PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From June 9th to June 15th.

Boons.

The Closing Events of the Campaign in China ; the Operations in the Yang-tee-kiang; and Treaty of Nanking. By Captain GRANYILLB G. Loci', Royal Navy.

A Visit to the East; comprising Germany and the Danube, Constanti- nople, Asia Minor, Egypt, and ldumea. By the Reverend HENRY FORMBY, M. A.

Memoir of the Life and Correspondence of John Lord Teignmouth. By his Son, Lord rEIGNMOUTIL In two volumes.

Reports of Special Assistant Poor.law Commissioners on the Employment of Women and Children in Agriculture. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by command of her Majesty. Tales of the Colonies; or the Adventures of an Emigrant. Edited by a late Colonial Magistrate. In three volumes. King Henry the Second; an Historical Drama.

King Eric and the Outlaws; or the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. By INGEMANN. Translated from the Danish, by JANE FRANCES CHAPMAN. In three volumes. [The subject of this volume is the political and social condition of Denmark during the thirteenth century, involving a dispute with Rome, in which King Eric was entangled, partly through imprisoning a Bishop, partly in consequence of his attachment to a lady alleged to be within the degrees prohibited by the Romish Church. The work is one of the many historical romances which the example of Scovrproducedon the Continent, especially among the Saxon and Scandinavian peoples; and the national reputation of INGEMANN is, we doubt not, a guarantee for the correctness of the archaeology. But the fiction in which it is conveyed is artificial and lifeless. The incidents look like schemes of the author to carry on his story ; the dialogue has the same air; and the spirit which should animate the whole is wanting, or has evaporated in translation. A passing description of scenery has vigour and freshness; but INGEMANN seems to us to be deficient in the genius requisite to animate the long-forgotten dead. The translator may tell us that this opinion is contrary to Danish judgment ; and we will not dispute about national tastes. But we may observe, that the productions of INGEMANN might have an attraction for the Danes which they have not for us, on the principle embraced in the homely proverb that " half a loaf is better than no bread." In Denmark, it was INGEMANN or nothing. In England, putting aside the prototype SCOTT and the lest works of JAMES, we possess the mere repetitions of the latter writer, and a host of imitators besides.

The translator seems to imagine that none of the Danish novelist's works have been translated; but, unless our memory deceives us greatly, this opinion is a mistake. We have a strong impression that some years ago we encoun- tered one if not more of his historical fictions in an English dress.] Poems. By HENRY H. METHUEN, Esq., B.A. [This little volume consists of occasional poems, some brief descriptions of scenery, and a few ballads or legendary tales. Some of the occasional pieces are founded on ocean incidents—for Mr. METHUEN appears to have voyaged; and the general style of his verses has an unborrowed air ; but they are some distance from poetry. The thoughts are not well defined, the images not clearly presented, the metre often unskilfully chosen, and the lines sometimes unfinished, so much so as to resemble doggrel. The ballads are the best, and the most imitative.]

Cant ; a Satire.

[By cant this writer means priestcraft, or priesthood generally : and he handles his subject from an early period, beginning with the contradictions of " reve- rend " geologists as regards the Mosaic win of creation, and rapidly alluding to the different systems of religion which have obtained in the world. His main subject of attack, however, is Popery and Puseyism in the present day.

Cant is not so much a satire as a lampoon. The writer has the virulence of the satirist, but not his perception, his power, or his polish. The model for Cant appears to have been CHURCHILL: at all events, the form and general treatment resemble some of the worst satires of that writer more nearly than any other poet.] The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakapere. Edited by CHARLES KNIGHT. The second edition. Volume VIII. [This volume contains Hamlet, Cymhelinc, and Othello. The unique Devon- shire Hamlet furnishes an opportunity for exhibiting some comparison between the first and last thoughts of the poet ; and a close inspection of the folio copy of Othello, which has generally been disregarded by editors for the quarto, enables Mr. KNIGHT to introduce a variety of readings of the nature of emen- dations upon the received text,—which are not in all cases such improvements as be supposes. The criticism on Hamlet is elaborate, but not more satisfac- tory than criticisms on this drama usually are. That on Othello is by no means equal to the theme; and Mr. KNIGHT omits all consideration of Bra- bantio, though so essential to the complete view of the drama. The real source of the misery is in the marriage; which involves breach of hospitality on the part of Othello, disobedience on the part of Desdemona, and deceit on both sides, and leads to the death of Brabantio. It is true, his broken heart was not intended by them ; but few persons intend all the consequences ot their questionable or evil actions. Ingo, when he began, did not :Wend the murder of Desdemona or the death of Othello. His main object was to get Cassia's place, and to make Othello jealous, partly as means to that end, and partly to " diet his revenge."] Protestant Nonconformity in its relation to Learning and Piety: an Inau- gural Discourse delivered at the opening of the Lancashire Independent College. By ROBERT YALU:MAN, D.D., President of the College, and Professor of Theology.

[This inaugural discourse was delivered on an impartant occasion is the

history of Independency, the opening of a college for the training and instruc- tion of ministers of that denomination. The college is situated at Withing- ton, near Manchester : it is designed to accommodate fifty-two resident stu- dents, with two resident professors ; and, by completing the quadrangle, this accommodation can be nearly doubled. The erection of the present elegant and collegiate-looking building cost 25,0001. ; the whole of which has been raised in the county of Lancaster. The President of the College and Pro- fessor of Theology is Dr. VAUGHAN ; and no one could more properly have been chosen, not only for his ministerial and literary eminence, but for his power of expanding into a broad catholicism the narrowness incidental to a sect.

The topics of the discourse are—a review of the history of Protestant Nonconformity; claiming for it, in religious character, and theological learning proportionate to its means, a descent equal to the Established Church, though admitting its inferiority in temporal wealth and political power: a defence of Independency, on Scriptural authority : drawing a distinction between the essen- tials of the doctrine and the formal parts which the ignorance or preju- dices of different times may have connected with it, and congratulating the audience on the strong signs abroad that the churches generally feel the desirableness of approaching to a more independent position : and lastly, the necessity of highly educating ministers, especially of Nonconformist minis- ters, who have oo fixed ritual to give a formal decorum or attraction to their

worship, but must greatly rely upon their own judgment and intellectual powers. These topics, and especially the last, are handled with Dr. VAUGHAN'S usual breadth and sustained power : but perhaps the occasion hardly ad- mitted of such striking passages as may be found in former works of the author on subjects somewhat analogous.]

An Inquiry into the Merits of the Reformed Doctrine of " Imputation" as contrasted with those of " Catholic Imputation"; or the Cardinal Point of Controversy between the Church of Rome and the Protestant High Church : together with Miscellaneous Essays on the Catholic Faith. By VANBR UGH LIVINGSTON, Esq., recently a Member of the Protestant Episcopal Church. With an Introduction, by the Right Reverend Jolla HUGHES, D.D., Bishop of New York.

[Mr. LIVINGSTON is an American Episcopalian converted to Popery by the perusal of the Oxford Tracts; and, with a view of leading others to the same communion, he has published a volume of remarks on " imputed" righteousness, or justification by faith, which he terms the principal point be- tween the Church of Rome and the Protestant High Church. The book con- sists of a series of criticisms on passages in English divines from TYNEDA LE YO Mr. NEWMAN and Dr. PUSEY, in which the Anglican views on " justifi- cation " are criticised ; to which Dr. HUGHES, a Roman Catholic Bishop of New York, has added an Introduction, and attempted to expound the difference between the Romish and Anglican opinions relative to " faith " and "works." There is not much of breadth, acuteness, or clearness about the lucubration's The most striking point is the evident importance which the Catholics attach to the Oxford schism, and its apparent effects in unsettling minds without ballast, till they " seek repose in the bosom of an infallible church."]

The Art of Living. By Dr. HENRY BURRING.

[The object of this book is a very important one—to teach us happiness. It consists of five essays on the following first principles or topics : " First principle—The nature of human life is twofold, mental and physical; and human happiness is the result of the wellbeing and harmony of both. " Second principle-Providence bus constituted us with a view to activity; and in accordance with this law of our nature, labour, either of the mind or body, is the only source or means of our enjoyment. Third principle—As the human machine, like a common piece of mechanism, wears out most rapidly where there is the greatest friction and straining, relaxation of 1)40 our mind and body is an indispensable condition to man's happiness. " Fourth principle—The study of nature and the practice of horticulture constitute the sorest foundation of man's Irappium. " Fifth principle -There is nothing to be found in the wide world so pregnant with satisfaction, interest, and happiness, us Ike associations that cling to a happy home." These principles are not very new ; still, a good exposition of them would make a good work: but Dr. HENRY Deiroiso's lucubraticns are the merest commonplace—almost twaddle.]

, A Treatise en Astronomy ; displaying the Arithmetical Architecture of the Solar System, &c. By E. HENDERSON, LL.D., &c. Second edi- tion, enlarged, and embellished with numerous engravings. This volume embraces three parts. The first consists of a genes of statistical facts relating to the Sun and the planets, though not exhibited in statistical form ; the second contains an account of the phenomena of the Sun, Earth, and Moon ; the third, some facts relating to the sidereal system, as discovered by FIERSCHELL and his successors : there are besides a variety of illustrative notes. The book is rather dogmatic than expositional: facts and deductions are presented, but not the principles on which they are based or whence they are derived.] An Inaugural Lecture on Botany, considered as a Science and as a branch of Medical Education. Read in King's College, London, May 8th 1843. By Enwertn Emma, F.L.S., Professor of Botany in King's College, London, &c.

The Life of Dr. Mesmer, the Discoverer of Animal Magnetism or Mes- merism. By a Believer. [Lest this title should mislead any one, it may be well to say that it is a small brochure of twenty-four pages, containing a very short and insufficient view of the subject. We suspect it is a translation, and of some notice of MESMER, not of a biography. It is, however, cheap enough—threepence.] British and Foreign Travellers' Guide. June 1843.

SERIALS.

Horse-shoe Nails; or New Ideas on Old Subjects. By Misrox Him°. No. 1.

77iornton's History of the British Empire in India, Volume V. Part III.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Views on the Nile, from Cairo to the Second Cataract. Drawn on stone by GEORGE MOORE, from sketches taken in 1832 and 1833 by OWEN JONES and the late JULES GOURY. With Historical Notices of the Monuments, by SAMUEL BIRCH, Senior Assistant in the department of Antiquities, British Museum, &c.

[The monuments of ancient Egypt along the course of the Nile form the sub- jects of the thirty plates composing this volume of lithographic drawings; a few examples of modern buildings being introduced by way of giving a complete view of Egyptian Architecture. Leaving the streets, mosques, and tombs of Cairo, we get a distant view of the Pyramids of Ghizeb, on approaching which the colossal bead of the Sphynx becomes visible; the rock-tombs with Doric columns at Beni Hassan next attract notice; and then we enter upon the range , of temples; whose vast magnitude and stupendous proportions, combined with the profusion of ornamental sculpture and painting with which they are deco- rated, baffle the skill of the artist to represent their imposing effect. Those of Denderab, Luxor, (here spelt El Uxsor,) Karnac, the Memnonium, (here called the Ramseion,) Medinet Haboo, Pinks, Aboo Simbetand other less extensive and celebrated remains, are delineated from various points of view, near and remote; giving their general aspect and the details of their construction and adornment; the peculiar character of the scenery being incidentally shown in the landscape backgrounds. 1 he architectural characteristics of each temple are faithfully preserved, and the hieroglyphic sculptures appear to be accurately defined :

indeed, the correctness of the drawings is their principal recommendation; pictorial effect, though not wholly neglected, being subordinate. Mr. OWEN JONES established his reputation as an architectural draughtsman by his superb, work on the Alhambra; and his coadjutor JULES Goner was a very accom. plished artist, who had studied architecture, that of Egypt in particular,. thoroughly : by the professional student, therefore, this work will be highly appreciated. The size of the plates is favourable for conveying an idea of the gigantic scale of Egyptian art ; and in the near views, such as that of the avenue of columns at Karnac, the facade at Aboo Simbel, and several interiors, this is effected ; but in the general views, the artists have not been so success- ful. This defect is attributable in part to the lithographic drawings, which have not those delicate gradations of tint and brilliant effects of light and dark that are necessary to produce the appearance of space and distance : yet Mr. MooRE is a clever painter, as well as architectural draughtsman, and has had considerable practice in lithographic, drawing. His precision of outline is shown in the neat and finished plate of the Ramseiou particularly, where the hieroglyphics are sharply defined, and have the appearance of intaglios ; but in others—the general views of Karnac, for in- stance—the outline is heavy, and equally strong throughout ; causing the more remote forms to appear almost as close to the eye as those in the foreground, and producing a tame and monotonous effect. In the view of the Sphynx, too, the distant pyramid seems but a few feet away. The figures generally are but indifferent ; with the exception of those in the view of a " Tomb near Cairo," which are evidently by another hand : these are admirable for character, good drawing, and picturesque groupings

The descriptive notices by Mr. Bison are valuable, and contain information derived from the beet sources; adding greatly to the interest of the volume, by throwing light on the origin and purpose of the different monuments, and the date of their erection.] PAMPHLETS.

The People and the Church of Scotland. A Reply to Sir James Graham

and the Government, on their Answer to the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, on the Law of Patronage in con- nexion with the true Interests of Religion and the Church. By Joins WHITE, A.31., Author of "England and her Interests."

The Edinburgh Review and the Afghan War. Letters reprinted from the "Morning Herald." By D. URQUEIART, Esq.