PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The Poetical Works of Percy llysshe Shelley. Edited by Mrs. SHELLEY, Western, India in 183.4. By Mrs. POSTANS, Author of " Catch." In two vols.

ihr,noirs of ..4dmira ttt sidoey smith, K. C.B., ;ST. By the Author o " Battik the Reefer,- eye. lit two vols.

I"oyages of the Dutch 11,4y t■I War Dourfla, through the Southern and little known parts of the Moluecan A reldpebigo, and along the previ- ously unknown Southern Coast of New Guinea, porthrmed during the years IS25 and 1:420. By D. H. Nor ii' junior, Luitenant ter zee, Ii. klasse, en ritbler van the militaire Wilkins orde. Translated from the _Dutch by Gen:mit W INDSOlt EARL, Author of the "Eastern Seas.

Out Vault ; a Novel. By FRANCES Tnom.oru, Author of " The Widow Barnall■," &e. In three vols.

it Chi's:acid mat Arch,coloyieal Dictionary of the Manners, Customs, Laws, Institutions, Arts, &e. or the celebrated Nations of Antiquity, raid th, Middle Ages. To which is prefixed a Synopt Ind and Chro- nological View of Ancient I istury. By P. AUSTIN .N errALL, LL.D., Translator or Juvenal's .Letters, The Belle of a Season. By the Countess of BLESSINGTON. Splendidly illustratk from Drawings by A. E. CHALON, R.A., Painter to the Queen, &c.; under the superintendence of Mr. CHARLES HEATH, Goalie's Faust, Part 11. Translated from the German, partly in the metre of the original and partly in prose. With other Poems, original and. translated. By LEOPOLD J. Ilints:vis, Scholar of St. John's Col- lege, Oxon, Si,' Itedier,,o1; a:A:old...al Romance. By :%Irs. EDWARD THOMAS, Author of " Tranquil Hours." ecritten jut Tfortuliond. By HENRIETTA PRESCOTT. Poen,,,, luii .11i'S. 1ililituqltin, Author of " Slight Reminiscences of the !thine," &c.

'ie yblanals Bag ■9(' Groans; or the Prototype of Paradise Lost. Now lir,t translated limn the Latin, by PitANcts BARHAM, Esq. Second edit:on. 1, made from a rare copy, procured from the late Mr. r library. Pi,rt or all of it N■11 originally publibted in the _VW/du ...1To,.fozhe. and Mr. II t n I I All has reprinted this " astonishing drama," to show us the true tt protetype of Paradise Lost.- If any admirer of Mir,ToN is disquieted multi the suspected plagiarism of the great poet, let hint spend half- :I-L....it-II upon the , I / i otis J,ritl, and bs at rcr,t. For the same sum any reader. er':ically oiveo, will leant very easily tile •biference between a i t and a prolI•ssor or jurisprudence. The scene or the _1(lamus is Paradise ; the only subj..,.t, I he eatio!, of the Tree of Knowledge ; besides a cliont9, the imerlorittors are live—Satan, an .‘\ ngel. Adatn, Eve, and. Jehovah. The first act consists of a long speech of Satan ; but Loa unlike the soliloquy

o that witli -urpt,3111:: erown'd In bead of the remorse, and obduracy, and anguish of Mit,ToN'S Satan,

chaol-ed with pale ire, envy, and despair," Olt0T1U5 glyt.s, us the meta- physics ;col sehemiog revenge of a schoolman. The second art exhibit Adam and an at Tel discoursing, al so somem hat scholastically; but the angers description or th, rebellion in heaven and his account of the creation con- tain the genii of the episodical narrative of' Raphael in Paradise Lost, as they probably suggested it. The third act is occupied in tt dialogue with Adam and. Satan ; the Devil tempting the First 'Man in vain, and going MT in a Intlf,—an incident not only contrary to Scriptural authority, but foolish on the part of Satau, a unload:Mg his presence and purpose. The fourth and fifth acts embrace the teniptnalstli of Eve, the compliance of Adam, their subsequent remorse and Mere and the final judgment of God.

" Thooitie tlytt mieroseope of wit. lrios and exinniors bit ny liii: 11.o, trio oparts, or ;hey to whole, Th, the be:unfit:: soul,

Are Nal:A tebjiht li:us:Tr, Burman, Wasse, shall see

NV 11.4i Irailie OA to a flea."

And read in this fashion, some such general resemblance may be traced be• tween tin, same scenes in Paradise Losl and the .1,1maas, as nin,a inevitably- occur where Its o persons handle a sullject permitting in its nature little devia- tion, and whose treatment is partly chalked out by Scriptural authority. But in variety, and every thing which denotes poetical genius, the -Vaunts is entirely wanting. BAntiAm intimates that Ile may possibly reprint the original. This no doubt would be very desirable ; not only as a coriaiity, but because a translation even by a follower and fellow labourer of %Ir. IlottAco is not so good a means ofju*:ii.g as the original work.] ...1"olitinfis. By E. I bt.ullY [A collection of boyish vows, many of whiclt have appeared in the Court and Ladis .31a!;a:inr. The only thing in the volume with any pretence tO character, is same lino by a lady, called " l an's Love." This is pleasant and pointed; and deserves a better Answer than .Mr. Rutin' has written.] Clomp de Poscs; ou Cliuix tic, meilleurs moreemx de cent trente-quatre Piktes Contemporains, avec Is Notes Litti:raires; di.dir it ses aeves, par Ainmeni: pun aT-FAu vi:T, de l'Universit6 de France.

[A. -eleeth et from the Prench poets of the nineteenth century, or rather, so far as many are concerned, the poetasters. We had no idea, till the appearance of

this volume, that our neighbours were so rich in voiles eontemprains. There. aro cm:vile:It little notes, giving a brief view of the literary character of the writers quoted, ;Is yell as the year of their birth, and of their tktitb, if death.] SActehes mo/ ; litcoriis of Other Days. By E. F., Author (If" Tholights mal lieminkronces on Sacred Subjects," &c. [..k. Relies of ontponrings by a religions lady ; in vtily big long reveries on little subjeets, every-day incidents expanded into diseour:es, and some reminiscences or such "ligins of other days" as .Mr,. HANNA!' MOORE Mild the Reverend If um:nit M i iNaM OMER I' the " OnlIdpreSeRee " man. A few verses are ill.. ticmixed, which, if the author's, are better than her prose. The barrier of sir:cation restrains her fluency.] The Ilistoretw of America It!, the Northmen, in the tenth century. By J min TOFI.NIIN SMITH, Author of "Progress of Philosophy among the Ancients," &e. With map, and plates. [The subject of the discovery of Greenland anil very probably of America, by the Northmen, in the tenth anil eleventh centuries, ts worthy of an abler di.optisition than Mr. Toul.7,1INSmrui iuuithtianeittl,v capable of writing. The only evidence on the subject is the IcelandIc manuscripts ; and trans- lations td. which have been published by the Ii oval Society of Northern Anti- quarians at Copenhagen. To estatilish their authenticity is of cour.ie the first fhb at : to state the substance of their contents, and convey the character of their narrative, the second ; and to illustrate the whole from 1,1 hr sources, the It, ird, These poi t s are attempted by :11r. Sm urn. but w it In cit much art, or any brevity. In despite of the advice of his friends., he has wet t t ea his book in I ic form of Dialogues, pleading the example of PLAT.), ('iii: no, anti. lluouGli.vo. Ti rAaler this argument of' much weight, Jost' CY. Toubmix SMITH shonil have provea his equality with his exemplars. At all events, he should have followed their example. If either of those illustrious authors pre- luded somewhat before commit:tieing their theme, they spoke to their readers of themft.h.,q, their contemporaries, gratil:v ing a natural curiosity respecting the feelings or the personal charattters of emitIent mcn. But who cares a fig about Dr. Dul.ital the objeetor, or Mr. Cassal the moderator, or Mn, Norset tile advocate of the Northmi•o, in these lona-winded conversations ? Again. Mr. Smith shoold have reinemlaTed that his prototypes did not adopt dialogue for the sake of giving leogth, but life. NN hich of them would have occupied. ci;.;liteen ttgrs %vitt' no itt iii curt bearin,..: upon the subject than this? The :NortIonen, it is admitted, discovered ant', col ntized Iceland ; but as Iecland is as far again front Norway as if is front Greenland, there is noi».;fno !uric im- probability if their haying discovered Cr, enland also.] What De th Icts .thr 1:duration. [Au exit;..it ion of E I'.t:tu,s views education, collected from opinions pat forth by himself on different oci-t4ons, sometimes orally, sometimes int writing. This COMVIIIM71 is prefaced by at historical view of education in Europe, and a good :Inlays; of its nature and progress as an art.] larly intelligible, and illustrated with diagrams; very useful as a hand-book for students, and. those dabblers in science who "cram" for conversation. The arrangements and clearness of the condensed information make it easy as a book of reference.] 4 Lexicon of the Greek Language for the Use of Colleges and Schools: containing, 1. A Greek-Englidi Lexicon, combining the advantages of an alphabetical and derivative arrangement ; 2. An English-Greek Lexicon, more copious than any that has yet appeared. To which is prefixed, a concise Grammar of the Greek Language. By the WV. j. A. GILES, LLD , late Fellow of C. C. C. Oxon., Head "Master of the City of London School. The Lunar Almanack and Aletropolitan IVeekly Weuther-Table, for 1840: showing the weather likely to be experienced during the ensuing year, in Londou and its vicinity. With observations, accurate tide-table, &c. By Sr. Join; Oxruun, Gent. [Another weather prophet, hut one who, more modest thou M unroll-, confines his.predietions tu the Metropolis and its vicinity, and is content with thorn- tensing the general state of the wen!ber at different parts of each mouth, and conditionally on the prevalence of certain winds.] .4 Course eif Lectures on Drqnottie Art and Literature, by .Angustus William Schlegel. Translated from the original German by JOHN BLACK. In two vols. Second edition.

SERIALS.

Life (f ..-Irthur Duke of Wellington. By W. II. MAXWELL. Part IV. PA:urn LETS. On our Monetary System, &c. With nn explanation of the causes by vliielt the Pressures in the Money-market are produced, and a Plan fin their Remedy, irhich can be carried into immediate effect without any derangement, and with the approbation of the Banks, both private and , public, by which the currency is issued. By T. JOPLIN. earn and Currency; or How shall we get through the Winter? BY a

Merchant.

Gert Mystery Unveiled. Translated from the Memoirs of the Viscount X. de .11.***, and addressed to the Slanderers of Lady Fh.tra Dustings. The Crow's ; a Letter to her Majesty's Attorney-General, on the Legal mode of 1,1measurement of the Seven Miles mentiuned in the Reform Act. By G. W. DIGRY.