PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boors.

Commercial Statistics. A Digest of the Productive Resources, Com- mercial Legislation, Customs Tariffs, Navigation, Port, and Quaran- tine Laws and Charges, Shipping, Imports and Exports, and the Monies, Weights, and Measures of All Nations. Including all British Commercial Treaties with Foreign States. By John Macgregor, M.P., late Secretary of the Board of Trade. In five volumes. Volume V.

The _Romance of the Peerage; or Curiosities of Family History. By Georee,, Lillie Craik, Professor of History and of English Literature in the Queen's College, Belfast. Volume IV. Olive; a NoveL By the Author of "The Ogilvies." In three volumes.

ASeketion from the Classical Examination Papers of King's College, London. By R. W. Browne, M.A., &c. [This volume contains a revised selection from the Examination Papers used at King's College, London, during the last fifteen years. The object of the publication is not merely to assist the student of the College itself, but to furnish others with a carefully-chosen series of examples for translation from English into Greek orLatin, and vice versa, with questions adapted to direct attention to the topics most worthy of consideration in the original classic. To indicate the "method of study pursued at King's College, and the kind of subjects to n-hieh it is deemed expedient to direct the student's attention in the course of his classical reading," is another object of the book. In this point of view, the Papers will produce a favourable impression. They are attentive to the mere verbal .questions that may be elucidated by the classical text, while they aim at turning its matter to a useful account.]

Additional Annotations, Critical, Philological, and Explanatory, on the New Testament ; being a Supplemental Volume to the Greek Testament, with English Notes, in two volumes. By the Reverend S. T. Bloomfield, D.D.

[This volume is the fulfilment of an undertaking made in 1839, in the pre- face to Dr. Bloomfield's third edition of his celebrated Greek Testament. The engagement was to the effect that he would make no further changes in that work, but reserve all additions for a separate supplementary volume. That volume, after the direct labour of eleven years, is now before us-' form- ing a companion to all the editions of Bloomfield's Greek Testament except the first two. The subject of the annotations is threefold ; and relate to a critical examination of the reading of the text, with the reasons for that selected, philological notes on the meaning of words, and exegetical annota- tions on the verbal interpretation of passages.]

Arithmetic : Rules and Reasons. By John H. Boardman, M.A., &e. [The intention of this little book is to acquaint the pupil with the principles of arithmetic as soon as he is of an age to understand them. This is done rather by explanation than definition : there are many sufficient whys given, but often not the fundamental why. The book, it strikes us, is more adapted to teachers, or to self-teaching, than for pupils in common schools, unless of some years, or of special aptitude.] Peter the Whaler; his Early Life, and Adventures in the Arctic Re- gions. By William H. G. Kingston, Esq., Author of "How to Emi- grate," .&c. With Illustrations by E. Duncan. [The idea of this nautical story, like that of many other nautical stories, was probably suggested by _Robinson Crime. The hero is the son of an Irish clergyman ; he is led into difficulties by his love of unlicensed field-sports, and the bad characters his propensity connects him with. The nobleman on whose land he is detected poaching, insists that he shall go to sea for a short time as a punishment. The vessel is burnt in mid ocean, but sonic of the passengers and crew escape ; and this leads to a variety of subsequent adventure: both by land and sea, told in a very truthful but somewhat literal manner, perhaps intentionally so, as more appropriate to juvenile readers.] The Children's Own Sunday Book. By Julia Corner. [The themes of this book are subjects from Hebrew history, from the time of Abraham to the destruction of Jerusalem. The narratives are told both in prose and verse, and are intermingled occasionally with descriptions of the country, and reflections of the nature of short discourses.] The _Royal Water-Lily of South America, and the Water-Lilies of Our Own Land; their History and Cultivation. By George Lawson, F.B.S., &e.

[A pretty little book, designed to stimulate the popular attention to botany. It gives a full description of the newly-introduced wonder the Royal Water- Lily, with its gigantic leaves and beautiful flowers, as well as an account of its original habitat in South America, its discovery, the difficulty of trans- porting its seeds to England, and the still greater difficulty of growing it here, which was first successfully accomplished by Mr. Paxton at Chatsworth. This interesting sketch is followed by an account of our indigenous water- lilies.] Post-oftee London Directory, 1851. [This gigantic publication, with its two thousand pages of closely-packed type, seems to leave nothing more to be desired in the way of new subjects, or the exhibition of those subjects in different aspects, so that the searcher, who from want of particulars fails in one mode of examination, may have recourse to another. If there are here and there alight errors or omissions of detail, they may fairly be ascribed to the multiplicity of minutia;, or to the necessity of sometimes relying on second-hand information. It would be well, however, to bear in mind the necessity of unceasing watchfulness as regards accuracy.] The week has been tuneful ; no fewer than half-a-dozen poetical publica- tions of one class or another having arrived. Of these, the revised and col- lected editions of the Poems of Mrs. Browning (late Miss Barrett) is by far the most remarkable, and will warrant a closer inspection in a time of lei- sure. The second edition of the "Pleasures of Music" shows the effect which unaffected nature has upon the mind of the generality, even when something loftier is, critically speaking, wanted : the plan and indeed the execution of the Pleasures of Music, is after those of Hope and Memory. The "Poems" of Mr. Hughes are fluent and well-sounding • for the most part, too, they are short, or of moderate length,—qualities which may have helped to bring them to a second edition.

Of the new poems, the volume of Mr. Bennett is by far the best. The "Sketches from a Painter's Studio," a tale of rustic seduction by a fashion- able roue, though not over new in its subject, and in its close resembling a poem by Barry Cornwall on a similar theme, is skilfully treated, and with a living style and manner that give freshness to what is not in its elements new. This piece, however, seems rather a lucky hit. The other poems, chiefly miscellaneous or occasional, display poetical spirit and diction ; but the diction is often rather peculiar, and the thoughts slightly approach affectation, as if the author were too much imbued with the !angularities of the Tennyson school. We suspect, too, that Mr. Bennett is not a great lover of labour—that with him what is written is written, and so remains. Mr. John Stebbing'a "Autumn Evening Verses," take their title, appa- rently, from the time of their composition or publication, for they are not in their subjects limited to autumn. They are a collection of miscellaneous Verses, without distinctive character or remarkable merit in their execution. "Herman and Dorothea" is an effort to translate Goethe's poem into hex- ameter verse ; an attempt which we believe had been made before, without much success. The preface contains a defence of English hexameters ,• but this is a question which argument cannot determine. Vox populi, vox Dei," in matters of metre.

Poems. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning. New edition. In two volumes.

The Pleasures of Music, and other Poems. By John Clark Ferguson. Second edition, greatly enlarged.

Poems. By Georee Hughes. Being a second edition of "Rhymes by a Poetaster," with Additions. In two volumes.

Poems. By W. C. Bennett.

Autumn Evening Verses. By John Stebbing.

Berman and _Dorothea. From the German of Goethe. By James Coch- rane.

The week has also been prolific in books that are either new editions or the continuation of works whose novelty and chief features were almost ex- hausted on the appearance of their first volume. The most important among them is decidedly Dr. Pereira's third edition of his " Muteria Medico.' The whole of the second volume will be devoted to vegetable subjects, a considerable portion of which are contained in this first part. The changes in the Dublin Pharmacopoeia for 1850, and of the forthcoming Lon- don Pharmacopoeia, will also be embodied, besides various mechanical and minor improvements. The advances in pharmacological knowledge has ren- dered it necessary to rewrite a considerable portion of the book.

Dr. Kitto's third volume of the "Daily Bible Illustrations" is principally occupied with two of the most dramatic and striking portions of Hebrew his- tory, the stories of Saul and David. To the life of the latter Dr. Kitto has more especially devoted himself, both in the public and private character of the monarch, in order to remove the objections which scepticism at various times has urged against him. In the historical part Dr. Kitto does this in the style of a man of the world, who considers the circumstances of Da- vid's time, as well as the abstract laws of right, in coming to a conclusion.

It is seven years. since Messrs. Chapman and Hall began Schlosser's " s tory of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries," in their Foreign Library, and they have only now got to the seventh volume : it chiefly deals with Continental affairs from the first Italian campaign of Bonaparte to the cam- paign of Austerlitz and the treaty of Tilsit, followed by a survey of the state of affairs in Europe.

The "Sketches by Boz " is a volume of the cheap edition of Dickens's collected works. The title of Mr. Yearsley'a book on Deafness tells its own story.

The Elements of Materia Medico and Therapeutics. By Jonathan Pe- reira, M.D., &c. Third edition, enlarged and improved ; including Notices of most of the Medicinal Substances in use in the Civilized World, and forming an Encyclopedia of Materia Medica. Volume rt. Part I.

Daily Bible Illustrations ; being Original Readings for a Year, on Sub- jects from Sacred History, Biography, Geography Antiquities, and Theology. By John Kitto, D.D., &c.--hatnuel, Saul, and David. July—September.

History of the Eighteenth Century and of the Nineteenth till the Over- throw of the French Empire ; with particular reference to Mental Cultivation and Progress. By F. C. Schloeser, Privy Councillor, &a.

Translated by D. Davison, MA. Volume VIL • Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Everyday Life and Everyday People. With a Frontispiece by George Cruikahank.

Deafness Practically Illustrated; being an Exposition of Original Views as to the Nature, Causes, and Treatment of Diseases of the Ear. By James Yearsley,111.R.C.S.E., &c. Third edition.

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The Solemnity of our Anglo-Catholic Ritualism Defended. A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, in Reply to certain Censures in his recent Charge to the Clergy. By a Layman.

A Warning Voice to the Lord Bishop of London, &c.

Christ upon the Waters; a Sermon preached in substance at St. Chad's, Birmingham, on Sunday, October 27, 1850, on occasion of Establish- ment of the Catholic Hierarchy in this Country. By John Henry Newman, D.D.

A Treatise, proving by the Common Law (as it existed prior to the Reformation) that the Pope never had right to any Supremacy in England. Edited by Henry Pyne, Esq., Barrister-at-law.

A Popular Lecture on Law, its Origin and Results. By Thomas Turner, of the Middle Temple.

Stop Thief; or Hints to Housekeepers to Prevent Housebreaking. By George Cruikshank.

On the Reclamation of Waste Lands and their Cultivation by Croft Husbandry, considered with a view to the Productive Employment of Destitute Labourers, Paupers, and Criminals. By William I'ulteney Alison, M.D., &e.

• Spectator for 1848, page 595.