PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

Letters addressed to the Countess of Oesory, from the year 1769 to 1797. By Horace Walpole, Lord Prford. Now first printed from Original Edited, with Notes, by the Right Honourable R. Vernon Smith, M.P. In two volumes.

Personal Recollections of Me late Daniel O'Connell, M.P. By William J. ON. Daunt, Esq., of Kilcascan, County Cork. In two volumes. Analogies and Contracts; or Comparative Sketches of France and England.

By the Author of "Revelation of Russia," &c. In two volumes.

Three Years' Cruise in the Mozambique Channel, for the Suppression of the Slave-trade. By Lieutenant Barnard, R.N. The Practical Sugar-Planter; a complete Account of the Cultivation and Manufacture of the Sugar-cane, according to the latest and most im- proved processes, &c. By Leonard Wray, Esq. With numerous Illus-

trations. Bishop.

Treatise Episcopi. The Mirror of a Bishop.

Treatise on the Falsifications of Food, and the Chemical Means employed to Detect them, &c. By John Mitchell, M.C.S., Author of "Manual of Prac- tical Assaying." [It is nearly thirty years since Mr. Accum alarmed the timid by exhibiting, how much of poison inrke- in the pot. Since that time chemisty has made great.ad- vances in detecting adulteration by tests; but, unhappily, the other side has been equally active, and the rogues have been as successful as the honest men in the pursuit of science—sometimes a shade more. Hence, Mr. Mitchell thinks the time has come when there is room for a fresher view of the various adulterations practised in corrupting our food, with the tests to detect them. The Treatise on the Falscations of Food carries out this object; and in a startling way. The elements of death and disorder enter our mouths do what we will. Wine, spirits; beer, cider, are all corrupted ; and many unlucky mortals have the discredit of "a drop too much last night," when their disorder is owing, not to wine, but to the "compound " of the wine-merchant. Yet " taking the pledge " is no escape. Tea, coffee, chocolate, sugar, milk, are-all-adulterated ;even total abstinence is not safe with water. The rain is corrupted' hy,being,comveyed along leaden gutters and pipes, or received into leaden cisterns; and a terrible story is told of leaden pumps, operating upon those "whose drink-iaswateto from the spring." The condi- ments and pickles with which we tempt our palates, the very soap with which we clean our skin, are not what they seem. How these things are done, and the public with them, may be read an Mr. Mitchell's treatise, as well as the modes by which such roguery may be detected, by those who like to question the pedigree of a dish.] A Dream of Reform. By Henry J. Forrest. [An exposition of the author's beau ideal of society, as he sees it when he is transported in a dream to the land of Philotophia. In that Utopia every man is enabled to get a "comfortable existence by working eight hours a day, and by limiting the wealth of the individual to a circumscribed compass." The circum- scription is not; however, very rigid, since it allows "an income of 30,0001. per annum" (page 35). Perhaps Mr. Henry J. Forrest meant a fortune of thirty thousand pounds • for (at page 64) in describing the financial system of Philo- tophia, he describes their revenue as a tax upon capital,—though we should not be surprised if he meant an income-tax. His facts are not always more correct than his fancies are clear. He talks (page 122) of English barristers who can com- mand " 20,0001. or 30,0001. a year " for their services. In discoursing of the Church, he thus lucubrateth—" There are two Archbishops and twenty-four Bishops in England, the two former receive nearly 90,0001. per annum,—viz. one 56,6501., the other 32,0001. The Bishop of the Metropolitan diocese receives alone about 80,0001. per annum; another Bishop has annually 57,4971.; the others vary from 40,0001. downwards. Besides these enormous salaries given to English Bishops, there are Irish and Colonial Bishops: the land of one of these Irish Bishops alone produces 130,0001. per annum (p0.'155, 156). We need not in- form our readers that these is no truth in these statements. Mr. Forrest's fiction is nearly upon a par with his facts.] . Popular Lectures on the Prevailing Diseases of Towns; their Effects, Causes, and the Means of Prevention.' Recently delivered at the Brighton Literary and Scientific Institution. By William Kebbell, M.D., Physician to the Brighton Dispensary. [In respect of substance these lectures are founded upon the official and semi- official publications that have given rise to the Health of Towns Bill. The author proceeds upon the extreme notions of Mr. Chadwick—tbat double the number of lives which were lost at Waterloo are annually sacrificed through bad draining and ventilation, allowing nothing to the other ills of poverty: a statement which, like any other questionable assertion, we think injudicious. There is a large amount of statistical facts in the Popular Lectures, and they contain some local remarks in reference to Brighton; but they have no peculiar feature of their own.]

Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts of the Emperor

Napoleon. Collected from upwards of eighty original works, by Cte. Ate.

G. De Liancourt. Edited by James Alexander Manning, Esq., of the Inner Temple. [A selection of the remarks of Napoleon on all sorts of subjects, made by the Count de Liancourt, and translated by Mr. Manning; the original being printed on an opposite page. The translation occasionally generalizes the point of the original into an equivocal meaning or a very safe truism; but the collection in the French is not so striking as might have been expected from the reputation of Napoleon, and the force and point of some of his sayings. Part of this may arise from the remark being separated from the occasion; but something is to be allowed for the fact that a man succeeds best in his own business. Whatever may be the case with " political aphorisms," " moral and philosophical thoughts " are turned out in the best style by moral philosophers.]

The Imperial Dictionary, English, Technological, andScientific; adapted to . the present state of literature, science, and art; on the basis of Webster's English Dictionary, with the addition of many thousand words and phrases from the other standard dictionaries and encyclopredias, and from nume- rous other sources, comprising all wards purely English, and the principal and most generally used technical and scieetfic terms; together with their etymologies and their pronunciation according to the best authorities. Edited by John Ogilvie,.LL.D. Illustrated-by about two thousand Engra-

, singe op Wood. Volume L

We notietal,* plan of this dictionary on the appearance of its earlier parts. It la now proceeded as far as the conclusion of the letter " I," and forms a goodly firai'lelume. Though called a dictionary, it is something more: the words of Jetiosore and Todd, with copious additions, are there; but the etymologies are pursued more fully, and more systematically explained. The definitions, too, in many cosies proceed to description or analysis of the thing, so that the reader has a species of encyclopedia as well as a dictionary. The volume is extensively illustrated by'wood-cuts, sometimes little more than " pictures," but useful in the case of art or objects of natural history, to exhibit the thing represented by the

word.]

FFarewell to my Old Shipmates and Mesamates; with some Examples, and a few Hints of Advice. By the 0/4-44matermaster. [Judging from the list of nautical names who subscribe to the lucubration of the OM Quartermaster, he has served both well and long. The Farewell consists of nautical reminiscences, with a sprinkling of autobiography; the Quartermaster telling anecdotes of himself and his " shipmates and nnessmates," sometimes only , at others adapted to point a moral. " Virtue rewarded" was Richard- son's theme, " industry " Hogarth's; but " good conduct and sobriety " are the morals of the service: the reward for which, or the natural punishment for the contrary, are our friend's subjects. Sometimes there is a touch of the tar moral- izing; but the anecdotes are interesting, plahily told, -and indicative of nautical life. Altogether, the book is a creditable prodection for an old sailor.] The Very Joyous, Pleasant, and Refreshing History of the Feats, Exploits, Triumphs, and Atchievements of the (lewd Knight without Fear and without Reproach, the gentle Lord De Bayard Set forth in English by

Edward Cockburn Kindersley.

[A condensed translation of the Memoirs of the Chevalier Bayard, published a few years after his death: a book which, if not generally known in itself, is fami- liar enough to readers in many of its stories.'.While condensing the original, the translator has endeavoured to preserve its quaint Simplicity, and has added some _ explanatory notes. The volume is as remarkable for the typographical as lit= character—it is printed, bound, and illustrated the "old revived new " style, more propriety than is frequently the case.] Adams's Illustrated Descriptive. Guide-to the Watering-Places of England,. and Companion to the Coast. By E L. Blanchard. [Two volumes in one, containing all the watering-places of England from Tyne- mouth and Scarborough to Sidmon,th and Toeqoay; going up the. Thames to Gravesend, &c., in the circuit, and creasing at last to the Channel Islands- The book professes to be derived from actual survey And to hying down the informa- tion to the latest date. This is probable;. but theorem too much of general de- scription and too little of specific information, tourist's statistical guide At home and abroad, with little more than tables of oceiveyances, hotels, sights, Svc., with a column for "remarks," would be a most useful sort of book.] i, Select Plays of William Shakspeare. 'With Notes, an Introduction to each Play, and a Life of Shakspeare. - bilacbeth, and the four historical plays of King John, Henry the Fifth Richard the Third, and Julius Cer,ear; with foot-notes, and a critical and historical notice to each play. There is also a life, with an estimate of Shakspere's genius, from Johnson's Preface. The bookiadesigned for young persons who have not an " op.. portunityof consulting a complete edition of his works "—a sort of school edition.] 2Varrative of the French Revolution of 1848. By Walter K. Kelly. With

Portraits and other Illustrations.

[The collection into a volume of a narrative published in parts. Beyond an in- troduction, giving a character of Louis Philippe with a summary of his reign, the narrative is chiefly a selection from the foreign correspondence of the news- papers, Mr. Kelly supplying the connecting paseages. The animus against Louis Philippe is strong, and rather harshly expressed.

Reflections, on the History of the Kinks of Judah.

[A ri series of commentaries on the conduct and character of the Kings of Judah from Saul to Zedekiah, partaking of the nature of the sermon and the moral es- say. A great portion of the book is compilation; the original writing is feeble.] The Marriage Looking-Glass: written as a Manual for the Married and a Beacon to the Single. By the Reverend T. Charles Boone, of St. Peter's College, Cambridge, Sic. [A series of chapters or essays on the variousaspeots of married life, addressed to all persons, but chiefly to the young. The ifarrsage Looking-Glass is somewhat digressive in style, but written agreeably, and in an amiable spirit] Discipline. By the Author of " Letters to my Unknown Friends."

[Six short essays, one for each day in the week, on some common failing--se Pride, Vanity. The object of the writer is to inculcate the propriety of checking each of them, and of generally disciplining the mind.]

Posthumous Works of the Reverend Thomas Chalmers DD., LL.D. Edited by the Reverend William Hanna, LLD. Volume III.

[Completes the Commentary on the Bible to Jeremiah; which is as far as Dr. Chalmers had proceeded in his readings.]

King Rene's Daughter; a Danish Lyric Drama. By Henrik Hers. Ren- dered into English Verse, and illustrated by an Historical Sketch of the Fortunes and Misfortunes of Good. King Rene. By the Honourable Ed- mund Phipps. A Rational Illustration of Me Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England: being the Substance of everything Liturgical in Bishop Spar- row, Mr. L'Estrange, Dr. Comber, Dr. Nichols, and all former Ritualists, Commentators, and others, upon the same subject. By Charles Wheatly, M.A., Vicar of Brent and Funaeux Pelham, in Hertfordshire. (Bohn's Standard Library.) History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. By Archibald Alison, F.R.S.E., Advocate. Volume the seventeenth. Seventh edition. Suggestive Hints towards Improved Secular Instruction, making it bear upon Practical Life. By the Reverend Richard Dawes, A.M., Vicar of King's Somboroe, Hants. Second edition. Every Lady her own Flower-Gardener. Addressed to the Industrious and Economical only. By Louisa Johnson. Ninth edition.

SERIALS.

A Descriptive Atlas of Astronomy, and of Physical and Political Geo- graphy. Embracing t.he leek information and most recent discoveries in astronomical and geographical science. With Descriptive Letterpress. By the Reverend Thomas Milner, M.A., Author of " The Gallery of Nature," &c. Part I.

The Works of Shakspere. With a Memoir and Essay on his Genius, by Barry Cornwall: also, Annotations and Introductory Remarks on the Plays. Illustrated with nearly 1,000 Engravings on Wood, and 36 Etchings on Steel, by Kenny Meadows. Part I. Roland Cashel. By Charles Lever. Illustrated by Phis. NO. I.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS.

Prance and its Revolutions; a Pictorial History. 1789-1848. Part I. Views in the Eastern Archipelago, Borneo, Sarawak, Labuan, dc. Parts III. and IV.