PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The Tfietory of the Great and Mighty Kingdom of China, and the Si- tuation thereof. Compiled by the Padre Juan Gonzalez de Mendoza, end- now reprinted front the early Translation of R. Parke. Edited by Sir George T. Staunton, Bart. With an Introduction by R. H. Major,

- Esq., of the British Museum, Honorary Secretary of the Hakluyt So- , ciety. Volume I. (Printed for the Hakluyt Society.)

Twis&stera; a Novel. By Lucy Field, Author of "The Two Friends." In three volumes.

_ Defects, Civil and Military, of the Indian Government. By Lieute- nant-General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.B. Edited by Lieutenant-Gene- ral Sir W. F. P. Napier, K.C.B.

Kona.: of Dr. Charles Webster, Founder of and Lecturer at St. Peter's

• Chapel, Edinburgh ; Chaplain to the Right Honourable William Lord Gray, and Physician to his Royal Highness George Prince of Wales, and to his Majesty's Forces in the West Indies. With an Account of D. Alexander Webster, of the High Church, Edinburgh. By Grace Webster.

[Religions teeruig and the circumstance of namesake seem to have been the instigating motives of this volume ; for little present public interest attaches to Dr. Alexander Webster, Dr, Charles Webster, or several other Websters of whom we hive notices. Dr. Alexander Webster was an active and con- spicuous Scotch divine during the early and middle part of the last century, some account of whom was already to be found in various places. His relation, Dr. Charles Webster, was of the latter part of the last century, dying in 1795. He was a clergyman of the Scottish Episcopalian Church, with which he combined the profession of a physician. His manners were pleasing, perhaps courtly, and he must have had great interest. Strange as it may seem to our notions, the chaplain to Lord Gray was also physician to the Prince of Wales (George the Fourth); and when the minister of St. Pe- ter's Chapel, Edinburgh, was advised to try a change of climate, he went to the West Indies, as Physician of the Forces. The volume contains nume- rous anecdotes, with indications of Scottish manners during the last century ; but neither the biographical nor the social matter is very skilfully pre-

sented.] •

The Pathology and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis ; and on the Local Medication of Pharyngeal and Laryngeal Diseases, frequently mistaken for or associated with Phthisis. By John Hughes Bennett, M.D., F.ILS.E., &c.

[This volume is a resume of various books and papers published by the author during the last twelve years. Dr. Bennett 's fundamental principle, tliat coninunption originates in depraved nutrition, and must be cured, if curable, by inereasing the nutritive powers, could hardly be called new twelve years ago. The proposition that the deficient nutrition arises from a "diminished assimilation of the fatty portions of the food" had greater claim to novelty, and if not true was at least definite and intelligible, as well as

the (*roller', that we should by means or,diel endeavouf to increase the fatty assimilation: but as the appetite is Often bad, and the digestive power feeble., this can rarely be done by means of food, and the best substitute is cod-liver oil."

Connected, with 11r. Bennett's exposition of his leading ideas, and the treaCment to be deduced from them established by his own experience, the volume contains a view of the pathology of pulmonary tuberculosis, and some remarks on diseases of the throat and air-passages. The book is clearly written, and the opinions are judiciously advanced, without overstraining.]

The Science of Health. By Stephen H. Ward, M.D. Lend. (Published

under the Direction of the Committee of General Literature and Edu- cation, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.) [Since Andrew Combe first popularized the "science of health" by his vari- ous publications, so many books have appeared on physiology, anatomy, and medicine as connected with popular hygiene, that much novelty is not to be looked for. Besides writing a well-arranged, simple, and sensible book on the subject, Dr. Ward, however, has done something in the way of novelty. If his chapter on the influence of light in relation to health is not altogether new, it is newly treated, and with more amplitude and force than usual. The same remark may be made upon heat. The views are moderate, and not impracticably rigid.]

The Correspondence of Thomas Gray and William Mason ; to which

are added, some Letters addressed by Gray to the Reverend James Brown, D.D., Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge. With Notes and Illustrations, by the Reverend John Mitford, Vicar of Benhall. [This volume is one of restorations and additions. The restorations consist of the insertion of passages suppressed on the original publication of the let- ters, and now completed from the manuscripts. The additions consist of be- tween thirty and forty letters from Gray to his friend the Reverend James Brown, or of Brown to other persons. To this now completed correspondence of the poet Mr. Mitford has contributed a variety of notes and curiously il- lustrative matter, and affixed a preface of considerable value for its thorough appreciation of Gray's character and its thorough knowledge of his contem- poraries. These qualities, indeed, pervade the volume, stamping it as one of the best-edited books of its kind.]

May Dundas ; or Passages in Young Life. By Mrs. Thomas Geldart, Author of "Emilie the Peacemaker," &c.

[A very superior didactic tale, with more of reality, and pictures of the world as it is, than are often found in stories which come under the class called juvenile. The subject is the career of a young Seotchman and his twin sis- ter, who conic to London in search of situations, to lighten the expenses of their father, a country clergyman. The aim of the author is to illustrate the influence of example ; which it does, though not perfectly. The family into which Fergus Dundas is admitted as a medical assistant is about as worldly as that which May enters SS governess. The true moral is the neces- sity of firmness of character and religious principle.]

Alderman Ralph ; or the History of the Borough and Corporation of the Borough of Willowacre. With all about the Bridge and the Ba- ronet, the Bridge Deed and the Great Scholar, the Toll-keeper and hiss Daughter, the Fiddler and his virtues, the Lawyer and his rogueries, and all the rest of it. By Adam Hornbook, Student by his own fire- side, and among his neighbours when he can secure the arm-chair in the corner. In two volumes.

[A picture of life in a small English borough, with a contest about the tolls of a bridge, is the principal subject of this novel ; varied by doings of a vil- lanous lawyer, a rascally baronet, love affairs lost deeds, abduction, and the other materials of the novel of humour and adventure. The execution is literal.]

Droits et Devoirs des .Envoyes Diplornatiques. Documens recueillis et arranges par E. C. Grenville Murray. [A compilation from French authorities, or rather from authorities writing in French, exhibiting the rights, duties, and practice of diplomatists, illus- trated where necessary by formal documents,—as Lettres des Creance, In- structions. The author apologizes for using French ; but it was necessary as the language of modern diplomacy. There is nothing to complain of in the style of the text, which is clear and easy. Nor is the publication without a sort of guide-book interest.] A Gospel .71istory of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; or a Life of the Man of Sorrows. By Thomas Stephen' one of the Librarians of King's College, London; Author of "Au Ecclesiastical History of Scotland," &c.

[This Life is almost as much commentary as biography. The events of the life of Christ are accompanied by remarks, sometimes explanatory of Eastern customs, sometimes doctrinal or hortative. The narrative is preceded by a summary review of the prophecies relating to the Messiah. It is rather a discursive but an agreeably-written book, and with a good deal of collateral information.]

A Complete System of Arithmetic, Theoretical and Practical ; adapted to the use of Schools and Private Students. By James Trotter, of the Scottish Naval and Military Academy, Author of a "Key to Ingram's Mathematics," &c.

[There can be nothing substantially new in arithmetic. This book has a more sensible and even philosophic air than is usual in its expositions, and it introduces questions of actual interest into its exercises. The revenue of the country, for example, forms a series of sums in addition.]

The Manual of French Cookery. Simplified for the benefit of the most unlearned. 33y One who has Tested the Receipts.

[The work of an English lady who has resided in France, and simplified the complicated recipes for French dishes, to enable her own cook to understand them. There are an immense number of recipes, which read plainly and seem easy ; but the proof of the pudding—]

Novels are the principal republications of the week. " Iledgauntlet," in the Library Edition of the Waverley Novels, is another intimation that this valuable series is drawing to its close. Mr. Bentley accompanies the new fiction by the author of John Drayton with a shilling edition of "John Drayton" himself, for the Railway Library. And Messrs. Chapman and Hall send forth "Harold" in the cheap edition of Sir Bulwer Lytton's work'. Waverley Novels. Library Edition. Volume XVLLI. "Redgauntiet." John Drayton ; being a History of the Early Life and Development of a Liverpool Engineer. (Bentley's Railway library.) , Harold, time Last of the Saxon Kings. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P. With a Frontispiece. A Retrospect of the Religious Life of England; or the Church, Puri- tanism, and Free Inquiry. By John James Tayler, B.A., Member of the Ilistorico-Theological Society of Leipsic. Second edition, revised. The Principal Roots of time Greek Tongue, with a display of their in- corporation into English. (On the same plan as "Hall's Latin Roots.") Second edition, revised and enlarged. By W. B. Hall.

NEW SERIALS.

The A C or Alphabetical Railway Guide : showing at a glance

How and When you can go from London to the different Stations in

Great Britain, and return ; together with the Fares, Distances, Popu- lation, &c. No. L [A very useful publication for those who are puzzled by the complicated time-tables of official lists. Every place to and from which a London train starts appears alphabetioalli, with the times of departure and arrival, the fare, and some statistics. The accuracy must be tested by we.] .77ie General Weekly Shipping List, and Postal and Mercantile Direc- tory. No. I.

PAMPHLETS.

How to Settle the Turkish Question. An Answer to R. Cobden, Esq., M.P.

The Prison and the SchooL The chief ascertained Causes of Crime con- sidered, with Suggestions for the Care, Relief, and Reformation of the Neglected, Destitute, and Criminal Children of the Metropolis. By Edmund Edward Antrobus, F.S.A., Justice of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, &c.

Electoral Reform ; or the Prevention of Bribery and Corruption practi- cally shown in the Draught of a proposed Bill for Parliament, &c. By William Parr Isaacson.

Hints to Intended Gold Biggers and Buyers, &c. By G. F. Goble, ninny years an Explorer in Australia, &e.

What Good may come out of the India Bill, 8ce. By Francis Horsley Robinson.

A Guide to the Itedensption of the Land-tax, &c. By Mark A. Bourdin, of the Inland Revenue Office, Somerset House.

Egypt and the Bible; being an Inquiry into the traces discernible in Holy Scripture of the influence exerted on the character of the Hebrews by their residence in Egypt. By B. A. Irving, B.A., As- sistant-Master in the Royal Institution School, Liverpool, Ste., Au- thor of the Norriaian Prize Essay for 1851, and the I.e Bas Prize Essays for 1861 and 1862.

Bees; their Habits, Management, and Treatment. By the Reverend J. G. Wood, Author of the "Illustrated Natural History." With Illus- trations. (Books for the Country.) A Synoptic Table of the Genders of French Substantives, &c. By E. B. "Vallet, Graduate of the University of France.