PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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ALTHOUGH the publications still continue numerous, there is the same paucity of books of mark which we noticed at the opening of the season. Of this week's arrivals, the most valuable in every sense is Mr. Colbum's revised and complete edition of "Evelyn's Diary and Correspondence." "Pictures from Sicily" is an elegant volume, one of Mr. Bartlett's annual books, and will no doubt furnish pleasant reading,:—really illustrated by pleasant pic- tures. Mr. Dallas in his "Poetics" IS evidently not about to disturb the supremacy of Aristotle. The three novels we must not prejudge. Diary anti Correspondence of John Evelyn, F.R.S., Author of the " Sylva." To which is subjoined the Private Correspondence between King Charles the First and Sir Edward Nicholas, and between Sir Ed- ward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne. Edited from the Original MSS. at Wootton, by William Bray, Esq., F.A.S. A new edition. In four volumes. Corrected, revised, and enlarged.

Pictures from Sicily. By the Author of "Forty Days in the Desert." Poetics • an Essay on Poetry. By E. S. Dallas. The Royalist and the Republican; a Story of the Kentish Insurrection. In three volumes.

27w Double Marriage; a Novel. By Mrs. A. Crawford, Authoress of "The Lady of the Bedchamber." In three volumes. The White Rose of the Huron. By Georgina C. Munro, Author of "The Voyage of Life." In three volumes.

Select British Eloquence; embracing the best Speeches entire of the most

eminent Orators of Great Britain for the last two centuries; with Sketches of their Lives, an Estimate of their Genius, and Notes Criti- cal and Explanatory. By Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., Professor in Yale College.

r. Chauncey Goodrich, the Professor of Rhetoric at Yale College, has for thirty years been in the habit of inculcating eloquence by examples. "We took Demosthenes' Oration for the Crown as a text-book in the senior class, making it the basis of a course of informal lectures on the principles of ora- tory." For modem eloquence he chose some of the greatest English and American orators. The present volume is based upon his lectures as regards English speakers, with some extension of the speeches and a recast if not a revision of the commentary. The orations in the goodly volume before us are of three classes. The first class consists of copious selections of (not from) the speeches of the great orators—Chatham, Burke, Fox Pitt, and as an advocate Erskine. In the second class are Mansfield, Grattltn, Sheridan, Curran, Mackintosh, Can- ning, Brougham. Some of the letters of Junius are included amongst the speeches for their force and finish. This selection proper is introduced by the speeches of previous orators, from Eliot and Sb•affird to Pulteney and Chesterfield. A notice of the life of each speaker, with an estimate of his character as a statesman and an orator, is prefixed to his orations ; the sub- ject of every speechis succinctly explained, and a commentary appended, at once histon explanatory, and critical. It is a good book for the stu- dent, and equally useful for the library, as containing in a single volume the cream of British eloquence, illustrated by a variety of interesting matter.] Grammar School Classics. C. Juni Cresaris Commentarii de Bello Gal-

ileo. With Notes by George Long.

[This is a very able edition of Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War ; not merely for the many useful English foot-notes that accompany to ex- plain the text, the preliminary survey of the history and geography of an- cient Gaul, and some scattered disquisitions—as that on Cremes British ex- peditions. It is the fresh, penetrating, common-sense tone that pervades the whole, which gives its character to the book, and separates it so widely from the diffuse, feeble, or pedantic commentaries of most classic editors. Whether Mr. Long is estimating the character of (laser, or frankly allowing the obscurity of some puzzling word, there shines out equally the vigorous

i independent mind, exhibited n a style somewhat quaint, but possessing a kind of Homeric simplicity and strength.]

tesilac;Etteid, with short Notes, by W. Fr. Dauer. (Arnold's School [A well-printel text in a bandy-sized volume, with an English translation of Diiliner's notes.] The Boy Hunters ; or Adventures in Search of a White Buffalo. By Captain Mayne Reid, Author of "The Desert Home," &c. With Illustrations by W. Harvey. [An old French soldier-naturalist retires to the banks of the Mississippi after the battle of Waterloo, to follow his darling pursuit in a region so rich in natural objects. The brother of his old chief, Lucien Bonaparte, writes to ask him for the skin of a white buffalo; but as age and a wooden leg prevent Colonel Lundi from hunting one himself, his three sons start for the prairies to procure the desired object. Their adventures and observations during this excursion form the matter of The Boy Hunters, and serve as a vehicle to exhibit the facts of natural history as it were in action. To im- part pleasing information on natural history, is indeed the object of Captain Reid; his framework enables him to accomplish his end attractively ; and he pledges himself for the accuracy of his facts. The book is a great im- provement upon his romance of the Scalp-Hunters. There is the same knowledge of prairie life, conveyed in a closer and less rhetorical style.] Memo, the Peruvian Chief or an Englishman's Adventures in the Coun- try of the Incas. By William H. G. Kingston, Esq., Author of "Peter the Whaler," &c. With Illustrations by Carl Schmolze.

[This story is designed to exhibit the natural features and phamomena of Peru, as well as its ancient history and social condition under the old Spanish rule. An English family settled in the country for commercial purposes are made the chief group, and David the son of the house is the narrator of the story. The rescue of a pursued Indian, and his gratitude when the English are in various difficulties through the enmity of the Spaniards—travels for business objects or as prisoners—and a revolt of the Indians—furnish incidents with the attraction of adventure, and serve at the same time to exhibit the features of the country. The story is told in a matter-of-fact manner befitting what professes to be a true tale, and Mr. Kingston displays a knowledge of his subject ; but there are exaggerations originating in a mis- taken notion of producing an effect, which would have been as well avoided.]

Homes of American Authors; comprising Anecdotical, Personal, and

Descriptive Sketches, by various Writers. Illustrated with Views of their Residences from Original Drawings, and a Fac-simile of the Manuscript of each Author. [A goodly volume, containing views of the " homes " of seventeen American authors, which, unless they have been flattered by the artist, show that, however literature may be rewarded in the New World, literary men are better lodged than in the Old. The pictures of the "homes" and their landscapes are accompanied by letterpress, which mingles biography, friendly criticism, and a sketch of the place and the author, as the sketcher saw one or both,—not always done in the best manner, the liveliness degenerating into flippancy and wordiness. The volume is rather for a table-book than the book-shelf, and so may take the place of the old Annuals.]

Talpa, or the Chronicles of a Clay Farm; an Agricultural Fragment. By C. W. H. [A series of didactic sketches, sufficiently connected to form almost a couple of tales, illustrative of what farmers were, and indeed generally speaking are as well as of what they might be. The "Chronicles of a Clay Farm" tells the story of a stiff, fiat, marshy farm, resting upon a subsoil worse if possible than the surface, which by dint of scientific survey, thorough drain- ing, guano, and skilful cultivation, in spite of wonderment, jokes, sneers, and predictions, became quite the crack place of the neighbourhood. It is a clever book, and interesting in a Robinson Cruses, manner, for its conquest of natural obstacles. Like most didactic stories, however, it seems rather onesided; everything falls out just as the improver wishes.] Anecdotes of the Habits and Instincts of Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes. By Mrs. R. Lee, formerly Mrs. T. E. Bowdich, Author of "Anec- dotes of Animals," 8se. With Illustrations by Harrison Weir.

[This continuing volume of anecdotes illustrative of the character and habits of animals, well supports the credit of its precursor. The subjects of the present collection are birds, reptiles, fishes ; and besides the attraction which skilfully-chosen anecdotes always possess, Mrs. Lee by her judicious choice, her introduction; and her interspersed remarks and reminiscences, imparts information and life. Reptiles will probably be the first division pounced upon by the reader; who will be repaid by fascinating terrors and hair- breadth escapes : some few of the stones, however, if not apocryphal, would seem to require stronger testimony than appears. It is an interesting volume, and capitally adapted for a present.]

A Four Months' Tour in the Etta. By I. R. Andrew; Esq. [The account of a voyage to Egypt, a trip up the Nile and a subsequent pilgrimage to Palestine based on letters written home during the journey. It is a plain, fresh, unaffected narrative of what the traveller saw in pass- lug: but the countries have been too often described to excite much new interest, unless they are visited by a person with some special qualification.] Facts and Observations on the Physical Education of Children, es- pecially as regards the Prevention of Spinal and other Deformities. By Samuel Hare, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Author of "Practical Observations on the Causes and Treatment of Curvatures of the Spine," &c. [Popular advice as to the management of children, with regard to diet, air, clothing, and exercise both natural and artificial. The author's object is chiefly the prevention of spinal disease, but the directions have a bearing on general health.]

The most noticeable books in the following list are either pure novels or verge upon &don. The third edition of Major Campbell's i sporting sketches

the e East under the title of "The Old Forest-Ranger," appears n a hand- some compact form, with many striking illustrations. "Shirley," the se- cond work of the author of "Jane Eyre," comes forth in a stout single vo- lume. The Library Edition of the Waverley Novels contains one of the most interesting and in an artistical sense perhaps the best of Scott's prose fictions, the tragedy of "The Bride of Lammermuir." Messrs. Longman have included in their Traveller's Library an abridgment of the popular work Sir Edward Seaward's Shipwrecks.

The Old Forest Ranger; or Wild Sports of India on the Neilgherry Hills, in the Jungles, and on the Plains. By Major Walter Camp- bell, of Skipness, late of the Seventh Royal Fusiliers. Third edition. Shirley; a Tale. By Currer Bell, Author of "Jane Eyre." A new edition.

Library Edition of the Waverley: Novels. Volume VIII. "Bride of Lammermuir."

Sir Edward Seaward's Narrative of his Shipwrecks, &c. Abridged from the Third edition. (The Traveller's Library.)

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Wyld's Wellington Atlas. An Atlas of the Battles of the British Armies in which the late Field-Marshal Arthur Duke of Wellington was engaged ; with Auxiliary Plans and Maps of the whole period of the Campaigns from 1791 to 1815. By James Wyld, Geographer to the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert. No. I.

[The first number of an atlas to illustrate the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington, accompanied by letterpress descriptions, and a military memoir of the Duke. The two plans in the number before us consist of the battle of Mallavelly, fought by General Harris against Tippoo on the advance to Se- ringapatam, and of Assaye.] PAN:mina.

lime Defence of our Mercantile Seaports. By a Retired Artillery Officer.

Claims of the Indian Army on Indian Patronage, &c. By an East India Proprietor. Just Income-tax—How Possible, &c. By G. W. Hemming, of Lin- coln's Inn, Barrister-at-law, &c. Des Land Question for England and Ireland, &o. By William Tighe Hamilton, Esq., ex-Remembrancer of the Court of Exchequer.