• PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Theological Essays. By F. D. Maurice, M.A., Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn, &c.

Life in Sweden ; with Excursions in Norway and Denmark. By Selina Bunbiu7. In two volumes. An Eight Weeks' Journal in Norway, &e., in 1862, with Rough Out- line. By Sir G. Anderson, Bart. Hebrew Politics in the Times of Sargon and Sennacherib : an Inquiry into the Historical Meaning and Purpose of the Prophecies of Isaiah, with some Notice of their bearings on the Social and Political Life of England. By Edward Strachey. A Review of Public Instruction in the Bengal Presidency, from 1815 to 1851. By J. Ker, M.A., Principal of Hooghly College. Part I.

Popular Physical Geology. By I. Baste Jukes, M.A., F.It.S., &c. Popular Economic Botany. By Thomas Croxen Archer, Collector of the

Liverpool Imports exhibited at the Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851.

base two volumes of Messrs. Reeve's handbooks on " Popular Natural History " are among the most valuable of the series. Mr. Jukes's Popular Physical Geology is peculiarly remarkable for the skilful treatment of his subject. The established facts and principles of geology are not only presented with freshness, but so clearly enforced and illustrated as to impress the mind of the student ; while he is stimulated to observation by the facility with which he is shown that observations can be made. The coloured drawings which illustrate the book exhibit some of the most re- markable geological pluenomena, at the same time that they form striking views. Dealing with the details of many matters, Popular Economic Botany does not furnish an opportunity for so much novelty of exposition as the Geology ; but it brings together a number of curious and instructive facts with a clear and instructive arrangement. Under the respective heads of vegetable substances used as food, or in manufactures, arts, medicine, and constructive purposes—as houses and furniture, Mr. Archer presents his readers with the properties, appearance, habitat, cultivation, and commercial uses, of a very great number of plants and vegetables ; their botanical fea- tures being illustrated by plates as well as by description. Neither does Mr. Archer altogether neglect the larger topics arising from religious and philo- sophical reflection.] Lays and Lectures for Scotia's Daughters of Industry. By the Reverend Charles Marshall, Dunfermline.

[The object of Mr. Marshall in this little volume is to provide a better sort of songs for the humbler classes of Scotland than those they are in the habit of singing. The subjects of his " lays " are drawn from those incidents in the lives of female domestics, or working "hands," which best serve to point an ethical and religious moral for their guidance ; at the same time they are not devoid of spirit or interest. Poetry like that of Burns the "lays" have not, and the grave nature of their treatment will not recommend them to the convivial ; but they are tripping, and in speaking of the sins and sorrows of humble life, touching. The " lectures " are short prose exhortations on the topics of the songs.]

Cranford. By the Author of "Mary Barton," &c. [This publication bears some resemblance to the "Our Village" of Miss Hit- ford, but with greater variety of story and leas minute description of external things ; although the small secluded town of Cranford, the stronghold of poor, amiable, good-intentioned aristocracy in a small way, is sufficiently done. Having placed the town and its leading families of widows and spinsters be- fore the reader, the author of "Mary Barton" recalls the past stories of some of its inhabitants from hearsay, or tells the present from observation or confession. Cranford is an agreeable mixture of the tale and the de- scriptive essay.] Travels of .Rolando ; or a Tour Round the World. Second series. By Anne Bowman, Author of "Laura Temple." With Illustrations by William Harvey. [The continuation of a book of fictitious travels, translated some years ago by Miss Aikin. The framework is—a son wandering in search of his pa- rents, accompanied by some scientific friends, who follow their respective pursuits while he is in search of his family. The range of travel in the continuation is wide enough : from Bombay to the Frozen Ocean, through Persia, Russian Tartary, and Siberia ; and thence back across Tartary to China, Macao, and a "Pirate Island," whence the travellers escape to Eng- land. The numerous sevens allow the introduction of scientific and anti- quarian topics, but occasionally retard the narrative.] Essays on Sonic of the Forms of Literature. By Thomas T. Lynch, Author of " The Memorials of Theophilus Trinal."

[This book contains a revised publication of lectures on poetry, biography, autobiography, history, fiction, criticism, and writings of the day, delivered before the Royal Institution at Manchester. They are somewhat rhapsodical, and rather express the ideas which certain forms of literature suggest to the writer, than convey to the reader a definite knowledge of principles, or any description of the works of literature in the classes alluded to.]

A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Cofee- house Tokens, current in the Seventeenth Century. Presented to the Corporation Library by H. B. H. Beaufoy, Citizen and Distiller, &c. By Jacob Henry Burn. [This volume emanates from the City of London, and contains an account of the tokens issued by London traders in the seventeenth century to supply the scarcity of halfpennies and farthings, and in some cases probably with the view of serving as an advertisement. The collection, of which Mr. Burn of Bow Street has compiled a descriptive catalogue, was presented to the City by Mr. Beaufoy, and it yields in value only to that of the British Museum. The catalogue is preceded by an introductory history of our penny, halfpenny' and farthing coinage, in silver, with the attempts made to establish a coppei coinage of those monies under the Stuarts and the Commonwealth. This was not finally accomplished till about 1674; after which time tokens as a com- mon currency disappeared. The idea is creditable to the Corporation, and the execution to Mr. Burn.] D. junii luvenalis Satire XIII Thirteen Satires of Juvenal. The Latin Text of Otto Jahn. Edited, with English Notes, by J. 5.13. Mayor, ILA., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, &c. [A painstaking and critical edition of thirteen satires of Juvenal, with argu- ments and notes in English, designed for schools. Great industry, a larg

knowledge of the author and his times, as well as of those Is riters who throw light upon his text, with a freer spirit than usually accompanies the com- mentator, are characteristics of Mr. Mayor. Perhaps, for the purpose of merely construing Juvenal, the notes might have been briefer and fewer. It is also matter of question whether this great satirist, whose text and its ex- position contain a complete picture of his age, eau be well comprehended by schoolboys. But the more mature student will find Mr. Mayor's edition adapted to his wants. The satires omitted are the second, sixth, and ninth.]

The Landlord's and Tenant's Guide : a Compendium of Information

upon the Procuring, Occupying, and Disposing of Estates and Houses, and many collateral subjects; with a Gazetteer of Great Britain. By

Alfred Cox' Estate Agent. [A practical work by a practical man, and containing a good deal of practi- cal information on buying, selling, taking or letting houses or land, and disposing of "furniture and effects." Traces of that enthusiasm which in- duces "every man to aggrandize his own profession" may be found in the volume, but not more than might be expected. An appendix contains al- phabetical notices of the capabilities of the towns and villages round Lon- don, the watering-places, a review of the counties, and a list of the princi- pal towns and villages of the United Kingdom.] Nstoms' Administrators and Customs' Reformers ; or " The Digest of the Proceedings of the Charlotte Row Committee" Examined. By James O'Dowd, Esq., Barrister-at-law. [This volume is an extension of a pamphlet which Mr. O'Dowd published in defence of the Board of Customs. It is in the form of an inquiry into the fairness and accuracy of the Committee of Merchants and others, which sat in Charlotte Row and exerted themselves in favour of Customs Reform, by the collection of information and the publication of reports or pamphlets.] The Illustrated Handbook to London and its Environs. With fifty Engravings, two Maps, and Panorama of the River Thames from Windsor to the Nore.

jiffy- engravings, a map of London' another of the country twenty miles round London, a panorama of the Thames, and a good deal of information about London and its sights, for a shilling.] Book of French Verbs. By A. F. Gentili, Professor of Modern Languages.

The tenth edition of "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" is the handsomest that we have seen : type, paper, general appearance, are un- exceptionable; and if wood-cut illustrations are not altogether new' they are more numerous than heretofore. The book has been revised by a scientific friend; "proofs, illustrations, authorities &c.," are added in an

appendix; and a new preface takes a brief review of origin and reception of the work. It appears that the author is "a private person with limited opportunities of study."

The other books in the list are possibly not all reprints. For example, F. W. Newman's "Crimes of the House of Hapsburg," forming the eighth number of "Chapman's Library for the People," is a tract compiled from various sources, exhibiting the cruelties and tyrannies of the Austrian dy- nasty from an early period to the late doings in Hungary. "Infidelity, its Cause and Cure," may be an original book, but it looks like an Ame- rican reprint. Neither are we certain whether Mr. Morel's People's Edi- tion of "Lectures on the Tendencies of the Age" has previously appeared in the form of a volume.

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation. Tenth edition, with ex- tensive additions and emendations, and illustrated by numerous En- gravings on Wood.

The Three Colonies of Australia : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia ; their Pastures, Copper Mines, and Gold Fields. By Samuel Sydney, Author of "The Australian Handbook," &c. With numerous Engravings. Second edition, revised by the Author.

The Age and Christianity. By Robert Vaughan, D.D. Second edition.

The Philosophical Tendencies of the Age; being four Lectures delivered at Edinburgh and Glasgow. By J. D. Morel, A.M., one of her Ma- jesty's Inspectors of Schools, Author of "An Historical and Critical View of the Speculative Philosophy of Europe in the Nineteenth Cen- tury," &c. (People's Edition.) Memorials of Theophilus Trinal, Student. By Thomas T. Lynch. Se- cond edition.

Essays by R. W. Emerson, of Concord, Massaehusetts. With Preface by Thomas Carlyle. (Chapman's Library for the People.) The Crimes of the House of Hapsburg against its own Liege Subjects. By F. W. Newman, formerly. Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, &c. (Chapman's Library for the People.) Infidelity : its Cause and Cure. By the Reverend David Nelson, M.D. The Home Circle. Volume VIII.

The Bible and the Working Classes. By Alexander Wallace, Edin- burgh. Fifth thousand.

PAMPHLETS.

Speech of the Bight Honourable Sir Charles Wood, President of the

Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India, on moving for Leave to introduce a Bill to Provide for the Government of India.

A _Letter to John Bright, Esq., M.P., relative to the Recent Debates in

Parliament on the India Question. By J. C. Marshman. India Reform. No. VHI. Public Works. Itfereantde and Maritime College in the City of London. Report of the Public Meeting. A Short and Sure Way of Preventing Bribery at Elections; with some Illustrative Facts. By Rigby Wason, Esq. Registration of Assurances Bill. By J. T. Humphry, Esq., Barrister- at-law.

The Defence of the Innocent (the Reverend E. Davies and Mrs. Davies) from the Charges brought against them by the Officers of the London Missionary Society. By the Reverend Robert Ainslie. The World's Greatest Benefactor : a Lecture. By Alexander Wallace, Edinburgh. Paradise, the Home of Happy Souls after Death : a Sermon. By the Reverend Robert Arm Wilimott, Bear Wood.