PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

IN THE REAL AND THE BEALr IDEAL, we have a good enough little book by the Author of Visiting My Relations. It is written in the form of unposted Letters or possibly Addresses to a young Bride, and is in- tended as a little manual of counsels to be consulted when the beau ideal in which she rejoiced, on her wedding morning, has yielded to the real. The mistakes and misconduct which render marriage unhappy, are in the author's view attributable chiefly to an excess of feeling, fancy, and enthusiastic passion, which makes the wife demand an impossible homage from her husband. We suppose most vital qualifies have their inherent or incidental dangers. It is surely well to caution the young against unreasonable expectation and extravagant sentiment. But it is the false ideal only that we should deprecate. All true healthy life of intellect, imagination, and emotion, seems to us, at any rate, in its degree to have a sacredness, like religious life. We would, while true to all prosaic duties, throw more poetry into love, not less, improve and strengthen character, and not repress the natural growth of any genuine feeling. We do not accuse our author of any such theory of repression; but we suspect that though there is undeniable truth in the reclamations of this little book, that the remedy indicated in its pages is placed less in the healthy development of all the faculties, than in abstinence from emotional enjoyment. The book, however, is a well-meaning-book, with a fund of excellent advice in it ; and, with some qualification, we recommend it to all enthusiastic young brides who expect "continual worship" from their husbands. "0 wicked imagination, whence mined thou in to cover the earth with deceit?"

Mr. J. C. M. Bellew has published a volume of Sermons twenty- eight in number, entitled CHRIST 'N Las: LIFE rrt thuusw : delineating the aspect of the Saviour's character exhibited by various earthly inci- dents ("Christ in Life") and "the aspect of the Christian's Life, as he consecrates the events and occupations of the world to a "Life in Christ." Of these sermons some relate to the festivals of the Church : one is strictly occasional; that on the Thanksgiving. for Peace in India; and one Social; that on Sunday Trading in the Metropolis. The Ser- mons are orthodox, but not ecclesiastical ; their style is rhetorical and somewhat pretentious; they draw on history and science for illus.

tration; and are relieved by passa,ges ef personal experience in Foreign Travel.

THE THERNo.ELEcrawAt! OR Nail:razz SYSTEM or IfImam is the work of a gentleman Who has the misfortune to be grossly illiterate, and to know nothing at all of the art of reasoning, though he appends seven honorary letters to his name. His book is the veriest rubbish of sciolisra and muddleheadedness.

ELEstmas OF Cirr.streAl. Primes by Professor Cooke, of -Harvard University, is an exhaustive treatise, theoretical and practical, on the processes of weighing and -measuring in relation to chemistry, and is also intended.to serve as the first volume of an extended work on the Philosophy of Chemistry. It is executed with care and judgment, and well deservesthe attention of English students. '

Of Peaxs; Passes, Aen GLAcncns, five editions have been published within twelve months. The fifth is reduced in price as well as in bulk, and is made Imitable in form and weight for being carried in the knap- sack or the pocket.

• Boots. •

The Thermo-Electrical or Natural System of Medicine. The Science of Life. Health, and Disease: explanatory of the Mysteries of Man's Existence, and all the- Phenomena of Life; with the Nature. Causes, and Treatment of Disease. The Fruit of Forty, Years' Professional Experience. By Charles Searle, M.D., Mat., C.S.E.

Alice Lisle : a Tale of Puritan- Times. By he Rev. R. Ring. Mainstone's Housekeeper. . By Eliza Meteyard (" Silverpen "). In three volumes.

The Girl's Birthday Book. A Collection of Tales, Essays, and Narratives, es- pecially designed for Girls. Numerous Illustrations.

Chilcote Park ; or the Sisters: By the Author of " Likes and Dislikes." History of the Consulate, and the _Empire of France under Napoleon. Forming a Sequel to " The History of the French Revolution." By M. A. Thiers, late Prime Minister of France, ke. Translated from the French.

Volume 17. . ,

Spread-Bagleism. By George Francis Train.

NEW EDITIONS AND REPRMTS.

HOW to Nurse Sick Children. By Charles West, M.D.

Peaks, Passes, and Giaciers. A Series of Excursions.by Members of the Alpine Club. Edited by John Ball, President of the Alpine Club.