PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From November 10th to November 16th. BOOKS.

The American in Paris during the Summer; being a Companion to the "Winter in Paris "; or Heath's Picturesque Annual, for 1844. By M. JULES JANIE. Illustrated by eighteen engravings from designs by M. EUGENE LAM.

The Keepsake, for 1844. Edited by the Countess of BLESSINCTON. Heath's Book of Beauty, 1844. With beautifully-finished engravings

from drawings by the first artists. Edited by the Countess of BLESSING.• TON.

Fisher's Drawingroom Scrap-Book, 1844. By the Author of "The Women of England." The Juvenile Scrap-Book, 1844. By the Author of "The Women of England." Life of Gerald Griffin, Esq. By his Brother. The Geography of Pennsylvania; containing an account of the history, geographical features, soil, climate, geology, botany, zoology, population, education, government, finances, productions, trade, railroads, canals, &c. of the State; with a separate description of each county, and questions for the convenience of teachers. To which is appended, a Travellers' Guide, or table of distances on the principal railroad, canal, and stage routes in the State. By CHARLES B. Taxon, late As- sistant State Geologist, &c. Illustrated by a Map of the State and nu- merous engravings.

The Philosophy of Christian Morals. By SAMUEL SPALDING, M.A. of the London University. This volume is the posthumous production of a divinity student, of somewhat advanced years for a student, who exhibited so much ability in his examioa- lion at the London University, that the Professors of Moral and Mental Philosophy advised him to write upon these subjects ; and hence the volume. Some allowance is to be made in all cases for a posthumous publication ; but it strikes us that Mr. SPALDING'S plan was defective in mingling revelation and natural principles, for one must always supersede the other. There is also a want of grasp and coherence : the book rather resembles a series of religio- ethical sermons than a philosophical treatise.]

Woman an Enigma; or Life and its Revealings. By the Author of "Conquest and Self-Conquest," &c. [Ail American importation, something between a tale and a novel ; being too long and with too much of substance and variety for a tale, yet without suffi- cient of either to constitute a novel. The story is based upon the modes and marriages of the old regime; the Revolution coming to add to the troubles through which a denouement is reached, and the moral of the whole being that trials are necessary to the development of character either in man or woman. There is not much worldly knowledge of the old French Court, and there are some melodramatic improbabilities ; but there is a good deal of meta- physical skill in the conception of the characters, and the change of the timid girl to the tried woman, and of the man of pleasure to the man of action and reflection, is well carried out. Woman an Enigma is a bad title, but a good tale.] Romantic Fiction : Select Tales, from the German of DE LA MUTTS FOUQU1, and others. [A selection of' short stories, all from Foonni, with the exception of two from TISCH, and the popular romance of Peter Schlemihl : some are newly translated, and some appear in English for the first time. The glance we have taken at the contents of this elegant volume has impressed us favourably : the images are reproduced with freshness and a tinge of German character; and TISCH'S ballad of "The Faithful Eckhart" is rendered in simple and easy rale, with a characteristic turn of quaintness. The tales are embellished with initial designs by FRANKLIN, in a congenial style.]

The May-flower; or Sketches of Scenes and Characters among the

Descendants of the Pilgrims. By MIS HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. [Another American book; consisting of a series of didactic tales and essays, of a very indifferent kind.]

My Sonnets. [A little volume of sonnets on all sorts of subjects, from classical mythology and Grecian history down to effusions in Greenwich Park or on Shooter's Hill. The best of sonnets not only seem to us like "poetry fall'n lame," but thoughts in fetters ; and derive what interest they possess from a personal attraction in the theme and the inherent power of the ideas, such as those of MILTON. The poems before us have a sort of stiff stateliness, and seem really as good as most other sonnets. There are some miscellaneous poems at the end ; of which the first Christmas song is pretty good, although the familiarity is echoed.] Juvenile Poems. By CHARLES INGHAM BLACK, Trinity College, Dahlia. [These are the verses of a young collegian : and very creditable they are, especially the shorter poems. The matter is of course borrowed or common,

but it is for the most part appropriate to the topic. The versification, how- ever, is entitled to remark. It has much of the ease and spirit of Mooaz, without traces of imitation, or even resemblance beyond certain Milcsian fluency. Whether this is a mere gift or knack, or whether it is the germ of a future elegiac poet, must be left to time to show.] Sunday Evening Musings and other Poems, with an Appendix on Sacra- mental Efficacy. By WILLIAM BALMBRO' FLOWER, We Scholar of Magd. Coll. Cam.

[The author of this volume is a Cambridge Puseyite ; who introduces bit; doctrinal ideas into his verses, and, lest they should be missed, prints them in Italics. Thus, in his lines on a Cathedral Church, he sings-

' " Tread lightly I and before God's throne Come humbly bow the beaded knee. Where daily prayers are offered up. By God's own favoured ministry, Ordained by Him, as Aaron's line,

To spread the truth of tidos. divine."

In general respects Mr. BALMBRO' FLOWER is not unlike Mr. BLACK of Trinity College Dublin; except that the theological character of many of his topics gives a seeming novelty to his thoughts which they do not in reality possess, whilst Mr. BLACK excels in the language of his art.]

The Spanish Student; a Play, in three acts. By HENRY WADSWORTH LONG FELLOW.

Ballads and other Poems. By HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Voices of the Night. By HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

[Two of these three volumes so exceedingly resemble in every respect two American editions of Mr. LONGFELLOW'S which came before us some time ago, that we are almost tempted to believe them a reissue with Mr. Moxotes titlepsge, rather than an English reprint; which, considering all things, was scarcely worth while. The Spanish Student is new to us, and may possibly be worth recurring to; though appearing to lack both dramatic spirit and dramatic business.] An Elementary Grammar of the Greek Language. By Dr. RAPHAEL KiiHNER, Co Rector of the Lyceum at Hanover. Translated by JOHN H. MILLARD, St, John's College, Cambridge ; late Second Classical. Master at Mill-Hill Grammar School.

[This is a " treble 'distilled" edition of the celebrated Greek grammar by Dr. KOHNER. He first published a" Copious Grammar of the Greek Language," in 1834-5; which immediately attained a high reputation, not only for its com- pleteness, but for applying to language the same principles of analysis, gene- ralization, and induction, as are employed in scientific investigations." But as some of its very excellences rendered it unsuitable for general use, he abridged it into a school grammar, in 1836. The next year he published a further abridgment for young beginners ; from the second edition of which the book before us is translated.

Most persons who examine this double-condensed will wonder what the "copious grammar" could have been. For it will seem to them as copious as most persons, not aiming to be professed " Grecians," can desire. Still, by use of smaller type and signs affixed to sections, the more difficult and refined parts of the language admit of ready postponement, till the pupil is sufficiently advanced to relish, or rather perhaps to apprehend them. The peculiar features of this grammar are propriety of arrangement and co- piousness of illustration, both in declension and conjugation, as well as in the rules of syntax ; which last is celebrated for perspicuity and completeness. The stem of nouns and verbs is also distinguished throughout from the inflec- tional parts : but we think this is not peculiar in kind to Dr. KANNER'S gram- mars, but only in system and degree. To thou who would learn or teach Greek logically, systematically, and thoroughly, this Elementary Greek Grammar will be advantageous, if not indispensable. For the mere tyro, no matter what his age, an introduction of a more skeleton or outline character would perhaps be more useful.] A Manual of Greek Prosody. By the Reverend LEWIS PAGE MERCER, RA., Second Master r,f the Glasgow Collegiate School, &e. [A very clear and clever little publication—muitum in parvo, and highly useful to the students of Greek poetry. The Manual contains an historical, gram- matical, and critical exposition of the different metres, with an exhibition, by a very ingenious plan of notation, of each kind of verse in its utmost purity, and then of the different variations it admits of; the rule being presented in black, and the substitutes in red type. Examples of every case are given in appendices, and unusual metres exhibited in a supplement; the red letters in every class at once indicating to the eye where the poet has deviated from the strict purity of prosody.] Anecdotes of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia. Intended to exhibit the result of perseverance and laborious exertion in overcoming diffi-• culties. By the Author of "A. Visit to my Birthplace," &c. [An anecdotical biography of PETER the Great, done simply and amusingly', but the darker trait, of the barbarian are designedly omitted. Although the object is not to interfere with the morals of perseverance and labour it is the end of the book to inculcate, yet the propriety of the omissions may be doubted, as leading to a false idea of history.]

Reading-Book for the Use of Female Schools.

The Cheshire Staffordshire, Shropshire, and North Wales Land-meu- surer's Ready Reckoner ; or an Easy Guide to Land-measure. By' WILLIAM DPEEP, Schoolmaster, Banbury, Author of "A Practical English Grammar."

SERIALS.

Dialogues, Metaphysical and Practiced By Jratzs FORREST, A.M. Dialogue I. between Time and Space.

The Steam-Packet, Part VIII.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

China, in a Series of Views, displaying the Scenery, Architecture, and Social Habits of that ancient Empire. Drawn, from original and au-

thentic sketches, by THOMAS ALLOM, Esq. With Historical and

Descriptive Notices, by the Reverend G. N. WRIGHT, M.A. Volume L [The views in this volume are not confined to Macao and Canton, but embrace Chusan, Hong-kong, Whampoa, and even approach Nanking. Nor are the plates limited to scenery and buildings—the customs and habits of the Chinese are depicted : we have a theatrical performance, a raree-sbow, a dinner- party at a Mandarin's house, groups of rice-eaters and eat-merchants, and the processes of tea-making and silk-worm-feeding. The features of the country are in many instances as strange as the architecture and costume of the people; and the palaces, temples, bridges, and dwellings, seen together with the junks and porcelain towers, present some picturesque combinations. The drawings for the engraver have been mostly furnished by Mr. ALLOM ; who, not having been in China, must have made them up from the sketches of travellers, native drawings, and other sources, which it is desirable should be indicated. Sir GEORGE STAUNTON'S collection supplied several; Lieutenant , WHITE contributes two or three sketches; and we trace a resemblance to the sketches of a French artist which were published in this country. Mr. ALLors's practised pencil gives to them an European air, which takes off from the outré character of the actual scene as it would appear to our eyes, judging from the impression made upon as by the groups and furniture of the Chinese • Collection but tile plates are sufficiently characteristic for the purpose of •

popular picture-book. . The descriptive notices of the plates abound with information gleaned from various sources, and are written in a fluent and easy style.]

The Pleasant History of Reynard the Fox, told by the Pictures of ALDERT VAN EVERDINGEN. Edited by FELIX SUMMERLY. (The Home Treasury ) Beauty and the Beast. An entirely new edition. With new Pictures by an eminent artist. Edited by FELIX SUMMERLY. (The Home Treasury.) f The first of these elegant little volumes, though published in the unassuming form of a child's book, is a choice collection of humorous etchings by one of the Dutch masters, which till now were only to be found among the scarce old prints in the British Museum. These impressions are taken from the original plates, transferred to stone, and printed in different shades of reddish brown tint, in imitation of EVERDINGEN's original drawings also in the Museum: some little licence has been taken with the originals, but not ind■screetly, to adapt them to young minds. The selection contains forty out of the fifty-seven illustrations of " Reynard the Fox," with a couplet under each; the rest of the story being briefly told in prose at the outset. The animals enact their parts with the intelligence of lEsop's fabulous brutes, and a gravity and earnestness that are very amusing: the quiet slyness of the Fox, the diguified decorum of the Lion, and the uncouthness of Bruin, who cuts a ludicrous figure throughout, are most remarkable. Some of the etchings are beautiful in their artistic effects ; and the landscape backgrounds give animation and variety to the incidents. The graceful coloured designs to "Beauty and the Beast" are the principal feature of this edition, but not its only novelty ; this version of the story being new, and an improvement upon the preceding ones.] Abbotsford Edition of the Wavering Novels, Parts XL and XL!. [The engraved plates in these parts, containing Ivanhoe, are remarkable; one if them tieing a view of Durrenstein on the Danube, by Sir DAVID WILKiE, in which his characteristic minuteness of detail is united with grandeur and repose of effect ; and the other an interior of the Temple Church since its re- iteration. by STANFIELD. The wood-cuts are best when they consist of scenery, architecture, and relics of antiquity.]

ALMANACKS.

. The American .etlmanack and Repository of Useful Knowledge, for the Year 1844.

['This elaborate compilation of scientific facts and statistical information re- lating to all the States of the Union, as well as to the General Government itself, contains some new features; one of which is a complete list of Senators and Representatives from 1769 to the present day. The finances Of the dif- ferent States, where given, will perhaps be the most closely scanned in England.]

The Post Magazine Almanack and Court and Parliamentary Register, 1844.

(All the usual business-tables, with Parliamentary and official lists, as well as an abstract of the late census and a long list of insurance-office advertisements, giving both a coup d'ceil and detailed particulars of that important branch of The Meteorological Ephemeris for Leap-Year, 1844. By HENRY DOXAT.

PAMPHLETS.

The Sandwich islands: Progress of Events since their Discovery by Captain Cook, their occupation by Lord George Paulet, their value and imi ortance. By ALEXANDER &meson, Esq., late acting there as her Majesty's Consul.

Local Parliaments the Constitutional Remedy for Local Grievances. Facts and Argtsmeists for the Repeal of the Legislative Union Examined

A Letter to the Irish Temperance Societies, concerning the Present State

of lrelawi and its Connexion with England.

Tabular Contrast between State Affairs under the Late and Present Government; being a political address and an urgent appeal to the artisans, mechanics and operatives of Great Britain. By PHILOPATRIS. Idustration of Eiekiers Vision of the Chariot, (years before the Chris- tian sera, 5850 its literal meaning, utility, and fulfilment in the nine- teenth century.

Music.

Standard Edition of Handers Works—Deborah ; arranged for the Organ or Pianoforte, (with vocal score,) by G. PERRY, as performed at the Sacred Harmonic Society, Exeter Hall.