PUBLICATIINS RECEIVED.

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France and its Revolutions : a Pictorial History. 1789-1848. By George Long, Esq.

The Social Condition and _Education of the People in England and .Europe; showing the Results of the Primary Schools, and of the Di- vision of Landed Property, in Foreign Countries. By Joseph Kay, Esq., M.A., of Trinity College, Cambndge. In two volumes. The East. Sketches of Travels in Egypt and the Holy Land. By the Reverend J. A. Spencer, M.A. With Illustrations.

Railway Economy : a Treatise on the New Art of Transport, its Ma- nagement, Prospects, and Relation; Commercial, Financial, and So- . With an Exposition of the Practical Results of the Railways in Operation in the United Kingdom on the Continent, and in-America. America. By Dionyaius Lardner, D.C.L., &C.

Scenes from the Life of a Soldier in Active Service. I. The Austrian Campaign in Piedmont, 1849; translated from the German of F. W. Hacklander. H. Notice of the Defence of Tenieswar. Ill. The Camp of the Ban.

A Treatise on the Climate and Meteorology of Jlfadeira. By the' late J. A. Mason, M.D., Inventor of Mason's Hygrometer, Edited by James Sheridan Knowles. To which are attached, a Review of the State of Agriculture and of the Tenure of Land, by George Peacock, &es Dean of Ely, and Lowndean Professor of Astronomy in the Uni- versity of Cambridge ; and an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Island, and Guide to Visitere, by John Driver, Consul for Greece, Madeira.

An Inquiry into the Chronological Succession of the Styles of Roman-

esque and Pointed Architecture in Prance; with Notices of some of the Principal Buildings on which it is founded. By Thomas Inkersley. [An architectural tour in France, extending over a period of five years, re- suited in the collection of a number of notes ; and on putting them together, Mr. Inkersley was strnck with the remarkable agreement in dates between, buildings of the same class. He has set his notes in order, and publishes them, with an introduction, as a clue to the study of ItOmanesque anti Pointed Architecture in France. The work embraces an introduction ; ex- tracts from old chronicles, &es showing by direct mention or allusion the dates of building certain structures; and than a fuller description of the edifices by Mr. Inkersley. The whole will enable the student to view the practical history of the architecture of which it treats in a connected manner, and thus to form a clearer idea of the growth, transition, and decadence of the pointed style. The work is executed with great diligence and scholarly candour.] Spring-Tide; or the Angler and his Friends. By John Yonge Aker- man.

[Six days of angling adventure, observation, and miscellaneous matters, pro- sented in the form of colloquy between Benet, Julian and their attendant Simon, a representative of the English peasant and th.Anglo-Saxon tongue. It is a capital book. The information for the angler is practical; the little incidents are various and amusing enough ; the accessories of description, &c. agreeable. There is besides a good deal of knowledge of Saxon or Old English thrown into the volume; Simon being not a mere speaker of pro- vincialisms, but a living "sample of the language of Alfred the Great," which Julian is at find inclined to laugh at, and which Senex defends. There are some clever illustrations to the volume, and a very lifelike portrait of the author, as we suppose.] People I have Met; or Pictures of Society and People of Mark ; drawn under a thin veil of fiction. By N. Parker Willie, Author of " Pen- cillings by the Way." [This title does not convey a very accurate idea of the book; which is a series of short tales, verging on the extreme or rather the improbable. The stories, in fact, differ in little or nothing from the numerous magazine tales that are published every month : it is possible that some of these pictures of society and peopleof mark" have already appeared. Part of "Getting to Windward" we have a strong impression of having read years ago, in a somewhat eimilor volume printed by this author as veritable sketches of society.] .7fing'8 Connell; a Tale. By Mrs. Gordon, Author of "The Fortunes of the Falconers." In three volumes. [A novel of modern society and domestic life, which aims at producing its effects more by a careful delineation of manners and character than by start- ling incidents. The object of the writer is attained, but not with sufficient novelty or power for detailed criticism.] Sabrina Corolla in Hortulis Regiat Scholai Salopiensis contexuerunt Tres Yin Floribus Leg,endis. [A collection of Latin verses, mostly translations from the English poets, by pupils educated at the celebrated. grammar-school of Shrewsbury, founded by Edward the Sixth, enlarged by Er beth, and carried to its highest pitch of distinction by the late Dr. Butler. The volume before us is worthy of the zeal of the sons of Salop. The paper and typography are faultless; the book is illustrated with views of Salop, or portraits of its more eminent scholars; the

binding is of an Etruscan tone of colour and style of ornament. That those who feel an interest in Shrewsbury school may lack nothing in the way of completeness, there is a list of the eminent pupils of this century, " omnes fere Salopienses hujus wenn.," who have distinguished themselves at col-

Precious Stones : Aids to Reflection, from Prose Writers in the Six- teenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries. Collected by the Reverend Robert Aria Willmott, Incumbent of Bearwood, Berks. kAr:lection of short passages from the principal prose writers of the last centuries. The subjects are not classified, but they are always of a grave, mostly of a religious character, and not only form valuable' aids to reflection," but to wise and prudent thought, besides furnishing a good selection of valuable extracts.] Life of Mahomet. By Washington Irving. (Bohn's Shilling Series.) LA second of Mr. Bohn's Milling Series forming 40 a double volume" for etghteenpence, and containing Washington Irving's Life of Mahomet, which lately appeared in an octavo form. Mr. Bohn defends his proceedings in an advertisement. He has been placed between two fires : his own volumes have been pirated in America "by letter of marque "—that is, " legally" ; when he has made arrangements with American holders of American copy- rights, he has been forestalled in the English market.] The Tragedies of Euripides. Literally translated or revised, with Cri- tical and Explanatory Notes, by Theodore Alois Buckley, of Christ Church. Volume I. (Bohn's Classical Library.)

[COIltaills ten tragedies literally translated—into prose, of course. The first sax.plays were published at Oxford some years since, and have been fre- quently reprinted ; the remainder have been translated for this edition. Notes chiefly of a critical kind have been added.]

The Self-Instructor in German. With a Vocabulary and copious Ex- planatory Notes. By Feick Lebaboi.

[Contains Kotzebue's comedy of "Der Muthwillige," and Schiller's "Der N.ee als Onkel," adapted for the study of those who wish to familiarize them- selves with light conversation and colloquial phraseology. "In the notes all the difficult passages occurring in the text are explained, classified, and ar- ranged in groupes." Great care has also been paid to collect numerous ex- amples in the expletives which form so important a feature in German con- versation.]

- A •trntnurr of the English Language, for the use of Commercial Schools. By 11. G. Latham, M.D.

[Another short abridgment from the author's great work, adapted to pupils dWgned for commercial business.]

A Short and Easy Course of Algebra ; chiefly designed for the use of the Junior Classes in Schools ; with a numerous collection of Original Easy Exercises. By Thomas Lund, B.D., Rector of Morten, Derby- shire.

[Thislittle. Veluine is not designed for junior classes alone, but for older stu- nts who only aim at mastering the first rudiments of mathematical analy- sis, or working men who wish to acquire a higher power of computation than common arithmetic supplies.] l'he Pensive Wanderer • a Poem, in four cantos ; with Nero and the Fire of -Rome an Ode'; and other Poems. By Cambria's Bard. . Sketches of Politicians ; a Diem. By Walter Kemp. (Two books of verses which do not require comment ; although "Cambria's Bard" has essayed a new species of versification,- and Mr. Kemp has taken refuge in poetry for the loss of agricultural protection.] A Physician's Holyda ; or a Month in Switzerland in the Summer of 1848. By John Forbes,M.D., F.R.S., Physician to her Majesty's Household. With a Map and Illustrations. Second edition, revised and corrected.

[The feature of this edition-is its compression into a handier volume.]

MAP.

Johnston's Plan of the City of Edinburgh. Surveyed and drawn by Alfred Laneefie Esq., C. E. &c. ; the Outline by Alexander J. Adie, William Jardine and Patrick Johnston, 'Nqs., Civil Engineers, under the direction of James Jardine, Esq., CE., F.R.S., &c. [Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston have completed a survey. of Edinburgh, which they began some years ago on a large scale ; and they have constructed a map immense in size and minute in detail, one sheet of which has been engraved and published. The further engraving of the work has been sus- pended until the projectors can ascertain something respecting the course of the Ordnance Survey ; but in the mean time, the entire work will be avail- able for reference. The copy sent to us is accompanied by the following de- scription from the Scotsman, a journal which possesses a local knowledge far more intimate than ours.

" The survey is on the scale of five feet to one statute mile, and occupies no fewer than sixty sheets of double elephant drawing-paper, comprehending the entire dis- trict within the Parliamentary boundary, with Leith, Granton, Ike. The work does the utmost credit to the eminent engineers who have been engaged on it, and the care and minuteness of detail which distinguishes its execution are well illustrated by the sheet now before us. It embraces the central and important district of the New Town, bounded by Princes Street on the South, by Great King Street on the North, and ranging from a little West of the line of Castle Street on the one side to a little East of the line of Elder Street on the other. Within these bounds, we have not only every street, square, and lane, accurately laid down, but we have actually every building of whatever kind, public or private, and every open space, however small, accurately and distinctly indicated. The inhabited buildings—that is, the bnildings occupied as houses—are distinguished from the uninhabited—that is, those used as warehouses, stables, 8m.—by a difference in the shading or colouring; while the various public buildings are prominently marked out, and even filled up with neat and distinct ground-plans of each. Thus, in the Commercial Bank we see the portico, the entrance-lobbies, the side-rooms, and the large telling-room; while in St. Andrew's Church, on the opposite side of the street, we have the division of the church into the various pews, 8m., so clearly set forth, that any of Drs. Clark's and Cravvford's hearers might lay his finger at once on his accustomed seat. In the various squares we have the arrangements of the trees and shrubberies, even to the position of individual trees; also the plans of back-greens and private gardens ; and in the streets the eyes of all the drains, the position or fire-plugs, and the heights of eve.z7 street above the level of the sea,—an important and interesting kind of infor- mation."

The specimen-sheet is beautifully engraved, with a surprising combination of force and delicacy.] PAMPHLETS.

The Currency Question ; a republication of three Letters which ap- peared in "The Times," in December 1848. By a London Banker.

Report of the Judgments pronounced by the Judges of the Court of Exchequer Chatnber, in the Braintree Church-rate Case, &c. By James Cook Evans, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law.

Brief Reminiscences of Opinions in 1849 on Taxation.

.drctic Expeditions; a Lecture delivered at the London Institution, Fe- bruary 6,1850. By Charles Richard Weld, Assistant Secretary to the Royal. Society. With a Map.

A Common-sense View of the Treatment of Criminals, especially those sentenced to Transportation. With some Remarks on Mr. aeries Pearson's and Captain Maconochie's Plans. By Joseph Kingsmill, M.A., Chaplain of the Government Model Prison, London. Switzerland; a History of the French and English Diplomacy in that Country during the Last Three Years. Translated by Count IYHaus- sonville, A Second Letter on Christian Baptism, to the Honourable Baptist W. NoeL By " Keseph."

Parental Authority; a Letter to Edward Kenealy, Esq., LLD, Sze, from P. J. Nagle, Esq., A.M., on the Recent Extraordinary Case of the Queen v. Km.. ealy.

A Letter on the Collegiate Parish Church of Manchester ; with Be.. marks on the Bill before Parliament for the Division of the Pariah and other purposes. By Thomas Turner, F.sq., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-law.