PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED, From January 2:th to February 2d.
BOOKS.
Sir Robert Peel and Ms Era : Leine a Synoptical View of the chief Events and Measures of his Life and Time.
Doings in China : being the Personal Narrative of an Officer engaged in the late Chinese Expedition, from the Recapture of Chusan in 1841 to the Peace of Nankin in 1842. By Lieutenant ALEXANDER MURRAY, Eighteenth Royal Irish.
The Report of the South Shields Committee appointed to Investigate the Causes of Accidents in Coal-Mines. With plans and appendix.
Report on the Geology of the County of Londonderry, and of Parts of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Examined and Described under the authority of the Master. General and Board of Ordnance. By J. E. PoaTcoci, F.R S., F.L.S., &c.
The Double Duel; or Hoboken. By THEODORE S. FAY, Esq., Author of " The Countess," &c. In three volumes.
• Phantasmagoria of Figs. Edited and Illustrated by ALFRED CROWQUILL. In two volumes.
The History of Woman in England, and her Influence on Society and Literature, from the earliest period. By HANNAH LAWRANCE, Author of "Historical Memoirs of the Queens of England, from the twelfth to the sixteenth century." Volume I. To the year 1200. [Miss LAWRANCE'S reading tor her "Memoirs of the Queens of England" opened up many sources of information relating to the character, condition, and habits of women ; whence she has drawn materials for the present work. Volume First relates to that early period in the history of this country of which we have but few and doubtful particulars relating to great events : any infor- mation respecting women is only to be gleaned in scattered details, incidental to matters of more importance than those affecting the weaker sex were consi- dered in the rude ages. Such light as is thus let in upon the secluded life, bumble duties, and lowly position of womankind, exhibits even Queens and Ab- besses in a condition little raised above that of the country housewife of the present day; though possessed of some knowledge of medicine, skill in embroid- ery, and the then rare accomplishment of reading. The influence of women on society, up to the time when the volume closes is rather to be inferred than demonstrated; but the general view of their social state here given is a needful introduction to the subject.] The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakapere. Edited by CHARLES KNIGHT. Second edition. 'Volume V1L [The feature of this volume is the Essay on the Three Parts of Henry the Sixth and on Richard the Third; with the view of showing, not merely that the Three Parts are properly ascribed to SHAKSPERE, but that he was the author of the earlier plays on the same subject, which it is generally held he used as a groundwork for his own. This question is handled very elaborately—by direct and circumstantial evidence from contemporary writers, and SHARSPERE him- self; by argumems against the fallacies, or alleged fallacies, of MAMONE and others; by a minute examination of passages in the dramas,and a consideration of their general scope; by a comparison of the principal persons in Richard the Third surviving from Henry the Sixth., especially of Richard himself, in order to prove that, from the general conception of the characters as well as from verbal allusions, they were conceived and written by the same man ; and lastly, by an inquiry into the contemporaries of SRAKSPERE—as MARLOWE- who might be supposed to have written the "Contention of the Houses of York and Lancaster," with a view to show that, judging by their published works, they could not. Though rather minute and over-elaborate, the Essay contains a great number of curious persoual, literary, and critical particulars; and is well worth the attention of those alio delight in investigations of th kind.] Knight's Cabinet EiViii0A of the Works of William Slialspere. Volume I. [This is a book of the right shape to slip ion, the pocket. Its plain but hand- some exterior is neither too fine nor too common to be taken out in the theatre or in a steam-boat, or to be stuffed into a trunk or carpet-bag: the tending is strong enough to last a long while with careful use, but the gilt edges leave enough margin for rebinding when needful. Besides the temptation to pur- chase a correct pocket SHAKSPERE, which the monthly issue affords, there is this other advantage, that a lost volume may be replaced readily.] Tales, Old and New, with other Letter POCALL By EDWARD N. SHANNON. [The two principal tales in this volume were published more than twenty,' - !years ago. "Arnaldo " is an Italian story of love, murder, and wen- re geance; written in imitation of the Giaour, but without the force, propriety, and distinctness of that wild but powerful poem. Arnaldo," in taa, is a grave though unintentional burlesque of its prototype. " Gaddo " is an Imitation of Reppo, and the more flippant and satirical parts of Don Juan,. . According to the preface, the authorship was attributed to Lord lizaoe Or the Devil, in the Literary Gazette for 1821: aud on this the writer seems to plume himself much; though to us, judging at this distance of time, " Gaddo " only seems a servile and heavy imitation. Some sonnets and occasional poems, with the versification of one of Boceacto's tales, are added to these reprints.] • Dora Marcelli, the Last of her Race; a Poem. By DAVID WARD., LAW SCOTT.
.[The heroi e of this tale is the daughter of an Italian nobleman and a High- land lady the mother of Dora dies early ; her father goes abroad, and is killed at the battle of Dettingen her grandfather and lover join the rebellion of '45, and fall at Culloden ; and bora dies of a broken heart. With this tale of fiction the author has interwoven a sort-of metrical history of the campaign of 1745-46. The poem is written in the heroic couplet, and in a somewhat prosaic style.] What is the Power of the Greek Article, and how may it be expressed in the English Version of the New Testament ? By JOHN TAYLOR. [The author's professed objects are, to show that MIDDLETON'S theory of the Greek article is untenable; to propose a more satisfactory theory of his own ; and to propose an amended version of the New Testament in accordance with this new theory. In the first he is successful; in the second he utterly fails; and his proposed amendments are sheer trifling—not even "learned trifling." The whole ends in "proposals for publishing by subscription' in one volume octavo, price 10s., The Emphatic New Testament"; in which all the errors of the authorized version are set to rights by placing "an acute accent after those words in English to which in Greek the article is prefixed, and a double acute after the emphatic pronouns.") Practical Mercantile Correspondence; a Collection of Modern Letters of Business, with notes critical and explanatory, an analytical index, and an appendix. Second edition, revised and enlarged. By WILLIAM ANDERSON.
[The distinguishing points of this book, as some of our readers may remember, are, that the letters are real—transcripts, with necessary changes, from actual correspondence; and that they are arranged in a series of regular classes according to the subject matter. Among the additions to the present edition, is some Australian correspondence, "accompanied by invoices and account- sales": the appendix, consisting of commercial technicalities, has also been enlarged.]
A Catalogue of Books published in London during the year 1842. IA catalogue summary, from the "Publishers' Circular," of the titles, price, "Ex. of all the works published in London during the past year : and a wonder- ful list it is. The curious, to whom two shillings is no object, might lay out the money in a mach worse bargain; and to persons residing abroad or in the Colonies, the list may be useful, perhaps even interesting.] Mothers and Daughters; a Comedy, in five acts. By ROBERT BELL, Esq.; Author o "Marriage," Stc.
Sir Michael Pass/et; a Novel. By Miss ELLEN Picaenrec, Author of "The Expectant," &c. Second edition. In three volumes.
Les Glorieuses, on Deux Fetes et Deux Victoires. Par le Chevalier CHATELAIN, Chevalier de l'Ordre du Merite Civil de Praise, &c. Waverley Novels, Vol. XXIIL—" Anne of Geierstein."
An Essay on the Tragedy of Hamlet. By P. MacnoNELL, Author of "An Essay on the Tempest," and late President of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh.
SERIALS.
The History of China, Pictorial and Descriptive; from the earliest period to the present time. By Miss CORNER, Author of the "Historical Library," &c. Part I.
[A readable compilation of what little is known to us of the history of China, illustrated with wood-cuts and lithographs. The Chinese pictures had better have been faithfully copied ; for the "barbarian" artists have destroyed the character of the originals in many instances.]
Popular Flowers. The Pansy ; its propagation, cultivation, and general treatment in all seasons. To which is added, a list of the favourite and most approved kinds. With a coloured frontispiece.
[The second of a series of brief and simple treatises on the culture of favourite flowers, for the use of amateur florists; the geranium being the first, and the carnation to be the next. The work is neatly got up, and the plate well exe- cuted.]
Harry Mowbray. By Captain Biwa, Author of" Hardness," &c. With illustrations by WEIG ALL. Part IL
[The First Part of this fiction has escaped our notice : the present contains an announcement of the author's intention to append to the future numbers of this publication a series of papers on "the physical and sanitary condition of the poor." with the view of showing how their distress and misery may be best relieved.]
Browning's Bells; and Pomegrantes, No. IV.—" The Return of the Druses."
[The scene of this "tragedy" (God wot ! ) is laid in an island of the Grecian seas, where some Druses have been reduced to bondage by the Knights of Rhodes, and oppressed by their Prefect. The story is not told very intelli- gibly; but, as near as we can make it out, a Druse professes himself their Ehaliff Hakeeni, who had been dead some hundred years; gets up a conspiracy against the Knights; and, by expressing himself in a style obscurely mystical, he unintentionally excites his mistress, Anael, to kill the Prefect ; when, after a series of dull and puzzling situations, Ansel dies, the impostor Khalif stabs himself, and the Druses are left on the start for Asia Minor. After this, we need not Bay that the story is improbable, and without interest : but it may be added, that the actors are mere phantasmagoria, talking Browning; and that the composition, with the usual faults, displays little of the power of the writer.] German Amaranths. Klaner's Deutsche Amaranten fiir die jugend. No. L
[A. collection of short extracts, in prose and verse, from popular German writers, calculated to teach children the rudiments of taste and thought. The moral character of the selection is praiseworthy.]
Sir Henry Cavendish's Debates of the House of Commons, Part VL Waverley Novels, VoL V. Part IIL—" Anne of Geierstein." Boz's Life and Adventures of Martin C7zuzzlewit, No. IL
Our Mess, No. XIV.—" Tom Burke of 'Ours,'" No. I. Edited by BARRY LORREQUER. Illustrated by PHIS.
Lover's L. S. D., or Accounts of Irish Heirs, Part IL New Statistical Account of Scotland, No. XLL London, Part XXIII.
The Novel Newspaper. Volume XII. Novel Newspaper, Part LX.—" The Vicar of Wakefield." [The particular advantages of this cheap collection of popular fictions are, it. that it is of a size suited to the hand, and each portion forms a complete work Me itself. The American publications are introduced as soon as they appear, -----.L`%d English when the copyright expires: some of the best of COOPER'S, the Pilot, Spy, Pioneers, &c., GODW/N'S Caleb Williams, Two Years before the Mast, and others, may be had complete for a shilling each. The wood-cuts are not worth much, but the paper and print are respectable.] Doyle's Cyclopedia of Practical Husbandry, Part X.
PERIODICALS.
The Artizan, No. I.
[A Monthly Journal, devoted to mechenical science and the arts connected with it. The leading articles on "Atlantic Steam-voyaging" and the "Col- lege for Civil Engineers," and the reviews of new books, notices of new engines, &c., show technical knowledge, literary ability, and searching investigation. The imitation of Blackwood's " Noctes" is quite out of place in a periodical of this character.] Westminster Review, No, LXXVL Lam Magazine, No. LIX. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, No. CX.XV. Magazines for February—Blackwood's, Dublin University, Tait's, Fraser's, Ainsworth's, Monthly, British, Church of England, North of England, Farmer's, Sportsman, Polytechnic Journal, New Monthly Belle Assem- bide, blillington's Magazine for the Young, Mirror.
PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.
The Pictorial Museum of Animated Nature. With Sae thousand wood- cuts. To be completed in twenty-five Monthly Parts. Part I.
[This is a picture-book with descriptions, designed to embrace the whole animal kingdom from the elephant to the mite. Not only the outward ap- pearance of the animals, but their structure, is shown; the skeleton, and the anatomy of the skull, teeth, paws, and any other part of peculiar conformation, being delineated. The distinguishing characteristics of each group and the habits of the several species are described; sometimes in a lively manner, but occasionally in too technical a style. The First Part, consisting of thirty-two folio pages, half of them text and half composed of cuts, includes the Feline group—including lions, tigers, leopards, &c.; the Marsupial animals—in which the kangaroo and ornithorynctus are conspicuous; and the Quadrumana—as the chimpanzee, ourang, &c. The cuts are unequal in execution but for the most part good and characteristic: animals of the same class should not be drawn to different scales, as is sometimes the case. A tabular view of the arrangement, with some explanation of the system of classification, is desirable. The cheapness of the work is surprising.]
Genealogical and Historical Table of the Royal Family of England, from the Norman Conquest to the present time. Compiled by JOHN Jamas YATES.
Gailhabaud's Ancient and Modern Architecture, Part V. Abbotsford Edition of Me Waverley Novels, Part XXI. Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland Illustrated, Part XXI. Pictorial History of England, Part LXXI. British Moths and their Transformations, Nos. XV. and XVI.
PAMPHLETS.
Facts versus Theory ; a Retrospect of our past Policy, with Hints for fu- ture Improvement. By G. R. ROBINSON, Esq., Chairman of Lloyd's, and late M.P. for Worcester.
National Distress; its Causes and Remedies. Fireside Musings of an Idle Man on Sir Robert Peers late Financial Policy. A Safe Remedy for Present Difficulties : in a Letter from General Sir GEORGE COCKBURN; by means of which the National Debt may be liquidated. ( Extracted from the Times newspaper, 29th April 1842.) 'With Remarks. Addressed to the Duke of Wellington.
Observations upon the Treaty of Washington, signed August 9, 1842; with the Treaty annexed. Together with a Map, to illustrate the Boundary-line as established by the Treaty between her Majesty's Colo- nies of New Brunswick and Canada and the United States of America. By GEORGE WILLIAM FEATHERSTONHAUGH, ESQ., F.R.S., F.G.S., late one of her Majesty's Commissioners tor the North American Boundary.