PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

History of Greece. By George Grote, Esq. Volumes V. and VL

Memoir of the House of Brandenburg, and History of Prussia during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. By Leopold Ranke. Translated from the German, by Sir Alexander and Lady Duff Gordon. In three volumes.

Highlands and Islands of the Adriatic; including Dalmatia, Croatia, and the Southern Provinces of the Austrian Empire. By A. A. Paton, Author of " Servia, the Youngest Member of the European Family," &c. In two volumes. With Illustrations.

Sand and Canvass; a Narrative of Adventures in Egypt, with a Sojourn among the Artists in Rome. By Samuel Bevan.

Letters of Eminent Persons addressed to David Hume. From the Papers bequeathed by his Nephew to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Democracy in France. January 1849. By Monsieur Guizot.

The Works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Illustrated, chiefly from the remains of Ancient Art. With a Life, by the Reverend Henry Hart Milman, Canon of St. Peter's, Rector of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

The Danger of Superficial Knowledge ; an introductory Lecture to the Course of Natural Philosophy in the University of Edinburgh, delivered on the 1st and 2d of November 1848. By James D. Forbes, Esq., F.R.S., &c. The Viking; an Epic. By Zavarr. With Notes.

The Navigation-laws of Great Britain, Historically and Practically Con- sidered, with reference to Commerce and National Defence. By Joseph Allen, Author of Works on Naval History, &c. [This volume contains an historical sketch of the origin and progress of the navi- gation-laws and a view of their present state, intermingled with quotations from writers who have given opinions upon them. This is followed by a condensation of the evidence given before the late Committee of the House of Lords, classified as they may affect commerce or the national defence; Mr. Allen reviewing the testimony as regards the commercial branch, and deducing conclusions from it. His own opinions are in favour of maintaining the laws.]

A Planfor the Equalization ofthe Poor-rates throughout the United King- dom, by abolishing the Law of Settlement and the Removal of Paupers, &c. By G. L. Hutchinson.

[A second edition, with new tables and "considerable additions"; but we do not trace them readily.] Minerals and their Uses. Ina Series of Letters to a Lady. By J. R. Jack- son, F.RS., &c. [Part of these letters were originally written to a young lady a relation of the au- thor: Mr. Jackson's duties suspended the correspondence for a time; but, in a pe- riod of leisure, he has revised the letters formerly written, and added others. The book is not to be considered as a regular treatise, or even as an elementary expo- sition. " Its object is to convey such information on the more important minerals and their uses, as an inquiring mind may be desirous of possessing without going minutely into the subject."] On the Use of Lime in Agriculture. By James F. W. Johnston, M.A., F.R.S.L., &c.

Household Education. By Harriet Martineau. [A yortion of this book appeared in the People's Journal, before the change in the affairs of that publication; and Miss Martineau has complied with the "request of riends " to finish it. Her special topics refer to the care of the habits and the powers, (as will, hope, fear,) and to intellectual training. These are preceded by some general subjects in reference to self-improvement at all ages, home educa- tion, &o.] The Church and the Nation. By the Reverend James Macfarlane, D.D., Daddingstone. [The reprint of a series of articles that have appeared in Maephail's Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal. Dr. Macfarlane is a member of the Church of Scotland, equally opposed to the Free Church and to Puseyism. His subjects are the Church's danger, the Church's unity, the Nation's duty, the Nation's respon- sibility.] The Compliments of the Season; or How to Give an Evening Party. By Piers Shafton.

[A jen d'esprit descriptive of the troubles that beset Mr. Traverse Higgs from the derangement of house and household, when he has been persuaded by Mrs. H. to let her give an evening party; with the various funny occurrences that take place from an endeavour to entertain two hundred people in a house calculated for twenty, with establishment to match.] El Buscapie. By Miguel de Cervantes; with the Illustrative Notes of Don Adolphe} de Castro. Translated from the Spanish, with a Life of the Au- thor, and some Account of his Works, by Thomasina Ross. [El Buscapie is the "squib" by Cervantes against his critics, which we noted a fortnight ago. The present is the best got-up volume; with a well-engraved portrait of Cervantes, and his life.] Near Home; or the Countries of Europe Described. With Anecdotes and numerous Illustrations. By the Author of " The Peep of Day," &c. [Descriptions of some of the characteristics and productions of the different coun- tries of Europe; designed to stimulate the curiosity of children, to whom it is especially addressed.] The Dodo and its Kindred; or the History, Affinities, and Osteology of the Dodo, Solitaire, and other Extinct Birds of the Islands Mauritius, Ro- driguez, and Bourbon. By H. E. Strickland, M.A., F.G.S., &c., President of the Ashmolean Society, &c. ; and A. G. Melville, M.D. Edin., IILR.C.S Harley Beckford. In three volumes. Sabbath in Edinburgh; a Poem. By the Author of "The Child of Poverty," &c.

SERIALS.

The National Cyclopedia of Useful Knowledge, Volume VI. "Everdin- gen "-" Hanover." Waverley Novels, Volumes X-XVIL and X_XVIIL "Fortunes of Nigel," Vol. II. " Peveril of the Peak," Vol. 1.

PERIODICAL.

The Ragged School Union Magazine. No. L January.

ALMANACK.

Bradshaw's Railway Abnanack, Directory, Shareholders' Guide, and Manual, for 1849. [A large amount of statistics and personal and practical information connected with railways.]

PAMPHLETS, &C.

Ireland: The Political Tracts of Menenius. Second edition.

[Four pamphlets on the side of order, published in Ireland on public topics in relation to late events, beginning with Mitchel's trial, and now collected into a volume.]

Reproductive Relief-Spinning in the Web of Ireland. A Letter to the Earl of Clarendon.

A Few Words on the Endowment of the Roman Catholic Clergy in Ireland. Remarks and Suggestions with a view to Facilitate the Despatch of Public Business in Parliament. By Thomas Erskine May. The Old Woman who Lived in a Shoe; being Conversations with Britannia on her Colonial Shoe. With an Essay on Colonial Government. By W. Blanchard Jerrold.

A Second Letterfrom Lord Denman to Lord Brougham, on the Final Ex- tinction of the Slave-Trade, 4-c. A Letter to Joseph Napier, Esq., M.P., on Church-Extension.

Commemoration Sermon, preached in Trinity College Chapel, Cambridge, 15th December 1848. By John Grote, M.A., one of the Fellows.

Report on Pulmonary Phthisis, as observed at the Hospital for Consump- tion, Brompton. From "The British and Foreign Medico-Chir' nrgical Re- view." By Walter Hoyle Walshe, M.D., Consulting Physician to the Hos- pital for Consumption, &e. &c.

MAP.

Map of the Gold Regions of California. Compiled from the Original Sur- veys. By James Wyld.