u commonly called Nervous Complaints, Prorated Remarks ou the New

Operation for the Cure of StroNsmus or W. De eels, Graduate in the ruiversity of' Edinburgh, 8:c.

from the originals. In two vols.

from drawings made on the spot.

second or Royal Highlanders.

The Ancient and Modern History of China; comprising an account of its government and laws, religion, population, revenue, productions, manufacture, arts and sciences, language and literature ; character and manners of the inhabitants ; an historical description of the inter- course of China with other nations, from the earliest period down to the present time; and a statement of facts relative to the Opium-trade.

[A commonplace compilation, evidently got up to meet the probable demand of the market. It is not, however, devoid of a certain degree of popular style, well enough fitted to answer its purpose of attracting the vulgar.]

Elphinstone. By ALFRED BUTLER; Esq. In three vols.

The Viceroy. By JOHN FISHER Mtninar, Esq. In three vols. The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett, complete in one volume. With Memoir of the Author, by THOMAS ROSCOE. Portrait and Autograph. [A handsome single volume embraces not only the Novels and Poems of SMOLLETT; but his Plays and his Travels; to which Mr. ROSCOE has prefixed a memoir, somewhat lengthy, but telling all of the writer that can be told. The publication, therefore, forms a complete companion to the Works of FIELD- vie, which not long since were sent forth by the same literary caterer. In the skill with which he constructed his story, and perhaps in the truth with which he delineated general characters andgeneral life, FIELDING must be preferred to SmoLLETT ; who excelled in delineating peculiarities—whether individual, as in Mrs. Tabitha Bramble and Matthew Bramble—professional, as Pipes in Peregrine Pickle—or sectional, as the Methodists of England and the Saints of Edinburgh. But in producing real hearty enjoyment—the laughter which shakes and almost convulses—SMOLLETT is without a rival. As to the propriety of his works, every one, RS we lately remarked in our notice of the Comedies of WYCHERLEY, &C. must judge for himself; but this being settled, their perusal will furnish the truest idea, not merely of the manners, but of the general mind of Britain, some hundred years since.] Deere of the South; or the Olden Time. A Drama. By Mrs. GORE. The genius of Mrs. GORE; so felicitous in painting passing manners, would not seem fitted for the drama, even of the ilightest comic school, from her deficiency in breadth and strength—and it may be in coarseness, which, like the daub.touch of the seene-painter, seems necessary to due effect in our mo- dern theatres. For the historical drains, which she has attempted in Dom, she is still less qualified ; wanting the imagination to revive the manners of the past, the power to excite the passions, and the dramatic skill to put her mate- rials together in such a manner as to avoid shocking even the probabilities of the stage.] Sonnets. By Sir JOHN HANMER; Bart.

[There is nothing in these Sonnets to overcome the unsuitableness of that kind of poem to our language, or even to raise them much above the generality of verse flowing from sonnetteers. So hard-bound is the imagination of the writer, that the reader often perceives much more in his subjects than be does himself: for example, all he discovers in " the Steam-boat," is the smoke over- head and the swell from the paddle-wheels.]

The Saga of Hithiof ; a Legend. Translated from the Swedish of Esains Tegner, Bishop of Wexio, by OSCAR BAKEII. [TECNER'S Frithiof appears to be a favourite with English renders, or it is a good exercise for persons studying Swedish, since this is the third translation that has appeared within little more than two years, when Mr. LATHAM first introduced the whole poem to the British public. Having on that occasion* entered into the story and general characteristics of the poem, we content our- selves with saying, that if Mr. BAKER'S translation is less ornate than his pre- decessor's, it is, so far ns we have compared them, nearly as poetical, anti much more simple; conveying, we doubt not, with grez.ter truth both the manner and meaning of the Swedish bard.] * Sm Maur. No. 523; 711i July 1338.

The Certainties if Geology. By WILLIAM SIDNEY GIBSON, F.G.S. [Mr. GIBSON fairly admits that his ar,guments in favour of the truth of Geo- logy, against the objections of those who urge the Mosaic authority, will not have much novelty for the learned ; and he does not possess sufficient powers of popular exposition to render them attractive to the unscientific. The book is for the most part a mass of roundabout verbosity.] Literary Leaves ; or Prose and Verse, chiefly written in India. By DAVID LESTER RICHARDSON. Second edition, with considerable additions. in t no vols.

[A. very agreeable collection of prose and verse : the prose mostly essays of a quiet and thoughtful cast of treatment, and carefully finished in point of com-

position; the verse nut very striking, but equable and well-toned. The greater part of the volumes was composed in India, Mr. Iticuminsos tells us; which accounts for the more subdued style of his writing—he was so far removed from the slapdash fever as to escape infection.] Tendrils Cherishal ; or Home Sketches. By E. B.

[There is an air of reality in these pictures of a well-trained family, that will engage the attention of the young reader, and impress the moral and religious lessons that are conveyed by examples of faults and good qualities in the chil- dren, whose daily life in a country-house, under the care of exemplary parents, is pleasantly desctibed : the only defect is a sermonizing tone in the religious portion of the dialogues, which reads like fragments of a pulpit discourse in- terlarded between tioniliar conversations.]

Time Comic English Grammar ; a new and facetious Introduction to the English Tongue. By the Author of " The Comic Latin Grammar."

Embellished with upwards of fifty characteristic illustrations, by J. Lueen.

[So far as an necumulation of vulgarisms of speech, bad spelling, false pro- nunciation, slings phrases, and burlesques of stilted style, are comic, this volume

is SO; but the ludierous effect of their introduction as examples of the rules i■1'

grammar that they respectively violate, is often destroyed by the substitution of forced efforts to be funny, for that grave irony which should have been kept

up throughout : instead of invariably mocking the pedantic gravity of the grammarian in enunciating the principles of language, the author himself in- dulges in slang terms, punning, and other attempts at facetiousness, and so spoils the jest. Mr. LEECH'S illustrations are cleverly drawn, and show a quick perseition of the ludicrous : he is most happy in hitting off absurdities of character :Ind in-

congruities of person end preteesion ; broad graphic humour, like Boon's, he

does out possess, nor is he successful in that exaggeration of peculiarities where GEORGE CRUD:SBA NB excels: his hate consists in seizing the salient Feints

Of' character, and presenting them Willfully the elegance of his sty le then

gives the piquancy of polished wit to his stairs,. We laugh with 311'. LIEU Is at the follies he ridicules, und admire his skill : we laugh at UEORG n Cit u SHANK'S humorous delineations, as we do at Iloou's droll conceptions.] The Child and the Hermit ; or a Sequel to " The Story without an End."

By C. M.

[A continuation, in a congenial spirit, and not unworthy of its prototype. The child is represented as seeking human sympathy, midis led by a dog to the cell of a hermit, by whom he is taught to me loOk through Nature up to Nature's God." The cuts are finely executed, but the designs are not equal to those in the " Story without an End."]

SERIALS.

Mr. and .21frs. S. C. Hall's Ireland, Part IL [This second part maintains the literary promise of the opening. In addition to the topographical, descriptive, and miscellaneous matters, there is a very humorous account of the characteristic wit and humour of the Irish car- drivers, full of good stories; and remarks on the condition of the peasantry, from which it appears that in some cases the eternal potato diet is receiving a variation of bread, and even of meat. Besides the picture-illustrations, on wood and copper, there is a map of Kerry; and the original air of the "Groves of Blarney," an improvement of which stands in MOORE'S Melodies, as "the Last Rose of Summer."] Popular Errors Explained and Illustrated. By JOHN TIMM; Editor of " Laconics," &c. No. III.

[An exposition of vulgar notions that obtain currency by passing uncontra- dieted from mouth to mouth. The subjects of the errors are classed, so that in seeking to correct one fallacy the reader stumbles on new facts. Thus the proient number exposes errors relating to domestic arts, manufactures, and. manners : for instance, the delusion that there are only three " Queen Anne's farthings" extant, and the notion that pearls are caused by a disease of the oyster.]

The Laird of Logan, Nos. III. to VII.

Master Humphrey's Clock, Part VIII.

Savage's Dictionary of Printing, No. VIII.

Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Coun- tries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World. By J. R. BPCuLLocii, Esq. Part VIII.

Marques Poor Jack, No. XII.

Encyclopedia Britannica, Part CXVIII.

The New Statistical Account of Scotland, No XXVIII.

The !Omer of London, Parts XII. and XIII.

Jent Bunt, Part IV.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Picturesque Views on the River Niger, sketched during Lander's last visit in IS:12-3, by Commander WILLIAM ALLEN, R.N., &e. [The object of this publication is to attract public attention to Sir POWELL BUXTON'S Niger Expedition ; and these pretty pictures of the scenery of the river and the customs of the Negroes are certainly much more likely to pro- duce a pleasing impression (though perhaps an erroneous one) than the long speeches of the promoters of this notable scheme. The broad and placid stream fringed with dense foliage of various and graceful character—the tall fan-like palm waving above the rounded masses of other trees—and the ground covered with a luxuriant under-growth of plants, with here and there a clear- ance disclosing the buts of a Negro village, some oblong with gabled roofs like an English labourer's cottage, others round with a conical-thatch—conjures up ideas of beauty and content, that the groups of Blacks, enjoying themselves after their own fashion, in nuwise disturb : the mellow warmth of the tinted lithographs no more indicates the pestilential exhalations of the atmosphere, than the grave assembly of great men at a "palaver," seated Arab fashion, and attired in classic draperies, does the habitual diaracter of the people. A scene of administration of justice by the King at the gate of his palace, is an impressive exhibition of primitive government; and there is a semblance of architectural character and Turkish state iu the interior of the Chief Malem's (or High Priest's) house. The most remarkable characteristic of the land views arc the Wile-laud mountains, which look at a distance like fortresses. The lithographs, by Messrs. PICI.EN and WALTON, are very neat and effective: the scene of the "palaver" is a tine study of character, aud not only a striking picture but a faithful representation, Captain ALLEN assures us. The descrip- tive letterpress is very brief, and merely explanatory.] British Buttevlies and this' Trailtbrinations. Arranged and illustrated. in a series of Plates, by N. Ilumnininvs' Esq. With Characters and Descriptions by J. 0. WESTWOOD, Esq.,F.L.S., Secretary of the En- tomological Society. No. V.

[The former numbers of this beautiful work have by sonic chance escaped the notice due to its cheapness and excellence. This number contains three

wrought coloured plates, quarto siee, well tilled with a group of butterflies, showni„e the under-side of their painted wings as well as the upper, which is seen when expanded, and with the addition of the caterpillar and chrysalis of each. The descriptive letterpress is purely scientific; and the prints are artist- like in style, and minutely accurate in detail ; forming a pretty book for the ladies as well as the naturalist.] Illustrabil Standard edition of the Vicar if Waktield, Part I. [A cheap reprint of this delightful fiction, profusely embellished with cuts, which are clever—but French.] The Sybil: a Weekly Miscellany of Ancient and Modern Philosophy, Literature Popular Antiquities, and Traditions, the Fine Arts, &c. Illustrated. No. 1.

[The chief aim of this new and cheap periodical is to show the " connexion ex- isting between the fumbles and traditions of bygone ages with the populor usages and superstitions of the present day." The gipsies and floral symbols are two principal topics, and the writers evince learning and research in treating them.]

7'he Illustrated tVatts's Hymns, No. II, Heath's lliwerley Gallery, Part IX.

Le Kent's Memorials of Cambridge, No. Ix.

PAMPHLETS.

Narrative of the late Procerdings and Ecents in China. By Jowl Shane, Editor of the Canton Register.

77w Prince's then ; a Satire.

7'h Duty cy' Paying Tribute, enforced in Letters to the Reverend Dr. John Brown, occaNioned by his resietlog the payment of the Annuity-tax. By liontiwr HALDANE, Esq. Nuotthi,.:fir December—Blackwood's, Dublin Review, 'fait's. Monthly eltronielt:. Bentley's .Miseellany, Monthly, Quarterly Journal of Agri- culture, Colonial, Asiatic Journal, 3Ionthly Law, Chemist, Florist's Journal.

ALMANACKS.

Social liqWwiers' Aliminack, for 1541.

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