PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booxs.

The week does not greatly differ from its predecessors of the present year, except in the scantiness of new editions ; of which in strictness there is but on ,e the twelfth volume of Alison's History of Europe.

The works of apparent mark and likelihood are more numerous than usual ; but they may not turn out so promising as they look. The subject of the "Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady "—the fact that Theresa Pulszky is recording her own experiences of Hungary for the last five years, during troubled times, and with considerable advantages for observation— would of itself give the work considerable interest. . A similar observation may be hazarded as regards the "Pages d'Histoire " of Louis Blanc. Julia Kavanagh is already known for some clever tales descriptive of French life ; and "Woman in France during. the Eighteenth Century" is likely to form a readable book, if it reach no higher merit. The "Rhyming Chronicle" has fluency, flow, taste, and sound' but Mr. Harston seems to want the depth and largeness of the true poet. He frequently enumerates the externals of things, seeing no further and no more than we all see ; though he expresses himself more prettily. Mr. Collins has yet to exhibit his powers as a novel- ist and the subject he has chosen is from its nature one to try the genius and art of the greatest writer. The scene is Italy during the fifth century, and the siege of Rome under Alaric forms an important incident in the tale. "The Forest and the Fortress" is not so remote in point of time, but almost as distant as regards manners. The country where the incidents occur is Servia ; and the principal actors are Servians and Turks,—peoples who can only be properly painted by a person possessing more actual knowledge of them than a lady is likely to possess. Doctor Blair's account of the Yel- low Fever of British Guiana appears to be a very able book ; full of facts acutely observed, well presented, and classed in an orderly manner.

Memoirs of a Hungarian Lady. By Theresa Pulszky. With Histo- rical Introduction, by Francis Pulszky. In two volumes.

Pages d' Histoire de la Revolution de Fivrier 1848. Par Louis Blanc. Woman in France during the Eighteenth Century. By Julia Kavanagh, Author of "Madeleine, a Tale of Auvergne," &c. In two volumes. With Portraits.

A Rhyming Chronicle of Incidents and Feelings. Edited by Edward Huston,. M.A., Vicar of Tamworth.

.Antonina, or the Fall of Rome; a Romance of the Fifth Century. By

W. Willoie Collins, Author of the "life of William Collins." In three volumes.

27ie Forest and the Fortress ; a Romance of the Nineteenth Century. By Laura Jewry, Author of "Kirkholm Priory," &c. In three volumes.

Some Account of the last Yellow Fever Epidemic of British Guiana. By Daniel Blair, M.D. Surgeon-General of British, Guiana. Edited by John Davy, 11.D., F.R.S., 8zo.

Oireassia ; or a Tour to the Caucasus. By George Leighton Ditson, Esq.

274e Five Latter Books of the First Decade of .Livy, VI. VII. VIII. IX. X. Adapted to the use of Schools and Colleges : with a Preface and Notes, by Professor Pillans, of the University of Edinburgh.

[This is another of the useful contributions of Professor Pillans to classical study. Five books of Lim relating to one of the most interesting periods of Roman history, are selected, and so arranged by the simple omission of subordinate and disturbing events, as to form a continuous story; which the necessity of concluding the narrative in the Consular year, often prevented the original historian from attaining. The text is illustrated with critical notes, intended to assist the pupil's progress, but not to lift him over all obstacles.

The object of the publication is to furnish advanced pupils with a more interesting and useful selection from Livy than has yet been made since it is impossible to read him entire during a scholastic course. For this pur- pose, the book, small as it is, is exceedingly well designed; and the critical preface of Mr. Pillans shows how well qualified he is for the task he has undertaken, and how deeply he is versed in his author.]

Arthur Montague; or an Only. Son at Sea. By a Flag-Officer. In three volumes.

[The hero of this fiction is an only child of doting parents, and of course spoiled. After being taken from wheel in consequence of a hard knock he received, Master Arthur persists in going to sea, to the horror of papa and mamma. The first volume contains an account of his birth, home, and school days ; the second and third volumes embrace his adventures at sea as a mid- shipman.

The idea of the earlier part seems taken from Sterne, or perhaps from Bul- wer's Cartons, as the nautical part has an obvious resemblance to Peter Simple. There is a broad yarnhke humour about many of the incidents, and the writer has a familiar acquaintance with nautical life ; but he sadly -wants art.]

Life for Life, or "the Law Written in the Heart" ; a Brief Tale for 18o0.

[An improbable but well-written tale, designed to show that a murderer even from the impulse of passion cannot escape the law of "life for life," but that if he escape public condemnation he must make away with himself. The whole story is so extreme and peculiar that no general conclusion what- ever can be founded on it. The book is dedicated to Mr. Ewart—ironically, we suppose.] Beauties of George Herbert; with Selections from "The Synagogue." [A small selection of serious poetry; the profits on the sale of which will be appropriated to the "Clever House of Mercy."] The Noble Heart; a Tragedy, in three acts. By G. H. Lewes, Author of "Ranthoipe," &c.

A Treatise on Moral Evidence ; illustrated by numerous Examples both as General Principles and of Specific Actions. By Edward Arthur Smedley, M.A., late Chaplain of Trinity College, Cambridge.

[This is one of a class of books that, treating of recondite and abstract ques- tions without even a direct bearing upon life, like political economy, is rarely suitable for notice in a popular journal. Mr. Smedley, too, has mixed up religious questions with the metaphysical ; which still further removes the Treatise on Moral Evidence from newspaper notice, especially at this Par- liamentary season.]

A Manual of Logic, Deductive and Inductive. By H. H. Munro. [A compilation whose object is to simplify and adapt to the use of schools and younger pupils the modern manner of considering and presenting logic.] History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. By Archibald Alison, LL.D., &e. New edition, with Portraits. Volume XII.

A Few Thoughts on Commission, Divisions of Profit, Selection of Lives the Mortality in India, and other subjects relating to _Life Assurance; contained in a Series of Letters recently published in the "Post Magazine," under the signature of " Crito." By Samuel Brown, F.I.A.

Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in Civil and Naval Architecture, &c. Part ILL

PAMPHLETS.

An Examination of some Prevailing Opinions as to the Pressure of Taxation in This and other Countries. By George Wards Norman, Esq. Tracts on Protection. No. 1. Introductory Tract. 2. The Occupations of the People. 3. An Abstract of Political Opinions.

Latter-Day Pamphlets, edited by Thomas Carlyle. No. U. Model Prisons.

On the Government of the British Colonies. By John Walpole Willis. Letter to the Right Honourable Lord John Russell, Explanatory of et. Financial System far Extending Railways in Ireland, &c. By Wil- limn Low Civil Engineer. A Letter addressed to the Country Party. By a Country Gentleman. The Advantages of _Literary and Scientific Institutions for All Classes; a Lecture, delivered at the Town-hall, Carmarthen, on 11th December 1849. By Connop Thfrlwall, D.D. Bishop of St. David's. Baptism according to Scripture. By E. H. Hoare, A.M., Vicar of Barkby, Leicestershire.