PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From September 15th to S lye em' er 28th.

BOOKS.

The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German of W. ALEXIS. In three volumes.

The Hope that is in us ; a Poem.

Extracts from the Presbytery Book of Strathbogie ; A.D. 1631-1654.

The Wonderful History of Peter Schlemild. By ADELBERT VON CHI, MISSO. Translated by 'WILLIAM HOWITT. With six Illustrations. Original edition.

Letters from New York. By MARIA CDILD, Author of" The Mother's Book, '&c.

_Vemoirs and Recollections of the late Abraham Raimbach, Esq., Engraver, Corresponding Member of the Institute of France, &C. Including a Memoir of Sir David Wilkie, B.A. Edited by M. T. S. Ram- Been, M.A. Rachel of Padanaram, Toe of the Church ; a Sacred History from the Mosaic Record. By WILLIAM ARCHER.

[nisi' a carious little volume; exhibiting learning, fancy, and ability, en-

ElEiperhaps on an ill-chosen theme. The avowed aim of Mr. ARCHER is to rate the "simple and exquisite incidents of Sacred Writ " by an imitation of PLATO'S style and that of his modern follower CUDWORTH. What he has actually performed is an expansion of the incidents of Jacob's courtship and Rachel's life into a species of commentary ; sometimes based on fancy—as in the picture of Laban's land and daughters; sometimes on learning—as in the chapter on the names of Leah and Rachel, which, like those of the Jews, were ex- pressive of some personal quality or family circumstance ; whilst snatches of appropriate verse are frequently introduced into the narrative. Considered merely as composition, the little book possesses much merit. The author has studied his subject ; going pretty deeply into the mystic commentators on the story of Rachel and Leah, and the allegories they have fashioned out of it, yet not pedantically obtruding his knowledge. He exhibits a good deal of grace and sentiment in the more imaginative or effusive parts of the book ; and his poetry has a dash of antique quaintness, reminding one of the best writers of the metaphysical school, especially of MILTON in his minor poems. To many English readers, however, the book will lack substance and purpose : the Ger- mans would admire it.]

Saul, King of Israel; a Sacred Drama, in fire acts. By STUART ALEXANDER.

[The hero of this sacred drama is perhaps David rather than Saul. The story opens with the visit of Samuel to Jesse, and closes with the death of Saul and Jonathan, and David's celebrated lament over them ; the main incidents of Scripture being exhibited, and the story varied by the introduction of other events. Of poetry, Mr. ALEXANDER does not exhibit an iota, and his lines are sometimes so very prosaic as to move a smile: but in the business and planning of his drama, there is the interest which often attaches to juvenile tales ; though the play is not adapted to representation, and its tone very far below its subject.]

The Isles of Greece, and other Poems. By FELICIA M. F. SICENE. [The framework of The Isles of Greece would appear to be a tour, made in the Grecian teas by means of one of the steam excursion-trips. At all events, plan and inspiration smack strongly of this source ; the work consisting of a series of short poems upon striking features—as the Tomb of The- mistocles, Cape Sunium, and so forth ; and the style, though pretty enough, not rising above the album or the annual. There are also some longer poems, founded, like the Giaour, on Eastern incidents, and striving to imitate the gloom and mystery of that production.]

A Concise and Practical System of Stenography or Short-hand Writing ; with a brief History of the Progress of the Art. Illustrated by sixteen engraved lessons and exercises. By G. BRACLEY, Editor of the Sun- derland and Durham County Herald, and Stenographic Writer.

[This volume contains an historical sketch of short-band, an account of the principles which govern the art, particular remarks on the author's alphabet and general system, with a variety of exercises, and directions for their prac- tice. There are now so many alphabets published, differing to the unini- tiated but little from each other, that the one selected by the pupil is of small consequence compared with its thorough mastery by practice. The plan before us is founded upon that of MAYOR and HARDING, with such improvements as later practice and the author's own experience can supply. If we may judge by the attention he bestows upon the subject, Mr. BRADLEY thinks, and we dare say truly, that the abridgment of words by the excision of all useless let- ters, and perhaps a shade more than that, is quite as important as the steno- graphic characters themselves. The only novelty in instruction—and a very useful one, it appears to us—is for the pupil, when he has mastered the cha- racters so as to combine them with precision, to write his exercises from the dictation of another, rather than to copy them.] Double Entry Elucidated; an improved method of teaching Book- keeping. By B. F. FOSTER, Author of Prize Essay on the Best Method of Teaching Penmanship," &c. In four Parts.

[The avowed object of Mr. FOSTER is to teach bookkeeping by double entry on principle, and to turn out, by means of his system, a more accomplished accountant, after a short course of study, than ninety out of a hundred clerks Or merchants ever become. In the exposition of his principles Mr. FOSTER Is not more successful than other writers on bookkeeping: his explanation of the practical stages is clearer; but his examples, continued through three books, are numerous and complex, and would seem to require a viva tom explanation to be fully understood by a learner. Part of the complexity may arise from an attempt at brevity ; and we think the examples would have been much better had they been selected from real accounts instead of being imaginary : the want of reality puzzles the pupil; and the particulars not only look false, but often are false as matters of business.]

Arithmetic, designed for the Use of Schools. By the Reverend J. W. COLENSO, M.A., Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge, and late Mathematical Master at Harrow School.

[Intended for pupils advanced beyond the first simple rules of arithmetic, and designed to conduct them to the higher branches of the science. The book begios, properly speaking, with Compound Arithmetic ; but the introduction contains examples in addition, subtraction, &c., by which a master may readily teach a young pupil the simpler rules. Though dealing, in the introductory expositions, rather abstrusely with some questions—a thing not, perhaps, easy to avoid—the little book will be found an able application of arithmetical science to the capacities of the young.]

A Treatise on Photography; containing the latest discoveries and im- provements appertaiuing to the Daguerreotype. By N. P. LEREBOURS, Optician to the Observatory, Paris, &c. &c. Compiled from the im- portant communications of DAGUERRE, ARAGO, CLAUDET, TALBOT, and other scientific individuals. Translated by J. EGERTON. [M. LEREBOURS, the DOLLOND of Paris, is known to all amateurs of photo- graphy as having brought the daguerreotype apparatus to a high degree of per- fection; and this book of instructions for the selection and use of the various articles which it comprises is useful if not essential to the experimentalist. It also contains some valuable information on various points connected with this wonderful discovery, and its different processes : but this supposes a certain amount of scientific knowledge on the part of the reader. The defect of the treatise, in so far as it is intended for the tyro, is that it does not suffice to enable a person wholly unacquainted with the subject to operate successfully with the daguerreotype ; neither could any person construct a camera and fit up an apparatus for himself with its aid alone : but these deficiencies might easily be supplied. A brief preliminary account of the nature, origin, and progress of the daguerreotype, would be a desirable addition ; and the measure- ments should be given in Erigligh. not French terms.]

IL G. Clarke's Critical Examination of the Cartoons, designed in pur- suance of notices issued by her Majesty's Commissioners of the Fine Arts, and exhibited in Westminster Hall, July and August 1843. IA careful and impartial scrutiny into the merits of the whole hundred and forty Cartoons, seriatim; containing some judicious criticism.]

The Handbook of the Elements of Painting in Water-Colours, with Prac- tical Instructions for mixing and shading the same. .Brighton and its Three Climates ; with Remarks on its Medical Topo-

graphy, and Advice and Warnings to Invalids and Visiters. By A. L. Wurear, M.D., Surgeon, formerly practising in that town.

[Dr. WIGAN was formerly a practitioner of Brighton ; and he has thrown to- gether the results of his experience respecting the climate or climates of the place, the most favourable seasons of the year for visiting Brighton, and the most judicious course for the invalid to follow when there, with a little of the omniumgatherum besides. Much of the brochure is so-so; but some of the remarks upon the localities and seasons of Brighton, with the conduct the visiter in search of health should follow, may be found useful.] German Amaranths for the Young ; a progressive selection of entertain- ing and instructive pieces in German Prose and Verse. By W. KLAUER-KLATTOWSKI, of Schwerin in Mecklenburg.

The Ladies' Handbook of the Toilet; a Manual of Elegance and Fashion. By the Author of the "Ladies' Handbook of Fancy Needlework," &c.

SERIALS.

Murray's Colonial and Home Library, No. I.—" Borrow's Bible in Spain," Part I.

[We have not SOUTHEY'S Life of Nelson for tbe first number of " Murray's Colonial and Home Library," but something, as far as novelty and marketable attraction are concerned, a good deal better—Bonnow's Bible in Spain. Here, for half-a-crown, the reader has more than the contents of many a half-guinea volume; the paper, print, and appearance capital ; and the work itself not merely among the most remarkable of the day, but combining the interest of fact and fiction, the truth of travels with the variety, character, and story of a novel. What the Colonial Library may do for the Colonies remains to be proved ; it has already done a good deal for the Home reader with a slender purse, by bringing within his reach a new copyright work, which under the usual circumstances of the trade he must have long waited for before it would have been brought within his means, and then at a higher price than now. A. short time since, a work of which the copyright had expired would have been sold fur more money.] The Phrenological Library. Part I.—" Gall on the Functions of the Brain."

[The commencement of a translation of GALL'S work on the functions of the brain ; to be followed by the works of SPURZHEIM, BROUSSAIS, VIMONT, and others. It is well got up ; and, if carefully carried on, will supply a want in phrenological literature.]

Chambers's Cyclopedia of English Literature, Part X. New Statistical Account of Scotland, No. XLV.

ILLUSTRATED WORKS AND PRINTS.

Abbotsford Edition of the Waverley Novels, Part %XXVII.

PERIODICALS.

Foreign Quarterly Review, No. LX1.11. Church of England Quarterly Review, No. XXVIII. Magazinesfor October—Blacn wood's, 'fait's, Fraser's, Ainsworth's, Asiatic Journal, Churchman, Village Churchman, Illuminated, Hesperus.

PAMPHLETS.

Letter from the Australian Patriotic Association to C. Buller junior, Esq., MR, in support of the Petition of the Colonists of New South Wales for the continuance of Transportation of Convicts to the Colony, and of their assignment to private service. [A long controversial essay, intended to back the document to which it is annexed, with more argumentative matter than could be put into a petition. The Patriotic Association contend that the abolition of transportation was enacted on evidence 83 to its evil consequences which was imperfect, exagge- rated, or corrupt ; that a supply of convict-labour is necessary to the welfare of the colony, and to maintain the colonists' affection for the Mother-country ; that it is a cheap mode of disposing of criminals, and singularly reforming. These recommendations, however, are not extended to the "gang system," but are especially directed to private and rural assignment. Transportation, it is main- tained, is a cheap way of relieving the Mother-country of a mass of criminal and pauper population, such as in the home convictism of France produces the most frightful evils: it converts the criminals into useful citizens; and their Labour, by benefiting the colony, augments the resources of the empire. Oppo- site views have been repeatedly sustained in the Spectator, and this is not the place to discuss so large a topic; but those who desire to see the case of the Transportationiets as set forth by themselves, will find it stated in this pamph- let more rationally and temperately than usual.] Promiscuous Worship no Duty, but a Sin. Reply to a Sermon recently published by the Reverend J. Davies, B.D., Rector of Gateshead, and entitled "The Ministry of the Church considered with respect to its Influence on Society," with an Appendix on Education and Church Extension. Comprising an Account of Proceedings in the Pariah of Cumberworth. By GEORGE BIRD, B.A., of St. John's College, Cam- bridge, and late Rector of Cumberworth.

The Speech of Lord John Manners on the Laws of Mortmain, in the House of Commons, on Tuesday 1st August 1843.

Freehold Property for Mechanics. Notes of Lectures delivered by T. E. BOW/LETT, at the Poplar Literary Institution, in June and July 1843; containing Instructions for the formation of Societies by means of which every mechanic in the country receiving wages, however low in amount, may become a freeholder.

The Character of the late William Wilberfbrce, Esq.; a Discourse deli- vered at Rutger's College, New Brunswick, N. J., -United States, July 27th 1842. By JAMES CHIPCHASE, BA., Ross Hall, late of Eng- land. To which are added, Valedictory Addresses.

Music.

Fraser's Musical Reformer, or Advocate of Music, as a moral, intellec- tual, and divine science, in opposition to the very common idea of regarding it as a mere amusement or fashionable accomplishment. No. L