PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The week's publications are very numerous, but are generally new editions in some form, or of a publishing business character. Mr. Weld's "Tour in America" has most of living interest. The first volume of a translation of Calvin's Correspondence will, when completed, form a work of great import- ance to the theological student and scholars in general, but is not a subject of much attraction during the stirring events of the passing day. Dr. Schmitz's " Manual of Ancient History" will doubtless be found a solid, sensible, and workmanlike production' but it appears to aim at no originality in principle or discovery. 'A Trip to the Trenches" gives an account of a month's ob- servation in the camp before Sebastopol, confirmatory of the usual picture of privation and suffering caused by mismanagement. To what the author saw himself he has added a variety of camp reports. The two novels do not seem beyond the average of the circulating library class.

Letters of John Calvin. Compiled from the Original Manuscripts, and edited, with Historical Notes, by Dr. Jules Bonnet. Volume I. Translated from the Latin and French Languages by David Constable.

A Manual of Ancient History, from the Remotest Times to the Over- throw of the Western Empire, A. D. 476. By Dr. Leonard Schmitz, F.R.S.E., Rector of the High School of Edinburgh. With copious Chronological Tables.

A Trip to the Trenches, in February and March 1855. By an Amateur. 77w Career of a _Rising Man; a NoveL By M. Viener, Author of "Ar- thur Clifton." In three volumes.

Love versus Law, or Marriage with a Deceased Trigs Sister; a Novel. By Joseph Middleton, Esq., Barrister-at-law. In three volumes.

Art-Hints. Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting. By James Jack- son Jarves, Author of "History of the Sandwich Islands," &c. ; Member of the American Oriental Society, Flo.

A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada. By Charles Richard Weld, Barrister-at-law. -

The Calendar of Victory ; being a Record of British Valour and Con- quest by Sea and Land on Every Day in the Year. Projected and commenced by the late bleier Johns, R.M. ; Continued and Completed by Lieutenant P. H. Nicolas, R.M.

[The object of this work is to give an account of the deeds of arms done on every day in the year by Englishmen till the union of the crowns under James the First, and afterwards by Britons. The book is divided into two parts ; one devoted to the Army, the other to the Navy. The period over which the account extends is from the battle of Hastings to the battle of Inkerman. A good chronological index directs the reader easily to the particular action he may wish to refer to ; and the collection of all our bat- tles or affairs in one volume of moderate size is very useful. The descrip- tions are good, though of course brief. The arrangement adopted neces- sarily interferes with the dontinuity of military history.]

Pictures from the Battle-Fields. By "The Roving Englishman," Author of "Turkey," &o. With eight Illustrations.

[This book is described by its writer as a "work of fiction" and in a cer- tain sense that is true enough. In reality it is a series of sketches of places and occurrences at the seat of war, or relating to the war, variegated by diatribes on the public services in general and the diplomatic in particular ; the whole being connected by the framework of a tour. The writer has flippant and fluent cleverness in description, vitiated by a natural tendency to exaggeration. His self-sufficiency is unbounded—everybody is wrong but himself. His diatribes against systems and persona are coarse vulgar, and

i of morbid vehemence. H attacks upon Lord Stratford de Redcliffe and the Earl of Westmoreland are of a kind to induce the belief that they arise from some personal motive. There are also insinuations against the honesty of the Commissariat officers.] On Human Longevity and the Amount of _Life upon the Globe. By P. Flourens, Perpetual Secretary to the Academy of Sciences, Paris,

Professor of Comparative Physiology at the Museum of Natural His- tory, Paris, &a. Translated from the French second edition, by Charles Martel.

[A book of more literary skill than philosophical depth or completeness; pleasant to read, but not imparting much information, or leaving any re- markable impressions on the mind. It is in fact a series of essays on the natural duration of human life, which H. Flourens fixes at a hundred years ; and on the best mode of attaining it, in which he leans too much to the ex- ceptional example of Cornaro. The "amount of life upon the globe" is geological, not statistic, and involves some curious questions curiously handled, but always in an orthodox way.]

May Flowers : being Notes and Notions on a few Created Things. By " Acheta," Author of "March Winds and April Showers."

[Papers on natural history, sometimes limited to direct account, sometimes descriptive of what may be called habits,—as in the essay on Goldfinches

in general and ours in particular," which has a resemblance to Cowper's charming narrative about his bares; or introducing a little morality,—as the attempt in "Bird and Man" to raise the question of the moral right to confine birds in cages. The book is written with knowledge, good feeling, and good taste ; but the effect is rather marred by over-writing, shown in the mode of running down a -topic.] Job ; a Course of Lectures preached in the Pariah Church of St. James's, Westminster, on the Fridays in Lent, a. D. 1855. By John Edward Kemp e, M. A., Rector of St. James's.

[The morals to be derived from Job's story are well impressed in these ser- mons; which also contain some sensible conclusions on the differences among the learned as to the age and authorship of the book, and the nature of the history itself, whether fact or fiction.]

The Philosophy of the Cross ; or Christ as Man. By Henry G. Cooper. [Short expositions of Mr. Cooper's views of the character of Christ under various aspects.] A Guide to the Knowledge of Life. Designed for the use of Schools, &c. By Robert James Mann, M.D., &c. ; Author of "Guide to the Knowledge of the Heavens," &c.

Bekctions from the beat Italian Writers. For the use of Students of the Italian Language. By James Phillip Lacaita, LL.D. Praxis Gram. A Series of Elementary, Progressive, and Miscellaneous Questions and Examination Papers on Greek Grammar. Part I. Etymology. By the Reverend John Day Collis, M.A., late Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford, Honorary Canon of Worcester, Head Mas-

ter of the Grammar School of King Edward the Sixth, Bromsgrove. [Of these educational books, the Guide to the Knowledge of Life is a com- pilation on vegetable and animal physiology, with some reference of course to anatomy, and a few remarks on medicine and hygiene. It is plainly done, and not without interest. There are numerous explanatory wood-cuts. The Selections from Italian Writers are of various ages, authors, sub- Loots, and modes' in verse as well as prose. They begin with specimens of S.aint Francis of Assisi, and a few other writers preceding Dante, and cone

down to the present day. So wide a range offers sufficitnt examples of style; but the utility of this seems doubtful for pupils at the stage of advancement for which this book seems intended.

The Questions, &c. on Greek Grammar is a useful book, either for the teacher or for self-tuition.]

The Merchant Shipping Act, and the Merchant Shipping Repeal Act, 1854, (17 and 18 Viet. caps. 104 and 120); with Notes and a copious Index ; to which is addedt a Report of the Case of the "Owe," (Schacht v. Otter,) containing the Decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the Law of Blockade. By William Paterson, Esq., Barrister-at-law.

Foremost in the following list stands Messrs. Longman's "ruby edition" of Tom Moore's Poetry, in a single volume, little in stature, though stout. It is guite "a love of a book," with a portrait of the bard at forty, after the picture by Philips, which makes Anacreon look more steady and less jovial than in any other likeness we have seen. The type is adapted to the poetry—better fitted for youthful than aged eyes : a clothing of green would be more appropriate than scarlet.

Messrs. Longman have also published the articles contributed by Mr. Conybeare to the Edinburgh Review on some Church questions, Mormonism, and the Temperance agitation. They are beyond the average of review articles; and their object, which is to call attention to the deficient powers and organization of the English Church for the great purpose of religious and social reform, gives a unity to the book that unconnected papers must want. The essays are somewhat deficient in distinctiveness of character.

The same house has likewise produced a new and much enlarged edition of Dr. Lindley's " Horticulture" •' whose value has borne the test of fifteen years, and of translation into the German, Dutch, and Russian languages. The "Vindication of Luther" is a revised edition of the notes on the defence of the great Reformer which the late Archdeacon Hare affixed to his series of sermons entitled the Mission of the Comforter, published in 1846-'47. It forms a goodly volume in its independent state, from Messrs. Parker and Son. The abridgment of Dr. Forbes's interesting "Travels in the Alps of Savoy" has been made by himself, with the view of popularizing the information by means of reducing the price. "Every Boy's Book," from Messrs. Routledge, is a goodly volume, full of cuts, and treating of all the different youthful sports and exercises as well in their practice as their phi- losophy. There is no mark of a new edition, but we have seen the book be- fore, or something very like it. " Widow-Burning " is the reprint of an ar- ticle in the Quarterly _Review, scarcely required. The remainder of the list consists of different "libraries," or cheap re- prints of some kind. Miss Martineau's embodiment of the history of the Black insurrection in St. Domingo, and her view of the character of Tous- saint, in "The Hour and the Man," is the most remarkable. The next in order is Catherine Sinclair's "Beatrice," or, as it might be called, an Ex- posure of Popish Priests.

The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore. Complete in one volume. Essays, Ecclesiastical and Social. Reprinted, with additions, from the Edinburgh Review. By W. J. Conybeare, M.A., late Fellow of Tri- nity College, Cambridge.

The Theory and Practice of Horticulture ; or an Attempt to Explain the chief Operations of Gardening upon Physiological grounds. Be- ing the second edition of the Theory of Horticulture, much enlarged. ByJohn Lindley, Ph. D., F.R.S., Corresponding Member of the Insti- tute, Vice-Secretary of the Horticultural Society, &c.

Vindication of Luther against his recent English Assailants. Second edition reprinted and enlarged from the Notes to the "Mission of the Comforter." By Julius Charles Hare, 31.A., Rector of Herstmon- cetut, Archdeacon of Lewes, Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen. The Tour of Mont Blanc and of Monte Rosa ; being a Personal Nar- rative, abridged from the Author's "Travels in the Alps of Savoy," &c. By James D. Forbes, D.C.L., &c.

.Every Boy's Book : a complete Encyclopedia of Sports and Amuse- ments, intended to afford Recreation and Instruction to Boys in their leisure hours. By George Forest, Esq., M.A. With upwards of six hundred Illustrations from original Designs by William Harvey slid Harrison Weir.

Widow-Burning : a Narrative. By Henry Jeffreys Bushliy, of the Inner Temple, Esq., Barrister-at-law ; late of the Hon. E.LCo.'a Civil Service.

The Hour and the Man ; an Historical Romance. By Harriet Mar- tineau. A new edition. (The Railway Library.) Beatrice ; or the Unknown Relatives. By Catherine Sinclair, Author of "Modern Accomplishments." (Run and Read Library.) To Love, and to Be .Loved. By the Author of "I've been Thinking." (Run and Read Library.) Tales and Sketches of New England Life: comprising "The May Flower," and other Miscellaneous Writings. By Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," &c. Author's cheap edition. Familiar Words, as affectiny the Character of Englishmen and the Fate of England. By David Urquhart.

Proseuurrs.

14)te Practice. By Major John Jacob, C.B., of the Bombay Artillery, Com- mandant of the Scinde Irregular Horse, and on the Frontier of Upper Scinde; Honorary A.D.C. to the Most Noble the Governor-General of India, Re. With two Plates.

Introductory Lecture delivered to the Class of Military Surgery in the Uni- versity of Edinburgh, May 1, 1855. By Sir George Balliugall, Regius Professor of Military Surgery.

The Policy of the Medical Profession.

The Malays of Cape Timm, South Africa. By Schofield Mayson. (Read before the Manchester Statistical Society.)

War: its Evils and Duties. A Sermon preached in the Cathedral Church of Lincoln, on 26th April 1854, the ap- pointed day for General Humiliation and Prayer. By John Bishop of Lin- coln.

Introductory and Concluding Addresses delivered to the Members of the Philo- sophical Institution, Edinburgh, by the Honourable Lord Neaves and the Right Reverend Bishop Terrot.

What is the Use of our Cathedrals? A Letter to Lord Stanley, on the True Principle of Cathedral Reform. By the Reverend John Ingle, 11.A., Head Mas- ter of the King's School, Ely.

A Plea for Painted Glass; being an In- quiry into its Nature, Character, and Objects, and its Claims as an Art. By Frau. W. Oliphant.

The Four Points. By John Coleman.

A Brief History of Sherburn Hospital, in the County of Durham. With Obser- vations on the "Scheme" proposed by the Charity Commissioners, Re.

First Steps towards an Universal System of Decimal Coinage.