PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

From January 7th to January 13th.

Boors.

On the Production of Isinglass along the Coasts of India, with a Notice of its Fisheries. By J. F. ROYLE, M.D., &c.

Observations on the Present Condition of the Island of Trinidad, and the Actual State of the Experiment of Negro Emancipation. By Wu.- Liam HARDIN BURNLEY, Chairman of the Agricultural and Immigra- tion Society of that Colony.

On Rheumatism in its various Forms, and on the affections of the internal organs, more especially the Heart and Brain, to which it gives rise. By

RODERICK MACLEOD, M.D., Physician to St. George's Hospital.

Lectures on Subjects connected with Prophecy; delivered at the request of the Edinburgh Association for Promoting the Study of Prophecy.

This series of discourses originated with a Society established at Edinburgh for the purpose of " Promoting the Study and Elucidation of the Prophetic Scripturea." The Society has already chalked out no fewer than thirty-two sub- jects for treatment : but unless they are prompt in their proceedings, it is pos- sible that they may not have time to exhaust them all ; for, according to the interpretation of the Reverend J. W. BROOKS, their first lecturer, the end of the world is approaching. The subject of his discourses is the Twenty-fourth Chapter of St. Matthew's Gospel; and the verses 1 to 28 he applies, as is gene- rally done, to the destruction of Jerusalem, and the state of Palestine previous to the siege. The 29th verse, Mr. BROOKS holds, is to be rendered figuratively ; and he interprets it as descriptive of the present time, which he identifies by instances with that of the second "Tribulation." "From the French Revo- lution of 1789," says he, " may be dated the first actual outbreak of that spirit of discontent and democracy, (the sea and the waves roaring,) which is to shake the kingdoms, (or powers of heaven,) overturn thrones and churches, (the sun and the moon,) and eventually destroy or " put out " all that is noble or dignified, (the "stars," or "bright lights of heaven.") After alluding to the atrocities of the Revolution, and marking the failure of the "old dynasties" to check the democratic " sea " by the "strong arm of military power," Mr. BROOKS takes a survey of its progress in Europe, Asia, and America. " And I ask," he continues, " what is it which now chiefly excites uneasiness at home, but the lifting up the voice—the roaring, as it were, of the masses?" Our "distress and perplexity " is the " literal " fulfilment of the prophecy ; for " pesti- knees," we have had the cholera, and " another new and invisible enemy called influenza in England, and grippe on the Continent "; whilst we have the "exact counterparts " of the false prophets "in the Radical Infidels or Infidel Radicals, the Owenites, St. Simomans, Deists, Unitarians, Arians, Socinians, and Neologists of our times."]

Book of the Poets. The Modern Poets of the Nineteenth Century.

[This volume is a continuation of the selections from British Poets, which we noticed on the 11th December ; and it contains specimens of modern writers, from GIFFORD to Lady FLORA HASTINGS. Like the former volume, it fur- nishes an agreeable series of elegant extracts ; but, like the former volume, it is deficient in plan—as much space is devoted to BARRY Coiasivraer, as to BYRON, and nearly as much to KIRKE WHITE as to MOORE : it may be ques- tioned, too, whether the best or most characteristic pieces of the authors are always selected. An essay on modern English poetry is prefixed to the volume— which is better than the introduction to the former series; but it is not very profound, nor are its facts always correct. During the eighteenth century, previous to COWPER, blank verse was not entirely neglected—THomsow to wit ; nor was humble life altogether banished from poetry—the Deserted Vil- lage and GRAY'S Elegy for example. In its contemptuous judgment of the poets of the last century, the essay seems to us rather to echo the vulgar cant of a day that is passed, or passing, than to decide upon sound critical principles. The poetry of JOHNSON, GRAY, COLLINS, and GOLDSMITH, is not of the same fashion as oars; but when the present fashion is superseded, it is by no means clear that many names in this volume will shine preeminent over those bards of the eighteenth century.] Wanderings. By ROBERT GUN CUNINGRAME, Esq., Author of "Mora." [Mr. CUNINOHAME has been travelliug in Switzerland, and Wanderings is an imitation of Childe Harold ; not devoid of well-sounding verse, but defi- cient in spirit and matter. So closely, and it may be said presumptuously, does Mr. CutenraHareE imitate BYRON, that he actually devotes stanzas to ROUSSEAU, GIBBON, and VOLTAIRE, missing, with a curious infelicity, the characteristics of their genius, and attributing to them qualities they had no pretension to, pathos to GIBBON and science to VOLTAIRE.]

Poems Written chiefly Abroad. By M.

[The principal poem in this batch is called " Ciullo "; and as Mr. CUEING.. HAME'S Wanderings is an imitation of Childe Harold, so the " Ciullo " of Mr. M. is derived from the Giaour and Parasina, with a wildness which approaches the obscure. So far as the story can be understood, a certain Huguenot gentleman flying for life from his pursuers, halts at a ruin, and, excited by remembrance of an oriel window, tells a long tale about Ciullo and his daughter, who eloped from her father's house ; and the old gentleman, pur- suing, was slain in the dark,—an accident which marred the happiness of the daughter's married life, and haunted her, we are given to understand, till death. Having been thus communicative to a stranger whom he accidentally met in the aforesaid ruin,

" be look'd into the night :

Few stars were shining high and bright— The Huguenot pursued his flight." The rest of the poems are mostly occasional, with now and then a good stanza, but as wholes not differing essentially from Annual verses.] The Book of Sonnets. Edited by A. MONTAGUE WOODFORD. [Of the different collections of Sonnets that have appeared of late, this strikes us as being about the best ; the editor having had a regard in his sped mesa to the merits of the poems, and to their comparative rarity, with the exception of SHAKSPERE'S and Mn.ToN's. Short biographical notices give an idea of the times, careers, and character of most of the authors ; and an introduction traces clearly, if from borrowed sources, the history and nature of the Sonnet.] The History of the Fairchild Family; or the Child's Manual : being a collection of stories calculated to show the importance and effects of a religions education. By Mrs. SHERWOOD, Author of "Henry Milner," Sm. Part IL [This is a continuation, of which we do not remember the beginning if it ever reached us. Judging from what we see, the Fairchilds are a well-educated family, especially in a religious sense; and the work consists of a variety of tales, formed from incidents occurring to the Fairchild family and their con- nexions, or told on occasion by interlocutors ; each tale being contrived to illustrate some point of youthful morals, enforced by religion, and closed by a prayer and a hymn. The work is real, with plenty of matter appropriate JO the subject, a keen enough observation upon youthful and old-fashioned na- tare, with a manner adapted to the theme.] The New Annual Army List, for 1842. With an Index. Corrected to 27th December. By B. G. HART, Lieutenant Forty-ninth Regiment [Lieutenant HART'S annual publication on the Army and Ordnance; not only embracing the names, but the services of all the officers who have in any way distinguished themselves, and forming a complete military biography.] The Penny Magazine of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- ledge. New Series. 1841. [Although called a "new series," the present volume exhibits no difference that we can perceive, except an improvement in the paper and printing. There is the same variety in the contents, with something of solidity even in the lightest, and the same excellence in the profuse wood-engravings. The volume, indeed, opens with a new series of papers, on rather an attractive subject of a half-biographical half-topographical kind, called " Local Memories of Great Men "; but this is a new feature, not a change of plan.]

SERIALS.

Knight's Store of Knowledge. The Military Life of the Duke of Welling- ton. By ANDRE VIEUSSEUX. [This is the first issue in the book or volume form of Mr. KNIGHT'S " Store of Knowledge," since its discontinuance in the octavo periodical publication: and a more informing little book than the one before us it would be difficult to point out. The Military Life of the Duke of Wellington, by Mr. VIEUSSEUX, is in reality a history of the wars in which WELLINGTON was engaged, drawn from various sources,-exceedingly well digested, and animated by a personal knowledge of the Peninsular war; Mr. VIEUSSEUX having, it appears, been present during a part of it. Of course there is nothing new in the Military Life; but we know of no publication which gives at so brief an expense of time and money so complete a view of WELmisHToir's European campaigns; presenting at the same time a life-like view of the horrors of war—of which we would instance MASSENA'S retreat from Torres Vedrae, and the writer's di- gression on NAPOLEON'S principle of " making the war maintain the war."] Thornton's History of the British Empire in India, Vol. IL Part m.

The Local Historian's Table Book, Part XIL

PERIODICALS.

Magazines for January—Asiatic Journal, Floricultural, Stevens', Chess- Player's Chronicle.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS. Illustrated Shakspere, Parts XXXL to XXXIII.

MAPS.

Sketch of the Country round Amoy. By JAMES WILD. [Mr. WILD continues mapping in detail the course of the English expedition to China, and before the news of the capture of Amoy has well travelled round the kingdom, out comes his sixth publication illustrative of the geography of China. This little chart includes Que-moy, another island to the eastward of Amoy, nearly as large as itself; and indicates the rocks and soundings of the surrounding coasts, and the numerous islets. The island of Ko-long-soo, which the British troops occupy, is well situated for the purpose of holding Amoy, as it commands the fortifications of the city, and the harbour. The British naval force, the Chinese batteries, and the number of guns taken from the several forts, are stated; the indications of the strength of the place in the map are such as to show that the defences were most formidable had they been efficiently manned.]

PAMPHLETS.

Letter to Lord Stanley, on Colonization, considered as a Means of Remov- ing the Causes of National Distress. (The Budget. A Series of Let- ters on Financial, Commercial, and Colonial Policy. By a Member of the Political Economy Club. No. IV.) [Every man who has threepence to spare, and takes an interest in " the question of questions," the present distress of the country, will do well to possess him- self of No. IV. of The Budget; which is not only the most interesting of the series, but perhaps the neatest and ablest of all Colonel TORRENS'S writings; being clear, terse, and practical, dealing withprinciples deduced from facts, and not dogmatizing on hypotheses opposed to experience. In this Letter to Lord Stanley on Colonization, the author explains how the existing distress arises from " home competition " or " over-trading "; that is, from the necessary consequences of an increase in capital and labour disproportionate to the in- crease of exchangeable commodities abroad—raw material or subsistence to be exchanged for the manufactured material. He shows that the repeal of the Corn-laws, alone, could have no adequate effect in removing the causes of distress in England ; since it would not enable foreign countries to keep pace in the growth of raw material with our increase in labour and capital, nor would it insure us against the resort on their part to exclusive principles in trade. Neither can the over-production be checked, although by such means the balance might be restored between our export of manufactures and the imports of raw produce; because that could only be done by throwing a cor- responding proportion of capital and labour out of employ, ruining the owners of the excluded capital, and starving the labourers. There is but one means of providing for the excess of labour and capital, whose activity in a limited field causes all the difficulty—the creation of other fields of employment—that is, colonization. The operation of this remedy is illustrated by an example, bor- rowed from the woollen-trade and the Colonies of the Southern hemisphere.]

The Egyptian Bondage, or a Second Call to Union, on the principles of

the Holy Catholic Church and the everlasting Gospel of Christ. By the Reverend Fasiscis DIEDRICH WACKERHARTH, A.B., &c.

Thoughts on the Currency. By ICHABOD CHARLES WRIGHT, M.A.. F.R.S.L., Banker, Nottingham.