PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Remembering the Crimean epoch, and the deluge of printed trash which it poured upon us, we cannot be too thankful for the immunity we still enjoy from bookmaking nuisances Apropos of the war in Italy. Only one book bearing upon that momentous event has appeared this week, and it is a genuine book, the work of a writer who has certainly studied his subject long and carefully, and who—so far as we have yet examined—appears to possess the requisite capacity for presenting it in a clear and satisfactory manner. There was a real need of such a sum- mary of recent Italian history as the author of the " Vicissitudes " has furnished in his eminently "handy book."

Miss Martineau's "England and her Soldiers" has been written for the purpose of presenting in a popular form the story and the moral in- volved in a great mass of blue books on the sanitary condition of the British army. Miss Martineau complains that although the lesson taught by the Crimean disasters has been duly interpreted by the most competent inquirers, and though we are assured of willingness in some high quarters to provide against its repetition, still the lesson remains barren of practical results, and we have no apparent security that it will ever be otherwise. Believing that nothing but a strong expression of the national will can overcome the resistance offered to military reform in official quarters, Miss Martineau aims at inciting the public to claim the complete fulfilment of the programme of reform laid down by the Royal Commissioners, approved by the authorities at the War Office, and assented to by all rational persons who have considered the particulars.

Amongst the books sure to be taken up suddenly is Mr. John Ruskin's Two Paths, for although it is only a reprint of lectures delivered in '58-9, it is newly put together, will come for the first time into the hands of many people, and is fresh with all Ruskin's powerful characteristics. It contains some of the most beautiful passages we have seen from his pen, and some of the most questionable. But Ruskin has at least this faculty, that he makes his reader think.

Two more volumes of Mr. De Quincey's collected works have ap- peared. Essays on Rhetoric and Style by the greatest living master of English diction make nearly two-thirds of one of the volumes. Among the Speculations in the other volume is one on Coleridge and Opium- eating—a sort of appendix to the " Confessions " ; one on Christianity as an organ of political movement, in which the common opinion that the inculcation of morality made any part of the heathen religions of Greece and Rome is investigated, and declared to be an error ; also one on National Temperance Movements, a paper not the less learned and wise for being amusing. All things come to an end. The last volume of Sir A. Alison's " History of Europe since 1815," has appeared, along with a general in- dex contained in a separate volume. Of Dr. Newman's volume of papers, we have spoken in a previous co- lumn. The Methodist connexion will give eager welcome to the first volume of a "Life of Dr. Jabez Bunting,' by his son. Mr. Murray has published a cheap but very neat edition of the " Life of George Stephen-

Ban," abridged by Mr. Smiles from his larger work, chiefly by the omis- sion of technical details, all the personal matter of the story remaining intact. Mr. Timbs has added a. second part to his very popular little book, "Things Not Generally Known."

The novels of the week are tyro. " Out of the Depths" purports to be the autobiography of one of the class of "Unfortunates." The "country life" of the other novel is seen chiefly through a sporting medium, tinc- tured by some of the worst elements of London life. The Map, published by Mr. Murray, in a portable form with a stout folding cover, will be a very useful companion to the newspaper for those who arc watching from a distance the movements of the great game now pending in Italy.

THE LAW MAGAZINE AND REVIEW.

The new number of thisquarterly journal opens with a paper on the privileges of Parliament. The writer has ably stated the difficulties of the subject and the danger that still exists of collisions between Parlia- ment and the courts of law. The article on costs in the Probate Court expresses regret that thejudge has adopted the strict common law rule of making an unsuccessful party pay costs, instead of following the practice of the Ecclesiastical Court, which gave, in certain oases, costs out of the estate. Lord Campbell's book, " Shakespeare's Legal Ac- quirements," is made the subject of an amusing paper, which attempts to show, by similar evidence to that brought forward by his Lordship, that Beaumont and Fletcher were a firm of attorneys, and that Mas- singer was a Parliamentary agent. The principle of Mr. Locke King's Intestacy Bill is discussed, and there are long and elaborate papers on the unfortunate Statute Law Commission and " the recent attacks on titles to landed estates," notes of recent important decisions, of new books, and legal events of the quarter conclude the number.

Bones.

The P'icissitudes of Italy since the Congress of Vienna. By A. L. V. Oretton. England and her Soldiers, By Harriet Martineau. With three Mustradve Diagrams.

The Two Paths : being Lectures on Art and its Application to Decoration and Manufacture, delivered in 1858-9. By-John Ruskin, M.A., Author of " Mo- dem Painters," &c. With two Plates.

Critical Suggestions on Style and Rhetoric : with German Tales and other Narrative Papers. By Thomas De Quincey.

Speculations Literary and Philosophic : with German Tales and other Narra- tive Papers. By Thomas De Quincey.

History of Europe from the Fall of Napoleon in 1815 to the Accession of Louis Napoleon in 1852. By Sir Archibald. Alison, Bart.. D.C.L., Author of the History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Battle of Waterloo," &c. Volume VIII. and Index..

The Life of Jobe: Bunting, D.D.; with Notices of Contemporary Persons and Events. By his Son, Thomas Percival Bunting. Volume I.

Things not Generally Known Familiarly Explained. A Book for Old and Young. By John Timbs, F.S.A., Author of " Curiosities of London," &c. Second Series.

Out of the Depths. The Story of a Woman's Life.

Newton Dwane. A Story of English Country Life. By Francis Francis. With Illustrations by Leech. In three volumes.

The Wild Helrieks. By Walter Cooper Dendy, Author of " The Beautiful Islets of Britaine," " The Islets of the Channel," &c. &c. Illustrated by a Map and Sketches on the spot, by the Author.

NEW EDITIONS AND EDUCATIONAL WORKS.

Botany and Religion ; or Illustrations of the Works of God in the Structure, Functions, Arrangement, and General Distribution of Plants. Third Edi- tion, much enlarged. By J. II. Balfour, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., &c. With upwards of Two Hundred Illustrations.

Manual of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Human Mind. By the Reverend James Carlile, D.D., late of Dublin and Parsonstown, Ireland. Second edition, carefully revised.

The Story of the Life of George Stephenson, Railway Engineer. Abridged by the Author, from the original and larger work. By Samuel Smiles. With Portrait and Illustrative Wood-cuts.

History of the Early Church ; from the first Preaching of the Gospel to the Council of Nicea. For the Use of Young Persons. By the Author of " Amy Herbert."

Boman tic Tales. A new edition. By the Author of " John Halifax, Gentle- man," &c. &c.

Erredge'e Student's Handbook of General Information. Second edition, Compiled and Arranged for the Use of Schools, by John Quested, Author of " The Art of Land Surveying," Ste.

Barardages de Pension. French Conversations for Schools. By J. D. M. Pearce, A.M. Second edition. With Additions and Improvements.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. By W. Shakespeare. With Notes, Glossarist., Grammatical, and Explanatory.

The French Master for Beginners ; or Easy Lessons in French. By Mons. Le Page. Sixth edition. With Additions and Improvements.

A Key to the Elements of Commercial Arithmetic. By William Tate, Principal of the City of London Commercial Institute, See. A New and Improved Edition ; with Answers to the Miscellaneous Questions in the Arithmetic.

Mar.

Murray's Map of the Seat of War in North Italy.