PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

TILE ULTIMATE PRINCIPLE OF RELIGIOUS LIBERTY professes to re- state and amend the argument in favour of the principle which it advo- cates, that "religion is a matter lying beyond the proper authority of civil governments." It protests against a state conscience; a national clerisy ; and an Established Church. With the reconsideration of "the philosophical argument, is associated a review of the controversy as con- ducted on grounds of reason and expediency, in the writings of Locke, Warburton, Paley, Dick, Wardlaw, Gladstone, Martineau and Miall." Mr. Mall is regarded by the anonymous author of the volume before us as a man singularly well qualified for his work of Liberator of Religion ; Mr. Bright is pronounced to be the man to whose public career belongs a moral grandeur, not excelled since the example of Cromwell, while Arnold, Gladstone, Martineau and Coleridge, are admired for high in- tellectual or moral qualities, and rebuked for their various aberrations in philosophy, real or supposed. The style in which the book is written is somewhat cumbrous ; and the phraseology is occasionally, and- un- necessarily, offensive. The Essay, however, evinces ability, and deserves to be included in the bibliography of Church Liberation-ism.

LECTURES CHIEFLY ON SUBJECTS RELATING TO LITERARY AND SCI- ENTIFIC AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTES, by Mr. IL Whitehead, Mr. T. C. Whitehead and Mr. W. Driver, is a little work which exhibits the usual literary accomplishments of educated men. The Essays, which it contains were delivered before certain associations at Clapham in 1859. These are thirteen in number, of which we shall specify those headed "George Stephenson ; " "Lending Libraries ; " "Strikes and Docu- ments;" " System ; its Use and Abuse." Two of the lecturers are clergymen ; both apparently impressed with a conviction that they need not be the less men, with open eyes and open heart on that account. The Reverend Henry Whitehead, protests against "short-sighted strikes and short-sighted documents." Mr. Driver, while not prepared to deny that strikes have done good, proposes a discussion of "the facts of la- bour with a view to discover the laws upon which those facts are based;" and the Reverend T. C. Whitehead, admitting the advantages of system, advises "that we should look through and beyond systems to the work for which they are framed, binding the system to the work, and not the work to the system."

A new application of the stereoscopic principle has been discovered by Professor Wharton Jones, and is explained by him in his pamphlet ON THE INVENTION OF STEREOSCOPIC GLASSES FOR SINGLE PICTURES. These glasses are by no means intended to supersede the ordinary in- strument with its double picture, but are designed for a purpose entirely distinct from that for which Professor Wheatstone's invention is used. "The sole pretension of the stereoscopic glasses is to add to the beauty of single pictures by giving them something of a real stereoscopic effect when viewed with both eyes, instead of the mere ambiance of such an effect which single pictures present even when vidwed otherwise to the best advantage, as they are with one eye only." The fact alluded to in the last clause of the sentence points to the principle on which this new in- vention is based. Pictures are not seen to the best advantage with both eyes, because in that way they are seen too truly as what they are—flat surfaces variously coloured and shaded. "The interference of the se- cond eye mars the illusion of relief as seen with one eye, by betraying to us the flatness of surface." To get rid of this importunate interfe- rence, and to make the second eye cooperate in the illusion, is the nice stereoscopic .problem which Professor Jones proposed to himself and which he has solved both theoretically and practically. His glasses can be worn as spectacles, or applied to any binocular or field glass. Their stereoscopic effect is comparatively slight, but it is sufficient for the end Proposed. Their utility is not confined to the picture-gallery, for "they bring out with increased prominence real objects at some distance, such as the actors on the stage; and, besides increasing the effect of horizontal recession, enable us in viewing the natural landscape, to determine with

greater exactness the relative position and the projecting or receding of distant objects."

The sixth volume of SurrLENENTenr DESPATCHES, CORRESPONDENCE, AND MEMORANDA OF FIELD-MARSHAL ARTHUR DUKE OF WELLINGTON comprises matter belonging to the period from July, 1807, to December, 1810, and relating to four distinct subjects. These are presented in as many chapters, the contents of which are respectively—the expedition to Denmark in 1807; details of proposed plans for the coninest of Mexico, of Manilla, and of the Spanish provinces in South Amenea, in 1806-7-8; the British campaign in. Portugal, in 1808; documents connected with the Peninsular war, and furnishing materials for the history of a period hitherto imperfectly understood.

THE PAST AND FUTURE OF BRITISH RELATIONS T`I DRINA, by Cap- tain Sherard Osborn, is a reprint, with large additions and amendments, of matter which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine, and of some which was laid by the author before the Geographical Society. He has seen urgent reason for their republication in the sad lack of sound informa- tion evinced in the late debates upon China, and the incontestable fact that the opinions of the majority were based not upon historical and com- mercial data, but simply upon the statements of certain special interests, or factions."

Messrs. Hurst and Blaekett have added Mr. Haliburton's very amusing book, TUE OLD JUDGE, Olt LIFE IN A CoLorrr, to their Standard Li- brary of Cheap Editions of Modern Popular Works.

The tenth volume of TALES }mom " BLACKWOOD" contains along with six others that delightfully blood-curdling, and fiesh-a-ereep- setting tale, "The Haunted and the Haunters, or the House and the Brain," which first appeared in the number of the Magazine for August 1859.

Of Captain Beverly's three handsome quarto volumes, consisting of AFGHAN POETRY, PROSE AND VERSE, AND A DICTIONARY AND GRAN. mAn or THE LANGUAGE, we can say no more at present than that they are splendid specimens of typography, and that, judged from an exoteric point of view—for we cannot at this moment speak as experts—they are remarkable monuments of the industry, enterprise, and linguistic attain- ments of their author and editor.

BOORS.

Summer Songs. By Mortimer Collins.

The Fall of Man, or Paradise Lost of Cadmon. Translated in verse from the Anglo-Saxon, with a new metrical arrangement of thelines of the original text, and an introduction on the versification of Credmon. By William H. F. Bosanquet, Esq.

Facts and Figures relating to Vancouver's Island and British Coltnnbia ; showing what to expect, and how to get there. With Illustrative Maps. By J. Despard Pemberton, Surveyor-General V. I.

Captain Brand of the" centipede;" a Pirate of Eminence in the West Indies : his Loves and Exploits, together with some account of the singular manner by which he departed this life. By Lieut. II. A. Wise, U.S.N. (Harry Gringo).

The Semi-Attached Couple. By the Author of "The Semi-Detached House." In two volumes.

Travels not far from Home : with a Preface which ought to be read. By Aubin St. Helier, M.A.

77ze Gulshan-I-Roh : being Selections, Prose and Poetical in the PIMA° or Afghan Language. Edited by Captain H. G. Raverty. A Dictionary of the Pellet°. Pus'hto, or Language of the Afghans ; with re.f marks on the originality of the language, and its affinity to the Semitic and other Oriental tongues, ,te. By Captain II. G. Raverty.

NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.

The Post and Future of British Relations in China. By Captain Sherard Osborn, C.D.

Lives of the Italian Poets. By Henry Stebbing,D.D., F.R.S.A. New edition. Footfalls on the Boundary of another World. With Narrative Illustrations.

By Robert Dale Owen. From the tenth American Edition, with emendations and additions by the author.

Tales from "Blackwood." Volume X.

A Grammar of the Puk'hto, Pus'hto, or Language of the Afghans; in which the rules are illustrated by examples from the best writers both Poetical and Prose; together with Translations from the Articles of War, and remarks on the Language. Literature, and Descent of the Afghan Tribes. By Captain H. G. ltaverty. Second Edition.

The Old Judge ; or Life in a Colony. By the Author of "Sam Slick, the Clockmaker," &c.

Oltrer and Boyd's Scottish Tourist : a Handbook to the Picturesque Scenery, Cities, and Towns, Historical Places, Works of Art, and Antiquities of Scot- land. Twentieth edition, thoroughly revised, and in great part rewritten. Illustrated with Travelling Maps, Plans, and thirty-seven Engravings on Steel.