PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From December 15th to December 22d. BOOKS.

College Life ; or the Proctor's Note-book. By J. HEWLETT, late of Won-ester College, Oxford ; Author of " Peter Priggins," &c. In three volumes.

The tfficient Remedy for the Distress of Nations. By JOHN GOAT. Author of " The Social System; a Treatise on the Principle of Ex- change." [Mr. GRAY has made a discovery, in which many will feel inclined to agree with him—that distress arises from want of money; and his Efficient Remedy for the Distress of Nations consists in giving them more of the needful, or rather in suggesting that they should make it for themselves. Mr. GRAY is in fact a currency-doctor; but the preparation of his panacea is more complex than that of some of his brethren. Besides issuing as much (papa) money as may be wanted, he proposes that the state should embark in business, or rather in busi- nesses, of a cafe kind, and. as the advertisements have it, "for articles in uni- aerial demand." " I would suggest," says be, " that the following should be in- cluded in the velection of manufactures to be established." " Woollen cloths, in all their most approved kinds, colours, and qualities; Malteds and flannels; carpet° and druggets; plain and cotton goods, of all kinds and qualities; English. Scotch, and Irish linens, of all ordinary kinils; plain silk goods; hosiery, gloves, hats, and ready-made shoes; cabinet furniture, avoiding the more fanciful articles; hair-cloth for chairs and sofas; ironmongery in all its speculative departments; edge-tools ; locks and hinges of all kinds; table-cutlery ; scales and weights ; plain plate and window-glass; wine- bottles; plain and cut glass for domestic use, restricting the cut depart- ment to such articles as should be quite unspeculative ; china and crockery, un- der the same limb ation as glass; guns and pistols, restricted to the most useful kinds; shot ; writing, printing, and packing papers, of all qualities ; types for hook and newspaper work of all sorts, jobbing kinds to be excluded; books, consisting of standard works only; clocks and watches of the kinds in most general use; silver plate and plated goods, under the same restriction; brass and topper ditto ; soap and candles; corks ; and umbrellas."—Shall we go on ? Na! But we will say that the present work is based upon the views of the Social System, published nearly a dozen years ego; and of which Mr. GRAY tells us, "just two hundred and sixty-four copies remain unsold," out of an editit n of five hundred. There was a quid account of Mr. GRAY'S political cep!). my in the Spectator of 261It November 1831, No. 178; to which the read, r may refer for the fundamental view of the theory.] .Potylogy; a dual-line version of some of his Paraphrases of Wisdom and Learning. In two volumes.

[It bag been observed that in the decline of Roman learning, the minds of authors, either hopeless of equalling classical excellence, or mistakenly aiming at novelty, invented mechanical difficultiea as a test of wit, and wrote poems in the form of an axe, an altar, &c. The author of Poiyiogy has not reached "this all that mortal can," but he has made a beginning. His two volumes contain between five and six thousand maxims or sentences, each of two lines, filling exactly the same space on the page, and looking to the eye like couplets, though they do not contain the same number of syllables, hut may possibly obey some metrical law of their own. It is intimated that the thoughts are both derived and original. The majority of what we have read seem to us original, or at least the productions of the author of Polylogy, and to be rather the spin pings of speculative fancy than the results of observation and experience.] Personal Narrative of the Campaigns in Afghanistan Sinde, Beloochistan, 6-c. Detailed in a series of letters of the late Colonel WILLIAM H. DEN• wie, CB., Junior Lieutenant-Cotonel of her Majesty's 13th Light Infantry Regiment. With an Appendix containing Colonel Dennie's Correspondence with Lord Keane, Sir Henry Fame, &c. Compiled and arranged by WILLIAM E. STEELE, M.D. With a Map. [This is a revised edition of the private letters of the late Colonel DENNIS, published in the Dublin University Magazine, when his own death aud the fearful disasters in Afghanistan gave an interest to every thing connected with that ill judged expedition. This circumstance induced so free a quotatiun of these letters by the newspapers, that, in a literary sense, they have lost the flush of novelty; and the subject which gave them attraction has lost its interest with the termination of the war. We mention these points in case we should ant find opportunity or occasion to return to this graphic: little volume.]

Night and Day Thoughts.

[Mosivoostestv—not •• Satan," but the poet—has observed, that much of what Ja put forth as poetry is essentially prose, only presented in the shape of verse ; *ATMs' ;change that lies,wo effect upon its nature except to injure it. The author of Night and Day Thoughts has gone a step further, and both in his Sonnets, which are his "Thoughts," and in a long blank verse poem called " Home and its Duties," has contented himself with arranging prose into lines of the prescribed number of syllables, without much regard to flow, pauses, or even diction. Unlike the Lake school, he is a man who cannot scan. The following, for example, is from the opening of his Sonnet" on Novelty (page 39.1—" When I hear of novelties, and the fuss they make, I keep myselt, on the whole, cool or temperate : for 1 am not the fool of earlier years, breathless to discuss all subjects, as if my health depended on it." Though pure prose, and here printed as what it is, the author prods it in measured I.nes, and they sonnet rh)me,, sonnet-fashion. The idle reader, who wants something to do, may arrange it if he can.] Day-Dreams. By CHARLES Ktrox, Author of " Hardness," &c. With twenty engraved illustrations by MASON, from drawings on wood by H. WARREN.

[Not an inappropriate title for a volume of poems of a vague and fragmentary character, the metre varying with the fitful fancies or moods of the writer. The verse is fluent, and sometimes musical ; but the ideas are not origival, nor expressed with so much felicity as to give them point or force. 24 illus- trations are various, and picturesque in effect, though the figures are occa- sionally too large for the scale of the landscape : the cover of etherial blue is dazzling.] The Golden Love- Gift, for 1843.

[Innocent love-verses, printed in gold on blue paper.]

The Ball-Room Annual, for 1843.

[Figures of fashionable dances, with introductory remarks on dress, deport- ment, and etiquette ]

Boyle's Fashionable Court and Ceuntry Guide, and Town Visiting Di- tectory ; corrected for January 1843.

[This is the 1843 edition of the old and for aught we know the original or only Court Guide; dating back in its primordia, we fancy, to the time when there was only one Directory, and that a small volume bound in sheep-skin. The present volume—except in its covering, for it has cast its skin and flaunts in embossed scarlet—seems much what it always was, a bandy book of reference for fashionable addresses ; and probably with some extension, for we see it takes in the Inns of Court and Finebury Square.]

The Natural History of Selborne. By the late Reverend GILBERT WHITE, M.A. A new edition, with Notes by the Reverend LEONARD JENYNS, M.A., F.L S •&c. [Of a work so well known, St) generally bought, and it may therefore be con- cluded so generally read, as Nome's charming Natural History of Se/borne, nothing Heed to be said. In such cases it is the edition, not the book that is in question ; and we suspect the present is about the best, if price and quality are both considered. The notes by Mr. JENYNS are useful to the student for the scientific information they impart from modern authors and late observa- tions, whilst they are sufficiently popular to form an agreeable and even in- structive variety to the general reader. The typography and the illustrative wood-cuts are neatly elegant, worthy of the publisher from whom so many choice specimens of typography and wood-engravings have emanated Though on a cheaper and less elaborate scale than Yeattoza's Fishes, BeLL S Quadru- peds, &c. they are of the same family.] _Hints on Letter-writing. Second edition.

[This book contains some useful rules on the formal parts of correspondence

as superscription, conclusien, sealing, &c.; with some judicious remarks, not always original, on the general characteristics of the different styles of letters according to the subjects they are written upon. This is followed by speci- mens of the various classes, selected from actual correspoodence,excepting a few from Miss EDGEWORTH'S fictions; NAPOLEON. WELLINGTON, and HILL furnishing the business examples; of which we must confess we like Lord H taa's the best, as the others are so very business-Ii4 that they seem only in- tended for the person to whom they are addressed.] Western Australia; containing a Statement of the Condition and Prospects of that Colony, and some Account of the Western Australian Com- pany's Settlement of Australind. With a map of the colony. [An intelligent compilation on the colony of Western Australia; the special object being to display the advantages of Australind, a settlement newly planted in the colony. by the Western Australian Company. There is in a small space considerable information respecting the geography, natural resources, and go- verument of the colony, and the progress of the young settlement.]

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

The Vicar of Wakefield. By Oatvso GOLDSMITH, with thirty-two illustrations, by WILLIAM hluntimanv, R.A. [A very handsome library edition of a fiction that will never cease to charm by the simple truth of its pictures of life, the suavity of its satire, and the ten- derness of its pathos : the typography is most beautiful ; and each chapter is beaded by a delicately-executed wood-cut, engraved by Mr. JOHN THOMPSON from designs by Mr. MULAEADY. These designs, viewed as productions of art, have merits of no ordinary kind: they exhibit thought and study, close observation of nature, and refinement in drawing and composition; but regarded as illustretiona of the Vicar of Wake- field, they are singularly defective: you do not trace the incidents and charac- (ers of the story in the pictures; which seen apart from the book would hardly suggest their connexion with it. It is a minor abjection, that the cuts, in many instances, do not illustrate the chapter which they embellish. It would almost seem that Mr. MULREADY had gone out of his way intentionally to avoid those subjects that have been chosen by other artists, or else determined to treat them in a totally different way : boa ever this may be, the pains he has evidently taken frustrate the purpose of illustrations ; for they are mostly beside the paint. Almost the only one which represents the scene truly an i d naturally, s that of the party mounted ou Blackberry and the colt pro- ceeding to church. The Vicar himself is a weak-faced, morbid man, with long hair--not the clear, serene, simple-minded Dr. Primrose ; nor is his character the same throughout ; while the rest of the family, Mr. Burden included, have no character at all. The attitudes are strained, the grouping is stiff and formal, and the costumes are not only uncharacteristic but so indistinctly made out as to he unintelligible. The Vicar rescuing his chil- dren front the fire is ludicrous ; and the prisoners look like maniacs. Vague generality characterizes the conception of the whole, minute particularity the delineation of parts: these two opposite extremes are brought together, and the incongruity is increased by a quaint mannerism that is equally Injurious to the vague idea and the little bit of literal truth. The mercer in the first cut- " Choosing the Wedding-gown "—is a capital sketch of the tradesman of the old school ; and looks like a genuine study from nature in the midst of a crowd of forced fantasies. It is evident that Mr. MuLREADY lacks the inventive faculty; and in copying what he sees he lessens the vivid truth of the imitation by in- sisting too strongly on insignificant details, as well as by yielding to a peculiar mannerism. He looks at nature microscopically, and does nut take in the whole, or present the salient points of character as seen in a broad view.] Restoration of the Church of St. Mary, Reddiffe, BristoL Appeal by the

Vicar, Churchwardens, and Vestry ; Reports by the Architects; Re-

masks and Suggestions, by J. BRITTON, FAA.; and engraved Plan

and Views of the Church.

[Redcliffe Church, through its association with the history of Cuzwrznwow and the Rowley Poems, has acquired a far wider celebrity than even its rich Gothic architecture alone would have gained for it : the proposal for its restora- tion is therefore a matter of more than local interest, and likely to meet with general support. The views of its interior and exterior as they will appear, should the work of restoration be completed according to the original Inten- tion of the architect, are in themselves the mod forcible appeal that can be made, to the Bristolians especially, to rescue this venerable and magnificent fabric from its present ruinous and debased condition. The spire to be added to the tower is elegant, and of lofty proportions.] On the Paintings and Merits of Richard Wilson, RA., and particularly on a full-length portrait of J. H. Mortimer, A.R.A., with a lithographed sketch of the latter, from a picture by the former. By J. Batrrow, F.S.A. [A lithographed sketch of a full-length portrait of MORTIMER, taken from a picture said tube painted by WILSON; with some gossip about the two artists. 1 Sir Henry Pottinger. SAMUEL LAWRENCE pinxit; OR stone by Lowe DICKINSON. [A characteristic-looking likeness of the British Plenipotentiary; whose vigo- rous and resolute expression of countenance indicates a man not to be trilled with or easily duped by the cunning Celestials. The drawing is free and ele- gant, and the lithograph displays artistic feeling and skill: it is a striking and just now an interesting portrait.] Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part XVIIL

PAMPHLETS.

A Letter to the American Peace Society, from a Member of the Com- mittee a Peace in Paris.

Reflections on the Connexion between our Gold Standard and the recent Monetary Vicissitudes ; with Suggestions for the Addition of Silver as. a measure of value. By DAVID SALOMONS, Esq. A Letter to Lord john Russell, on the Cause of the Distress of' the Manufacturing Classes of England, with a proposed Remedy. By

CIVIL

A Letter to Sir Robert Peel, on the Causes of the Success of the Non- Productive Classes. By MILES. The Electrotype as Misapplied to Engraving in the National Art- Union ; A Letter to Mr. Moon, of Threadneedle Street, by Mrs. MARY PARK es.

Approximate Rationale of the Cold Water Cure, as practised by Vincent Priessnitz, at Grafenberg in Silesia; will, an Account of Cases success- fully treated at Prestbury, near Cheltenham, by RICHARD BRAMISEL Esq., F.A.S., &c.

Felice Donzdla ; Romance pour le Pianoforte. Par SIG/SMOND THAI, BERG.

Rule Britannia, arranged as a Rondo for the Pianoforte. By CHARLES CEERNY.

The Real Scotch Quadrilles. Composed by JULLIEN.

Dream not of Me; Ballad. Composed by CHARLES E. Hone. Bigleand Earn; _Ballad. The Poetry by Mrs. CRAWFORD: the Music by CHARLES R. HORN. My Arab Maid; Ballad. Written by Mrs. CRAWEORD: the Music by CHARLES E. MORN.