Of the batch of mere reprints, new editions, and so
forth, a few brief lines must suffice.
The most striking, and by far the most important of this class, is a new edition of the Wealth of Nations, with Mr. M'CuLt.oce's " Life of the Author, Introductory Discourse, Notes and Supple- mental Dissertations, corrected throughout and greatly enlarged." This great text-book of economical science, to which all other books bear about the same relation as the commentators on SHAKSPEARE IG SHAKSPEARE himself, is, with the editor's addenda, compressed into a single and very handsome octavo volume, ranging with the single-volume historians of Mr. CADELL or the poems and lighter works published by Mr. MURRAY and Mr. aaoxorq.
A new edition of Dr. EDWARD BRYAN'S very able treatise on the Honey Bee; with much additional matter obtained from different correspondents ; and a fresh dedication to the Queen, in which the parallel between her Majesty and a queen-bee is done with nicety of selection as regards images and neatness of ex- psession in language. The Ninth Volume of Southey's Poems, contains "Roderick the last of the Goths." and a preface, with a dash of autobio- graphy and anecdote, in which Mr. SOUTHEY gossips agreeably about the circumstances attendant upon a translation of this poem into French and another into Dutch. There is also a letter from poor boo; who seems to have pestered JEFFREY to let him re- view " Roderick " in the Edinburgh, and who stated some of the critic's remaiks with more candour than might have been alto- gether pleasing to the vanity of the poet.
The Fourth Part of TAIT'S complete edition of the Works of Jeremy Bentham, which contains a variety of subjects ; Judicial Establishments, Colonies, Houses of Peers and Senates, Public Instruction, and Codification, being all handled in this small volume.
A second edition of Sir HENRY PARNELL'S Treatise on Roads.
The Fourth Volume of Millman's Gibbon ; containing the reigns of JULIAN and VALENTIMAN, and the episodical history of the Pastoral Nations. It is illustrated by a map of Western Asia, showing the marches of JULIAN and HERACIAUS, and by a few additional notes.
Besides these, we have second, third, and seventh editions of Mr. CORBIN'S Spelling Books, and other elementary works on English reading ; and a fourth edition of Butler's Geography of the Globe.
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