PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

OLD FRIENDS AND NEw ACQUAINTANCES, by Miss Agnes Strickland, is a collection of tales of rural life in the Eastern counties of England. Some of the tales are new ; others have previously appeared in various periodicals.

PASSING THOUGHTS ON RELIGION, by the Author of "Amy Herbert," were originally written down for personal use whilst the author was read- ing the 22nd and part of the 23rd chapter of St. Luke's Gospel. The notes have been expanded into their present form in compliance with a request that the author would publish, as a complement to her " Thoughts for the Holy Week," another book, comprising " Thoughts for the Re- mainder of Lent."

Dr. Marcet has written an interesting little book on the pathology and treatment of CHRONIC ALCHOLIC INTOXICATION, a disease of much more frequent occurrence than delirium tremens, from which it is easily dis- tinguished by well-marked characteristics, especially by the absence of paroxysms of violent delirium, and by a protracted state of unin- terrupted suffering, which allows the patient no rest day or night. It is a punishment from which few men can hope to escape who persist for a considerable length of time in the abuse of alcoholic liquors, though there are exceptions to the general rule as regards the male sex, and female drunkards seem to be privileged against its operation. Dr. Marcet describes many cases in which the disease was brought effectually under medical control.

Marrs TO THINKERS is a little volume of 250 pages, comprising ten lectures delivered by the Member for Montrose to literary and religious societies. The subjects are of a miscellaneous kind, including " Olden Times," "The Pleasures of Literature," "Overruling Providence," " Prieetcraft," " Narrowmindedness," &c.

The new editions of Captain Dod's PEERAGE, SARONETAGE, aNn KNIGHTAGE, and of his PARLIAMENTARY COMPANION, present the well- known characteristics of convenient arrangement, fulness of information, and entire trustworthiness, to which each succeeding year, during the last quarter of a century, has borne undeviating testimony. In the pre- sent year, both works exhibit many now features, the result of other changes besides those dependent on births, deaths, and marriages. New peerages, baronetages, and colonial bishoprics, have been created ; old titles have emerged from the shade of higher dignities, and assumed, as it were, a distinct personality ; new members have been summoned to the Privy Council ; new judges have been knighted ; the deaths, promo- tions, and the bestowal of titular honours, consequent upon the Indian rebellion, have been very numerous in the Army and Navy ; and all these occurrences, and many others, have produced a corresponding amount of changes in Captain Dod's larger volume. A complete change of Ministry has affected every part of the "Parliamentary Companion," and in view of the impending discussion of' a Reform Bill, the editor has carefully brought up the statistics of the constituency to the highest at- tainable point of accuracy, and exercised increased vigilance in recording the polities of each Member.

Mr. Mackenzie Walcott's useful and interesting manual of the history the THE CATHEDRALS OF THE 'UNITED KINGDOM has appeared in second edition with considerable additioniand improvements, and he has recently produced a companion work, THE MINSTERS AND ABBEY Rums OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, for which we anticipate similar success. Mr. Walcott makes no mention of the rather remarkable ruins of the Abbey of Fore, near Castle Pollard, in the county of Westmeath, and we know not why be substitutes Tynemouth Abbey for the universally received name of Tynemouth Priory. These are pardonable faults in a first edition, and we shall be glad to see them corrected in a second.

BOOKS.

Old Friends and New Acquaintances. By Agnes Strickland.

Atheline, or the Castle by the Sea. a Tale. By Louisa Stewart. Two volumes. Alive or Dead A Tale of St. Crispin's Parish. By Charles HowelL Many Happy Returns of the Day. By Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke. With numerous engravings by the Brothers Dalziel.

Pasting Thoughts on Religion. By the Author of "Amy Herbert."

The Practical Results of the Reform At of 1832. By Sir John Walsh, Bart., 11.P.

A Treatise on the Loop Formation for Rifle Volunteers. By Automates.

Chess Praxis. A Sapplenunt to the Chess Player's Handbook. By H. Staunton Hymns from the Gospel of the Day, for each Sunday and the Festivals of our Lord. By the Reverend J. E. Bode.

Sermons preached in the English Church at Heidelberg, in the years 1858-59. By Stephen Henry Saxby, M.A.

Sermons in different Styles. By the Reverend John Rice Byrne, M.A. Ballads and Metrical Sketches. By George F. Preston.

Hints to Thinkers ; or Lectures for the Times. By W. E. Baxter, Esq., M.P. Dramatic Scenes from Standard Authors. For- Private Representation and

Schools. By C. W. Smith.:

A First German Course; containing the Elements of Grammar, with Exercises on each Rule, in German and English, and a selection of Anecdotes, accom- panied by Conversational Exercises and a complete Vocabulary. By Feick Lebahn.

A Manual of Interest and Annuities ; comprising a Popular Explanation of the Solution of Questions of Compound Interest and Annuities for Years ; with an Auxiliary Table for Fifty-four Rates of Interest. Also the Values of Life Annuities by the English Life Tables. By Edward Smyth.

NEW EnrrfoNs AND REPRINTS.

Modern Europe. A School History. By John Lord. A.M. With three addi- tional chapters, to the Peace of Villafranca, in 1859. Ninth thousand. Stephen Dugard ; or the Black Rock's Month. A Romance. By William

Sludford, Esq.

SERIALS.

The Peerage, Baronetage, and Keightage, of Great Britain and Ireland, for 1880; including all the Titled Classes. By Robert P. Dod.