PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From October 20th to October 26th. BOOKS. Historical

Sketches of Statesmen who flourished in the time of George Hr.; to which are added, Remarks on the French Revolution. Third series. By HENRY, Lord Bnououest, F.R.S., Member of the National Insti- tute of France, and of the Royal Academy of Naples.

Friendship's Offering of Sentiment and Mirth. For 1844.

History of the Conquest of Mexico; with a Preliminary View of the An- cient Mexican Civilization, and the Life of the Conqueror, Hernando Cortes. By WILLIAM H. PRESCOTT, Author of " The History of Ferdinand and Isabella." In three volumes.

The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old Testament; being an attempt at a verbal connexion between the Original and the English Translation. With Indexes, a List of the Proper Names and their occurrences, &c. In two volumes. [These two great volumes are a remarkable monument of the effects that cast be produced by a junction of zeal, labour, and capital. No ardour however great could, we conceive, have submitted to the unceasing, irksome, and relit-, rated drudgery year after year by which this work was produced—no industry' would have patiently toiled on in hopes of the distant and possibly the tether. tain reward that was to attend its completion. But a skilled and learned seal originally chalked out the plan ; an equal zeal for learning and religion took it up; and money facilitated the regular employment of many whose vocation is to attend to minutiae as important wholes in themselves, without a thought of the conclusions they contain—men whose dealings, as compositors and cot- rectors of the press, are with letters and words as the be-all and end-all of pee- sent life, or catalogue-makers, who estimate sentences by their initial letter. A sufficiency of these, caring little for the nature of the work they were ea- gaged on, and looking at length in no other light than as a promise of long employ, analyzed the Bible. The words of each verse were counted, carried out, posted and classified. When the repetition and position of every word was ascertained, it was cut out, bagged, and sorted; the manuscript was then com- peted with these dismembered letters, and with a Bible or Bibles; till, by these processes, and reiterated comparisons, checkings, tickings, and so forth, and a general superintendence, The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance was produced. It may be added, that after some progress had been made with the work, a comparison with other Concordances induced a doubt, from the omissions detected, 'whether any of them could be taken as a standard of the words in the Bible. The Bible itself was therefore made the standard; adding greatly to the kind of labour we have described. The object of the work is to make every Englishman his own Hebraist, so far as such a thing is possible. With this view, the work is divided into three parts. The first and by far the largest takes the appellatives of the Bible in alphabetical succession, and places under each the passages from our English version where the corresponding word is translated, marking the rendered terms by Italic passages, and quoting sufficient of the context to convey a meaning or suggest the original : thus- 3137 [agehLrev], m.

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Lev. 23 : 90. and willows of the brook; Job 40 : 22. the willows of the brook compass Ps. 137: 2. We hanged our harps upon the willows Lan. 15 : 7. away to the brook Of the willows. 44 : 4. as willows by the water-courses.

The second part is a Hebrew and English index, where the Hebraist wiR find any word he may wish to refer to, with a reference to its position in the first part, and the translation of the authorized English version under it. no third division is English-Hebrew, reversing the second part ; the word being discoverable by the English initial. For example, we wishto refer to the pas- sage just quoted ; we turn to " Willows," and find 31s,with a reference to the page. There are other indexes of a minor cha- v v racier, facilitating more particular references. In a critical sense, the merit of such a work is its accuracy. This we comm. settle : it would take months of labour like that of the corps engaged ort its production for a partial examination: we can only speak of the caeo that has been bestowed upon it, and describe its general scope. Its utility to the Hebraist or Hebrew student is unquestionable ; and most Bishops now, we believe, wish, if they do not require, candidates for orders to have a knowledge of Hebrew. Its direct utility to the mere English reader we do not so dis- tinctly perceive. To present him some Hebrew characters, which he cannot decipher, and can only attempt to sound by the English direction annexed, will not in any way, as it seems to us, facilitate his understanding of the true mean- ing of the word, or of its correct rendering in the authorized version. He can indeed tell where the translation is literal and where figurative; but of the correctness he must remain in the dark—it will still be " Hebrew" to him. In- direct utility, by stimulating comparison and research, may undoubtedly fallow, more than with an English concordance. To the rulers or chief men con- nected with the Dissenting churches, who may wish to shine as Hebraists at It small expense of labour, the book is the very thing, if they can catch the He- brew pronunciation.] The Power of Association; a Poem, in three parts. By the Reverent& J. T. CAMPBELL, M.A., Rector of Tilston, in the county of Chester. [This poem originated in the sight of Lake Leman, and the impression its beauties finally left. At first all was excitement; but as this, says Mr. Cam-- BELL, "died away, there was, in spite of all the beauty of the scenery, a dine++ nese in the prospect; and wherefore? Simply, I imagine, because the min& could not associate it with any thing pertaining to home." Upon this hint he Verbum sat.] Poems of Girlhood. By ANNE GARTON. [These juvenile effusions are, if we read rightly, by a farmer's daughter; and very creditable " Poems of Girlhood" they are. There is, as might be ex- pected, something of melancholy, without cause shown, in the more meditative verses; whilst the larger or historical subjects are above the experience of the writer : but there is a good deal of natural imagery, and her thoughts seem to well out. The first poem," A. Vision of the Heathen," is entitled to higher praise. It is a survey of the condition of the heathen throughout the world; and is treated broadly and sufficiently, without being encumbered or overdone.] The Brothers ; a Play, in five acts. [An advertisement indicates that this play would not have been published, "but the manuscript having found its way into the hands of Mr. C. D. Pitt, of the Theatre Royal Manchester," be recommended its publication. If this was spontaneous on the part of Mr. Pirr, and not a desperate ruse to get rid of a pressure to introduce The Brothers to the stage, his opinion is not to be com- mended. Amidst pervading prosaic beauties, there are in the heroic passages some delicate touches in Ancient Pistol's vein, and the lover makes love some- what like Falstaff. The Brothers is a bad Minor melodrama, expanded into five acts of prosaic blank-verse.] The Grave of Genius ; a Tale, true yet marvellous. By J. 0. LA Moser. f The story of a young Scotch orphan, who came up to London to push his fortune as a literary adventurer, but failing in his higher attempts, was reduced to the rank of an occasional news-reporter. His gains from this source, how- ever, were so scanty and uncertain that he died of hunger, though his disease took the name of consumption. The tale is apparently written by the clergy- man who attended him on his deathbed; and, short as it is, is expanded by particulars and reflections that might be dispensed with.] The Novel Newspaper, Volume XV. [Another volume of this cheap publication, containing five fictions; of which IIrs. RADCLIFFE'S Italian is the most celebrated. The Lollards, we think, is a copyright, and has been revised for this publication. The three others are American reprints. If this " reciprocity " goes on, the two countries may reciprocally supersede each other's circulating libraries.] The Recreation; a Gift-Book for Young Readers. The fourth of the series.

[Selections from travels, or travelling adventures, chiefly predominate in this Instructive and amusing little Annual ; among which, The Bible in Spain, Mr. PAErs's exploits in the Pyrenees, and Colonel CAMPBELL'S Field-sports in Ceylon, freely contribute to the pages of The Recreation.] ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Griselda. Painted by C. R. LESLIE, R.A. ; engraved by I. PossaLwnrrz. [A lovely female head, with a tearful look of sadness in the large, bright, well- opened eyes, and a slightly troubled brow ; but the countenance does not bear the traces of suffering patience and submissive resignation that we expect to see in the face of Griselda : indeed, the full and inexpressive lips are charac- teristic of a nature that would be apt to rebel. There is something in the turn of the head, and the sidelong, downcast look of the eyes, that reminds one of GUIDO'S inimitable portrait of Beatrice Cenci; though there is no direct resemblance either in character or feature to that divinely sweet face, with its ineffable expression of beauty and sensibility, dimmed by the anguish of a wounded spirit : the comparison, however, inevitably suggested between the two, is injurious to the English painter. The engraving is remarkable for purity and brilliancy of tone; the white drapery and the jet black hair give by contrast warmth to the flesh-tints, which have a semi-transparent clearness and a yielding softness of texture. The white paper is very skilfully used to re- present the broad lights of the drapery; and the plate is altogether effective, and &successful example of the mixed style of engraving.]

PAMPHLETS.

Twelve Months in Wellington, Port Nicholson ; or Notes for the Public and the New Zealand Company. By Lieutenant JOHN WOOD, I.N., Author of " Travels to the Oxus."

Internal Free Trade, and Capitalists' Trades Unions, the only Con- servative System of Joint Stock Commercial and Industrial Association. Abridged from a familiar Letter to a Friend.

Music.

The People's Music-Book, Parts IL IlL and IV. spoke; but we think the amiable author had better have spoken in prose. There is no poetical originality of idea in The Power of Association : it is formed upon the plan of The Pleasures of Hope and The Pleasures of Memory. The execution, too, is based upon those models; but both the treatment and the versification is rather prosaic.] Fidelity ; or a Town to be let, Unfurnished ; • Poem, in six books. By GEORGE HATTON. [The ostensible germ of this poem is a placard which during the late distress was posted on the walls of some manufacturing town in the North of Eng- land—" A Town to be let, Unfurnished." The poem, however, might as well have been entitled " Mr. Hatton's Thoughts upon any thing and every thing "; for this is about the boundary of his range. The first three books are chiefly confined to the discussion of public topics in relation to our social position ; and, turned into prose, might form matter for a modern debate on the state of the Ration. The last three continue the subject, with some general morality, and some satirical portraits which we do not recognize. Of poetry there is not a trace; and Mr. HATTON is rather to seek in the alphabet of his art. Take a few instances from the axiomatic couplets in which he delights to deal-

BLITONIAN AXIOMS.

Ill deeds draw down a punishment severe, And must be atoned by penitence sincere. An honest man deserves his daily bread, Nor ever should be industry ill fed. • • • It were desirable that every man Of that that's good should learn all that he can. •

Torn from his mistress, the lover does deplore A thousand charms he knew not of before. DEFENCE OF NOBLES.

What man is perfect ? None. Shall we condemn These, then, because greatness is born in them ? THE POET'S FEELINOS.

Who censures the dear otTspriug of our brain, Creates in us a most exquisite pain.