PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Books of mark still continue to appear. Mr. Sonia, known for various philological works, and an able and ingenious essay on Primeval His- tory,* has now completed one portion of the task to which that essay was introductory, and publishes "Ancient Egypt under the Pharaohs." Dr. R. G. Latham's " Natural History of the Varieties of Man" is no doubt a valuable contribution to ethnological science ; but it strikes us that the completeness of the survey, the order of the arrange- ment, and the accumulation of facts, will be found more conspienous features of the book than the popular treatment. Although -Father Newman's " Lectures " are somewhat limited in subject, and have lost the gloss of entire novelty by having appeared in pamphlets as they were delivered, the name and ability of their author will Challenge attention. "Alton Locke" appears to be a satirical novel, in which our ex- isting weaknesses and evils both social and political are satirized by an ad- venturer from the people, who ds suppos0 to write kis own biography. "Talbot and Vernon" is a novel, the scene Of which is laid in America; and is probably a reprint of an American edition, A great object of the book is to illustrate, what has often been a source of the interest in Old World fictions, circumstancial evidence • though the author seems to adopt the newer view of advocating its importance.

Ancient Egypt under the Pharoahs. By John Bernick, M.A. In two volumes.

The Natural History of the Varieties of Man. By Robert Gordon La- tham, M.D., F.R.S., Lectures on certain Difficulties felt by Anglicans in submitting to the Catholic Church. By John Henry Newman, Priest of the Oratory-of St. Philip Neri.

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet; an Autobiography. In two volumes. Talbot and Vernon ; a NoveL In three volumes.

The Pheenomena of Pestilential Chokra in relation to the Grade of Attack and the Treatment : its Pathology; -Origin and Spread ; and the Means of Prevention. By George MiCulloch, M.D., &e. ; and A. C. Maelaren, M.R.C.S., &c.

Religious Scepticism and Infidelity ; their History, Cause, Cure, and Mission. By John Alfred Langford.

[This is an endeavour to trace the origin of scepticism in all ages to the cor- ruptions of religion ; and to show how the attacks of infidelity contribute to religious reform, and to establish the truth of revealed religion, by the cham- pions called forth in its defence, and the close inquiry into its evidence thus in- stituted. The investigation of the subject involves a brief survey of the history of religion and the churches, the materiak for which are readily accessible ; and Mr. Langford seems to have drawn from ready sources. The style has a sort of provincial inflatedness, such as distinguishes many Americans, many sectarians, and many Irishmen, and is neither very difficult to acquire nor by any means so impressive as the writers seem to imagine. The value of the book must lie in its views of the end of the present beginning—what is to follow from the religious movement, and the equivocal position of the Anglican Church ; and that view does not appear very masterly or prophet- like.]

The Churchman's Pulpit. A Collection of Sermons by eminent Clergy- men of the English Church.

[A volume of a periodical whose principal object was to print the best sermons delivered by. clergymen of the Established Church, with their consent and from their manuscripts : poetry and a little miscellaneous prose also formed a feature in the numbers. The design did not receive suf- ficient encouragement to induce the editor to continue the publication at a heavy loss, and here is the first and last volume.]

The Law of Pews in Churches and Chapels ; including those built under the Church-building Acts. With a Chapter on Prohibition. By George Henry Hewit Oliphant, of Trinity College, Cambridge, B.A., Esq., &c. [A plain and succinct digest of the law upon this subject, so far as it is set- tled. An exposition on the Law of Pews is not, however, so great a deside- ratum as Mr. Oliphant seems to suppose in his preface : Mr. Sidney Billing published a book on the subject in 1845, similor in purpose to the present work.] Suggestions for the Better Management of the Civil Concerns of the avy • taken from the Papers of the late Brigadier-General Sir Sa- muel Bentham, K.S.G. By M. S. B. With Observations on the Re- port of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Navy Es- timates, 1848. [A, species of pamphlet in the form of a book. The materials are founded on the papers of the late Sir Samuel Bentham and the Report of the Select Com mittee of 1848. The suggestions are reasonable, practical, and sometimes embrace points that have been hitherto overlooked; but the statement is de- ficient in popular force.] Even-day Winders; or Facts in Physiology which all should know. Illustrated with Wood-cuts.

[A. plain exposition of the leading facts or principles in physiology, designed for children, and plentifully illustrated by wood-cuts. It will also furnish a text-book for teachers.] Plutarch's Lives of Solon, Pericles, and Philopcemen. From the Text -• of Sintenis.

[An addition to Mr. Parker's neat text editions of ancient classics.] Les Deux Perroguets : ouvrage Marmara destine a faeiliter aux Anglais is Causerie Elegante, in Lettre, et le Billet. A r usage des Dames, des Jeunes, et des Enfants. Par une Dame.

[A. series of dialogues and "conversations," followed by some letters, de- signed to train pupils to the habit of speaking and writing French.] Questions adapted to Hall's _Elementary Atlas. Compiled by T. Bow- man, LB., -late Head Master of the New Proprietary School, Chelten- ham.

[A series of questions grounded on Hall's Atlas. The object is to compel the pupil to master the information contained in the maps, by frequently re- clining to them.] Life of Sir Robert Peel, Bart. (Popular Library.) [A dialing volume, avowedly got up in haste, but cleverly done, though rather in "King Cambyses' vein."]

The reprints of the week are not remarkable. Bnlwer Lytton's "Godol- phin" forms a volume of the new and cheap edition of his novels. Wash- anon Irving's "Astoria" figures in the Popular Library for a shilling. "How to make Home Unhealthy," is a republication, from the Examiner, of a sanatory satire.

Godolphin. By Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart. With a Frontis- piece, by Hablot K. Browne.

Asfetw. By Washington Irving. (Popular LibraT) • How to Make Home Unhealthy. Reprinted from The Examiner."

• ktpectator for 1846, page 834.

NEW SERIALS.

The Home and Foreign Record of the Free Church of Scotland. August. [A sort of monthly newspaper, designed to embrace the doings of the Free (lurch, with such general religious information as may be supposed to in- terest the members of the Secession. Viet is called " transactions " rather predominate in the first number; but this is accounted for by the necessity of bringing certain matters before the reader at starting.]

Mirror- of the Time ; a Weekly Magazine and Journal. Nos. I. and [A three-halfpenny pernalical, contahpng reviews, "papers," and Poetry.)'

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A Plain _Discourse on "the One Faith"; showing the Way to Keep it, the Way to Lose it, the Way to Find it. By C. S. Grueber; B.A. Record of the College Of Christ Church in Riecon. . B the Reverend

Jermyn Pratt.' • Pure Sounds against Pure Immaterialism ; or that,Sounds are not Pure Sensations. Written for a Prize, of 5051.4 By Antoine Claude

, Gabriel Iobert.

Town Dues and Currency, Free Trade, and Protietion to BritiSh In- dustry. :-By John Finch; Merchant, Member of the Council of the Financial Reform Association Liverpool. A Revised' dad Conipleti3 ,Sort of the recant Trial for Libel,. " Richardson v. Iroodson, &c. Oxford Unmasked ; or an Attempt to Describe -some of the Abuses in -that-University, &e. By a Graduate,