PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Books.

Vicar; a Journal. By Mrs. J. Elphinstone Dalrymple. In two volumes.

Songs from the Dramatists. The Annotated Edition of the English

Poets. By Robert Bell, Author of "The History of Ramie," eze. [,The present volume of Messrs. Parker and Son's annotated e iition of the Lnglish Poets consists of a "collection" or rather a selection of songs from the English dramatists, beginning with Udall, the author of Ralph Roistee Bolster, and coming down to Sheridan, The interest of the volume is curious and literary rather than popular, and in some degree arises from the notes and the biographical notices of Mr. Bell. Some of the songs dis- play vigour, lyrical spirit, and the requisite terseness, though the dramatic situation for which they were originally written may limit their general ap- plication. The attraction of the larger portion of them is for the literary student, who will trace in their style and sentiments the fashions and modes of thinking of the time in which they were written. He may also observe the gradual change of popular taste as shown in popular song. For this purpose the selections might have been more numerous. In a popular view the plan might have been improved. It would have been better to have closed with the writers of the seventeenth century, thus confining the specimens to the Tudors and the Stuarts. The eighteenth century is dis- missed in ten pages ; Mr. Bell ignoring Gay, Biekerstaff, Burgoyne, Dibdin, Thomson and "Rule Britannia." He professes to include Sheridan ; but, besides several other songs as good as any he inserts, he omits "Had I a heart for falsehood framed."]

Routledge's American Handbook and Tourist's Guide through the United States : containing Descriptions of the principal Cities and Towns, the different Railroad, Stage, and Steam-boat Routes from New York to all parts of the Union ; Statistics, Hotels, Public Buildings, Summer Resorts, Natural Curiosities, Advice to Emigrants and Me- chanics, &e. Accompanied by an accurate Map copied from one lately made by order of Congress. [A. very good traveller's or tourist's guide to and through the United States ; containing clear and precise tables of routes to every part of the Union, with full particulars of fares, and which mode of conveyance the traveller should prefer according to circumstances. In addition to this information, there are sufficient accounts of hotels, apparently from actual knowledge or original reports. The best modes of getting to America are not overlooked, nor the "eights" to be seen when there ; though these last are few in number, and briefly dismissed. There are also some well. arranged statistics, and a variety.; of advice to emigrants ; the sum of which would appear to be, that mechanics who only emigrate with a view to money or money's worth in wages, might as well remain at home. Ex- ' cept in a few trades, wages, when allowance is made for increased expendi- ture, do not appear to be higher than in England, and the artisan has often to relearn parts of his trade. The labourer, or the settler on land, is the person to be benefited by emigration. The compiler of this book is an American, with American leanings, and an American manner of writing. It is probable, however, that his advice, always to prefer an American vessel to a British for your passage, may be well 'founded.] A Manual of Practical Therapeutics, considered chiefly with reference to the Articles of the Materia Medics. By Edward John Waring, M.R.C.S.L., Honourable East India Company's Service.

[The curative influence of the drug, rather than its botanical or chemical character or its modes of preparation, is the principal feature of Mr. War- togs' useful Manual. The result which the medicine will produce on disease, modified by the constitution and other circumstances of the patient, is the idea which the compiler steadily keeps in view, as well in his exposition of the properties of each article as in the preliminary introduction on the precaution to be observed in prescribing medicines. The book professes to be only a compilation but it is a compilation tested and enriched by in- dividual experience, especially in relation to India and the Tropics.]

History of the Ottoman Empire, from the Earliest Period to the Pre- sent Time. By William Deans. [The interest of the public in the Eastern question is the cause of this pub- lication. The volume is a mere compilation, sometimes in the words of the authors whence the materials are drawn ; but the work is cleverly put to- gether, and well finished. The reader will find little originality of narra- tive or thought in Mr. Deans's History of thoOttoman Empire, but a smooth connected account of leading facts, drawn from standard or respectable writers. The history is brought down to the opening of the present war.] Christ's Sermon on the Mount, as recapitulated by St. Matthew, a per- fect system of Ethical Philosophy. By Nathaniel Ogle. [A heavy commentary, interspersed with metaphysical terms, upon the Sermon on the Mount. This is prefaced by a survey of ancient and modern systems of ethical philosophy, with the view of showing that they do not attain to the systematic perfection exhibited in Christ's discourse.]

_Dictionary of German Synonyms. (Chambers's Educational Course— German Section.) [A useful little book, chiefly derived from 31ilpert's German Dictionary. The title indicates less than the volume contains, for it is something more than a common dictionary. The words are arranged in alphabetical older, but the illustrations of the shades of meaning go beyond definition into expo- sition, very neatly and clearly done.]

"Our Own Correspondent" at the Seat of War. A Penny-a-Liaer's Day-Dream. By William Brough. [A skit in the form of a penny-a-liner's dream.Mr. Flimsy, dunned by his landlady, takes a pipe and falls asleep ; he dreamlie is appointed "our own correspondent," and goes through a variety otiiilventures, to awaken just al! he is leading captive the Emperor of Russia. The satire is as much directe. against travellers as against the foreign correspondents of the -newspapers, n not more.] A Waterloo Commemoration, for I.854. By Michael Joseph Barry. [Hardly equal to the theme ; which is made to embrace the present .A.nglo: French Alliance. The commemoration, however, is pleasant, though no

remarkable reading-a lute rather than a trumpet. A series of contretemrs bas delayed its appearance from the 18th June tall August.] The Violet's Close; or Annie Dale. A Companion to "The Redeemed Rose, or Willie's Rest." By Eliza Rumsey. [A tale of the life and death of apious young rustic, who, after setting an example in social, domestic, and religious duties, dies of consumption.] The new editions of the week are rather for purchase than criticism at this time of day. Mr. Murray produces the fourth volume of his ne-plus- mtra Gibbon, in his "British Classics" series. Mr. Bell sends us the fifth volume of his cheap reprint of "Hume and Smollett" with Hughes's con- tinuation, which travels as far towards Queen Victoria as Cromwell's locking the door on the Long Parliament. Messrs. Blackwood have completed the finally revised edition of "Ten Thousand a Year," in double columns. A second edition of Agnes Catlow's "Popular Conchology " reaches us from Messrs. Longman ; who have also sent forth a portion of Mr. Laing's "Notes of a Traveller" in the Traveller's Library. Messrs. Routledge publish a neat volume of Miss Pardoe's popular "City of the Sultan "-for eighteen- pence according to the bookseller's cover, but the lady's preface says two Ebillings-perhaps as a euphonical contrast to the original price of two guineas. Mr. Hodgson exchanges the " Attila " of James for eighteen- pence and Maxwell's "Dark Lady of Doona" for a shilling. 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 IV. With Portraits and Maps. (Murray's British Classics.) The History of England, from the Invasion of Julius Ciesar to the end of the Reign of George II. By Hume and Smollett. With the Con- tinuation, from the Accession of George III, to the Accession of Queen Victoria. By the Reverend T. S. Hughes, B.D., late Canon of Peter- borough. Also copious Notes, the Author's last corrections, improve- ments, and enlargement. With Historical Illustrations, Autographs, and Portraits. A new edition. Volume V.

Ten Thousand a Year. By Samuel Warren, D.C.L., F.R.S. A new

edition, carefully revised, with Notes and Illustrations. In two volumes.

Popular Conchology ; or the Shell Cabinet arranged according to the Modern System ; with a detailed Account of the Animals, and a com- plete Descriptive List of the Families and Genera of Recent and Fossil Shells. By Agnes Catlow, Author of "Popular Field Botany," &c. Second edition.

Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prus- sia, Switzerland, Italy, and other parts of Europe, during the present Century. By Samuel Laing, Esq., Author of "A Journal of a Resi- dence in Norway." First series. In two parts. (The Traveller's library.) The City of the Sultan, and Domestic Manners of the Turks : with a Steam Voyage up the Danube. By Miss Pardoe, Author of "The Court of Louis the Fourteenth," &c. Fourth edition.

Attila; a Romance. By G. P. R. James.

The Dark Lady of Doona. By W. H. Maxwell, Author of "Stories of Waterloo," &c.

PAMPHI,WrS.

Russia, Germany, and the Eastern Quee- lion. By Gustav Diezel. Translated from the German by Frederica Rowan. OS the lrhig Project for Abolishing the Removal of the Poor, and the vicious system of Centralization. By a Clerk to one of the Metropolitan Unions.

A Sermon preach4 in the Chapel ofFarn- ham Castle, at the General Ordination held by the Lord Bishop of Winchester, July 9, 1854, by the Reverend Francis M. Cunningham, M.A., Rector of East Tisted, Ilants.

Clergy Charity Societies: their Condition and Insufficiency Reviewed; with Sug- gestions, Pec. By the Reverend W. G.

Jervis, M.A., late of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Curate of Kingston-upon- Thames.

The Opening of the Crystal Palace con- sidered in some of its Relations to the Prospects of Art. By John Ruskin, Author of " The Stones of Venice," &c.

Music as an Element of Education : being one of a Series of Lectures delivered at St. Martin's Hall, in connexion with the Educational Exhibition of the So- ciety of Arts, 24th July. By John Hut- lab, Professor of Vocal Music in King's College, and in Queen's College, Lon- don.