PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boosts.

Journal of a Residence of two years and a half in Great Britain. By JEIIANGEER NOWROJEE and HIRJEEETIOY MEnwoNrEE, of Bombay, Naval Architects.

Texas : the Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas. In two vols. By WILLIAM KENNEDY, Esq. Masterman Ready ; or the Wreck of the Pacific. Written for young people. By Captain MARRYAT.

The Marrying Man ; a Novel. By the Author of "Cousin Geoffrey." In three vols.

The Ncstorians ; or the Lost Tribes : containing evidence of their identity; an account of their manners, customs, and ceremonies ; together with sketches of Travel in Ancient Assyria, Armenia, Media, and Mesopotamia; and illustrations of Scripture prophecy. By ASAHEL GRANT, M.D.

Life of Petrarch. By Thomas CAMPBELL, Esq. In two vols. A Summer in Western France. By T. ADOLPHUS TROLLOPE, Esq., RA. Edited by FRANCES TROLLOPE, Author of "Domestic Manners of the Americans," &c. In two vols.

Italy: General Views of its History and Literature in reference to its present state. By L. MARIOTTI. In two vols. The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., and Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ; containing interesting and valuable papers not hitherto published. In two vols. With Memoir of the Author, by THOMAS RoscoE. Portrait and Autograph. Writings of Charles Sprague, now first collected. On Gout, Its Cause, Nature, and Treatment. By JOHN PARKIN, Honorary and Corresponding Fellow of the Royal Academies of Medicine and Surgery, in Madrid, Barcelona, and Cadiz, &c.

Flores e SS. Patribus. Flowers from the Holy Fathers.

[A little volume of Roman Catholic verses, in which religious feelings, after the strolled sect, are more conspicuous than the poetry. The plan of the work is to take a choice sentence or paragraph from one of the Fathers and versify it. Unless in the hands of a master, and under felicitous circumstances, such a method would be likely to fail, from the necessity of diluting the original idea ; whilst the motto would still more strikingly mark the difference between the terseness and strength of the text and the 'diffusion of the commentary. This failing is visible in the Flowers from the Holy Fathers. " In fructu, non in folius et ramis, prenitentia cognoscenda est," says GREGORY the Great, quaintly though strikingly ; but all the force of the original thought is evaporated in the thirty verses which follow it.] The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, complete in one volume; with Introductions and Notes.

[Here we have, in one handsome volume, the entire Poetical Works Of SCOTT; and for the first time in a complete state, this edition containing the poetry scattered through the novels and the specimens given in LOCKHART'S Life. The plan adopted in MURRAY'S single-volume Byron is also followed—that of presenting copious extracts from the reviews of particular works, together with either selected or original illustrations by the editor (Locoman%) Of course all the notes and prefaces of SCOTT are retained, and a very copious index is added. The graphic illustrations are A portrait of SCOTT after RAEBURN'S picture, and a vignette view of Abbotsford.]

Itraverley Novels, Vol. II.—" Guy Mannering." The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore, collected by Himself. In ten vols. Vol. VIL [This volume completes Lalla Rookh, and contains the Fudge Family, Fables for the Holy Alliance, and some miscellaneous poems. The preface tells the story of the poems, or rather tells something about the circumstances which were the cause of their being written. Reading over again the jeux d'esprit that attracted so much attention when the manners and persons they ridiculed with such grace and pleasantry were topics of public talk, one is somewhat astonished at their flimsiness. Pointed persiflage is their highest general merit, with here and there a pregnant sentence, embodying some broad truth, but more frequently with a good many attempts at wit, grounded not upon the thought but the phrase. If this be felt by those who have some remembrance of the originals satirized, we apprehend that they will seem rather vapid to the rising generation.

The preface partakes of the faults of the poems: its most striking point is the manner in which it indicates the superficial character of MOORE'S mind. He was, be tells us, in Paris shortly after the Restoration, when the Emigrants and the men formed under the Revolution and the Empire were contrasted together in minds and manners without any of the amalgamation that has since taken place : but all he could find worthy of preservation in this juxtaposition of an old and a new world, was the trifling jokes of the Fudge Family.] Woman ; her Character and Influence. A Poem. By EATON STANNARD BARRETT, Esq. A new edition. With four engravings from designs by R. WESTALL, Esq., R.A. [Many years ago, when the Edinburgh Review was powerful, if not from the rigid impartiality and honesty of its judgments, from the vigorous talent it displayed, Mr. BARRETT'S poem of Woman was reviewed in that journal. This circumstance, coupled with the interesting nature of his subject, and the commonplace amiability of his views, gave to his poem a sort of popularity which we thought it had outlived. Mr. COEBURN, however, is of a different opinion, and has sent forth a new and neat edition, with a preface that embraces a number of auecdotes illustrating the virtues of women, though it cannot be said to have any particular relation to the poem of Woman.]

Golden Rules. By MN. WOLFERSTAN. [A series of short well-intentioned verses enforcing some moral, or "golden rule."] Miscellaneous Writings, chiefly Historical, of the late Thomas Merle, D.D., Author of the " Life of Knox," &c. Edited by his Son.

[A reprint of the greater part of the periodical and fugitive writings of the late Dr. APCniE ; consisting of biographies, reviews, and pamphlets. To the publication in a permanent form of papers written on temporary occasions we are not in general favourable ; for their very nature almost prevents them from being sufficiently large, full, or complete. The case of Dr. M‘CnrE admits of this exception, that, generally handling subjects which he had previously studied with historical or professional views, he brought to his task a more thorough knowledge of the question than periodical writers or pamphleteers usually possess. In the well-known review of the Tales of My Landlord, for example, the novel reviewed was subordinate to the history unfolded : it furnished Dr. BI‘CarE, in fact, with an opportunity of defending the characters of the Presbyterians and assailing those of the Episcopalians, besides forming a vehicle for putting forth a good deal of curious reading.] Memoirs of Christian Females ; with an Essay on the Influences of Female Piety. By the Reverend James GARDNER, A.M., M.D.

[A sensible and pious, but neither a very characteristic nor a very striking work. The author deals more in the religious reflections of the heroines than he does in the facts of their lives ; and those portions which were not of a serious character are skimmed over by generalizing—as HANNAH MORE in the days of her play-going and play-writing. With the exception of CUVIER'S daughter, the ladies are English or American : the most interesting lives are those of Mrs. ELLis and Mrs. Jurisos.]

Records of Female Piety; comprising sketches of the lives and extracts from the writings of women eminent for religious excellence. By JAMES A. HurE, Author of "The History of the Jews." [This is another series of lives of pious females, but more extended than the 31emoirs of Christian Females; embracing 111ot:rel., the mother of Saint AL:GI:STINE, and several distinguished women of the middle ages. It is also executed with a little more vigour. The examination of both books shows, however, that both are compilations. It is clear that each writer has drawn,. and sometimes by wholesale, from the same original, where they happen to give a memoir of the same person.] Holy Thoughts; or a Treasury of True Riches. Collected chiefly from our Old Writers. Third edition.

Fragments from German Prose Writers. Translated by SARAH Illustrated with Notes.

[A miscellaneous collection of striking passages which have attracted Mrs. AUSTIN in the course of her German reading ; and dealing more with reverie, reflection, and speculation, than realities—with opinions than with facts. The notes are the most useful part of the book ; principally consisting of biographical and critical notices of the authors whose "fragments" are translated.] Dawnings of Genius; or Early Lives of 80Ille Eminent Persons of the last century. By ANNE PRATT, Author of "Flowers and their Associations," dec. [A ravishing book for young readers, and as instructive as it is interesting ; the authoress having a felicitous tact in combining picturesque description with striking traits of jpersonal character. DAVY, CRABRE, CUVIER, REYNOLDS, MACKINTOSH, LINDLEY MURRAY, ADAM CLARKE, Min JANE TAYLOR, and Madame DE GENETS are included in this volume; which it is to be hoped will be the first of a series of the youth of greatness.]

The Philosophy of Death ; or a General Medical and Statistical Treatise on the Nature and Causes of Human Mortality. By JOHN REID, Licentiate of the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons, Glasgow.

[Ten chapters on a variety of subjects connected with physiology, diseases, and death, any one of which would be sufficient to furnish a work by itself. Say iftg this, we need not add that it is a compilation, and not so masterly or philobophical a one as might be produced ; but it contains a good many facts respecting the statistics and causes of death, and the probable sensations of dying. There is also some account of the natural functions of the human system, and their abnormal deviations; but the facts of Mr. REID are better than his ex The Epicure's Alnuinack, or Diary of Good Living ; containing a choice and original receipt or a valuable hiut fur every day in the year ; the result of actual experience, applicable to the enjoyment of the good things of this life, consistently with the views of those who study genteel economy. By BENSON E. HILL, Author of "Recollections of an Artillery Officer," &c.

[BEN8027 HILL'S father was a lover of good living; and after he himself had escaped the "beef and stichjaiv " of the military schools, he luxuriated in the

mess of the Royal Artillery, anil the invitations which of yore poured in upon that gallant corps. A taste thus inherited and acquired, was trained by necessity to invent and improve, when he was sent to keep his solitary commons at some remote and out of the way barrack or station. Here he passed the lonely hours in planning experiments properly to fulfil the great duty of

the day ; and in the little volume before us he has favoured the bachelor world with the results of his experience for each day in the year ; intermingling re cipes for dishes for one person, with directions for roasting the largest joint, or even cooking a turtle. Some of these recipes are economical ; but, if we might venture on such a subject to draw a conclusion, they all require care and labour—that attention which, like love, cannot be bought, but must emanate from the epicure's hopes or the professional pride of the artist.] Hogarth Moralized: a complete edition of all the most capital and admired Works of William Hogarth, accompanied by concise and com prehensive explanations of their moral tendency, by the late Dr. Trueler. To which are added an Introductory Essay, and many original and selected Notes, by JOHN MAJOR. A New Edition, revised, corrected, and somewhat enlarged, by the same. [A miniature edition of HOGARTH'S entire works, accompanied by TRIGSLER'S twaddling commentary ; which serves, however, together with extracts from IRELAND'S descriptions and the notes of the editor, to explain the details that are not distinctly visible in these small plates, and the allusions to contemporary circumstances and characters. This set of plates, engraved by WATT,

WORTHINGTON, and other good engravers' under the superintendence of Mr. Mason, is by far the best that has appeared on a small scale: the spirit of the originals is preserved with singular fidelity, even to minute points of expression. The cheapness of the volume, which includes sixty copperplates besides wood-cuts, is no less remarkable than its excellence.]

History of Scotland. By PATRICK FRASER TTTLER, Esq. VOL I. [A new and revised edition of this standard history, to be issued periodically at a cheaper price.]

Elements of Algebra ; or a short and practical introduction to that science, on a new plan;WALLACE,_with some of the latest improvements. Second edition. By ROBERT W AM., formerly Professor of Mathematics in the Andersonian University, Glasgow. A Development of the Principles and Plans on which to establish SelfSupporting Home Colonies, as a most secure and profitable investment

for capital, and an effectual means permanently to remove the causes of ignorance, poverty, and crime ; and most materially to benefit all classes of society, by giving a right application to the now greatly misdirected powers of the human faculties and of physical and moral science. By ROBERT OWEN.

SERIALS.

History of the British Empire in India. By EDWARD THORNTON, Esq., Author of "India, its State and Prospects," &c. Part L [The scope and character of this publication can scarcely be decided upon by the part before us. So far as one can judge from the specimen and the pre_ face, the object of Mr. THORNTON is to present the public with a book which shall fill up a vacuum he may conceive to exist. To the critical philosophy and elevated views of MILL he has no pretension, as little to the lifelike know ledge and Oriental experience of ELPHINSTONE. But he is more rapid, and, by rigidly confining himself to historical narrative, more popular perhaps, than the India of the " Edinburgh Cabinet Library," and several other works of a similar kind that embrace geography, &c. At the same time, if Mr. THORN -TON goes on as he has begun, his book will be rather an abridgment than a history. The part before us, of less than a hundred pages embraces the whole of the Hindoo and Mahometan periods, with that of the British empire in India down to 1750; the last, indeed; run over in some twenty pages; including notices of the Dutch, Portuguese, and French settlements.] A History of the Church of Scotland. By the Reverend W. M. HETHERINGTON, A.M., Minister of Torphichen ; Author of the "Fulness of Time," &c. Part I.

[A popular compilation of the history of religion in Scotland; drawn from old and in a great measure original historians, with the exception of APCBIL.

The present part comes down to 1592, when JAMES the Sixth was intriguing

for the English crown and the establishment of Prelacy : and the writer judiciously dwells upon the rise and progress of the Reformation passing compendiously over the early history of the Scottish Church, and the corrupt state to which it was reduced by the ignorance and licentiousness of the Rotnish

-clergy; though Mr. HETHERINGTON struggles to show that the primitive Christians adopted a sort of Presbyterian system in Scotland, just as certain

Episcopalian quidnuncs trace to some period, not accurately defined, but under the Romans, Britons, Saxons, or Danes, the present Anglican establishment. The succeeding parts will deal with subjects still more interesting and less known than the time of the Reformation—such as the Solemn League and Covenant. In short, The History of the Church of Scotland will furnish the public with a succinct narrative of an important branch of human exertion and stirring events, of which no complete view exists in an easily attainable shape; though the author's profession is not one to secure a rigorous or philosophical impartiality.] Waverley Novels, 'Vol. I. Part 1I.—Guy Mannering, or the Astrologer.' With Introductions and Notes.

Scott's Prose Works, VoL L Part I.—Life of John Dryden. Vol. L Part 11.—Life of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Vol. I. Part 111.—Tales of a Grandfather, (History of Scotland.) [Further specimens of that gigantic undertaking the cheap reprint of SCOTT'S entire works, the completion of one branch of which we have already noticed in another place. The admirable Lives of Swift and Dryden for half-acrown I history as amusing as a novel in the Tales of a Grandfather for four shillings! and lastly, the most romantic, yet the nearest to life of all SCOTT'S fictions, Guy Mannering.] The Poston Letters, Vol. II. (Knight's English Miscellanies.) [This second volume completes the series of these racy and carious specimens of the daily life of our ancestors.] 77w Local Historian's Table-Book of remarkable occurrences, historical facts, traditions, legendary and descriptive ballads, Ste., connected with Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Northumberland, and Durham. By M. A. RICHARDSON, Author of "A Descriptive Companion through Newcastle-upon-Tyne." Part IV.

Mirror of Parliament. Edited by JOHN HENRY BARROW, Esq. Session

4 Victoria, 1841. Nos. I. and II.

Cumming's Fox's Book of Martyrs, Part III. Brande's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, Part IV. Charles O'Malley, No. .XIV. Floreston, Part VI.

Master Humphrey's Clock, Part XIII.

Arago's Lectures on Astronomy. Translated, with Notes, by WALTER K.

KELLY, Esq. B.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. (Popular Library of

Modern Authors. Copyright editions.)

Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Hall's Ireland, Part VII.

Corner's Historical Library, Part XVI.—Germany, and the German Empire, III. Jones's General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, Part XIV. and XV. London, Part II.

Madame Riofrey's Governesses ; or Modern Education, No. V. British Butterflies, No. X.

History of Napoleon, Part XXVIII.

PERIODICALS.

British and Foreign Review, No. XXIII. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. CII. Calcutta 3Ionthly Journal, October and November.

Magazines for May—Blackwood's, Dublin University, Tait's, Colonial, Monthly Chronicle, Law, Monthly Law, Bentley's Miscellany, English' Journal, British Miscellany and Chess-Player's Chronicle, London and Edinburgh, New Monthly, Belle Assemblee, Mirror, Sportsman, Farmer's, Florist's Journal, Floricultural, Polytechnic Journal.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Cruilishank's Omnibus, No. I.

[A fanciful vehicle of pleasantry and satire graphic and literary, driven by GEORGE CRIIIRSHANK—who cuts such a capital figure on the box, with Mr. TILT for conductor—can hardly fail to be popular : the fare is a shilling, for which you are booked to any place under the sun, and whisked thither with the speed of thought. At firststarting a new concern, even the veteran whip will be a little nervous ; but GEORGE puts a good face of his own upon the matter. He sets out by refuting some absurd misstatements #a dull and. blundering libeller, who has been making free with the characters of many well-known persons ; and having got the whip-hand of the fellow, he lays on the lash smartly, to the great amusement of the passengers. CRIHRSHANK'S style of showing-up his supposititious self, strutting into an evening-party in hessian boots with furious tassels, frighting the room from its propriety by his fierce looks, and staggering a cabman by the intensity of his stare, is extremely ludicrous. His impersonation of the broken-winded bellows—his design for a monument to Napoleon (a skeleton in cocked-hat and boots standing on a pyramid of skulls)—and the hieroglyph of the sun limning the earth and the moon—are capital. The pictorial preface is a little microcosm of humanity, giving a bird's-eye view of the inhabitants of the four quarters of the globe engaged in their various pursuits and amusements ; exhibiting literally a world of character and comicality in lively action.]

Written Caricatures; a Sketch of Peripatetic Philosophy. From hints in the Paris Charivari. By Captain PEPPER. With numerous illustrations, by LEECH. [A smart satirical brochure, treating peculiarities of dress and manner as signs of personal character and condition. The affectation of the airs of a man of ton by the writer, is a piece of coxcombry as ridiculous as any he quizzes. The comic sketches of LEECH are clever and characteristic.] Specimens of Engraving by the Omnigraph. [A fasciculus of twelve copperplate impressions of map and writing engraving, executed by the omoigraph, a newly-invented machine, of which we are only informed in the prospectus that "its operations are so expeditious that a work which by the usual method would occupy the artist several months, can by its aid be accomplished in as many weeks." The omnigraph appears to be applicable chiefly to mechanical engraving, and the lettering is the only part where it attains to the perfection of hand-work: the letters, in every variety of size and character except manuscript hand, are extremely sharp and clear; even the most minute are distinctly readable : the lettering upon ruled-work, too, is very neat ; and the curved lines are very regular and even. The hills are not so clearly defined as in the finest maps ; and the indications of surface in the surveys are scratchy and indistinct : but this is applying the severest test of hand-execution to the work of a machine ; and the immense saving of time and expense is an advantage worth some sacrifice to attain.] Plan of the Naval and Military Operations before Quebec under the command of the immortal Wolfe and Vice-Admiral Saunders. Dedicated to the United Services of the British Empire, by ALFRED HAWKINS, Quebec. J. WILD sculpsit. [An ornamental sheet, most beautifully executed, comprising a map on a large scale of part of the country near Quebec; showing the positions of the land and sea forces, the defences, and plan of attack, with the details of the action fought on the heights of Abraham. Vignettes of Wrsr's famous picture of the Death of General Wolfe, and the scaling of the heights by the British troops, give a pictorial effect to tide graphic record of the must brilliant achievement of the British arms in North America. The interest that Canada is now exciting, and its growing attractions for summer tourists, impart a timely value to this plan.] Canadian Scenery Illustrated, Part XIV.

Scenery and Antiquities of lrdand illustrated, Part III. Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge, No. XIV. Shaw's Encyclopedia of Ornament, No. XVII.

Pictorial History of England, Part LL Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, Part XXXII.—" Tempest." Illustrated Shakspere, Part XXIV. Sibson's Illustrations of Master Humphrey's Clock, No. XIL PAMPHLETS.

The Revenue ; or what should the Chancellor do ? By JAMES W/LSON, Esq., Author of "Influences of the Corn-laws."

Statements illustrative of the Policy and probable Consequences of !he proposed Repeal of the existing Corn-laws, and the imposition in their stead of a Moderate Fixed Duty on foreign corn when entered for home consumption. Letters on the Nature and Operations of the Currency, to Charles Wood, Esq., M.P., Chairman of the Committee of the House of Commons on Banks of Issue. By WILLIAM JOHNSTON, Cashier of the Arbroath Banking Company. The Present State of Banking in England Considered, in a Letter addressed to the Right Honourable Earl Fitzwilliam. By a Scotch Banker.

Remarks on the Evidence published by the late Committee on Banks of Issue, addressed to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce.

The Education Question : Special Religious Instruction. By a Clergyman of the Church of England. Reprinted from "The British and Foreign Review." Letters to a Chancery Reformer, occasioned by the withdrawal of the late

Bill for Facilitating the Administration of Justice. By. J. H. MERIVALE, Esq., Commissioner of the Court of Bankruptcy.

Official Assignees : Reform in Bankruptcy. Remarks and Suggestions, by an Accountant.

A Memoir addressed to Proprietors of Mountains and other Waste Lands, and .Agriculturists of the United Kingdom, on the Naturalization of the Alpaca. By WILLIAM WALTON. Public Lands a Mine of Wealth; being the Evidence of Mr. Edward Gibbon Wakefield before the Select Committee of the House of Commons (1836) on the Disposal of Lands in the British Colonies. With Notes, by D. WAKEFIELD, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, barrister-at-law. Maynooth College : Justification of the term " beastly " as applied to the instruction at Maynooth College. By Sir G. H. &trim, Bart., M.P. English Opera-house : Statement and Correspondence between Mr. Balfe and Mr. H. Phillips, relative to the affairs of the above Theatre. A Peep into the Palace; or a Voice from the House of Correction. By E. JONES, Visiter-Extraordinary to her Majesty.