PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From December 20th to December 26th.

Bootle.

Adventures of an Officer in the Service of Bunjeet Singh. By Major H. M. L. LAWRENCE, Bengal Artillery ; British Resident at the Court of Nepaul, late Assistant to the Political Agent in charge of British relations with Lahor. In two volumes.

Vacation Rambles and Thoughts; comprising the Recollections of Three Continental Tours in the Vacations of 1841, 1842, and 1843. By T.N. TALFOURD, D.C.L., Sergeant-at-Law. In two volumes.

Journal of a Clergyman during a Visit to the Peninsula, in the Summer and Autumn of 1841. By the Reverend WILLIAM ROBERTSON, Mi- nister of New Greyfriars, Edinburgh.

Bokhara ; its Amir and its People. Translated from the Russian of KHANIKOFF. By the Baron A. DE BODE.

Hampton court; or the Prophecy Fulfilled. In three volumes.

Punch. Volume VII.

Punch's Snapdragons for Christmas. Illustrated with four steel engrav. jugs by LEECH.

Punch's Almanack, for 1845.

[Punch not only fills his own proper pages to the brim with whimsies and wag- genies, but overflows into other channels: this week brings us three different concoctions of pleasantry, all of a seasonable kind. I. The volume for the present half-year is remarkable for the richness and va- riety of its graphic drolleries : the cuts have originality of idea and depth of mean- ing as well as fun and cleverness. The contents include the whole series of " Punch's Complete Letter-writer," pungent with DOUGLAS JERROLD'S bit- ter satire on the vices of society ; the second part of the " Comic Blackstone," in which Mr. ATECKETT makes plain nice points of law by puns and homely illustrations; and the "Travelling Notes of our Fat Contributor," under whose easy gossiping style lurks a vein of racy humour. 2. The Snapdragons are capital Christmas sport : flashes of wit flicker on the surface of the flaming spirit of mirth ; and the substratum of sweets is made up of descriptions of festivities abounding in jollity and good cheer, comic tales and sketches, and extravaganzas of congenial character.

3. Punch's Almanack is unusually abundant in sportive fancies this year. LEECH'S illustrations of the "Bubbles of the Month" have dramatic force, and the truth of his pictures brings them home to the most matter-of-fact imagina- tion. The borderings, by RICHARD DOYLE, are poetical caricatures—bur- lesque arabesques—teeming with exuberance of invention, in which the gro- tesque and the graceful are blended in a manner quite unique. This young artist hits off the salient points of public characters with the delicacy of HB. ; while his flights of fancy and strokes of satire alternately assume shapes ot beauty and drollery : the vitality which animates the action of his figures and the expression of their physiognomies is extraordinary.] The Art of Weaving, by Hand and by Power ; with an Introductory Ac- count of its Rise and Progress in Ancient and Modern Times. By CLINTON G. GILROY, Practical Weaver and Manufacturer. Illustrated with appropriate engravings. [A very elaborate account of the art of weaving, in its various processes and styles,—plain weaving, figured weaving, carpeting, lace-manufacture, fancy weaving, and other modes whose terms are too technical for enumeration. The minute verbal descriptions are accompanied by numerous plates of the nature of diagrams, illustrating the text by figured references. An atten- tive reader will be able, we dare say, to master the descriptions; but he would do it with much greater facility if be had acquired some knowledge of weaving by an inspection of the process. The work, indeed, is probably in- tended for persons who have more practical knowledge than mere amateurs are ever likely to attain : but the general reader would have been assisted had Mr. GILROY'S cast of mind enabled him to put forward a plain but comprehensive view of the principles of weaving. The introductory chapter, professing to give the antiquities and history of the subject, is not very well done : the author seems to aim at enlivening by facetiousness, but is only flip- pant, and obscure in his drift.] Saul; a Dramatic Sketch. Josephine to Napoleon; with oilier Poems and Translations.

[Besides Saul a dramatic poem, and an epistle of Josephine to Napoleon on her divorce, the volume contains several miscellaneous poems, and translations from Latin poets, CATULLUS predominating. The difficulty of heating the subject of Saul we lately took occasion to remark upon, in reviewing Mr. VAUGHAN'S drama ; and the author of the volume before us has not the stuff to overcome it, or even to treat the theme dramatically. He is not, however, deficient in popular qualities. His verse, though not very spirited, is buoyant and flowing; and he has many of the secondary properties of poetry, though wanting the more essential characteristics of variety, vigour, and originality. His taste inclines to the voluptuous ; and some of his smaller poems smack of Mr. THOMAS LITTLE'S Style.] Poetical Patchwork. By W. J. A. [We learn from an unassuming preface, that these miscellaneous poems are the leisure effusions of youth : they exhibit a creditable example of fluent versification, and apt imitation of style, especially of BYRON'ti. Beyond this their promise is not considerable ; for their manner does not reflect the character of the subject matter, which is perhaps one of the surest tests of independent thinking.] Montezuma, a Ballad of Mexico; TheiRed Hand; and other Poems. By WILLIAM HENRY LEATHAM.

Tales of the North American Indians, and Adventures of the Early Settlers in America. By BARBARA. HAWES. [A selection of anecdotes and short stories respecting the Red Indians, de- signed to exhibit the merits and defects of the Indian character, the hardships they undergo, and their modes of life, or rather manners, with some examples of the adventures of back-wood settlers in their connexion with the Red Indians. The tales are not very new, to those who have been exercised in this kind of reading, and they are rather plainly told; but the book _ill well adapted to juvenile readers, for whom it is designed.] ' Legends and Records, chiefly Historical. By CHARLES B. TAYLER, M.A., Author of the "Records of a Good Man's Life," &c. Fifth Affition.

[The words" fifth edition" on the titlepage of this agreeable-collection of his- torical anecdotes thrown into the form of tales speak sufficiently for their popularity : and the elegance of its exterior well adapts it for a Christmas pre- Sent or New Year's gift.)

The Duties of Judge-Advocates ; compiled from her Majesty's and the Honourable East India Company's Military Regulations, and from the Works of various Writers on Military Law. By Captain R. M. HUGHES, Twelfth Regiment Bombay Army, Deputy-Judge-Advocate- General, Scinde Field Force.

[A. variety of works have been published on military law and the modes of conducting courts-martial; but this is the first book that has appeared on the duties of the Judge-Advocate, notwithstaading the importance of that func- tionary. It is his business to advise the court as to the law, to guide it (it may be said) as to forms, and secure fair play to the accused; whilst he still, in his capacity as a sort of public prosecutor, takes care of the public interest. Captain HUGHES'S little volume on this important subject will well supply the absence of that full and particular information which officers suddenly ap- pointed to act as Deputy-Judge-Advocate must have felt the want of, even though tolerably well versed in military law. The arrangement of the for- malities to be observed and the modes of proceeding to be followed is natural and orderly ; the precedents will save a good deal of trouble, and secure safety and accuracy ; and the copious extracts from the highest authorities on every point, though they may induce a little tautology, give confidence and certainty to the decision.]

Hints on Life, and How to Rise in Society. By C. B. C AMICUS. [The title and its frontispiece by LEECH prepared one to expect something sarcastic; but nothing can be further from pungency than this tissue of truisms, telling how people in different ranks and conditions of life might, would, could, should, or ought to do, in order to "rise." It is written with a good inten- tion, and contains a few useful hints of an economical kind; but its counsels are mostly so general and its remarks so obvious that neither have any specific application: it wants point and force.] SERIALS.

The Civil Wars of Rome. Select Lives translated from 12t.crencrt, with Notes. By GEORGE Loma. Series L (Knight's Weekly Volume.) [This is a new translation of thirteen lives of PLUTARCH, the heroes of which were all engaged in the civil contentions that devastated Rome from the time of the GRACC HI till the downfall of the Republic ; and whose career, whilst it indicates the history of the times, gives a more lively idea of the social circumetanees and personal characteristics of men than history itself can well do. The plan is a good one, and the translation is good too. Mr. LoNc's own style of particularity without dryness well qualifies him to translate Pao- TAECH : he has besides infused into his task something of the spirit of an ori- ginal. Besides this merit, the edition derives value from its copious notes, partly derived from KALTWASSER, partly original. The present Weekly Volume contains four lives-the two GRACCHI, and the two great rivals Memos and Soma.]