PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, F. September lif ts Septemher

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Popular Cyclopcedia of Natural Science. Animal Physiology. By Wt. maxi B. CARPENTER, M.D., Author of "Principles of General and Comparative Physiology," &c.

A Treatise in which the Elementary Properties of the Ellipse are deduced from the Properties of the Circle and geometrically demonstrated. By the Duke of SOMERSET. Second edition.

[This is the production of an elegant and accomplished mathematician. It deduces the properties of the ellipse by a process which, if not entirely new, is not generally known, and has the recommendation of giving the geometrical student a more thorough knowledge of them by shifting his point of view. The propositions are classed under four books. The first demonstrates the properties of concentric and alternate circles; the second explains the nature and relations of the three classes of parallels employed in deducing the ellipse from the circle ; the third applies the principles developed in the two former to demonstrate some of the simpler properties of the ellipse; and the fourth treats of such parallelograms as are connected with the ellipse.] Steilts Pictorial Spelling and Reading Assistant, Part I.

[This book contains a vocabulary of words in one and two syllables, with sub- divisions as respects differences in the sound, spelling, or accent. The "pic- torial" matters of the titlepage consist of a cut at thethead of a large foot-note, which expatiates upon some word taken from the same page of the vocabulary— as " ant," "font." So little regard is paid to keeping in the compilation, that whilst the text seems designed for children who have only attained one or two syllables, three and four are common in the pictorial notes.] Moscow; a Poem, in six cantos. By WILLIAM FOSTER BARHAM, Esq., M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. [Prosaic as a gazette, without its facts ; yet it has a spice of the fanciful, using " fanciful " as opposed to real. Among other things, Napoleon makes speeches after the old epic fashion, and produces the old epic effects. Here is one- - A burst of approbation rises round;

The throng without repeat the assenting sound.

Thrice es my chief res ea'ed his shining blade.

And thrice the clash [flash 1.3 of armour starts the shade."] Emilia Monteiro ; a Ballad of the Old Hall, Beath. Also, The Widow and the Earl ; a Ballad of Sharlston Hall, .S.w. 6-c. By WiLtAaat

HENRY LEATHAM.

Henrie Clifforde and Margaret Percy, a Ballad of Bolton Abbey ; and other Poems. By WILLIAM HENRY LEATHAM. [These two brochures are both by the same author, and are both imitations of imitations of the old ballads. Henrie Clifforde is a palpable echo of SCOTT; in the others the imitation is more general. Some of them appear to be re- printed from a provincial periodical.] The Intellectual and Catholic Poetry of the Holy Scriptures ; or the Mea- sure and Regulation of Thought, a new science. By AN ASCETIC. [ So far as we understand the Ascetic, he means to say that the Bible is a work of poetry composed by God, and of course excelling all other poetry what- soever. Its beauties, however, have not been appreciated till the present day, and are only now perceived by our author ; who publishes this First Part as a specimen of a new arrangement, which is to place their poetical merits in the true light. As the Ascetic wishes the reader to criticize the arrangement as if it were his poetry, we feel free to confess that it strikes us as having neither the harmony of verse nor the freedom of prose.]

The Three Questions : What am I? Whence came II Whither do Igo? [A well-meant endeavour to show the steps by which the youthful sceptic may be reclaimed to belief. As far as composition is concerned, the book possesses considerable merit; but its arguments are not very new, and the manner of presenting them not particularly happy.]

The Red Book ; or a Peep at the Peers! Third edition. By R. J. RICHARDSON, Compiler of "The Black Book."

[An alphabetical list of the Peers, with a professed account of their family connexions, aud of the offices they hold, as well as the emoluments, There seem to be gaps, and "late " persons ; and the object has doubtless been to swell the list as much as may be.] Knight's Cabinet Edition of the Works of William Shakspere, Volume VIII.

The Morning and Evening Service of the Church of England briefly Explained, and arranged in questions and answers, for the use of children. To which is annexed, an Account of the Apostles. By a Lady.

SERIALS.

Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey. By GEORGE LEWIS SMYTH, Author of "Biographical Illustrations of St. Paul's Cathedral," &c. Part I. (Popular Library of Modern Authors. Copyright editions.) [The design of this publication is useful, and its execution not unpleasant. A popular history of the Abbey, displaying the pith of antiquarian research with- out its cumbrous dryness, is a desideratum alike to those who are in a position to pay the edifice a visit, and those whom distance prevents from doing so. Biographical notices, sometimes extending into a "life " of the persons who have been buried there, or have monuments erected within its walls, are equally useful, and perhaps more interesting from the variety of the subjects. There is, indeed, one inherent difficulty in the plan: the lives of some of the per- sons have been written so sufficiently that the reader is already well informed about them-lin SHAKSPERE, DRYDEN, NEWTON; whilst about some others,

and those with the longest epitaphs if not the grandest tombs, he has no care to know any thing. Many, perhaps the majority, however, are of that second- rate class about whom information is really desired. The work forms part of the copyright editions of the "Popular Library of Modern Authors "; and is published at about a third of the price that would be paid for a book of this character in another form.]

Guide to Service.-The Farm Bailiff.

[This publication gives an account of the necessary qualifications to embody the beau ideal of a farm bailiff, with a good many practical directions for farm-

ing. It does not strike us as being the best of Mr. KNIGHT'S Guide, to

Service.]

London, Part XXX.

Our Mess, No. XXI.

Lover's L. S. D., Part IX.

Captain Knor's Harry Mowbray, Part IX. The Miller of Deanhaugh, Part VI.

The Steam-Packet, Part VI.

Klauer's German Amaranths, No. VIII.

Popular Flowers.-The Hyacinth. Horse-shoe Nails, No. II.

PERIODICALS.

The Hesperus, No. I.

[A threepenny miscellany, designed to foster and direct youthful genius, and admitting no contributor above twenty-one years of age. The poetry seems better than the prose.]

Quarterly Review, No. CXLIV.

New Fork Democratic Review for August.

Magazines for September.-Dublin University, Church, Artist and Ama-

teur's, Old Sailor's Jolly-Boat, Phreno-Magnet.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part XXXVI. Pictorial History of .England, Part LXXVIII.

Miss Corner's History of China and India, Part VIII.

Hall's Book of British Ballads, Part VIII.

Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature, Part VIII. British Moths and their Transformations, Part XXIII. Shaw's A4oha6ets, Numerals, and Devices of the Middle Ages, No. IL

MAPS.

Map of the Wine District of the Alto-Douro. By JOSEPH JAMES FOR'. RESTER. Engraved by JAMES WYLD.

[A very minute survey of the vine-growing district of Oporto, elaborately mapped out ; indicating the elevation and character of the ground, the vine- terraces, fields, bridges, churches, &c., and the nature of the trees grown in different spots. An 'indicator,' in the form of a graduated semicircle, having reference to a list of names, enables one to find out any particular place in a moment ; some statistics are also given. The execution is delicate and highly finished ; and the general features of the country are shown as well as the details.] PAMPHLETS.

An Exposure, from Personal Observation, of Female Prostitution in Lon- don, Leeds, and Rochdale, and especially in the City of Glasgow ; with Remarks on the Cause, Extent, Results, and Remedy of the evil. By WILLIAM LOGAN, City Missionary. Third edition, enlarged. [Mr. LOGAN is a lay missionary connected with some religious society, and has been extensively employed in endeavouring to reform prostitutes and to inquire into their condition. The tract before us contains the substance of his expe- rience, with some suggestions for the prevention of prostitution. The reme- -dies proposed are less impracticable than many that are put forward : two in- volve a legislative change-one for power to inflict a punishment upon pro caresses, another to facilitate the prosecution of houses of ill fame. The facts and remarks of Mr. LOGAN are often substantially just, but the tone is some- what sectarian. The circulation the tract has attained is a proof of the grow- ing importance attached to the subject.] Letters to the Right Honourable Francis Thornhill Baring, on the Insti- tution of a Safe and Profitable Paper Currency. By JOHN WELSPORD COWELL, B.A. of Trinity College, Cambridge. A Letter from Lord Western to the Chairman of the Meeting of the Bir- mingham Chamber of Commerce, assembled at the Waterloo Rooms on the 16th August. A Letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., MP., 6.c. con- taining a Plan for a New Corn-Law. By WILLIAM BAUGHTON, Rector of South Wootton, Norfolk.

The Bishop's Charge, not as it Was, but as it Should have been. By a Protestant.

Freehold Assurance; the extension of the principle of Assurance to Te- nancy and Colonization. By WiLtrau BRIDGES, Secretary to the New Zealand Society, and Editor of the New Zealand Journal. A few Remarks on the Usury Laws, and upon Borrowers and Lenders, and the Abuse of the Liberty of the Press. The Corporation of London and Municipal Reform. (Reprinted from the Westminster Review for May 1843.) Final Report of the Committee appointed at a General Meeting of the Wine Trade, held at the Commercial Sale-rooms, Mincing Lane, Lon- don, on Tuesday 26th July 1842, to take into consideratton the mea- sures to be adopted in consequence of the reduction in the duties on wine expected to take place on the conclusion of the Commercial Treaty with Portugal.

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Vocal Part Music, Sacred and Secular; consisting of Madrigals, An- thems, Rounds, &c, by Ancient and Modern Composers. Edited by EDWARD F. RIMBAULT, Pb. Dr., F.S.A., &c. Volume L Music for the Million, Part II. Wilson's Edition of the Songs of Scotland, as sung by him in his Enter- tainments on Scottish Music and Song. Book IV.