PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The publications on our table do not greatly differ from those of last week, except m the greater number of reprints. There are not many books that obviously require deliberate notice, and the more promising-looking volumes may not fulfil their appearance. The "Correspondence of the Emperor Charles the Fifth" is a probable exception, from the historical greatness of the topics and the character of the monarch. Mr. Alison's third volume of reprinted articles is like his second—reviews of literary and historical works. The "Ancient Laws of King's College and Eton" is a curious volume of col- legiate laws and documents, which in the hands of a Carlyle might give rise to such a picture of collegiate life and opinion as he furnished of monastic doings when the Camden Society gave him the dry elements in the "Chro- nicles of Jocelin of Brakelond." Dr. Johnston's "Introduction to Concho- logy " is primarily intended as an elementary account of the pursuit, designed for beginners ; but it appears to be varied by cognate topics, and animated by a deeper and more lifelike perception of the ca- pabilities of eonchology itself; than is often found in introductions to a science. There is a promise of interest in the "Adventures during the late Hungarian Campaign," not only from its being an Austrian side of the story, but from its seeming to possess more particular observation and per- sonal adventure than other books that have appeared on the same subject. Of "Mr. Dalton's Legatee" we can only say that the writer's first fiction, "Life among the Cotton Lords," was better than her "Young Milliner " ; and that on the present occasion she seems to have chosen her subject from general nature, instead of aiming at the exhibition of a single class of so- ciety artificially produced.

Correspondence of the Emperor Charles V. and his Ambassadors at the Courts of England and France. From the Original Letters in the Imperial Family Archives at Vienna ; with a counecting Narrative and Biographical Notices of the Emperor, and of some of the most dis- tinguished Officers of his Army and Household ; together with the Emperor's Itinerary from 1519-1551. Edited by William Bradford, M.A., formerly Chaplain to the British Embassy at Vienna. _Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous. By Archibald Alison, LL.D., Author of the "History of Europe," &e. Volume Ia.

The Ancient laws Of the Fifteenth Century for King's College, Cam- bridge and for the Public School of Eton College. Collected by James Heywood, M.P., F.R.S., of the Inner Temple and Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A., Corresponding Member of the Institute of France.

An Introduction to Conehology ; or Elements of the Natural History of Molluseous Animals. By George Johnston, M.D., LL.D., &e. Adventures and Anecdotes of the South Army of the Emperor of Aus- tria during the late Hungarian Campaign. Narrated by Eye-Wit- nesses. Edited by J. W. Warre Tyndale, Author of "The Island of Sardinia," &c.

Mr. Dalton's Legatee a Very Nice Woman • a Novel. By Mrs. Stone, Author of "The Art of Needlework." In three volumes.

The reprints of the week are of a miscellaneous kind, mostly rather col- lections than new editions. "South Africa Delineated" is a revised and extended reprint of a series of papers that appeared in the Wesleyan Me- thodist Magazine; containing the reminiscences of a missionary, mingled with some retrospective views of missionary operations in that quarter, and a description of the country. "The Forest-House and other Poems" is a collection of smooth, natural, and pleasing verses, the greater part of which have already been published in a literary periodical. " Notes and Queries" is the first volume of a weekly journal, whose promise of success thus far we are happy to hail, not only because the volume contains a large_ amount of curious and recondite literary infbrmation, but because its frequent appear- ance furnishes a useful channel of inquiry and medium of intercommunica- tion for literary men. "The Home Circle" is the second volume of a penny periodical formerly noticed, and in its collected form really conteies a large amount of whims and interesting information on domestic and ladies-work afihirs, illustrated with cuts, besides tales, historiettes, poetry, anecdotes, and miscellanies. The two volumes of the Parlour Library are remarkable as giving one of James's best fictions, and perhaps the hest fiction's of the author of "Two Old Men's Toles," the Tales themselves, for a shilling a volume.

South Africa Delineated; or Sketches, Historical and Descriptive, of its Tribes and Missions, and of the British Colonies of the Cape and Port Natal. By the Reverend Thornky Smith, seven years a Wesleyan Missionary In that country. The Forest,llouse, and other Poems. By Mary Isabella Irwin Rees. Notes and Queries ; a Medilun of Intercommunication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, &c. Volume I. November 1849 —May 1850. The lime Circle. Volume H.

Castleneau, or the Ancient Regime; a Tale. By G. P. R. James, Esq. (Parlour Library.) Ikvo Old Men' s l'ales. The Deformed, and The Admiral's Daughter. , By the Author of " F.milia Wyndham." (Parlour Library.) Stories from the History of the Reformation. By the Reverend B. G. Johns, Head Master of the Grammar School, Dulwich College. With

Illustrations on Steel, from original Designs by Anna Mary Hewitt. [rhe subjects of this little book are the leading incidents in the life of Lu- ther,_and an outline of the Reformation in England from the time of Henry. the Eighth to the accession of Elizabeth. The plan, especially in reference to the English part, resembles Mr. Knight's "William Shakspere, a Biogra- phy": facts are not altered so much as filled up and supplied, the additions often cast into the dramatic form. The book is written with feeling and spirit, and prettily got up, with sonic clever illustrations, after the designs of Anna Maria Hewitt.] Never Wrong; or the Young Disputant. And "It was only in Fun." Tales for the Young..

[Two tales for a shilling, in a neat little book. One story illustrates the ill effects of a contentious disposition, prone to sacrifice truth to victory ; the other exhibits the evils arising to others frosts funny tricks, which eventually return to their contrivers with interest.] Handbook to the New Chancery Orders. By Edward Bonnie Lovell, .Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law. [The investigation into the effect of the new Orders was originally under- taken by Mr. Lovell for his own use, and the notes were afterwards expanded into a treatise, on the recommendation of those who perused them. Besides the Orders in extenso, and the author's commentary upon them, Mr. Lovell presents the reader with the cases that have arisen under the Orders, as well. as a variety of forms, some of them special, for which he is indebted to friends.] Moral Reflections, Sentences, and Maxims, of Francis Due de la Roche- foucauld. Newly translated from the French. With an Introduction and Notes.

[It strikes us, speaking from memory, that if this translation is more ac- curate than former translations, the correctness is sometimes gained at the expense of ease and point. The most useful feature of the book seems to be its illustrative matter ; the notice of the life Of Itochefoucauld, and the notes in which similar thoughts from other writers are brought together.] Howe's Second Report on Idiocy. [The official report to the Senate of Massachusetts.] On Military Geography ; its Nature, Object, and Inipertance. By Colonel R. Jackson, F.R.S., &c. (Parker's Military Manuals.) Nuw Prunonrear,.

The Palladium ; a Journal of Literature, _Polities, Science, and -Art. No. I. July 1850. [I new monthly publication, consisting of reviews, original papers, a tale from the German, and a little poetry. . The writing is good, the price Iow- a shilling : the want is purpose and distinctive character. The reviews on Carlyle's "Latter-day Pamphlets," Emerson's "Representative Men," and Gilfillan's "Literary Portraits," might have appeared anywhere. One of the original papers is the commencement of a series on the -Nepaulese under the Marquis of Hastings; the other is the opening of some . Reim- niscenees of Rome at the time of the late French invasion. They have both marks of actual observation ; but these subjects have hardly current interest to push on a new periodical, without' more vigorous treatment. Novelty of purpose, the supply of seine want, is new essential to great success with a new periodical.]

PAMPHLETS.

-Five Sermons, preached at Galby and Little Stretton, _Leicesterehire, before, between and, after the late Thunder-storms of May 13 and May 24, by which the Church of King's Norton was very severely and that of , Little Stretton slightly injured. By William Edward Raw, storne, M.A., Rector of Galby, &c.

Two Sermons an the Duty of _Keeping the Lord's Day, and the _Manner in ;which it Should be' 'Ripe. By Richard Harvey, ILA., Rector of St. . Mary's, Hornsey, and Chaplain in Ordivary to the Queen. • The Post-4W and the Sabbath Question.

Notes on the Slave-Trade; with Remarks on the Measures adopted for its Suppression, &c. By Wm. Gore.Ouseley, Esq.

Copy of Representation from the London Doak Company to the Right Honourable the Board of Trade,withveff of Correspondence between the Honourable Board of Customs and,the Linden 03* Company• A System of General Night,Signals,.for the use of her Majesty's Ships -and Squadrons, and adapted to Merchant-Ships, Englian and Foreign,

Yachts, &c. By Mitchel Thomson, SUrgeorr, M M. S;Odin. , Parish Maps and other Matters ; a Letter to the Parochial Authorities Of the Parishes and Unions of St. George Southwark, St. Saviour, St. Olave, and Bermondsey. By. Charles R. :Walsh, M.It.C.S. A letter to Lord Alin Russell, on the Future Location of the National Gallery and _Royal Acadenzy: •

Treatise on Physical Education, founded,on Physiological Principles. 13y Louis Huguenin, Professor of Gynma-sties, Liverprol..