PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The Poetical TVorks of Thomas :More; collected by Himself. In ten vols. Vol. III.

[Tide volume is the richest that has yet come out in point of poetry, but the most meagre in new prose. The poetry contains the political satires and jenx (resin* that appeared under the earlier part of the Regency, including " The Twopenny Post-Bag"; it also commences the gem of the Poetical Works— "The Melodies." The prefatory notice is merely a commentary on the ap- pearance of the political satires, with two or three good anecdotes: all the par- ticulars relating to " The Melodies" are deferred till their completion in the ensuing volume.] The Scientific and Literary Treasury; a New and Popular Encyclopredia of the Belles Lettres. By SAMUEL Marsiona, Author of "The Trea- sury' of Knowletbse " &c

, &c.

Ph. Mai:Nut:Ws skill in the choice of subjects for popular exposition, and his power in condensing a great quantity of matter into a small space, are too well known to require panegyric. The present volume is a dictionary of things rather than of words, if wo may be allowed the expression : he does more than define the meaning of a word, he explains the thing which the word represents, and very frequently in curious detail. Thus, under the head of " Labour,' there is an account of the different rates of labourers' wages at different periods ; " Newspaper" contains a brief notice of the history of journalism, and a few of the leading facts in the management of the daily papers; and so on. The judgment exercised in the selection of the subjects can only be ascertained after much use of the volume ; and not always then, since something the re- ferrer happens to want may be so special that the compiler would not be justi- fied in introducing it into a book where much must of necessity be omitted. This, however, can be safely said of the Scientific and Literary Treasury, that it contains an immense mass of information, which cannot be found else- where in so small a compass, if it can be found anywhere in a collected shape.] Art Historical Sketch of the Protestant Church of France, from its origin to the present tittles. Ify the Rev. JOHN G. LoutmEn. [This work originally appeared in a religious periodical. The approbation with which it was received suggested the idea of a republication to the author's friends ; and in complying with their request, the Reverend :foliar G. Lour- AMR so expanded his first sketches as to considerably extend the work. The period treated of commences in 1559, and ends not till 1840 : its moat striking features being the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, the religious civil wars, and the persecution that followed the revocation of the. Edict of Nantes. The author is rather an annalist or chronicler than an historian ; to which title, indeed, he does not aspire. Ms pages abound with quotations from public do- cuments and contemporary accounts ; which might often have been condensed with advantage, their style being feeble and diffuse. These qualities attach in some degree to Mr. ',women himself; who is also too good a Presbyterian to possess that calm and rigid impartiality necessary in a religious historian.] Naomi, or the Last Days of' Jerusalent. By Mrs. J. B. 11'EI/11, Author of "The Child's Commentary on St. Lukit,"

[A tale of the destruction of Jernsitletn, in which the historical events of the period are intermingled with the story of a *lowish and Romieh family, sonic of' whose members form recipreval attachments, and are converted to Chris- tianity. A religious object is indeed the avowed purpose of the author, but the history lass more interest than the fiction.]

Tho' Reiyhtave of Great Britain and Ireland. [A sketch of the history of the different orders of British Knighthood—the Garter, the 'thistle, St. Patrick's, and the Bath, together with the British- Ionian order of St. Michael and St. George ; with an account of Knights Bachelors, or what are commonly called Knights—persons daUed when they carry up MI address, guilt an office, or do something agreeable to Royalty. To each order is appended a list of membera, with biographical notes. A short heraldic account of the different religious orders of knighthood opens the work.] The tbrester's Offering. By ficENcnn T. IIAr.L, a native of Sherwood

Forest.

[A little volume of prose and verse, the composition in a double sense of a working printer at York ; whose thirst for knowledge drove hint from his fa- vourite haunts " in the merry green wood " to the city where lie learned his trade ; and during his intervals of relaxation, he penned these effusions of a

Bona s.

TOW' to the Sepulchres of Etruria, in 1839. By Mrs. HAMILTON GRAY. With numerous Illustrations.

Patchwork. By C tptain BASIL HALL, R.N., F.R.S. In three vols. Satan in Lore; a Dramatic Poem. By Mrs. Haunter DOWNING, Author of " Remembrances of a Monthly Nurse," &c. The Tower of London; an Historical Romance. By WILLIAM 11Anar- SON AINSWORTH. 111/191rated by GEORGE CRUIKSIIANK. Poems by the Lady Flora hustings. Edited by her Sister. Lonybeard, Lord of London ; a Romance. In three vols. healthful fancy and a kindly heart. The descriptions of Sherwood Forest, and the woodland scenery in its neighbourhood, breathe the spirit of the place ; and the vindication of Robin Hood front the reproach of thievery is well done: the rhymes evince a musical car, and facility if not elegance of versification. A goodly list of subscribers bespeaks the estimation in which the author is held in his neighbourhood, and the literary and typographical efforts of the " com- positor" are worthy of a wither celebrity; but he should not forget Sir %A:ALTER Score's shrewd observation, that authorship is "a sorry crutch though a good staff:] Wild Flowers from the Glens. By E. L. L.

[ Half &dozen romantic tales connected with the local superstitions and scenery of the glens of Antrim, but in which the florid descriptions predominate over the slight attempts to sketch Irish character. The " flowers" are only " inasmuch as they are " vagrant," being in truth somewhat sickly ; and the authoress pleads her youth and inexperience, and the nipping frost of affliction, in extenuation of her defects of culture.]

Fables and Proverbs for Children. Edited by G. M. BUSSEY. 'With eighty-five Illustrations.

[The anovelty' of this collection is the incorporation of the moral with the fable itself. This is a good plan ; but why modernize the terse vernacular English of the old style ?]

Fables and Moral Maxims, in Prose and Verse. Selected by ANNE PAR- KER. Second edition.

[We noticed this little work in the first edition. It is beautifully printed; its pages bordered with red lines, and adorned with wood-cuts emulating the expressive homely style of Baseless.]

Bible Stories, from the Creation to the Conquest of Canaan. By G. M. BussEr. With Illustrations by B. WESTALL, R.A., and JOHN MAR- TIN. f Florid amplifications of the leading events in the books of Moses, illustrated by well-known cuts.] The Saturil.ty 31agazinc. Vol. XVII. volume of an entertainiug awl instructive miscellany, which has not fallen in our orgy fire a long time, maintains the character of the work iy varied information, adapted to topics of current interest upon occasion—the war in Syria for instance. Old and modern prints, figures of animals and plants. and original views of interesting objects, form the subjects of the bold and effective wood-cuts.] The Diseases of the flip-joint; with Observations on affections of the Joints in the Puerperal state. With plates. By W11,1,1.1A1 COULSON, Surgeon to the Magdalen hospital, Re. Second edition, with altera- tions and additions.

[We noticed at length this useful treatise on its first appearance. An addi- tional chapter, and very considerable other additions, the result oh' the author's further observations, appear in this edition.]

A Vocabulary st the Diaket o/' South- lI'istern Australia. I3y Captain G. Gum-, Eighty-third Regiment. Second edition. [Useful Ibr emigrants to Australia, and curious to philological students. Sonic forms of the verbs and pronouns are given, and directions fbr pronunciation of the vowels. Our consonants r, S, and x, or the sounds they represent, do not occur in the Australian tongue; and they have many sounds which cannot be properly expressed by the letters of our alphabet. Being tut unwritten lon- gtime:, the spelling is of course arbitrary, to convey the sound as nearly as may be.

The Magpie Papers; or Brother Jonathan, " the smartest nation in all creation." Illustrated by Boomer CRUIKSHANN. In three vols.

[A collection of coarse, commonplace, and rambling sketches of American character and manners.]

Lectures on the English Cnuic Writers. By WILLIAM HAZLITT. Third edition. Edited by his Son. PTAZLITT'S relish for wit and humour, and Ids acute perception of the critical value of the good things lie enjoyed, give to these disesorses a raciness and gusto akin to the discriminating smack of the lips of the epieu.e when his palate is tickled by smile dainty morsel: it is like reading Mir fireourite authors over again in compiley with one who not only laughs with Int point; out the felicitous thought that ]pleases. II zr.cyr was a wilful as well as a tine critic; but he always writes from the impulse of thought, if not always under the guidance of stria reason ; and brilliant as is his style, he never, like too many of our would-be twill/ants, sat ritiees sense to sound. This is one Id the series or reprints of IIAZLITT'S WiAS by his son ; less in size and price, and containing same additional matter selected by the author himself from some published fragments.] The 11'0,40? ff./ William E. Clamaill D.D. Vol. V. Third edition. The Book of Jlattos n , borne by nobility and gentry, leiblic companies, cities, Re.; with their Englisil Sig nitications, bearers' I.-isles, titles, &e.; and occasional notes and illustrations. Selected In i ii "The Book of Family Crests," and other sources. A New Supplement to Euclid's Ekments V Geometry. By the Author of "A New Introduction to the Mitthematies."

The _Modern Spelling-Book, and Early _Educator; consisting of well- selected spelling and improved reading lessons ; to whiell are added very easy eater hisins on natural history, astronomy, geography, ex- pressly adapted to the capacities of young children. Illustrated with numerous cuts and diagrams. By CHARLES EYES.

SERIA LS.

.History of the French Recobttion, by I). N. jonsoN. Part T. [This is the commencement of a work in parts, ten of which will 101111 a volume HMI complete the sulrject. The- narrative is broad, readalde, and rhetorical; not distinguished for perfect eiiltiniess, :Ind dealing in strong terms applied to one party only. It appears to be compiled from the best modern authors, who have directly or indirectly tremod of the subject ; •atel scuts • likely to limn a compendium of the most striking filets and characters of the French Revo- lution.] LeSeflUt, Part IV.

Thomas's Transtatioa of the Devil Olt Two Si;eks, Part VIII. The Works of Jes,pha, Part X. Lecterns1,meo ou the Cultivation of the Mind, that Formation of Character, :Lail the. Coodeet of Life. By GEout:t: W. BURNAP. (Standard American Li [era! ire.)

[Sound, practical advice, tending to show that compatibility of intellectual studies with eommercial pursuits ; whirl' though more particularly adapted to American citizens, may be followed with equal advactage in this carnet ey.]

Jon,s's Gmaral Outline vi the liMmtan, Parts X I I. and XIII.

Forl.c.s's of British St.nfisIns, Parts I I. and III. [The curious variety in this singulars pecies of fish, and the extreme minute- ness and Insanity of the cuts in the work, call fir fresh remark; especially as so little is 1010W11 Of this group of animated beings.] l'arrell's History V British Birds, Parts X.X. and X X 1.

niarititia AND PRINTS.

/Vie/let's Cities sad Threns ‘!/* Sear/and. 'Part I.—Aberdeen, illustrated in nine views ; with explanatory remarks, plan of the town, and several vignettes. [The commencement of n serial work, consisting, of sketches, in tinted litho- graphy, on the scale of those of Ileransw, ROBERTS, STANFIELD, 81e, but issued nn parts, each one devoted to a particular place, and published separately, being complete in itself. The Aberdeen portfolio opens with a vignette of the fine o.d " Brig of Balgownie' " with its noble Gothic arch ; and them after giving a view of the city and bay from Corn hill, presents the most striking points of the principal streets and public buildings, King's College and the Cathedral in particular. The lithographic drawings are slight, but character- istic, and doubtless filithful; and the style in which the work is got up is highly creditable to Messrs. Nicosia.] Mr. Donaldson's Design for the New Royal Exchange. 1839. No. 50. The First of the Best Class. Engraved by E. Oradell:R. {A perspective view, beautifully etched in outline, of the design for a new !loyal Exchange, which was generally acknowledged to he most worthy of adoption, but was unfairly set aside on the pretence that it could not lie exe- cuted for the prescribed sum, the architect not being allowed to prove the fal- lacy of the allegation. The view presents the entrance-front, with its noble portico of eight plain Corinthian columns supporting a pediment highly enriched with sculpture, and also shows the South or Cornhill facade; which, like the North front, is composed of a colonnade of twelve columns the height of the building, corre- sponding with those of the portico. The characteristic of the ensemble is chaste, solid magnificence; and the most conspicuous feature, the portico, from its depth and richness, would have been unrivalled for lofty elegance and massive grandeur. Mr. Tern's design, which is to be carried into effect, looks poor, flat, and commonplace, in comparison: pilasters are substituted for columns on the lateral fronts, and the portico is scarcely worthy of the name, being a mere screen of columns having no depth of shade, and its pediment naked and meagre. It turns out, as we suspected, that the whole affair was a planned job from the beginning, the Committee being the dupes.] Ricotta's Rustic Architecture, No.

Canadian Sanery Illustrated, Part XL

Physiognoseopography: Burton's Anatomy of the Stage and Anatomy of Grimace.

[Amusing toys for Christmas; consisting of two cards with apertures flaming frames to a succession of grotesque heads, that produce two hundred and eighty-right changes in each card, by means of two revolving discs, one with twenty-four faces, the other with twelve head-dresses, that fit uric into the other, and thus cause most laughable incongruities.]

The Ornamental Designs of Watteau, Parts V. and VI.

MAPS.

Bible .Maps, or a Historical and Descriptive Athts of Scripture Geo. graphy; wherein the ancient authorities are verified and corrected from the information of"Travellers and Writers up to the present time. By 1Wil.1.1AM HUGHES, F.R.G.S.

(The distinguishing features of the new Scripture Atlas are the chronological arrangement of the twelve maps, showing the divisions of the countries, ;mil the names of places as they existed at different periods of their history ; mid the explanatory memoirs, which state %uch particulars as cannot so well be ex- pie vet on the plate. Tire known and conjectural localities are also indicated in the maps • which have been revised with studious care by Mr. II en111:S, a gentleman well conversant with the geography of this region. The plates are engraved on copper and printed from stone, with very little diminution of clear- ness; and the boundary-lines are coloured. Altogether, the alias seems well adapted to aid the Biblical student : moreover, it is of a handy size.] Chart of the Chu-sine Archipehigo,

ALMANAC ICS.

The Comic Almanark, for 1841; with twelve Illustrations of the Months by Geolicie C111:11:S11ANIC. 4AA capital budget of fun. Cue MSIIANK'S himself again on St. Valentine's e] Vials an Essay on Anemology and DcmhPdogy ; founded par:ty on admitted principles, and partly on observations and discover', s, recently mule, on the influence of the planet Jupiter and its satellites on our atmosphere. With is Weather Almanaek for 1841. By PETuri LEGH, Esq., A.M.

PAMPHLETS.

The Present Condition q* the BritiA West Indies; their Wants' and the Rented), for these: with some Practical Hints, showing the Policy of a New System, as a means to their future Regenerathee By 1lEsda NoliSoN.

Lord John Rus,41, Sir Thomas Fowl, Buxton, and the Niger Expedition; or Observations on the formation of Permanent Settlements on the Niger in Western Africa : with copies of Correspondence with Vi,,contit Cullerich in 1.9:12, and Lord joint Russell in 1S4 1, By l'Arr. READ. Principles of National Education. By the Reverend Ileeee lloewooto B.A. of Queen's College, Cambridge. The righted Sacred Pledge; or tire Vow of Godfathers and Godmothers. By AmICI'S. Report of the Directors of the Liverpool 3ferhonies Institution to the Annual Meeting of the Members, Ilth March 1es10.