PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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Literary Remains of Henry Fynes Clinton, Esg., .11.4., Author of the- " Fasti Hellenici" and "Fasti Romani" • consisting of en Autobio- graphy and Literary Journal, and brief Essays on Theological Sub- jects. Edited by the Reverend C. J. Fynes Clinton, M.A., Rector of: Crotiwell, Notts.

Commonplace Book of Thoughts, Memories, and Fancies, Original and Selected. Part I. Ethics and Character. Part II. Literature and.. Art. By Mrs. Jameson. With Illustrations and Etchings.

Medical Testimony and Evidence in Cases of Lunacy; being the Crow., ian Lectures delivered before the Royal College of Physicians in 1853. With an Essay on the Conditions of Mental Soundness. By Thomas Mayo, M.D., F.A.S., late Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

The Village Millionaire. By Miss, Lamont, Author of " The Fortunes of Woman." In three volumes.

Population and Capital; being a course of Lectures delivered before the University of Oxford in 1853-'4. By George K. Rickards, M.A., Professor of Political Economy.

May and December; a Tale of Wedded Life. By Mrs. Hubback, Au- thor of " The Wife's Sister ; or the Forbidden Marriage," &o. In three volumes.

History of the Two Tartar Conquerors of China ; including the Two Journies into Tartary of Father Ferdinand Verbiest, in the suite of the Emperor Kang-Ili : from the French of Pere Pierre Joseph d'Orle'ans, of the Company of Jesus. To which is added, Father Pereira's Jour- ney into Tartary iu the suite of the same Emperor, from the Dutch of Nicholas Witsen. Translated and edited by the Earl of Ellesmere. With an Introduction by R. H. Major, Esq., of the British Museum, Honorary Secretary of the Hakluyt Society. [There is more curiosity than interest in this volume of the Hakluyt So- ciety. The political student will indeed be able to infer, that the Chinese empire, two centuries ago, fell into the hands of the Tartars rather from in- ternal weakness and dissension than the superior power of the conquerors. He may also draw a conclusion, that but for the aptitude of the Tartar dy- nasty to seize the throne, something like the present anarchy, and from the same cause, rebellion, might have occurred in China in the seventeenth cen- tury. The narrative is written with elegance of style ; but, being compiled in France from the letters of the missionary Jesuits in China, it has too much the air of a prilcis—wanting the lifelike traits of personal observation, and not rising to the comprehensiveness of history. An appendix contains the observations of two Jesuit Fathers made during their visits to Tartary.] Rural and Historical Gleanings from Eastern Europe. By Miss A. M. Birk beck.

[This volume is in reality a series of Hungarian sketches and tales, having for subjects the features of the country, the character and customs of the people, the incidents to which their wild and roving or lawless habits expose them. In addition to this more normal condition, Miss A. M. Birk- beck has some glances at history, and stories in connexion with the late war, as well as instances of the persecution and chafing interference to which the Hungarians are now exposed from the Austrian authorities. The work, it is intimated, consists of the contributions of various exiles, or is derived from information furnished by them ; some of the sketches, however, pro- fess to emanate from an English traveller. We do not see any mark of quotation, yet we seem to be familiar with some of the matter,—as the sketch of the Puszta, or the great plain of the Theiss ; but it may be no more than the resemblance between two pictures of the same original. Be this as it may, the "Gleanings" constitute a pleasant and informing book.] The English in Western India; being the early History of the Factory at Surat, of Bombay, and the subordinate Factories on the Western Coast. From the earliest period until the commencement of the eighteenth century. Drawn from Authentic Works and Original Do- cuments. By Philip Anderson, A.M., one of the Honourable Com- pany's Chaplains in the Diocese of Bombay, &c. [This Indian importation is not a bad book of its kind ; in a less busy and stirring time it might have challenged more attention. It may be recom- mended to those who wish to follow the early history of the trading " ad- venturers" on the Western coast of India, whose warehouses or factories are now included in the Bombay Presidency. The period embraced is about a century-1612-1708. The narrative of Chaplain Anderson contains quaint and curious accounts of the early dealings, quarrels, fighting, and embassies, or rather tribute-bearing agencies to the Great Mogul, of the Company trading to the East Indies. There are also incidental notices of general manners and individual character—waifs upon the stream of time, straws preserved is amber.] _Leaves from the _Diary of an Offcer of the Guards. IA reprint from a military periodical of an individual's reminiscences of the Peninsular war. The reminiscences are truthful and unaffected, if not very striking ; and can be read as a counterpart to the sketches of the war in the Crimea which appear in the newspaper correspondence. The narrative of the hardships undergone by the old officer of the Guards, will show that campaigning now is much the same as it was then,—his account, for instance, of the discomfort of cold naked sheets, after having slept for some months in his clothes, at Torres Vedras and other places.] Anne Boleyn ; or the Suppression of the Religious Houses. [At the beginning, this volume appears as if it were to be n series of historical pictures of the English Reformation, in which the form might too much verge on affected rhetoric, but facts should predominate in the substance. This soon passes, and the reader discovers that Anne Boleyn is a romance, whose character and matter are of the kind common to historical romances, while the manner, aiming at originality, becomes wild and fanciful.] Epullia. By the Author of "Poems by 3Ielanter." Wild Flowers and Green Leaves; or Poetical Sketches in Miniature from Nature in her happiest mood.

Poetical Romances and Ballads. By Robert Villiers Sankey, Esq. [These three volumes of verse belong to the order of commonplace, without either art or spirit to carry their contents even occasionally into poetry. In Epullia, "The Fleet in the Black Sea," chiefly descriptive of the cholera, and "The Battle of the Alma," stimulate attention a little on account of their subjects. Even they, however, are flattened by newspaper details, told with too much of a carping newspaper spirit. There is a kind of country fresh- ness in Wild Flowers ; but the reader is wearied by endless description without sufficient purpose or end. The Romances and Ballads are essen- tially very old friends, by no means with a new face.]

Playing at Settlers ; or the Faggot-House. By Mrs. R. Lee, Author of "The African Wanderers," &c. With Illustrations by John Gilbert. Picture Fables. By Alfred Crowquill. The _Remarkable History of the House that Jack Built, splendidly Il- lustrated and magnificently Illuminated by the Son of a Genius. [Three illustrated juvenile publications, by those children's friends Messrs. Grant and Griffith, of St. Paul's Churchyard. The first narrates how three children, being sent to a lone country seat to recruit themselves from the scarlet fever, "rough it" for amusement in a faggot-house in the Park. The story is agreeably and sensibly—rather too sensibly—told, with a side-bear- ing on natural history, &c.; and the preface gives it the additional interest of personality by premising that the main incidents are actual reminiscences of the authoress. The second book supplies sprightly fables in verse, and coloured animal-pictures, which will amuse children. The third consists of drawings done in the infantine style, and will raise a laugh.] _Mirth and Metre. By two Merry Men, Frank E. Smedley and Ed- mund H. Yates. With Illustrations by M'Connell. [A. shilling's worth of verse, after the manner of "Ingoldsby," as the joint writers admit.]

Statutes, 1854 (17 and 18 Victoria) : containing all the Public General Acts of the Session ; also a Review of the Legislation of the Session, together with a Table showing how far the Acts of the Session directly affect former Acts, &e. Edited by John Warrington Rogers, Esq., Barrister-at-law.

[The advantages over the Queen's printer's edition of the Statutes, claimed by the editor of this publication, are comments and better indices. By the in- sertion of the abridged acts relating to Scotlsod, Ireland, and the Depend- encies, and the unabridged exhibition of StatTta relating to England and Wales, it surpasses another private speculation.] Manual of Optics. By the Reverend Joseph A. Galbraith, M.A., Fel- low and Tutor of Trinity College, &c. ; and the Reverend Samuel Haughton, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity College, &c. Manual of Hydrostatics. By the same. Manual of Mechanics. By the same. Second and improved edition. Manual of Plane Trigonometry. By the same. Second edition. [Brief and elementary expositions of natural philosophy and mathematics, by the competent hands of Professors Galbraith and Houghton. The books have been found so useful that two of the utimber, it will be seen, have already reached a second edition.]

Hackney Carriages : Fares and Abstract of Acts. IsTlah d part. (By Authority.)

It is now a good many years since Messrs. Longman began a series of publications in which information of a special and practical kind was the fundathental principle of the whole. Foremost among them, we believe, was Mr. M'Culloch's " Statistical Account of the British Empire," and it was the most general book of the series, as if it came forth by way of experiment or feeler. That "magnum opus" the Geographical and (though not on the titlepage, we think might be added) Commercial Dictionary followed,—a book apparently more general than the Statistical Account, but not so in reality, from the information it furnished to the mer- chant, the statist, and other special vocations. Next in the order of this classification, if not in the order of time, was Dr. Ure's "Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines,"—a work more technical in its nature than either of M'Culloch's, though extending to a great variety of subjects. Following these, came special works on science, art, and daily use ; amongst the au- thors of which appear the names of Brande, Cresy, Copland, Loudon, and various others. It was a bold and a costly undertaking ; but the results showed that the sagacious publishers had rightly perceived the public wants and duly calculated the proper means of supplying them. The test of bibliopolic success, new editions, began, and continued to be called for, some- times in a shorter period than could have been expected, the elaboration and price of the book being considered. The success of M'Culloch's " Geo- graphical, Statistical, and Historical Dictionary," has been so great that its numbers cease to be reckoned. The volumes before us are only a " new edition," but not a mere reprint. For example, the exciting regions of the day, Turkey, Russia, Australia, have been mostly rewritten, as well as other articles of less importance ; and the work is in other respects improved. That special or rather professional book, Gwilt's elaborate " Encyclopaedia of Ar- chitecture," has reached a third edition, and been improved, as well as en- larged by an appendix on pointed architecture. Of Professor Plattner and Dr. Muspratt's "Treatise on the Use of the Blow- pipe" a third edition is also before us. It has received many additions. America and Australia have contributed to the demand; the utility of a hand furnace being doubtless felt in the gold regions, and the necessity of an instructor as to its nature and use.

The other reprints almost explain themselves. To a complete edition of Cowper's Poems, the Olney Hymns being excepted, Mr. Wilinott has added explanatory foot-notes, and a genial account of the poet's life and poetical character. The same publishers (Messrs. Routledge) have issued a neat double- column edition of "My Novel," in two volumes. Messrs. Chapman and Hall, a cheap edition of " Olive."

A Dictionary, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of the various Countries, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World. Illus- trated with Maps. By J. R. M'Cultoch, Esq., Member of the Insti- tute of France. A new edition, revised, with a Supplement. In two volumes.

An Encyclopedia of Architecture, Historical, Theoretical, and Prac- tical. By Joseph Gwilt. Illustrated with more than one thousand Engravings on Wood by J. Branston, from Drawings by John Sebastian Gwilt. Third edition, with a Supplemental View of the Symmetry and Stability of Gothic Architecture.

The Use of the Blowpipe in the Qualitative and Quantitative Examina- tion of Minerals, Ores, Furnace Products, and other Metallic Com- binations. By Professor Plattner, ASSEI! Master at the Royal Frey- berg Smelting Works ; and Dr. Sheridan Muspratt, F.R.S.E., &c., Author of " Outlines of Analysis," &c. Illustrated by numerous Diagrams. Third edition, revised and further enlarged.

The Poetical Works of William Cowper. Edited by the Reverend Ro- bert Aria Willmott, Incumbent of Bear Wood. Illustrated by Birket Foster.

"My Novel," by Pisistratus Caxton ; or Varieties in English Life. In two volumes. New edition.

Olive ; a Novel. By the Author of "The Head of the Family." (Select Library of Fiction.) The History of England. By Hume and Smollett. With the Con- tinuation, by the Reverend T. S. Hughes, B.D. A new edition. Volume VIII.