PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Berms.

A History of England during the Reign of George the Third. By William Massey, M.P. Volume I. 1744-1770.

A Ramble through Normandy; or Scenes, Characters, and Incidents in a Sketching Excursion through Calvados. By George M. Musgrave, M.A., Author of "The Parson, Pen, and Pencil," "Nine and 't wo," &c.

Life of William Etty, HA. By Alexander Gilchrist, of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law.

A Disquisition on certain Parts and Properties of the Blood. By David Tod, M.R.C.S., Author of "The Anatomy, Physiology, and Pathology of the Organ of Hearing," &c. With Illustrative Wood- cuts.

.Eutherapeia : or an Examination of the Principles of Medical Science, with Researches in the Nervous System. By Robert Garner, Surgeon to the North Staffordshire Infirmary, &c., late President of the North Staffordshire Medical Society; Author of Papers in the Linnean and Zo8logical Transactions, &c.

A History of the Book of Common Prayer; with a Rationale of us Offices. By the Reverend Francis Procter, M.A., late Fellow of St. Catherine's Hall, Cambridge, Vicar of Witten, Norfolk.

The History of Herbert _Lake. By the Author of "Anne Dysart," &c. In three volumes.

The Warhawk ; a Tale of the Sea. By F. Claudius Armstrong, Author of "The Two Midshipmen." In three volumes.

Will my Readers Go to Spain ? or Day after Day for Two Months in the Peninsula.

Chronicles of Wolfert's Roost, and other Papers. By Washington Irving. Author's edition. (Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Lite- rature, Volume IV.) St. Louis and Henri IV.; being a second series of Historical Sketches. By John Hampden Gurney, M.A., Rector of St. Mary's' Marylebone. [The object of this work is to furnish juvenile or uninstructed readers with

an intermediate course of reading between such histories as those of Mrs. Markham, and the great works of Hume, Robertson, Hallam, Sismondi, and other modern French writers. To impress events and persons upon the mind, Mr. Gurney takes a man as representing an epoch or a great subject, and groups the striking historical facts of his age and country around the biographical hero. Neither Louis the Ninth nor Henry the Fourth is so well adapted for this purpose as was Columbus, or Luther, or Caxton, in his first volume. Both Kings, however, were remarkable men : Louis for his Christian character, not untinged with Romish superstition, but pure, con- scientious, and pious to a degree only paralleled among princes, according to Ginza, by Marcus Aurelius. Henry the Fourth had public failings and private vices ; but his capacity, his courage, his buoyancy of spirit under every change of fortune, his bonhomie, and, more than all perhaps, his suc- cess, have placed him in the first rank of the Kings of France, if not indeed aathe first of her Kings. The epochs also were remarkable : that of Louie as 'witnessing the decline of the feudal power and the crusading spirit, and the growth of a vigorous national opposition to the Papal claims : under Henry the French monarchy was consolidated, and means were furnished for Richelieu and Mazarin to establish the absolute power of the French Sovereign. Mr. Gurney's sketch of both Monarchs is very well done. The principal facts are told in a lively, readable manner ; the reflections are apt, with a slight touch of the writer's clerical profession. An illustrative appendix explains at full many allusions in the text ; the details informing and amusing as well as explanatory. It is a volume well adapted to answer the writer's purpose, and may be read by other students of French history than those for whom it was primarily intended.]

Leaves from a Family Journal. From the French of Emile Souvestre. [A species of fiction of which we hardly have a counterpart. It is not ex- actly a juvenile tale, though it has a good many moral lessons ; still less is it a novel after the English mode. The story begins with the marriage of the youthful M. Rend and his wife Marcelle ; it closes with the marriage of their daughter, and the reformation of their son, who has been sent to .Paris as a clerk, and has got involved in gayety and bad company. The inter- vening parts contain an account of daily married life, the birth and train- ing of children, a reverse of fortune which overtakes the family, the improve- ment of their circumstances, with some of the evils that wealth brings in its train, and their sober happiness at last. The incidents are of an everyday kind, but possess freshness from the foreign manners and ideas, and interest from the lessons they are made to point. Those lessons often contain a pro- found truth ; not of the solid ethical character which characterizes British didactic fiction, but probably as useful to the happiness of domestic life. The form of the book is that of a journal kept by the husband. The diary is writ- ten with elegance and spirit; not unfrequently with pointed smartness, where point may properly be admitted.] Christmas Dawn 1854 and New-Year's Eve 1855. By H. R. F.

[In the poem on Christmas Day the author takes advantage of the season to inculcate the desirableness of peace, though not in a Peace Society spirit, while pointing to the desolation that war has brought to many a hearth. New-Year's Eve is of a more martial character, recurring to the glories of the Crimea in a triumphant lone; but sadness for losses by the sword or pestilence dashing the strain with melancholy. There is some poetical spirit improved by scholastic training in the pieces ; but they are almost too slight in structure for separate publication.]

Lays and Lyrics. By C. Rae Brown. [A volume of occasional poems on common subjects, and for the most part of moderate length. They are smooth, glib, and not unpleasant reading; but they cannot be called poetry. About one-half of the volume appeared some years since under the title of Lyrics on Sea and Shore.] The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer. With Lives,_ Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes, by the Reverend George Gilfillan.

[This volume of Mr. Nichors "Library Edition of the British Poets" presents us with writers of a minor class. There is power in Blair's "Grave"; something more than elegant mediocrity in Beattie's "Minstrel"; and the volume is a specimen of popular poetry a century ago. The matter of Mr. Gilfillan's criticism is judicious.]

Cornwall; its Mines and Miners. With Sketches of Scenery. De- signed as a popular Introduction to Metallic Mines. By the Author of "Our Coal and Our Coal-pits : the People in them, and the Scenes around them." In two parts. (Traveller's Library.) [A capital two-shillings-worth of useful information and interesting descrip- tion. The information relates to the geology, mineralogy, working, and ma- nagement of the Cornish tin and copper mines, besidessundry hints to specu- lators. The description embraces a tour in the county, with sketches of its most remarkable scenery, its people, and several of its mines. Some of the sketches are overdone in point of taste, from attempts to imitate the " gra- phic " style of Head and Dickens, without the requisite felicitous knack.] The Lexicon French Grammar, for the use of English Students, on an entirely new and improved principle. By Saint Ange Simeon, late Professor of French, Glasgow; Author of "The French Speaker." &c. Latin Exercises : consisting of English sentences translated from Cinder, Cicero, and Livy, to be retranslated into the original Latin. By W. W. Bradley, M.A., Demy of Magdalen College, Oxford.

[The peculiarity of both these school-books consists in typographical ar- rangement and facility of use, rather than in any literary novelty.

The French Grammar is somewhat elaborate in its expositions, especially of the force and pronunciation of letters ; its "new and improved principle" chiefly resides in the exercises. These contain the exactly appropriate French word underneath the English ; and when the same meaning occurs again, a typographieal reference directs the pupil to the first appearance: the same method is pursued with regard to the rules. The plan undbubtedly saves the pupil from puzzling over the various definitions of a dictionary, as well as from the difficulties which are felt in applying the rules of syntax. Whether this grammar-made-easy is adapted to sharpen the pupil's mind, or so well possess him with the meaning of words or a mastery over syntax as the usual mode, may be doubted. The Latin Exercises contain the L'aglish on one side of tbe page, and the original words in the order of their comtruction on the other, leaving to the pupil the task of finding the proper tenses and eases. There are also refer- ences to rules and notes. In the use both of the Latin and French books the authors intend the teacher to exercise discretion, and to enforce iteration in several forms.] Poland : its History, Constitution, Literature, Manners, Customs, &e. By Count Valerian Krasinski, Author of "The History of the Reform- ation in Poland," &e.

[The first number of a publication to be completed in six monthly parts. It commences with the history of Poland in the tenth century, and comes down to the sixteenth.]

PRINTS.

The Seat of War in the East. From Drawings taken on the Spot by William Simpson. Part L (Colnaghi's Authentic Series.)

[The first part of this extensive undertaking, long announced, presents an appearance of very considerable finish and completeness. A set of the artist's letters printed with the lithographs, indicates that he receives credit for accuracy from the best-informed quarters on the spot. Skeleton prints, of a reduced size, are given as keys to such of the larger ones as require it ; and "copious letterpress, descriptive of each plate," is promised for a future part.

The four lithographs of the first represent the Cavalry Affair of the Heights of Bulganak, on the 19th September ; Balaklava, looking towards the sea,— a pretty, lively scene, with its shipping, heights, trees, tents, and houses; the Gale off the Port of Balaklava on the 14th November,—a finished pro- duction, but too smooth for such rough work ; and Sebastopol from the rear of the English Batteries. Mr. Simpson did not arrive at Balaklava till the 15th November ; and consequently the filling-up of the incidents prior to that data is matter of report and art, not of observation.

Three other designs of the "Authentic Senes accompany Mr. Simpson's. The late Lieutenant Thorold, of the Thirty-third Regiment, supplies a view of the Camp of the Light Division at Allah-Dyn, near Varna,—a pleasant wooded scene, agreeably rendered; Captain Verschoyle, of the Grenadier Guards, supplements Mr. Simpson 's Sebastopol from the rear of the English Batteries by one "from the right of the English Position " ; and Captain Biddulph, R.A., gives a sketch, expanded into a large-sized picture with considerable variety of material, of the field of Inkerman from the Three- gun Battery, "showing the ground on which the principal struggle of the 5th November took place, where Zouaves, Guards, and other Infantry, fought pell-mell with Russian columns."] PAMPHLETS.

The Work of Christ in the World. Four Sermons preached before the University of Cambridge on the four Sundays pre- ceding Advent in the year of Our Lord 1854. By George Augustus Selwyn, D.D., Bishop of New Zealand, formerly Fellow of St. John's College, Cam- bridge.

The Signs of the Times ; or a Warning Voice to Britain. By Charles Birche- nall.

On Religion ; its Sources, Character, and Supports. By Caleb Webb, Author of " The Sensibility of Separate Souls considered."

Observations on the Discipline and Ala- nagement of Convicts, and on Tickets- of-Leave : with Remarks, in an Ap- pendix, on the more speedy Trial and

Punishment of Larceny in certain cases. By John Field, M.A., Chaplain of the Berkshire Gaol.

The Home Face of the "Four Points."

The Uniform Postal Stamp on News- papers: its Cheapness, Fairness, and Beneficial Working. (Reprinted. by permission, from the Edinburgh Review for October 1853.) The Newspaper Postal Stamp. Proposal for an Adjustment. A Letter to the Right Honourable W. E. Gladstone, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Limitation of the Supply of Crain by Ow past action of -British Diplomacy.' Report of the Seib-Committee of the Newcastle-on-Tyne Association for Watching the War.