PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From February 27th to March 5th.

BOOKS.

Life and Correspondence of David Hume. From the Papers bequeathed by his Nephew to the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and-other original sources. By John Hill Burton, Esq., Advocate. In two volumes.

Notes on the Miracles of Our Lord. By Richard Chenevia Trench, MA., Vicar of !When Stoke, Hants, &c.

Lectures Illustrative of various Subjects in Pathology and Surgery. By Sir Benjamin C. Brodie, Bait., F.R.S., Sergeant-Surgeon to the Queen, &o. A Hand-book of the History of Painting. By Dr. Franz Kugler. Part II. The German, Flemish, and Dutch Schools of Painting. Translated from the German, by a Lady. Edited, with Notes, by Sir Edmund. Head, Bart.

The Living and the Dead; a Course of Practical Sermons on the Burial Service. By Francis E. Paget, M.A., Rector of Elford.

[A series of sermons, in which the stages of the Burial Service are made a ve- hicle, not only for handling topics appropriate to the occasion, but for ggcc exhibiting a good deal of knowledge in reference to the practices and feeling the Primitive, Romish, and Anglican Churches, in reference to the dead and to burial. Some other questions, not so directly connected with the theme, are also

handled by Mr. Paget, as the intermediate state, and prayers for the dead:

Upon this last subject his views-are, to permit it to such individuals as find com- fort in the practice, but not to inculcate it, as resting upon uncertain authority, and liable to countenance the famish error of purgatory. The oneness of pur- pose gives plan and consistency to the series of-discourses; which may be recom- mended to High Churchmen as able practical sermons, and with sufficient lite- rature to remove them from the mere professional category.] The Fall of CIYEStid. By the Reverend W. Adams, M.A., Fellow of Merton College, Oxford; Author of the "Shadow of the Cross." [The story of Crcesus told from Herodotus; which is followed by a dialogue bee tween an uncle and his nephews and niece, upon the moral of the history and .ita

bearing upon inspired troths. When the conversation falls upon such large qua.,

tions as the pride of Crcesus and his false reliance upon wealth and external ads vantages, the parallel runs well enough. When his downfal refers to the crime

by which his ancestor Gyges obtained possession of the throne, which offence was

to be punished in the fifth generation, it trenches too closely upon a questionable subject, since we know too little of the particulars to be able to decide whether the event was in the light of what is called a "judgment," or whether evil

descended upon the children because they were brought up in evil ways. This disquisition upon the ancient oracles, attributing to them an occasional inspiration, and some supernatural knowledge by means of daimons, is a still more unsatis. factory subject. The book is very pleasantly written, both in the history and the dialogue.]

The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud; or Biblical Legends of the MUM& mans. Compiled from Arabic sources, and compared with Jewish Tradi-

tions. By Dr. G. Weil, Librarian of the University of Heidelberg, Fellow of the Asiatic Society of Paris, &c. Translated from the German, with occasional Notes.

An Essay on Primeval. History. By John Keurick, M.A.

[From the glance we have been able to give to these works, we see that they air able and curious publications; though we are not certain how far their subjects may be altogether fitted for a miscellaneous journal. For the present it mnit suffice to say, that The Bible, the Koran, and the Talmud, contains a series of religious stories or legends of Scriptural facts which are current in the East, founded on Mahometan, Talmudic, or heretical superstition. The Essay on Pri- meval History is an inquiry into the historical weight which should be attached to the Mosaic narrative and the Biblical chronology, whether based on. the

Hebrew, Samaritan, or Septuagint version, as well as an endeavour to take a more critical view of ancient history before the historical age, by an examination of the only two certain sources-existing monuments and the nature of man.] Holy Times and Scenes.

• Hymns for the Festivals and Saints' Days of the Church of England, in the same measures as the New Version of Psalms.

VeesThese two little publications emanate from the two Universities ; Holy Times and appearing at Cambridge; Hymns for the Festivals and Saints' Days owing its birth to Oxford. The latter makes the holydays of our Church the subject for a series of nearly forty hymns. Holy Times and Scenes is of a more miscel- laneous character, sometimes taking natural subjects for a theme; and though lamas predominate in the volume, they are not of so uniform a character as in Oxford emanation. The poetry, though respectable, is not very striking in either case.] The Philosophy of History; in a Course of Lectures, delivered at Vienna, by Frederick Von Schlegel. Translated from the German, with a Memoir of the Author, by James Baron Robertson, Esq. Second edition, revised. (Bohn's Standard Library.) [Mr. Bohn is proceeding rapidly and spiritedly with his "Standard Library." In his fourth volume he gives thepublic an immense mass of printing for three shillings and sixpence, which could not previously be obtained for less than nine or ten times the sum, when it could be obtamed at all; the first edition of Schlegel's Philosophy of History, in two octavo volumes, having become a scarce book.] The Minor Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. A new edition.

[This edition, corresponding in form with" Barry Cornwall's Songs," and many other works of the day that Mr. Moron has sent forth, contains pieces of similar calibre to " Alastor " and " Adonais," as well as the miscellaneous poems of Shelley.] The Women of England, their Social Duties and Domestic Habits. By Mrs. Ellis, Author of " Family Secrets," &c. (Englishwoman's Family Library.) [The chief features of this new edition arc its compact size and a portrait of the authoress.]

Temper and Temperament; or Varieties of Character. By Mrs. Ellis, Au- thor of " The Women of England," &c. Volume I.

SERIALS.

The Count of Monte-Cristo. By Alexandre Dumas. With twenty Illus- trations, drawn on wood by M. Valentin, and executed by the most eminent English Engravers, under the superintendence of Mr. Charles Heath. Part I.

[A translation of the new edition of the latest novel of Alexandre Dumas, which is making a sensation on the Continent; printed to correspond with Messrs. Chapman and Hall's editions of Eugene Sue's fictions.]

ILLUSTRATED WQEKS.

. Fisher's Gallery of Scripture Engravings, Historical and Landscape. With Descriptions, Historical, Geographical, and Critical, by John Kitto, D.D., F.S.A.; Editor of " The Pictorial Bible," &c. Parts 1. to V. [A collection of engravings from old and modern painters of subjects illustrative of the events recorded in the Bible and the scenes where they occurred; the plates selected from Messrs. Fisher's various publications.] Parish Churches. By Raphael and J. Arthur Brandon, Architects. [Perspective views and plans drawn to scale of picturesque parish churches, selected for their fitness as models for imitation. They are very neatly executed with pen and ink, and accompanied with brief descriptions and measurements.]

MAPS.

The Physical Atlas; a Series of Maps illustrating the Geographical Dis-

tribution of Natural Phsenomena. By Henry Berghaus, F.RG.S., Regius Professor of Geodesy, Berlin, and Principal of the Geographical Institute, Potsdam; and Alexander Keith Johnston, F.R.G.S., Geographer at Edinburgh in Ordinary to her Majesty, Honorary Member of the Geo

graphical Society, Berlin, and Editor of " The National Atlas." Part I. [This work, when completed, will be a graphic geography and a pictorial atlas in one. The quantity, and variety of information put into a visible shape in the maps and tabulated in the letterpress is quite extraordinary; and much of it is original as well as valuable. Separate sets of maps are employed to figure the geology, hydrology, meteorology, botany, and zoology of the globe: all the natural phainomena of the earth, in short, are illustrated with the fullest research of scientific knowledge. The plates are beautifully engraved, with the utmost ful- ness and accuracy; and pictured representations as well as colour are introduced into them. We may return to this work as it advances.] The Punjaub and Adjacent Countries, 1846.

[A neat map of the seat of war in India; plainly written, and not too crowded with names for easy reference, though full enough for general use at the moment.] MR. W. PEAKE'S "COURT INTRIGUES."

The following communication calls our attention to an unworthy lite- rary trick.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR.

MR. EDITOR-I have always observed with pleasure, that in the columns of the Spectator at least, if in no others, a writer has been treated according to his merit, and every work has received its due share of criticism. Now in your paper of last Saturday, I find a review of Mr. W. Peake's Court Intrigues; which is said to be " an historical novel, bat not treated exactly in the solid way in which the British usually handle the historical romance, but rather in the style of the French memoirs." Strange to say, the two fragments selected by the reviewer to give an idea to the reader of Mr. W. Peake's invention, as a writer, are translated word for word from a French work, published some twenty years ago or more, under the title of Cinq-Mars; an historical novel by Alfred de Vigny, whose name is well known in this country as the able translator in French verse of Shakbpere's Othello.

If we are to judge of Mr. W. Peake's book, then, by the selections made by your reviewer, it may be termed a most barefaced plagiarism, unless the writer acknowledges having translated it from the French.

If you can find a small space in your valuable journal to give insertion to this, you will be doing justice to all parties, and rendering a service to French literary men in general. I am, Mr. Editor, yours, A LOVER or JUSTICE.

[There is no preface to Mr. W. Peake's publication, and we do not remember any passage that either directly or indirectly hinted at trans- lation. We had never read Cinq-Mars; it is now before us, (eighth edition, Paris, 1845,) and the slightest inspection confirms the conclusion of " A Lover of Justice " to the fullest extent. Was the publisher cognizant of the natnze of the wares he put forth?]

" THE PHILOSOPHY OF WEALTH."

Mr. John Crawford, admitting that the scope of his book was correctly described in our very brief mention of it, states that it was not till some

years after the publication of his first edition that he met with Mr. Tay- lor's works; whence we suppose an inference is to be deduced that The Philosophy of Wealth is, as regards Mr. Crawford, a new work, though Only professing to be a digest or compendium of the Taylorian doctrines.

We are not inclined to enter into any discussion touching "the prin- ciple of a fixed price for gold being the grossest absurdity ever embodied in a legislative enactment." Our opinions on currency are well enough known; and, sound or unsound, we believe it is not given to Mr. Attwood, Mr. Taylor, or their disciples, to alter them.