PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Life of Marie de Medieis, Queen of France, Consort of Henry IF:, and Regent of the Kingdom under 'Allis NHL By Miss Pardee, Author of "Louis XIV. and the Court of France in the Seventeenth Cen- tury," &e. In three volumes.

Atlantic and Transatlantic Sketches, Afloat and Ashore. By Captain Mackinnon, R.N., Author of "Steam Warfare in the Parana." In two volumes.

The Personal Adventures of "Our Own Correspondent" in Italy. Showing how an Active Campaigner can find good Quarters when other men lie in the Fields, &c. By Michael Burke Henan. In two volumes.

Reminiscences of Thought and Feeling. By the Author of "Visiting my Relations.'

Journal of a Winter's Tour in India ; with a Visit to the Court of Nepaul. By the Honourable Captain Francis Egerton, R.N. In two volumes.

Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, classified andlarranged so as to facilitate the Expression of Ideas and assist in Literary Composi- tion. By Peter Mark Beget, M.D., F.R.S., &c.

LA species of dictionary, where the words are brought together under a clas- sification according to the ideas which they express. This classification is broad in its leading divisions; consisting of—(1) abstract relations, (2) space, (3) matter, (4) intellect, (5) volition, (6) affections: but their subdivisions are very numerous. The meanings of the words are not given, as it is sup- posed that the persons who use the book will be sufficiently acquainted with them. The "phrases" of the titlepage relate to idiomatic sentences. But a specimen will convey the best idea of the plan and mode of execution.

MARMAGE, matrimony, wedlock, Unlawful marriage ; a left-handed union, match, intermarriage, coverttire, mart age; mesalltonee. vinculum matrimonii. "CELIBACY, singleness, misogamy, " Wedding, nuptials, Hymen, spouse's, tingle blessedness. espousals; leading to the altar; the torch " An unmarried man, bachelor, aga- of Hymen; nuptial benediction, egeithala- mist, misogamist. mium, the honeymoon. "An unmarried woman, a spinster, " A married man, a husband, spouse, maid, maiden, virgin, jeme sole. bridegroom, benedict, neogamist, consort. " V. To live single.

" A married woman, a wife, bride, " Drroacs, separation, widowhood.

mate, helpmate, rib, better bait, lame " A widow, widower, dowager,

• rorcie.

" Monogamy, bigamy, digamy, deuter- " V. To live separate.

oca,m_y, trigarny, polygamy ; a Turk, a Bluebeard.

1'. To marry, wed, espouse, wive, to take to oneself a wife.

" Phr. To lead to the altar.

"To marry, join, give away, handfast. " /Ir. To tie the nuptial knot ; to give in marriage.

" marital. Attf. Matrimonial, conjugal, connubial, nuptial, hymeneal, spousal, bridal, "

The work is by no means a hasty production. Fifty years ago, Dr. Beget began a skeleton of it for his own use and it has been growing ever since; though it is only within these last four years that the author has found time

to complete his book. The object of the compiler is to assist persons in corn. position, who have not the copia verborum, or cannot on a sudden command what they have. How far it may be useful for this purpose must be matter of individual experiment. The use of such helps seems rather for revision than composition. A man who understands his subject, and has a knowledge of the language he writes in, can generally find words to convey his mean- ing; if he cannot, the substance of his lucubrations will be apt to suffer while he is hunting through dictionaries for terms. When the first words of the first thoughts are revised, then is the time for minute inquiries into shades of meaning and niceties of expression ; and this perhaps is the period Dr. Beget had in view.] Sympathies of the Continent; or Proposals for a New Reformation. By

John Baptist Von I:Bracher D.D. Translated and edited, with Notes

and Introduction, by the Reverend Arthur Cleveland Core, M.A. [Dr. Hirscher, an eminent Romanist divine of Germany, has published a work on the abuses of the Roman Church as it exists in his own country. in the opinion of Mr. Core, an American Episcopalian of High Church views, as it strikes us, the work of Hirseher holds out some hope of an overthrow of the Papacy, and of the establishment of national churches like the Anglican. He has therefore translated the book with an introduction, in which he sets forth the grounds of his hopes, and gives an encouraging account of the working of the Synodal system with a lay element, an the Episcopalian Church of the United States.

If the opinions of Dr. Hirscher were generally entertained in Germany, a separation from the Church of Rome might follow, because the Papacy dares not attempt any reform. But if the separatists continued to hold the present opinions of Hirscher, they would be as much Roman Catholics as ever ; since ins proposals concern discipline, not doctrine. He would revive the primi- tive synods with their lay element; improve the education and elevate the character of the clergy ; abolish enforced celibacy ; have public worship in the vulgar tongue; and, among similar reforms, modify indulgences, con- fession, and penance, because the people look to the form only. The people, in the widest extent of the word, regard private confession as the only way to obtain the remission of sins ; and repeat to them as often as you may that amendment of life is the first and the indispensable oondition of remission, it is all of no avail towards destroying the convenient and deep-rooted no. tion that confession alone is the condition" • and so forth. These sug- gestions argue boldness and independence of thinking ; they are so distasteful at Rome that Hirecher's book is put in the index expurgatorius : but the main doctrines of the Romish Church as opposed to any Protestant Church are left quite untouched.] Lives of the Princesses of England, from the Norman Conquest. By Mary Anne Everett Green Editor of the "Letters of Royal and Illus- trious Ladies." Volume IV.

[The principal part of this volume is devoted to Margaret Tudor, sister of Henry the Eighth. The subject has already been handled at length by Miss Strickland in her Lives of the Queens of :Scotland. Miss Green possesses literary ability and antiquarian knowledge to treat her heroine well and thoroughly ; but the lady has hardly interest sufficient to require a second notice from a miscellaneous journal, though Miss Green's plan requires her to include the Princess Margaret in her work.] The Conquerors of the Hew World and their Bondsmen ; being a Nar- rative of the Principal Events which led to Negro Slavery in the West Indies and America. Volume IL [This second volume has been long in coming ; and, relating as it does to the Spanish doings in America, has not so much freshness as the first volume, which depicted African slavery in the Peninsula itself. As the subject is not completed, it will be more satisfactory to postpone this volume.] Memoir of Danid Chamier, Minister of the Reformed Church; with Notices of his Descendants.

[Daniel Chamier was a Huguenot minister, who distinguished himself in the negotiations which procured the Edict of Nantes, as well as by his writ- ings. He was killed at the siege of Montauban. This volume contains such account of his life as the zeal of one of his descendants has been able to dig up, illustrated on the occasion of the minister's visit as a deputy to the Court of Henry the Fourth, by extracts from a journal preserved among the family papers. The life is followed by a genealogical account of the family. The interest of the publication is rather special than general.]

Letters of Richard Reynolds. With a Memoir of his Life, by his Granddaughter Hannah Mary Rathbone, Author of "The Diary of Lady Willoughby." [Richard Reynolds, a Quaker philanthropist, was born in 1735, and died in 1816. He made a fortune in the iron trade, and spent considerable sums in charity at Bristol, where be resided towards the close of his life. So exten- sive were these charities and so beneficial his exertions, that his death was accompanied by public honours, and a society was founded to commemorate his name. The present memoir and correspondence have been published by his granddaughter, as a kind of family duty. The interest of the volume, like that of the memoir of Chamier, is more special than general.]

Memorial of James Fenimore Cooper. [Letters, speeches, and addresses, some formal or complimentary, some of a more critical cast, written or spoken in relation to meetings held in America to raise subscriptions for a statue in memory of the Novelist.]

Elements of Practical Geometry, for Schools and Workmen. By the Author of "Arithmetic for Young Children," &e. [An attempt at a popular if not a royal road to geometry. It is intended for workmen, and for pupils in schools where theoretical geometry is not taught. "It explains only the most simple and useful facts and operations which every person ought to know. A great part of it does not require a knowledge even of arithmetic, and no kind of explanation has been used that is likely to be found difficult by a beginner." The book consists of a description in- stead of a definition of the terms and forms of geometry, with rules for work- ing practical questions, mostly connected with measurement.] 27:e Voice of Humanity: a Work of Mercy. Dedicated to her Most

Excellent Majesty Queen Victoria, and the Sovereigns and Rulers of

Civilized Nations. By John Laurie Esq., late Sheriff of London, &c. [A pamphlet in the form of a quarto, printed for private circulation, and got up in a style of chaste splendour quite appropriate to the illustrious persons to whom it is especially addressed. The object of Mr. Laurie is to improve our prison administration, and to employ the dangerous dairies on waste lands, coupled with a kind of reformed convict emigration.] The Supremacy of St. Peter. The Substance of Lectures delivered in St. John's Catholic Church, Perth. By Reverend John S. M‘Corry, MAP.

[The common arguments of the Romish writers on the supremacy of the Pope, thrown into the form of lectures. Plainness is the principal merit of the book ; vulgar priestly confidence its most striking defect.]

Letters of Peter Plymley, _Essays, and Speeches. By the Reverend Sydney Smith. (Readable Books.)

[The most readable number of" Readable Books."]

Daily Talk in French and English. By A. C. G. Jobert. [Short French conversational phrases on the common topics of daily life.]

The Prophecy of Thames. From Pope's "Windsor Forest." With a Latin version. (Reprinted from Fraser 's Magazine, for June 1851.) Pure Sounds against Pure Immaterialism. By A. C. G. Jobert.

ILLUSTRATED WORES AND PRINTS.

Symbols and Emblems of Early and Mediaval Christian Art. By Louisa Twining.

[This is a carefully-compiled work—done con amore, but with sound sense as well, which dispenses with raptures and sentimentalities, and sets to, in a practical efficient spirit, at only just so much descriptive and illustrative matter as will suffice to explain the substance of the volume. In ninety- three quarto lithographic plates the authoress gives examples of all the im- portant symbolic representations of a Christian character in the most uni- versal sense of the term ; not entering on the wide field occupied by any mints of the calendar other than such as figure in the Bible. The earlier illustrations come to a large extent from the first Christian records in the catacombs; those of a later date from mosaics, sculpture, painted glass, and illuminated manuscripts; English examples being very properly presented as far as possible. The best authorities have been consulted ; but the au- thoress appears indebted to herself alone for a considerable portion of her work. We have said that the plates are ninety-three in number; but this does not by any means represent the multiplicity of the symbols and emblems collected, for one plate often contains half-a-dozen specimens or more. It is evident that no liberties have been taken with these : their frequent rudeness and simplicity are conscientiously followed, their suggestiveness and occa- sional grace or beauty appreciated and reproduced. There is much in the book to be studied with interest and profit ; and this is so well presented that it deserves to occupy a permanent place among works of reference of its class.] The Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, O.C.R., &c. Painted by John Partridge, Esq. ; engraved by Samuel Cousins, Esq., A.RA.

[An engraving by Mr. Cousins after Mr. Partridge's portrait of the noble Viscount and judicious Bottleholder. This, it may be remembered, was the likeness presented to Lady Palmerston, upon the close of the Paci- fico debate, by a committee of " confiding Liberals "—to whom the print is dedicated. And a presentation-portrait of the approved rose-water order it essenthlly is : the painter docks his Lordship of some twenty years of his busy life, and brings him back to the "Cupid" period.] Essivuurrs.

Thoughts on the Duty of a Protestant in the present Oxford Election. By F. D. Maurice, M.A., &c.

The Romish Decalogue. By Henry Soames, M.A.

On the Use of Riches. An Epistle to a Friend. In verse.

Speech of the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone M.P. on the Second .Reading of the New Zealand Constitution Bill, May 21, 1852. Cor- rected by the Author.

Universal Free Trade. By A. Alison, Esq. Third edition.

Three Years of Free Trade. Addressed to. the Electors of the United Kingdom. *By One of Themselves.

The Eat River Settlement in 1851: described in a series of Letters pub- lished in The South African Commercial Advertiser. By the Reve- rend James Read junior.

The Search for Franklin ; a Suggestion. By Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S. Illustrated by a Polar Chart.

le Coup d'Etat de Louis Bonaparte, &c. Par Xavier-Durrieu, an- den Representant du Peuple.

Highland Destitution. Report of the Committee of Management, &c. Foreign Affairs ; a Series of Articles reprinted from the Sheffield Free Press.