EIIBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Commentaries on the Laws of England. In four books. By Sir Wil- liam Blackstone, Knight, one of the Justices of his Majesty's Court of Common Pleas. The twenty-third edition, incorporating the Altera- tions down to the Present Time. By James Stewart, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., Barrister-at-lavr.

Philosophy of the First Six Centuries. By the Reverend Frederick Denison Maurice, Chaplain to Lincoln's Inn • Professor of Ecclesiasti- cal History, King's College, London. Second edition, revised.

Bakes Redeemed ; or the Year of Jubilee. A Lyrical Drama, in three acts. By Edmund Peel.

The Principles of Mental and Moral Training, and of Industrial Dis- cipline ' • intended chiefly though not exclusively for the Asylums and Schools to be established for Criminal and Destitute Children. By

the Reverend Henry Smith, Chaplain of the Government Juvenile Reformatory, Parkhurst, Isle of Wight, Author of "The Destitution and Miseries of the Poor Disclosed," 8:o.

[A proposition for the establishment of Industrial Reformatory Schools, to which should be sent-1. Youth guilty of dishonesty, who instead of being committed by the magistrate to prison should be sent to a school, his parents, if he has any, being compelled to contribute towards his main- tenance; 2. Small offenders, as for brawls and assaults, or vagrants, in whose cases the parish should be called upon to make good a part of the expense ; 3. Honest children of honest parents, who are yet unable to look after their offspring properly. Each of these classes would have different schools. The author is aware that there are difficulties in his way. In the first place, the law must be changed as regards the power of the magistrate to send children to these schools, of other authorities to enforce payments, and lastly for the establishment and support of the schools themselves. Mr. Smith feels that the masters must be trained to their task, since it would re- quire very rare qualifications to succeed; and this training he proposes to accomplish as well as he can at first, and afterwards in the schools them- selves. He knows that to turn out a youth from the reformatory establish- ments, would be merely to send him sooner or later back to his old haunts. He therefore proposes a modified sort of penal colony, to which the youthful reformed of both sexes may be sent.

The book consists of detailed expositions of the plan, rather prolix exhort- ations in its favour, and a good many facts within the author's own expe- rience, or supported by evidence, on the state of the poor, especially poor children, and examples of what may be done in the way of reforming the disposition, and changing the physiognomy—some of the last little short of miraculous.] The Ottoman .Empire and its Resources ; with Statistical Tables of the Army, Navy, Trade. Navigation, Institutions, &c. Drawn from the Consular Reports, as given in the elaborate Returns of the Board of Trade' and various Foreign Documents of official character. Pre- ceded by an Historical Sketch of the Events in connexion with the Foreign and Domestic Relations of the Country during the last Twenty Years. By Edward H. Michelsen, Phil. D. [A clever and readable summary of the historical events of the present cen- tury, so far as they bear upon the internal reforms or foreign politics of Turkey ; very brief in the outset, but growing fuller as they approach the present time. This is followed by a digest of diplomatic documents on the statistics and reformed institutions of the Turkish empire. The historical summary, though well done, has a kind of official or state-paper air. The statistics are numerous, and imposing in appearance • but their accuracy may be doubted, except in such obvious and easily-collected information as the ships of war and their guns. The broadest general conclusions are—that the Turks are much more popular in the Principalities than the Russians; and their government, if not more constitutional, is yet more liberal, even if owing to laxity, than that of Austria or Russia ; the occasional tyranny of a Pacha being better than the stifling character of those two despotisms.] Lays from the Mine, the Moor, and the Mountain. By John Harris, a Cornish Miner.

[This small volume of poems on various subjects reflects great credit on their author as a practical miner; but they rather argue imitative aptitude than original inspiration. They would have been better had they been worse, or at least more rugged. The poems whose subjects are drawn from mining incidents, or the occurences of humble domestic life, have some no-

velty as regards thoughts and images; but thestyle is conventionally smooth and finished to weakness.] _Records of Alderbrook ; or Fanny Forester's Village Sketches. By Emily C. Judson. [A sketch of American scenery, manners, and country life, with the occa- sional introduction of town tales. In point of plan the book has some re- semblance to Our Village; but the fair writer is less distinct and more verbose than Miss Mitford, though more real and dramatic in her stories of actual life.] Ertnengarck Sydney ; or Home Sketches.

[" Sketchy " enough. Towards the end of the book there is a death from consumption, and at the end a marriage, but with little more relation to pre- ceding events than appears in the death and marriage department of a news- paper. Home Sketches mainly consists of dialogues about nothing at all.] Short Sermons at the Celebration of the Lord's Supper. By the Reverend Harvey Goodwin, 11.A., late Fellow of Gonville and Calms College, and Minister of S. Edward's, Cambridge. [Fifteen sermons, of commendable brevity, on as many different texts and topics; but each brought to bear on the sacraments.] Saunterings in and about London. By Max Schlesinger. The English Edition by Otto Wenekstern. [A good translation of a foreigner's sketches of the English Metropolis which we noticed in January last, from the German edition. The English Metropolis, which is accompanied by caricature illustrations.] Henry's _English Grammar ; a Manual for Beginners. By the late Reverend Thomas Kerchever Arnold, M.A., Rector of Lyndon, and formerly Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. [A plain exposition of the elements of English, presented in a manner likely to impress them on the pupil's mind, if the teacher carries out the idea of the author.] The Pianist's Handbook ; a Guide for the right comprehension and per- formance of our best Pianoforte Music. By Carl Engel.

The most interesting book in the following list is a cheap and revised edi- tion of Theodore Hook's "Life and Remains." The man himself was by no means a model, and the biography partakes too much of the half greenroom half tavernlike character which predominated in poor Hook himself ; but the narrative carries the reader over an eventful time, with which the hero as a publicist was pretty closely connected; and there is something piti- ful if not touching in the feverish life and premature death of Theodore. If he was not an example, he was a beacon.

The " Chalmeriana," it strikes us, are extracted from Dr. Hanna's Life of Chalmers, at all events in part. The "Dictionary of Chronology" is constructed on an alphabetical plan : if you want a particular battle, you look for it under "Battle,"—a word which occupies many pages. As the book has reached a fifth edition, we suppose the plan is approved. Mr. Bentley has included the "Stella and Vanessa" of Leon de Wailey, so capitally translated by Lady Duff Gordon, in a double number of his Railway Library.

Life and Remains of Theodore Edward Hook. By the Reverend R. H. Dalton Barham, B.A., Author of "The Life of Thomas Ingoldsby." New edition, revised and corrected. (Parlour Book-Case.) Chalmeriana ; or Colloquies with Dr. Chalmers, Author of "Evidences of Christianity," and "Astronomical Sermons." By Joseph Gurney. (Parlour Book-Case.) 'egg's Dictionary of Chronology; or Historical and Statistical Regis- ter, from the Birth of Christ to the Present Time. The fifth edition, enlarged, revised, and improved.

Stella and Vanessa; a Romance of the Days of Swift. By Lady Duff Gordon. (Bentley's Railway Library.)

ALMANACS..

Punch's Pocket-Book, for 1854. Containing ruled pages for Cash Ac- counts and Memoranda for every day in the year ; an Almanack, and a variety of useful Business Information. The Illustrations by John Leech and John Termini. In two parts. collection of facethe is about on spar with its precursors ; full of clever its at passing topics, in prose and verse, with cuts to match. The frontis- piece, " Topsy Turvy, or our Antipodes," where a party of gold-diggers are waited on by unsuccessful professionals, is the best. The miscellaneous in- formation is well selected ; better, perhaps, than in ahnanacks which have nothing else.]

PAMPHLETS.

Popery, Destructive of Civil and Religious Liberty, proved Historically. Being the Substance of a Sermon preached in the Parish-Church, Cheltenham, by the Reverend F. Close, A.M., Incumbent, on Satur- day, 5th November 1853.

The Cholera ; How to rob it of its Terror : or the Mercies of Judgment. By James Baldwin Brown, A.B., Minister of Clayland's Chapel, Clap- ham Road. First thousand.

On the Living Language of the Greeks, and its Utility to the Classical Scholar, An Introductory Lecture delivered in the University of Edinburgli, at the Opening of Session 1853-4. By John Stuart Blackie, F.R.S.E., Professor of Greek.

Report of the Highland Emigration Society, from its formation in April 1852 until April 1853.

The Gkngarry Evictions; Scenes at Knoydart in Inverness-shire. By Donald Ross.

Suggestions for an Annual Return of Agricultural Statistics : in a Letter to the Right Honourable the President of the Boaid of Trade. By George Wingrove Cooke, Barrister-at-law, Author of "A Treatise on Agricultural Tenancies," &c.

Public Acts of the Session 1853. Supplement to the Cabinet Lawyer, a popular Digest of the Laws of England, &c. Observations on the Injustice, Inequalities, and Anomalies of the pre- sent System of Taxation of Stage-Carriages, in England, S'eotland, and Wales. By J. E. Bradfield. Second edition.

A Table for a BecimalSystem of Account, adapted to the current Coin- age of the realm.

An Examination of the Report and Evidence of the Committee of the House of Commons on Decimal Coinage, with reference to a simpler, sounder, and more comprehensive mode of proceeding. By Theodore W. Rathbone, Esq.

The Ballot ; a Reply to the Reverend Sydney Smith and Lord John Russell. By Edward Capel Whitehurst.

An Introductory. Lecture on the Study of the Law, delivered in the Inner Temple Hall, 14th November 1853. By Herbert Broom, M.A., Barrister-at-law, Reader on Common Law appointed by the Honour- able Society of the Inner Temple.