PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

Fro., April 21st to April2;th.

BOOKS.

Past and Present. By THOMAS CARLYLE. The Rambles of the Emperor Ching Tih in Keany Nam; a Chinese Tale. Translated by Tens Sara, Student of the Anglo-Chinese College, Malacca. With a Preface by JAMES LEGGE, D.D., President of the College. In two volumes. The Pyrenees, with Excursions into Spain. By Lady CUATTERTON, Author of "Rambles in the South of Ireland," &c. In two volumes. Canada, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and the other British Provinces in North America, with a Plan of National Colonization. By JAMES S. BUCKINGHAM.

Travels in the Great Western Prairies, the Anahuac, and Rocky Moun- tains, and in the Oregon Territory. By THOMAS J. FARNHAM. In two volumes.

The Life of Joseph Addison. By LUCY .Arttzw. In two volumes. The Home ; or Family Cares and Family Joys. By FREDERIRA BRE.. MER. Translated by MARY HoWITT. In two volumes.

The French Governess, or the Embroidered Handkerchief; a Romance.

By J. FENIMORE COOPER, Author of " The Pilot," &c. &c.

On the Laying-out, Planting, and Managing of Cemeteries ; and on the Improvement of Churchyards. With sixty engravings. By J. C. LOUDON, F.L S., &c., Author of the "Arboretum Britannicum," &c. [In 1813, Mr. Lounow was at Warsaw soon after the battle of Bautzen ; and was so strongly impressed by the contrast between the burials of the rich in the cemetery, the poor in " trenches in the open ground without coffins," and cart-loads of dead soldiers from the hospitals thrown into great pits, as to have ever since directed his attention to burials and burial-grounds. Having been lately employed to plan the Cambridge cemetery, be was com- pelled to give his views a definite and practical shape. The result is the volume before us.

Like most other works of Mr LOUDON, it exhausts the subject on which it treats, presenting the principles as well as the practice in a full and popular form; though the subject is not of a popular or at least of a pleasant kind : as Falstaff says, " Do not speak like a death's head ! do not bid me remember mine end !" However, as handled by Mr. Lounow, the health of the living is as much regarded as the ceremonials of the dead; which be would make conducive to good taste and morals by regulating burials and burial-grounds. To this end he proposes a variety of suggestions for the management of ce re- teries and for laying out the site ornamentally. If he bad his own will, he would neither allow flowers in the ground, nor bodies to be buried in cata- combs or brick graves, but only in the free earth, where the corpse might return to dust. As neither of these things can be accomplished in the present state of public opinion, Mr. Lounon contents himself with proposing that the flower-beds should be made in the shape of coffins, &c., and alternate with graves ; and he would not allow any body to be buried within six feet of the surface, or a less distance to intervene between coffins. To shareholders of cemeteries, and others having a practical connexion with the improvement of interments, the volume is almost necessary ; nor will it be without interest to any one whose hobby lies towards the mournful subject.]

The Secretary; a Play, in five acts. By JAMES SHERIDAN KNOWLES, Author of " Yirginius," &c. The grand defect of this play, as apparent to the reader, is its want of sub- ject-matter : the characters are mere mouthpieces, and their talk is of love, a dash of political intrigue being the only variety. Nothing is done, for there is nought to do but to get a father's consent to the union of two lovers ; which is delayed by a variety of obstacles that might have been removed at the out- set. The dialogue has the rugged vigour and cordial fervour of Mr.KNOWLEs's writing, and the dramatic energy which is the distinguishing characteristic of his style. This abrupt, homely parlance, however, though well adapted to the collision of characters on the stage, is not pleasant in the reading : the ideas seem rather blurted out impulsively than poured forth of the fulness of the author's imagination. But in this instance the constant harping on the same theme—which Mr. KNOWLES has almost exhausted, though he never tires of it—involves both repetition and exaggeration. Nevertheless, there are some passages of sterling worth and beauty : the soliloquy of the love-torn Secretary, an which he apostrophizes Hope, (act 4, sc. 2,) is Shaksperian.] Poems of the Fancy and thedffections. By WILLIAM SINCLAIR. [This volume consists of " The &idea's Dream of Death," and miscellaneous poems. " The Dream of Death " has several accessory parts, but the main subject consists of a view of death under various phases, beginning with Abel. It is written in the style of Pottox's Course of Time, and some blank verse that has appeared in Blackwood's Magazine and other places, or rather in the grave parody of MILTON, which Satan MONTGOMERY first made fashionable among the lesser poets. The miscellaneous poems are of the usual kind both in subject and treatment, and are clever enough in the common manner of the day, but altogether devoid of character and originality either in style or thought.]

Poetry; a Satire, pronounced before the Mercantile Library Association at its twenty-second anniversary. By PARK BENJAMIN. This is an American effusion, written at a month's notice, to be spoken be- rme the Mercantile Library Association at New York: and, considering all things, it is passable enough. There is not much of plan or of poetry; and nearly half the production is occupied in getting into the theme: but it is fluent, and respectable as mercantile verse—quite as good in its way as col- lege poetry, less classical but more practical. The passage ridiculing the com- monplace themes of common poetasters, though deficient in force of composi- tion, is well designed, and not altogether unfelicitous in its hits.]

The Spelling-book Superseded, or Exercises in Orthography, Etymology, and 'Verbal Distinction. By ROBERT SULLIVAN, A.M. Fourth edition, enlarged. An Introduction to Geography, Ancient, Modern, and Sacred. By ROBERT SULLIVAN, A.M. Second edition.

An Attempt to Simplify English Grammar. By Roamer SULLIVAN, A.M. [These little books are based upon Mr. Sum :mares larger educational works, or are extracted from them : and they exhibit the same originality of view, grounded upon the principles of the subject and the philosophy of teaching, which distinguish those useful publications. The Exercises on Orthography, Aerology, and Verbal Distinctions, are exceedingly ingenious ; being in fact introductory to the author's Dictionary of Derivations. The plan is to pre- sentiables of eynonomical words, followed by sentences in which these words am introduced. They are then used by dictating to the pupil, the peculiarities being explained verbally or by reference to a dictionary. Perhaps a sentence or two will convey a clearer idea of the plan- " His awl was almost all the poor cobler possessed." " The bear seized him by the bare leg. I could out bear to look on.")

Men and Manners in AI:erica. By THOMAS HAMILTON, Esq , Author of " Cyril Thornton," &c. A new edition, with a Portrait of the Author, and Letters written by him during his journey through the United States.

[This.new and very neat edition contains a portrait of the author, and some of the private letters he wrote during his tour, published with a view of showing that Mr. Ilamtvroa's own opinions of American manners and institutions were stronger than those he afterwards published. Such an inference may be fairly drawn, but the proof is not very decisive, as the letters are neither elaborate nor full—of mere family interest.]

Some Passages in the Life of Mr. Adam Blair, and The History of Matthew Wald. By the Author of " Yalerius" and " Reginald Dal- ton."

Two popular novels, reprinted in one handsome volume, forming another ad- dition to BLACKWOOD'S Standard Novels.] ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Plain Hints for Understanding the Genealogy and Armorial Bearings of the Sovereigns of England; with a description of the different styles of British Architecture, by which the dates of Cathedrals and other buildings may be determined. By Atwell:cam) BARRINGTON, M.D. Chronological Chart of British Architecture, with the Genealogy of the Sovereigns of England, and Parallel Tables of the most important events In British and General History.

[The purpose of the volume, and of the chart which it is intended to accompany, is to enable teachers to explain and learners to understand the genealogy and succession of English Sovereigns, and the different styles of Gothic architec- ture; two subjects that are rarely taught thoroughly in schools, though of im- portance in their connexion with Church and State.

The chart is attractive and ornamental from its pictorial character ; the coats of arms and cognizances of the Sovereigns being conspicuous by their heraldic colours, and the specimens of architecture by their various forms : the chronological tables of events are printed in bold letters, which readily catch the eye ; and thus obviate the objection to charts, that they present a dense mass of type that repels rather than invites reference. The large sheet is mounted and folds up into a book-cover, so that any part may be opened with- out unfolding the whole.

The volume is written in a familiar style, and the information is explicitly conveyed in the way of question and answer, without the formality of set con- versations: the pupil's objections or inquiries are simply anticipated and satis- fied.] Roberts's Sketches in the Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia, Part IX.

[The subjects of the three large plates in this part are Jericho, with an Arab encampment by moonlight . • the rocky wilderness of Engedi; and the Convent St. Saba,—desert scenes all, but wearing an aspect of loneliness and desolation that is impressive. The vignettes especially are delicately wrought; and in force and clearness of execution the lithography is perfect.]

PAMPHLETS.

The Better Interests of the Country in connexion with International Copyright; a Lecture delivered at the Lecture-room of the Society Library, 2d February 1843. By CORNELIUS MATHEWS.

[Mr. MATHEWS, the author of Puffer Hopkins, takes a new and rather cute view in this lecture of the advantages America might derive from a law of International Copyright. At present, says he, America is dependent for all her literature upon foreigners; and as much of what is now reprinted in novel newspapers and similar vehicles is indifferent both in letters and morals, and some of it abusive of Republics and Republican institutions, the "great nation, standing in the very front rank of the guides and examples of mankind," is likely to be corrupted in soul by European deceivers, and to continue without a literature. Establish an international copyright, argues Mr. MATHEWS, and only the cream of English literature will circulate in America; which will also be stimulated to produce a class of letters for home consumption. Nay, who knows but a crop of Republican writers may be raised in England to supply the Transatlantic market with the wares in demand ?] Education and the Voluntary Principle : The Monastic and Manufac- turing. Systems. By ANGLO-CATHOLICUS. (Reprinted from the Morning Post.) Vigilance and Steadfastness ; the substance of an Address delivered at a Meeting of the Church Missionary Society at Newtown-Limavady, 25th January 1843, by the Reverend GEORGE SCOTT, A.M., Rector of Balteagh, Diocese of Derry.

The National Church a National Blessing; a Lecture delivered before the members of the Bristol Established Church Society and Book Association, on Monday evening 27th March 1843. By JONATHAN HENRY WOODWARD, M.A., Incumbent of St. James's Parish, BristoL

Bristol Tracts for the Times. By the Reverend J. B. CLIFFORD, M.A. No. L—" Holiness."

The Papal Antichrist. The Church of Rome proved to have the marks of Antichrist. Being the substance of a Speech delivered at the Anni- versary Meeting of the Manchester Protestant Association, at the Corn-Exchange, Manchester, Tuesday 7th March 1843. By the Reverend HUGH M'NEILE, Minister of St. Jude's, Liverpool. Direct or Indirect Taxation? or should the Corn-laws, Customs, and Excise-duties be abolished, how is the revenue now obtained from them to be replaced? By NATHANIEL OGLE. Algernon Sidney's Letter to Thomas Wyse, Esq., 211.P., {0., concerning Art-Unions, Electrotype, Prince Albert's Patronage, the Rights and the Wrongs of Artists, &c., with Hints for the redress of the latter, and a Note to Mrs. Parkes.

A Letter to a Philosopher in reply to some recent Attempts to Vindicate Berkeley's Theory of Vision, and in further elucidation of its unsound- ness. By the Author of "A Review of Berkeley's Theory," &c. Instructions for the Establishment of a Society for Endowments for the Provident Classes in every station of life. With tables, &c.