PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

It is a notion too commonly entertained not only by the public but even by educated medical men who have not made diseases of the brain their special study, that many fatal affections of this class are suddenly developed without having been preceded by any premonitory symptoms or by any organic changes of the brain or its appendages. It is for the purpose of disabusing his readers of this error, and guarding them against its lamentable consequences, that Dr. Forbes Winslow has written his treatise ON OBSCURE DISEASES OF THE BRAIN AND DISORDERS OF THE MIND. The absence of all premonitory symptoms, so frequently insisted upon the friends of patients who have succumbed to apparently sudden disease of the brain, is rendered incredible by the evidence of long stand- ing disease discovered after death. The symptoms must have been there, and the patient might have been saved, had their import been understood by him or his friends. Hence the manifest importance of a book that teaches unprofessional readers to apprehend the signs of incipient cerebral disease, as readily as they do those is of other maladies for which the phy-

sician s consulted in good time.

The name of William Dunbar, the poet laureate of the court of James IV. of Scotland, is extensively known, but few know more than the name of " the giant," as Crabbe has called him, " the excellent poet," whom Walter Scott declared to be " unrivalled by any which Scotland has produced." " Throughout broad Scotland," says Mr. Paterson, " scarcely a vestige of his works is to be found, unless in the libraries of the wealthy who have a taste for antiquarian literature." Even Robert Burns was unacquainted with them, but now all readers may be- come familiar with them and with their author's history through the Luz AND Fonts, written and edited by Mr. Paterson. The volume is made the fitter for general acceptance by the omission of the poems that are too " high-kilted " for the taste of the present day.

The greater portion of the Hammes', MEMOIR OF rim O'Bannas, is based upon the publications of the Irish Archaeological Society, and upon Dr. O'Donovan's translation of a remarkable collection of the va- rious annals of Ireland, made early in the seventeenth century by the monks of the Franciscan monastery of Donegal, and entitled " The An- nals of the Four Masters." The author's purpose has been to illustrate the condition of Ireland and her people of the ancient race from the days of Brian Boru to the legislative Union, and it appeared to him that a connected history of one leading family of the Celtic stock would serve very conveniently for the fulfilment of that purpose.

Tam OuiPs" OF THE OLD WORLD is the obscure title of a pleasant little volume of travels, in which we find nothing but the title that sa- vours of affectation. The author went over the ground usually included in the range of a Levantine tour—from Italy to Alexandria, up the Nile to Nubia, then back to Cairo and across the Desert to the Holy Land and Syria, and to Italy again via Constantinople and Athens. There is not much novelty in her little book, but it describes her impres- sions in a natural and agreeable manner, and may be recommended as acceptable light reading.

In the first instalment of his book on TEE Heyman GROUNDS or Tat OLD WORLD the author narrates his sporting adventures in the Deccan, Southern India, the Neilgherries, and the great Annamullay Forest, in Circassia, and in Algeria. His talk is not all of hunting and shooting, for he mingles with it reflections and descriptions, science and social, and sundry yarns spun to him by the companions he encountered in his wanderings. We infer from an allusion in "the Old Shekarry's 14th chapter, that if he is not one of the Six Hundred who charged at Balaklava, he was in the van of that day's fight.

The want of a manual of church history, at once so comprehensive as to serve for reference, and so condensed as to form a suitable text-book for students, has been long and increasingly felt. To supply this want, the Reverend Alfred Eversheim has translated with emendations and ad- ditions, the HISTORY OF THE CHRISTLAN CHURCH TO THE REFORMATION, by Professor Kurtz. It is a single volume of moderate dimensions, and considering the magnitude and complexity of its subject, and the multi- tude of abstruse details comprised in it, the book may be said to fulfil the purpose for which it was written as nearly perhaps as one could reasonably expect. It is not a pleasant book to read; no art could have made it so without sacrificing much of its fulness and accu-

racy; but it have been less uncouth if the translation had been executed by a more cunning hand.

Among the new editions of the week is the third of Canon Moseley's ASTRO-THEOLOGY. The book consists of a series of short popular papers, which treat of those evidences of the wisdom and goodness of God which may be seen in the daily changes of the heavens.

ARTIST AND Onerrsmsn' reprinted from the Dublin University Maga- zine, is what the Germans call a "tendency-novel."

BOOKS.

A Sketch of the History of Flemish Literature and its Celebrated Authors, from the Twelfth Century to the Present Time. By Octave Delpierre, LL.D. Compiled from Flemish Sources. Travels and Adventures of the Reverend Joseph Wolf, D.D., late Missionary to the Jews and Mohammedans in Persia, Bokhara, Cashmere, &c. Volume I. The Hunting Grounds of the Old World. By " The Old Shekarry,"

First Series.

An Essay on the Causes of distant Alternate Periodic Inundations orer the Low Lands of each Hemisphere. By Augustus Bergh.

Letters of Alexander Humboldt, written between the years 1827 and 1858 to Varnhagen von Ense. Together with extracts from Varnhagen's Diaries, and Letters from Varnhagen and others to Humboldt. Authorized transla- tion from the German, with Explanatory Notes and a full Index of Names. Historical Memoir of the O'Brien*. With Notes, Appendix, and a Genealogi- cal Table of their several Branches. Compiled from the Irish Annalists. By John O'Donoghue, A.M.

The Life and Poems of William Dunbar, Author of Wallace and his Times," &c.

The Life of Sir Martin Archer Shee, President of the Royal Academy, fc„ By his Son, Martin Archer Shee, Esq. In two volumes. Domestic Memoirs of the Royal Family, and of the Court of England, chiefly at Shene and Richmond. By Folkestone Williams. In three volumes.

The Oldest of the Old World. By Sophia May Eckley. Christ in Life : Life in Christ. By J. C. M. Bellew. Elements of Chemical Physics. By Josiah P. Cooke, junior, Erving Pro- fessor of Chemistry and Mineralogy in the Harvard University. Elkerton Rectory. Being Part Second of " Twenty Years m the Church." By the Reverend John Pycroft. Popular Astronomy. A Concise Elementary Treatise on the Sun, Planets. Satellites, and Comets. By 0. M. Mitchell, LL.D. Director of the Cin- cinnati and Dudley Observatories. A Lady in her Own Right. A Novel. By Westland Marston. British Butterflies. Figures and Descriptions of every Native Species, with an Account of Butterfly Development, Structure, Habits, Localities, mode of Capture and Preservation, &c. By W. S. Coleman. With Illustrations by the Author, Printed in Colours by Edmund Evans. Lady Goodchild's Fairy Book. Advanced Beading-Book Literary and Scientific.

Bennett's Conundrum A, B, C. By C. Sloman. Illustrated by W. Calvert.

Nzw EDITIONS Ann Raearwrs.

Astro-Theology. By Henry Moseley, M.A. The Universal Table-Book. By M. D. Kavanagh.

Poems, containing the City of the Dead. By John Collett.

Artist and Craftsman. Ingenue ; or the Death of Must. A Romance. By the Author of " Monte Christo."

Fabian's Tower. A Novel. By the Author of " The Earl's Cedars;'