital. But a greater treat is to come, we expect, when we see the in- nocent young Pendennis among the players, with his fashionable uncle the Major arriving to the rescue; • for Mr. Thaekeray is not surely going to spoil the interest of his " history " in the outset, by marrying Pendennis to Miss Costigan alias Fotheringay.

The style of the author is as close and felicitous as usual, but seems somewhat more subdued; or, possibly, the attention being fixed upon the matter, is diverted from the mere style.]

Clement Lorimer; or the Book with the Iron Clasps. By Angus B. Reach. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Part L [A large part of the first number of this story is occupied with a preposterous tale of Corsican vengeance, commencing in the year 1610 and pursued from gene- ration to generation down to the present day. Young Lorimer, the last represent- ative of the families both of the hated and the hater seems about to be tempted to destruction by his own father; that worthy gentleman having alreadi made away with Lorimer's mother, his own wife. The mode in which Lorimer is to be destroyed seems to be by a boundless supply of money, and a career through all the vices of high life; so that there will be a continual interchange of the fashion- able and the melodramatic; Mr. Lorimer playing the roué distastefully in one scene, and Mr. Benosa, his papa, struggling with remorse, revenge, and fit, in the next.] Campbell's Essay on English Poetry, do. (Murray's Home and Colonial Library.) Parts L and II.

PERIODICAL.

The Cottage Gardener; or Amateur and Cottager's Guide to Out-door

Gardening and Spade Cultivation. Conducted by George W. Johnson, Esq., Editor of " The Gardener's Almanack," &c... Part I. October. [A weekly journal devoted to the subjects indicated in the title; the October numbers collected into a part.]