PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From June 7th to June 13th.

Travels in Southern Abyssinia, through the Country of Adal to the King- dom of Shoe. By CHARLES JOHNSTON, M.R.C.S. Its IWO volumes. A History of China, from the Earliest Records to the Treaty with Great Britain in 1842. By THOMAS Timm:Tort, Esq., Member of the Royal Asiatic Society. In two volumes. Volume 1. Political Philosophy. By HENRY Lord BROUGHAM, &c. Part Ill. Of Democracy—Mixed Monarchy. Introduction to a Scientific System of Mythology. By C. 0. MULLER. Author of " The History and Antiquities of the Doric Race," &e. Translated from the German by JOHN LEITCH, Poems. By COVENTRY PATMORE. The Mysterious Man ; a Novel. By the Author of" Ben Bradshawe,. the Man Without a Head." In three volumes.

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Our Actresses ; or Glances at Stage Favourites, Past and Present. By Mrs. C. BARON WiLsosr, Author of "Memoirs of M. G. Lewis," &c.,. In two volumes.

[Our Actresses is an agreeable while-away-the-time book, containing biogra- phical sketches of between sixty and seventy female performers, varying from a notice of a page long to a rather elaborate biography. With the birth, pa- rentage, education, and career of the heroines, are intermingled criticisms oa their acting, anecdotes of their virtues or allusions to their frailties, and some re- marks on the present state of the drama. Upon managers Mrs. C. B. WILSON is not very gentle, but in all other points she is upon the whole lenient: If some of the ladies are more hardly dealt with than others in the same apparent category, we know not that those who may be the most severely touched have any right to complain. Only a female hand could have glided over things so smoothly ; a lord of the creation would have said more, or less. ]

Thoughts on Habit and Discipline.

[The object of this work is to inculcate the principle of good habits, by showing- the ease and excellence which follow practice steadily persisted in, even if dis- tasteful at first. The subject is considered under three heads,—first, its ge- neral nature, as shown both in men and animals, though in animals instinct is more dwelt upon than the effects of custom or discipline; the growing power and evil consequences of bad habits are next treated; and then the beneficialcon- sequences of good habits, in education, amusements, arts, intellect, morale, and religion. The book is of a serious kind, discouraging dancing and public en- tertainments. It is ably and sensibly written ; not a mere collection of cut and dry maxims, hut the production of a mind which has given close attention to its subject, and is animated by a sense of its importance. The reader not only admits the truth of the recommendations, but feels it ; and is impressed by a desire to follow the plan.] Lectures on Agricultural Chemistry and Geology. By JAMES F. W. JOHNSTON, M.A., &c. With an Appendix, containing Suggestions for Experiments in Practical Agriculture. [The completion of the Professor's able lectures on the science and practice of agriculture, and the studies upon which its principles are filunded. This handsome volume, of a thousand pages, forms a perfect store house of chemis- try, geology, and agricultural science: but perhaps the highest panegyric is the simple fact that the earlier parts of the work reached a second edition be- fore the latter parts were completed, although the first two sections relate to less practicable and profitable matter than the remaining portion of the lectures.] Latin Grammar Practice. In three parts. By the Reverend JAMES

PYCROFT, B.A., Trinity College, Oxford.

Greek Grammar Practice. lut three parts. By the Reverend JAMES PICROFT, B.A., Trinity College, Oxford.

[The design of these little books is very good; and, considering the difficulties, the execution is very good too, though perhaps susceptible of improvement. The object is to make the pupil thoroughly conversant with the meaning, nature, and inflexions, (where they are inflected,) of about two thousand worda of most frequent occurrence in Latin or Greek authors. These words are clas- sified accordhig to the succession of the parts of speech in the accidence, which the Practice is supposed to follow gradatim. As soon as the pupil has com- mitted a declension to memory, he is exercised upon it, by construing short sentences that his tutor frames from the list, or, in self-teaching, formed by him- self. These increase in complexity as the pupil advances ; but he is not to pro- ceed from one exerci,e till, by frequent practice, he can answer readily to the in- flexions and meanings of the words it contains, especially to the meaning; Mr; PYCROFT wishing to supersede reference to the dictionary, by making every pupils memory his own vocabulary. When the student has acquired copia verborum, he proceeds to longer sentences, and finally to a selection from the Anapests in Greek, and from C1ESAR'S Campaign in Britain for Latin; all the words in which he has previously met with, and must construe from memory. The principal point where improvement is desirable is perhaps unattainable ; it is au difficult to frame single sentences, especially short sentences, that shall convey any attractive meaning to the pupil, or even avoid thrusting forward,. the grammatical object.) A Course of English Reading, adapted to every taste and capacity; with Anecdote' of Men of Geuius. By the Reverend Jemss Pvcaorik BA, Trinity College, Oxford.

Lillis volume contains a useful synopsis of a plan of studying advantageously any particular branch of history, philosophy, or the belles letters, expanded afterwards by general directions. Intermingled with a voluminous list of recom- mended books, are various useful hints to the student, which he must apply to his own case.]

An Outline of the various Social Systems and Communities which have been fouuded on the Principle of Cooperation. With an Introductory Essay, by the Author of " rhe Philosophy of Necessity." EA republication, from the Appendix to Mr. BRAY'S Philosophy of Necessity, of the late MARY BERNELL'S historical sketch of CnOperation of all kinds, from the living in common at Sparta to the schemes of OWEN and Fou HIER. The republication seems to have been chiefly dictated by a regard for the writer's memory ; but Mr. BRAY has added a pretace, in which he draws further at- tention to the evils of the present system, as shown in the condition of the masses of society, and inculcates his own ideas of coaperation. These now appear to beat once more modified and more definite than in his Philosophy of Necessity. If we rightly understand him, be would combine manufactures with spade-labour, giving the male adults an allotment of waste land, while the ether ;arts of the family work in the mill.] The Arithmetic of Annuities and Life Assurance ; or Compound Interest Simplified. By EDWARD BAYLIS, Actuary of the Anchor Life Assur. anee Company. [A book to enable a person to acquire the power of calculating annuities, as- surances, and reversions, by means of decimals, as well as intended to serve as an introduction to the more elaborate treatises of DE Moms's, Mitase, and ether actuaries.] The Works of Francis Rabelais. Translated from the French ; with Eeplanatory Notes, by DUCHAT, OZELL, and others. In four volumes. Volume L [A reprint, in a handsome type and a bandy form, of the old edition, partly translated by URQUHART. The life of RABELAIS, and the preface, giving an account of the character of the author, the nature of his design, and the key to his personages, are added, together with selected notes.1 Hard Bible Words made Easy; being a Familiar Explanation of the Dif- ficult Words that occur in the English Scriptures. Designed fur the use of the poor, or of schools. Third thousand. KThe demand fir this vocabulary of words occurring in Scripture is evidence of Its utility ; and its failing is on the right side. We should guess it was torn- piled a scholar, to whom genuine Saxon sounded "bard." Abide, abode, backbite, are surely as intelligible to the English poor as any words to inter- pret them ; though perhaps nut to the poor of towns.] The Two Destinies; a Poem_ By Sir FRANCIS HASTINGS DOYLE, Bart.. Fellow of All Souls' College, Oxford. [The Two Destinies is the story of a pour beauty and a rich. Ellen Gray is dniven by want to prostitution and premature death; Edith Vere marries happily, and meets the bumble funeral of poor Ellen on her wedding-day. The object of Sir FRANCIS DorLE is to deduce the principle that much of virtue and happiness is dependent upon circumstances irrespective of ourselves, said to excite sympathy for the miseries of poverty. The spirit of humanity which pervades The Two Destinies gives an interest to the work that neither its puetical power nor the management of the story might impart; fur the style is too much an echo of BYRON, and the digressions of the Giciour are in- troduced not only without necessity but injuriously. The fragmentary chit- ruder of BYRON'S poem renders the abrupt breaks and resumption* a coneiscr Node of conducting the narrative; in The Two Destinies they only impede it.] Flowers of Many Hues; Original Poems by various Authors. Edited by FREDERICK ICEM1'STE11.

rThiS is a species of "keepsake," poetical and provincial ; and does credit to the press ot Manchester. The poetry, by various authors, though not all, vie think, by authors appertaining to the Dutchy, is of a very superior class to annual verses' and contains no questionable moral under the guise of senti- ment. Very high names do not figure in the list of contributurs,—SHERIDAN KNOWLES being the most distinguished, and he only supplying eight indiffer- ent lines: but, as we have often had to remark on these occasions, great names do not always furnish the best productions. Very striking character, very high excellence, will not be found in these Flowers of Many Hues ; but the imitation of poetry is so capital that it will deceive au but the "judges," and will puzzle them.] British Blessings; a Poem, in three Parts. By a Layman. [A brochure containing a schoolboy spirit in heroic verse. The principal "blessing" of the layman ia the Church.) Domestic Homceopathy ; or Rules for the Domestic Treatment of the Ma- ladies of Infants, Children, and Adults, and for the conduct and the treatment during pregnancy, confinement, and suckling. By JOHN EPPS, M.D., &c. Fourth edition.

[An enlarged and improved edition of a little work very useful in families where homonmathic remedies are used. As it is chiefly by converts to the new System of medicine that this book would be purchased, the sale of two thousand copies in less than four years may be taken as evidence of the spread of horron • opathy ; and of a more conclusive nature than the great increase in the number of his prescriptions, to which Dr. EPPS refers—though the latter is naturally most satisfactory to the Doctor himself. ln this new edition, the tabular enu- merations of el mptoms and remedies have been revised, and some new matter incorporated ; the principal addition being two or three chapters on the treat- ment of accidents from poison, bites of mad dogs and venomous reptiles, swal- lowing dangerous substances, &c.] The Court at Ravenna; a Comedy. By the Author of "The Robbers' Cave."

SERIALS.

The Complete Concordance to Shakspere ; being a Verbal Index to all the passages in the Dramatic Works of the Poet. By Mrs. COWDEN CLARKE. Parts I. and II.

[This is intended as a reference to every word in SHAKSPERE'S writings, ex- cepting particles. If you wish to find a passage, it is not necessary in know where it is; _it is not even needful to remember what it is—a word will do the business. Thus, only call to mind beetle" in "the poor beetle that we tread upon," and you will be referred to that, and to eight more passages where the word occurs. The present numbers only proceed as far as cal; hut we have found the work accurate and painstaking as far as we have tested it, and well deserving the patronage of the lovers of SHAK6PERE. Its form matches the Pictorial.] The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. The Text from the Authorized Version. With Historical Notes awl Numismatic Illustrations, by J. Y. AKERIKAN, F.S.A.. No. L [The notes to this new edition of the Testament are useful and instructive— explanatory rather than critical : but the feature of the publication is the numismatic cuts, which are clearly engraved, and the specimen coins are se- lected with Mr. Aasaman's wonted skill and judgment.] Lives of the English Saints. No. IlL St. Augustine of Canterbury, Apostle of the English. [at-coutinuation of the half or wholly Romish publication we have noted at some length on the appearance of the previous parts.1