PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

In his ASPIRATIONS PROM THE INNER, TILE SPLRITUAL LIP; Dr. Henry M-Cormac aims "to reconcile religion, literature, science and art, with faith and hope, and love and immortality." There is much in the vo- lume to instruct and delight all who feel the need of a book that is pious and not sectarian; little to pain the orthodox believer ; and something to elevate and interest those who, with the most latitudinarian views of dogma, aspire to "the power of being and doing good for the sake of goodness and truth alone." The book itself consists of ten distinct sec- tions, each section treating about fifty topics, mostly in an aphoristic or didactic form. The range of these topics is boundless, ascending from human nature to the divine nature, from physical culture to moral cul- ture, from Earth to Paradise, from the vibration of the telegraphic wire to the music of the "Harps of God." Swift and Jean Paul, Rous- seau and Swedenborg, Rabelais and Charlotte Brenta, Abelard and Leopardi, all alike receive some recognition from our author. The work indeed is a sort of accumulation of the floating thought of the times on all devotional, humanitarian or philosophical subjects, somewhat indefi- nite, shadowy and elusive, with an absence of logical form that is pro- bably consonant to the author's intention, and at least an occasional ex- cess of "poetic diction." As a manual of religious sentences, suggestive, consolatory, and hortative, it may be recommended to that class of pie- fists that worship in the "Cathedral of Immensity," or attend divine service in the "Church of the Future." As a favourable specimen of Dr. M'Cormac's ethical sentiment and literary expression, we cite the fol- lowing brief and valuable remark:—" It is the office of the intellect, as monarch of the soul, to bear up against emotion whenever it would im- pair and lessen its powers."

The SEQITEL Pa THE INQUIRY, WHAT IS REVELATION ? by the Reverend F. D. Maurice, is a smaller, and in the authors' opinion, a better book in some respects than that which it supplements, as being more adapted to the wants of theological students preparing for orders. It is in the form of letters, which the author addresses to a layman for two reasons : first, because he maintains that the highest truths are for all men, and not for professional men only; and, secondly, because ho desires "that those who are interested in no theological conclusions, but are used to the weighing of evidence, should consider whether I have committed the crimes which Mr. Mansel imputes to me."

Mr. Cooper states, that his little work, COUNT Cavous, ins LIFE AND CAREER, is a compilation, the greater part of which "is taken from a continental source, of unquestionably high authority,"—and that is all the explanation he gives as to the sources from which he has drawn his materials. He quotes official documents very freely, and, we may pre- sume, if we please, that he quotes them correctly, but he gives us no help towaras testing the fact. This is not the way in which the life of a great statesman should be written.

Part V., of the new edition of LOWNDES'S BIBLIOGRAPHER'S MANUAL has cost Mr. Bohn extraordinary labour, the fruits of which are seen in most of the principal articles, which have been greatly enlarged, or re- constructed. The article on Jests fills more than eight pages, closely printed in double columns ; that on Junius, five and three quarters. Apropos of Junius, Mr. Bohn relates an incident in his professional life, which brought him, he believes, within a brown paper-wrapper's breadth of the solution of the question, who was Junius ? In July, 1860, he was called upon to make a very rapid valuation of hooka and MSS. at No. 3, St. James's Square, the house occupied in 1836 by the late Duke of Leeds, and from 1836 until 1853, by his son-in-law. Finding himself "in the supposed precincts of Junius," he looked sharply for that signa- ture among the MSS., and, though he did not find it, he lighted upon what was nearly as good :—This was "a rough draft in the well-known, up- right kind of writing attributed to Junius, but corrected by another hand, of an unpublished letter of Lucius [one of the best authenticated pseudonyms of Junius,' to the Duke of Grafton." He then turned his eager eyes to two very large brown-paper parcels- " Feeling," he says, "that I was in the path of discovery, I entreated to see the contents of the two large parcels set aside, which, full a quarter of a hundred weight each—were sealed at every aperture, and prominently marked on all sides 'most secret ' ; but this was declined until actual right of possession had been obtained. To secure these important papers, I offered five hundred pounds for those I had so hastily inspected, and as much more, speculatively, for the two parcels of most secret' ones; under a strong impression that the Junius correspondence was there ; and I was promised them, in case they should be for sale. On subsequent inquiry, in October of the same year, I learnt that the papers had been claimed by the Duke of Leeds; and, at a later period, I was informed that they had been deposited in the strong room of a banker, with the possibility that they might come out at the end of six years; but not having since heard any more about them, I presume they are now immured among the family archives."

Bowls.

Sequel to the Inquiry. What is Revelation' In a Series of Letters to a Friend ; containing a reply to Mr. Mansel's " Examination of the Reverend F. D. Maurice's Strictures on the Bampton Lectures of 1858." By the Reverend Frederick Denison Maurice, M.A., Chaplain of Lincoln's Inn. Count Carom., his Life and Career. By Basil H. Cooper. The Perils of Trusts and Trustees. Illustrated by unreported cases, founded in fact ; for the information of the general public, not of Lawyers. With a proposal for Security and protection, submitted to both. Inscribed by per- mission to the Right Honourable Sir John Patteson, &c. By Robert de Neufville Lucas.

A Review of the Literary History of Germany, from the Earliest period to

the beginning of the Nineteenth Century. By Gustav Selling. On the Study of Modern Languages in general, and of the English Language in particular. An Essay. By David Asher, Ph.D.

Yes and No; or Glimpses of the Great Conflict. In three volumes.

Before the Dawn. A Tale of Italy. By Kate Crichton. In two volumes. The Earl's Cedars. By the Author of "Smugglers and Feresters," &c. In

two volumes.

The Pocket Novels. No. I. Min. the Philanthropist. My Aunt's Umbrella. Illustrated by Charles Bennett.

Maria Grahame; or the Old and the New. By Cecil Spencer.

The Weaver's Family. By the Author of " A Tale for the Pharisees," &c. Famous Boys; and How they became Great Men.

The Land of the Zeit : a Tale of Jerrie in the Days of the '98. By Peter Paradox, M.D. In three volumes.

A Vision of Barbarossa, and other Poems. By William Stigant.

Children of Other Lands : some Playtime Tales for Children of England. By Sara Wood.

Eucharistic Litanies from Ancient Sources. By the Reverend Orby Shipley. M.A.

NEW EDITIONS AND REPRINTS.

Letters to a Young Man whose Education has been neglected ; and other Papers. By Thomas de Quincey.

A Practical Grammar of the German Language, for School and Self Tuition : with an Appendix containing Examples of Commercial Letters, 8tc. By L. M. Tuchmann.

The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, containing an Account of Rare, Curious, and Useful Books, published in, or relating to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing, with Bibliograghical and Cri- tical Notices, Collations of the rarer articles, and the prices at which they have been sold in the present Century. By William Thomas Lowndes. Re- vised, corrected and enlarged by Henry G. Bohn, Part V.

The Speaker at Home. Chapters on Public Speaking and Reading Aloud. By the Rev. J. J. Halcombe, M.A. And on the Physiology of Speech, by W. U. Stone, M.A., M.B.

SERIALS.

The Literary and Educational Year Book for 1860.

Year Book of Agricultural Facts for 1859. Edited by Robert Scott Burn.

The Parliamentary Companion. Twenty-eighth Year. By Robert P. Dod Esq.