PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booze.

The History and Traditions of the Land of the Lindeays, in Angus and _Kearns; with Notices of Alyth and Meigle. By Andrew Jer- vice. To which is added, an Appendix containing Extracts from an old Rental Book of Edzell and Lethnot, Notices of the Ravages of the Marquis of Montrose in Angusshire, and other interesting Documents.

_Kismet, or the Doom of Turkey. By Charles MacFarlane, Author of "Constantinople in 1828," &c.

LThe object of this book is to persuade the world that Turkey is not only on its last legs, but a wicked old sinner and tyrant even in decrepitude ; that Russia is a much-abused power ; and that France and England ought not to go to war with a "Christian nation " to bolster up an Infidel domination, especially seeing that it will be labour in vain. " The Doom of Turkey " has been pronounced by Mr. MacFarlane.

A good portion of _kismet consists of matter left out from the author's Turkey and its Destiny, with extracts from that work, or others taking the Anti-Turkish side of the question, as well as from letters of private friends. The particular facts are of the kind which such portion of the public as have read the unfavourable accounts of Turkey are already fa- miliar with ; and may probably be true, though coloured by partisan zeal. Certain broad opinions are contradicted by results. Mr. MacFarlane as- serts that the military spirit is altogether dead as well in Asia as in Europe : yet the Turks have assembled a very large army, mainly by appeals to that spirit; and though there may be rashness in the popular feeling, there is nothing like timidity. He pictures the Turkish employee of all ranks as ig- norant, incapable, risen from nothing by intrigues, and employed in the de- partments for which they are unfitted. Yet, fools as they are, they imme- diately detected the inefficiency and exposed the blundering of the most emi- nent diplomatists of Europe ; proving their " note " to contain a meaning the very opposite of what the authors intended. Some of Mr. MacFarlane's particular arguments may possess greater cogency for himself than other people. He denounces the alleged liberality and civilization of the Turks as a pretence; grounding his conclusions in part on the fact that the Reforming Ministry did not " give access to their houses to men like me."] Dramas of Calderon, Tragic, Comic, and Legendary. Translated from the Spanish, principally in the Metre of the Original, by Danis Flo- rence M'Carthy, Esq., Barrister-at-law, Author of " Ballads, Poems, and Lyrics," &c. In two volumes. [We have remarked on more than one occasion when translations of the Spanish dramatists have come before us, that the attempt is injudicious, and from the nature of the case not likely to be popular. Except in plays of in- triguing adventure, the Spanish drama is not adapted to the British taste : for the plots mostly abound in conceits of action, so to speak ; the speeches are interminably long, without the brisk force and brevity essential in Eng- lish notions to dramatic dialogue ; the persons are rather an abstract repre- sentation of qualities than individual characters ; and the incidents some- times approach the burlesque. It might be added that foreign manners are too often caricatured ; but this is frequently the case at home. The germs of an English drama may be found in Spanish plays ; but the best of these were adapted to our stage when the English stage was really a social feature. The so-called heroic or tragic dramas seem better fitted for conversion into operas than for translation as plays.

It is perhaps possible for a peculiar genius to do something with the best Spanish dramas, by taking them as a theme or groundwork for free treat- ment in the reproduction of dramatic poems. Mr. Denis Florence M'Carthy has not attempted this. On the contrary, he has aimed at exact translation even to the metre, where the last is practicable. This formal representation is more specious than true. The metre of one language is not adapted to another, especially in dramatic poetry. The almost lyrical dialogues of Cal- deron might be operatic, but would not be dramatic even if rendered by a genius akin to his own ; but the•present translator scarcely gives his reader the attraction of poetry.]

Notes, Theological, Political, and Miscellaneous. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited by the Reverend Derwent Coleridge, M.A.

[This volume completes the "Marginalia" of Coleridge, which a regard for his memory has induced his disciples to publish entire. The volume contains notes on Luther and other theological writers ; miscellaneous notes, some of which verge upon theology, while some are on chemistry and other natural sciences ; political notes, relating to the age of the Commonwealth and the later Stuarts, or to the times contemporary with the writer. Some of the miscellaneous and theological notes had already appeared ; the political notes are new. They are curious, from their strong Anti-Stuart feeling, even in favour of the Regicides : their brevity renders them readable; but a selec- tion would have answered the purpose of general utility.]

Schoolmaster's _Difficulties Abroad and at Home.

(This volume exhibits a practical acquaintance with the "difficulties" which beset the humble class of public or national schoolmasters, from the nature of their calling and duties, the different individuals in authority they have to contend with, their ill-defined social position, and their scanty remune- ration. The advice which the author renders on these matters is sound. His manner is not very attractive—a mixture of sermonizing with a didac- tic style; while his sketches of " characters" are somewhat literal.]

The Traveller's Handbook to Copenhagen and its Environs. By An- glicanus. With Maps and Views. [In less than two hundred pages, this neat little handbook seems to contain all that the traveller should seek in such a guide to aid his own eyes and re- searches,—notices of public buildings, literary and governmental institu- tions, galleries of art, theatres, hotels, promenades, conveyances, environs, and a variety of miscellaneous information. This is presented with compen- dious but not barren brevity ; and illustrated by two large and good maps, and various neat lithographs of the most noticeable buildings. It is not a secret, we believe, that "Anglicans" is Mr. Ellis, Chaplain to the British Embassy in Denmark.] Blanche the Huguenot ; a Tale. By William Anderson. With eight Illustrations by G. and W. L. Thomas. (The illustrated Family Novelist.) A well-written tale, descriptive of the perneutions of the Huguenots under Louis the Fourteenth. A large appendix contains a variety of curious mat- ter illustrative of the times and the text.] A Manual of Domestic Medicine, for the use of Clergymen's Wives, all benevolent Visitors of the Poor, and for Emigrants. By a Doctor's Daughter.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope. Edited by Robert Carruthers. Illustrated by Portraits and Original Designs. In four volumes. Volume II. (National Illustrated Library.)

[The first volume of Pope's "Poetical Works,' though numbered as the second from the first of the series containing the life, follows the order which the poet himself adopted in his collected edition. By this means, his translations and imitations (except of Horace) stand Brat, and precede ' the Pastorals and the more miscellaneous pieces. The volume also in eludes the Essay on Criticism, and "The Rape of the Lock."

The editing does credit to the knowledge and judgment of Mr. Carruthers. The story of each poem is generally told, while foot-notes contain particular criticisms, note the poet's alterations, or explain allusions. From the ge- neral nature of the works, these last are not so numerous or so req. Clieite as they will be when the editor comes to the Satires, Moral Epistles, and " The Dunciad."] The History of Pyrrhus. By Jacob Abbott. With Engravings. (Jacob Abbott's Histories.) The History of Alfred the Great. By Jacob Abbott. With Engravings. (Jacob Abbott's Histories.) [The juvenile histories of Mr. Abbott are formed on the plan of taking sonic remarkable person as the representative of a period, -so as to make biography enforce history ; illustrations by means of maps, plans, and views, realiebig i the original scene to the mind, where practicable. We believe the work s American in its origin, and several of the series have been reprinted in Va- rious forms. The present undertaking is to present the whole twenty-four volumes under the superintendence of the author.] Arnold's School Classics. Xenophon's Anabasis explained by Dr. F. K. Hertlein. In two parts. Translated from the German, (with ad- ditional Notes and Grammatical References,) by the Reverend.Henry Browne, MA., Canon of Waltham in the Cathedral Church, and Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Chichester. Pretty Lessons in Verse for Good Children ; with some Lessons in Latin in Easy Rhyme. By Sarah Coleridge. The fifth edition. Chambers's Repository of .Instructive and Amusing Tracts. Volume VI. Sketches of the Hungarian _Emigration into Turkey. By a Honved. (Reading for Travellers.) Mutiny of the Bounty. (The Universal Library.) PAMPHLETS.

New Trials in Criminal Cases; with a few Remarks on the Court of Criminal Appeal. By William Ribton, A.B., formerly Scholar of Trinity College, Dublin, of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-law. Slavery in the Island of Cuba; with Remarks on the Statements of the British Press relative to the Slave-Trade. By Don Mariano Torrents, late Member of the Spanish Parliament ; Author of "A Sketch of the Political and Economical State of the Island of Cuba," &c.

Penal Discipline. Three Letters suggested by the interest taken in the recent Inquiry at Birmingham, and published in the Daily News, 23d, 24th, and 26th September. By Captain Maconochie, R.N., K.H. Immortal Sewerage. The Beer-Shop Evil. By the Honourable and Reverend Sidney Godolphin Osborne. The Drying-up of the Euphrates ; or the Downfall of Turkey, Pro- phetically considered. By John Aiton, D.D., Author of the "Lands of the Messiah, Mehemet, and the Pope, as visited in 1851." Report of the Central Committee of United Trades on the Proceedings connected with the " Combination of Workmen Bill" in the Parlia- mentary Session 1853. Observations on the Injustice, Inequalities, and Anomalies of the pre- sent System of Taxation ol Stage-Coaches in England, Scotland, and Wales. By fi. E. Bradfield. The Decimal Coinage. A Letter to the Right Honourable the Chancel- lor of the Exchequer, advocating, as a preliminary step, the Issue of a Five-Farthing Piece. By A. Milward, Esq.