PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Books.

A History of the Romans under the Empire. By Charles Merivalo, B.D., late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Volume HI.

A Faggot of .French Sticks. By the Author of " Bubbles from the Brunnen of Nassau." In two volumes.

Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, during the years 1844-5-6 By M. Hue. Translated from the French by W. Hazlitt. Volume I. Illustrated with fifty Engravings on Wood. (National Illustrated Year Li- Ten

brary.)

s of the Church of Scotland, from 1833 to 1843. With His- torical Betrospeot from 1560. By James Bryce, D.D. Volumes L and II.

The Golden Legend. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Pirate of the Mediterranean ' • a Tale of the Sea. By William H. G. Kingston,. Esq., Author of "The Prime Minister," &c. In three volumes. Spiritual ..d.khemy ; or Trials Turned to Gold. By the Author of "Hearts in Mortmain," &c. In two volumes. Clara Harrington ; a Domestic Tale. In three volumes.

The Germania of Tacitus ; with Ethnological Dissertations and Notes. By R. G. Latham, M.D., F.R.8., &c. Uhe chief object of this elaborate edition of the Germania is neither verbal, historical, geographical, nor critical, but ethnological All these topics, in- deed, will be foundin it, as. well ea many miacellaneemacibeervatimis, but eth- nology—the blood, origin, and seats of peoples—are Th. Latham's subject ; and is end is to show that one half of the Germany of Tackus was not inhabited by Germans but Slovenians. The Prolegomena contain a variety of papers or essays awerting this proposition, distinguished by the author's various erudition, and somewhat curt yet ponderous manner : in the course of the prefix he brings together all that the principal writers of antignity have left on the subject. The annotations areas elaborate as the introduction. The twelve lines of the fiat caput of section are followed by eighteen pages of notes ; the first word, " Germania," involving a disquisition of severalpages, to, the effect that the term is not indigenous. "Germania," "Germany," 41Allentsyne," are foreign. "Deutscheland " is the German word, which originally meaning barbarian as opposed to Roman, came to mean Deutsche as opposed to barbarian :" such are the mutations of words and things. The notes on the text are followed by Epilogomena, as erudite as the prologues, and more various in topics.] A Treatise on the Circumstances which determine the Rate of Wages and the Condition of the Labouring Classes. By J. It M'Culloch, Esq. [This little book on the laws that govern the rate of wages is a useful manna/ at the present time. It is primarily addressed to the working classes, with the object of instructing them in the actual causes which deter- mine the reward they are to receive for their labour. To the economist there is little perhaps that is new ; but everything is made clear, and pressed with earnestness, as well as illustrated with fulness. It is one of the first instances of scientific economy made perfectly clear to the popular mind and brought within the popular reach.]

Perseus and his Philosophies.

[A satire upon the present age, in the form of a half-philosophical half- ludicrous fiction, the scene laid in Saxon times. Some of the hits are fair, and some of the thoughts are good ; but there is little that is striking, no- thing that is deep ; while the contrivance of the allegory is clumsy and trans- parent. The writer is a long way from either Gulliver or Rabelais.] The House on the _Rock. By the Author of "The Dream Chintz," &e. [In this little tale the writer deviates from the style of its predecessors • passing somewhat into the manner of Dickens, and taking a subject that haL been pretty well worn. There are Mabel, a rustic beauty, an old father and so-called uncle ; there is anxiety lest Mabel should fall a prey to the heir of a lord ; and a father's Search for his daughter, when Mabel goes of secretly, lest he should forbid her, as a petted attendant of one of the young ladies. Novelty and a moral are added to this common matter, by Maters refusal of a young man of the gentry class, and by making "Uncle Matthew " a hater of the aristocracy, till he is convinced of his error by experience. The House on the Rock exhibits the writer's kindly feeling and elegance of style.] The Hunchback's Chest. By the Reverend W. Wickenden' B.A., the Bard of the Forest, Author of "Adventures in Circassia," &e. [Contains a variety of poems and prose tales, which exhibit considerable im- provement over Mr. Wickenden's former works as regards composition, though he is, we believe, a veteran in literature.] The Young Ladies' Guide to .Practwal Arithmetic and Book-keeping.

By G. Morrison.

The following publications are of the class of cheap and popular litera- ture. The only volume is "Chambers s Papers for the People" the others being of a tract-like form, more or less prettily got up. Amongst tales and articles of a varied character, . OE Papers contain a notice of Wellington's career, which is the most readable, and spirited thing we have met with on the subject. The "R. engs in Popular Literature" somewhat re- sembles Messrs. Longman's " Traveller's Library " in form and price : it contains publications of eopy4hta useful or amusing or both_ The curious life of that Irish ruffian- "Fighting Fitzgerald ' has no indication of being a republication, and is probably original ; at all events, it is a worthy pendant to "Ireland Sixty [or now Sixty-five] Years Ago." "Curiosities of Communication" is an historical and descriptive account of roads, rail- ways sailing-vessels, steamers, and eleetric telegraphs; an amusing iedley offsets from ldr. Charles Knight. medleyht. '

Chambers's Papers for the People. Volume Jul.

Readings in Popular Literature.

Ten Years in Australia. By the Reverend D. Mackenzie, M.A. George Robert Fitzgerald, his Life and Times. Ireland Sixty Years Ago.

Curiosities of Communication. The Road. The Railway. The Electric

Telegraph. The Sail and the Steamer. Ocean Steamers. Foreign

Mails.

The Country Howe. The Poultry-Yard. Turf Characters : the Officials and Dm Subalterns. By Martingale.

Among the new editions, the only one calling for remark is Mr. Reade's " Poetical Works." The collection extends over a period of more than thirty esrs • the first poem being an extensively revised edition of " Cain the Vezderer," which. now appears under the title of " Destiny." The other poems—Italy, the Deluge, Catiline, Revelations of Life, and a variety of smaller pieces, have also been subjected to• a close revision, and now appear in a final state as well as a collected form.

The Poetical Worksof john Edmund Reads.rn two volumes. A Dictionary of Dii.fruities. By P. F. Merlet, Professor of the French Language and Literature in University College, London. Third edi-

tion.

The Church of the Invisible . - or World of Spirits. A Manual for Chris- tian Mourners. By the Reverend R. Montgomery, M.A. Oxon, Au- thor of "The Christian Life," &c. Fourth edition, revised and en- I, :arse& City Men and City Manners. The City; or the Physiology of London

Business; with Sketches on 'Change and at the Coffeehouses. New Saarea.

"Ti4e lifs and Adventures of Mervyn Clitherse. By W. Harrison Ains- worth. Illustrated. by Phis.- No L ILLUSTRATED Wog AND PRINTS. E.ramples of the Architecture of Venice, selected and drawn to measure- ' ment from the Edifices. By Tolm Ruskin, Author of "The Stones of Venice," &e. Parts I. n. and In.

• ALMANACKS.

The Fain ily Alnianach and Educational Register, for 1852. .Fins Arts Almanack, or Artist!? Renieruhrancer„ for 1852. The Meteorological Almanack, for 1862. By R. Y. Donovan. The Illustrated London Almanack, 1852.

Paiceirters.

A Common-Snun Yivw of the Cluirch of Rom, 8:e. By a Protestant. Independence and Submission ' - the Use and Abuse of each. Two Ad- dresses delivered at the close of the Summer Quarter 1851. By Charles

John Vaughan, D.D., Head.Master of Harrow School.

Letter to Use Bight Honourable IV. E. Gladstone, Ji.T, in answer to his two Letters to the Earl of Aberdeen,, &e. By Jules Gondon, Ilttdacteur de l' Univers. The Position and Prospects of the British Eominious Considered, &c, By Captain S. A. Warner. The Ionian Islands ; what they. have Lost and Suffered under the Thirty-five Years' Administration. of the Lord High Commissioners sent to govern them. By all