PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. Boone.

The Poetical Bemains of William Sidney Walker, formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Edited, with a Memoir of the Author, by the Reverend J. Moultrie, M.A., Rector of Rugby. The Lost Inheritance; a Novel. In three volumes. Hutspot ; a Tale for the Nineteenth Century. By Charles Francis Trower.

Blondelle ; a Story of the Day. [Blotadelle, "a story of the day," is the tale of a daughter sacrificed by-sel- fish and profligate parents to a great match, which ends in her wretchedness and death. The general moral is good, if not very new to fiction ; but the general profligacy and want of principle in the dramatis personas is so ex- treme as to be unlikely and repulsive; while the personal obtrusiveness and the discursive flippancy of the writer destroy the effects of some untrained ability, a knowledge of the lowest parts of high life, and a keen enough per- ception of the hollowness of conventionalisms.] The Drama of a Life, and Aspiranda. By John Alfred Langford, Au- thor of "Religious Scepticism," &c.

[The leading persons of the drama are Frederick a workman and Amelia his wife- the theme is the sufferings of the poor from competition; the chief incidents are a strike, a riot, the punishment of the rioters, and the death of

Amelia from the troubles of her position. There is little of dramatic power or skill in the piece; but the subject and the earnest feelings of the writer give force to his sentiments. The " Aspiranda" are occasional poems of a com- mon kind.]

The Saints our Example. By the Author of "Letters on Happiness." [A series of discourses on the lives of the principal Saints ; the Collect for the day being taken as the text. The object of the writer is to deduce the par- ticular moral and religious teaching which the example of the Saint con- tains; and this is done well, if somewhat discursively. The views are strictly Protestant.] A Manual of the Parliamentary Election Law of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. By Samuel Warren, Esq., F.R.S., of the Inner Temple, one of her Majesty's Counsel. [The object of this timely volume is to furnish all persons likely to be en- gaged in elections, from candidate to counsel, with a plain, full, and correct account of the law upon the subject, brought down to the present time, —the last a feature nowhere else attainable, though obviously of the first importance.] Footsteps to History ; being an Epitome of the Histories of England and France, &c.; to which is added, slight Sketches of Literature, Arts, and Manufactures. By Louisa Anthony. [An attempt to impress on the pupil's memory the character and leading ex- ploits of the Kings of England and France, in verse ; followed by prose notes on the history of each reign, the improvements in the useful arts that took place, and the names of great contemporaries.] Outlines of Universal History, Synchronically arranged, for the use of Schools. After the German.

[A well-digested chronology of the principal events in history, from the Crea- tion to the present time; accompanied by an attempt at succinct accounts of the periods intervening between the leading epochs.] Daily Bible Illustrations. By John Kitto, D.D., &c. Evening Series. Isaiah and the Prophets. April—June. [The present volume completes the series of the illustrations of the Old Tes- tament. From the nature of the text, the topics are of a more various kind than heretofore; the fulfilment of prophecy being introduced, though spar- ingly.] Picturesque Sketches of London, Past and Present. By Thomas Mil- ler, Author of a "History of the Anglo-Saxons," &c. With numerous Engravings of Churches, Public Buildings, &c. The Illustrated London Geography. By Joseph Guy junior, of Mag- dalen Hall, Oxford. The Illustrated London _Drawing Book. With about three hundred Illustrative Drawings and Diagrams. Edited and arranged by Robert Scott Burn, M.S.A., &c. [Copious wood-cuts, designed to attract the eye as well as to illustrate the text, are the prominent distinction of these three publications.] Goetz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand; a Drama. By J. W. von Goethe. The original German edition. With a complete Vocabulary by Falck-Lebahn.. iGoethe's drama, with a vocabulary and some notes, designed for students of German.] A New System of French Pronunciation. By H. A. Thibaudin, late of the Royal College of Bourges. No. I.

The most remarkable of the following works is Mr, Charles Knight's new speculation of, as the case may require, a revised or a rewritten edition of the Penny Cyclopedia, rearranged and subdivided according to the nature of its subjects. One leading division will consist of Sciences and Arts ; another, of Geography, History, and Biography. The first volume, now before us, forms a subdivision of the second section, and will contain the Geography of the British Empire, including in that term India, as well as our Colonial possessions strictly so called. The object of presenting so large a portion of geography separately, was to give the fulness the subject requires for British readers : and the execution seems well adapted to the plan. In the articles examined we have found great accuracy, with sufficient fulness, as well as more freshness of mind than is generally met with in compilations. The maps and plates are judiciously chosen, and executed with all the latest improvements of modern art. " A Dictionary of the English Language" is a reprint of the last Ame- rican abridgment of Webster's great work, originally made under his own eye according to his own plan, and since his death carefully revised by Pro- fessor Goodrich, who has incorporated in the work various additional mat- ter. It is a good-looking volume, more handy than the quarto.

The Imperial Cyclopedia. Subdivision—The Cyclopsedia of the Bri- tish Empire. Volume I. Abaco—Gujerat.

A Dictionary of the English Language. By Noah Webster, LLD. To which are added, a Synopsis of 'Words differently Pronounced by different orthoimsts, &c. Revised and enlarged, by Chauncey A. Goodrich, Professor in Yale College. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. By William Hazlitt. Second edition, revised by his Son. In four volumes. Volume HI. The Physician's Holiday; or a Month in Switzerland in the Summer of 1848. By John Forbes, M.D., F.R.S., &c. With a Map and Illus- trations. Third edition.

A Manual of Mathematical Geography ; comprehending an Inquiry into the Construction of Maps, &c. By William Hughes, F.It.G.S. Second edition.

The Book of Poetical Apophthegms. Edited by Andrew Park. Se- cond edition.

SERIAL.

.Address at the Anniversary Meeting of the Royal Geographical So- ciety, 24th May 1852. By Sir IL I. Murchison, G.C.St.S., &c., Presi- dent.

(The Presidential addresses are not the least valuable articles in the yearly volumes of the Geographical Society. They have for many years presented a succinct and authentic retrospect of what has in the course of each year been accomplished for the promotion of geography and the kindred and auxiliary sciences throughout the world. It was, we believe, with a late Secretary of the Society—Captain Washington—that the idea of imparting to them completeness in this respect originated ; but his views have been car- ried out in a masterly style by successive Presidents. In respect of substan- tial information, the address of Sir Roderick Murchison is equal to any that have preceded it; in respect of literary merit, it is probably superior to any of them. Its most interesting_ topics are—the recent operations in the Arctic regions in quest of Sir John Franklin ; Australian Gold (Sir Roderick adheres to his opinion that the newly-dicovered gold-regions, like those of the old world, will in time be exhausted) ; the Ordnance Survey of Scot- land (from which we gather that this important work has not yet been placed upon so satisfactory a footing as could be wished); and the recent discoveries in Asia and Africa, of which the latter are peculiarly striking and promising of important results. One delightful feature of this, as of all the productions of Sir Roderick Murchison's pen, is the cordial and candid spirit which prompts him to measure out full and overflowing justice to the achievements of other labourers in his own department.] ILLusrasixED Wow:.

The History of the Painters of All Nations. By M. Charles Blanes Translated by Peter Berlyn. of their Portraits, Illustrations of

their most celebrated Works, &c. The Illustrations executed under the direction of H. Armengaud, of Paris. The entire work edited by M. Digby Wyatt, Architect, &c. Part I. [This is an undertaking of unusual ambition and importance; proposing as it does to present a "view of the whole aspect of the history of painting." It is to be issued in monthly two-shilling parts, apparently without any re- ference to historical or national classification. The first part contains a no- tice of Murillo, and the second is to deal with the younger Teniers. Each part, however, will be "complete in itself and separately paged," so that the purchaser is at liberty to make whatever arrangement may please him beat: a plan to which there may be no very serious objection, provided the several notices of painters be supplemented by a notice of the school to which they belong collectively. Whether this is intended does not appear. The work is very handsomely-got up; the printing and paper are first-rate, and the wood-cut illustrations—chiefly French—particularly artistic in chiaroscuro and general handling. Some of these have already appeared in the Art Journal. The literature is less to our taste, being in the French style of encomiastic criticism and narrative; reliable, possibly, so far as the main facts are concerned, but certainly not reliable in tone. However this may be, the work, if carried on as it commences here, cannot fail of being attrac- tive and ornamental—an agreeable book to look through.]

PAMPHLETS.

The Shouts and Weeping of a Day of Jubilee. A Sermon, preached in the Abbey Church of St. Peter, Westminster, June 15, 1852, being the Close of the Third Jubilee of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. By Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford. The Grounds of Public Gratitude for National Mercy and Deliverance. A Sermon, by the Reverend John Edmund Cox, M.A., F.S.A., Vicar of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate.

Denmark and the Duchies, with the Succession as Heir-general in both

of the Russo-Gottorp Line &c..Emigration : Where to GC', and Who should Go. New Zealand and Australia as Emigration-fields, in contrast with the United States and Canada. Canterbury and the Diggins. By Charles Hursthouse junior,