PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Earl of Carnarvon's Recollections of the Druscs of the Lebanon, and Notes on their Religion is one of the latest appearances of the week. It is a small volume, but we incline to think that it will not be the less ac- ceptable, because its author has abstained from the devices of the book- maker, and contented himself with fairly reproducing the general im- pressions made on his mind during his visit to the .Druse country, with- out engrafting upon them any borrowed matter.

Mr. Fairholt's illustrated history of Costume in England has been noticed in a previous column.

New editions and reprints predominate among the publications of the week. They include an abridgment, by Lord John Russell, of his Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas 3foore. It is a very handsome volume of 720 pages, printed in good legible type, in double columns, and adorned with eleven fine portraits and vignettes. It has also the indispensable complement of a full index.

The publishers of the "Memoirs," Messrs. Longman and Co., have issued a most sumptuous edition of Lelia Rookh, a marvel of cheap mag- nificence.

The late Robert A. Vaughan's remarkable book, Hours with the Mys- tics, has been some time out of print. A new edition, revised and aug- mented by the author, has now appeared. The new matter amounts to about fifty pages, and belongs mainly to the sixth chapter of the book which treats of " German Mysticism in the Fourteenth Century." It is designed in part as a reply to criticisms which seemed to call for some such explanation, and, in part, that points touched upon elsewhere might be given with more fulness.

Hopes and Fears, by the author of " The Heir of Bedelyffe," is a re- print of a novel which, for many months past, has formed the most at- tractive feature of the Constitutional Magazine.

Mr. Bentley has added the popular novel, Quits, to his series of Standard Novels, and has reprinted The Saucy Arethusa, of Captain Chamier, in the customary form •of railway literature.

The other novel on our list, The Valley of a Hundred Fires, ought to be a good one, being by the author of "'Margaret and her Bridesmaids," and " Mr. and Mrs. Asheton."

ameerning some Scotch Surnames is a neat little historical essay, tracing back these names (the. use of which dates in Scotland from about the year 1106) to theft true origin, and disentangling it from the fables by which it has been obscured.

The fact that places within the tropics have the sun vertical to them twice a. year, and, therefore, have double seasons—two summers and two winters=has been noticed.-by various writers of mark during the last three centuries, but has been strangely overlooked by others, inclu- ding Huntboldt and Sir John Herschel. The author of the treatise, en- titled The Six Martha' Seasons at the Ilevies, deems this phenomenon entitled to more attention than has yet been bestowed upon it, because a thorough knowledge of it may "reasonably be expected to be of as much Service in the tropics as that of the single seasons is found to be in the extra-tropical parts of the earth." He, therefore, writes with a view to make the fact popularly known both as to its astronomical cause, and its effect upon the phenomena oianimal aitd vegetable life.

The new series of Mr. Timlia's Anecdote Biography has for its subjects six English painters—Hogarth, Reynolds, Gainsborough, Fuseli, Law- rence, and Turner.

Mr. Travers's Further Observations in Several Parts of Surgery is a collection of practical papers by a surgeon of great experience, in•whem professional acumen is blended with an eminently philosophical cast of

thought. The papers are preceded by an introduction in which the vete- ran warns his younger brethren against certain pernicious habits and tendencies incident to the modern practice of surgery.

Boors.

Costume in England. A History of Dress from the earliest period to the close

of the Eighteenth Century, &..c. By F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A.

Concerning sossc,Scotch Surnames.

Introduction to the History of French Literature. By Gustave Masson. Hours with the Mystics. A Contribution to the History of Religious Opinion. By Robert Vaughan, B.A. Second Edition, revised and augmented by. the Author: In two volumes.

Hopes and Fears : or Scenes from the Life of a Spinster. By the Author of "The Heir of Redelyffe, &c. In two volumes.

Further Observations in several parts of Surgery. By Benjamin Travers. To which is appended an Original Memoir or Review of the Nature of sonic Unusual Forms of Eye Disease. By the late Benjamin Travers, F.S.B. Dated 1828.

The Six Months' Seasons of the Tropics. By James Lees.

Memoirs, Journal, and Correspondence of Thomas Moore. Edited and abridged, from the First Edition, by the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P.

Lalla Rookh : an Oriental Romance. By Thomas Moore. With Sixty-nine Illustrations from Oriental Drawings by John Tenniel, engraved on wood by the Brothers Dalziel ; and five Ornamental pages of Persian design by T. Bal• man, junior, engraved on wood by H. N. Woods Anecdote Biography. William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Galli. borough, Henry Fuseli, Sir Thomas Lawrence, and J. M. Turner. By Joha. Timbs, F.S.A.

The Saucy Arethusa. A Naval Story. By Captain Chanter, Quits. A Novel. By the Author of" The Initials." New edition.

Redemption Draweth Nigh ; or the Great Preparation. By the Rev. John Cumming, D.D.

Recollections of the Druses of the Lebanon ; and Notes Oh their Religion. By the Earl of Carnarvon.

PAMPHLETS.

Doings in Partry : A Chapter of Irish History, in a Letter to the night Honourable the Earl of Derby, E.G. By Lex.

British Policy in China. Is our War with the Tartars or the Chinese ? By John Scarth.

Public School Education : a Lecture delivered at the Athenaeum, Tiverton. BY the Right Hon. Sir J. T. Coleridge, D.C.L.

Prize Essay, on the Immense Importance of a Close Alliance between England and France. By the Reverend William Nassau Molesworth.

Plato's Doctrine respecting the Rotation of the Earth, and Aristotle's COM. went upon that Doctrine. By George Grote, Esq.