PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Correspondence, Despatches, and other Papers, of Viscount Castlereagh, second Marquis of Londonderry. Edited by his brother Charles William Vane, Marquis of Londonderry, G.C.B., &c. Third series. Military and Diplomatic. In four volumes.

A Memoir of Charles Mordaunt Earl of Peterborough and Monmouth; with Selections from his Correspondence. By the Author of "Hoche- lags," &c. In two volumes. Travels in Southern Russia and the Crimea ; through Hungary, Wal- lachia, and Moldavia during the year 1837. By M. Anatole de De- midoff, of the Imperil' Academy of Science, and the University of St. Petersburg, &c. Illustrated by Raffet. In two volumes. Sir Frederick Dement ; a Novel. By the Author of "Fabian's Tower," &c. In three volumes.

Facts and Faces ; or the Mutual Connexion between Linear and Mental Portraiture Morally Considered, and Pictorially Illustrated by a Series of Twenty-four Graphic Heads of all the Dispositions of the Mind, &c. By Thomas Woolnoth, Esq., Engraver in Ordinary to the Queen, &c. [Mr. Woolnoth the engraver has been delivering a series of lectures on phy- siognomy at various institutions, and has published their substance in this volume. The expense, however, has unfortunately limited his specimens to one representation of each quality, instead of the varied illustrations that accompanied the oral exposition. The selection of the most "graphic hedds,' to exhibit "all the dispositions of the mind," has compelled the artist to take the most extreme or striking examples,- and this has given an exaggerated or forced expression to the faces. Poetical people talk of the soul shining through the eyes ; in Mr. Woolnoth's specimens the soul is thrusting itself into every feature. In aiming at exhibiting actual life, the artist has perhaps fallen too much into the specialty of com- mon life. " Pride " is exhibited in the head of a dandy-looking player, or man upon town ; "Tyranny" is the bald and rather bloated-looking head of the 'principal" of some establishment. The artist's gallantry may also seem to suffer from this necessity of selecting units : it is doubtless owing to this that the ladies represent so many ill qualities. "Obstinacy," "Cun- ning," "Deceit," "Envy," "Spite," "Sauciness," "Affectation," and "Irritability," all have female representatives ; and "Vanity" probably would also be feminine but the head is wanting in our copy,—unless it is supplied by the frontispiece, which allegorically attributes vanity to all the world. One good quality alone is embodied in a female face, and that- " Amiability "—is rather a temperament than a virtue. Fie, Mr. Wool- noth! and engraver to her Majesty too ! The "faces' and the explanations are accompanied by a species of dis- course somewhat after the style of Stevens's Lectures on Heads. These dis- courses are not very scientific, but they exhibit shrewd con amore observa- tion.] Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction : a Sketch of its Origin and Early Progress, with particular reference to the subject of the Succession to Personal Property. By Edwin Edwards, one of the Proctors, and an Examiner in the Courts of Civil Law at Doctors' Commons.

[Mr. Edwards adopts more favourable views of "ecclesiastical jurisdiction" :Ilan many historians have entertained, or perhaps than very many people nowadays will be persuaded into. His treatise, however, may be recom- mended as an interesting and valuable book, not only on the origin and early. progress of ecclesiastical jurisdiction, but as a sketch of the social and political state of the Western world during the decline of the Roman Em- pire, and in this country from the age of the Druids, till the powers of the Ecclesiastical Courts were expressly established under the first Plantagenet& The matter, to a considerable extent, may have been derived from standard and therefore welr-known writers ; but it is drawn from a wide field, the results are applied to a specific purpose, and the whole is well arranged and well ex- pressed, in a style neat, close, and clear. The curious reader will find Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction a much more interesting book than the title indicates.]

Memorials of Early ChrWtianity. By James G. Midi, Author of "Footsteps of our Forefathers." With Illustrations. [This volume is a history of primitive Christianity, from Pentecost to the times of Clemens of Alexandria and Cyprian. The treatment, however, runs rather upon social characteristics and personal incidents than doctrines or ecclesiastical topics. The nature of society in the Roman Empire, and the disposition of its rulers, receive much attention from Mr. Mall; his Christian narrative is mostly centred, as it were round some particular person—Paul, John, Ignatius—whose life represents his times. This is done with a good deal of the effect and dexterity of the platform school, to which the author seems to belong. There is nothing very original in the Memo- rials, though the book will have novelty for many readers.] Classic and Historio Portraits. By James Bruce. In two volumes. [The apparent object of Mr. Bruce, as inferred from his preface, was to give personal or anecdotical as opposed to public or historical notices of celebrated characters both ancient and modern. This substitution of the "mores ani- mique " for public actions and events has not been properly executed, if in- deed the mode of doing it rightly was present to the author's mind. His book regards the personal appearance of his heroes and heroines as much as anything else, if not more • from which text he continually wanders into gossipy digressions. The beauty of Alcibiades leads to La Valliere, Sir James Douglas, Anne of Brittany with sonic other French ladies, Descartes and his liking for a squint ; while Demetrius carries the reader to yellow hair. The subjects are often ill chosen, as regards any real personal know- ledge. What What accurate notion can anybody have of Pythagoras, Helen of Troy, Sappho, or Esop ?] Scenes in Other Lands, with their Aaiun-lotions. By John Stoughton. [Description, mostly of scenes or cities, is a large feature of this book ; the historical, legendary, or reflective associations, suggested by the external ob- jects, being more fully dwelt upon than the objects themselves. Scenes in other lands is not a book of travels ; nor of the results of travel applied to the observation of actual life ; but a book of reminiscences, drawn too from pretty obvious sources, but well enough written.] Enqiish Forests and Forest Trees, Historical, Legendary, and Descrip- tive. With numerous Illustrations. (Illustrated London Library.) [A. clever compilation, full of various matter, set off by wood-cuts. Forests at home and abroad, forest scenery, forest trees, beasts, birds, and flowers, forest laws in olden time, and "Woods and Forests" management in our time, are among the topics of the volume. To these are added legendary tales, anecdotes simple or adorned, with notices of persons from royalty downwards who have loved forests or forest sports, and a fair sprinkling of poetical quotations.] Extraordinary Men : their Boyhood and Early Life. By William Rus- sell, 'Esq. With numerous Portraits and Illustrative Engravings. (National Illustrated Library.) [Biographical sketches of the boyhood of eminent men, properly enough consisting of anecdotes with comment. The matter is made the most of in the manner of a litterateur ; but the notices are what they profess to be, of early life. The first three subjects are Michel Angelo, Luther, and Shak- spere, followed by nineteen of the most remarkable men in succeeding times, a dozen or more of whom may be said to have been contemporaries with living men, if not all with the present generation.] Constructive Exercises for Teaching the Elements of the Greek Lan- guage, on a system of analysis and synthesis. With Greek Reading Lessons and copious Vocabularies. By John Robson, B.A., Lend., Assistant Master in University College School, Author of "Construc- tive Latin Exercises."

[A series of exercises for pupils studying Greek, designed to follow the author's Latin Exercises; the aim in both cases being to combine theory and practice. The book contains the elements of a grammar, the skeleton of the accidence, reading lessons, accompanied by English exercises to be turned into Greek, each lesson or exercise having its own vocabulary. It is intended as the boy's only book for some time. It is not till the pupil has reached the fourth part that he is to begin with Xenophon's " Anabasis" ; but then, no doubt, he will be well prepared for it.] Fables de Gay : traduits en vers Francais, par le Chevalier de Chate- lain, Auteur des "Prometheides," &c. [That once popular book Gay's Fables, translated into French verse, more freely as regards the metre than the sense which is often closely rendered: the English is given on the opposite page.] The Lords and Commons, their Funotions and .Functionaries; with a Peerage and Parliamentary Guide. By the Author of "The London Clubs."

[Two well-arranged lists of each House of Parliament; one alphabetical, the other as regards the Peers following the order of precedence, the Commons the places represented. This, with some official information, is preceded by various "articles" descriptive of the architectural features of the Houses, the general characteristics of each assembly as it appears to strangers, with sketches of Members, and so forth.] The British Cabinet in 1853. (Nelson's Library for Travellers and the Fireside.) [Biographical sketches of the public lives of the present Ministers, with some notices of their family history. It is a useful work ; passing in review the politics of the last half-century, for the lives of Lords Aberdeen and Lans- downe reach as far. The style is not remarkable for force or spirit.]

The Universal Library. Poetry. Volume I. [The collection into a volume of the poetical publications of the Universal Library. It is a well-looking book, but the company is mixed : Milton's Poetical Works, Scott's "Minstrel" and "Lady of the Lake," Translations of La Fontaine's Fables, Goethe's "Faust," and Schiller's two great tragedies " Piceolomini" and " Wallenstein."]

Sermons, preached for the most part in a Country Church in the Diocese of Durham. By the Reverend John Edmunds, MA., &c. Second series.

Ahab the Apostate ; a Poem, in eight books. By Peter Leicester, Au- thor of "Ada Greville," &c.

In the following list of new editions or continuations of books partaking more or less of a serial character, Walter Savage Landor's "Imaginary Con- versations," selected from his older works, may be recommended as contain- ing the very finest of his dialogues of the dead. The translation of Milller's Dissertations on the " Eumenides " of /Eschylus has been revised, and the volume condensed by omitting the Greek text of the drama. The other titles explain themselves. Sir Bulwer Lytton's "Leila" and " Calderon" are the cheap edition. Imaginary Conversations of _Greeks and Romans. By Walter Savage Lander.

Dissertations on the Eumenides of _Xschylus. From the German of C. 0. Muller. Second edition, revised. History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Ver- sailles. 1713-1783. By Lord Mahon. In seven volumes. Volume III. Third edition, revised. Leila ; or the Siege of Granada. And Calderon the Courtier. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart., M.P. With a Frontispiece. _rEschyli Agamemno—Eumenides—Supplices. Recensuit F. A. Paley. Editio auctior et emendatior.

Arnold's School Classics., Selections from Cicero. Part V. Translated from the German, by the Reverend Henry Browne, M.A., &c. Notes and Narratives of a Six Years' Mission, principally among the Dens of London. By B. W. Vanderkiate, late London City Missionary. Third edition.

Ostentation: or Critical Remarks on "Quakerism, or the Story of My . Life," by Mrs. Greer. By Sandham Elly. Second edition, with an Appendix, by Jacob Post.

Queen Phillippa and the Hurrer's Daughter ; a Tale of the Haber- dashers' Company. By Mies E. M. Stewart. (London City Tales.)

PAMPHLETS.

Speech of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Financial State and Prospects of the Country, delivered in the House of Commons, on Monday 18th April 1853. Published by Permission. Remarks on National Defence, Volunteers, and Ryles. By Lieutenant- Colonel the Honourable A. Gordon.

UHiue Adeo P or What may be Said for the Ionian People. By an Ionian.

Ddia Reform. No. IV. The Native States of India.

The Directors of the East India Company and their Retired Civil Ser- vants. Reprinted from the Colonial and Asiatic Review.

Two Farewell Sermons, preached by the Reverend Moses Mitchell, M.A., &c., to his Parishioners at Islip. A Sermon preached before the University of Dublin, in the Chapel of Trinity College. By Charles Parsons lteichel, B.D., &c. The Catechism of the Church, of England the Basis of all Teaching in Parish Schools. By George Anthony Denison, M.A., &c. Christ's College, Brecon ; its Past History and Present Capabilities, Considered with reference to a Bill now before Parliament.

Schools and other similar Institutions for the Industrial Classes. By the Reverend R. Dawes, M.A., Dean of Hereford. An Analysis of the Evidence respecting a Matriculation Examination contained in the Report of the Cambridge University Commission, &c. By a White-Hood. Prison Discipline. By C. M. Obermair, Governor of the Munich State Prison. Translated by M. Rehbann, with a Prefatory Notice by Alexander Baillie-Cochrane.

An Epitome of Double Entry. By John Vandenbergh.