PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

27e Oxonian in Thelemarlcen ; or Notes of Travel in South-Western Norway in the Summers of 1856 and 1857. With Glances at the Legendary Lore of that district. By the Reverend Frederick Metcalfe, MA., Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford. Author of" The Oxonian in Norway." In two volumes. William the Conqueror. An Historical Romance. By General Sir Charles Napier, G.C.B., &c. Posthumous Work. Lieutenant-General Sir William Napier, K.C.B., Editor.

Contribution to Medical Literature. By J. Rutherford Russell, M.D., Physician to the London Homeopathic Hospital, &c. ; Author of a" Treatise on Epidemic Cholera," &c.

The Confessions of a Catholic Priest.

Millicent; or Our English Homes of the Present Day. By A. V. Beresford. In two volumes.

The House of Camelot. A Tale of the Olden Time. By Mary Linwood. In two volumes.

Ex Oriente. Sonnets on the Indian Rebellion.

Principles of Social Science. By H. C. Carey. In three volumes. VoL 1.—Mr. Carey has been known for more than twenty years as an American Political Economist of much pretentiousness, some shrewdness, a considerable acquaintance with facts both historical and statistical, and the large ambition of destroying existing economical science, and found- ing a new one. His apprehension, however, is not equal to the extent of his reading; he excels in what the players call "making points" rather than in a general and comprehensive soundness of view ; and though we do not know that he loves paradox for its own sake, his ideas are often paradoxical enough ; while whether true or false they are generally clothed in an exuberance of words.

"The Principles of Social Science" is, in fact, a collection of Mr. Carey's various treatises, with some new expositions. The old and new matter has been subjected to an arrangement, which Mr. Carey thinks will present his discoveries in more regular sequence, the latest in point of composition being the first in point of place—" thus proving the truth of the idea that fundamental principles are always last to be discovered." Another reason seems to be that the distinguished French expositionist Bastiat, has really been shining at Mr. Carey's expense ; and readers are warned against looking upon our American as a plagiarist, when the case is reversed. "Finding here a repetition of what they had read elsewhere, and given without acknowledgment, those persons would most naturally be disposed to suspect the present author of having wrongfully appropriated the property of another, when in point of fact he was himself the real owner." The collection will form a handsome edition, the volume before us doing credit to the printers of Philadelphia.

The People in Church ; their Rights and Duties in connexion with the Poetry and Music of the Book of Common Prayer. By Josiah Pittman, Chapel-master and Organist to the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn. —An essay on a variety of matters connected with Christian Church- worship, the two most prominent subjects being an antiquarian inquiry as to the manner in which public worship has been conducted since the time of Moses, and the peculiar mode which the nature of that worship obviously requires without reference to authority. From both grounds of investigation, Mr. Pittman arrives at the conclusion that a large por- tion of the Church-service should be sung, or at least intoned by the congregation. There is also an elocutionary discussion, Mr. Pittman conceiving that several people cannot properly speak the same words to- gether. They are baffled by the laws of rhythm.

Preaching, Prosing, and Puseyism, with other Peas of the Pod. By Peltham Burghley, Author of "Sir Edwin Gilderoy," &c.—A smartly written skit, if it be not something more, on the different religious par- ties, with sketches mostly very thinly disguised el particular preachers and churches. There is no mistaking St. Barbarous and St. Benights. This is Mr. De Diddle the preacher at the former. "A saintly man his countenance bespeaks him ; his face is broad, and has a placid, undefined expression, indicative of a somewhat lymphatic temperament ; the red that should be on his cheek has gone into his hair ; his complexion is of yellow soap; his forehead is broad but rounded off suddenly at the sides, so that the centre appears elevated, though it is low ; and the profile of the skull resembles half of an ostrich egg; the nose arch- ing but still not pronounced; the chin slightly crescented and rendered too long for the nose, by a too long and flaccid upper lip ; the eyes protube- rant and very fleshy in the lids, so that when reading the face appears som- nolent; the eye when raised resembles that of a stale codfish, but it ex- presses a quiet self-possessed sanctity and an imperturbable demureness. The whole mask is composed to a modest austerity' but there is a super- fluity of sensual, flabby flesh, that did not come of penance. Yet that is what the sermon is about."

The Art of Extempore Speaking. By M. Bautain, Vicar-General and Professor at the Sorbonne, 8ce. Translated from the French. —A useful book to the student of public speaking or to the critical inquirer into mental phenomena; perhaps more useful to the latter than the former. The treatise is less an " art " of speaking than an essay upon the sub- ject, and the " extempore" only means speaking without the aid of a written copy or notes. To make a speech off-hand without studying the question, sketching the plan, and preparing a considerable part of the matter or arguments, though, in the author's opinion, possible to certain persons, would only end in mere verbiage, tickling the ear pleasantly perhaps, but leaving no impression on the mind. In M. Bautain's idea the faculty of extempore speaking is a natural gift which can be culti- vated but not acquired ; though the forms of an oration may be readily mastered, the materials for speaking laid up, and a facility of utterance in the case of most people attained by practice.

A Handy Book on the Law of Bills, Cheques, Notes and I. 0. U's, By John Walter Smith, Esq., LL.D., of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-law. —A shilling brochure giving a condensed and popular view of the law relating to the subjects of the title.

The only reprints of any importance, in the sense of novelty to the public, are rather new books than new editions. The Marquis of Kil- dare's History "of the Earls of Kildare," though nominally a "third edition," is only now addressed to the world, having hitherto been print.. ed for private circulation. The rather notorious Henry Wikoff's New Yorker in the Foreign Office" has already, if we understand the intro- duction rightly, appeared in America. It is therefore difficult to appre- ciate the force of the offer held out to Lord Clarendon, that he (Wikoff) would " suppress " the book, which offer his lordship on the 9th Janu- ary last somewhat slightingly put aside.

The Earls of Kildare, and their Ancestors : from 1057 to Tra. By the Mar- quis of Kildare. Third edition.

A New Yorker in the Foreign Office, and his Adventures in Paris. By Henry Wikoff, Author of " A Visit to Prince Louis Napoleon at Ham," &c.

Oaths Causes of Idiocy; being the Supplement to a Report by Dr. S. G. Howe and the other Commissioners appointed by the Governor of Massachusetts to inquire into the Condition of the Idiots of the Commonwealth, dated Febru- ary 26, 1848. With an Appendix.

A Revised Manual of Family Prayers, partly after Charles James Bloomfield, D.D., late Lord Bishop of London. (lieklited by a Clergyman.)

(Want of space compels the postponement of our Concluding Notice on the Royol.Academy.]