PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Emote the beginning of the publishing season in the early winter, the genuine bibliopolic new books have been few and fitful in number. The marriage of the Princess and the opening of Parliament still give the publishers pause ; for although our list of reserved books shows a tole- rable number, they are nearly all independent of publishing motives. The commencement of the "Supplementary Despatches of the Duke of Wellington," consisting of letters and papers discovered or delivered up through the death of the persons who possessed them, and edited by the present Duke, is an undertaking quite independent of "the trade." A public motive has evidently prompted the publication at this time; for all the papers in the goodly volume relate to India, and to events occurring between 1797 and 1800. The present publication is, for reasons assigned, intended to be supplementary to the first edition of the Wellington Despatches ; the letters that only appear in the second edi- tion will be reprinted in this Supplement. Earl Grey's Essay on Parliamentary Government, and what ought or ought not to be in the forthcoming Reform Bill, is equally independent of what publishers may think of the book-market. "The Medical and Legal Relations of Madness," by Dr. Burgess, seems as much removed from general literature. Kane's " Biography " is an American publi- cation. "Shelley and his Writings" appears a labour of love; in whieh, we fear, opinions may predominate over facts. The additions made by Mr. Middleton to the already published materials seem to be comparatively slight. As for novels, their production is unceasing, in season or out of season.

Booms.

Supplementary Despatches and Memoranda of Field-Marshal Arthur Duke cif Wellington, K.G. India 1797-1805. Edited by his Son, the Duke of Wel- lington. Volume the First.

Parliamentary Government Considered with reference to a Reform of Parlia- • meet an Essay. By Earl Grey.

The Medical and Legal Relations of Madness ; showing a Cellular Theory of Mind and of Nerre Force, and also of Vegetative Vital Force. By Joshua Burgess, M.D.

Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. By William Elder. •

Shelley and his Writings. By Charles S. Middleton. In two volumes. • Margaret Hamilton : a Novel. By Mrs. C. J. Newby, Author of "Mabel," 8m. In three roMmus.-

Liverpool Ho a Matter-of-fact Story. By Powys Oswyn, Author of "Ernest Milman, a Tale of Manchester Life," &c. In one volume.

On Squinting, Paralytic Affections of Me Eye, and certain Forms of Impaired Vision. By Carsten Henhouse, F.R.C.S.E., fre. &c.—Squint- ing has been much neglected by the profession, like baldness, deafness, and perhaps some other complaints, which may diminish good looks or even impair our enjoyments, but do not threaten life, eause severe pain, or much diminish our sphere of utility. Such matters were deemed congenital, or constitutional, or infra dig. ; and the patient was left to bear them as he might. Of late years, competition in medical as in other pursuits has had its effects ; complaints formerly neglected have been studied; and now any one who squints "more than a gentleman should do," may have an operation performed if the origin is muscular, or be put under treatment if an operation would be doubtful or improper. Mr. Holthouse's book seems in part founded on his lectures, published some few years since. It mainly consists of cases, to illustrate the treat- ment of the form of squinting to which they belong; a description of the peculiarity of these forms preceding the cases. The pathology of strabis-

mus is also treated as well as operating.

A Vindication of the Hymn " Te Deum Laudamus." By Ebenezer Thomson, Esq., &c.—A publication of interest only to religious scholiasts. For five-and-thirty years or more has Mr. Thomson devoted himself to rescuing the text of "To Deum Laudamus " from the "errors and mis- representation of a thousand years." In the course of his labours, he has collated manuscripts, compared translations in various languages, and, after printing the nature and extent of his toils and their results in ex- tense in the Gentleman's Magazine, he has condensed their pith into a little book. To the Latin original of two pages he adds several choice tramastions—two Anglo-Saxon, an old High German of the eighth or ninth centery, another of mediteval High German, a modern Swedish, an old or Norman French. He also gives a new English translation : if he expects it to supersede res received version, we fear he will have been labouring in vain. "1. Thee as God we praise : Thee the Lord we confess.

"2. Thee the everlasting Father all the earth wo.hips.

"3. To Thee all the angels, to Thee the heavens ana all the powers together, "4. To Thee cherubim and seraphim with unceasing voice cry aloud."

The Spirit of Home. By Sylvan.—From the preface we imagined this volume of verse was devoted to the land-purchase-system of Australia. That theme however, is not directly touched upon in the text ; though we gather from some closing stanzas that revolutions are imminent in that quarter, and trouble threatening at home.

"Oh but I fear a rich deep crimson hue

Will there be seen, nor distant far the day ; Much too I fear, my England, that thy ray Of glorious brightness wanes ; on every side Revenge and bloody sacrifice proclaim decay! The vile result, (no doubt 'twill be denied,) But boldly still I state—Patrician frauds and pride."

The greater part of The Spirit of Home treats of quieter themes. It begins with stanzas to the author's wife ; then proceeds to treat of Eng- land at large, and is for the most part complimentary, though evils are not overlooked. Sylvan wanders from woods into town to attack gin- palaces and worse places he expatiates upon the necessity of emigra- tion, assails "Taxes and Collectors," and tells what should happen

"Were I a King." The form is peculiar : every page contains a distinct

theme, but it is not a sonnet, for the verso consists of two Spenserian stanzas. The manner is that of Byron ; the political and economical matter is rather strong commonplace ; as regards sound and fluency, the versification is not so very bad—like a greater man, Sylvan "warbles his native wood-notes wild.'

Uncle Jack, the Fault-killer. By the Author of "Willie's Rest," &c.— A tale of four little Anglo-Indian orphans, who arrive at "Uncle Jack's" snug English country-house, with their respective faults of nature or habit.. These their uncle contrives to subdue, partly through the story of Tack the Giant-killer; the commentator impressing upon his hearers that the real giants are our faults. The story is pleasantly told; and no actual miracles are wrought in the cures, but they are effected with more cer- tainty than we suspect takes place in life.

An English Grammar, adapted to the Comprehension of Young Persons. By W. D. Kenny, L.C.P., &c.—Simplicity in the arrangement and ex- planation of established principles is the object of Mr. Kenny. He may attain his end after a fashion; but there is no subtilty of thought or any nicety of expression. Thus, in explaining the "article," he says that it "may be considered a kind of adjective put before a noun to show the extent of its signification" : but the expression of quality is the property of an adjective.

The most popular undertaking of the week is a reprint of the "Pick- wick Papers," commencing a Library Edition of the Works of Dickens by Messrs. Chapman and Hall. It is of a handy size, and neatly handsome in the getting-up. A new preface about various things tells the origin of the idea of Pickwick, which in its germ appears to belong to the publisher, or the artist Seymour, and was groped out by " Boz." Mr. Russell Smith's reprint of "The Dramatic Works of John. Lilly," for his Library of Old Authers is a valuable publication for the student of English drama or of English itself. .It is strange to look back and see a dramatist like Lilly take the pas of Shakspere in the enumeration of dramatists by Mores ; and while he who was ".for an age v .is character- ized as " eloquent and wittie,y the man who was " for a time " ia left without an epithet. Nor was this judgment altogether peculiar to Mares. Not only was Euphues the Court book ; Lilly was the Court dramatist, and even Ben Jenson places him in order before Marlowe; but that might be the necessity of verse. Was all this foolish or unjust prejudice in the Elizabethans? Possibly not. The student who shall carefully com- pare Lilly with his predecessors will probably come to the conclusion that he (at all events) helped to give smoothness if not sweetness to our language; that however weak or affected, in plot, character, or senti- ment, his style had not only less of' ruggedness but more of ease and grace than will be found in his early contemporaries. The gods, more- over, had made him "poetical." Mr. Fairholt has told all that is bio- graphically and bibliographically known of Lilly, in a brief; painstaking introduction, and given illustrative notes. In the eleventh volume of Professor Wilson's Works, Messrs. Black- wood have produced what will be the most popular of the whole, the tales descriptive of Scottish life, the "Lights and Shadows," "Margaret Lyndsay," and "The Foresters." Another volume will close the collec- tion with the Poems. The same publishers have also sent forth a revised edition of "Bothwell," in a neat form, with a preface by the author, acknowledging the justice of some of the objections offered to the exe- cution. Messrs. Longman have begun a collected edition of Tales by the author of "Amy Herbert," starting with Amy herself,—the prototype, we think, not of juvenile stories, but of the class of fictions alluded to in the nafice of Dawn and Twilight.

Whether " Parthenia " is a new work we cannot tell. It is an eighteenpenny novel, whose story is laid in the times of Julian the Apostate.

The Pickwick Papers. By Charles Dickens. In two volumes. (Library Edi- tion.) The Dramatic Works of John Lilly, the Euphuist. With Notes, and some Account of his Life and Writings. By F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A., Honorary Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Normandy, Picardy, and Poictiers. and Corresponding Member of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. ia two volumes. Tales by Professor Wilson. Lights and Shadows of Scottish Life. Trials of Margaret Lyndsay. The Foresters. (Professor Wilson's Works, edited by Professor Ferrier, Volume XL) Bothwell: a Poem, in six Parts. By William Edmondstoune Aytoun, D.C.L., Author of" Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers." Third edition, revised.

Amy Herbert. By a Lady. New edition.

Parthenia ; or the Last Days of Paganism. By Eliza Buokminstee Lee, Au- thor of "Naomi," ikc. Family Devotion ; or an Exhortation to Morning and Evening Prayer in Families. Drawn up for the Use of the Inhabitants of the Parish of Lambeth, by Edmund Gibson, D.D., late Lord Bishop of London.