PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The most remarkable book in this week's list of publications is TEE EPIDEMICS OP TILE MIDDLE AGES, translated by Dr. Babington from the German of Dr. Hecker. Although the present is the third edition of the work, and a quarter of a century has elapsed since the appearance of the first, the book is practically a new one for the English public, the two.previous editions having been published by the Sydenham Society, and issued to its members only. The subjects treated are the " Black Death" of the fourteenth century; the "Dancing Mania," which fol- lowed close upon the former visitation ; the " Sweating Sickness," which broke out in England soon after the battle of Bosworth in 1485, and five times ravaged this island and the continent between that year and 1551; and the ` Child Pilgrimages," a series which began with that un- paralleled event in the history of fanaticism, the Boy Crusade of 1212. This chapter on Child Pilgrimages, now first translated into English, completes the list of all Dr. Hecker's deeply interesting contributions to the history of medicine and of popular delusions.

Csnza Bow BELLS is a collection of five-and-twenty capital stories and sketches, all relating to the City, which have appeared during the last two years in Household Words. Among them is a remarkable paper called " All Night on the Monument," which we are now informed is a record of the writer's actual experience.

The readers of Fraser's _Magazine are familiar with the story of Swonn AND GOWN, which is now reprinted in one volume. It is a well written but unpleasant story, with a Satanic hero—a sort of drawing-room Lara or Conrad.

The FIRST AMERICAN Cams Corrannss, held at New York in 1857, marks a great epoch in the history of the game, and its transactions are fully recorded, along with other matter interesting to adepts, in a volume of 562 closely printed pages.

BOOKS.

The Epidemics of the Middle Ages. From the German of T. F. C. Sleeker, M.D. Translated by B. G. Babbington, M.D., F.R.S., &c. Third edition, completed by the Author's Treatise on Child Pilgrimages.

Under Bow Bells. A City book for all readers. By John Hollingshead.

The Sword and Gown. By the Author of " Guy Livingstone." Originally published in " Fraser's Magazine."

The Book of the First American Chess Congress : containing the Proceedings of that Celebrated Assemblage, with the Papers read in its Sessions, the Games played in;the Grand Tournament, and the Stratagems entered in the Problem Tourney ; together with Sketches of the History of Chess in the Old and New Worlds. By Daniel Willard Fiske, M.A.

Inspiration : How it is related to Revelation and the Reason ? With a few

Remarks suggested by recent criticisms on Mansel's Bampton Lectures. Manual of General History for the Use of Schools. Translated from the Noorthey Course. By Professor Henry Attwell.

Cali Julii aosaris Commentariorum de Bello Cioili : liber L With English Notes.

Rocks and Shoals. By Captain Lovesy. In two volumes.

The Boy Voyagers ; or. the Pirates of the East. By Anne Bowman. With Il- lustrations by Harrison Weir.

Stilicho ; or, the Impending Fall of Rome. An Historical Tragedy. By George Mallam.

ALMANACS.

Cassell's Illustrated Aimanaek for 1860.

Mackenzie' s Bookkeeping for Solicitors is a very useful little work. His system is simple and inexpensive. It will be found valuable in any office, but is peculiarly adapted to the requirements of youn6 solicitors commencing practice. A perusal of this book will put them in the way of avoiding the very serious loss caused by imperfect entries of business done, while the monetary part of the system enables them at any time to see how they stand with their clients. Careless bookkeeping is the rock on which many a solicitor has split—clients' concerns take so much time, he is apt to neglect his own; account-keeping is tedious, it gets into arrear, he has no very clear notion how much of the banker's balance belongs to him, and how much to his clients. His business is large, it must be prospering ; while there is so much money at the banker's, he may safely incur some new expense. Suddenly calls come upon him, he looks into his affairs, it is too late : he has mixed his clients' money with his own, and unknowingly has lived beyond his income. Then arises some pressing want, under its pressure he com- mits some direct act of appropriation. This must be concealed by other and greater frauds, till at last he furnishes one of those sad spectacles that have of late been so numerous. A simple system like Mr. Mac- kenzie's early adopted and conscientiously persevered in would have

saved to society many a man who through his carelessness in money matters has gone to swell the list of fronSulent Bankrupts. We-would suggest one improvement in the system. Clients' money should not he .mixed with the Solicitor's at all, but kept totally distinct and paid into a separate account at his Banker's. An additional column. in the Cash .Book would effect this.