PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Boo's.

The Private Journal of the Marquis of Hastings, KG., Governor-General and Commander-in-chief in India. Edited by his Daughter the Marchioness of Bute. In two volumes.

The Book of the Illustrious Henries. By John Capgrave, Translated from the Latin by the Reverend Francis Charles Hingeston, M.A., of Exeter Col- lege, Oxford. Health and Disease, their Laws, with Plain Practical Prescriptions for the People. By Benjamin Ridge, M.D., F.R.C.S., 8tc. &c., Author of A Sys- tem of Glossology; or the additional Means of Diagnosis of Disease to be de- rived from Indications and Appearances of the Tongue." Life of Mary Anne Schimmelpentsmck, Author of "Select Memoirs of Port Royal," and other Works. Edited by her Relation Christiana C. Hankin. The Ancient Poem of Guillaume De Guileville, entitled Le Pelerinage de PHomme, compared with the Pilgrim's Progress of John Bunyan, Edited from Notes collected by the late Mr. Nathaniel HUI, of the Royal Society of Literature. With Illustrations and an Appendix. Heatherbrae. A Novel. By Sarah Symonds, Authoress of "Emmeline Lati- mer." In three volumes.

A Friend in Need. A Romance. In three volumes.

Notes on the Revolt in the North-western Provinces of India. By Charles Raikes, Judge of the Budder Court at Agra, late Civil Commissioner with Sir Colin Campbell, Author of " Notes on the North-western Provinces of India." The Age; a Colloquial Satire. By Philip James Bailey, Author of Festus."

1•41..■■•■ Marie Therese De Lamourous. A Biography abridged from the Fren6h. By the Author of "The Heir of Redelyffe."—The heroine of this little book was a French lady of the untitled noblesse, who was contemporary with many stirring scenes, and witnessed many wonderful changes in

society; for she was born in 1754, lived to 1836, and passed safely through all the dangers of the Reign of Terror. From childhood Marie de Lamourous exhibited a religious vocation, which displayed itself in various practical ways ; but it was not till she was verging towards fifty, that she entered upon her distinguishing career—the reclamation and management of fallen women. Her great success in this difficult task, led to the establishment of the House of La Misericorde, at Bour- deanx.

The life of Marie was one of patient doing good in whatever form the opportunity offered, rather than a career of action - and even when something like an event occurred, as in some of the Revolutionary inci- dents, and in her interview with the well-known Duke of Bassano, her simplicity brought all things to the test of kindness and duty. Hence her biography is a minute exhibition of small doings and personal traits, that in their aggregation produce a remarkable character, and eventually lead to considerable results. In some of her traits the heroine has a re- semblance to Huntingdon and his Bank of Faith, though it may be doubted whether the " S. S." (sinner saved) was so ready to dispense with carnal comforts as the Frenchwoman.

" Let us still take care not to deceive ourselves into obtaining, under pre- text of necessity, comforts, not exceeding what nature finds sufficient, but which God disapproves as superfluities, unbecoming poverty, and which might, by the curse attached to them, deprive the house of the ' things added,' on which it subsists. Let us then first be poor, and bring down the blessing by the spirit of order and economy, permitting ourselves nothing that the poor cannot allow themselves. Let us always keep the scales in our hands, but without trouble or anxiety. People fancy many things needful to form a refuge. What is wanting ? This—a house of four rooms, one for the oratory, one for the bed-room, a work-room, and dining-

room, this same would likewise serve for a kitchen. What more ? Food for a day—work for a week—six francs in the pocket. That is all that is necessary, and no more. With this you may found as many refuges as you please, at least, to my mind. I speak according to what I believe has been God's leading of me."

And although a Romanist of a strict school as regards the church, she was not submissive under the interference of churchmen.

" A priest of high rank had found fault with the chant used for the Lita- nies sung in La Misericorde,. and told the directoresses that he should send them another. La bonne mire desired them to refuse it; and, finding them afraid oppose him, said, Well, I will tell him. I will give him my rea- sons politely, but should he persist, I shall declare that we will not alter our tune. We are mistresses at home, and we must preserve our freedom, otherwise, children, you will soon be enslaved. For fear of vexing one, or mortifying another, you would be led by the last comer, and each would think himself your master, and so step by step, our hymns would be changed, our classes destroyed. I will not have it so. Let us have a cha- racter of our own, and remember that so had St. Theresa. If you are peace mouillies, the first little country curate would turn you round his finger."

_Euripides. With an English Commentary, by F. A. Paley, Editor of 1schylus, &c.—This second volume of the Greek tragic poet sustains the character we assigned to the first * for the critical character of the intro- ductions and the utility of the notes. The volume contains six tragedies —Ion, Helena, Andromache, Electra, Bacchae, and Hecuba. In the preface, amid a variety of tomes, Mr. Paley puts forward the theory that the Greek tragedians did not invent their plots, (which, indeed, no one will dispute,) but drew them from the Cyclic poems (which can be only

• y true). The celebrity and importance of these latter poems, at esstin Greece, was greater, he holds, than is usually imagined. The relation of the later poetry to the Cyclus must of course remain an un- settled question. But we cannot doubt the existence of a large quarry of mythological tradition, in a rough unhewn state, to which the Attic dra- matists may have resorted.

English Grammar. By L. Direy and A. Foggo.—Although looking like a school book, this "English Grammar" is rather a treatise for the advanced student or metaphysical inquirer, than fitted for the teaching of young pupils ; as is indeed the case with many publications that appear now-a-days in similar guise. And by this remark we do not merely in- tend to designate the " intelligent " in opposition to the dogmatic method of teaching ; but that new views of the subject are more or less pro- pounded, and sometimes in a style which may task the metaphysician, please the rhetorician, or puzzle the schoolboy. Thus the authors of the book before us begin in this wise. " Speech is the proper attribute of man, the manifester of the intelligent soul which God breathed into him at the beginning ; it is the sayer of his thoughts and feelings, the interpreter between him and his fellow-creature."

Style, however, is not the sole feature of the book. Its authors aim at recasting grammar in general and English grammar in particular. According to Messrs. Direy and Foggo the Interjection is the germ of language ; and as a spontaneous utterance, often without volition, it may be so termed. But as a grammatical part of speech it is altogether subor- dinate, and by some modern grammarians is banished from the class. In Messrs. Direy and Foggo's system, the pronoun comes next, as repre- senting the individual man, and then follows the verb, after which stands the adjective, article, and noun ; though the equally natural and cer- tainly more regular order would be to take the noun first, as the name or idea of things which must meet the observation of every human being, the adjective as designating the qualities of those things, which must equally attract attention, and the verb expressing an action or suffering, and having as a word more of abstraction about it than a noun or an ad- jective. The scheme of our authors thus far, however, is speculative, and chiefly concerns the mere order of the parts of speech. When they close -adverbs, prepositions, and conjunctions under the head of abbreviations— "equivalent to one or more other words," and arrange them into five di- visions, the theory passes from the speculative into the practical.

We think such a book not adapted for teaching ; because children must be taught received or established knowledge ; not what is likely to be chal- lenged, and rejected by many. Considered as an Essay this volume may be recommended to persons who are curious in grammatical questions. It brings forward new ideas that may be worth examination, and, which is not always the case with books of the class, expresses them with clear- ness, while the aim of the whole is to simplify English Grammar. The Gentleman and His Horse. By Major T. A. Jenkins.—A system of equitation drawn from modem equestrian writers, as Colonel Green- wood and Captain Nolan, with an occasional reference to Xenophon ; their directions being increased and tested by the Major's own experience.

• Spectator for 1857, page 1047.

The author does not begin with the merest elements, but assuming that the tyro can keep his seat when once he gets there, the Major opens with " directions for mounting," and then proceeds to instructions for the various demands upon the horseman that will arise till he gets off again. It is a strictly practical treatise, and is accompanied by a com- panion addressed to ladies, in which the rules are varied to feminine requirements. Both publications are importations from Madras.

Traits and Stories of Anglo-Indian Life. By Lieut.-Colonel Addison, Author of " Diary of a Judge," &c.—A collection of tales and sketches descriptive of India and the modes of living there, chiefly as they appear to a nonacclimatized Englishman. Some of the papers have appear already—we should imagine in periodicals, others are new. A touch of melodramatic exaggeration is visible in most of them, whether the sub- ject be " thrilling" or funny ; but they are readable stories, and not devoid of interest—in short, a good book for a railway or any other place where the mind wishes easy amusement.

A Long-Vacation _Ramble in Continental Picture-Galleries. By the Rev. T. W. J ex Blake, M.A., late Fellow of Queen's Colleg.e, Oxford, &c.—This is a laudable attempt, which might, and not improbably may,

be supplemented by others, till the whole field shall be reviewed.Blake aims to supply travellers, in a portable and cheap form, with arc.

notes "a little fresher and fuller than the notices in Murray's Hand- books, a little less abstruse than Kugler ;" his memoranda having all been made last year, and from personal observation on the spot. Ric volume of 224 pages includes the collections at Antwerp, Berlin, Be. logna, Brussels, Dresden, Florence, Frankfort, Ghent, Hesse Cassel, Lille, Milan, Munich, Padua, Rome, 'Venice, and Vienna. With due re- gard for authority, the opinions which he gives are his own ; they are unprejudiced, and generally, we conceive, fair, and efficient for their purpose. He is somewhat too summary, however, for accomplishing his programme that no works "might be missed which could be at all worth looking at." This may be inferred from the fact that, at the gallery at Lille, containing at least about 750 works, only 10 notices are given ; and at other galleries we could point out what we deem decidedly to be omis- sions. Nor does he quite adhere to his principle of "omitting all really inferior works ": this would surely exclude, for instance, a Carlo Dolce, of which he can only say that it is "a miserable conception of God the Father." The particulars which he pretty frequently gives of the former locality of pictures are also superfluous for his object : and there is some- times a want of system apparent in such points as giving the name of the same painter now as Christopher Allori," now Cristoforo," now " Bronzino." All these points, however minute in themselves, detract from the completeness of a work of the kind: but on the whole it is ap- provable and useful.