PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Lectures on Ancient Ethnography and Geography ; comprising Greece and her Colonies, Epirus, Macedonia, Illyricum, Italy, Gaul, Spain, Britain, the North of Africa, &c. By B. G. Niebuhr. Translated from the German edition of Dr. Isler, by Dr. Leonhard Schmitz, F.R.S.E., Rector of the High School of Edinburgh ; with additions and corrections from his own MS. notes. In two volumes.

A Visit to Europe in 1851. By Professor Benjamin Silliman, of Yale College. In two volumes. With Illustrations.

A Health Trip to the Tropics. By N. Parker Willis, Author of " Pen- cillings by the Way," &c.

.Pindari Carmine, ad fidem Textus Bockhiani. Pars secunda, continens Odas Pythias, Notes quasdam Anglice scriptas adjecit Gulielmus Gifford Cookesley, M.A., Region Scholse Etonensis e Magistris Adju- toribus. Editio secunda.

Avillion, and other Tales. By the Author of "Olive," &c. In three volumes.

Poems. By Anna Blackwell.

The Rise and Progress of the English Constitution. By E. S. Creasy, M.A., Barrister-at-law ; Professor of History in University College, London, late Fellow of King's College, Cambridge.

Victoria; late Australia Felix, or Port Phillip District of New South Wales ; being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Colony and its Gold-Mines. With an Appendix, containing the Reports of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce for the last Two Years upon the Condition and Progress of the Colony. By William Westgarth, late Member of the Legislative Council of Victoria.

Handbook of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy. By Dionysius Lardner, D.C.L., formerly Professor of Natural Philosophy and As- tronomy in University College, London. Third course. Meteorology —Astronomy. With Plates.

[This volume completes Dr. Lardner's course of the physical sciences, written for those readers who have not made any "unusual acquaintance with ma- thematics," and chiefly intended for " students in law and medicine, en- gineers, artisans, and the superior classes in schools," as well as for persons who although they have entered on the actual business of life are still de- sirous to sustain and extend their knowledge of material science.

Although the subjects of the present volume are meteorology and astro- nomy, the last is by far the most elaborately treated ; astronomy, indeed, occupies 770 pages out of 840. Besides a very clear and to some extent a novel order of treatment, the exposition embraces the new discoveries in

which late years have been so rife; contains engravings of the most re- markable astronomical limninga which astronomical draughtsmen, if we may use such a term, have delineated, and a description also illustrated by en- gravings of the most choice and celebrated instruments, without which some of the modern discoveries could not have been made. The nebular hypothe- sis is briefly dismissed for want of space ; but Dr. Lardner inclines to the opinion that the nebulae are formed of stars not resolvable on account of their distance.]

The Oliveira Prire-Essay on Portugal: with the Evidence regarding that Country taken before a Committee of the House of Commons in May 1852; and the Author's Surveys of the Wine-Districts of the Alto-Douro, as adopted and published by order of the House of Com- mons. Together with a Statistical Comparison of the Resources and Commerce of Great Britain and Portugal. By Joseph James For- rester, (C.. R... +..) Wine-Grower in the Alto-Douro. [The Member for Pontefract offered a prize of fifty guineas for the best essay on Portugal, principally in relation to its capabilities of producing generally, and of consuming ttfi�ee manufactures of Great Britain in particular, as well as on the check interposed to both these things by bad communications and ill-judged duties. The prize was decreed to Mr. Forrester by the judges, for the beet essay out of the four sent in. It differs from the generality of prize productions by the originality and practical character of its matter respect- ing the people and productions of Portugal, as well as by the want of skill with which it is encumbered. The moat important conclusions are, that Portugal can grow almost any kind of wine—Mr. Forrester himself has pro- duced excellent Rhenish ; and that if the duty were boldly reduced, we could have good wine at a shilling a bottle.]

A Few Words to the Jews. By One of Themselves.

[An eloquent though somewhat wordy appeal to the Jews to reform them- selves, by striving to attain more of the true spirit of Judaism and caring less for its forms, many of which, the writer asserts, may be dispensed with. A disregard of money, the abrogation of mammon worship, an aspiration after high and lofty things, the practice of the moral virtues, may in- deed be exercised by any Jews, for those things are independent of time, place, and circumstances. Some vocations cannot be pursued by the Jew. The Navy is closed against him, so is the Army, and so are pursuits in India; so even is country life, since in none of these can the Jew attend to his religious observances, and seldom if at all can he enjoy religious ordi- nances. We do not catch the drift of the writer in dwelling as he does upon these impassable barriers between the Jew and the world at large, unless it be to infer that so much the more strenuously should the Jew endeavour after an inner loftiness, since he is shut out from some conventional or natu- ral sources.]

A Peep at the Pixies ; or Legends of the West. By Mrs. Bray, Author of "The Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy," &c. With Illustra- tions by Phiz.

[The Pixies are a race of supernatural beings peculiar to the West of Eng- land, especially to the neighbourhood of Dartmoor. Some consider them a sort of fairy ; but they seem to be very slightly akin to that light and grace- ful creature ; indeed, the story goes that when the true fairy attempted to settle in the West, the Pixies waged war against them, drove them back, and inflicted a wound on Oberon which is uncured to this day.

Of the pixies Mrs. Bray has already given an account in her Borders of the Tamar and the Tavy, with some pixy stories. Part of this matter is reproduced in the present volume, in a manner adapted to the young, in- cluding a graphic account of Dartmoor. The remainder consists of new tales, in which a human interest is combined with the pranks of the pixies. The stories are neatly told, and carry the reader along with the narrative : if it be alleged that they want the lightness of the fairy tale, it maybe an- swered that the pixy is a heavier being than the fairy.] The Exiles; a Tale. By Talvi, Author of " Heloise," &c.

[A good picture of Southern manners and passion, with a glimpse of domes- tic slavery, and some capital sketches of New England peculiarities, embodied in a wild and improbable story, touched with the German ideas of its author. It is a translation from the German and an importation from America.]

Outlines of Universal History. In three parts. Part L Ancient His- tory. Part H. History of the Middle Ages. Part III. Modern His- tory. Edited by Henry White, B.A. Trinity College, Cambridge, M.A. and Ph. Dr. Heidelberg, Author of the " Elements of Universal History," &c. For the use of Schools. [Distinct in its arrangement, skilful in its selection of leading features, close and clear in its narrative, this little book will furnish a succinct view of universal history; with the rather important exception, however, of China and Hindostan, the bearing of whose early civilization on the progress of mankind has not yet been properly considered. It is perhaps a question whether a general exhibition of society and institutions is not a better way of impressing history upon the mind than by a narrative of persons and events, since the last are apt to become crowded. Dr. White, however, has succeeded very well in the plan he has adopted.] Discovery; a Poem. By Edward Aldam Leatham, XL, Load. [There wants nothing but "The Pleasures of " as a prefix to "Discovery" to make this poem a complete imitation of The Pleasures of Hope, or any other poem to which the success of Campbell and of Rogers gave rise. Mr. Leatham opens with Columbus approaching the American shore ; then goes back to the Fall of man, when all but Hope and Discovery deserted the earth. He next touches upon the effects of discovery in averting some of the worst human miseries of the Fall, by the invention of song and music, which bring down joy and love; and afterwards runs through some of the most im- portant discoveries that have benefited mankind. The idea of the poem is better than the execution. This is finished, and of a good school ; but wants fire, force, and at least some sprinkling of originality. Discovery would make a capital prize poem, but for its length.] The Hero's Child, and other Poems. By Anna M. Debenham. [The shorter poems in this volume are the best ; emanating from the reed rather than the lyre, but natural and feeling. The longer pieces, mostly in blank verse, are imitative in style, and want substance proportioned to their length.] Boys and their Rulers; or What we Do at School. [The autobiography of a schoolboy; containing an account of Christ's Hos- pital, and of school-days there. It is natural and unexaggerated, but literal.]

Sermons, preached before the University of Cambridge. By the late

Frederick Myers, M.A., Perpetual Curate of St. John's, Keswick. Cookery, Rational, Practical, and Economical ; treated in connexion with the Chemistry of Food. By Hartlelaw Reid.

Whatever the came may be, a very numerous class of books are finding their way to our table with which it is almost impossible to deal however briefly. What can be said of school-books, or books of instruction in some art or science, which have no special or novel feature, and whose title by stating their subjects and often their purpose sufficiently indicates their nature—at least in a general, not an educational journal ? Still less can anything par- ticular be noted of shilling volumes mostly reprints or translations, or the successive volumes of a serial. These observations apply more particularly

to a week like the present with its large influx of publications. The books in the following list are all of the kind predicated.

Cornelius Tacittes, explained by Dr. Karl Nipperdey. Pert IL Annals! ab Excessu Divi Augusti, Books 11.—XVI. Translated from the Ger_ man, with additional Notes, by the Reverend Henry Browne, MA. Canon of Waltham in the Cathedral Church, and Chaplain to the Lord, Bishop of Chichester. (Arnold's School Classics.)

The Second Hebrew Book : containing the Book of Genesis ; together with a Hebrew Syntax, and a Vocabulary and Grammatical Comment- ary. By the late Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, MA., Rector of Lyndon, &c.; and the Reverend Henry Browne, M A., Canon of Waltham, in the Cathedral Church, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chichester.

An Elementary Treatise on Plane Cardinale Geometry. By the Reverend W. Scott, M.A., Mathematical Lecturer, and late Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge.

The Globe Prepared for Man ; a Guide to Geology. By the Author of "The Observing Eye, or Letters on Natural History," &c.

History of Alexander the Great. By Jacob Abbott. With Engravings. (Jacob Abbott's Histories.) History of William the Conqueror. By Jacob Abbott. With Engrav- ings. (Jacob Abbott's Histories.) Twelve Months of Matrimony. By Emilie Carlen.

The Last Leaf from Sunnyside. By H. Trusts, Author of the "Tell-

tale," &c. With a Memorial of the Author, by Austin Phelps.

ALMANACS.

Letts' s Diary, or Bills Due Book, and an Almanack for 1854. Dietrieltsen and Hannay's Royal Almanack, and Nautical and Astro- nomical Ephemeris, for the year of Our Lord 1854. The seventeenth year of publication. [Both these established publications are too well known to require comment. .&tts's Diary is legion; the various forms exceed fifty in number.]

NEW PERIODICAL.

The Church of the People. No. I. LA monthly paper designed to furnish the people with cheap reading of an instructive, moral, and religious kind, the religion on the principles of the Church of England after a high cast. The present number contains an unfinished tale illustrative of the working man's life ; an argu- ment against pews, the writer seeming to think that the pew system is the basis of Dissent ; some miscellanea on various topics, and poetry. It is diffi- cult to judge from a first number, but unless more breadth and life can be infused into the periodical, it will have little attraction for the people. The best thing is the "Story that has Truth in it." The picture of working character in a small manufacturing town is lifelike ; but the incidents, the nature of the story, and its objects, are yet to be developed.] PasruteTs.

The Word " Eternal," and the Punishment of the Wicked : a Letter to the Reverend Dr. Jelf, Canon of Christ Church, and Principal of King's College. By Frederick Denison Maurice, Chaplain of Lin- coln's Inn.

"I have much people in this city." A Sermon preached at the Conse- cration of Christ Church, Denton, Manchester, 13th October 1853. By Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, and Lord High Almoner to the Queen.

Charge delivered by Matthew Davenport Hill, Recorder of Birmingham, to the Grand Jury of that Borough, on the 20th October 1853, at the Michaelmas Quarter-Sessions of the Peace.

" Villa Volpieelli" ; or the Shut SchooL By IL B. Hamilton, late Director thereof.

How Wars Arise in India. Observations on Mr. Cobden's Pamphlet, entitled " The Origin of the Burmese War." By John Clark Marsh- man.