PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

BOOKS.

Principles of Political Economy, with some of their Applications to Social Philosophy. By John Stuart Mill. In two volumes. Clinical Observations on the Pathology and Treatment of Continued Fever, from cases occurring in the medical practice of St. Bartholomew's Hospital. By Edward Latham Ormerod, MB. Caius College, Cambridge, &c.

The Statistical Companion. By T. C. Bonfield, Esq., Statistical Clerk to the Council of Education; and C. R. Weld, Esq., Assistant-Secretary to the Royal Society.

r The Statistical Companion is a very useful book: the want of something like it Is much felt by inquirers. Many of the facts exhibited in this volume may, no doubt, be got at otherwise; but unless a person has much room to give up to balky folios and quartos, he cannot have his stores at hand, and if he can, the books are too big for ready reference. The Statistical Companion occupies little apace in the desk or pocket, yet contains, by the help of a small clear type, a vast mass of matter. The statistics of Great Britain are of course the fullest, and touch upon almost every subject; but neither India, nor America, nor Europe, is altogether overlooked. More of aassification, however, might have been adopted with advantage, so as to bring all classes of subjects and every country together, unless where comparisons were instituted. Future volumes might also be im- proved by the exercise of more freedom over the materials; for, like most statists, the compilers seem to have a superstitious regard for their authorities, and copy their tables implicitly. Sometimes this must be done, when the authorities are from their limited nature complete in themselves, or they are the only statistics extant; but very often official summaries are too general without the detailed ac- counts. To be properly exhibited in such cases, the subject should be mastered, And the facts recast in new tables, and sometimes scattered subjects brought to- gether. This, we repeat, cannot always be done, from want of materials; but it is the only way of piing utility and life, or even full information, to statistics. A singular example of implicit submission to published tables will be found at page 63, where, in a general abstract of the Revenues and Charges of India, the reader is referred to particular accounts, as high as No. 9, which are not printed in this book. It would also be better to have givea the authorities in all cases, not for verification, but to enable an inquirer to pursue the subject, where there is anything beyond. The book, however, is a very useful one, though capable of extension and improvement.]

Physical Geography. ByMary SOmerville, Author of the "Connexion of the Physical Sciences." In two volumes. With a Portrait.

[Mrs. Somerville's Physical Geography is a survey of the globe, not only in its more direct geographical features—as oceans, mountains, rivers, lakes, istends, continents—bat in its geology, its animal and vegetable productions, and in the leading characteristics of mankind. As far as facts or perhaps views are in ques- tion, the work strictly falls into the class of compilations; but it is of a high and scientific kind. The writer understands the subject; her mind was stored with the facts before she began her work; probably the fulness of knowledge suggeeted the book, instead of "a book" suggesting the idea of getting up the knowledge. Renee the main outlines of the work, or rather of the world, with their leading traits, were present to her mind, and could have been "spoken off" at any time; her study was for details—less for acquisition than verification. This gives close- ness, force, and freshness of character: the style is always clear, and in the de- scription of the striking, desolate, or magnificent features of nature, rises into eloquence; while the features are always distinctly observed, and as distinctly presented.] An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England, from the•Couquest to the Reformation; with a Sketch of the Grecian and Ro- man Orders; Notices of numerous British Edifices; and some Remarks on the Architecture of a part of France. By the late Thomas Rickman, F.S.A. Fifth edition. With very considerable additions, and new Plates. [Some additions have been made to the text of this fifth edition of Rickman's established work, to bring up the subject. The extension of the study of Gothic architecture, and the publication of numerous books upon the subject, of late years, have not, however, in the editor's opinion, added much "real information" to that of Rickman. The truth is he deduced his views from a patient examination of the real; and as the more striking subjects either in art or nature are gene- rally patent, the first inquirer, if competent, possesses himself of the leading principles, leaving only exceptions and details to those who follow. The new feature of this edition is its illustrations. These are taken entirely from old examples; whereas Rickman gave many from his own designs. The greater part are engraved from original drawings made expressly for the purpose, and, where the subject allows it are good specimens of architectural engraving. The edition, in short, is altogether handsome—suitable to the character of the work, and creditable to the present state of typographical and illustrative art.] Contributions to the Literature of the Fine Arts. By Charles Lock East- lake, B.A., &c.

[This volume contains a collection of Mr. Eastlake's miscellaneous writings on art, edited by Mr. Bellenden Ker: a Life of Raphael, an article from the Quarterly Review, Notes from Kiigler's Handbook, extracts from Mr. Eastlake's translation of Goethe's "Theory of Colours," and reprints of some contributions to the Penny Cgclopcedia. The main source of the contributions, however, is the Appendix to the Report of the Select Committee on Fine Arts.]

Passion's Progress; a series of Lyrics, in three parts. By a Northmidlander. [We do not observe much of the progress of passion in this volume, or any es- sential difference between the contents of the "Three Parts," except that the last section is rather more serious in its topics. The volume is a collection of tokeellaneotus poems, chiefly on love, or sentimental. As regards thought and imagery, the poems are rarely above the common level; and occasionally they have that effort to be strong, without real strength, which men call the Milesian style. A feeling or manner, however, pervades them, which gives them a more poetical air than substantially they are entitled to. But the Northmidlander is altogether dependent upon the accidenta of a subject, or a tacky moment, for anything like Poetry.]

Harvey and Buchanan's new and improved Synoptical Table of the Diseases of the Human Ear; with their Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment. elaborate exhibition of the various diseases of the ear, under a strictly scien- tific arrangement, presented in a tabular form of great distinctness as regards their nature, character, symptoms, causes, and treatment. The professional utility of the synopsis is not so obvious as its merit; since the tabular form is of necessity too curt to instruct, and an occasional reference is as well made to* volume. The tabular form seems only advantageous for the leading elements of a study, or mere facts.]

The Law Relating to Riots and Unlawful Assemblies; together with a

View of the Dunes and Powers of Magistrates, Police-officers, Special Con- stables, the Military, and Private Individuals, for their Suppression; Enda Summary of the Law as to Actions against the Huisdred. By Mimi Wise, Esq., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-law.

[A clear and practical compendium of the law relating to riots and tudawful assemblies, useful in relation to existing circumstances, though perhaps not com- piled with that object. The utility, however, is rather in relation to intellectual than practical objects; for, owing to the character of the subject, the jealoney of the English law, and the refinement of lawyers, it is difficult to define what a legal riot; or what is not, when three persons have gathered together and kicked up a row, for some common object, not extending to treason.] The Pictorial French Grammar, for the use of Children. By Marin de La Voye. [The pictures of this little book consist of representations of the grammatical things, acacias, and qualities in the text: but the publication has greater than mechanical merit: it contains the principal elements of the French language ex- hibited in a plain and expressive manner. The book will be useful to beginners beyond childhood.]

Les Jeunes Narrateurs; On Petits Coates Meninx, I fusage et a la port*, des enfants. Par Mann de La Voye. [Three juvenile tales in French, illustrative of youthful ethics. The expla- nations of peculiarities are progressive; copious at starling, and gradually de- creasing in number, but collected together at the end, instead of at the foot of the page to which they refer.]

The Earth and the Heavens; or the Construction of the Universe Dis- played, in a familiar Introduction to the sciences of Astronomy, Geology, and Mineralogy. The Youth's Manual of Moral and Literary Study, Commercial Practice and Epistolary Correspondence.

[Apparently a collection of little books published separately, and now brought to- gether, three parts to a volume. One of these books embraces the facts and principles of astronomy, geology, and mineralogy; the other the arts of businesa life, including morals, manners, letter-writing, accounts, and so forth. They are mere compilations, plain but homely.]

Lucretia; a Tragedy, in five acts, and in verse. Translated from the cele- brated play of Monsieur Ponsard; first played at the Odeon Theatre, Paris, 22d April 1843.

FAINT.

The Sonnet. Lithographed by John Linnell junior, after the Chalk Sketch for the Picture by William Mulniady,R.A. [A young lady is reading the composition of a youth who site by her aide—her lover, of course. The design is here seen in a rough state, but it is bold and effective. The execution ot the lithograph is remarkable for the masterly force, breadth, and truth of the chiaroscura. The print is presented by the young copyist to the fuud for promoting the formation of a National Gallery of British Art; a project set on foot by the Society of Arts.]