PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. •

Instalments of two historical works of mark have been produced this week. One is the second volume of Mr. Crowe's HISTORY or FRANCE, comprising the interval between the reign of Charles VI., the contem- porary of our Henry IV., and the death of Henri II. in 1559 ; the other is the third volume of Mr. Massey's HISTORY OF ENGLAND DURING THE REIGN OF GEORGE THE THIRD. Its range is from 1781 to 1793, and much of its contents is derived from important and extensive col- lections of private papers to which the author has had access.

Crvaizerrox IN HUNGARY is professedly a refutation of M. de Sze- mere's recent work, " Hungary, from 1848 to 1860." The anonymous author, who vaguely and suspiciously designates himself "An Hunga- rian," states that " there is hardly any country about which so many false ideas are propagated as Hungary, ' and accuses M. de Szemere of having considerably increased the number by the publication of his letters to Mr. Cobden. He maintains that Hungary by no means occupies such an important position in the Austrian dominions as is generally supposed, "for it can only occasion negative injury, it cannot effect anything posi- tive in the present complication of Eastern politics, especially if Magyar views were carried out," and that it is the fault of the Hungarians them- selves if they have not been made prosperous and contented by the bless- ings bestowed upon them by the Austrian administration during the last ten years. A gentleman who writes in this tone ought at least to sign his depositions with his name. What value does he suppose the public can assign to his statements and his arguments without such a guarantee for their good faith ? He may be a Hungarian or he may not. If a Hungarian, he may be a patriot or a traitor; he may be wiser than all his countrymen in his love of freedom, or he may be a political mono- maniac, or a hireling who has sold his nationality, his soul, and his pen for Austrian gold.

Dr. Beke's Essay on THE Sources OF ma Nun is based on-the au- thor's paper "On the Nile and its Tributaries," which was read before the Geographical Society in January 1847, and on several subsequent papers. Dr. Beke congratulates himself on the fact that his theory of the sources of the Nile in the Mountains of the Moon (which is not that of Captain Speke) has been confirmed by the results of Captain Burton's remarkable expedition.

ON TAXATION : HOW IT IS RAISED AND HOW IT IS EXPENDED, is dedicated by permission to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and con- tains the substance of a course of lectures delivered by the author, Pro- fessor Leone Levi, in King's College.

Four quarterly parts, constituting the third volume of THE ANNALS or INDIAN ADMINISTRATION, edited by Meredith Townsend, and published at Semmpore, are now before us. The object of the compiler is to do for the official information of India what has been two or three times at-' tempted for the English blue-books with less success than was com- mensurate with the labour and cost of such an undertaking, and the useful results to be expected from it. Mr. Meredith has been more fortunate, perhaps more skilful in the conduct of his enterprise, than his brother compilers of England. He promises that the Annals will comprise every fact, and almost every opinion of im- portance, in the records of each quarter ; and he has a vast mass of materials at his disposal, for, as he states "the Government of India publish, on an average, a volume every four days. From reports affecting the entire Empire to accounts of local drainage, from the opinions of the ablest officers to the cost of a cutcha bye-road in a fron- tier province, everything finds a place in these publications. There is scarcely a subject connected with Indian administration on which they do not exhaust official knowledge. There is no officer in the country who may not obtain from them, in reference to his special task, all the advantages of experience. The information thus vast is, however, widely scattered. The records of one Presidency are scarcely known in another. The books are not very readily procurable, and above all, they are like all other blue books, dry, ill-digested, and overlaid with detail. It costs an hour to find a fact, and in India, men who care about facts cannot spare hours."

THE Lees OF SIR MARTIN Airmen SHEE, President of the Royal Aoademy, has been written in two volumes by his son. There is little in it, so far as we can judge, to interest the general reader. Mr. Shee's life was not an eventful one. It was neither marked by unusual external cir- cumstance nor characterized by extraordinary internal development. There

is, however, in the work before us, an occasional passage relating to emi- nent public and literary men, which will be found worth reading ; personal friends may care to retrace in these volumes the fortunes and characteristics of an accomplished gentleman and successful artist ; and some few may be pleased to find in the 832 pages which they contain, brief notices of English and French painters, and a sort of precis of the political history of the Royal Academy.

Rinerruseeirees 13Y A CLERGYMAN'S Wren, contains three chapters on the London and Country poor; one, of which the subject matter is mixed; and one entitled "Friends at Rest." It describes scenes and in- cidents that have mostly come under the author's own knowledge. It is not an essay, but a series of narrative experiences, and is adapted only to the capacities of essentially pietistic persons. It is edited by the Dean of Canterbury.

ROOKS.

A History of England during the Reign of George the Third. By William Massey, M.P. Volume Ill. The History of France. By Eyre Evans Crowe. In five vole. Vol. II. Civilisation in Hungary : Seven Answers to Seven Letters addressed by M. Barth de Szemere, late Minister of the Interior of Hungary, to Richard Cob- den, Esq., M.P. for Rochdale. By An Hungarian.

The Sources of the Nile; being a General Survey of the Basin of that River and of its Head-Streams ; with the History of Nilotic Discovery. By Charles T. Beke, Ph.D.

Geological Gossip : or Stray Chapters on Earth and Ocean. By Professor D. T. Amsted.

Lanier a Cloud. A Novel. By Frederick and James Greenwood. In three volumes.

The Long Run. A Novel. By Henry Owgan, LL.D., Author of " Out on the World."

Rough Types of English Life. By the late Jelinger Cookson Symons, Esq., B.A.

Stray Notes on Fishing and Natural History. By Cornwall Simeon.

Salmon Fishing in Canada. By a Resident. Edited by Colonel Sir James Edward Alexander. With Illustrations.

On Taxation: new it is Raised, and How it is Expended. By Leone Levi. Handbook of the Constitution ; being a short Account of the Rise, Progress, and Present State of the Laws of England. By Alfred P. Hensman, B.A., Barrister-at-Law.

The Handbook of Bookkeeping, by Single and Double Entry.

A New List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns growing Wild in the Count-Of Devon. With their Habitants and Principal Stations. By Thomas F. Ra- venshaw, M.A.

The Existence of the Deity, evidenced by Power and Unity in Creation; from the Results of Modern Science. By Thomas Woods, M.D.

Running a Thousand melee for Freedom ; or the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery.

Enoch : a Poem. In three Books. By Robert Stafford, M.A.

Remarks and Emendations on Some Passages in Thucydides. By the Rev. William Linwood, M.A.

New EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.

The Collected Works of Dugald Stewart. Supplementary Volume.