PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Ix A COMPENDIUM or Brinrcei CRITICISM, Mr. Frederick Sargent has furnished the orthodox student of the Scriptures with a useful colla- tion of various readings of ambiguous and doubtful words and phrases in the Old and New Testament, derived from Hebrew and Greek manu- scripts and other versions. He is far from recommending a new transla- tion, but he thinks the present text of 1611, whose sublimity and beauty it would be highly undesirable to change for the more modern and polite phraseology of today, might yet be relieved from its state of embarrass- ment, its deficiencies supplied, its interpolations discarded, and all extra- neous corruption which has cleaved to it in the accumulation of ages purged, to the defeat of intellectual scepticism and the silencing of the frequent scoff of ignorance and profaneness. Each emendation he would suggest is supported by the reading of the Septuagint, the Syriac, Arabic, or some other version, or by the authority of approved commentators. In behalf of these corrections, he aims "to adduce snch irrefragable proof that either truth shall give to them its unhesitating assent, or candour be induced to make concessions of their propriety." Mr. Sargent sub- joins to his textual investigation some remarks "on the manuscript writings of the Holy Scriptures ; on the manner in which they have been transmitted to us from time immemorial, and through eighteen cen- turies of their subsequent history ; as well as on certain ecclesiastical formularies which have been modelled from them." The advanced cri- tical student, however, will find the splendid promise of this prospectus but poorly fulfilled. The author of PENTATEUCHISM ANALYTICALLY TREATED, endeavours to divest himself of the prejudices of education in behalf of a particular system of faith, and to sit down to the study of the sacred volume as of a work to which be is a perfect stranger. To "the application of a whole- some criticism," he brings a candid and reverent spirit, and trusts by abstracting from the original record all fictitious phraseology to find it replete with beauty. The present volume, the first of a series, is an analysis of the Book of Genesis, which, it is contended, was compiled by Moses from existing traditions and legends. Of the History of the Creation we have three legends, each complete in itself, having its distinct beginning and end ; a legend of the flood, and of its cessation ; of the New Covenant after the flood ; of the generations of Noah; of the tower of Babel ; and a traditional history of the Patriarchs. Our author does not appear to have borrowed from De Wette or other learned theologians who, with much research and industry, have trodden in similar paths.

Tan ROMAN REPUBLIC, an excellent little book written by Mr. Ho- race Moule for the use of examination candidates, and which we emphatically commend to their attention, purports to be a review of some of the salient points in the history to which it relates. It consists of four parts, which treat severally of the wars of the Republic, its laws, its public offices, and its literary works and men. The information given under eaoh of these heads is a clear and pointed abstract of an ex- tensive and well-planned course of reading, and the whole will be of great use to students, not only as an aid to memory, but as a sort of chart indicating the points to which inquiry should be directed and the authorities to be consulted.

The new edition of Tan Formosa. Woaxs OF LEIGH HUNT, produced under the care of his son, was planned and all but finished, even to the table of contents, by the author himself. He had gathered, selected, and revised the pieces he thought worthy of preservation ; and had advanced, almost to the close, with the process of arranging them, when it was broken off by his death. What remained to be done has been completed by the person to whom his purposes were most intimately known, and who was most bound in duty and affection to fulfil them. The volume is, therefore, to be accepted with confidence, as comprising "The Poeti- cal Works of Leigh Hunt, collected and arranged with his own final judgment." That it will be cordially welcomed by the present genera- tion we know, nor do we entertain any doubt of its favourable reception by posterity, for that. Leigh Hunt was a true poet, whatever may -have been his rank in that goodly fellowship, we hold to be as incontestable as that the linnet and the lark are sweet song-birds, though their strains may not vie with those of the nightingale. Tea POETICAL WORKS or Jou.s EDMUND READS, published at in- tervals embracing a period of thirty years, have been gathered into two handsome library volumes. The contents have undergone extensive modifications at the author's hands, large portions of them having been remoulded, others rewritten, and all condensed. Several new poems, too, have been added, whilst many which appeared in former editions have been condemned by the author's maturer judgment, and have con- sequently been omitted.

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An Arctic Boat Journey in the Autumn of 1854. By Isaac I. Hayes, Surgeon of the second Grinnell Expedition. Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by Dr. Norton Shaw.

Notes and Recollections of an Angler's Rambles among the Motostains, Tel. lege, and Solitudes of Wales. By John Henry Clitfe.

The Poem of the Book of Job, done into English Verse. By the Earl of Win- chelsea (late Viscount Maidstone).

Blanche Leslie, and other Poems. By Cecil Home.

Celanna, and other Poems. By Gerard Leigh.

Songs of Life. By William Fulford, M.A.

A House for the Suburbs, Socially and Architecturally Sketched. By Thomas Morris.

Country Cottages : a Series of Designs for an Improved Class of Dwellings for Agricultural Labourers. By 3ohnNiaceat,,Architect.

Charley Nugent ; or Passages in the Life of a Sub. In three volumes. Hulse Name. A Novel. By the Author of " Anne Grey," In two volumes. Shakespeare's Henry the Bighth ; with Introductory Remarks ; Copious In-

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Specimens of Parsing, Analysis, Examination Questions, Ike. By the Reve-

rend John Hunter, M.A.,

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The Poetical Works of Leigh Hunt. Now finally collected, revised by Him- self, and Edited by his Son, Thornton Hunt. With Illustrations by Cor- bould .