PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

We have just received the new number of the EDINBURGH REVIEW, and though we have not had time for more than a hurried glance over its pages, even this has been sufficient to assure us that it contains not a few articles worthy of careful perusal. Among them we are especially gratified to find one devoted to a searching exposure of some of the mul- titudinous blunders and elaborate perversions of fact in Sir Archibald Alison's "History of Europe from the fall of Napoleon in 1815," &c. "From each of his chapters," says the reviewer, "we draw theories and arguments, not only opposed to ascertained truth, but directly contra- dicted in the chapter which succeeds it ; and from his assertions of fact, a perfect vivarium of canards historiques." Sir John Eardley Wil- mot's collected edition of Lord Brougham's Acts and Bills supplies the data ,for a survey of the " Progress of Legal Reform." Lastly we have, in anticipation of the threatened agitation against the existing fiscal sys- tem, an article on "British Taxation," having for its object to refute these three popular fallacies : first, that the people of Great Britain groan under an intolerable and perpetually increasing burthen of taxation; secondly, that we are more heavily taxed than any other country ; and thirdly, that the mode in which this taxation is levied and apportioned is singularly costly, onerous, and unjust. Having shown that the reverse of each of these propositionsis true, the reviewer concludes with a few pages in which he sharply scrutinizes Mr. Bright's plan of taxation, and calls for judgment against it.

TRAVELS IN PERU AND MEXICO complete the acceptable series of volumes in which Mr. S. S. Hill has from time to time published the narrative of his tour round the world, via Siberia, the Pacific, &c. In addition to the countries mentioned in the title, the present volumes con- tain some notices of the capitals of Chili, Jamaica, and Cuba, -which the author visited in this part of his tour.

lanaroxrxs OF POLITICAL Economy, the last and principal work of the lamented Frederic Bastiat, has been translated by Mr. Stirling, author of "The Philosophy of Trade," &c., who says of it, "This great work, the child of Bastiat's anxious hopes, the subject of his dying thoughts, . . . . is perhaps the most important and the most original contribution which the science of Political Economy has received since the days of Adam Smith." Its design is thus explained in the author's own words : "I undertake in this work," he says, "to demonstrate the harmony of those laws of Providence which govern human society. What makes these laws harmonious and not discordant is, that all principles, all motives, all springs of action, all interests, cooperate towards a grand final result, which humanity will never reach by reason of its native imperfection, but to which it will always approximate more and more by reason of it unlimited capability of improvement. And that result is, the indefinite approximation of all classes towards a level, which is always rising ; in other words, the equalization of individuals in the general amelioration."

But for the author's name on the title page, THE Woon RANGERS, translated from the French of Luis de Bellemare by Captain Mayne Reid, might be taken for one of those fascinating narratives of adventures in wild lands, and among savage or semi.savage races, in which the translator himself is excelled by no living writer. " The Wood Rangers," indeed, wants the humour which enriches Captain Reid's tales, and pleasantly relieves the tension of the nerves produced by their wondrously exciting scenes and incidents. M. de Bellemare cannot give his readers a match for Old Rube, but he has great sprightliness, ingenu- ity, and neatness of touch, and in the vivid portraiture of desperate en- terprises, and animal energies strained to their utmost pitch, he is hardly inferior to Captain Mayne Reid himself.

THE MARQUIS D'IlATJTERIVE, OR THE ROMANCE OF A POOR YOUNG MAN, by Octave Feuillet, is the translation of a French tale which has obtained extraordinary popularity on the continent, and a dramatic version of which has lately been produced in London, but without much success. We have spoken in strong terms of the excellence, both as to matter and manner, of the first volume of M. Roche's Ilisroutz DES PRINCIPAUX ECRIVAINS FRANcA.IS, and we are glad to find that the opinions we ex- pressed of it have been corroborated by French journals of such high au- thority as the Journal des Delmts, the Revue des Deux Afondes, and others. The second volume is now published, and worthily completes this very graceful and instructive work.

Booxs.

Travels in Peru and Herieo. By B. S. Hill, Author of "Travels in Siberia," 3::c. In two volumes.

Harmonies of Political Economy. By Fr6d6ric Bastiat. Translated from the French, with a Notice of the Life and Writings of the Author, by Patrick James Stirling, F .R,S.E.

The Wood Rangers. (From the French of Luis de Bellemare.) By Captain Mayne Reid. In three volumes.

T'he ifarguis D'Ilauterive ; or the Romance of a Poor Young Man. By Octave. Feuillet.

The Career, Last royage,and Fate of Captain Sir John Franklin. By Captain Sherard Osborn, C.B.

The Conway in the Stereoscope. Illustrated by Roger Fenton, Esq., M.A. With Notes, Descriptive and Historical, by James Bridge Davidson, Esq., M.A.

Lessons for the Young on the Six Days of Creation. By L. Gaussen, D.P., Genera. With Introductory Notice by John Robson, D.D.

The Patience of Hope. By the Author of' A Present Heaven."

Histoire des Principaus Ecrivains Francais depuis l'Origine de la Litterature jusgu'a nos fours. Par Antonin Roche. Tome Second.

I Prosatori Italiani. A Selection of Extracts from Italian Prose Writers from the 13th Century down to the Present Time. Preceded by Easy Sentences, with Notes for Beginners by Antonio Biaggi.

NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.

Lot lien.

Meg of Blibank and other Tales. By the Author of " The Net Brown Maids." Originally published in " Fraser's Magazine." Quits : a Yore!. By the Baroness Tautphceus, Author of 'S The Initials."