. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

THE commencement of a new month,, and a new year, has pro- duced an influx of printed papei, enough t6 furnish forth, as far as: quantity is concerned, half-a-dozen libraries in those happy times anterior to the invention.of printing. Putting in practice that art by which philosophers attempt to • arrange the countless produc- tions of nature—the art of classification—we may reduce the mass which smothers our table, into four heads : 1. Periodicals ;- 2. Se- 'lab, in Parts or.Numbers; 3. Bound Volumes ; 4.. Pamphlets.

I. PERIODICALS.

. This family Of. the genus liber may be distributed into New and Established.. The new speculations are three ; but they are not of a kind likely to render 1839 an epoch in periodical literature,— supplying no want, filling no vacuum, and, if they can be said to address themselves to any class, displaying small knowledge of small intellectual power, and no very large resources; The Isis; a Quarterly Magazine. No. I. [A Quarterly, professing to emanate from Oxford, and intending to make the Universities a leading feature in its pages. It is really a 'Magazine, without distinguishing character or striking merit—a random mixture of verses, tales, and articles, such as have appeared in Magazines from the first year of their existence, followed by a few notices of books indifferently selected, and reviewed without plan. The Politics of the work are Conserva- tive; and the leading question selected is the suspended one of the Universi ties— a subject upon which no one is thinking at present ; and which is treated with a blind and undistinguishing servility, that at any time would be ridiculous in the eyes of opponents, and would meet no real approval in the minds of judi- cious friends.] The Sporting Review. No. I. [We gather from the prefatory address, and incidental passages, that this is an offshoot of some other work, or works, and is established in consequence of some difference among the parties. 'Nimnon furnishes an article, descriptive of a sporting party in-Belgium, under the title of " Second Celebration of the Eke of Saint Hubert ;" and there is a pretty full account of Current sporting events, sometimes in the form of personal adventures. Of comparative literary merit we are not enough versed in sporting literature to speak. To us, the articles in the Sporting Review want raciness, and that largeness of knowledge and view which alone could render them attractive to any one not taking a practical interest in the facts.] Dearden's Miscellany. No. I.

[A Cheap Monthly Magazine, published at Nottingham; containing a sufficient variety of papers, but many on too limited a scale to allow of mud, attraction being imparted in their treatment. It appears to address itself to some local or sectional classes, to whom its grave and worldly-remote topics may be a merit]

Monthly Magetzioe. January 1839. [This parent of modern Magazines, verging now towards its half-century of ex- stence—for it Was CSIllbliSliCa in 1796—bas again changed hands ; Mr. HERAIID the poet, lecturer," and contributor to Fraser, having assumed the editorship, promising great thingsond commencing with a poem called " The Pleasures of Genius." The " Aim of the work., its general Spirit, and its specific End," are thus .described by himself," Our task is one of' no trifling importance—to establish all things on a sure basis of Wisdom and Love, mid to declare the phi- losophical princiPles on which all subjects, human or divine, should be argued, in order to be decided rightly."] The Sportsman. January 1839.. [This work also commences a new series, after having readied its ninth vo- lonie Its infbrmation appears more minute and full than that of the Sporting Review ; its literature is untlirior.] -Quarterly' Review. January 1839.

The Foreign Quarterly Rah w. January .1839.

.Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine. January 1839.

Eraser's Magazine jhr MIMI and Country. January 1839.

Tait's Edinburgh Magazine. January 1839.

The Mime* Chronick. January 1839.

The Monthly Law Magazine and Political Review. January 1839.

The Architectural Magazine. January 1839.1 The London Monthly Miscellany. January 1839.

The New Monthly Belle Assemblee. January 1839- journal of the Statistical -Society of London. January 1839.

Dub/in University Magazine. January 1839.

The Analyst. January 1839.

Alexander's East India and Colonial Magazine. January 1839. Bentley's Miscellany. January 1839. [This number possesses a new feature, in the commencement of Mr. AINS- WORTH'S Jack Sheppard; to be illustrated, like Oliver Twist, by Curia-

SHANK. The opening scenes are laid in the Southwark Mint—so well known to the readers of the satirists of the age as a range for debtors; and are full of spirit, incident, and variety, though recalling SCOTT'S Alsatia. So far as a judgment can be formed from the opening chapters, other and higher

persons both in station and character will be connected with the story, than mere thieves and their associates.]

SERIAL PARTS.

7'he Arabian Nights' Entertainments. Standard Family Edition. Parts L and IL [A cheap reprint of popular works, suggested by Mr. SMITH'S " Standard Library Edition; " which this " Standard Family Edition" closely resembles in appearance. The publication is illustrated. by Snuts.E's well-known de- aigns.] Theological Lectures. By ROBERT LEIGHTON, D.D., Archbishop of Glasgow. [Another cheap reprint of a similar kind, but of a•more unique character ; the object being to furnish the public with a complete library of popular divinity. Here, for sixteenpence, is the whole of Archbishop LEIGHTON's Theological Lectures, yet so neatly sent forth as to satisfy the most fastidious taste.] ' V. A Dictionary o‘ Arts, Manufactures, and Mines. By ANDREW ETRE; M.D. Part A General Outline of the Animal Kingdom. By THOMAS Rvmtn JONES; F.Z.S, Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's College, London. Part III.

A History of British Birds. By Wiwast YannEr.r., F.L.S. V.P.Z.S. [A beautiful work: the wood-cuts of the present number are, alone, almost worth the money.]

77w Life and Character of St. John the 1:cangelist and Apostle. By

F. A. Knumzunenna, D.D. Translated from the German.

The Student's Cabinet Library of Useful Tracts. No. XXXI. Phi- losophical Series, Vol. I. Part L—Joulfroy's Philosophical Essays. Nicholas Nickleby. No. X.

• Effingham Hazard the Adventurer. No. II. [A coarse imitation of Pickwick and Nickleby; on 'nfusion o an. and Cockney vulgarisms.] ' Pick-Wick Abroad, Part XII.

Heads of the People, No, III, The Churches of London. No. XXV.

The Arabian Nights' Entertainments, A New Translation, with copious Notes, by EDWARD WILLIAM LANE. Part IX.

The Pictorial History of England. - Part XXIII.

Fables, by 'the most Eminent British, French, German, and Spanish Authors. Illustrated with numerous engravings, after original Designs by J. J. GRANDVILLE. Part H.

[Neatly printed, and illustrated by humorous wood-cuts : the personations of animals are very felicitous.] Boum) 1300xs.

Germany, Bohemia, and Hu»gary, Visited in 1837. By the Rev. G. R. GLEIG, M.A., Chaplain to the Royal Hospital, Chelsea. In 3 vols. The Li,/'S of Thomas Reynolds Esq., formerly of Kilkca Castle, in the County Of Kildare. By his eon, Ttionns 11r.vNoLus. In 2 vols. The History (gr the Church of Christ, from the Diet of Augsburg 1530 to the Eighteenth Century. In continuation of MILNER'S History of the Church of Ct,rist. By the Rey. HENRY STERBING; MA. In 3 N'OlS. Vol. T.

History ofTienmarle, Sweden, and Niwway. By S. A.. DUNHAM; author of " The History of Spain and Portugal." (Cabinet Cyclopedia, No. 110.) ['Mr. DENHAM; fitvourably known by the laborious industry exhibited in sonic thriller wmks hi Dr. LAB oNER'S " C'abinet Cvelopmdia," has undertaken the history of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. The first volame, dealing chiefly with the historical legends, begins ivith a disquisition on the inutility of in- quiring into the origin of nations, and comes down to the year 1000, when Europe was settling into its present form.] 71e Lust Days of Pompeii. By Sir E. LYTTON 1317r.wzn, Bart. (Standard Nova:, No. 72.) Astoria ; or Enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. By Wasnrsc TON InviNo. (BENTLEY'S Standard Library of Modern Literature.) [Both reprints, to form part, it' it so please the purchaser, of Mr. BENTLEY'S " Libraries," but capable of standing alone. The edition of The Last Days of Pooling; contains the rather !bolls!, preface to the second edition, which if the writer were weak enough to publish iii 1835, he should have been wise enough to suppress in 1839 : its burden is to the old tune of contempt for critics—who censure.

Astoria contains a portrait of WAsniNGToN 1uviN, after NEwTos ; who makes him look like a master linendraper in full dress. The book, however, is one of the neatest, cheapest, and most interesting publications of the season ; capitally adapted for presents.] Manchester Poetry; with an Introductory Essay. Edited by JAsiES WHEELER.

[ A pleasing and judicious selection of poetry by local bards; not only written by Manchester poets, lint actually, SO we understand, produced at the cot ton-

apinning, town. Mr. WitEimmt, in his preface, seems nervous for the literary

reputation dills home ; but surely the place which can show BYROM, JEWS- BURY, and AINSWORTH; might be content though it did net rival Avon. He has, however, in the person of BAMFORD; a poet of more strength and native character than either of the trio enumerated; and this little YOIRIIIC would be worth having, were it only for kis select works. Like the Corn-law Poet, Bist- ro ins had to earn his bread by the sweat aids brow ; was mixed up in the unhappy times of SinsiouTn and CASTLEREAGH ; experienced the inemtitude Si poli- tical friends ; and still lives, bat in what plight the editor 'does not tell us.

General powers cannot be predicated from a single display, but we iodine to rate " God Help the Poor" as a high effort of' poetical ability. The subjects are chosen from connnon life, and effectually answer the IRITOSC of' the author; yet there is nothing sordid in their homeliness, or fierce in the sentiments of the writer.]

The Genius and Wisdom of Sir Walter Scott ; comprising Moral, Reli- gious, Political, Literary, and Social Aphorisms, selected carefully from his various Writings. 'With a Memoir.

[A stlectian from the works of SeorT, chiefly from his prose. It is a useful and valuable collection (if sentiments—and emad not well have been otherwise; hut the tiny volume and its contents offer a strong contrast to the pompous title.]

Englund; an Historical Pomo. By JOHN WALKER Onn, Esq. (Third Ed i t ion

PAMPHLETS.

Corn-Law Fallacies, with the Answers. (Reprinted from the Sun News- paper.) With a Dedication to the Manchester Chamber of Com- merce. By the Author of the Catechism of the Corn-Laws. IA well-timed contribution to the new " middle-class agitation " against the Bread-tax. The only absolute novelty, we believe, is the Dedication ; but, to the numerous admirers of Colonel THOMPSON'S quaint and. racy, yet closely- logical style of cutting-up, the whole pamphlet will be better than new.] The Viceroy's Dream, or the Canadian Gorermnent not " wide awake." A Mono-Dramatico-Political Poem. By LYNCH LAWDON SHARPE. .11.1Unthly Index to the Abtropolitan Morning Papers. For December 1838. [This laborious undertaking was till now limited to the Times only ; and its utility led to the extension of the plan. The Index refers not only to the subjects of what are called leading articles, but to reports of occurrences, law- cases, debates and meetings, and announcements in the Gazette, 8:e.]