PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

77,e L',..:/c.Nicat;e:ti ono, Potilical History V Mc _Pores (!).' Boon during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. By. ',Loewe, Ram: I:, Pro- tasser is the university of Berlin. Translated Hugh the Cierinau by SAHA it A t s rts. 111 three VOIS.

The I. li /J. Th.;imiS Puryess, D.D., c,. late Lord ilishop of Salisbury, By Jou>. S. laui.onts,Esq•, Tee Quirt losbau(d. By Miss Ea.t.es Picecitieu, Author of The Merchant's Daughter." In three vols.

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A Treatise on Sheep; addressed to the Flecle-nmetess of Australia, Tbs.

manio, and Southern Africa; shoeing the means by which the wool of thee) Cehmi, s may be improved, tend suggesting ideas for the introduc-

feet of lauieermis animal s, suited to the climate, and calculated to add to their agricultural remurces. By THOMAS SOUTHEY, wool- br,d

[Sage tell ye:leS since, Mr. Sosemcv published a pamphlet addressed to tic Cape tes: Australian colonists, on washing, classing, and packing their fleeces, which cam,. to market in such a dirty toll inferior state as materially to

diminish their v. ;rte. The advice of the pees " poet-broker was received Willi followed with ELICCCSS ; the WO1h. Of print, and the of impostatiou of coloniel wool has gradually risen in this enormous: v,by-

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1841i 1,838,(.1421bs :17,e I tabs.

lb:SS 7,S:37,423 4

Mr. SIll'1111:Y therefore conceived, and truly, that Inc woalt1 he rendering:, ter: to the Colonies by. reprinting his publicatittn, or rather by writing a new ems. lle has accordingly availed himself of all the fresh information he cotil.: procure, besides adding some additional chapters on the management oldie .1 teeera goat acid the l'eruvian alpaca ; both of which animals he conceives could 1,, se e1th great esIvantage in the A ustralian Coloiliee--especially the alpaca, *is the camel, capable of enduring long privation of water. Mr. So. el .1 ,., .2. 0 s. ems to have amused his leisure by perusitig pietas and history; for he (pee,. lei he's Fleece at the end of several chapter:, and generally bee's s (sell branch of his subject with its !Astery from the It entails and some- title : 11,2 Jews. These little flourishes are not sufficiently help to be tedious ; osel It ley were, the calve of the chapters on the utility of the sheep, the effects of le-ter:tee on the wool, the precautions to be used in washing and sheep- sh, esing, together with the care of the ewes and lambs (luring the hunhine- season, would to a Cape or Australian colonist more than eminterbalance any needless display of literature. remarks, too, lull the systematic io- tr4nluction and brectring of the goat and alpaca are well worth attention ; as the recount of the Spanish and Gentian mode of managing sheep will be found curious, and may perhaps furnish a hint to profit by.] Trrattsc on the Tlitorli and Practice V Naval ..frchitectore; being the Article " Shipbuilding" in the Encyclopiedia Britannica, seventh edi- tion. By AUGUSTIN F. B. Cnituzie Member of the late School of Naval Architecture, &-e. With fifteen plates. Thls %idealist reprint front the Emase/aseedia /Iritonnica is of too professional, and indeed of tuo technical and imoltematical a character, for our columns hut we may point the attention of shipbuilders and shipowners to the effects that cmistruction with mere attention to burden alone, has had upon their interests, as well as to the natural causes which have produced them. To English merchant-vessels, sailing under convoys during the whole war, speed was of no advantage—the titstest sailer had to wait for the slowest: to foreigners, a large fleet being merely a more certain mode of being taken by our cruisers, speed was the first thing considered in building their vessels, in order to faeili- tate the esespe of ships by sailing singly; and this principle of construction survived the cause which produced it, to the great injury of British interests. The plates are alto published with the text ; and tarnish a curious picture

of the art of shipbuilding, from the vessels of the Normans to the latest ex- ample of modern science.]

The Book of Illustrations; or Scripture Truths exhibited by the aid of Similes. Original and selected. By the Reverend R. G. SALTER, A.M., Curate and Lecturer of Glastonbury. [This goodly volume is in a measure founded upon an old work, entitled Things New and Old, or a Storehouse of Sintiles; and consists of a number of illus- trations, or expanded similes, some new, but the majority selected from different divines. The purpose of Mr. SALTER seems to be to furnish preachers with a collection of rhetorical ornaments, with which they may interlay their sermons; he himself having found "illustrations" of the greatest benefit in rousing atten- tion and impressing the truths of religion upon the mind. We have our doubts whether the bit-by-bit, or any other mechanical plan of composing discourses, will be effective; but the volume contains a great number of passages, some striking, some quaint, some eloquent, all arranged under appropriate 'leads; and it will form not only a storehouse for the divine, but a book for devotional family reading.] Instructions in Gardening fbr Ladies, By Mrs. LOUDON, Author of "',lie Ladies' Flower Garden," &c.

[This book not only directs what is to be done to keep a garden in neat and flourishing condir , but shows exactly how to,do it, and moreover gives the reason for doing it : this is what no other gardening.book that we have met with attempts, fir the professed gardener is apt to forget that people in general are utterly ignorant of the first prinuiples of their science; indeed he is not always able to explain the rationale of his own practice. Mrs. LORL1ON, as she tells us in the preface, has been the pupil of her husband, and was " never sa- tisfied without knowing the reason for every thing" she was told to do : hence the satisfitetory nature of her information, which on every point is ex-

plicit and complete. Site treats of digging, manuring, sowing, planting, pruning, grafting, &e. ; of the manngement of the kitchen and flower gardens, the lawn and shrubbery, and of tvindow or parlour gardening, in a manner so attractive from its distinctness that it is calculated to make all her fair readers set up a " lady's spade" and commence operations forthwith. The descriptions of the several processes of layering, cutting, budding, and grafting, are illus- trated by very nice cuts.] The Ladies' Knitting rout Niiting Bock. By Miss WaTTs. First Se- ries—Fifth edition, with additions. Second Series—Second edition. [Exact and effileiSe diretI tIIS tiw making every possible article that can be fabricated with knit ting.needles, front the fancy silk purse and reticule to the worsted shawl and comforter.] Glencoe, or the bide of the Mitcdonahls; a Tragedy, in five acts.

PAMPHLETS.

The Fidldand lidands, &c. &c. Compiled from ten years' investigation of the subject. By G. T. WIIrrl'INUTON. [Mr. 'WHITTINGTON possesses a considerable extent of land on the Falkland Islands, granted by an officer of Buenos Ayres when the Remain': occupied them, some eighteen or twenty years ago. He has naturally paid great atten- tion to the subject ; and after examining the history of the islands, and such accounts of them, both published and in manuscript, as lie could obtain access to, lie has thrown his information into print, With a view to recommend them as a field fi,r colonization.

Situated at the conflux, as it were, of the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans, and commanding the shores both of Africa and A invries, the Falklited Islands are admirably modified for a naval station, abounding as they do in capacious harbours. Their seas teeming with fish, the shores of limy of the islands ficquented by seals, &c., and lying on the tinnier of the great sperm- whaling stations, they would also seem well adapted for a commercial empo- rium, and a refitting or refreshment port fur shipping. Nor is there tiny na- tural obstacle to either of these objects: for the islands abound with wild cattle, horses, and swine, introduced by filmier settler:; so that the sea and shore offer provisions in plenty : and the climate is equable and wholesome, though the summer is short. But we have considerable donbis whether the place is well adapted for agricultural colonization. The extent of land is limited; it is supposed that wheat will not ripen there on accouut of the early autumn ; there are no trees of native gro%vtlt ; and the islands are exposed to the full fury of the Southern gales, which it is alleged blow for the greater part of the year. Vegetubles, however, grow well in the selected places where they have been tried, and other grain than wheat would probably succeed ; so that settlers would nut be reduced to depend on foreign supplies. Mr. Wit 'c is ant a very skilful compiler, and deficient in the raci- ness which original knowledge imparts : the most valuable portions or las publication are the maps told the weather. tables.] The Rights n/' the Operatives Asserted. By W. S. VILLIERS SAsisev, A.M., Author of the Portefeuille, A Speech Delleered rut the Bar 0,1 the Muse of Lords, in thAnee of (lie City of Dublin : on the order for going into Committee on the Irish Corporation Bill, Lith May 1840. By ISAAC 111:TT, Esq.

v. PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS, PRINTS, &C.

Ricauti's Rustic Architecture. Part I.

[A series of designs for rural cottages; combining solidity, picturesqueness, convenience, and economy of space and cost ; the principal novel feature in them being the introduction of " rough wood," as well as thatch, and other homely characteristics. The seven zincographie plates ere devoted to the illus- tration of one design of a very pretty Gothic cottage, tel gabled porch, door, and window-frames, :net decorative details made of rough wood, dressed only with the axe ; the fences tail Imo.y furniture being also constructed of top- pings of trees. A descriptive explanation of the plates, and an approximate estimate, are given. Six designs in as many parts will complete the set.]

The Illumin«tcd Atlas of Scripture Genyraphy; a series of Maps, deli- neating the physical and historical futures in the Geography of Palestine and the adjacent countries: accompanied with an explanatory notice of each map, :mil a copious index of the names of places. By W. lilcuttEs, F.lt.G.S.

[An atlas of twenty maps of the countries alluded to in the Sacred Writings, printed in colours with letterpress; the mountains indicated in white, the seas and lakes by blue lines, and the land tinted with different hues: the maps are qudttn, folding to octavo size, to correspond with the Pietorbd Bilthf and Pie- tariff/ iliatore of Poksane, to which the idles is a JleCe,;,,al'y comps n ion. The degree of atehentieity of the different places is indicated by a sign utilised to its name; and other particulars relating to the localities—the height or moun- tains, elevation of plains, fertility of soil, &c.—are given in seperate descriptions of each mop: the index of refe'renee completes the utility of this compendium of Scripture Geography.] Robert Batas. Painted by CUARLES HANCocE; engraved by WILLIAM GILLER.

[An ideal portrait of BURNS, standing as ALLAN CENSINGRAM well described the Scottish poet, " with his hand on the plough and his heart with the muse." The likeness is not inferior to some that have appeared, though the features are too petite ; but the idea is better conceived than executed. It makes a pretty print, however, and is very nicely engraved in mezzotint.] Equestrian Portrait of Mrs. Mitherly, Painted by FRANCIS GRANT, Esq., S.A.; engraved by Thomas LANDSZER, Esq. [A spirited, animated, graceful, and doubtless a correct likeness of the fair horsewoman, mounted on her dappled gray steed. We cannot say any thing favourable of the mezzotint, beyond its effect.]

Klauer's German Tables.