PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

_Life of Thomas Young, F.R.S., &c., and one of the eight Fo- reign Associates of the National Institute of France. By George Pea- cock, D.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., F.B.A.S., F.C.P.S., &c., Dean of Ely, Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the University of Cambridge, and formerly Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College.

Miscellaneous Works of the late Thomas Young, M.D., &o. Vols. L and II., including his Scientific Memoirs, &e. Edited by George Peacock, D.D., Dean of Ely, &c.

Miscellaneous Works of the late Thomas Young, MD., .F.R.S., &e.

Volume III. Hieroglyphical Essays and Correspondence, &c. Edited by John Leitch.

Memoirs of the _Right Honourable _Richard Lalor Shell. By W. Tor- rens M'Cullagh, Author of "The Industrial History of Free Nations," &c. In two volumes.

Modern Jesuitism ; or the Movements and Vicissitudes of the Jesuits in the Nineteenth Century, in Russia, England, Belgium, France, Swit- zerland, and other parts. By Dr. Edw. 11. 1Lichelsen, Author of "The Ottoman Empire and its Resources," &c.

Poetical Works of James Thomson. Edited by Robert Bell. Volume IL (Annotated Edition of the English Poets.) A Journey through the United States and part of Canada. By the Reverend Robert Everest, M.A., late Chaplain to the East India Com- pany.

Scutari and its Hospitals. By the Honourable and Reverend Sidney Godolphin Osborne.

Ten Weeks in Natal. A Journal of a first Tour Visitation among the Colonists and Zulu Kara of Natal. By John William Colenso, D.D., Lord Bishop of the Diocese.

Post-ojice Directory of Essex, Hefts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex ; with Maps engraved expressly for the work, and corrected to the time of publication. [The plan of this valuable work of practical utility we described on the ap- pearance of the first edition, ten years ago : how the smallest place in each of the six Home Counties was presented in alphabetical order under the gene- ral head of its own county ; how the name and place of abode of every trader, and of every one entitled to rank in the class of gentry, were fully exhibited ; and what a number of particulars, topographical, statistical, in- dustrial, and miscellaneous, were we included in the introductory account of each place. Besides the obvious uses of the first edition, the possessors of the three editions have in their hands a tolerably fair test of business cha- racter: a man who has lived five or ten years in a place offers a sort of proof of stability. A curious feature of the book is the great increase of people the railways bring together. Although since the appearance of the first edition many suburbs once villages have been transferred to tho "London Directory,' upwards of 200 pages have been added to this volume. Part of this increase, however, may arise from an extension of the indices and of the topographical particulars. In many cases these almost reach the character of a local guide. Extension is the obvious feature of this edition of the "Home Counties Directory." Its most valuable points are the apparent accuracy and the recency of its information. In a volume of such bulk there must be errors—deaths and removals alone would cause them from week to week : but in the references we have made we have been surprised at the accuracy. It is indeed more than accuracy ; there is continually a freshness about it, which seems the result of actual inquiry or inspection carried through the whole book ; and that more especially in the case of the general information, where common compilers are content with copying from the " latest authority."] The Christ of History ; an Argument grounded in the Facts of his Life OD Earth. By John Young, M.A. [The object of this work is to deduce the divine nature of Christ from his human biography, so to speak ; to avoid—at least in terms, for it is very difficult to manage it in fact—all proofs drawn from the supernatural, and confine the argument wholly to the natural. The idea is not new. The original and elevated nature of his doctrines and the purity of his life have been often dwelt upon as proofs of the supernatural character of Christ. What Mr. Young does is more completely to develop the idea, by pursuing it into the details of the life, and to assume a good deal as fact which is merely presumption,—as the private life of Christ from birth till his thirtieth year. Dealt within this way, it may be doubted whether opponents would grant the premises Mr. Young assumes. We certainly think that if we are to take the biographical facts of the Gospel, they must be taken as they are. They cannot be separated in the mind, though they may on paper. If this, however, can be done, it is beyond the power of this writer to do it properly. He is somewhat reckless in the statements on which he bases his arguments; affirming general propositions which common experience contradicts, in the extent to which he pushes them. He has besides a sectarian narrowness of view, and a platform self-sufficiency in reasoning, very unfit for the difficult subject which. he has taken up.]

Sisters of Charity, Catholic and Protestant, Abroad and at Home. By Mrs. Jameson.

[The publication, with some additions, of a private lecture intended to urge the propriety of opening up a wider field of exertion for women. The branch of her subject brought forward by Mrs. Jameson is the one now promi- nently in the public eye—the great advantage of women as attendants on the sick. The wish of the lecturer is supported by an historical view of "Sisters of Charity," Romanist as well as Protestant; by authorities phi- losophical, medical, and philanthropical ; by her own arguments, perhaps deeper and better than anything she adduces at second-band, from the long thought she has given to the depressed position of the larger portion of her sex. The books notwithstanding, is by no means the best specimen of Mrs. Jameson's writings : there is a want of sufficient purpose in the plan, and some deficiency of warmth and power in the exposition.]

The Voices of the Seven Thunders. [The " seven thunders" seem to be those alluded to in the Apocalypse ; and the writer appears to be dealing with something in the line of prophecy, or its interpretation. The proverbial obscurity which hangs over such themes is not in any way relieved by the writer's treatment. On the contrary, his style may be said to be rather involved and tautological. Take the first member of his superscription sentence—" To the Human Family of every Clime, Nation, Kindred, and Tongue, now located upon and scattered over this Orb, who through the eternal and vital effiuxion of the one Immutable law of all Being, have now become the heirs in possession of the Highest Kingdom of Terrestrial Form." The writer appears to be one of the Society of Friends.] Romanian in Ceylon, India, and China. By the Reverend Edward J. Robinson.

[A clever compilation about the_ i

persecutions, pious frauds, and other mis- doings of the Romanists in the East, written in a strong Protestant spirit. The reader who desires to see the worst features of Romanism will find them presented here, and with much greater unction than the self-denying spirit that animated some of the Papal missionaries, or the curious informa- tion they collected for the world at large.]

Our Liturgy and its History : a Manual for Churchmen.

IA brief and rather bare account of the leading facts connected with the English Liturgy from the time of Henry the Eighth, prefaced by a curt no- tice of the ancient liturgies.] The 701,0n Garden : a Manual for the Management of City and Suburban Gardens. By Shirley Hibberd. [This manual is addressed to residents in large towns who having only a small space of ground, or no more than even a small spare room to devote to cultivation, abandon the idea in despair. Mr. Hibberd, however, encourages such denizens of smoke with the hope of a garden, if they will follow his instructions in preparing the soil, choosing the plants judiciously, which is half the battle, and carefully tending them, which is the final and better half. It is a useful book, but might have been shorter by lees writing.]

A Treatise on the Calculus of Operations : designed to facilitate the Processes of the Differential and Integral Calculus and the Calculus of Finite Differences. By the Reverend Robert Carmichael, A.M., Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, Member of the Royal Irish Acade-

my, and sometime Examiner in Mathematics in the Queen's Univer-

sity in Ireland. [A painstaking and well-considered endeavour to simplify the important subjects of the calculus operations. The book is primarily designed for stu- dents; its articles are partly original, partly compiled.] The Rose of Bostrevor, an Episode of the Boyne Water ; a Poem. By Robert Montgomerie, Esq. [An Irish commonplace tale in commonplace verse ; the private story being connected with the tattle of the Boyne.] The fifth edition of Sir Charles Lyell's " Manual of Elementary Geology " is by far the most important new edition of the week. Such is the rapid progress made in the science at.the present day, that although the last edition was only published in 1851, the author has already found it necessary to add "no less than 200 new illustrations, and 140 new pages of text" ; of which last he presents a summary coup d'reil for the convenience of readers of the former editions. Towards the close of his preface Sir Charles Lyell pays an earnest tribute of regard to the character of his late friend Professor Forbes.

The object of "The Entomologist's Annual " is to present an account of the new discoveries in the insect world that have been made in the .course of the past year ; the leading matter being varied by general papers on entomological subjects. Limited as the number of readers might seem to be, the work was so much wanted that it has reached a second edition.

A Manual of Elementary Geology ; or the Ancient Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants as illustrated by Geological Monuments. By.Sir Charles Lyell, M.A., F.R.S. ; Author of "Principles of Geo- logy," &c. Fifth edition, greatly enlarged, and illustrated with 760 Wood-cuts.

The Entomologist's Annual, for 1855. Comprising Notices of the new British Insects detected in 1854. Lepidoptera by the Editor. Hy- menoptera by Frederick Smith. Coleoptera by E. W. Janson. Edited by H. T. Stainton, Author of " The Entomologist's Com- panion." Second edition, with considerable additions ; including In- structions for collecting, preserving, and arranging Insects, and an Address to youngEntomologists at Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Rugby, and other Schools.

Questions in Arithmetic, for the use of the Free Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth, Birmingham. By William Thrower, Arithmetical Master in the English Department of the School. Twelfth thousand.

ILLUSTRATED WORE8.

The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland. By Thomas Moore, F.L.S., Curator of the Botanic Garden of the Society of Apothecaries, Author of the "Handbook of British Ferns," &c. Edited by John Lindley,

Ph. D., F.B.S., &c. Nature-Printed by Henry Bradbury. .Part. I. [The commencement of a handsome folio. The so-called "Nature-printing Process," first applied in the Imperial Printing-office at Vienna, is superior to all.others for botanical representations of this kind ; giving as it does, in the weeds of Dr. Lindley, "not only general Arm with absolute accuracy,

but also surface, hairs, veins, and other minutiae of superficial structure by which plants are known, irrespective of the hidden details of their internal organization." The First Part of the present work contains three plates of the beautiful and thousandfold-varied fern forms, coloured, with appropriate letterpress.]

PAMPHLETS.

77te.Fulure Historian's View of the Pre- shire. By the Reverend H. W. Bell- sent War : a Lecture by his Eminence airs, A.M., her Majesty's Inspector of

Cardinal Wiseman, delivered at St. Schools.

Martin's Hall, Long Acre, before the The Teacher's Difficulties. An Address

Islington Popular Club, on Tuesday delivered to the Metropolitan Asso- Evening, March 20,1855. ciation of Church Schoolmasters, at

The Government and the War: important the Sanctuary, Westminster. By J. Official Documents and Records, prey- P. Norris, M.A., Ike., one of her Ma-

ing that much of the Mortality has pro- jesty's Inspectors of Schools.

ceeded from disregard to Experience, Police and Policemen of India : showing

Indifference, and Neglect. Addressed the Necessity of a complete Reforma- to the Committee on Sebastopol. By tion in the Present System. By an In- Captain W. White. late E.I.C.S.; Au- dian Officer. thou of "The Evils of Quarantine

The Mark System of Prison Discipline. By Captain Mac000chie, R.N., E.H., Administration of the Admiralty. Rear- formerly Superintendent of Norfolk Admiral Scott, C.B., on Naval Reform.

Light Infantry Manual, for the use of God's Heroes and the World's Heroes. the Newer Bheel Corps. Compiled A Lecture by the Reverend J. Hamp- from various sources, by Lieutenant- den Gurney, M.A., delivered before the Colonel W. Hunter, Bengal Army, and Young Men's Christian Association, in

late Commandant of the Newal Bheel Exeter Hall, Tuesday Evening, Janu- Corps. ary 23, 1855. Second edition, with a

Outlines of Military Fortification, for the Postscript use of Officers of the Line, Militia, The Building of Gold and of 'Stubble. A Students, Ac. ; with a Plan of the Sermon preached in the Chapel of

Citadel of Antwerp and the Forts, and Stapleton Palace on the Second Sunday

a Notice of the Siege by the French in in Lent 1855, at a General Ordination

1832. By J. S. Lrlam, formerly an of Deacons held by the Lord Bishop of

Officer of Engineers, Author of "Advice Gloucester and Bristol. By the Be- to Builders,' Ste. verend JamesRussell Woodford, M.A., On the Infiuence of Social Degradation in Incumbent of St. Mark's, Easton. producing Pauperism and Crime. as ex- Tacts for the Times, No. %C. Reprinted,

emplified in the Free Coloured Citizens with Introduction and Notes, by and Foreigners in the United States. Reverend James Jos. Frew.

By the Reverend Robert Everest. (Be- me Caperatioe Principle not opposed to Printed from the Jouroil of the Stalls' a true Political Economy ; or Remarks tical Society.) on some recent Publications on sub- Reformatory Schools : a Letter to C. B. jects relative to the Intercommunion Adderley, Esq., M.P. By the Reverend of Labour, Capital, and Consumption. Sydney Turner, Resident Chaplain of By the ieverend C. Marriott, B.D., - the Philanthropic Farm. School, Red ,Fellow of Oriel College, and Vicar of

Hill. St. Mary the Virgin in Oxford.

The Teacher's Mission and Reward. An A Hint from Modesty to the Ladies of Inaugural Address to the School- England on the Fashion of Low-Dress- masters' Association for Gloucester- ing. By Fred. Auda, Gentleman.

Island.