PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Travels in the Trans-Caucasian Provinces of Russia, Ace., in the Autumn and Winter of 1837. By Captain 11 [cumin Wiminanam, Seventh Royal Fusileers, lately employed on a pnrticular service in Persia.

Fru Cipolla, and 01110' POCMS. By Sir JonN HANstrn, Bart. Memoirs of Sarah lint chess of Marlborough, and the Court of Queen Anne. By Mrs. A. T. THOMSON, Authoress of " :Nlemoirs of the Court of henry the Eighth," " Life of Sir Walter Raleigh," &is In two vols.

Practical Philosophy of the Muhammadan People, exhibited in its pro- fessed connexion with the European, so as to render either an introduc- tion to the other • being a translation of the Akhlah-I-Jalalv, the most esteemed ethical work of Middle Asia, from the Persian of `Fakir any Muhammad Asiind, (with References and Notes,) by W. F. THOMPSON, Esq., of the Bengal Civil Service.

A Hand-Boole for Travellers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Russia; being a Guide to the principal Routes in those Countries, with a minute description of Copenhagen, Stockholm, St. Petersburg, and Moscow. With a Map and Plans.

The Husband-Hunter ; or " Das Sehiksah" By DENIS IGNATIUS Mo - WARTY, Esq., Author of " The Wife-Hunter." In three vols. Stories of Torres Iredras. By the Author of " Adventures of an Irish Gentfenum." In three vols.

The Gentleman of the Old School; a Tale. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esc, Author of " The Gipsy," &c. In three vols.

4 Treatise on the Nature of Club-Foot and Analogous Distmlions ; in- cluding their Treatment' both with and without Surgical Operation.

Illustrated by a Series of Cases, and numerous Practical Instructions.

By W. J. LITTLE, M.D., Licentiate of the Royal College of Physi-

cians, Member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Lecturer on Compa-

rative Anatomy at the Medical School of the London Hospital, Ms inis book is too strictly professional in its nature to be discussed in our colunins at any length ; but its object is to rescue deformities of the foot from the machinist, by showing the possibility of their cure by surgical treat- ment. The principle advocated is to divide the tendo Achillis, or in the milder eases some of the less important muscles ; the contents of the book are sa historical précis of the opinions entertained by various medical writers on

the deformity, Dr. LITTLE'S exposition of his own views, and a voluminous Dwain of cases successfully treated. This book may be said to have arisen

from a case in which the writer obeyed the rule, "Physician, cure thyself:" Dr. LITTLE had originally some structural defect in his left foot, which in- duced him to gutty the subject ; at last he left England to put himself under &owe of STROMEYER, the originator of the method ; and having been cured by the German, he returned to cure others.] A Practical Treatise on Accounts, Mercantile, Partnership, Solicitor's, Private Steward's, Receiver's, Executor's, Trustee's, &c.; exhibiting a view of the discrepancies between the practice of the Law and of Mer- chants ; with a Plan for the Amendment of the Law of Partnership, by which such discrepancies may be reconciled and partnership disputes and accounts adjusted. By ISAAC PRESTON CORY, Fellow of CRIBS COi- lege, Cambridge, Barrister-at-Law. [Ms CORY is a barrister ; and, though lie gives a general view of the principles and practice of book-keeping, his main object is to point out the difference

between accounts as kept by accountants and the mode in which the Courts of Equity handle the same subject, as well as to expound the evils of the law of partnership, and to suggest remedies. For this purpose, be minutely emends the points to be regarded in articles of partnership, which will enable Individuals to protect themselves to a certain extent ; and he follows up this treatise by sugg„estions to remedy the present law, which protects no one until the partnership is dissolved, and inefficiently. nefficiently. " On account of the defi- ciency of the law in affording remedies to partners as between themselves," says Mr. Coins "some of the largest mercantile houses have preferred to carry

on their business without articles, trustily, simply to the good faith and busi- nesslike habits of each other, rather titan fetter themselves by any document that savours of law :" than which, it 1s difficult to conceive a sharper satire. We may add, that the hints to executers and others, for keeping their ac- counts, are useful and worth attention.] The History of England. By THomAs KEIGHTLEY, Author of the

"'Mythology of Greece and &c. In two vols. Vol. IL

rThe second and concluding volume of Mr. KEIGHTLEY's History of England begins with the accession of JAMES the First ; and, narrating very fully the annals of the House of STUART, gets gradually briefer and briefer with the House of BRUNSWICK, till a single page suffices to dismiss the reign of \VII:. LIAM the Fourth. The execution is creditable ; the tone fair and sensible in the early parts ; but as he approaches oar own day, the author writes like a Conservative haunted by the dread of" Democracy.1 The Letters of Eminent Persons; selected and illustrated by ROBERT ARIS Wm.:wove, Ems, Trinity College, Cambridge ; Author of" Liven of the English Sacred Pouts." [A choice collection from the published correspondence of remarkable persons, from Sir PHILIP SroNtv and Lord BuooNE to COLERIDGE and L. E. L.;

with a gossiping preface, and a short account of the writers, explanatory of the subjects of their communications. The letters are mostly private and familiar, and are chosen for some intrinsic merit, or as developing the cha-

racter of the individual ; sonic are commonplace enough, but others, especially those dictated by affection, are beautiful. Among the latter, are RALEIGH'S to his wife when under sentence of death, in which his soul seems to speak ; DEFOE'S to his son-in-law, complaining of his son's unkindness ; and NESSY HEYWOOD'S to her brother, one of the mutineers of the Bounty.] History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slare-Trade by the British Parliament. 'By THOMAS CLARK- SON, M.A. A new edition, with Prefatory Remarks on the subse- quent Abolition of Slavery. [The revived agitation of the Negro Slavery question, and other circumstances which have directed public attention to one of the earlier movers of the Aboli- ti011, THOMAS CLARKSON, have prompted it reprint of his account of the

struggle. Several chapters were needed to bring down the history to the pre- sent time ; but all that has been added is a prefatory sketch of the subsequent

State of the Abolition, with some vituperative comments on the attempt of the MS Of WILBERFORCE IO detract from the merits of CrAutcsoN's labours in the cause. These grate harshle on the mind as incongruous with the subject ; and, since the vindication of C sinissoN was already complete, might have better been spared, or mentioned in the temperate and forgiving spirit in which the venerable champion of the Negroes himself alluded to it.] The Wrongs of the Animal 1P-mwhl. To which is subjoined the Speech of Lord Erskine on the same subject. By Davin MUSIIET. Esq. [If the substance that is here beaten out into tinsel were incited down into a compact stripe, it won141 have been inure ellimtive. The author's philan- thropic feeling for the sufferings of the brute creation has misled him into a false notion of aggrandizing the importance of his subject, by a stilted style and rhetorical flourishes, that would hardly lie tolerated in the most flowery pulpit declamation.]

Argentine. An Autobiography.

The Inhynities of the Opium Trade with China: being a Development of the tuain Causes which oxhide the Merchants of Great Britain koni the advantage., of au unrestricted commercial intercourse with that vast Empire. With Extracts from authentic Documents. By the Rev. A. THELwALr„ M.A., of Trinity College, Cambridge.

The Outlaw ; a Drama in five. acts. By Roomer STORY.

Ourshres Gs/4k to the Highlands of Scotland; or, the Pedestrian's Pocket Companion.

Capital Punishment : the Importance of its Abolition. A Prize Essay. By the Rev. JAMES PEGGS, late 'Missionary in India, Author of " India's Cries to British Humanity."

Confession of the Name of Christ, in the Sixteenth Century, and in time Nineteenth Century. By JAI. MERLE D'AunIGNi, President of the Theological School, Geneva, and Author of" The History of the Great Reformation in Germany," &c.

Hours of Thought. By WILLIAM MCCOMIIIE, Author of " The Chris- tian Church considered in relation to Unity and Schism." Second edition, with corrections and large additions. Lectures on .Astmnomy ; delivered at King's College, London, by the Rev. H. MOSELEY, M.A., Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astro- nomy, mu King's College.

[A popular introduction to the scientific understanding of astronomy, suitable either for the purposes of general information, or as the basis of a course of study. The definitions and problems are illustrated by diagrams.]

The Iland-Rook of the Toilette. By the Author of " Familiar Hints on Sea-bathing," &c.

The Hand-Book of the Laundry. By a Lady. [Very useful little publications, consisting of practical hints and directions for the proper performance of the ill-observed duty of cleanliness in person and attire, and calculated to effect a needful reform in these every-day matters.]

PAMPHLETS.

The Crisis in France. By a Recent Visiter to Paris.

Spain : its Present State and Prospects. By an English Traveller.

Signs of the Times; or, a Few Words addressed to all Classes and Condi- tions of Men. By "A Light of Other Days." As published in the "Exeter Flying Post."

Lord Brougham's Reply to Lord John Russell's Letter to the Electors of Stroud, on the Principles of the Rm.forni Act.

A Letter to Lord Jan Russell on the Resolutions lately proposed and carried by him in the Commons House of Parliament, in Approbation of the Executive Government of Ireland under the present Administration. By Sir GEonGE CREWE, Hart., M.P. for the Southern Division of the County of Derby. A Letter to the Most Noble the Marquis ol Lansdowne, on the Establish- ment of a Board of National Education. By ROBERT ISAAC WEL.. BERFORCE, M.A., Vicar of East Farleigh, and late Fellow of Oriel College. The Educator : Who and What is or should be this Functionary in the public estimation ? An Essay, originally written and entitled '1On the Expediency and the Means of Elevating the Profession of the Educa- tor in public estimation." By BEN-ABRAHAM.

A Letter to the Right Bon. Lord Brougham and Vans-, on the Police Re- ports and the Police Bills. By JAMES TRAILL, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law, and Senior Magistrate at the Police-office, Union Hall.

Remarks on time Slavery Question, in a Letter to Jonathan Phillips, Esq. By W. E. CIIANNING. Practical Remarks tom the Slave Trade of the TVest Coast of Africa; with Notes on the Portuguese Treaty.

The Present State and Condition of the Colony of 'Instant Australia; embodying a Statistical Report by His Excellency Sir JAMES STIR- LING, Governor.

A Plan for Extending the Paper Currency, on the Security of the Nation. By HENRY ARABIN, Esq.

On the Necesaityfur Harbours of Refuge, and their proved utility in that part of the British Channel called " The Narrows." Carefully selected from original and official documents, and addressed to the Merchants, Ship- owners, and Underwriters of Great Britain. By KENNETT BEACHAM MARTIN, Harbour-Master, Harbour of Ramsgate.

Ianthe. By NUGENT TAYLOR.

A Flora of Shropshire. By W. A. LEIGHTON, B.A., Fellow of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Honorary Corresponding Member of the Worcestershire Natural History Society.

SERIALS.

Travels in RU8Shl, Tartary, and Turley. 13y EDWARD DANIEL CLARKE, LL.D. With a Memoir of the Author, and numerous Addi- tions and Notes, prepared for the present edition. (People's Edition.)

[When this work first appeared, its size was quarto, and its price five guineas: we believe an octavo edition was subsequently published for a somewhat lower

sum. The copyright expires, and the Messrs. CHAMBERS send forth a "People's

Edition" for half-a-crown,—an experiment, we venture to say, which no holder of copyright for sixty years, whether relation or bookseller, would have dreamt of making ; and yet the cheapness of the speculation is essential to its success.

An expensive reprint woull not pay ; for, though time has wrought but little change in the countries Dr. CLARKE traversed, and sic shrewder observer or

more caustic describer has trodden in his steps, the public have a prejudice against travels not spick-span. An extended copyright would, in the major part of the few cases where it operated at all, only have a dog-in-the-manger kind of effect—injuring the people without benefit to any one.

The edition before us is not, however, a mere reprint : notes from later tra- vellers are added, whenever it is needful to illustrate, qualify, or confirm CLARKE ; and an addition is appended, containing observations on places not visited by him—as Poland ; which, with a " Sketch of the present Political and Social Condition of the Russian Empire," forms a complete picture of what the rhetoricians call the "Colossus of the North "—in the bulk and at the price of a pamphlet.]

Colon ltd Poliey of the British Empire. By the Author of the "History of the British Colonies," &e. Part I—Government.

[This is another Colonial publication of the indefatigable MONTGOMERY MARTIN. The purpose of it seems to be to give the spirit of the matter which has previously appeared in his seventeen volumes of history or statistics. The

contents of the present Part are threefold ; consisting of—Ist, Remarks on the nature of Government in general, or Colonial Government in particular ; whidi are very like twaddle : 2d, A descriptive Account of each Colony.; brief, general, but not very pregnant ; the reader, in fact, being referred to the author's previous publications : 3d, Observations on the present Government of the Colonies, with suggestions for its improvement ; the principal of which is to abolidi the Colonial Office and Colonial tSecretary, substituting in their place a Colonial Board, analogous to the Board of Admiralty. Like most other people who have hail any thing to do with "the Office," Mr. MARTIN gives but an indifferent account ef it, notwithstanding the " archives placed at his dis- posal," and the " room fitted up for his use."] The Verntable Cultivator : containing a plain and accurate Description of all the different Species and varieties of Culinary Vegetables ; with the

most approved method of Cultivating thein by natural and artificial

meat's, and the best mode of Cooking them. Together with a Descrip- tion of the Physical Herbs in general use, &c. .Also, Some Recollec- tions of the Life of Philip Miller, F.R.S., Gardener to the Worshipful Company of Apothecaries at Chelsea. By JOHN ROGERS, Author of " The Fruit Cultivator."

[A complete :Ind intelligent mannal for the kitchen-garden ; which, in addition to full and explicit directions for growing and dressing vegetables, gives an ac- count of the origin of various plants and their nutritious and medicinal quali-

ties as esculents; a chapter on physical herbs is also appended. The author alludes to his "great age" rendering it doubtful if he shall live long enough to reap the fruits of his labour in the success of his book : it will be a satisfaction to him, however, to know that he will have left a name behind him, and that he has been "useful in his day and generation," though in a humble field.]

The Death of Death in the Death of Christ. By R. Mivunw, Minister of the Gospel, Author of "Love to the Life" and " The Paternal Gift." Reprinted from the edition of 1679. (Ward's Library of Standard Divinity.) A History of British Birds. By Wuxusst YARRELL, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Part XIL Hood's Own; or Laughter from Year to Year. No. XII.