PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

The Victories of the British Armies; with Anecdotes illustrative of Mo- dern Warfaie. By the Author of " Stories of Waterloo," " Wild Sports of the West," &c. In two vols.

Six Years' -Residence in the Australian Provinces, ending in 1839 ; exhi- biting their capabilities of Colonization, and containing the History, Trade, Population, Extent, Resources, &c. of New South Wales, Van Diemen's Laud, South Australia, and Port Philip ; with an Account of New Zealand. By W. MANN, Esq.

A Guide to time Study of the Pentateuch.; being a series of Questions oa the Five Books of Moses, with references to works in which Answers may be found ; intended for the higher classes of schools, and for students in divinity. By J. THOMPSON, M.A., St. John's College, Cambridge, and second Master of the Blackheath Proprietary School. [This volume contains a great number of questions on the first five books of the Bible, with an appendix, not of answers, but of a reference to authorities where answers may be found. The plan of selecting the points of a subject, and directing the student to

i develop them, is no doubt a good one ; it is the nearest approach to original in- quiry, and the best *substitute for it. But it requires more time, perseverance, lessee.-

and willingness on the part of scholars, than will be readily found in the mass of them, even if other unties were present. Mr. Tnomesoa deems no less than a dozen theological works necessary to enable the pupil to elucidate the ques- tions proposed, besides a geography, and other books for lesser points ; a library not often possessed by boys, even if they could be got to use it. To divinity students this objection does not apply, and to such no doubt the Guile will be of considerable service.] The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davey, Bart, LL.D., F.R.S., Foreign Associate of the Institute of France, &c. Edited by his Brother, Jogs Dave-, M.D., F.R.S. Vol. 1L—Early Miscellaneous Papers. [This volume contains the whole of Sir Humenitv's miscellaneous papers from 1799 to 1805, an introductory lecture on chemistry, with outlines of two courses on chemistry and chemical philosophy. The miscellaneous papers arc all on chemical or galvanic subjects ; some ubserrations on the proc:es of tanning, and Wenuewoon's account of a method of copying paintings upon lass, and making profiles by the agency of light upon nitrate of silver, with eere's comments, being the only ones that have any direct bearing upon Twit- ters of practical utility.] Lives of the most Eminent Literary and Scientific Mal of France. Vol. H. (I.ardner's Cabinet Cycloptedia, Vol. CX.V11.)

[The subjects of the present volume are Voreretae, ROUSSEAU, Cosooncer, elLeAlinee, Madame ROLAND, and Madame Die STAEL. The execution of the biographies is more than respectable—displaying original research and in- dependent opinion ; and the tone, though peculiar to oddity, gives a character to the hook.]

The Poetical 1Vorlts of Edmund Spenser. Ia live vols. (Pickering's Aldine Edition of the British Poets.)

[A complete edition of SPENSER'S poetry, embracing his entire genuine works, and rejecting such pieces as were erroneously attributed to hint—a desideratum

is modern literature, for few editions coutain much more than the Entry Queen; and those which do are scarce and expensive. The Reverend J. MIT-

roan has contributed a Life ; and, besides his own judgment, he has brought together the decisions of some of SPENSER'S principal critics. The work is illustrated by a capital portrait of the pole—looking, however, any thing lint poetical. ;—with mass and strength, lie has the keen and almost cunning look of a sharp Nisi Prius lawyer.]

The Visioncow. Canto III. By Utile E. STUART Worry:el% [e Another, and another, and another." The third canto of Lady E. SemanT WORTLEY'S Visionary consists of two parts, three hundred and fifty-three pages, mid upwards of six hundred stanzas of nine lines eaeh.1 Jack &ay. By the Author of " Sayings and Doings," &c. New edition, revised by the Author. (Standard Novels, No. IA XV.) [A revised reprint of a most entertaining series of broad caricatures. Printed as it now is, in a siugle volume, we hardly know a better pocket-companioa for a steam-boat, coach, coffeeroom, ur lounge, than the improbable but laugh- able adventures of Jock Brag.]

SERIALS.

Brother James. Be PAUL DE KOCK. Now first translated from the oriental French, expressly for "The Novelist," by HENRY -FOSTER. PI,: Novelist, Part IX.) [Haring, ahondy spoleen at large of the present race of French novelist?, wo may here admit, that PAUL DE ROCK is thr from being the worst of them. His coareeness and indecency are not so ingrained in the very subetance of his works as to be incapable of being removed; and when such expurgation is effected, (in the case of sonic of them at least,) there may be a considerable residue of harmless amusement. The translator of Brodie). Jam.,: ,rail's es to have done this ; having*, as he says, presented the Brother " in his best attire, renewing those portions of his French dress which were leaet com- mendable." In the few pees we have read, we have found little to objeet to. The trandat ien appears to be of unequal execution ; often easy and spirited, ocriiiuuaCy too literal in the rendering of idiomatic phrases. A word to the publishers why have recourse to the modern French school for cheep reprints of novels fbr rapider use, when such. abundant materials exist at home, trom the days of Dcrue downwards, not to speak of the mauy excellent French and Garman novels and romances of past times?) Na, .Riographieal Dictionary, projeeted end partly arranged by the late Rev. Motu Items Rose, B.1/, Principal of King's College, London. Edited by the Rev. Him- J. Rose, B.D., Rector of Houghton Con- quest, Bedfordshire ; and late Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. Part The Second Part conies down to "Aid," ending with the life of Aennecro There seems more of scale in the present number, and the clerical C..sprit do corps is somewhat less apparent ; which may be the result of accidents, the names not giving so much scope for its display. The writers, however, are evi- dently men of scholastic thought and acquirement ; which, if they sometimes tempt into scholastic disquisition, infuse into the whole a spirit very opposite to that of mere trading compilers.] Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington. By W. H. Maxweere Part III. The Life of Field-Marshal the Duke of' Wellington, K.G., &c. &e. &c.

By Major BASIL JACKSON and Captain C. Rocutoner ScoTT. Part V.

[Mr. MAxweees Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington embraces an account of the affairs in Spain that led to the war of the " Spanish Patriots," which has no relation to the Lift of WELLINGTON; as well as a narrative of the first campaign in Portugal, and the Convention of Cintra. The Life of the Marshal by the military adelphi commences with the Convention and ends with the battle of Talavera. It appears to us that Mr. MAXWELL has got rather more command over his rhetorical charger. The other publication has the plain and business-like character which distinguished the previous num- bers.'

The Life of Belmont° Celliai. With Illustrative Notes and an Appendix. (Smith's Standard Library.)

[The autobiography of this wild and eccentric genius is as amusing as ro- mance; and besides giving a picture of the state of the arts of the Zedicean age, lets us into the manners and history of the times : it therefore well de- serves a place in a popular series of reprints.]

Incidents of Travel in Egypt, Arabia Petrma, and the Holy Land. By J. L. STEPHENS, Esq. Author of " Incidents of Travel in the Rus- sian and Turkish Empires." (Smith's Standard Library.) Home. By Miss SEDGWICK. (Smith's Standard Library.) The Vision of Don Roderick: Ballads and Lyrical Pieces. By Sir WALTER SCOTT. (Smith's Standard Library.) Thee. Best :Mach; or, the Soul's Espousal to Christ, opened and improved. By EDWARD PEARSE. Reprinted from the edition of 1673. (Ward's Library of Standard Divinity.) [A batch of reprints, all cheap, and each valuable, interesting, or curious in it way. The Incidents of Travel, by the American Mr. STEPHENS, it should be observed, is not the work reprinted both by BENTLEY and CURRY of Dublin, but its precursor—the route being through Egypt, Arabia the Stony, and the Holy Land.] The Pictorial History of Palestine. By the Editor of " The Pictorial Bible." Part IV. The Pictorial Edition of Shakspere. Part IX.—" Comedy of Errors." The Arabian Nights' Entertainments. A new translation, by EDWARD WILLIAM LANE. Part XVI.

The Pictorial History of England. Part XXXI.

[This part nearly comprises a panoramic picture of the genius and habits of the nation in that eventful period of English civilization commencing with the TUDOR age and ending at the Commonwealth. It exemplifies the state of the literature, arts, society, manners, dress, and amusements of the peo[rle, from the time when tatidal barbarity cast its iron chrysalis, and wantoned in the Inittertly plumes of courtly magnificence and splendour, until the profli- gacy and crime then generated were corrected by the rigid and sectarian re- straints of the Presbyterian regime. The numerous cuts of the furniture, costumes, and sports of the period, are most useful in realizing the description.]

Repton's Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture. No. HI. [In this number the law of nature that governs the apparent size of objects seen at various heights and distances, is clearly explained by the aid of dia- grams; and the effect of light at particular times of the day on a landscape, is exemplified in a way that enables one to 'explain the discrepancies in descrip- tions of the same scene viewed by different persons, and the opposite aspects that the same view wears to ourselves.] Enegebpanlia Britannica. Parts CXI. CXII.

[Two numbers, with two subjects—Roman History and Russia—each large enough for volumes; besides a variety of papers which would be considered great in other vicinities.]

Greece, Pi:qorial, Descriptive, awl Historical. By CHRISTOPHER IVORDSWORTIL D.D. Part VIII.

Block's British Atlas. No. 1V.

Nicholas Nieldeby. No. XVIII. Pictures of the French. Drawn by Themselves. Part IV. (inyieetioc,sol• Harry Lorrequer. No. VII. Charley Chalk ; or the Career of an Artist. No. III.

Pickwick. Abroad. Part XX.

The Illustrated Shalespere. Part V.

l'alentine I'ox. .No. VI.

Heads of the People. No. XI. History qf _Vapoleon. Part VII. Dumas Lift of Napoleon. Part. IV.

NEW PERIODICALS.

The Polytechnic Journal. No. I.

[A cheap monthly magazine, devoted to the fine and mechanical arts, and mathematical and musical sciences; combining, popular essays with learned research, criticism, and general information on these various topics, and aiming at blending the useful and the entertaining. The contents of the first number promise well.]

The Eqyincering and Surrey-» 's ...lidgazine, Railway Journal, and Jim; f he! Beni stir of Practical Science. [A. technical jouroal of limited purpose, illustrated. by copperplate and wood engravings, coneisting of original papers and the usual information.]

PAMPHLETS.

By ALEX+ ..1Estaken View regarding the Observance of the Sabbath.

A SOUR M A R.i it A NE s, 'list Ilk. Seventh edition.

Stoke/en, (:( tier Caalliet of James Weir Hwy, En., late Regis- trar of the Supreme Court of Judicature, at Fort William. in Bengal, in ref: rent to certain property of Joseph Price, Esq., at Ballygunge, name Calcutta.

T:. v;; the ihians of Promqiny the Literature of Wales; and ten In- taery into the Causes which have contributed to the better success which has attended the Cultivation of Letters in England and Scot- land. By the Itev. J. BRAY, B.A., of St. John's College, Cambridge.

An Essay on the Inguenee of Poetry on the Mind.

Care of Chib-fiwt, Rwt Knee, Wry Neat, Spinal, and other Deformities. With remarks on the late progress of Art, and on the necessity of a Public lustitution for the relief of the poor labouring under deformities. By GUS AV linAcss, M.D., &c. With cases, and wood-cuts.