PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Travels in the West. Cuba; with Notices of Porto Rico, and the Slave- Trade. By DAVID TonsnuLt., Esq., M.A., Corresponding Memberof the Royal Academy of history at Madrid, and of the Royal Patriotic and Economical Society at time Havana.

Travels in Koordistan, 21fesopotamia, &v. ; including on account of parts of those countries hitherto unvisited by Europeans. With Sketches of the Characters and 3Ianners of the Koordish and ..■rab Tribes. By J. BAILLIE FRASER, Esq., Author of " The Kozzilbash," &c. In two vols.

Nomad if Political Ethics, designed chiefly for the use of Colleges and Students at Law. Part 11.—Political Ethics Proper. By FitAxeIS

Lunen.

Camp and Quarters • or Scenes and Impressions of Military Life. Inter- spersed with anecdotes of various well-known characters who flourished in the war. By Major :1011N PATT IISON, Author of " Adventures is the 50th or Queen's Own Regiment," &c. In two vols. [These volumes contain the outpourings of a military veteran, who possesses some power of description and story- telling, but is without the art of narration or selection. Ile begins with the French invasion of Ireland ; he ends with the battle of Waterloo, and the tedium of peace. Between this exordium and per- oration he treats the reader to whatever comes uppermost ; now dilating on his school-days, now on Irish life and character as displayed forty years ago. Then lie sketches the officers of his own and other regiments ; then he transports us to England ; and then we embark with him on foreign service. Here his mode of writing is the same. Breaking up his pages by heads in capitals, as if he were setting a parcel of extracts, he sometimes describes his experiences in a battle or of a march; sometimes sketches the scenery, or camp-life, or the manners of the people ; anon we have a bit of military criticism ; then a notice of sonic French Marshal or English General, with a variety of miscellanea " too numerous to mention."] Letters frontline Old 17orld. By a Lady of New York. In two vols. [These volumes are au importation from America. They narrate in a swiss of epistles the incidents and observations of a long journey in Egypt, Syria, and Palestine, and a brief run through parts of Turkey Mid Greece. They have every appearance of being what they profess to be—letters written by a lady to her friends. They were originally published in am Americanjourual, and were revised and reprinted to forestal a piratiell edition. The style of the tide writer is elegant and pleasing: the letters are rather remarkable specimens of composition as private epistles, and perhaps not ill inlapted to the columns of an American periodical ; but to an English piddle, satiated with tours in Egypt, Asia Minor, and Turkey, they arc not sufficiently striking to offer great attraction.] • Hohne Plo. ; or the Reverses of Fortune. A Tale of Real Life. By Malty JANE Siiiuw.

[A lesson to young girls to beware of male cognettes, enforced with Scripture arguments. The heroine, a governess, escapes the snare laid for her by a Platonic admirer, and marries a man of fortune ; whose acquaintance she makes in a mail-coach at night, through the talismanic interchange of a religious son- thnent. The story is told with feminine tact and delicacy' and displays good sense and kindly feeliim though not in little tinctured with what many people call "cant," from its Atrusiveness. The writer is no doubt sincere ; but she injudiciously interrupts the narrative with reflections, instead of interfusing them.] A Brief View of the English Drama, ftom the earliest period to the pre- sent time ; with Suggestions for elevating the present'condition of the art, and of its professors. By F. G. TOM LINS, Author of the "Past and Present State of Dramatic Art and Literature," &c.

[A review of the condition of the 'English stage at successive periods ; tending to show that the patent m n oopoly is alike injurious to dramatic and histrionic genius. Of this there can be no doubt; past aud present experience proves the force of the argument ; and, without mooting the point whether the abolition of exclusive rights, would regenerate the drama, we agree with Mr. ToutANS that it would be but rational to remove these restrictions, and emancipate the players from the badge of servitude and the legal brand of "rogues and sagas bonds." His remedy of a "Royal Academy " for acting, we should, from all analogous experience in this country, consider almost worse than the disease.] 7'he Merry Tah,s of the Wise Men of Gotham. Edited by JAMES Oric HARD HALT, [WELL, Esq., F.S.A.

[A score of quaintly-told acts of folly that arc attributed to the good people of Gotham, as .Joe Miller monopolizes all the jests, and the Irish all the blunders and murders extant.]

.3Iontacute; or a Nov Bowe— IV/ro'll Follow? By 3Irs. MARY Cr„■vEns. In two vols. [An English publisher's edition of the able and entertaining work reviewed, with ample specimens, in the Spectator of 21 November 1139; that edition being published at New York.] Voices of the Night. By HENRY WADswOieTH LONG rELLow. [Fugitive verses, mostly juvenile efforts or a mind sensitive rather than creative. The translations show more lyrical fluency than the original effu- sions.] A Legend of Florence. A Ploy, in five acts. By LEIGH IICST. The Analgst ; a Collection of Miscellaneous Papers.

[A reprint of some contributions to an American periodical, imitating the

form of philosophical and critical essays, 's, but wanting the spirit that a relined and original faculty alone can give : the writer thinks at second-hand.] Summary of the History of England. Translated from the French of FELIX BODIN, by JONATHAN DUNCAN, Esq., B.A. [ An admirable translation of a succinct yet comprehensive sketch of the con- stitutional history of England; in which the origin and development of our Representative Government, so much admired by Continental writers, is traced through the progressive revolutions that have influenced British liberty, from the time of the Roman invasion to the defeat of NAPOLEON. As a resume of English history, it is valuable for the animated conciseness and clearness with which the leading facts and characteristic points arc indicated; the author grasps the whole of his subject, and unfolds it in an orderly manner, viewing it:details with sound and impartial judgment. The national vanity peeps out in the stress laid upon the circumstance Of SIMON DE MONTFORT, who intro- duced knights of the shire into the council of the nation, in the reign of HENRY the Third, being a Frenchman ; whence M. BODIN jumps to the conclusion that England is indebted for a House of Commons to a Frenchman ! M. Bo- DIN'S style is terse and vigorous, and he condenses much matter in a small Compass; in that respect meriting the title of the French SALLUST.] Commentaries on the Constitution and Laws of England, incorporated with the Political Text of the late J. L. DE LOLME, LL.D., Advocate. By Tnoreas Gnomic WESTERN, Esq., F.R.A.S., of the Middle Temple. Second edition, revised and corrected to the present time.

[The publication of a second edition (we have no recollection of having seen the first) of a work of this nature, in less than two years, is a proof of the utility of the book, or of the regard which is paid to the constitution and fun- damental laws of the kingdom. The plan of Mr. WESTERN iS to preserve the text of DE LOLME, wherever the subject has not been changed since he wrote bv legislative enactment,—for example, the account of the origin and progress of the English constitution is preserved intact ; the description of the present Rouse of Commons is an analysis of the Reform Bill. The execution of the work is neat and clear, but not very profound; and the new mattef sometimes possesses a minuteness which seems ibicign to DE LOLME'S plan.] The Practice of the Sztperior Courts qf Law at Westminster. By RO- BERT Lusts, Esq., of Gray's Inn, Special Pleader. Part I.

[This is a strictly professional work. Its object is to " embrace in one volume all the proceedings in the ordinary forms of action, as well regular as incidental, from the issuing of the writ to the judgment and execution, and from these to the affirmance or reversal of the judgment by the Courts of Error." The First Part, it goodly volume in itself, gets as far as judgment and execution ; em- bracing, as it were, the principles and the practice. The principles expound the rights of parties to actions as suing in their own name, or as represent- ing others, or as agents for others; thepractice describes the mode of set- ting about your action, front the writ of summons to the trial, and the reaping the fruits of your litigation, if you arc not checked by appeal.] Abri;g6 de l'Histoire de France ; on Extrait de pieces et documents au- thentiques, compiles sur les Ouvrages tie Blanchard, Letellier, Lame- Fleury, et autres ecrivains; soieneusement corrige pour la lecture spe- ciale tic la jeunesse, avec (les Notes an has de cheque page, Portrait, Carte de France, Attributs de cheque 111/4ne, et des Questions sur cheque chapitre. Le tout recueilli et &lite par L. P. 11. FENSTICK DE l'ORQUET.

[This is a clever and painstaking compilation, interesting by seizing the most striking circumstances, and narrating them well. Its tables of chronology mill be found useful; and it conveys a rapid precis of French annals, from which the pupil will improve himself in language and in history at the same time. Contrary to the usual mode, the Alter devotes more space to early than to modern events, and fulness is sacrificed to readableness. In the Em- pire, for instance, the Russian war is the only event that can be said to be narrated, or almost mentioned.)

Prince Albert's Ancestry; a brief Historical Account of the Dukedion mid Ducal House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. By the Rev. EDWARD TA cEnscumurr.

The dukedom of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha forming part of the ancient kingdom of Thuringia, this account of Prince AmienT's ancestors commences as tin' back as 450, (though one GIBBON had fixed the middle of the ninth cen- tury as the starting-point of the most ancient family in Europe!) and the his- tory of this portion of the German states is traced down to the union of the two dukedoms. A list of the lineal ancestors of the Prince is appended ; but all that relates to him personally is contained in two pages.] The Oration of Demosthenes upon the Crown ; translated into English, with Notes, and the Greek Text, with various readings selected from Wolff, Taylor, Brioche, and others. By HENRY Lord BROUGHAM, F.R.S., and Member of the National Institute of France. [A translation of the masterpiece or DEMOSTHENES ; with the original text, a commentary longer than the oration, and a preface on various topics, Lord BROUGHAM being the most conspicuous The translation, as a whole, is constrained and devoid of life; nor has it any happy parts. The consummate art by which the cold reader at this distant period of time is made to feel that DEMOSTHENES has all the right on his side, (though the contrary was the case,) and the force of his weight of metal, cannot he got rid of in any transla- tion that is at all thithful ; but none would recognize in these stiff and scarcely idiomatic periods, the greatest orator the world hes ever produced. Few but will feel the soundness of the late Lord Du or.er's closing opinion in 1812, when Lord Bnounnam requested his advice upon the effort. " Either the translation is addressed to those who know the original, or to those who do not. The fornor cannot want it ; the latter cannot materially profit by it ; for no translation can give an adequate idea of the original."

The commentary is occasionally expasitional ; but it chiefly consists of a comparison of other translations of particular passages with Lord Bitouonam's; the palm, of couse, being assiened to the latter. The object of the preface is partly to refute the judgment of Lord DeDLEY upon the undertaking, so Ion abandoned in deference to it, and partly to show that no one but an orator can translat can orator. ]

A Practical Grammar of the German Language: being a comprehensive system of German etymology, syntax, and prosody ; with illustrative exercises for reciprocal translation, on the plan of the Author's Latin Grammar. By L. Erman]) PEITIIMAN, LL.D., F.R.S., Berlin, late Lecturer in the University of Oxford. [A clear and comprehensive grammar, with sufficient exercises to impress the

rit6.] Petit Dietionnaire Analyaque, pour determiner les genres des Noms Francais. [Alphabetical lists of masculine and feminine terminations, with the excep- tions at full against each one : a complete and compendious exposition of that puzzle to English learners of French, the genders.]

The Chairman and Speaker's Guide ; being a brief digest of the rules re- quired for the efficient end orderly conduct of a debate: to which is prefixed, an Essay on Public Meeting's manner of proceeding with re- gard to them, &e. Second edition, revised and improved. By THOMAS SMITH, Author of "Evolution of Numbers," &c.

[Useful directions for regulating the proceedings of public, meetings; having reference to the conduct of the requisionists, the assemblage, the chairman, and the speakers.]

Supplement to the Post-Office London Directory for 1840; containing the Post-Office arrangements for carrying into full effect the Uniform Penny Postage, and complete Directory of Parliament.

[Besides the names of persons commencing business or removed since the publication of the body of the work, this Supplement contains the new Post- office regulations, and a Parliamentary directory, with the town residences of all the Members for the present season.]

On Diseases of the Bladder and Prostate Gland. With plates. By W mamas COULSON. Second edition, greatly enlarged.

[This is another second edition, where we have no recollection of the first. The arrangement is clear and comprehensive, and the style characterized by 31r. CeonssoN's wonted distinctness; but the subjects are not of a kind to admit of discussion hi a popular journal.]

A Few Notes on the Public Schools and Universities of Holland and Germany, taken during a Tour in the summer of 1839. By HENRY WINSTON BARRON, Esq., M.P.

Memoirs of Felix Neff, Jahn. F. Oberlin, and Bernhard Overberg. Trans- lated from the German, by Mrs. SYDNEY WILLIAMS. Published by the Society for the Promotion of Popular Instruction.

The Truth of Revelation, demonstrated by an appeal to existing Monu- ments, Sculptures, Gems, Coins, and Medals. By JOHN MURRAY, F.S.A., F.L.S., F.G.S. Second edition.

Prometheus Britannicus ; or John Bull and the Rural Police. A tragie- comedy, in one act. By a Rugluean. The Penny Cyclopedia al' the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Know- ledge. Vol. XVI. Nlurillo—Organ. The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer. With numerous Illustrations by Phiz.

PAMPHLETS.

Patronage in the Church of Scotland Considered. By JAMES BRIDGES, E

[One ofsq. the cleverest pamphlets on the most vexed of questions. Mr. Brumes is a stanch Churchman in the strict religious sense ; but lie opposes the Veto with all his might, and contends for real spiritual enfranchisement to the laity, through the abolition of patronage. The private rights of presenta- tion for all Scotland might he bought up for 300,000/.]

The Precedence Q sesiin.

Precedency of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, KING-Consort, de jure, of Great Britain and Ireland.

Remarks miggested by the Present State of Trade and Credit.

An Examination of the Origin, Progress, and Tendency of the Comm).- vial and Political Confederation against England and France, called the to Prussian League." By WILLIAM CARGILL.

Observations of a Solicitor on Defects in the Offices, Practice, and System of Costs of the Equity Courts. By EDWIN W. FIELD, The Little Book ; or Momentous Crisis of 1840; iu which the Bishop of Exeter and Robert Owen are weighted in the two scales of one balance, and a new revelation of demonstrated truth is announced to the world. By the Rev. JAMES ELISHAMA SMITH, A.M. and ALA.

Is the War with China a Just one? By H. Haairramx LINDSAY, late of the Honourable East India Company's Service in China.

A Nero Treatise on Redemption; showing that our Lord Jesus Christ did not come as an humble suppliant, to obtain pardon for us, but as the great physician of souls, to cure mankind of their evil dispositions.

SERIALS.

A Dicronuiv, Groymphieta, Statistic:11, and Historical, of the various Countless, Places, and principal Natural Objects in the World. By J. R. M'CusLocii, Esq. Part I.

One of the Messrs. LoxamaNs' vast undertakings in Eneyclopxdias devoted to a single subject. Thus publication, however, is purely a dictionary ; not treating, like Mr. MURRAY'S work, on the history and principles of geography and of entire countries at once, but resembling the old gazetteers in furnish- ing an account of every place under its own name. For purposes of reference this plan has greatly the advantage; and Mr. M'Ca-Lrmen treats the larger subjects at a length and with a minuteness of subdivision corresponding to their importance, and perhaps to their temporary interest—as, for example, " Algiers" and " AtIghanistan.") A History vi the Huguenots. A DOW edition, continued to themresent time. By W. S. Ilnowxiso. (Popular Library of Modern Authors: Copyright edition.)

Introductory Discourse on the Objects, Pleasures, and Advantages of Po. lit/cal Science. Political Philosophy. No. 1.

The Cs«ftsinen ; a Sermon, and Paraphrase, upon several verses in the Nineteenth Chapter of the Acts of the Apostles. By THOMAS Goa- DON, Esq., Author of the Independent Whig. (Tracts for the People, No. II.) Sketches of the Characters of Charles I. and IL, and Oliver Cromwell. Contained in the " Introductory Chapter" to the History of the " Early Part of the Reign of James II." By the late Right Hon. CHARLES JAMES Fox. (Tracts for the People, No. III.)

Alarms in ngard to Popery; an Address to the People of Scotland. By

GEORGE UA.MCBELL, D.D. (Tracts for the People, No. IV.)

The Animal Kingrbins, arranged according to its organization. By the Baron Ct. c ins:. Translated from the latest French edition, and brought down to the present state of knowledge. Part 1V.

rates, or the Iii ihrsolihy of Madness. Part II. PICTOIIs.tt. ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

Illustrations of the Breeds of Domestic _lnimals ,fl' the British Mands; consisting of a series of coloured lithographic prints of the Horse, the Ox, the Sheep, the Goat, the Hog, front a series of oil paintinge executed for the Agricultural Museum of the University of Edinburgh, by Mr. Snicr.s, of the Royal Scottish Academy: and drawn on stone, from coloured drawings, by 31r. N icnor,soe, BSA., from the originalpaint- ings. With Descriptive Memoirs, by DAVID Low, Esq., , Part I.

An Authentic Portrait of his Royal Highness Prism! Albert : for which the Baroness she Mevenx llonexneno was honoured with sittings in October last. Engraved in mezzotint, by JAMES SCOTT. His Serene Highness Prime Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. Engraved from the original picture painted by II. E. DAWE. [On the only point worth regarding in these two prints—that of likeness—we are unable to decide ; but thus much we may venture to state, that the one called " authentic " is really so; while the other looks like a thing "made up" to sell.] 2.Vapolerm at Eylau ; visiting, with his Generals, on the morning of the 9th, the field of the battle gained by the Emperor on the 5th February 5807. Engraved by LUCAS from the original picture by Gros. ['Pile huge picture from which this print is taken is the idol of the Parisians; and instead of being drafted off to Versailles, where it would have others of tt similar sort to keep it in countenance, it is placed in the centre of one side of the grand saloon of the Louvre ; where, in juxtaposition with that miracle of painting the Marriage of Cana h' PAOLO VERONESE, it looks like a practical satire on French art, instead of the compliment intended to Baron Gnos. BONAPARTE, with eyes turned up, and a larmoyante air of effected pity, is playing the part of commiserator-general, surrounded by his be-plumed and embroidered staff ; while the surgeons, the wounded, and the dying, are act- ing their parts a ith melodramatic effect, under the auspices of the Ducnow of the army, Muivr. We must nut libel Baron Gross—who, whatever may be his faults, can draw—by saying that this mezzotint by Lucas will give a just.idea ofhis great picture; but really, a better print would hardly please us more, and might be less amusing.]

Twelve Coloured Lithographic Prints, illustrating the Life of Christ. Designed and drawn on stone by FRANK HOWARD.

[As Scripture prints, got up cheap fur circulation in schools and nurseries, we Should be disposed to commend any approximation to goodness in the art, fur the sake of the purpose; but these are sd, essentially, and unmitigably lad-. ill-designed and drawn, and worse printed and coloured—that it would be wrong to overlook their exceeding unfitness for the object. What vulgar com- monplace tunes, with discordant accompaniments, would be to the car of children lest 'ling psalmody, are these vile daubs to the eyes of young people whom it is desired to impress by means of pictures. It would be disgraceful to any publisher to put forth such wretched trash, were there not the too commit excuse of igaorance to plead: but Mr. 'Iowan]) ought to know better if he cannot or will not do better.

Illustruth,ns of the Corporal and Spiritual Works of Mercy. Part H. The Ornamental _Designs of Watteau. Collected from his Works, and li- thographed by W. Nicitot.. No. III.

A Series of Anatomical Plates. Edited by JONES (IBMS, M.D. Easel- cull LX.X.1-11. and LXXVIII.

[Though we have not for sonic time mentioned, we have never cessed to appre- ciate this admirable series of scielailic illustrations. In the present fascieula • the structure of those vital organs the lungs and the heart is delineated with great distinctness. The drawings, from nature by W. BARG, and lithographed by W. FAIRLAND under the direction of W. J. E. Wiasosa do credit to all concerned.]