PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boosts.

The Fifteen Decisive Battles of the World, from Marathon to Waterloo. By E. S. Creasy, 3I.A., Professor of Ancient and Modern History in University College, London, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. In two volumes.

The English in America. By the Author of "Sam Slick, the Clock- maker," &c. In two volumes. Mad,rilenia ; or Pictures of Spanish Life. By II. Drummond Wolff. The Scalp-Hunters ; or Romantic Adventures in Northern Mexico.

By Captain Mayne Reid, Author of "The Ride Rangers." In three volumes.

Sermons preached on Various Occasions at the West London Syna- gogue of British Jews. By the Reverend D. W. Marks, Minister of the Congregation. (Published at the Request of the Council of Founders.) The Cu and the Lip; a Novel. By Laura Jewry, Author of "The Forest and the Fortress." In three volumes.

Castle-Dcloraine; or the Ruined Peer. By Maria Priscilla Smith. In three volumes.

Perry Hamilton ; or the AdventUres of a Westminster Bay. By Lord William Lennox. In three volumes.

A Selection of English Synonyms.

[This little volume has been edited and is recommended by the Archbishop of Dublin; but it is able to recommend itself. The selection has been made

upon a good principle—that of taking words which hare different shades of

meaning and so are not true synonyms, but with a sufficient resemblance of meaning to make them liable to be confounded together. Of such words those most frequently in use are chosen, arranged into classes according to the parts of speech, and not only their diilltrent senses defined but illustrated by lexamples. The book uomlines the essay and the dictionary, and it wIB be found a useful guide to composition.] Hunt's Handbook to the Official Catalogues. Part I. [The first of a series of sixpenny handbooks to the Great Exhibition, in which the most remarkable objects will be pointed out, and a brief sketch given of

the history, use, and manufacture of the articles, if a manufacture. Except in the case of special objects, the productions will be- considered in classes. The present number contains mining and mineral products and .general hardware.]

The First Step in Chemistry. By Robert Gallon ay, F.C.S., Lecturer on Chemistry, Putney College, formerly Chemical Assistant in the Museum of Practical Geology.

[An elementary book, whose principal feature is the systematic use of exer- cises as a means of familiarizing the pupil with the rudiments of chemistry.

It is also composed on the principle of compelling the pupil to learn, by dis- tinctly separating what he is to master by reading, what he is to get by heart, what he is to do.] School Tablets. Arranged by W. B. Tegetmeier. No. 1. Specific Gravi- ties. No. 2. Temperatures. No. 3. Diagram of Thermometer—Fah- renheit and Centigrade.

[Three mounted sheets exhibiting in large letters and figures the information indicated in the titles.]

Blades lieturesgue Guide through North and South Wales and Mon- mouthshire. With a copious Itinerary, a full Description of every

Remarkable Place, and a comprehensive General Index, embracing a List of Hotels and Inns. Illustrated by Maps, Charts, and Views of Scenery.

[A very clear and complete guide to the beauties and interesting objects of i the Principality, arranged in the form of routes, and fully illustrated by maps, cuts, and a copious index. With this volume in his hand, the tra- veller may thread Wales in all directions; learning what to see, and how to see it.] London at Table ; or How, When and Where to Dine mid Order a Dinner ; and Where to Avoid Dining. With Practical Hints to Cooks, &c. [The author of this book evidently knows "what's what" in the way of eating and drinking, both at public and private houses; and he has a gusto which animates his knowledge into earnestness. But the work should have been a more specific treatise, or a lighter, more sparkling, more general essay. We should have more or leas of the bookmaker's art. In London some half-dozen "houses of a moderate kind are mentioned ; the private dinner-givers are vaguely alluded to. From this charge of vagueness the recipes and directions are free.] A Defence of Ignorance. By the Author of "How to Make Home ' Unhealthy." [There are some good thoughts in this book on the systems of education; or rather practices, prevalent in England for the poor, the rich, (at the Universities,) the middle classes, and the female sex - but they are disfigured by the foreed and half-allegorical framework in which they are presented, and overlaid by quaint opinions and an affected style.]

The Morning Stars; a Treatise (en permanence) as suggested by the Grand Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations. By the Reverend W. Pashley, M.A., Curate of Sedgeberrow. [A set of short sermons, or essays ou religion, nature, man, and the indus- trial arts. The book has been suggested by the Great Exhibition, but the direct application is not very happy.] Miss Martineau and her Master. By J. Stevenson Bushnan, M.D., Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, &c. [An attack upon a late publication by Miss Martineau and Mr. Atkinson on " Man's Nature and Development." Dr. Bushnan employs ridicule as well as argument.] The United Stales ; its Power and Progress. By Guillaume Tell Poussin. Translated from the French by Edmund L. Du Barry, M.D., Surgeon U. S. Navy.

The History of Adult Education ; in which is comprised a full and complete History of the Mechanics and Literary Institutions, Athe- nmums, &c., of Great Britain, Ireland, America, &c. By J. W. Hud- son, Ph.D., Secretary of the Manchester Athenreum.

The following list consists of new editions or""continuations that explain themselves, or of sonic publications in verse that are not of a kind to require notice.

Madeleine; a Talc of Auvergne, founded on fact. By Julia Kavanagh. Second edition.

Official Catalogue of the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of

All .21-rations, 1851. Second corrected and improved edition.

The Steam-Engine; a Popular Account of its Construction, Action, and History ; and a Description of its various Forms, &c. By Hugo Reid. Illustrated by forty Wood-Engravings. Third edition, revised, &c. Chambers's Papers for the People. Volume IX. The Home Circle. Volume IV.

Stephen, Xing of England; or the Danish Usurpation : an Historical Drama, in five acts. By John Penny. Io Anehe ! Poems, chiefly Lyrical. By Thomas Smibert. Melburn, a Vision ; a Poem.

NEW MAGAZINE.

The Month. Edited by Albert Smith, with Illustrations by john Leech. No. L [This new shilling periodical by Mr. Albert Smith is devoted to fun_; the subjects for treatment being chiefly public incidents of the time that have a social character. The Great Exhibition of course forms a prominent fea- ture. The Month is a facetious collection of prose, verse, and wood-cuts.] PAMPHLETS.

The Message of the Church to _Labouring Men ; a Sermon preached at St. John's Church, Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, on the evening 9f Sunday, June 22, 1851. By Charles Kingsley junior, Rector of Eversley. The Calling of Abram ; a Sermon preached in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, before the Canterbury Colonists, and others, Sun- day, May 4, 1851, by Samuel, Lord Bishop of Oxford.

The Present Forms of Infidelity. Scepticism and Romauism Viewed and Contrasted as Conflicting yet Cognate Systems of Superstition and Unbelief.

A Plea for the Rights and Liberties of Women Imprisoned for Life un- der the power of Priests. In answer to Bishop Ullathorne. By Henry Drummond.

4 Lecture on English Poetry, illustrated by the Works of Living Poets, delivered before the Members and Friends of the East Retford Literary Institution. By Granville Edward Harcourt Vernon, Esq.

Marriage with a Deceased JVife's Sister. A Letter to the Lord Bishop of Exeter. By W. Campbell Sleigh, Esq.

Report of a Meeting for the Establishment of the Central Cobperative Agency, 76 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, May 30, 1851. Con- taming an Explanation of the Principles and Objects of that Institution.

Protection to Landlords ; What it has Done for their Tenants, and What will be Done for them by Free Trade. By John Kinnear, Esq., Advocate.

Letters to Mr. John Bull, on Subjects connected with Agriculture and Free Trade; with Remarks upon Sir E. Bulwer Lytton's Letters to John Bull, Esq. By S. F. S.