PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The Natural History of Ireland. Volume L Birds; comprising the Orders Raportes and Insessore.s. By William Thompson, Esq., President of the Natural History and Philosophical Society of Belfast, &c. Revelations of Life, and other Poems. By John Edmund Reade. Ambarvalia. Poems by Thomas Barbidge and Arthur H. Clough. Raphael; or Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty. By Alphonse de La- martins.

Popular British Ornithology; containing a Familiar and Technical Descrip- tion of the Birds of the British Isles. By P. IL Gorse, Author of "The Ocean," &c.

The Art of Painting Restored to its Simplest and Surest Principles. Trans- lated from the German of Libertat Hundertpfund. Illustrated with co- loured Plates.

The Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, for 1849; including all the Titled Classes. Ninth year. By Charles R. Dod, Esq., Author of The Parliamentary Companion." [Having extended and improved his plan till improvement and extension were no longer possible, Mr. Dod must of necessity rest upon his oars in that direction ; but he exhibits unceasing industry and attention in watching and recording the changes among the titled world. Nor is this dry work done drily: he drops into his notices a spirit of the living world and its affairs, which it is rare to find in Peerages, and still rarer combined with so much brevity. What is rarest of all in heraldic books, is the manner in which mere titles are cut down to the necessary facts, while particulars are reserved for the persons about whom we feel a curiosity.]

The London and Provincial Medical Directory, 1849. [This indispensable guide to the medical profession in town and country has been condensed into a more compact volume, without, as it strikes us, any loss of really useful matter, unless it be the curtness of the obituary.] Analysis and Theory of the Emotions; with Dissertations on Beauty, Sub- limity, and the Ludicrous. By George &unsay, B.M., Author of "An Essay on the Distribution of Wealth," &c.

rThis volume only begins the subject of the Emotions at large. Besides a general introduction, it contains essays on beauty, sublimity, and the nature and sources of ludicrous emotion.] An Essay on Filial Duties; in which their Divine Obligation is established from Holy Scripture, and their importance to Social Happiness and Public Welfare is enforced; with Anecdotes and Illustrations from Ancient and Modern History. By William Sidney Gibson, Esq., F.S.A., &c. [The object and scope of this book are indicated by the title; its treatment and style are scarcely equal to the good intentions which prompted its production.] Cornelii Thai Opera. Edidit Franciactis Ritter. Volumes III. and IV. [Completes a very good edition, with erudite notes by a German of profound scholarship. The index is most elaborate.] The Knife and Fork, for 1849. Laid by the "Alderman." Founded on the culinary principles advocated by A. Sayer, Ude, Savarin, and other cele-

brated professors. With fourteen choice Cats by Kenny Meadows.

[A melange of jenx d'esprit and hints on the subject of gastronomy, mingled with sketches of dinner-giving people by a "diner-out."]

Leaves from the Note-book of an Oxford Traveller.

[A brochure containing half-a-dozen short poems on subjects suggested by Euro- pean and Eastern travel,-as Gibraltar, Egypt, Bethlehem.]

Sans'.

Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany. Edited by Sir William Jackson Hooker, K.11., D.C.L. Oxon., &c. and Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. No.I. January.

ILLUSTRATED WORK.

Roberts's Sketches in Egypt and Nubia; with Historical Descriptions by William Brockedon, F.R.S. Lithographed by Louis ilaghe. Parts XV. and XVL PAMPHLETS.

The Connexion between Science, Literature, and Religion; a Lecture de- livered at Exeter Hall, December 14, 1848. By the Reverend George Gil- The Christian Bearings of Astronomy; a Lecture by the Reverend George Cholera, its Preventive and Cure by Hydropathy, &e. By Captain Claridge. The Training Institution for Nurses and the Workhouses. By Edward Sieveking, M.D., &o. California, its Situation and Resources: from Authentic Documents, &c. The Gold Regions of California, &c. With exclusive Authentic Particu- lars, and a coloured Map of the Country.