PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Front August 8t4 to August 14111. BOOKS.

The Ballad Poetry of Ireland. Edited by Charles Gavan Duffy. (Daffy's Library of Ireland.) Four Lectures on the Organization of Industry; being part of a Course de- livered in the University of Cambridge in Easter Term 1844. By T.C.. Banfield, Esq.

The Foster-Brother; a Tale of the War of Chiozza. Edited by Leigh Hunt. In three volumes.

Notes on the Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the &hism from the Church of Rome called the German Catholic Church, instituted by Johannes Rouge and J. Czerzki, in October 1844, on occasion of the Pilgrimage to the Holy Coat at Treves. By Samuel Laing, Esq., Author of "A Rea

• dence in Norway," &c.

The Sportsman's Larrary. By John Mill';, Author of "The Old Eng- lish Gentleman," &c. This is a capital and seasonable book for the sportsman; containing a mans ut puree. Dividing his work into five books, Mr. Mills begins with the breeding• and treatment of hunters; which includes everything relating to them, front food and exercise to pbysicking. The second book treats of hounds and hunting; in- yoking the past and present style of doing the thing, the management of the kennel, the duties of master, huntsman, and whipper-in, with directions for riding after the hounds, and some brief remarks upon the subordinate sports of hare-hunting and stag-hunting—if the last, as usually followed, can be called sport. The third book embraces shooting : it contains a very elaborate discussion upon guns and loading them, hints on shooting—or, as the military would say, . "making ready, presenting, firing "—and specific advice on the various kinds of shooting, partridge pheasant, grouse, and so forth. Book the fourth is of a very miscellaneous character: among its contents will be found a species of dictionary of British game, a chapter on dogs, another on their diseases, directions for pre- serving and rearing game, with a short treatise on coursing—which, as may be supposed from its place, Mr. Mills holds lightly. Fishing of all kinds is the sub- ject of the fifth book; followed by an appendix of various matters. Though not exactly a sportsman of the old school, Mr. Mills is one of the manly hard-working class, whom the slaughter of a battue turns sick. Besides a devo- tion to the pursuit even from his boyish days, in this country, he crossed the Atlantic and shot woodcocks in America. Ms book, he says, and truly, is not a compilation, but the result of actual experience; and not above a tenth tart, the - author asserts, is derived from other writers, which assistance is invariably ac- knowledged. How far this may be literally correct we cannot undertake to say; but the book has all the appearance of being thrown off by a zealous and sensible sportsman, from his own knowledge. It has the freshness, the decision, the unity, occasionally the almost opinionativeness, that result from the experience of the practical man, who speaks of what he has proved. This quality makes it read- able; whilst the extent of the subjects treated of renders it, in the words of the title, The Sportsman's Library.] A Popular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies, and to every de- partment of the Legal Profession, Civil, Criminal, and Ecclesiastical; with . an Account of the State of the Law in Ireland and Scotland, and occa- sional Illustrations from American Law. By Samuel Warren, Esq., P.M., of the Inner Temple Barrister-at-law. Second edition. Entirely remo- delled, rewritten, and greatly enlarged. [It is now some ten years since we noticed at length Mr. Warren's Papular and Practical Introduction to Law Studies. The time which has elapsed since 1835 has produced extensive changes in the lawi enlarged Mr. Warren's experience, and exhausted his edition. The new publication 1.9 in some sort a new work. Besides a notice of the alterations in the law, and an illustration of English by a reference to American jurisprudence, Mr. Warren now treats at large of the three great divisions of the law into Civil, Criminal, and Ecclesiastical, as well as the subdivisions of the civil branch into Common Law Chancery Practice, and Con- veyancing. The appendix, entirely new if we mistake not, contains a quantity of practical documents illustrative of the proceedings in cases of different kinds; and the volume altogether now seems as complete an introduction to law studies as can-well be imagined. The embryo lawyer is told what to consider before he determines upon his way of life; the student is advised what books to read, what course to follow in his studies, and how to make his money go the furthest; the whole maze of the law is laid open to him that be may be enabled to choose by cot and not trust to chance; and finally he is .presented with an institute of branch of the profession forming an introduction to that which he resolves upon practising and a general view of the rest.] Plane Trigonometry and Mensuration. For the use of the Royal Military College at Sandhurst. By William Scott, MA., FILA-S., Professor of Mathematics in the Institution.

[The works of the series to which this belongs have been noticed as they appeared with the praise they justly deserve. The manual of Plane Trigonometry and Mensuration is worthy of its predecessors. In the first two sections are explained the rationale of the expression of geometrical magnitudes by numbers; in the third, a number of important trigonometrical formuke and series are inve.s-

• ' and in the fourth, rides are given for the computation of trigonometrical ta les: this completes what may be called the theory of mensuration. The ap-

plication of the formula demonstrated in the third sectionto the resolution of plane rectilineal triangles and calculation by logarithms is explained in the fifth. The sixth section is devoted to a description of the principal instruments employed in measuring heights and distances, and explanation of their principles, and rules for using them. The principal instruments used in delineating the results of such measurements are described in an appendix. The remaining three sections contain the applications of trigonometry to the measurement of heights and dis- taaces; formula for calculating the area of plane figures bounded by straight lines or segments of the circle; and similar formula for the calculation of areas and volumes bounded by plane surfaces, and also of the cylinder, cone, and sphere. This enumeration of the contents will show that the work embraces every in- formation required by the practical surveyor. The demonstrations are charac- terized by scientific accuracy, free from pedantic over-refinements and unnecessary difficulties; and they are elegant as well as exact. Of this course the public now possesses Arithmetic and Algebra, Geometry, Plane Trigonometry with Mensura- tion, Practical Astronomy and Geodesy. Three more volumes will complete the series,—embracing Analytical Geometry, with the Differential and Integral Cal- culus and the Properties of Conic Sections; the Principles of Mechanics; and Physical Astronomy.]

Gaetano; a Dramatic Poem, in three acts: and other Poems. By Gilbert Mayfield. Mt. Gilbert Mayfield has evidently been reading Manfred; and Gaitano, a atic Poem, is a staring imitation of it. Mr. Mayfield, however, has sought to improve his prototype; and besides a meditative and speculative gentleman, i shut up n a castle looking at the stars, dissatisfied with his nature and (rea- sonably enough) with himself, the hero of Gaetano has got "a minion" in the castle, and a lot of boozing friends: so we have love and a banquet in addition to misanthropy. We also hear of a second feast, for which Gaetano has given an order without any other stint than that the cost shall exhaust his fortune. The third act introduces him as a beggar, with a lady in love with him,—ap- parently designed in some way to represent virtuous affection; but the drama ends with a death instead of a marriage,—which probably points the moral of

excess.

The consistency that prevails throughout Manfred is lost in Gaetano; but the style is faithfully mimicked,—as cleverly as in the drama of" Man Fred."

_ The pot must be replenished ; but even then It will not last so long as I must drink."

There are a variety of miscellaneous poems in the volume; the best of which hate the same echo of a style no longer in its first fashion.]

Sonnets, composed on various Suldects and Occasions. By Francis Skur- ray, B.D., Rector of Winterborne, Dorset, and Perpetual Curate of Horn- ' ingsham, Wilts.

[This volume contains three hundred and fifty effusions on various subjects, which may be observed in town and country, abroad or at home; or on topics that i

mg' arise in a contemplative mind, in the course of religious duties, or of foreign travel. Sonnets, however, in strictness they are not; at least we have met with none after the true and formal Italian model. Mr. Skurray sometimes merely writes seven couplets of heroic verse. To us, who consider the sonnet as exotic and artificial—seldom pleasing in English, and only attractive for the inherent weight of thought, or the personal interest felt in the writer's opinions— this formal deviation would not be of much importance. In deviating, however, from the rigid model, a difficulty is doubtless evaded, and the peculiar character of the sonnet lost There seems no reason for confining the production to fourteen lines, if the author only writes in heroic couplets the measure which has been Galled elegiac, or some other combination of the heroic line.] The Village Paupers, and other Poems. By G. W. Fulcher. Second edition.

A Sketch of New South Wales. By J. 0. Balfour, Esq., for six years a Settler in the Bathurst District [The publication of Mr. Balfour is rather a book of results than of the expe- rience which has enabled him to deduce them. It has consequently more dis- quisition than narrative, and is rather a general account of things than parti- cular descriptions embraced in a personal story: indeed, there is little or nothing of this kind, except the author's first interview with the Aborigines. This style of composition gives more of a compiling or encyclopaedic air to Mr. Balfour's Sketch of New South Wales than in reality it deserves; for he throws off his own conclusions drawn from actual observation of life and business, especially in his remarks on the state of society in Sydney, the mode of life in the bush, and the advice he tenders upon emigration. There is little, however, of substan- tial novelty in the volume. Indeed, novelty is now radar difficult to attain, un- leas the writer recounts his story, or possesses some distinctive character of mind.] The Emigrant's Guide; or Ten Years' Practical Experience in Australia.

By the Reverend David Mackenzie, M.A.

[Tile Emigrant's Guide so far resembles the preceding volume that it is a geueral account of New South Wales; but the Reverend David Mackenzie handles a great may more subjects than Mr. Balfour, his chapters embracing nearly thirty dis- tinct topics. Sometimes these are merely geographical school-hook knowledge; at other times they are the conclusions of Mr. MackenLie's experience, or the gossip of the colony,—reminding us strongly of the facts which a class of platform divines are in the habit of introducing into their sermons and speeches. Some of these tales relating to morals, we infer to be questionable ; because if true in the fullest extent, the transaction could be set aside as a fraudulent bargain, un- less the law in New South Wales is different from what it is elsewhere. Some are "good stories." For example: such is the ignorance in parts of New South Wales, that the true reckoning is lost; • ..le are out in the days of the week, keeping Friday for Sunday, and so on. II man our author knows made his chin his idmanack : he had been accustomed for years to shave every Saturday evening, so he knew the arrival of the Sabbath "by the exact length of his beard."] New Zealand and its Aborigines; being an Account of the Aborigines, Trade, and Resources of the Colony, and the Advantages it now presents as a field for emigration and the investment of capital. By William Brown, lately a Member of the Legislative Council of New Zealand. [Mr. Brown appears to have been one of the original settlers in South Australia; whence he emigrated to New Zealand, and subsequently returned home. This volume embodies his observations on the Native character, mingled with a variety of Suggestions relative to their protection and improvement; which are followed by a miscellaneous part on the past misgovernment of the colony, and the advarr•- tages of New Zealand for colomzation under proper management. There is alas; an appendix of documents touching various local matters. The book does not' appear to us to contain much of novelty in substance; which was perhaps un- avoidable, after the sifting that New Zealand subjects have lately undergonee and the observations are rather of an individual than a general character—rather small than large.' Characteristic Traits and Domestic Life of Frederick William III. Sing of Prussia; as narrated by the Very Reverend R. Fr. Eylert, D.D., Bishop in the United Evangelical Church of Prussia, &c. Translated from thee German, by Jonathan Birch, holder of the Prussian Great Gold Medal or Homage, dated 15th October 1840; Author of "Fifty-one Original Fables: and Morals," &c.

[This volume is a companion or continuation to one we formerly noted, which embraced a Court Chaplain's view of the religious character of the Wing of Prussia. In the present case, Bishop Eylert exhibits the characteristic traits. and domestic life of the Monarch, illustrated in a variety of anecdotes. Some of these are curious enough told of a king; and other is appear in the pages of the Bishop, as well as Frederick William. Neither s the book unamusing, though not in the way perhaps that the writer intended.]

Minstrel Lore; a Romance. From the German of Fonque. A new trans- lation, with nine original designs. [The high-toned sentiment, .glowing descriptions and impassioned Lingua& of • this beautiful romance of chivalry, are well preserved in this translation. The designs are by Corbould; who shows his clever drawing and taste in costumer- without his usual mannerism.]