PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boosts.

Beaumarchais and his Times. Sketches of French Society in the Eighteenth Century, from unpublished Documents. By Louis De Lom5nie. Translated by Henry S. Edwards. In four volumes. Volumes III. and IV.

The Orations of Demosthenes against the Law of Leptines, ifeidias, Androtion, and Aristocrates. Translated, with Notes, &c., by Charles Bann Kennedy. Young Singleton. By Talbot Gwynne, Author of "School for Fathers," &c. &c. In two volumes.

Early Ballads, illustrative of History, Traditions, and Customs. [An- notated Edition of the English Poets.] Edited by Robert Bell.-These ballads are not remarkable for rarity; and they are more useful, we think, as illustrations of popular literature, taste, and opinions, than of history. They are, however, a capital half-crown's worth. Though the majority are well known to ballad students, and can be met without diffi- culty, Mr. Bell has brought together in handy compass the very cream of this kind of literature; attending to the text, without pe- dantically regarding the orthography ; illustrating that text, where ne- cessary, by brief foot-notes, and marking the subject, character, and pro- bable age and authorship of the particular ballad, in an introduction. The collection opens with Lydgate's satire " London Lackpenny," and the rather dramatic ballad of the Nut-brown Maid. Ballads relating to Robin Hood and his contemporaries, or to the Border wars and the chase, follow,-as the Battle of Otterburn, Chevy Chase. More ballads on love, the sea, and mayhap something on piracy, with miscellaneous pieces, close the volume : a few Scotch examples are included.

Travis Latina. Part I. Part II. By tho Rev. John Day Collis, M.A., &e., Head Master of the Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth, Bromsgrove.-Questions and exercises on the Latin Grammar, which when the pupil has gone through and mastered, he will be far on to- wards the dignity of a grammarian. Mr. Collis speaks of the "hopeless look of a boy when told to ' learn the next four pages of grammar.' " We suspect his look.would be equally hopeless when put to the questions of this Praxis, unless he had learned four pages of grammar and more.

The French Language Simplified. By L. Nottelle, B.A., Paris.-The author promises a variety of advantages in this new French teacher. The two most remarkable appear to be the collection of a number of words which are the same in French and English as a basis for the pupil to start upon; and the exhibition of French pronunciation by means of English words, not arbitrary combination of letters,-as La matinee est belle, " La ma-tea-nay eh bell." This plan may be useful as a guide to those who know something of French pronunciation; a person without such knowledge would make a bungle of it, as M. Nottelle seems to be aware.

Vade-Mecum for Tourists in France; containing a copious Phrase-Book and Vocabulary.-Lists of words in common use, accompanied by short sentences or phrases relating to topics most likely to be needed by the tourist. Its portable size and brevity will make it useful, so far as such things can be of use. Some previous knowledge of French is requisite, not only for the pronunciation, bttt for the occasional mixture of persons in a sentence of the Vade-Mecum to save space ; as " Nous desirous-Jo veux-dejedner."

The Museum of Science and Art. Edited by Dionysius Lardner, D.C.L., &c. Volume XI.-This cheap collection of scientific tracts con- tinues to sustain if not to improve its utility and interest. In successive chapters entitled " First Notions of the Earth," the reader has a sum- mary of geology ; the laws and hypotheses of Comets are expounded in several chapters ; the Printing-Press appears in two, and the Stereoscope in a single chapter.

The week has been more remarkable for its reprints than for other publications whether we look to number or to character. The ninth volume of the Select Works of Chalmers will rank among the most generally interesting of the series, for readers who are not attracted by his religious writings. It contains a revised edition of the author's Political Economy in connexion with- the Moral State and Prospects of Society, reviewed many years ago in our columns.* The general treatise is accompanied by various tracts or essays on branches of economical science, chiefly in relation to the relief, education, and management of the poor.

Under the title of " Rhetorical and Literary Dissertations and Ad- dresses," Lord Brougham, in the seventh volume of the Library edition of his works, presents the public with a variety of critical and dis- quisitions' papers. There are the Dissertation on the Eloquence of the Ancients, and four Reviews of Orators from the Edinburgh ; the Lord Rector's Inaugural Address at Glasgow; and the celebrated Discourse on= the Objects, &c. of Natural Science, followed by the similnr dissertation on Political Science.

The edition of the Dramatic Works of Shakspere by the veteran com- mentator Samuel Singer is drawing to a close ; another volume will com- plete the undertaking. Meanwhile, in this ninth volume the reader has three of the highest productions of the human mind-Macbeth, Hamlet, • Spectator for 1832, page 209.

and Lear. The critical essays on each drama, by Mr. W. Watkiss Lloyd, are not equal to some of his previous lucubration. He scarcely rises to the entirety of his themes ; and his views, though ingenious, and exhi- biting long acquaintance with the poet, do not impress us as altogether sound. Any shortcoming in this respect is partially made up by quota- tions from other critics.

Mr. Bohn continues his unceasing supply of foreign translations, in the third volume of Sully's Memoirs, and the fifth of Pliny's Natural History. Mr. Boyle St. John has collected into a neat half-crown vo- lume the dozen legends which he has contributed to Household Words, illustrated by some coloured plates.

Select Works of Thomas Chalmers, D.D., LL.D. Edited by his Son-in-law, the Reverend William Hanna, LL.D. Volume IX.

Rhetorical and Literary Dissertations and Addresses. By Henry Lord Brougham, F.R.S., Member of the National Institute of France, and of the Royal Academy of Naples. (Works of Henry Lord Brougham, F.R.S. Vo- lume VII.) The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare. The Text carefully revised, with Notes, by Samuel Weller Singer, F.S.A. The Life of the Poet, and Cri- tical Essays on the Plays, by William Watkiss Lloyd, M.R.S.L., Rt. Volume IX.

Memoirs of the Duke of Sully, Prime Minister to Henry the Great. Trans- lated from the French. A new edition, revised and corrected : with addi- tional Notes, and an Historical Introduction attributed to Sir Walter Scott. In four volumes. With a General Index. Volume III. (Bohn's French Memoirs.) The Natural History of Pliny. Translated with copious Notes and Illustra- tions by the late John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., and H. T. Riley, Esq., B.A., late Scholar of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Volume V. (Bohn's Classical Li- brary.) Legends of the Christian East. By Boyle St. John, Author of " Village Life in Egypt," &c. With Illustrations.

Praxis Grwca. Part III. The Chief Rules of Greek Accentuation. By the the Rev. John Day Collis, 5I. A., &c. Re., Head Master of the Grammar School of King Edward VI., Bromsgrove. Third edition.