PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Books.

THE paucity in new books of promise still continues. Of the following list, Dr. Newman's " Universities " has already appeared in a Romanist periodical ; Miss Strickland's volume is but a portion of her long Lifiief Mary Queen of Scots, commencing with the Queen's enforced resignation after her imprisonment at Lochlevin, and terminating with the projeet for marrying Norfolk ; the three fictions belong to that didactic dais, half novel, half juvenile tale, which have become so numerous of late.

The Office and Work of Universities. By John Henry Newman, D.D., of the

Oratory.

Lives of the Queens of Scotland, and English Princesses connected with the Regal Succession of Great Britain. By Agnes Strickland, Author of " Lives of the Queens of England." Volume 1, I.

The Myrtle and the Heather : a Tale. By A. M. Goodrich, Author of " Gwen," 8r.c. In two volumes.

Sazelford : a Story for the Young. By E. S. May, Author of "Louis' Slool Ashburn: a Tale. By Aura.

The Keepsake, 1857. Edited by Miss Power. With Engravings from Draw- ings by the first Artists, engraved under the superintendence of Mr. Frede- rick A. Heath.

Rhymes and Roundelays in Praise of a Country Life. Adorned with many Pictures.

The Young Yiigers ; or a Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Alike. By Captain Mayne Reid, Author of "The Boy Hunters," 87.c. With twelve Illustrations, by William Harvey.

The Nature and °jives of the Church Examined in Six Sermons. By C. P. Reichel, B.D.—These Sermons are able and somewhat scholastic in treatment. The most remarkable thing in them is the doctrine enun- ciated by a Chaplain of the Lord-Lieutenant to the University of Dublin. According to Mr. Reicliel, nothing is "essential to the nature of the Church which is not revealed as matter of positive Divine command." Among the things deducible from this position as directly pertaining to the Church, are the sacraments, and " proclaiming "—by which we un- derstand preaching, and public prayer. The administration of these functions, Mr. Reichel does not., if we rightly apprehend him, limit to the ministry, but he confines the government of the Church to that body. Neither does he conceive Episcopacy to be of Scriptural institution, though there may be a close resemblance to it in later Apostolical prac- tice. It is needless to say that there is nothing Tractarian in the preach- er's principles.

Poem Written in a Workhouse. By E. B. M.—The statement in the title is literally true, but it does not suggest the real facts. The writer IS a young woman who has struggled with the difficulties of friendless- ness and loneliness, and is now the infant schoolmistress of a workhouse 8401. This tiny book of poetry is published by friends with a view to Cr future benefit, and with a deprecation of criticism. The deprecation was unnecessary. The poems on general subjects are of an average merit : those that fall immediately within the scope of the writes experience are of a remarkable kind—as the "Lines on the math of a Workhouse Orphan," and on "the Birth of a Workhouse Child." Here and there, traits of juvenility may be noted, and the nihiects have the narrowness which belongs to the seldom occurring— they are instances rather than types : but there is much truth as well as some pathos in the sentiments and reflections, with a style which har- monizes with the theme. In this picture there is a sad truthfulness- " How worn she looks ! and yet the last sad throe Could take no roses from her youthful brow ; For long ere this, though in life's early spring, She looked a pale-faced, careworn, lifeless thing. And yet, though frail and weak, upon her face Some kindly feelings you could often trace : . Even death's cold shadows scarcely could eclipse The languid smile that played around her lips."

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Woman's Mission. By William Lovett.—A poem in blank verse, ex- hibiting the influence of woman as a wife, and the trainer and educator of man d ; and denouncing the hard.ships and ills to which she is ex- posed under the existing social system. The thoughts are nervous, the style is terse and clear; but, with some few exceptions, the piece is an essay turned into verse, rather than poetry.

Our Eastern Empire ; or Stories from the History of British India. By the Author of "The Martyr Land," &c.—Leading points of Anglo- Indian history, thrown into dialogue, and presented in biographical sketches of the three greatest Governors, Clive, Warren Hastings, and . Wellesley. The chief interlocutors are a lady, her children, and nephew ; the quenes and remarks of the youthful listeners serving to point a moral or clear up the questionable. Something of family story is mingled with the narrative' but though this and the queries of the auditors may relieve, they also interrupt.

Pictures from the Pyrenees. By Caroline Bell.—The travels of a family to Pau and the Pyrenees on account of mamma's delicate - health ; though the most important persons in the book are little Bate and Agnes. The journey is made the vehicle for some slight adventures and much description of scenery, customs, and manners, with a little history and archeology. Story in a strict sense there is none but the charac- ters are natural, and the dialogues dramatically managed. The illus- trations are better than is frequently the case with juvenile books.

A Treatise on Bille Projectiles. By John Boucher, Author of "The Rifle- man and the Rifle,' &c.—An elaborate but somewhat technical examina- tion of several modern systems or "principles" in connexion with rifle- firing, and the explanation of a new plan of the 'writer's own. The nature of the bullet (projectile) is the subject of the discussion throughout.

Mr. Verdant Green Married and Done-for. By Cuthbert Bede, B.A.- The third part of Mr. Green's adventures carries himself and the reader into Northumberland. The fun is perhaps less broad and boisterous than in the previous parts ; there is some information about the state of the humbler classes in Northumberland.

The third edition of William Howitt's "Visits to Remarkable Places"

• —one of the best things he ever did—appears in two handsome volumes, copiously illustrated, and well suited for a giftbook of the solid order. It is above all fit for the library of the gentleman farmer, or a country resident, who has a taste for the country, the "remarkable places" old England contains and the associations connected therewith.

The other new edition of mark is a collection of historical and political disquisitions,: forming the eighth volume of the library edition of Lora Brougham's collected Works. Essentially, they form eleven treatises oh political and international law, foreign policy, with a coup-d'ceil of "Re- volutions, particularly: that of 1848,' and remarks on the broader features of legislation. In point of chronology they run over an extensive field; for they are not mere closet treatises, but were struck off for practical use on the occasion.

Visits to Remarkable Places; Old Halls, Battle-fields, and Scenes illustrative of striking passages in English Historyand Poetry. By William Hewitt, Author of "The Rural Life of England," . • Boy's Country Book," &c. *With forty Wood-cuts, from Drawings by Mush. Carmichael, Richardson, and Taylor. Third edition.

Historical and Political Dissertations. By Henry Lord Brougham, F.R.S. Member of the National Institute of France, and of the Royal Academy of Naples. (Works of Henry Lord Brougham, I.R.S., &c. Volume VIII.) The School and Family History of England, from the earliest period to the nineteenth year of the reign of Queen Victoria. By Edward Farr, F.S.A. New edition.

NEW SERIAL.

Orr's Circle of the Industrial Arta. Part I.—A sequel to " Orr's Circle of the Sciences." That work aimed at expounding the natural laws of many things; the object of the present is to exhibit the applica-

tion to the useful purposes of mankind. It is proposed to complete the undertaking in ten volumes; which -will embrace the useful and the precious metals, glass, pottery, and porcelain, the manufacture and em- bellishment of textile fabrics, and practical agriculture. These are evidently useful arts: so are civil engineering, architecture, and build- ing. "The military art" scarcely falls under the head of "industrial," though at times involving a good deal of hard work ; and is only useful as being indispensable. Painting and sculpture, plastic and decorative art, are also included, but not shipbuilding (in wood) and navigation. One principle will be rigidly adhered to—all the writers will be practical men, not literary book-makers.

"The art has -been cultivated of putting facts into shape by persons often ignorant of the significance and ramifications of those facts; thus consti- tuting the art of book-making as distinguished from the art of fact-teaching by books. It appeared to us that the art had been carried too far for the interests of true scientific instruction; that a store far too great had been set upon the blandishments of literary style in matters purely utilitarian ; and that if choice there needs must exist, between a truth inelegantly told by a practical man who knew the import of that truth, and who told it whilst yet under the force of its inspiration, and of another who, without any practical acquaintance, could urge no better claim to appreciation than mere literary style, the former alternative should be chosen. We de- termined, therefore, to have nothing to do with any but practical men ; and in the preparation of the forthcoming pages that determination has been worked out." The subject of the first volume will be the useful metals and their alloys, pursued through eight or nine divisions' undertaken by as many different writers,—unless the well-known Mr. Fairbairn treats two sub- jects—steel manufacture, and the applications of iron to bridges, houses, and shipbuilding. Dr. Scoffem leads off with chemical metallurgy.

ALMA-I/TACKS.

The British Almanack and Companion, for l857.—This most useful of annuals supports its well-established fame. The first part of the Com- panion, containing general information on various subjects of current in,- terest, and the last article of the book, "Architecture and Public urn- provements," are of course the newest in matter. The papers on gene- ral information are of a solid kind. De Morgan continues the Decimal Coinage question. There is an elaborate and curious exposition of the Postage system, exhibiting its present state, with some comparative glances at the old plan of postage and the gradual growth under the new rates. Another paper still more elaborate narrates the material progress of British India. There are two articles of a practical kind, on Arbi- tration in Trade Disputes, and Metropolitan Communications, chiefly in relation to Thames Bridges, and a sensible paper on the close of the Bas- tian War.

The Protestant Dissenter? Almanack and Political Annual, for the year 1857.—This publication exhibits extension and improvement, especially in its display of the various Dissenting organizations and organs—as societies, schools, publications, and a club. There is also a good deal of legal information on matters peculiarly interesting to Dissenters.