PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

History of the Rise and Progress of the Bengal Army. By Captain Arthur Broome, Bengal Artillery. "Volume the First.

Mount St. Lawrence. By the Author of "Mary, the Star of the Sea." In two volumes.

Bidden, or the Course of a Soul; and other Poems. By Walter R. Cassels.

A Pilgrimage to the Land of My Fathers. By the Reverend Moses Margoliouth, Author of "The Jews in Great Britain." In two volumes.

Original Poems for My Children. By Thomas Miller, Author of "Pic- tures of Country Lite," &c.

_Divine Revelation ; a Poem. By W. Frazer.

Heligoland; or Reminiscences of Childhood. A genuine 'Narrative of Facts. By an Offioer's Daughter. Edited hey Mrs. C. W., Author of "Paddy's Leisure Hours in the Poor-house,' &c. [The authoress of this book is an officer's daughter, who with two little sis- ters was left an orphan by the death of both father and mother at Heligoland, where her father was stationed during the war against Napoleon. The nar- rative contains an account of the illness and death of her parents, her own childish distress, the kindness she met with from strangers on the island, with her voyage in mid-winter to Harwich, and her journey thence to Dublin in charge of her little sisters and the wreck of her father's property.

-It is a very interesting story in itself,.and =ore so as illustrating the hard- . slips and anxieties of soldiers on service, the difficulties to which their families may be exposed, and the unexpected assistance met with from the kindliness of human nature, not indeed in great affairs, (which was not wanted in this ease,)`but in those-smaller kindnesses which show the heart and soothe the heart.]

Natal, Cape of Good Hope. By I. S. Christopher, of Natal. A sort of omniumgatherum about Natal and colonization. Mr. Christopher begins with the Statistie.s of home pauperism, crime, &e., and proposes a .loan of-a million for emigration purposes, to be repaid from the Colonial cus- toms and land-fund ; he expatiate.. upon the advantages the colony offers to emigrants; gives extracts from the narratives of its early discoverers and explorers • produces various official or private reports on the district, eve- ' lly as regards the growth of cotton ; and closes with varioussuiscellaneous matters, including a vocabulary of the Natal language.] A Practical Treatise on the Law of Bankers' Checks, letters of Credit, and Drafts ; comprising the Statutes and Cases relative thereto ; with Observations. By George John Shaw.

[I popular exposition of the law of bankers' checks, well arranged in its leading ding subjects, and enforced by cases at large ; a plan which gives more life and interest to the treatise than curt and dogmatic statements of rules.]

Rhetorical Readings for Schools. By William M'Dowall, Inspector of

the Heriot Foundation Schools, 'Edinburgh.

(The plan of this book is to make the selections strictly on the principle of literary excellence, and chiefly from modern authors, in opposition to the old method of mixing up scientific or " informational " passages with those re- lating to the belles lettres. It is a good selection of prose and poetry, with more of adventure from modem travellers than is usually found in this class of• books. It is cheap.] English Grammar Simplified. With an Appendix, &c. By William Mauneville, Translator of Languages.

[This little book professes to be founded on the Anglo-Saxon genius of the language, instead of taking English grammar from the exemplars of deeply- inflected tongues.]

Science Simpld, and Philosophy, Natural and .Experimental, Made Easy. By the Reverend David Williams, M A , Author of the " Pre- ceptor's Assistant." First Series.

[The leading. principles and facts of animal and vegetable physiology, me- -&anies, optics, astronomy, and geology, in the form of question and answer.]

The new editions are numerous in proportion to the other books ; which doubtless arises from their being a regular not a season trade : experience has shown their demand. The most important among them is the third edition of 'Colonel B.eid's"" Law of Storms" ; a remarkable instance of luck . as well as ability. It is rarely that a subject so novel and so abstruse meets with so much success as the book and the theory have both done.

Professor 3PGauley's new edition of his " Lectures on Natural Philosophy" is, by alterations, extensions, omissions, and revisions, almost a new work. 'The former edition was chiefly intended to prepare teachers in training for the author's lectures; much being reserved for oral explanation. The pre- sent publication is adapted for private study ; and in addition to the filling- up, the latest and most important improvements have been introduced into it. Arithmetic, algebra, and geometry, are omitted from this edition, and will be published separately. The work embraces chemistry, (which occupies the whole of the second volume,) and mechanics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, .optics, electricity, galvanism, magnetism, electro-magnetism, and the steam- engine. It has many wood-cuts and diagrams ; and from its perspicuity seems well adapted to convey to the studious reader the elements of the subjects on which it treats.

The new edition of "Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise" forms the . first volume of an undertaking called the Protestant's Sacred Library. The -work itself contains biographical notices of twelve wives of missionaries, who rendered considerable assistance to their husbands, and one, Miss Eleanor Macomber, who went to Burmah as an actual missionary, and died there in 1840.

"Langley School" is a juvenile moral and religious story, reprinted from the Magazine for the Young.

An Attempt to Develop the Law of Storms, by means of Facts, ar-

ranged according to Place and Time ; and hence to point out a Cause for the Variable Winds, with the view to practical use in Navigation. Illustrated by Charts and Wood-outs. Third edition. By Lieutenant- Colonel W. Reid, C.B., F.R.S., of the Royal Engineers.

Lectures on Natural Philosophy. By the Reverend James William M'Gauley, Canon, &c. In two volumes. New edition, enlarged and improved.

Heroines of the Missionary Enterprise; or Sketches of Prominent Fe- male Missionaries. By Daniel C. Eddy. Edited by the Reverend John Cumming, D.D. .Langley School. By the Author of " The Kings of England." Recued de Fables et Conks Choisis. A Pusage de la Jeunesse. Par J. Christison, Maitre de Francais aux Seminaires de Dundee. Second edition.

ILLUSTRATED WORK.

The Paradise Lost of Milton, with Illustrations by John Martin. [Scanty justice has been done to John Martin, perhaps because he sometimes attempted to go beyond his last. He has been treated as if ho had no merit, while he has one, tolerably distinct, and nearly unique in its kind. His fun- damental idea is the linear perspective of a scene : he marks the effect of per- spective in enabling the mind to conceive an idea of space, and therefore of vastness, by multiplying duplicates of the salient points ; his landscape, his celestial views, and his chiaroscuro, are mainly based on the same idea. And so far as that idea goes, he succeeds. The individual objects are but mile- stones in the vista. No man gives you a better idea of tangible space—mensur- able immensity. The pile of edifice upon edifice amounts to the sublime ; his Richmond Hill views of Eden are constructed on the same principle, and have a charming West-end -sublimity. If the figures are puppets from the melodramatic theatre, let them pass; the scenery and stage-effect are very good. They are naturally popular : no doubt, John Martin has enabled many a worthy prosaic mind to conceive an idea of Eden or Pandemonium, not perhaps topographisally correct, but previously impossible, even in a proximate degree, to that class of minds. He supplied a want in the teethed- cal market, and very ably, supplied it. The old well-known plates are here restored to their proper force—sometimes, perchance, a little too heavily ; and the whole set is bound up in a handsome quarto reprint of Milton's great poem. The book will be very welcome to the numerous crowd of Martin's admirers—especially as the price is very considerably reduced.]

NEW PERIODICAL.

The Assurance Magazine. No. I. [This new periodical contains various articles relating to the history, biblio- graphy, and calculations of life-insurance ; a coup d'ceil of the state and Prospects of iesurance abroad ; reports of papers read before different societies, and some miscellaneous selections bearing on the subject. The work admits of improvement in a popular direction.]

.PamPstans.

A Practical Question about Oxford Considered, in a Letter to the.Rtht • Honourable 'W. E. Gladstone, M.P. for the University of Oxford. 7By the Reverend D. Melville, M.A., of Brasenose College, Oxford, Princi- pal of Bishop Hatfield's Hall, and Tutor in the University of Durham. A letter to the•Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston, in reference to the Greek Question, exclusive of his Lordship's general Foreignto- licy. By a Greek Gentlemar.

Abstract of Return of the Harries, Places of Business, and Objects,: of all Insurance Companies completely registered, &c. The Excursionist's Guide; or Three Days in Paris. A New Practical System of Fork and Spade Husbandry.. By John Silett. A new and improved edition.