PUBLICATIONS .RECEIVED.

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Notes from Nineveh, and Travels in Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Syria. By the Reverend J. P. Fletcher. In two volumes.

Two Years' R,midence in a Levantine Family: By Bayle St. John, Author of "Adventures in the Libyan Desert," &c.

Memoirs of the War of Independence in Hungary. By General Klapka, late Secretary-at-War to the Hungarian Commonwealth, &c. Trans- lated from the Original Manusciipt by Otto Wenckstern. Volume II.

Health, Disease, and Remedy, familiarly and practically Considered, in a few of the Relations to the Blood. By George Moore, M.D., &c.

The Virgin Widow ; a Play. By Henry Taylor, Author of "Philip Van Artevelde."

Researches on Magnetism, Electricity, Heat, Light, Crystallization, and Chemical Attraction in their relations to the Vital Force. By Karl Baron Ton ReichenVach, Ph. Dr. Translated and edited, at the ex- press desire of the Author, with a Preface, Notes, and Appendix, by William Gregory, M.D., F.R.S.E., &c. With three Plates and twenty- three Wood-cuts. Parts I. and IL, including the second edition of the First Part, corrected and improved. [Von Reichenbach IS one of the first if not the only man who has examined these various phenomena which are embraced under the term of animal magnetism in the spirit of a philosophical induction. He professes to have discoverled-the existence of a hitherto unknown agent, influential but impon- derable,' Milieh he calls odyk, and which he considers is existent in man, magneMrczystals, and, in short, the whole material universe. It is not uni- versally', detectable; that is, some persons are not susceptible to its influence al all, *IMO among the susceptible some are more so than others. The strong man is the least sensitive, the "feeble somnambulist" most so ; those who are in the last stage can see the odyle, in the form of a faint flame, as it flows from a magnet, or some other sources. In the two parts of his work Reichenbach gives an account of his experiments, and their phenomena, as well as of themamier in which he conceives they explain many hitherto in- explicable appearances. Among them are the Aurora Borealis, various facts in connexion with animal magnetism and ghost or spectral objects. An ex- planation of this last topic, with illustrations, was given in the notice of Mayo's "Letters on the Truths contained in Popular Superstitions," re- viewed in the Spectator of the 14th July last year. Dr. Gi egory's publication contains the second edition of the first part of Reichenbach's work, (which first appeared in 1845 in Liebig's and Wiihler's Annalcn der Chenue,) and a second part just published. It has been trans- lated at the express desire of the author ; and the translator has added notes with other additional matter. The work may be recommended as a useful addition to experimental science, and as the best book on the questionable subjects of -which it treats.] Familiar Views of Lunacy and Lunatic Life; with Hints on the Per- sonal Care and Management of those who are afflicted with Tempo- rary or Permanent Derangement. By the late Medical Superin- tendent of an Asylum for the Insane. [A plain, sensible, and popularly-written aeeount of the 'leading characteris- ties of lunacy, with some hints as to the best mode of managing it, es- peeially in "it; early stages. There is also a cursory history of madhouses, and the eld treatment of their patients, with a general view of the "litera- ture of lunacy," and other miscellaneous' matters. It is a useful book of its kind, for such persons as wish to acquire a notion of the subjects treated of, but are shut out, or, shut themselves out, from medical treatises, "blue boolui," &e.] Nineveh and Persepolis ; an Historical Sketch of Ancient Assyria and Persia with an account of the Recent Researches in those Countries. By VS. W. Vaux, M.A., Assistant in the Department of Antiqui- ties, British Museum. • IA very able compilation on the history and antiquities of Persia and Assyria ; Mr. Vaux bringing original reflection and vigour of style to the aid of a clear and-painstaking narrative of facts. Substantially the book consists of three parts. 1. A narrative of the history of Persia, from the most ancient times to the reign of Shah Abbas. 2, An account of the travellers in those countries, and the information they imparted, from the dawn of modern tra- vel to our own day. 3. A resume of contemporary discoveries ; in which, hile Mr. Layard's are displayed, those of other explorers are not neglected. The book is illustrated by .a map and wood-cuts; and it forms one of the beat historical, arehreolooual, and geog,raphical compilations, that has ap- peared, not excepting those in that very able serial the Edinburgh Cabinet Library.]

Sermons for the Sundays and Principal Holydays throughout the Year. Preached in the Parish-churches of Ickworth and Horringer. By the Reverend Lord. Arthur Hervey, A.M., Rector of Ickworth and Curate of Honinger.

[The profit derived from these sermons will be assigned to the fund raised under Mr. Sidney Herbert's auspices to forward female emigration. The discourses were preached to rural congregation.s, on each Sunday and the principal holydays of the year, and are published nearly as they were written. Their topics are the broad truths of the gospel, both doctrinal and practical; which are urged in a plain and forcible manner on the attention of the congregation. The literary character of sermons is the only thing that can properly be criticized in a secular journal ; and that is hardly dis- tinctive enough in the volumes before us to emlenge special notice.] Lincoln's Ins; its Ancient and Modern Buildings, with an Account if the Library. By William Holden Spilsbury, Librarian.

[A. history of the Inn, a full description of its various localities and build- ings, with the time of their formation and erection, and an ample account of the Society's Library. This last, as may be supposed from the author's po- sition, is the most thoroughly executed section of the book ; Mr. Spilsbury hurunating in his subject, both generally as regards the collection and parti- cularly with respect to individual treasures. The publication is chiefly de- signed as "a handbook for visitors, or a synopsis for an inquiring foreigner " ; and it is well fitted to answer this purpose.]

Appendix to a History of Greeee for Schools and Colleges. By Thomas Swinburne Carr, M.A.

[We noticed the appearance of the second edition of this work about a year since. This appendix continues the history of Greece from the death of

Alexander till the overthrow of Perseus by Velilius Paulus; and contains in addition a survey of the literature of Greece, and of the civil, military, and economical condition of Athens.] The .Living Authors of America. First Series. By Thomas Powell, Author of "The Living Authors of England," &c.

[An importation from New York ; consisting of critical notices of thirteen American authors, with numerous illustrative quotations from their works. The writers best known to the English public are Cooper, Emerson, Press- cott, Longfellow, Bryant, Dana, and Willis. The notices are more lengthy than complete or close.]

The .Principles of English Grammar ; witha Series of Progressive Exer- cises. }or the use of Schools. By James Douglas. The Finehley Manuals of Industry. No. II. Gardening; or Practical and-Economical Training for the Management of a School or Cottage Garden.

[However widely differing in subject, both these little books agree in being short compilations intended for popular use.]

Canada, Valses Brillantes pour .Piano. Par Alexandre Billet. Sieilienne, pour Piano. Par H. Ray inn.

[M. Billet, an excellent pianist, has distinguished himielf as an able in- terpreter of the works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and Mendelssohn. waltzes, though they may be regarded as trifles, yet show the elegant and classical artist; and being arranged in a continuous series, with an intro- duction and coda, mike a light and agreeable piece. The name of Ravine is new to us ; but his Sicilienne leads us to conclude that he is an accomplished player of the most modern school.]

The Neapolitan Polka. Composed by Miss Bentley.

[A polka is a bagatelle; but, like a waltz, a mazurka, or a quadrille, it may show invention, grace, and artistic feeling and skill. The httle composition before us, by a young amateur, a daughter of the eminent publisher, does all this : it has qualities which give promise of future success in works of higher aim.] Psnriums.

The Trials of the Church a Quickening of her Zeal and Love. Two Sermons, upon the Consequences of the recent Judgment of the Judi- cial Committee of her Majesty's Privy Council, preached in St. George's, Brighton, on the fast and second Sundays after Easter 1850. By the Reverend James S. M. Anderson, M.A., &c.

A letter to Archdeacon Hare, on the Judgment in the Gorham Case, from the Honourable Richard Cavendish.

Hungary and the Hungarian Struggle: three lectures delivered bd.= the Edinburgh Philosophical Institution, &c. By Thomas Greene Clark, twenty months resident in Hungary during 1847, '8, and '9. The Agricultural Crisis ; or Landlords' Duties and Tenants' Rights. By David Falconer, Strathigla Mooney's .Nine Years in America ; in a Series of Letters. Part I.