PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

The Autobiography of the Reverend William lay; with Reminis- cences of some distinguished Contemporaries, Selections from his Correspondence, &a. Edited by George Redford, D.D., LLD., and John Angell James.

The Irish Industrial Exhibition of 1853: a Detailed Catalogue of its Contents, with Critical Dissertations, Statistical Information, and Accounts of Manufacturing Processes in the different departments : also a Portrait of Mr. Dargan, engraved on steel, accompanied by a Memoir ; a Litho-Chromotype View of the Centre Hall of the Exhi- bition; and numerous Illustrations on Wood. Edited by John Sproule, assisted by eminent Literary and Scientific Men.

The Tricolor on the Atlas ; or Algeria and the French Conquest. From the German of Dr. Wagner, and other sources. By Francis Pulazky, Esq. (Nelson's Modern Library.) Lights and Shadows of _Australian Lift. By Mrs. Charles Clacy, Au- thor of "A Lady's Visit to the Gold-Diggings." In two volumes. Kate Vernon ; a Tale. In three volumes.

School Experiences of a Fag at a Private and a Public School. By George Melly.

The Mosaic Record in Harmony with the Geological.

[Another attempt to reconcile the Mosaic narrative of creation and mo- dem geological discovery. The author conceives that he has succeeded, where all previous inquirers, he admits, have failed, by looking to the form of the inspiration, and the objects of the record. The mode in which Moses was inspired, the writer conceives, was that of vision : Moses saw the acts of creation pass before him in its successive stages, and then vanish in dimness, something like the changes of a diorama or dissolving view. Time, there- fore, was no element in the account. When Moses clearly saw a continued series of actions, he termed it a day without reference to length of duration ; when it was followed by darkness, he called that night. "The seer describes successive events as they were painted on his fancy [?] ; but of the time required for their development he had no knowledge. In relation to his perception, the creation of heaven and earth, the state of the latter, and the work of the first day, were successive events; in point of fact they may have been spread over many ages." The chief object of the narrative was to guard against idolatry. The worship of the heavenly bodies, and of animals, es- pecially of creeping things, was a superstition to which the peoples with whom the Jews had any connexion, and indeed the Jews themselves, were prone. Into this sin no one could fall who carefully studied the Mosaic narrative ; since how could those things be gods which were created at a word from Jehovah ?] The British Commonwealth ; or a Commentary on the Institutions and

Principles of British Government. By Homersham Cox, M.A., Fel- low of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Barrister-at-law, and

Author of Treatises on the Differential and the Integral Calculus. [The British Commonwealth is not very profound in its philosophy, or very new in its critical remarks on needful reforms,—as the relief of Parliament from local business, or the prevention of Parliamentary corruption. It is, however, a useful book for the wide extent of its range, and the practical character of its information ; nor are its suggestions or remarks wanting in a plain common sense. After an introductory view of the nature, rights, duties, &c. of government in general, Mr. Cox proceeds to set forth the British Constitution in theory and practice—in small things as well as large. Not only are the powers of the Crown, and of both Houses of Parliament, as Well as of the higher courts of judicature and the principal departments of the Executive, unfolded, and their modes of procedure described, but smaller matters are handled, down even to local courts, local self-govern- ment, and what some wit called "government by commission "—that is, COLIDDisSiODS of inquiry. Besides this exposition of British government and law, the press, public opinion, and other topics of a less tangible kind, are treated of.] The Philosophy of the Infinite; with special reference to the Theories of Sir William Hamilton and M. Cousin. By Henry Calderwood. [The subject of this volume belongs to the highest class of metaphysics; being in fact an inquiry into the question, Can man have a knowledge of the Infinite God ? Cousin maintains that he can. The Infinite "is cognizable and Conceivable by consciousness and reflection, under relation, difference, and plurality." Sir William Hamilton, on the other hand, holds that man cannot. 771e Philosophy of the Infinite is written by a pupil of Sir William ; who discusses the question in respectful opposition to the teach- ing of his master. The discussion of the Infinite is carried through time and space, Brat cause, moral government, and as the object of worship.] The Young Ladies' First French. Book : with a Vocabulary of the French and English and the English and French of all the words used in the book. By R. Alive. [Reiteration is the principle of M. Aliva's system. The pronunciation of the thirty-six different sounds of the French language are acquired by fre- quent repetition after the teacher ; the conjugations of the verbs are taught by the seine process • then written in French and English ; and finally com- mitted to memory. 'Simultaneously with this process, the pupil begins to pronounce (after the master) very simple dialogues, (progressively increas- ing in difficulty,) translates them into English, and subsequently analyzes them, as well by a literal translation as by grammatical annotation. At a more advanced stage, the pupils translate English into French. The plan is not so novel as the author appears to suppose, though it may be more dis- tinctly presented in his book than elsewhere. The question is, whether a systematic study of the grammar should not accompany this method : the pupil of M. Alive picks up grammar by as it were a species of parsing lessons.] The Tour; a Poem. In two cantos. By W. F. P. [An imitation. of Child Harold, with Ireland for the main subject of the Journey, but inoluding a voyage across the Atlantic and a short tour in America. There are also digressions of a moral and political kind,—as the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, the death of the Duke of Wellington, and a tournament of the age of chivalry.] Diprose's Funny Book. With Illustrations.

[A shilling jest-book, possibly an American reprint ; for many of the jests antAnierierui while some of the English are occasionally such "old does" as an English editor would hardly have had recourse to.]

Besides Mr. Bentley's continuation of his new- and cheap edition of Prescott's Works, we have before us a well got-up edition of Gay's Fables, with a new- life, notes, and a number of wood-cuts. "The Lofty and the Lowly" is an American novel, reprinted at a low-price. The subject is to a great extent a contrast between the rigid prudence of the Northern States and the careless liberality of the South, with illustrations of character and manners of both the great classes of American society, including the slaves as well as the planters. We are familiar with the work, though we do not recall the circumstances of our acquaintance, or the title. The rage for cheap books and the late decision as regards. copyright will. soon render the know- ledge of a catalogue-maker a necessity. Books are published, twit/I-appear+ wee =mew works,. which not only are mere reprints, but have been printed in cheap periodicals in this country as well as America ; sometimes, we sus- pect, with alterations of the title and revisions of the text. "The Flower of the Family" appears to be another American reprint ; prettily got up, and selling for a shilling. It is a tale of more directly moral and didaatac kind than "The Lofty and the Lowly." The patronage bestowed on the two mercantile publications vouches for their merits.

History of the Conquest of Mexico. By William H. Prescott, Anther of "The History of Ferdinand and Isabella." Seventh edition, re- vised. In one volume. Author's authorized edition.

The Fables of John Gay Illustrated. With an Original Memoir, Intro- duction, and Annotations, by Octavius Freire Owen, M.A., F.S.A., of Christchurch, Oxford, Rector of Burstow, Surrey ; Translator of the Organon of Aristotle, &c. With one hundred and twenty-six Draw- ings by William Harvey, engraved by the Brothers Dalziel.

The Lofty and the Lowly ; or Good in All, and None all Good. By M. G. McIntosh, Author of "Grace and Isabelle," &c. The Flower of the Family; a Tale. (Nelson's Library.) Penn's Compendium of the English and Foreign Funds; with State- ments of the Debts and Revenues of all Nations; also of Banks, Rail- ways, Mines, and the principal Joint-Stock Companies ; forming an Epitome of the various objects of Investment and Speculation which are negotiable in London : with a variety of Explanatory Tables on the Public Debt, &c., and an Abstract of the Laws and Regulations of the Stock Exchange. The fourth edition, revised, corrected and brought down to the present time. By Henry Ayres, Editor of the "Banker's Circular."

Practical Mercantile Correspondence. Collection of Modern Letters of Business, with Notes, Critical and Explanatory, &c. Seventh edi- tion, revised and enlarged. ILLUSTRATED Weans earn Pancra.

Pictures of the Crystal Palace. Engraved on Wood by W. Thomas and H. Harrel, from Photographs by Phillip IL Delamotte, and Ori- ginal Drawings by G. H. Thomas and other Artists. Part I. _Dolby's Sketches in the Baltic. Nos. IX., X., and XI.

PAMPHLETS.

Teaching of Common Things. A Lecture amets consirtered as Volcanoes, and the delivered at St. Martin's Hall 7th Au- Cause of their Velocity and other Phe- nomena thereby explained. Boyle v. Wiseman. Verbatim Report of the Trial Boyle v. Wiseman, tried at Guildford, 12th August, from the Short- hand Notes of W. klibbit.

Christian Blaveholders Disobedient k Christ; or Ten Thousand English Christians invited to protest actively against the Sin of the Church in the Tfnited States, and to cease from pur- chasing the produce of Slave Labour. By John Fitzgerald. gust, in connexion with the Education- al Exhibition of the Society of Arts, &c. By the Reverend Richard Dawes, M.A., Dean of Hereford, Author of .• Suggestive Hints towards Improved Secular Instruction," Scc.

A Discourse on Medical Botany. By Earl Stanhope. Being the Substance of Unpublished Addresses delivered by him to the Medico-Botanical Society, of which he was President.