PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

Memoirs of the Baroness d'Oberkirch, Countess de Montbrison. Writ- ten by Herself; and edited by her Grandson, the Count de Montbrison. In three volumes.

Fanny _Dennison ; a Novel. In three volumes.

Gabriella Witherington ; a Novel. By Mrs. Martin Lucas, Author of " Treachery," &c. In three volumes.

An Analysis and Summary of New Testament History ; including the Four Gospels Harmonized into one continuous Narrative, &c. ; with copious Notes, Historical, Geographical, and Antiquarian. By the Author of an "Analysis and Summary of Herodotus,' &c. [This volume exhibits the same painstaking analytical power and faculty of lucid classification that distinguished the Life of Herodotus ; to which is added more varied and extensive research. The New Testament History consists of two main parts-1. The Life of Christ arranged year by year ; 2. The History of the Apostles, from the Acts and other sources. The facts of the narrative are often paraphrased, and sometimes expanded ; discourse, parables, or sermons, are given in the exact words of Christ and the Apostles, any discrepancy between the different Evangelists being noted and explain- ed. There are also analyses of the Epistles and of Revelations, and a variety of illustrative historical matter. The success of the former works of this au- thor have induced him to announce his name—J. Talboys Wheeler, book- seller, of Cambridge.] Parish Sermons, preached for the most part at Trinity Church, Upper Dicker, in the county of Sussex. By the Bishop of Sierra Leone, late Incumbent of the Dicker.

[Four-and-twenty sermons on well-selected topics of Christian life; the doc- trine of justification through rather than by faith being prominently in- sisted on. They are brief, plain, and well-adapted for family reading, but have not the literary characteristics requisite for notice in a secular journal.] A _Dirge for Wellington. By Martin F. Tupper, Author of " Proverb- ial Philosophy." [This hasty effusion will not rank among the happiest of funereal poems. The ideas are commonplace—" everybody's thoughts " ; the panegyric is even overdone, not always as regards the actual merits of the Duke, but comparatively with reference to living men. In missing the exact charac- teristics of Wellington, the poet has missed the particular truth, some like- ness to which is always necessary even in compliment. The two following stanzas are the best and truest of the whole Dirge ; yet the leading idea is not the writer's, but a Frenchman's. " But stoutly too, with glad acclaim, Tell out his honest worth,—

There:never lived a child of fame More childlike on this earth!

Simple in heart, sincere in mind, Just, resolute, and true, Duty was all he strove to find, And all he dared to do! "Duty, though Death were on the track, Though Scorn were in the way, Duty, though Pleasure beckou'd back, Or Interest lured astray; Duty, great chief! thy glorious name Is link'd with Duty still, Through civic strife, and martial fame, Through good report and ill."]

Loehlin Ddu, and other Poems. By the Author of "Confessions of a Hypochondriac." [A Welsh tale of the olden time. Lochlin Ddu has gone disguised as a harper into the hall of his enemy, and though dismissed by the chieftain is scourged by his followers. In revenge, he carries off the heir of the house ; and, certain terms of augury not being complied with, jumps into the sea with the child. Such a story is almost of too singular a caste for poetry, though the author of " O'Connor's Child " might have done something with it. The writer of Lochlin Ddu is probably unequal to the theme; he cer- tainly has expanded it to flatness.] The Village Pearl; a Domestic Poem. With Miscellaneous Pieces. By John Crawford Wilson.

[The idea of The Village Pearl is derived from the old and somewhat hack- rued stories of seduction, except that Mr. Wilson preserves the purity of his heroine by a case of bigamy ; at the same time, he places the Village Pearl amid town vice during her search after her husband. The versification is smooth and easy, the style pleasant, and the imagery poetical; but the poem wants breadth in the subject and probability in the treatment. The story, too, is retarded by continual reflections and digressions.] Parks and Pleasure-Grounds; or Practical Notes on Country Resi- dences, Villas, Public Parks, and Gardens. By Charles H. J. Smith, Landscape Gardener and Garden Architect, &c.

The character of this publication is altovetber practical, from the opening nts upon the house and offices, to the closing directions about the arbore- tum and the pinetum, after the more specific objects of the book, the park, pleasure-grounds, and gardens, are dismissed. The subjects are well pur- sued in their details, and much varied information will he found in the volume.]

General Treatise on Geography. By A. F. Foster, A.M. (Chambers's Educational Course.)

[A well-planned and well-digested work ; exhibiting the principles of geo- graphy, an outline of the physical features of the earth on the method which Humboldt originated, and a particular view of the geography of each country, natural, historical, and social. The facts contained in the book are numer- ous—perhaps too numerous, because the circumstances which accompany them, and which are often necessary to impress them on the mind or leave a conclusion, are omitted. A useful and novel feature in the volume is a pro- nouncing and etymological index of geographical names.]

The Spelling and Dictation Lesson-book, or an easy way of Learning to Spell well ; with Examples, &c. By Jacob Lowres, Author of " A System of English Parsing and Derivation," &c.

[A very capital little book, properly used ; which it is scarcely possible to miss if the directions be attended to. The laws of English spelling are ex- hibited in a dozen rules, with examples, accompanied by the exceptions, and followed by miscellaneous exercises and subjects for writing from me- mory.]

The Battle of Leipsic. By the Reverend G. R. Gleig, &c. (Tra- veller's Library.)

[A critical and well-digested but somewhat ponderous account of the cele- brated battle which dealt the fatal blow, to Napoleon. It is prefaced by a brief survey of the Russian invasion, the efforts of Napoleon to retrieve its disasters, and the campaign in Germany that terminated in the battle of Leipsic.]

Memoir of the Duke of Wellington. Reprinted, by permission, from the " Times." (Traveller's Library.) Tire Restoration of Belief. Part II.

Plain Instructions for every person to Make a Will. Eleventh edition.

PAMPHLET.

An Appeal for the Erection of Catholic Churches in the Rural Dis- tricts of England; together with some Animadversions on the Pre- tensions of the Established Church, and on the recent approximation of her Worship to that of Rome. By the Catholic Bishop of Bantry.