PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boons.

Aurora Leigh. By Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

lenses; its Interior and Exterior Life ; including a full View of its Settle- ment, Politioal History, Social Life, Climate, Soil, Productions, Scenery, Sr.c. By Sara T. L. Robinson.- A Life's Lessons. By Mrs. Gore, Author of " Mammon," &c. In three volumes. The Hildmayea, or the Clergyman's Secret : a Story of Twenty Venlig Ago. By Denby _North. In three volumes.

Queen _Eleanor!, Vengeance, and other Poems. By W. C, Bennett.

Manual of United -States History, from 1492 to 1850. By Samuel Eliot, Professor , of..History and Literature in Trinity College.—An American importation, forming one of the best and fairest outlines of American history that we have met. The plan of treatment is judicious ; events being exhibited in proportion to their influence on the condition of affairs rather than oh predeterminate 'scale : the last ninety or a hundred years occupies double the space that -is given to the previous two eenttuies and a half. Although detail is not the object of the au- thor, he never falls into historical disquisition, but selects and plainly gates the leading facts so as to convey specific information : we know not where the reader would find so distinct a view of the immediate causes of the war of Independence ae in the account of the provocations from 1768. to 1772. The tone is also philosophic and impartial, without violence in censure or inflation in praise • this impartiality extending Ale to the Americans, British, and Continental nations. It will be understood that the history is an introduction or summary, not a full narrative.

A Manual of Domestic Economy, suitable to Families spending from 1001. to 10001. a year. By J. H. Walsh, M.R.C.S., assieted in various departments by a Committee of Ladies.—The object of this Manual is to give full information about the house and household, from the first taking, purchasing, or building a residence, to the treatment of disease% which if wrongly managed may send us to the ultima domus. How to furnish, and the cost—servants, and their duties—the various casual "supplies," fond simple bread to turtle—how to cook the supplies in a way to main- tain health—and how to conduct yourself with due regard to etiquette-- are all expatiated upon, besides many other matters. In appearance, this Manual is like the Treasuries of the late Samuel Maunder; and the aim of the writer is apparently the same—to give a large amount of useful and available information in a single volume. In this point he is inferior to Maunder, wanting his sound practical judgment. For example, the House and Accessories of Mr. Walsh an elaborate treatise on building, with some hints on planning houses, if not exactly on architecture. For a professor there is not enough per. haps ; there is a great deal too much for a man of 5001. or 10001. a year who thinks of building. After he had studied the whole, he would only be an amateur as regards the theory, and have a mischievous sma • on all points of practice ; for an actual trade is a living thing, w cannot be learned from books. If a man intends to build, he had better apply to a respectable architect.

The Paragreens. By the Author of "Lorenzo 13enoni," &c.—The visit of a retired tradesman with'his wife and family to the Paris Pali. bition is the subject of this little novel. The bad French of Mr. Para. green, with his insular contempt of foreign customs and his ignorance of foreign manners, as well as the hasty temper of Mrs. Paragreen, and the tuft-hunting tendency of both, serve to involve the party in lessee and serapes, and to-exhibit the traditional notion of the middle-class English. man and his family when travelling. There is a certain de of cleverness in The Paragreens ; the real worth and good-nature lur ngat the bottom of their absurdities are nicely marked; but the subject sad treatment are not very fresh, and perhaps the caricature of exaggerated conventional ideas, which Punch has made popular and common, can only be well managed by a native.

Poems. By Emmeline Ilinxman.—Occasional pieces, with versified incidents, or slight tales. They exhibit nothing very striking either in the thoughts or expression ; but there is something natural and pleasing in many of the pieces, especially those of a rustic character.

Neville Howard. By Lentus in Umbrit.—The subject of these verses is the family, childhood, and college career of Mr. Neville Howard ; the first canto closing with his falling in love. The thing itself is less the imitation than the ape of Don Juan.

Sermons preached in the English Episcopal Church, Hamburg. By Charles Frederick Weidemann, M.A., Chaplain to the British Residents. —Twenty sermons from Hamburg, the majority on the common topics of Christianity, but a few are on particular events—as the funeral of the late Duke of Wellington, and the declaration of war against Russia. The sermons are well planned, carefully composed, and there is some- thing marked in the shortness of the sentences. Neither the views of the author nor the nature of his illustrations are of that kind which re- quire full exhibition in a lay journal.

Hygienic Medical and Surgical Hints for Young Ulcers of the Royal and Mercantile Navy. By W. M. Saunders M.D.—A selection of notes from standard medical writers, tested and enlarged by the compiler's own experience, on the best mode of managing sailors and other persons in Tropical climates, or districts infected by malaria ; with directions for treating emergencies. It is a good practical little publication.

The library edition of Robertson's " Charles the Fifth," with a Life after his abdication by Mr. Prescott, is not a mere reprint as regards the latter. It is indeed founded upon the episode in the author's "Life of Philip the Second," but it has been rewritten and very considerably extended. There may not be much substantial novelty for those who are acquainted with Mr. Sterling's work or the foreign publications on the subject, but it is charmingly written.

History of the Reign of Charles the Fifth, by William Robertson, D.D. With an Account of the Emperor's Life after his Abdication, by William H. Prat- cott, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, of the Royal Aca- demy of History at Madrid, Sze. Two volumes.

Confessions of an _English Opitsm-Bator. By Thomas De Quincey. Now tint carefully revised by the Author, and greatly enlarged.

New PERIODICAL.

Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archologic,al Society. Part 1.—This first number promises well for the Society. The district on which they are to exercise their vocation is, all things considered, the richest, the most curious, and the most interesting in the country. The " Transactions " thus far bear some proportion to the theme. There is a good " Memoir on Crosby Place " by the Reverend Thomas Hugo, which not only tells the story of the mansion, but, in the extracts from the will of its founder, Sir Thomas Crosbie, furnishes some curious glimpses of the manner in which London was studded with religious houses in the last days of the Plantagenets. Mr. Lott, in a notice of an adjoining religious house, St. Helen's Biahopsgate, also pre- sents some curious topographical particulars. The Reverend Charles Boutell contributes an elaborate paper on the houses of London and Middlesex ; and Mr. Mogford some Recollections of Westmin- ster ; in which the shameful destruction of our national muni- ments and monuments is touched upon,—an offence with which Mr. Loft, in a speech at the " Proceedings," charges the Crystal Palace Directors. There are various other papers • some, like the before-men- tioned, of a general kind, others strictly archaeological—as a curious con- veyance of the Manor of Holborn, A. Ii. 1385. This Part is freely illus- trated by engravings of a superior kind, and the publication is hand- somely got up.

ALMANACK.

Letti's Diary; or Bills Due Book ; and an Almanack for 1857.