PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Harokl, the Last of the Saxon Kings. By the Author of " Rienzi," &c. In three volumes.

The History of British India. From 1805 to 1836. By Horace Hayman Wilson, M.A., F.R.S., &c. Volume HI.

Prison _Discipline, and the Advantages of a Separate System of Imprison- ment; with a detailed Aoconnt of the Discipline now pursued in the new County Gaol at Reading. By the Reverend J. Field, M.A., Chaplain. In two volumes.

The Discovery of the Large, Rich, and Beach:Ad Empire of Guiana- with a Relation of the Great and Golden City of Manua, hich.the Spaniards El Dorado &c. Performed in the year 1596, by Sir W. Ralegh,

Knt., Captain of her Majesty's Guard, &o. Reprinted from the edition of 1596, with some Unpublished Documents relative to that Conntry. Edited, with copious Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir, by Sir Robert H. Sehomburgk, Ph.D., Knight of the Royal Prussian Order of the Red Eagle, &c. (Printed foe the Haklayt Society.), Afirabeau: a Life-History. In two volumes.

[The leading facts in the career and conduct of Mirabean are well enough known; and if his character has been harshly judged, it has only been from not allowing suffnient for the tyranny of his father, the corrupt society in which he was born and lived, and the pressure of adverse circumstances during the greater part of hia life, which did not originate in his own fault. Something, perhaps, should also be ascribed to the extraordinary strength and vehemence of his plosions, which at times seem to have verged upon monomania. All these things are fit matter to explain the shamelessness, selfishness, and profligacy of Mirabean—we fear it must be added, his utter indifference to truth and moral obligation. There is, however, a wide difference between explaining, or even excusing conduct, and defending it; and this Mirabeau, a Life History, is even less a defence of the great French declaimer than a panegyric. It is done, too, in a manner worthy of the subject; bad in style, had in taste, bad in morale. If Mirebesu himself could rise to write his life, he, indeed, might take much such a view as these volumes, though he would deal less in self-sufficiency and inflated swagger. The style of composition is a would-be imitation or an aping of Carlyle. The book has one use, in bringing together the leading events and circumstances of Mirabeau's life, stripped of the unnecessary matter with which they are overlaid, in some French works, especially the semi-official Memoirs, published some dozen years ago by Mirabeau's adopted son, and containing the family papers. There are also selections from Mirabeau's senatorial speeches during the Revolution; which may give an idea of his style of oratory, so far as it can be expressed in print, A better book, however, in all points of view, could easily he written; jester in opinion, more sober in narrative, and less offensive in point of taste.] The Closing Scene; or Christianity and. Infidelity Contrasted in the lase Hours of Remarkable Persons. By the Author of "The Bishop's Daughters" &c.

[We thought that the idea of pointing a moral from the " deathbeds of Infidels" had departed with Mrs. Hannah More and the penny tracts; since it is now widely if not generally received, that the manner in which death is met de. ponds upon the conjoint influence of constitution, nervous temperament, and the particular disease. The most devout believer may die in terror, and the most confirmed sceptic with firmness; of course without reference to regrets excited for some actual conduct, though even that is greatly dependent upon the state of the nervous system. But if the conclusion to be drawn from deathbeds were more certain than it is, little could be deduced from many of the examples in The Closing. Scene. Hume, and Frederick the Great, died with a composure that many Christians do not attain. Beau Brummel was in a state of iduitcy at and long before his death. Theodore Hook was rather lost or indifferent to the sub. ject—in fact, too weak in body and too troubled with his affairs to think about it; though throughout his life he had professed great zeal for the Church at least. What could be inferred from Shelley a death, cut off by an accident in the prime of life, with not an eye to witness his departure ? and so of others. Strictly speaking, however, logic is not the object of this volume, bat the production of a book, which, in addition to a choice of attractive names and a clever treatment, shall take the chance of an appeal to cant The different notices are well done, but they are rather articles than biographies; and the moral deducible from the volume is against imprudence of conduct or irregularity of life.]

Discourses on some Peculiar and some Unusual Texts of Scripture. By the Reverend James Cochrane, A.M., one of the Ministers of Cupar ; Anther of " The World to Come," &c.

[This volume contains ten sermons on nine texts of Scripture, which to the preacher seem peculiar, from the homeliness of the idea or illustration, or from the singularity of the image or the incident. Among the former class may be ranked the "clouted shoes " which the Gibeonites put on among their other disguises when they went forth to deceive Joshua and the Israelites: the texts relating to the Leviathan in Job, and to the devils permitted to take refuge in the swine, fall under the latter category. The reasons of Mr. Cochrane for choosing such passages were two: he wished to excite, attention by the very singularity of the texts, and to prove' against the Papist and the Infidel, that every part of the Bible is given for our learning, The compooition of the discourses-is power- ful, in the platform school of oratory; but, no doubt, they derive their principal attraction from the peculiarity of the texts, and the ingenuity with which they are applied or improved; the clouted shoes of the Gibeonites, for instance, to the various hypocrisies of the world.]

A Practical Dictionary of the English and German Language& In two Parts. Part L—English and German, &c. By Dr. J. G. Flag,e1, Consul of the United States of America at Leipsio.

[This is a work that has been mach wanted. Englishmen who have learned German and Germans who have learned English, in their respective countries, often find themselves, even when weRacquainted with the language of literature andsoience, at a loss for many words in current use and indispensable in the in- tercourse of common life. This want is felt even by those who have little occa- sion to converse with foreigners, now that the interchange of knowledge between the two countries by newspapers and technical journals (such as relate to rail- ways, surgery, &c.) has becomes° important. There is in every civilized country a technical language of industry, trade, law, and so forth, for which we in vain consult dictionaries compiled by mere literary men. Dr. Fliigel comes forward to supply this desideratum by his Practical Dictionary. His qualifications for a lexicographical enterprise of this sort are in a great measure guaranteed by his large German and English Dictionary, generally admitted to be the most copious in existence, and which has already passed through three editions. The Practical Dictionary is a necessary supplement to its author's and all other German and Eng- lish Dictionaries; executed in a manner to make it a valuable accession to lexico- graphy. It would be easy, indeed, to point out here and there a few flaws. For example, Pemviekin (it ought to be Pemmican) is scarcely explained with suffi- cient completeness by describing it as a "concentrated mass of flesh calculated to keep for a long time": its Indian origin and mode of preparation ought to have been indicated. "Diaries of the Colonial Office in Downing Street, London, of the most varied institutions and relations of all the English Colonies," is rather too flattering a description of that special class of blue books; which, by the way, are compiled in the Colonies, not in Downing Street: besides, " blue books" has a wider meaning, being applied by political quidnuncs to all Parliamentary reports and returns; and by schoolboys to the literature of circu- lating libraries, smuggled in unknown to the school authorities. We may also remark, in discharge of our critical conscience, that the Dictionary is swelled to an unnecessary and even inconvenient bulk by the insertion of words which have little or no business there: such, for example, as bluish, blush, freckles, cre- dulity, repeople, refiner, and many others, all legitimate inmates of the common dictionaries, and there to be found. But with all this, Dr. Meet's work stops a gap in the literature of busy daily life, and stops it well. The author's relations as-Consul of the United States at Leipsig have enabled him to give explanations of a store of Americanisms, not familiar to the mere English reader.]

Hymns for Public Worship and Private Devotion; and Choral Melodies adapted to the above Collection of Hymns. Published for the benefit of the London German Hospital, Allston.

[This little publication consists of two volumes; the one containing the Hymns, the other the music to which they may be sung. There is a preface, maintaining the use of " hymnology " in contradistinction to that of metrical psalmody, the latter not being of itself sufficient for Christian worship; and pointing out the manner in which the compiler has endeavoured to obviate the objections both to the words and music of the ordinary collections of hymns. The words in this collection seem unexceptionable both in spirit and expression; and the musical portion is excellent. The tunes are pure German chorales, chiefly of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; with the antique harmonies, in four parts, which give this kind of music so solemn and venerable a character. The book is correctly and handsomely printed; and its intrinsic worth as well as benevolent object ought to command a sale.] Reflections on the European Revolution of 1848. By a Superior Spirit. [The author's opinion on the late commotions and present state of public affairs; a sufficient narrative of events being given to make the commentary of the " Supe- rior Spirit" intelligible. The Spirit appears a partisan of Laniartine; averse to Communism, but favourable to the amelioration of the lower classes; and friendly to free trade. There is nothing very striking in bis original remarks, but the events, and apparently some personal knowledge of them, gives sort of newspaper interest to parts of the narrative.]

Bradshaw's Monthly Railway and Steam Navigation Guide for Great Bri- tain and Ireland.

Bradshaw's Continental Railway Steam Navigation and Conveyance Guide. [The season is rendericg books of this kind needful, and Mr. Bradshaw is im- proving.his guides for the occasion. Besides fuller information as to the railways and their junction lines, he has added a new map to the Monthly Railway Guide for Great Britain and Ireland, showing the lines in operation, in progress, or for which acts have been obtained, and those railways on which the electric telegraph is in use, together with a variety of information relating to distances and steam navigation. The Continental Railway is a useful companion; giving in addition to the rail- way times and fares, information respecting coins, passports, hotels, and the prin- cipal objects of attraction in the towns adjoining the lines of route. There is also every good map of Central Europe, with its lines finished and in progress. Some particulars, however, seem to require revision. Since the railway has been open throughout, it cannot cost 41s. 6d. from London to Paris going by boat to Bou- logne, but short of 35s. according to the fares of the book; and in lien of only 26s. to Boulogne by Folkstooe, it is 28s. 6d (by express.) The time of performing a journey, too, is mostly delusive, where there are changes of conveyances. A person may possibly only be the time mentioned " en route," but there is all the time lost in shifting and passing the luggage, and where tide is in question waiting for the next train.]

Sylvan's Pictorial Handbook to the Scenery of the Caledonian Canal, the Isle of Stafa, 4v. With Map and upwards of fifty Illustrations from original Sketches by Thomas and Edward Gilks. Sylvan's Pictorial Handbook to Cala, or the Land o' Burns. With nume- rous Illustrations from original Sketches by Thomas and Edward Gilles [Two pretty little pocket-books, profusely illustrated with wood-cuts, and the Guide to the Caledonian Canal with a map: perhaps both brochures would be im- proved by a little less of descriptive eloquence, and more of practical information. The "Land of Burns" does not mean Scotland, but the poet's birthplace, and the scenes which are memorable for his subsequent sojourn, or as furnishing the landscape background for his lyrics, &c.] An Act for the Better Security of the Crown and Government of the United Kingdom. By Edward W. Cox, Esq., Barrister-at-law; Editor of " Cox's Criminal Law Cases."

[A useful edition of the new statute, with clear explanatory notes, and a good in- troduction on the law of treason and sedition.]

The Law and Practice of Orders of Affiliation and Proceedings in Bas- tardy; including Appeals to the Sessions and Proceedings by Certiorari; with the Statutes and Forms. By Thomas William Saunders, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law. L' w.Tpular treatise on the subject, with occasional criticism on the state of the The Zoology of the Voyage of H.M.S. Sa . Crnstacea. Part L By Arthur Adams, F.L.S., and Adtim White, F.L.S. Notes of a Tour in the Plains of India, the Himala, and Borneo; being Extracts from the Private Letters of Dr. Hooker, written during a Go- vernment Botanical Mission to those countries. Part L England to Cal- cutta.