PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boom.

The History of the Jews in Great Britain. By the Reverend Moses Margoliouth, Author of "A Pilgrimage to the 7-And of my Fathers." In three volumes.

The Empire of Austria during ite late llevolutionary:Crisis. By Wil- liam Peake, Esq. In two volumes. Everard Tunstall ; a Tale of the Kaffir War. By Thomas Forester, Author of "Rambles among the Fjelds and Fjords of Norway," &c. In three volumes.

Catherine Erlof, ; a Novel. By Mrs. Steward, Author of "The Predic- tion." In three volumes.

Supernatural Illusions. By Major P. I. Begbie, of the Madras Artillery.

The Seven Periods of English Architecture Defined and Illustrated. By Edmund Sharpe, M.A., Architect. Twelve Steel Engravings and Wood-cuts.

is an admirable text-book for the student ; copious, yet highly con- densed, and presenting the results of extended research in the most com- pendious form. Mr. Sharpe's classification is framed to supply the gaps in that adopted hitherto from Rickman. The terms "Early English, Deco- rated, and Perpendicular," appear insufficient to include all the changes undergone by an art in the study of which so much precision and atten- tion to detail is required. Mr. Sharpe arranges the English Romanesque and Gothic under the heads Saxon, Norman ; Transitional ; Lancet, Geo- metrical, Curvilinear, and Rectilinear. These terms are coming into fre- quent use ; and a strew' , sign of their necessity is their spontaneous adop- tion" to a great extent, by other architectural writers,—by Mr. Freeman, for instance ; who, however, retains the familiar and on the whole more ex- pressive term "flowing" for the penultimate period. Mr. Sharpe indicates not only the chief characteristic of each jieriod, whence its name is derived, but gives a minute analysis of its other distinctive features, and tables of its most important monuments; thus exciting habits of observation and ena- bling the student to verify every statement for himself. The dates of the several periods are also assigned ; and the work is illustrated by plates of a high quality of execution. We know no elementary work more likely to do good and eitrient service.]

An Inquiry into the Operation of Running Streams and Tidal Waters, with a view to determine their principles of action; and an applica- tion of those principles to the Improvement of the River Tyne. By Thomas John Taylor.

[An elaborate inquiry into the hydrographical principles connected with the fall of rivers, the nature of their beds, the volume, velocity, power, and effects of their waters at various seasons ; the whole deduced from an extensive range of facts as observed in the rivers of the globe. These principles are then applied to a proposal for improving the Tyne towards its mouth.] Assurance and Annuity Tables, according to the Carlisle rate of Mor- tality, at Three per Cent. By Peter Gray., F.R.A.S., Henry Ambrose Smith, F.I.A., and William Orchard, F.I.A.

[A variety of tables to facilitate calculations touching the value of assurances or annuities according to the data of the title—the Carlisle table, and three per cent. l'he book is of a strictly technical character.]

_Diseases of the Human Hair. From the French of M. Cazenave, Phy- !deka to the Hospital of St. Louis, Paris. With a Description of an Apparatus for Fumigating the Scalp. By T. II. Burgess, 31.D., Author of "A Treatise on the Eruptions of the Face, Head, and Hands," &c.

[A sensible but hardly a satisfactory essay, at least to those who look for cer- tainty of conclusion as regards information, and some means of preserving the hair and its colour. All that the experience of M. Cazenave can come to is, that grey hairs or the baldness of age is incurable ; that baldness, being "senile,' which cannot be cured. The sum of the whole for pre- serving the hair, is to preserve the health, to avoid excess of every kind to keep the hair clean, but to eschew fastidious cleanliness and cosmetics. The best of these, (for which receipts are given,) are of small and uncertain use ; the majority useless and often mischievous. As some of M. Cazenaves theo- retical views are opposed to received opinion, Dr. Burgess accompanies the translation with notes.]

The Three Trials of .Lolde ; Sunshine and Shadow; the Phantasmal Reproof; and other short Poems. By Calder Campbell, Author of "Lays from the East," &c.

[The three trials of LOide are the loss of her linnets, the death of her pa- rents, and the death of her betrothed : the sound moral is, that though she deems herself a widow, and continues faithful to the memory of her first love she does not neglect the duties or even the cheerful pursuits of society..

The style of "Loide," and of a great many other poems in the volume, is sufficiently peculiar to avoid resemblance to the mass of commonplace verse; though it has not the freshness of an original, for its peculiarity arises from singularity of metre.] The Fair Island; a Poem, in six cantos. By Edmund Peel, Author of "The Return," &c.

[The subject of this poem is the Isle of Wight ; whose natural features and leading historical incidents Mr. Peel has embodied in a descriptive poem, planned after the usual fashion. The poem is written in the Spenserian stanza, and occasionally reminds the reader of Childe Harold : the verse is equable and sustained, but deficient in variety; the piece is too long for the subject.] Synod Ecelesice e Breviariis quibusdam et Missalibus Gallicanis, Ger- mania, Hispanis, Lusitanis, desumpti. Collegit et recensuit Joannes M. Neale, A.M.

[A neat volume, containing a selection of Latin hymns from various Penin- sular, French, and German breviaries and missals. The precise object of the publication does not appear.] Belgravia; a Poem. [A poem descriptive of the fashionable quarter of Belgrave Square, and the tharacters that may be found or fancied there.] The Laws and Practice of Whist. By Ccelebs, MA. [In part founded upon Mathews, Major A—, and other modern writers, 'with additions from the author's own experience. The object is to suggest the formation of a uniform code of laws, and to exhibit the principles of raodem whist-playing, arranged in a more orderly manner than is found in treatises on the subject, at least since the days of Hoyle.]

History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France, from the year 1807 to the year 1814. By Major-General Sir W. F. P. Na- pier, K.C.B, &e. New edition revised by the Author. Volume IV. [This volume of the new edition contains Suchet's conquest of Valencia, the capture of Cuidad Rodrigo, the battle of Salamanca, and Wellington's re- pulse before Burgos with the subsequent retreat.]

The Land we Live in. A Pictorial and Literary Sketch-book of the British Empire. Volume IV.

Chanticleer; a Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family. By Corne- lius Mathews. Second edition.

Music.

The Theory of Musical Composition, treated with a view to a naturally consecutive arrangement of topics. By Gottfried Weber, Doctor Ho- norarius, &c. Translated from the third, enlarged and improved German edition, with Notes, by James F. Warner, of Boston, U. S. Edited, with additions drawn from the German original, by John Bishop, of Cheltenham. In two volumes. [Gottfried Weber's celebrated treatise, long esteemed in Germany a standard work, was first made known to English readers through the medium of the American press. The very able translation of the work, by Mr. Warner of Boston, appeared in 1846, when we gave some account of its contents, and recommended it to the attention of the English student. The new edition, now published appears to differ very little from the American edition; though the musical examples have the advantage of being printed in a larger type. The demand for a work of this magnitude speaks well for the progress of music in England.]

Third Edition of Hamilton's Catechism of the Organ &c. The whole revised, corrected, and much enlarged, by Joseph 'Warren. [Hamilton's Musical Catechisms are a very useful set of little books, and, consequently have gained an extensive circulation. The Catechism of the' Organ is compiled with great industry and research. It contains a history of "the king of instruments" since the earliest records of its existence; a de- scription of its mechanism ; judicious directions to organists as to its use in the servioes of the church ; and full descriptions of the construction, magni- tude, and powers of the most noted organs in Europe. Some very good exercises on the use of the pedals will be found in the appendix.]

SERIAL.

The Ladies' Own Book; a Companion to the Worktable. Part I. [A sixpenny book of patterns, with directions for working them.]

ILLUSTRATED Won't.

Boswell's Life of Johnson. A new edition, elucidated by copious Notes,, and illustrated with numerous Portraits, Views, and Characteristic Designs, engraved from authentic sources. In four volumes. Volume I. (National Illustrated Library.) [The first volume of a new speculation, to be called "The National Illus- trated Library." The book selected to begin with is well chosen, not only for its literary attraction, but for the facilities it offers for interesting illus- tration. Upwards of sixty wood-cuts bring before us some of the most re- markable men of the last century, and some curious street views, or land- scapes connected with Johnson's life. There are also a few "compositions," such as the frontispiece, which exhibits Johnson's " repulse " from Chester- field's "door." The wood-engraving is not of a high style of art, but the volume forms a sightly book.]

NEW PERIODICAL.

The Theological Critic ; a Quarterly JournaL Edited by the Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A. No. L [As yet this periodical seems of too purely technical a character to challenge much attention beyond the theological world. There is no lack of number- or variety of subject in the articles, but greater breadth and grasp are re- quisite in the treatment.]

PAMPHLETS.

An Apology for the "High Church" _Movement on Liberal Principles; containing a Reply to some Statements made in Parliament : in a. Letter to John Williams, Esq., M.P. for Macclesfield. By the Reve- rend Robert Owen, M.A.

Prove All Things.

Supplement on the Doctrine and Discipline of the Greek Church. By the Author of "Proposals for Christian Union."

Observations on the Arguments of Dr. Twiss respecting the New Ro-

man Catholic Hierarchy. By George Bowyer, Esq., D.C.L., &c. Speech of Sir Robert Peel on the Papal Aggression, delivered in the

House of Commons, March 15th, 1851. The Public Right to the Universities. By a University Man.

Religion' Rights, and Revenue. A Voice from the Tomb of a late de- parted Statesman. By a Clergyman. Borneo Facts versus Borneo Fallacies, &c. By Louis Alexis Chame- rovzow. Second edition.

Taxation ; its Nature and Properties, with Remarks on the Incidence and the Expediency of the Repeal of the Income-tax. By Alexander Gibbon, Esq. A Statement of the Present Position of the Coffee Trade, with reference to the System of Adulteration now in practice. By a Ceylon Proprietor. On the Threatenings of Apoplexy and Paralysis, 8te. Being the Croon+, ian Lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in March 1851. By Marshall Hall, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Libellus et C'ensores. A Letter to the Spectator. By T. H. Usbome, Esq.

A Lecture on the Advantages of the Study of Natural History, &c.. By Edwards Crisp, M.D.