PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

Narrative of the Voyage of H. M. 8. Herald, during the years 1845-61, under the command of Captain Henry Kellett, RN., C.B. ; being a Circumnavigation of the Globe, and three Cruises to the Arctic Regions in Search of Sir John 'Franklin. By Berthold Seemann, F.L.S., &c., Naturalist of the Expedition. In two volumes.

Two Thousand Miles' Ride through the Argentine Provinces : being an Account of the Natural Products of the Country, Habits of the People, &c. By William MacCan, Author of the " Present Position of Affairs on the River Plate."

The Isthmus of Darien in 1852. Journal of the Expedition of Inquiry for the Junction of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. By Lionel Gis- borne. With four Maps.

Travels in India and Kashmir. By the Baron Erick von Schonberg. In two volumes.

Military life in Algeria. By the Count P. de Castellane. In two volumes. Bases of Belief: an Examination of Christianity ass Divine Revela- tion by the light of recognized facts and principles. In four parts. By Edward Miall, M.P.

Sights and Sounds ; the Mystery of the Day : comprising an entiro History of the American "Spirit" Manifestations. By Henry Spicer, Esq.

Passages from My _Life ; together with Memoirs of the Campaign of 1813 and 1814. By Baron Jon Miiffling. Edited, with Notes, by Colonel Philip Yorke, F.R.S.

A Spring in the Canterbury Settlement. By C. Warren Adams, Esq. With Engravings. .[A slight and rapid sketch of personal adventures, written in an unaffected style. "A long sea voyage and a bracing climate " having been medically recommended to the author, he set out for New Zealand in the good ship Canterbury, which left the East India Docks, early in June 1851. The voy- age was not only "long" but comparatively slow, for it was late in October before the weary emigrants entered the harbour of Port Lyttelton: Mr. Adams again embarked in the same ship, homeward, on the 6th of January 1862, his object being accomplished and his health restored. His "Spring in the Canterbury Settlement" therefore comprised little more than two months : but in that time he had seen a good deal, and penetrated further, ao as to be able to tell us more about the varied surface of " the Canterbury block," than any of the previous explorers we have met with. He describes things as he found them, neither rose-coloured nor black—with no undue leaning to the Canterbury scheme, but also without bitterness when he notices imperfections and errors.] Wellington : a Lecture. By the Reverend John Cumming, D.D., &e. A new and enlarged edition. [An extended edition of a lecture delivered at Exeter Hall to young men. The object of Dr. Cumming' was to deduce an example for persons in all ranks of life from the character of the Duke of Wellington. The singleness of purpose, the sense of duty, the simplicity of habits, and the disinterested- ness of the Duke, are well enlarged upon ; and the whole subject is treated with more good sense and liberality of feeling than is always the case in discourses of this nature. Dr. Cumming also touches upon a current topic in this rational manner. "As matters are, the soldier appears to me rather as preventive than provocative of war. While the world remains as it is, the surest guarantee that the desolating flood of war shall not touch our ahorek is our having an effective military force, composed of loyal British hearts, with future Wellingtons to lead them. When war shall overtake u; it will not be because we had too vast a military establishment. The soldier does not create war, any more than the lightning-conductor generates the light- ning, or a quick pulse makes fever. He is a standing evidence of its un- avoidable necessity in this dispensation. He is the exponent of a world gone wrong. He carries away—often at the sacrifice of himself—the fierce flame that would devastate his country, and wrap in one wide blaze its pros- perity and peace and happiness. We cannot do without him ; let us not ue unthankful to him, still less depreciate him."] Results of the System of Separate Confinement, as administered at the Pentonville Prison. By John T. Burt, B.A., Assistant Chaplain, formerly Chaplain to the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum.

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[This volume is to a great extent founded on the author's evidence before a Committee of the Commons in 1851, but extended and presented in a more popular form. Mr. Burt's object is to advocate a return to the original dis- cipline of the Model Prison, which enforced separate confinement for a much longer period than the late regulations, and which enabled that discipline to be more strictly carried out by means of a stronger staff.] Tangible Typography : or How the Blind Read. By Edmund C. Johnson, Member of the Committee of the School for the Indigent Blind.

[An account of various systems for teaching the blind to read by means of raised or " embossed " signs which the finger of the blind pupil traces out, accompanied by specimens, and by remarks critically suggestive. The modes described are nine in number ; but are reducible to two classes, one consisting of some form of the Roman alphabet, the other of special signs. Mr. Johnson is in favour of the alphabet ; and we agree with him, from the facility with which the blind can be taught or assisted in a difficulty by others, as well as from the general utility of a free knowledge of common letters to the blind. The system of signs is not in strictness more " arbi- trary" than the forms of the alphabet, and may possibly have some advan- tage by fewer letters, or simpler spelling ; but the general utility of the alphabetical forms overbalances any advantages of this kind.]

Outlines of the History of the Middle Ages : with Heads of Analysis, Synchronic Table, and Questions for Examination. By George T. Manning. [An educational book, designed as a text and guide for teachers to expand to pupils, rather than for the perusal of pupils themselves. The treatment of

the narrative part is so broad and allusive, so much like a rapid and con- densed quarterly " article," that it requires some knowledge of history to follow it. This summary review is divided into five periods, beginning about the fifth century, and ending about the close of the fifteenth. It is succeeded

by an analysis of the text, in which particular facts are more distinctly pre- muted, though still requiring the filling-up of the tutor. Questions for ex- amination with chronological tables classified follow. The idea of the Outlines is probably taken from the more philosophical modern historians and lecturers on history. Mr. Manning has rather exaggerated than lowered the high-pitched style of some of them ; but the book is a clever and striking survey of a thousand years of European history. It will require, however, more historical knowledge than many masters possess, to be used in the way the compiler intends.] The Military Encyclopedia; a Technical, Biographical, and Historical Dictionary, referring exclusively to the Military Sciences, the Me- moirs of distinguished Soldiers, and the Narratives of remarkable Battles. By J. H. Stocqueler, Esq., Author of "The Life of Field- Marshal the Duke of Wellington; &c. [A clever and informing book, conveying a good deal of military knowledge with neatness and precision. The technical information, however, might have been presented in a much less space ; because Mr. Stocqueler gives biographical notices of a great many soldiers, living as well as dead, and accounts of many battles and sieges,ivhich last do not seem to have been selected to illustrate any scientific principle they may contain.] Franklin's Footsteps. A Sketch of Greenland, along the shores of which his Expedition passed, and of the Parry Isles, where the last traces of it were found. By Clement Robert Markham, late of H.M.S. Assistance. (Beading for Travellers.) [An historical sketch of Northern discovery. from the earliest periods,. fol- lowed byeapaelnicis of modern British voyages in the same direction, especially of the ex Mona engaged in the search after Franklin. The author was employ in Captain Austin's late voyage; and his experience gives life and character to his narrative of that voyage, as well as precision to his general description of the Arctic regions.] The Parliamentary Companion, for 1853. Twenty-first year. By Charles R. Dod, Esq., Author of the "Peerage, Baronetage, Knight- age, " &c. [True as the day, Mr. Bod's Parliamentary Companion appears with the new Ministry, involving the appointment of nearly seventy persons, and the displacement of an equal number—" think of that, Master Brook! " Naval and military promotions have occurred amongst both Peers and Commoners, and there is a change in (the seats of) the Irish Bishops. Besides these par- ticulars, the close balance of parties has induced Mr. Dod still more closely to examine and explain their politics, as far as they can be deduced from premises and discourse.] Essays on Political Economy. By the late M. Frederick Bastiat, Mem- ber of the Institute of France.

[This neat little volume appears to be a collection of separately-published tracts by the distinguished French economist, F. Bastiat. It contains essays on capital and interest, money, government, the law, and "that which is seen, and that which is not seen," meaning direct and indirect or conse- quential effects in political economy.]

Influence ; or the Evil Genius. By the Author of "A Trap to Catch a Sunbeam." Illustrated by John Gilbert. ghe avowed moral of this tale is the evil effects of a bad companion • but the real lesson seems to be the evil of bad education and natural weakness of character. The story in its earlier part resembles the juvenile tale, but its dramatis person* and later events belong more to the noveL] Notices of the Life and Character of his Grace the Most Reverend Daniel Murray, late Archbishop of .Dublin as contained in the com- memorative Oration pronounced in the Church of the Conception, Dublin, on the occasion of his Grace's Month's Mind. With His- torical and Biographical Notes. By the Reverend William Meagher, P. P.

[A funeral sermon or "panegyric" on the late Archbishop Murray; to which have been added notes of a biographical character.]

An Introduction to the Construction of Plane Geometrical Figures. By R. Burchitt, Head Master of the Metropolitan School of Practical Art.

[A few pages designed to acquaint the student with the rudiments of mathe- matics; without a knowledge of which, he cannot be admitted into the Go- vernment School of Practical Act. The brochure is clear and cheap.]

The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Present Age. By Samuel Warren, F.ILS., one of her Majesty's Counsel, and Recorder of Hull.

Lectures on the Beatitudes, delivered during the season of Lent, in St. Paul's Episcopal Chapel, Edinburgh. By the Reverend Francis Gar- den, MA., of Trinity College, Cambridge.

Faxencurs,

The Steam Navies of France and England Compared. By a Tice-Ad- miral.

The Perils of England. By a Tory Radical. India : its Government under a .Bureaucracy. By John Dickinson junior, M.R.A.S., &c. _Bombay Briberies ; a Tale of the present Charter. By Indus. A Scheme of Direst Tit-ration, for 1853. By Jelingar Symons, Esq., Barrister-at-law, &c.

Substance of the Case for General Inquiry into the Reform Act of 1832, with a View to the Restraint of Bribery in Boroughs : a Letter to Viscount Palmerston, M.P., Secretary of State for the Home De- partment.

Sugar-trade and Slave-trade. The West India Question Considered. By William Edmonstone Lendrick. .What is Convocation? By Richard Wildman, Esq., Recorder of Not- tingham, &o. A Second Letter to the Reverend S. R. Maitland, D.D., 4,e., on the Genuineness of the Writings ascribed to Cyprian, Bishop of liar- thage. By Edward John Shepherd, A.M., Rector of Luddesdown, &e. Popery Unmasked at the Recent Elections its Ireland. By a Ulergyman of the Established Church.

2'he Ghost of Junius.

Apsley House. [A short poem.] The National Gallery, its Formation and Management. By William Dyce, Esq., RA., &c.