PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From August 55th to Septens' er 5th.

BOOKS.

Notes and Observations on the Ionian Islands and Malta ; with some Remarks on Constantinople and Turkey, and on the system of Quaran- tine as at present conducted. By Jour: Dsvr, M.D., &c., Inspector- General of Army-Hospitals, L.R. In two volumes.

Percival Keene. By Captain MARRYAT, Author of " Peter Simple," Sic. In three volumes.

Lectures on Female Prostitution ; its nature, extent, effects, guilt, causes, and remedy. By RALPH WARDLAW, D.D.

How did England become an Oligarchy? Addressed to Parliamentary Reformers. To which is added, a short Treatise on the First Prin- ciples of Political Government. By JONATHAN Duncan, Esq., Author of " The Dukes of Normandy," &c.

r A brief review of English history, noting the leading changes or developments in its constitution—as the excessive power of the Crown under the Princes of the house of TUDOR, originating in the destruction of the great Barons by the wars of the Roses, and the cautious policy of LIENtir the Seventh—the further change effected at the Restoration, and so on. This summary is followed by an Essay on Government; which has all the abstraction of the celebrated work of JAMES MILL, without his power and philosophy. In the historical essay there is nothing new ; and some errors scarcely to be expected in a publication which, whatever be its character in other respects, cannot be charged with any defi- ciency in pretension. The power of the TUDOR Princes was no doubt very great—in some of them it might almost be called absolute ; but their govern- ment cannot be termed, as Mr. DUNCAN terms it, a " despotism." A despotism, we believe, is a form of government where the will of the Sovereign is the sole authority, his decrees becoming the law. But this was never the case in Eng- land. The most impetuous and tyrannical of the TUDOR line, HENRY the Eighth—the most bigoted and fanatical, Maar—always took care to get the sanction of Parliament to their proceedings. With a despotism, the STUARTS would have bad an easier time.]

False Association and its Remedy ; or a Critical Introduction to the late Charles Fourier's Theory of Attractive Industry and the Moral Har- mony of the Passions. To which is prefixed, a Memoir of Fourier. By HUGH DOHERTY.

[An introduction to the theory of the late CHARLES Emmen, whose project tor remedying every thing that is wrong in society was based on a system analogous to that of OWEN and other economical reformers; except perhaps that FOURIER saw more distinctly than some of the rest that a greater creation of wealth was more necessary than a new distribution, and affirmed that such would be the effect of his plan. Be also admitted that different kinds of labour had different ratios of value ; whilst religion and marriage were cardinal points in his theory of "Attractive Industry and the Moral Harmony of the Passions." A memoir of the apostle is prefixed to this exposition of his revelations: it is well and rapidly written, of course with a good deal of enthusiasm.] The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere. Edited by CirsaLes KNIGHT. The second edition. Volume V. [This volume contains the two Parts of Henry the Fourth, Henry the Fifth, and the First Part of Henry the Sixth. The most important and largest point of the editorial matter is the argument of Mr. KNIGNT that the true subject

of the action of the two plays of Henry the Fourth was the reformation

i of Prince Hal; and that therefore the close s fit and complete, notwithstanding the objection of JOHNSON. The view is plausible, and the argument not injudi- cious; but to carry it fully out, the first scene of Henry the Fifth ought to be added, or for that matter the best part of the play, since in Henry the Fourth the reader has only the Prince's word for his reformation ; or if any fruit at all is exhibited, it is the very princely act of deserting poor Jack Falstaff when he

has no occasion for him. The general criticism on these two favourite dramas, which according IO JOHNSON have probably yielded more pleasure than any other plays that ever were written, is judicious but minute; and dwells too muck upon obvious points, as if nobody before Mr. KNIGHT could appreciate SHA1L SEERE. Among his verbal criticisms, there is a change in the text, which we do not think justifiable. It is, indeed, not without ingenuity, (though it re- quires the support of a very long note, partaking too much of the usual cha-

racter of annotations); but we conceive the case is very rare where an editor is justified, with all the authorities against him, in expunging a word of the

text to insert emendations of his own. Let him put the conjecture as a various reading ; and when the common judgment has confirmed it, succeeding editors may incorporate it in the text.] The Works of William Shakspeare. By J. PAYNE COLLIER, Esq. VoL V.

[This volume contains the three Parts of Henry the Sixth, Richard the Third, and Henry the Eighth ; completing the "Histories" of the original folio. In

the Introductions to each drama, Mr. COLLIER gives some curious bibliogra-

phical information as to the earlier editions, and the old dramas on which they were founded. The question, whether SHARSPERE wrote, or rather remodelled, the First Part of Henry the Sixth, is argued by Mr. COLLIER, and decided in the affirmative, chiefly on the fact of its insertion by HERING E and CORDELL in the first folio. And this proof is no doubt very strong, when nothing better

than mere critical conclusion from internal evidence is opposed to it. Mr. KNIGHT agrees with Mr. COLLIER in his conclusion, but postpones his argu- ments till the progress of his edition enables him to take a view of the question as regards the three plays and Richard the Third. More words may easily be added, and ingenious points of detail raised without difficulty, by painstaking acuteness ; but perhaps the question of JOHNSON will carry as much conviction as more elaborate arguments—" If we take these plays from Shakspere, to whom shall they be given ?"] The Count de Foix. By THOMAS POWELL. [The subject of this poem is Famsseirr's story of the Count de Foie, whose only son, Gaston, died in prison, being suspected of intending to poison the

Count by means of a powder given to him by his uncle the King of Navarre, as a philter to reconcile his father and mother. The additions made by Mr. POWELL are of an obvious or ceremonial kind—feasts and receptions, narrated

in detail, which FROISSART passes over or mentions generally; his changes, by

implicating Gaston in what the lawyers call an "overt act," lessen the sym- pathy which FROISSART'S story excites for the youth, and makes the father

suffer through an equivocal accident rather than his own suspicions. The poetical part of the execution is indifferent—immature, if not puerile. Mr. POWELL is at present deficient in the mechanical power of versification, and we suspect he wants poetical genius.]

The Arab Bride; a Tale. By L. W. BARBER.

[Mr. BARBER'S effusions differ from the verses that continually issue from the press, only in being more amusing : his prose is of a kindred character to the magisterial rhetoric of which MATHEWS used to give a specimen, "standing like a crocodile, with your hands in your breeches-pockets."] Elements of Geometry : consisting of the first Four and the Sixth Books of Euclid, chiefly from the text of Dr. Robert Simeon; with the prin- cipal Theories in Proportion, and a Course of Practical Geometry on

the ground. Also four tracts relating to Circles, Planes, end Solids, with one on Spherical Geometry, for the use of the Royal Military College (Sandhurst.) By JOHN NARRIEN, F.R.S. and R.A.S., Pro- feasor of Mathematics, &c. in the Institution.

[This is an extremely neat and judicious manual of geometry. It comprehends in • very small compass all that is necessary for initiating the student into the geometry of forms as contradistinguished from the geometry of forces, and it is nowhere rendered obscure by compression. The substitution of Mr. Ivostv's "Tract on Proportion" for the Fifth Book of Euclid, will meet with general approbation: we confess to a preference for the methods of the old Greek geometry, but this is more a matter of individual taste than of practical importance. The attempts of the editor to improve the nicer details of ex- pression, are, like all attempts of the kind, fruitless : language is an imperfect medium for the expression of thought, and it is waste of time to labour at giving it an impossible perfection. But Mr. NARRIEN has competitors enough in this i task to keep him n countenance. Mr. NARRIE/q announces that his treatise is the second of a series intended to constitute a general course of mathematics for the use of the cadets. If all the rest equal the present, the course will be a most valuable accession to our standard educational works.]

Waverley Novels, Volume XVIIL—"Redgauntlet."

The Criminal Law and its Sentences, in Treasons, Felonies, and Misde- meanours. By PETER BURKE, Esq., of the Inner Temple, Barrister- at- law.

[This publication bears some resemblance to Mr. BOOTHBY'S very excellent Synopsis of the Law relating to Indictable Offences, but is planned upon a narrower scale, exhibiting only the crime and its punishment, though the au- thority which creates the offence is generally mentioned in the account of the crime. The law is brought down to the present session, embracing offences created by the Property and Income Tax Act. The reason assigned for the publication is an odd one—that for want of a ready reference to "the exact penalty attached to each offence," Criminal Courts "not unfrequently pass an incorrect sentence." This is "the glorious uncertainty of the law" with a vengeance ! A satirist could not have imagined a more biting sarcasm on the complexity of the law, or the ignorance of those appointed to administer it.] Observations on Extension of Protection of Copyright of Designs, with a

view to the improvement of British Taste; including the Act passed 10th August 1842 for consolidating and amending the laws relating thereto; to which are added, Legal and Practical Notes, with instruc-

tions relative to the registering of designs. By GEORGE BRACE, Secre-

tary to the Linendrapers, Lacemen, Haberdashers, and Hosiers Institu- tion.

[The most useful thing in this volume is an analysis of the new Act ; for the greater part of Mr. Bnacz's own matter consists in ringing the changes on protection. The French do not excel us in natural taste—it is protection; the artists of France are not superior to the English on account of the founda- tion of schools of design, and the number of collections gratuitously open to the public—it is all owing to protection. There is nothing new in the volume: the ideas were urged, and more fully, at the time the bill was pending in Par- liament; and if there were novelty in them it would come too late—the act is passed, and the question at rest for the present.]

A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World. Illus- trated with maps. By J. R. M'Cottoca, Esq. In two volumes. Volume IL

[The completion of this elaborate, painstaking, and informing work ; whose two ample octavo volumes, through the compactness of their type, contain more matter than half-a-dozen quarto volumes.]

Catalogue of the Library of the Islington Literary and Scientific Society. [A catalogue of the books in the library of an institution adapted to the wants of persons of the middle class. The catalogue exhibits a useful and various selection of popular publications, both in current and standard literature, with a sufficient sprinkling of scientific works, and a few of a more recondite cha- racter, probably presents. The arrangement is classified as regards the sub- jects, the sub-arrangement being alphabeticaL In collections, whether con- sisting of several authors—as the British Poets, or of one writer—as MILNER'S Church History, the useful plan is adopted of giving a statement of the con- tents of each volume.] Phonography, or Writing by Sound; a natural method of writing all lan- guages by one alphabet, composed of signs that represent the sounds of the human voice : adapted also to the English language as a com- plete system of short-hand, briefer than any other system, and by which a speaker can be followed verbatim without the use of arbitrary marks. By ISAAC PITMAN. Fifth edition, improve&

SERIALS.

Carleton's Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, Part IL

[This second part of the republication of Mr. CARLETON'S welLknown tales completes his " Introduction "; in which he gives an interesting and auto- biographical account of his early life as the son of an Irish peasant, as well as some graphic sketches of his parents. Both his father and mother appear to have been remarkable persons, his mother distinguished for the beauty of her voice and the pathos of her singing, his father for an extensive collection of legendary tales, whence indeed Mr. CARLETON has derived many of those which he has given to the public. The second subject of the Introduction, the Character of the Irish peasantry, is of less interest than the autobiographical part—not untrue, but somewhat commonplace.]

Travels in Iceland. By Sir GEORGE STEWART MACKENZIE, Bart.

F.R.SS. L. and E., &c. New edition, revised by the Author. (People's Edition.)

Faust; a Tragedy. Part the Second. Rendered from the German of

GOETHE, by ARCHER GURNEY. NON. I. IO IV.

The Biographical Dictionary of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful

Knowledge, Vol. I. Part III.

London, Part XVIII.

Murray's Environs of London, Part V.

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

Cook's Voyages Round the IVorld, Parts X. and XL History of the British Empire in India, Part V.

Elements of Electro-Metallurgy, Part V.

Guide to Service--The Cook. Plain and practical directions for cooking and housekeeping; with upwards of seven hundred receipts. Doyle's Cyclopedia of Practical Husbandry, Part V.

French Language acquired in Four Months ; Lesson the Fourth. Waverley Novels, Vol. IV. Part V1I.—" Redgauntlet."

Our Mess, No. IX.

The Commissioner, Nos. IX. and X.

Coombe Abbey, No. V.

Handy Andy, Part IX. Susan Hopley, Part III.

The Gaberlanzie's Wallet, Part IX.

PERIODICALS.

Dublin Review, No. XXV.

Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, No.

Magazines for September — Blackwood's, Dublin University, Tait's, Monthly, Ainsworth's, Mirror, North of England, Great Western, Polytechnic, Union, Farmer's, Church of England, Churchman, Village seChmube

Churchman, an, London Phalanx, Sportsman, New Monthly, Belle Ass PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Chronological Pictures of English History, from William the Conqueror to Queen Victoria. By Jones GILBERT. Parts L and II. [This work is well calculated to attract the attention of young persons, and to impress the leading facts of the English history on their minds, by means of pictures. Every part consists of five large plates, each plate being devoted to illustrate the reign of one monarch; which is done by designs representing some of the principal events of the period, portraits of the sovereign and two distinguished characters, and sketches of the costume, architecture, &c. The amount of information thus addressed to the eye is considerable ; and what- ever is requisite to complete and explain the chronological series is concisely stated in a tabular account of the characters and incidents, with dates ap- pended. The designs are lithographed in the tinted style; those of the first part by Mr. W. HAWKINS, those of the second by Mr. J. GILBERT, I0 whom the exe- cution of the rest of the work appears to be assigned. Mr. GILBERT'S draw- ings are more brilliant and masterly than those of his predecessor, and regarded as sketches they are very spirited and effective ; but a less free and dashing style might better suit the youthful students of the picture-history, for whom more exact delineation would be preferable.] Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part X.

Canadian Scenery illustrated, Part XXVIL Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated, Part XVI.

British Moths and their Transformations, Nos. X. and XI.

Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, Part XLVIL—" William Shakspere, a

Biography," No. 3.

Pictorial History of England, Part LXVII.

S. (7. Halts Book of British Ballads, Part IV.

Bei.ssey's Pictorial History of France, Parts V. to VII.

Le Keuis Memorials of Cambridge,Nos. %XXIII and XXXIV.

MAPS AND CHARTS.

Map of the Island of Newfoundland. The coast-lines compiled from the most recent Admiralty charts. the interior filled up partly from a rough personal survey, and partly from oral information. By J. B. JUKES, M.A. F.G.S. &c., Geological Surveyor of Newfoundland, in the years 183921840.

[A note transmitted from the publisher informs us, that through an acci- dental omission this map did not accompany Mr. JUKES'S work on Newfound- land ; the absence of which we commented upon as diminishing the attraction of the book. The sources from which the map was compiled, coupled with the author's knowledge of the country, render it, no doubt, equal in accuracy to Colonel BONNYCASTLE'S, and it is superior in distinctness. The water, whether of lake, river, or the surrounding sea, is denoted by a darker tint produced by lines ; so that terra firma, even in the smallest islands, stands out distinctly to the eye.]

Statistical Chart of the British Empire. [A tabular summary of the statistics of the United Kingdom and its depen- dencies, arranged in columns under different heads; showing what are our ter- ritorial possessions in each quarter of the globe; their situation, extent, and climate; the nature of the soil and its productions; the amount of population in each colony, distinguishing the Europeans, and stating the population of great cities separately; the occupations, language, and religion of the inha- bitants; the value of the imports and exports, the finances and form of govern- ment. The information professes to be derived from the most recent official returns, and other authoritative sources : it can only be approximate and con- jectural in many instances, in some only very general ; but pains appear to have been taken to make the information as complete as the nature of the compilation allows. The typography of the chart is excellent—handsome, and easy of reference: the seals of the different Colonies and Companies, beautifully engraved in wood, form a border, at once ornamental and useful: the paper on

which it is printed, too, is of a peculiar fabric, at once tough and thick.] •

PAMPHLETS.

Inaugural Addresses. By the Rev. T. JACKSON.

Oxford Unmasked; or an attempt to describe some of the Abuses in that University. Dedicated, without permission, to Sir Robert Peel, Bart. By a Graduate.

Letters on Recent Transactions in India. By an Officer of the Bengal Army.

The New Zealand Portfolio. Conducted by H. L. CHAPMAN, (of the Middle Temple,) Barrister-at-Law. No. IL—Letter to John Abel Smith, Esq. M.P., on the Advantages which would accrue to English Capitalists (corn the establishment of a Loan Company for New Zea- land, similar to the Australian Trust Company.

Music.

Think of Thee no More! Song. The words by LAWRENCE REYNOLDS, Esq.; the music by G. H. CAUNTER.