PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The One Primeval Language, traced experimentally through Ancient Inscriptions in alphabetic characters of lost powers from the four con- tinents : including the Voice of Israel from the Rocks of Sinai, and the Vestiges of Patriarchal Tradition from the Monuments of Egypt, Etruria, and Southern Arabia. With Illustrative Plates, a Harmon- ized Table of Alphabets, Glossaries, and Translations. By the Rever- end Charles Forster, B.D., one of the Six Preachers of the Cathedral of Canterbury, and Rector of Stisted, Essex, &e. ; Author of "Ma- hometanism Unveiled," &e.

An Essay on the Relations between Labour and Capital. By C. Mor- rison.

Aubrey. By the Author of "Emilia Wyndham," &c. In three vo- lumes.

Le Conde Ltecanor. Apologues et Fabliaux du Quatorziime Traduits pour la premiere foie de l'Espagnol, et precedes d'une Notice sur is Vie et les (Euvrea de Don Juan Manuel, amsi que d'une Dissertation sus l'introduction de l'Apologue d'Orient en Occident, par. M. Adolphe De Puibusque, Membre Corr. de rAcademie Royale d'Histoire de Madrid, Auteur de "L'Histoire Comparee des Litteratures Espagnole et Francaise," &c.

The Life of Mrs. Sherwood, (chiefly Autobiographical) ; with Extracts from Mr. Sherwood's Journal during his, Imprisonment in France and Residence in India. Edited by her 'laughter, Sophia Kelly, Authoress of "The De Cliffords," &c.

Central Route to the Pacific, from the Valley of the Mississippi to Cali- fornia: Journal of the Expedition of E. F. Beale, Superintendent of Indian Affairs in California, and Gwinn Harris Heap, from Missouri to California in 1853. By Gwinn Harris Heap.

Remains of the late Edward Copleston D.D., Bishop of Elandaff ; with an Introduction containing some Reminiscences of his Life. By Richard Whately, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin.

[These "Remains" consist of extracts from the commonplace-book of Bishop Copleston, with a selection from his unpublished sermons, and two lectures on the Christian Church and the Church of England. Their publication has been prompted by a personal and pious feeling towards an old friend and ac- complished scholar, as much perhaps as by a critical estimate of their value or importance. The brief essays from the commonplace-book consist of re- marks on language, of a scholastic or metaphysical character. The sermons are clear, close, able, well-reasoned, and instructive; but they want the warmth of feeling which rises into eloquence, or that felicity of application which brings the doctrines and examples of Scripture home to men's business and bosoms.. The editor, in his introduction, disputes the opinion of "one of the reviews of the [late Bishop's] Memoir, [where] he is characterized as a sensible, in- deed, and respectable writer, but not such a one as to have exercised any in- fluence on the age." If this refers to the Spectator, the present publication rather confirms than shakes the opinion formerly expressed.* There is sound sense, metaphysical acumen, thought, learning, and a scholarly style, in the Remains; but nothing likely to leave a vivid and abiding impression upon other minds, unless brought into personal contact with Dr. Copleston as a friend or teacher. Dr. Whately alleges, as an example of the erroneous estimate, the extensive assistance of Bishop Copleston to his [Dr. Whately's] work on Logic : but an assistant is not entitled to the credit due to the prin- cipal. Many men can assist in production who cannot produce originally. The Introduction rather concerns the intellectual and public than the personal character of Bishop Copleston. The Archbishop goes over the lead- ing public questions in which he and his old master and friend took council together, sometimes differing. in details, but agreeing in the broad outline of principles. These " reminiscences" carry the reader over many of the questions which have agitated the world, or some influential section of it, for the last thirty years. University Reform, the Catholic Question in several of its aspects, the Hampden Controversy, the Tractarians, the ob- servance of the Sabbath as a religious 'obligation, and other topics of the time, are handled with sobriety, soundness, and a tempered earnestness. They are also touching as memorials of an almost lifelong friendship, while • Spectator, 1851; page 593.

they exhibit that friendsfiip in a charming light, as well for its human feeling and its permanence as for its lofty moral and intellectual tone.] Herodotus ; with a Commentary. By Joseph Williams Blakesley, RD., late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Volumes I. and II. (Bib- liotheca Classics.) [The editions which appear in the " Blliliotheca Classics," under the superintendence of Mr. Long and Mr. Maclean, differ of course according to the nature of the original author and of his editor. All of them, however, have this distinctness of character—there is nothing conventional, pedantic, or commonplace about them. In addition to competent scholarship, there is some turn in the editor for his author, and a fresh, free, rational, and living spirit, which strives to penetrate through the classic to the man, and to realize ancient times as a living actuality, not as a remote and statuesque kind of abstraction.

These qualities are peculiarly shown in Mr. Blakesley's Herodotus. Many students and scholars may not go with him to the full extent of his views, some perhaps may disagree with him in tote, but all must admit the exten- sive information, the critical thought, and the animated scholarship that he brings to bear upon the illustration of his own theory and the life, times, and history of Herodotus. The object of Mr. Blakesley is to oppose the opinion of the present day which represents the father of history as a critical historian, and as testing every- thing he records much as he would have done had he lived now instead of two thousand three hundred years ago. In an elaborate introduction, the editor carries back his reader to the time when Herodotus lived, and by a survey of the condition of the world, of the state of opinion, of scientific knowledge or rather the want of it, and of what we now call records or authorities, endeavours to show how impossible it was that Herodotus should be other than a story-teller, gathering his materials from such sources as were open to him, combining them into as artistical a narrative as he was able, and test- ing them by principles quite opposite to those which we ascribe to him. The same object is carried into the commentary ; the aim of the editor being less to elucidate the text, although there is a good deal of help of this kind, than to illustrate " through the medium of the moat fascinating of Greek prose writers the habits and feelings of the time in which he lived, and awaken- ing attention to the common motives of human action exhibited in forms be- longing to a state of things which has long since passed away." These illustrations are not confined to notes or introduction. Single subjects are expanded into a species of essay when particular points require expansion. The "Excursus' to the Third Book, in which Mr. Blakesley compares Ma- jor Rawlinson's translation of the cuneiform inscription, the authorized ver- sion of the reign of Darius, with the popular narrative of Herodotus, is a re- markable instance of the editor's acumen and appreciation of life in ancient and modern times.] Poems. By James Macfarlan. [There is poetical feeling and spirit in Mr. Msefarlan, if not exactly run- ning wild, yet from a deficiency in art and experience not producing the results of which his genius is probably capable. "Light and Darkness," the most elaborate piece in the volume, is an instance of this. The " idea " seems to be a wish to exhibit the spirit of doubt in Ernest, contrasted with the genial, joyous, poetical spirit, which draws hope and enjoyment from everything, in Cyprian ; while one Julian, who is saved from suicide, would seem to exhibit disappointed expectations in the man of action or struggle. But while the intention is not very clear, the manner of presenting it is altogether crude and imperfect. Nothing at all is done, and not much said, that is definite and conclusive : good passages may be found, but a passage does not constitute a poem any more than it does a house.]

Zeno, a Tale of the Italian War; and other Poems. To which are added, Translations from Modern German Poetry. By James D. Hor- rocks.

[The poems of Mr. Horrocks are not so much an imitation of Byron in style as in that manner which Byron and his imitators made at one time "the rage," if not amongst the world at large, at least among the world of versi- fiers. The writer is too much obtruded upon the reader in his personal character : there is too much of his loves and troubles, without the breadth, force, and peculiarity, which inspire interest. These remarks apply to the occasional or personal. poems. The longer pieces, which contain a story or , a general subject, have not this personal characteristic ; but neither are they ! so finished in execution.]

Julie; or Love and Duty. By Emilie.Flygars Carlon, Author of "The Rose of Tisleton," &e. [Julie is by no means one of Emilie Carlen's happiest fictions. The prin- ciples of love and duty are neither clearly conceived nor effectively developed. As a tale, it is a graver fault that the scenes and dialogues are feeble and canine:in. Nor does the writer seem able to rise to the force of a situation when the progress of the narrative throws one in her way. The beat of these situations is when the hero, Dr. Klein, meets at a ball his real "love," whom he has been "obligated" to abandon from a sense of " duty " to his dying father, his intended father-in-law, and the Julie they have chosen for him; the betrothed being also present at the fete. The meeting, however, is ineffective, from a sickly sentiment and a literal flatness. The Bose of ridden was a lucky accident.]

The Two Princes; or Sterlingcoin and Shamabram. A Fairy Tale. By E. H. This tale is as much allegorical as fairy. It turns upon the preference of a cess for a pseudo-hero, Shamabram, and her rejection of the suit of Prince Sterlingcoin, in spite of the favour of her parents. She is, however, brought to an appreciation of the good man and true, by a series of painful

adventures, which i expose the "sham." The tale is not very happy or airy in the telling, but there story.]

Russia as It b; its Court, its Government, and its People. By John Reynell Morel'. With a Map of the Baltic.

A compilation got up to answer the present demand for information respect- ing Russia and the Autocrat. It is not a very. critical affair, but extensive in its topics, whether relating to geography, institutions, manners, or the persons and family of its late and present sovereign, as well as of the exist- mg ministers and nobility. The whole is to be had for a shilling.]

The most notable reprint is Mr. Thomson's enlarged edition on the "Laws of War affecting Commerce and Shipping," with a new Introduction on the origin and authority of the Laws of Nations.

The Laws of War, affecting Commerce and Shipping. By H. Byerly Thomson, Esq., B.A., Barrister-at-law, of Jesus College, Cambridge, and the Inner Temple. A new edition, enlarged, with an Introduc- tion and Index.

Lancashire Witches : a Romance of Pendle Forest. By William Harrison Ainsworth. (The Railway Library.) Aunt Mary's Poetry, Original and Select, for the use of Young Persons. Second edition.

The French School. Part L L'Echo de Paris : a selection of familiar Phrases which a person would daily hear said around him if be were riving among the French people. By Monsieur Le Page, Professor '1 the French Language iu London. Twenty-second edition.

1854, Re.

A Pastoral Letter to the Clergy of his Diocese, before his Triennial Visitation in April, May, and June 1854, by Henry Lord Bishop of Exeter.

The Approaching and Inevitable Doom of Popery. By the Reverend George Gil- flllan, Dundee. Being a Lecture de- livered in Free St. Paul's Church, Dun- dee, on Sabbath, 9th April 1854.

.Facts and Documents relating to Popery and the Romish Controversy. Reprinted from the Britannia Newspaper.

Popish Practices at St. Barnabas. Four Letters on the Popish Practices in the District Churches of St. Paul's and St. Barnabas, addressed to the Lord Bishop of London. By James Beal, a Pa- rishioner.

Augmentation of Small Livings-to the Mi- nimum value of 2001. per Annum, by a Clerical Income-tax upon existing In- cumbents of Dignities and large Bene- Civil Service Reform. Observations upon the Report by Sir C. E. Trevelyan, R.C.B. (Assistant-Secretary to " The Central for the Revision of Pub- lic Establishments,") and Sir Si H, Northcote, Bart., (the paid Commis- sioner, of proved " superior fitness for administrative functions,") on the Orga- nization of the Permanent Civil Service;' with quotations from the leading Jour- nals, the Debate in the House of Lords, Re. By a Civil Subaltern.

London Temperance League.

Notes on the Present Condition of Bail- way Legislation. By Thomas coates. Injustice of the Law of Succession to the Beal Property of Intestates. By P. J. Locke King, M.P.

PAMPHLETS.

The Boston Kidnapping; a Discourse to flees, and a ten years' appropriation of

commemorate the Rendition of a fifth of the net income of their sue- Thomas Sims. By Theodore Parker. cessors. By eiirtee64,4e.

Proceedings of the Amerieen Anti-Slavery A Reply to the Question. What is to be Society, at its Second Decade, held in Done with our Convicts! Being an Ex- am city of Philadelphia, December 3d, position of a new System for the Em-

4th, and 5th, 1853. ployment and Management of Cormier

The Nursnery Question. A Report of the Prisoners, Re. By A. Allardice, Farm.-

Great Catholic Meeting held at St. er, Fifeshire.

Martin's Hall, Long Acre, March 21, A Short Appeal for the Cotter's Twee. Reprinted from the Gospel Messenger. By Sir J. S. Forbes, of Pitsligo, Bart., Chairman of the Society for Promoting Improvement in the Dwellings and Do- mestic Condition of Agricultural La- bourers in Scotland.