PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BooRs.

Personal Recollections of the Life and Times, with Extracts front the Cor- respondence, of Valentine Lord Cloncurry.

The Caxtons; a Family Picture. By Sir E. Bulwer Lytton, Bart., Author of "Rienzi." In three volumes.

Sonnets, Reflective and Descriptive; and other Poems. By Lord Robertson, LL.D.

The Lord of the Manor; or Lights and Shades of Country Life. By Tho- mas Hall, Esq., Author of " Ruby Rattler," Am. In two volumes.

An English-Greek Lexicon. By C. D. Yonge, B.A. [The original intention of Mr. Yonge was to confine his dictionary to words used by the more strictly classical authors, not descending later than the age of Alex- ander, except in the case of Theocritus. He was subsequently induced to enlarge his scheme, so as " to attempt to give every word of tolerable authority." The plan of the dictionary is to render every English word into an equivalent Greek word, when it can be "literally or adequately rendered"; and where this is impossible, " to supply the deficiency by phrases. In every instance the au- thority or authorities for the use of the Greek word is given; so that the student at once sees the nature and usage of the term, whether of universal use, or confined to prose or poetry, or to any particular class of composition. But no word is given that rests upon a doubtful reading; and many English words are omitted, 'from the impossibility of finding exact equivalents in an ancient and modern language." The utility of a book of reference can only be tested by frequent use: the touchstone of merit is an unfailing certainty of finding what you want. The English-Greek Lexicon answers to a priori tests. The plan is good, the facility of reference easy, the English full, and the Greek authorities varied and ample. For students too the design is useful: a separate English-Greek Dictionary is more convenient in the handling, and it seems to impress the object of patting English into Greek more distinctly on the mind, than when the work is bound up with the Greek-English ; and it is only by translating into a language that a ready mastery is acquired.] Electricity as a Cause of Cholera or other Epidemics, and the Relation of Galvanism to the Action of Remedies. By Sir James Murray, M.D., &c. [This book is in part a reprint of papers inserted by their author in medical 3ournals, in part a condensed repetition of views pat forward by him in various works published at intervals during the last thirty years. The pith of the views, as we understand it, is that malaria is not an exciting cause of epidemic disorders, but electricity, either too much or too little. At the same time, as marsh-malaria, or the effluvia of cesspools, sewers, graveyards, &c., interfere with atmospherical electricity, and even convey away [from the human body exposed to their in- fluences] part of the natural atomical electrical powers which every particle of living nature should enjoy," the hypothesis of Sir James Murray does not lead to the neglect of hygienic precautions, but quite the reverse.] History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic of Spain. By William H. Prescott. Fifth edition, revised. In three volumes. Volume I.

[The extensive research, the picturesque narrative, the copious but well-managed details of Mr. Prescott's historical works, with, last not least, his judiciously- chosen subjects, have raised them to the honour of the popular edition. Mr. Bentley has commenced an issue of the three Histories (Ferdinand and Isabella, Mexico and Peru) in a form somewhat larger than the celebrated "Life and Poems of Byron' with the advantage of the author's revision and additions. The specimen volume before us forms a handsome book, containing a large amount of letterpress; and if the type of the notes may be rather too small for some eyes, the purchaser gets more for money. The price is six shillings a volume; the

number of volutoesibejeries will consist of, we do not know.] ;

Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers, and other Poems. By Williath -Edmond- stoune Aytonn, Professor of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres in the University of Edinburgh. Second edition.

[Mr. Aytoun's spirited imitations of the old ballads, with the interesting prose that accompanies them, appears in a smaller and possibly a cheaper form in this new edition; though the volume is equally handsome as the first. The only novelty that we observe is an appendix containing a defence of Claverhouse against the charges made by Mr. Macaulay in his Ilistory of England. It is an interesting piece of historical disquisition, but more successful in showing the untrustworthiness of Macaulay as an historian than in vindicating the character of Claverhouse, though Mr. Aytoun proves that "the Devil is not so black," &c.]

Handbook of Medieval Geography and History. By Wilhelm Pets, Prin- cipal Tutor at the Gymnasium of Duren. Translated from the German, by the Reverend R. B. Paul, MA., Vicar of St. Augustine's, Bristol, &c. [A very useful compendium of the history of the middle ages from the overthrow of the Western Empire till the taking of Constantinople, the discovery of Ame- rica, and the other great changes or advances in the European world, which mark the close of the fifteenth century as the beginning of the modern system. The arrangement of Piitz is clear, and suggestive—the titles of his divisions serving as texts to impress the subjects: his facts are well-chosen and though numerous, are presented without the effect of overcrowding: the Look is animated by a spirit of original thought and philosophy, rare in compendiums of this kind.] The First Three Books of Euclid's Elements of Geometry, from the Text of Dr. Robert Simon; together with various useful Theorems and Pro- blems as Geometrical Exercises on each book. By Thomas Tate, Mathe- matic:d Master of the National Society's Training College, Battersea ; Author of "The Principles of the Differential and Integral Calculus," &c. [The exercises which Mr. Tate has affixed to this neat little edition of Simson's Euclid are well designed to advance the pupil in geometrical knowledge, practishig him at the same time in what he has already learned; the exercises in the ap- pendix combining some of the problems previously worked out in the text.]

- The Sinfulness of Little Sins- a course of Sermons preached in Lent. By John Jackson, M.A., Reefer of St. James's, Westminster, &c. Second edition- ,

[The plain but scholarly style of these six sermons, and the great importance of the subject to families and youth, (for it is sins of vanity, temper, pride, the thoughts, and the tongue, with sins of omission, that mainly make up the sin- fulness of domestic life,) have brought this little volume to a second edition, and v will probably carry it through more.]

History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution to __ the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. By Archibald Alison, LL.D., - F.R.S.E. New edition, with Portraits. -Volume VII.

[The leading military events are the campaigns of Jena, Eylan, and Friedland:. the financial system of Pitt, and the measures of Fox's Administration, 1806- -, 1807, form the principa1civil subjects. There is also a large episode—theorigin aturgrowth of the British power in India, till the capture of Seringapatamand the death of Tippoo. The single portrait of this volume is Fox.] •

The Tragedies of ,Sophocleit: in English Prose. The Oxford Transfation. New edition, revised according to the Text of Dindorf. (BohleaClassical

Library.) • c-• t [A revised and improved edition of the "Oxford translation"; the object of Mr.' Buckley, the editor, having been to render the version more literal, and to amend it by a closer adherence to Dindorf's text. The notes have been augmented, and arguments and introductions added to each play.] Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: chiefly Blasted_ ing the Origin of our Vulgar and Provincial Customs, Ceremonies, and Superstitions. By John Brand, M.A., &c. Arranged, revised, and greatly enlarged, by Sir Henry Ellis, K.H., &c. A new edition, with further at. ditions. In three volumes. Volume Ill. (Bohn's Antiquarian Library.) Waverky Novels. Volumes XLV. to XLVIIL "Anne of Geierstein," "Count Robert of Paris." "Castle Dangerous," "The Surgeon's Baugh_ ter," and Glossary.

A Week in the South of Ireland; including a Tour to Cork, Bantry, Glengariff, Killarney, Limerick, and the Lower Shannon. By an Old Traveller.

[A smart brochure, telling what may be done and seen by an active traveller between Dublin and Cork in the space of seven days. The cost is sixpence.]

PAMPHLETS.

The Conquering Republic; an Oration delivered before the Municipal Au-

thorities of the City of Boston, July 4, 1849. By William W. Greenough. Fair Play's a Jewel: a Narrative of Circumstances connected with My Mode of National Defence against the whole world. By Captain S. A. Warner. Fresnel and kis Followers. A Reply to the Calumnies of the "Atheemum."

By Robert Moon, M.A., Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge. On Sulphur as a Remedy in Epidemic Cholera. By John Grove, blit.C.S, &c.

The Cholera no Judgment! &c. By Sensus Communis.

Parallels between the Constitution and Constitutional History of Englarki and Hungary. By J. Toulinin Smith, Esq., Barrister-at-law.