PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED,

From May 27th to Jose 2d.

Boons.

The Factory System Illustrated; in a Series of Letters to the Right Honourable Lord Ashley, M.P., &e. By WILLIAM DODD, a Factory

Father el

nnell. By the O'Hara Family. In three volumes.

The Poetical Wards of Thomas Chatterton. With Notices of his Life, history of the Rowley Controversy, a selection of his Letters, and Notes critical and explanatory. In two volumes.

Letters from Hofwg1 by a Parent, on the Educational Institutions of De Fellenberg. With an appendix, containing Woodbridge's Sketches of Hofwyl, reprinted from " The Annals of Education." [This volume contains a series of letters purporting to be written by the

mother of a family, to a friend descriptive of the difficulties she and her hus- band encountered in educating their children, till they consented to send them to DE FELLENBERG'S establishment at Hofwyl in Switzerland. A natural anx- iety soon after took the parents thither, not merely to examine their children, but with a view of placing some others in the school. The satisfaction they derived from their visit, the appearance and behaviour of the scholars, the general mode of education, and the economy of the establishment, so far as they could be seen on a flying visit, are then described, and a very full detailed account of DE FELLENBERG'S plan is added in an appendix, re- printed from the American Annals of Education. The Letters are elegantly written, by a person of sense and amiability. To those who wish to have a general picture of Hofwyl, its founder and his system, either from curiosity or deeper motives, these Letters will answer their purpose: but there is nothing new in them on the subject of education, nor as regards DE FELLENBERG'S system ; but the latter is put in a more popular or perhaps a more domestic shape, which is better stilL] The Fame and Glory of England Vindicated; being an answer to " The Glory and Shame of England." By LIBERTAS.

[This is an American publication, written to expose Mr. LESTER'S Glory and Shame of England; which it accomplishes very effectually, by a detailed examination of particular statements, and by tracing LESTER'S plagiarisms verbatim. in this country an elaborate exhibition of that impudent and un- scrupulous publication was scarcely necessary ; but in America, it is stated, the tissue of misrepresentation or invention has been received with favour, and an exposure of its fraud and fabrication may be of some use. The vindication is written by a person evidently well acquainted with England, from the know- ledge he displays of English localities and usages.]

The Horse and the Hound; their various uses and treatment, including practical Instructions in Horsemanship and a treatise on Horse-dealing. By NIMBOD. [A. revised republication of the articles contributed by NIMROD to the En- cyclopedia Britannica on horses, hunting, &c.; including a history of the Enalish breed, an explanation of the " points " and qualities of the various kinds of horses, and the best modes of treating them ; hints upon different modes of equitation for the would-be horseman ; and an investigation into the history, nature, breeding, and management or hounds. A new chapter has been added on the purchase of horses, and the safest way of proceeding in deal- ing with the dealers. The popular style of the author renders the book readable and attractive, even to persons who do not take much practical interest in its subject; but the work would have been improved had NIMROD'S pruning-knife been extended to the histories of horsemanship, &c. from the beginning of time, as well as to the idle parade of Greek and Latin references, which show any thing but the spirit of scholarship.] Voices of the Night. By HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. Sixth edition.

Ballads, and other Poems. By HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, Author of " Voices of the Night," &c. Fourth edition. [These two volumes are both importations, and the number of editions they

have reached shows the writer's estimation by his countrymen. So far as we have had time to examine, Mr. LONGFELLOW strikes us as being one of the

best American poets we have met ; quite as fluent as any of his brethren. with more quiet elegance and sobriety than most of them. if time and opportu- nity favour we may possibly return to these volumes.]

A Defence of Poesy, and other Poems; to which are added former Pub- lications collected and revised. By the Reverend JAMES LAwsoN, M.A., Vicar of Buckminster, Leicestershire.

[The greater part of this volume consists of poems which have already ap- peared before the public; the new matter not extending to more than some twenty pieces. The subjects are generally religious, or turned to a religious

use ; and there is a vein of sober thought and a calm perception of natural beauty running through some of them, which causes regret that Mr. LAwsON

had not more of poetical spirit, or taste and patience es fumo dare lucem. For example, in the lines " To a Winter Aconite," the two first lines of nearly every stanza are poetical, and the two last prosaic.]

Adolescentia. The Original Poems of an Enthusiast. By FRA.xcis AUGUSTUS Cox.

[This is rather a curious volume—a series of very boyish verses, published by a person who seems to be a married man and a father. With a critical reader it may serve to raise a laugh ; the sentimental being very funny, and the high lyrical in Ercles' style.]

Poetical Recollections of Irish History, with Notes illustrative of the par- ticular subject of each lyric. By JANE EMILY HERBERT. [The principal events in Irish history, from the invasion of the Danes to the birth of the infant Prince of Wales, selected as topics for versification. The description of character and incident is sometimes contained in the poem ; sometimes the facts are stated in prose, and the verse is of the nature of a comment upon them. The style of the composition verges upon the rhap- sodical, and is fluent without being precisely poetical, except occasionally.] The Poetical Works of Miss Susanna Blamire, " The Muse of Cumber- land." Now for the first time collected, by HENRY LONSDALE, M.D. With a Preface, Memoir, and Notes, by PATRICK MAXWELL, Translator of Madame Dard's " Narrative of the Picard Family," &c.

Blackwood's Standard Novels, Volume VIII.—" The Cruise of the Midge," by MICHAEL SCOTT, Author of " Tom Cringle's Log." [Though rather more prosaic than Tom Cringle's Log, this volume will form a necessary companion to that series of brilliant and striking pictures of Tropical life, even if the reader does not subscribe to the whole of BLACKWOOD'S " Standard Novels," of which The Cruise of the Midge forms the current number.) Domestic Homeopathy; or rules for the domestic treatment of the ma- ladies of infants, children, and adults, and for the conduct and the treat- ment during pregnancy, confinement, and suckling. By TORN EPPS, M.D., Graduate of the University of Edinburgh, &c. [The call for a second edition of this little publication in so short a period shows that Homoeopathy is attracting attention among many; especially when it is considered that this work of Dr. EPPS is to enable persons to treat them- selves in slight ailments or till medical aid can be procured.] Two Letters to an Amateur, or Young Artist, on Pictorial Colour and Effect, and the means of producing them. By ROBERT HENDRIE, Esq. [Judicious hints for a student of landscape-painting in oils, on the course of proceeding in making a picture ; conveyed in a terse and unpretending way, and calculated to be of real practical utility to beginners. The general pre- cepts are sound, and enforce those leading principles of art which are observed by the great painters; and the particular directions, though artists may differ in the selection of colours, are in accordance with the theory laid down.] The Jokes of the Cambridge Coffeehouses in the Seventeenth Century. Edited by JAMES OncnanD HALLIWELL, Esq. [This tiny volume has been selected, says its editor, "from various jest-hooks, either published at Cambridge or under the title of Cambridge Jest-books printed in the Seventeenth Century," with the object of showing the Univer- sity taste during that period. A more egregious triviality than these Cambridge Jokes was never perpetrated by a literary antiquarian. Some of the jokes are flat ; the best of them are to be found in any common jest-book—regular Joe Millers; and not a few have no relation to the century Mr. HALLIWELL would illustrate, some being as old as HIEROCLES, and one a well-known story of Qum in his zenith, which could not have happened till the eighteenth cen- tury was well advanced, the actor being only seven years old in 1700.] The Works of William Shakspere. The text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions : with the Various Readings, Notes, a Life of the Poet, and History of the Early English Stage. By J. PAYNE Comazit, Esq., F.S.A. In eight volumes. Volume IV.

011ivier's Parliamentary and Political Director, for the Session 1842.

SERIALS.

The Guide to Service—" The Clerk."

This number of the Guide to Service is less full in the description of details than several of its predecessors which treated of mechanical trades : nor, look- ing at the extent and variety of clerkship, was this very easy to do at once readably and intelligibly. The Clerk, however, abounds with a variety of good advice, of a mo. e rational kind than is often met with in works addressed to youth; and contains a general sketch of a clerk's duties and prospects in some of the principal public offices. The fullest account of a particular employ- ment is that of the lawyer's clerk ; which, though doubtless true if all the anxieties and troubles of the whole tribe of clerks were saddled upon one un- fortunate, is practically an exaggerated paper picture. It seems as if it were written by a literary member of the fraternity, bent upon aggrandizing his own profession.]

Beauvoisin's French Language acquired in Four Months. Lessons II. and III.

London, Part XV.

Handy Andy, Part VI.

Murray's Environs of London, Part II.

Stephens's Book of the Farm, Part VI.

New Statistical Account of Scotland, No. XXXVII.

Coombe Abbey, No. IL Our Mess, No. VI.

The Commissioner, No. VII.

Brande's Dictionary of Science, Literature, and Art, Part XI'.

Smee's Elements of Ekctro-Metallurgy, Part PERIODICALS.

Dublin Review, No. XXIV.

Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, No. LVII.

The Promethean, or Communitarian Apostle, Nos. I. II. and IV. Magazines for June—Blackwood's, Dublin University, Tait's, Ainsworth's, Queen's, Australian and New Zealand, Facts and Figures, London Phalanx, Mirror.

PICTORIAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND PRINTS.

The Drawing-Book of the Government School of Design. Part I.— Elementary. Section L—Geometrical Design. (Published under the immediate Superintendence of the Council.) As introductory to the study of pattern-drawing, these examples will be found useful ; and they may be copied with advantage by pupils generally in the first stage of learning to draw, inasmuch as they consiat of lines only, de- scribing geometrical figures. The Part contains fourteen plates of straight lines parallel and converging, angular and curved figures of various kinds, and the rudiments of pattern design. The plates are prefaced by an intro- duction treating on the study of ornamental art, and the course of elementary instruction for this class of drawing; in which the distinction between orna- mental and picturesque delineation is explained, with a view to show the ne- cessity for adopting a course of tuition in schools of design different from that pursued in ordinary cases. On this point we may have occasion to make some remarks when the work is more advanced.]

_ The Vesper-BelL Painted by C. RUBEN ; engraved by J. E. COOMBS. [An effective mezzotint from a simple and impressive picture by a German painter, representing a Swiss boatman and his wife ferrying a priest across a lake, and pausing from their labour to respond to the sound of the vesper-bell. The profound devotion of the priest—though his eyes appear closed as if in sleep, the manly gravity of the stalwart peasant, who glances upward with a reverential look, and the more tender abstraction of the woman's pious contem- plation, are characteristically expressive; while the calm surface of the lake veiled in the mist of a summer-evening, and the new moon rising above the

distant convent, whose windows gleam bright with the rays of the setting sun, complete the charm and tell the story of the picture. The mezzotint is very delicately executed ; the reflected lights and shadows are nicely discriminated, the boat and figures being boldly relieved without harshness.] Roberts's Sketches in the Holy Land, Part III.

[The three large plates consist of a near and a distant view of Jerusalem, snit the Crypt of the _Holy Sepulchre, an interior of dioramic force of effect : rf the three vignettes, that of the Upper Fountain of Siloam, a cavernous fissure in the rock, is particularly striking from its breadth and simplicity of treat- ment. The execution of all the drawings is perfectly satisfactory.]

Nichol's Cities and Towns of Scotland Illustrated, Part III.— Glasgow. [This part consists of sixteen plates and a sheet of description, including twenty-two views of the principal streets and buildings of Glasgow and a plan of the city. In point of execution, the lithographic sketches exhibit some im- provement on those of the former parts; and their general effect, so far as re- gards the light and shade of the picture, is pleasing and natural : but the shade- tints are too coarse, the figures are slovenly and ill-drawn, and the houses look unsubstantial and tenantless, the streets being little more than perspective diagrams : the more prominent buildings, such as the Exchange, the College, and the Cathedral, are better finished. That the artist has a feeling for the picturesque, his selection of points of view and his treatment of the subjects show ; but neither his dexterity in the use of the crayon nor his knowledge of art are adequate to do justice to his taste.] Mr. Henry Betty, (son of Mr. W. H. IV. Betty, the English Roscius,)is the character of Hamlet. Drawn and lithographed by F. ONWHYN. Pictorial History of England, Part LXIV.

Pictorial Edition of Shakspere, Part XLIV.—" Plays Ascribed to Shak- spere," concluded.

Le Keux's Memorials of Cambridge, No. XXIX.

PAMPHLETS.

Thoughts on Purity of Election. By a Member of Parliament.

The Rights and the Wrongs of the Poor; in a series of Letters addressed to the Working-classes of all denominations. To which, on the same subject, are appended Six Letters to the Noblemen of England. By TnoMas BROTHERS, Author of "The United States as they Are, not as they are generally Described."

A Catalogue of Books recently published by Effingham Wilson.

A Letter to his Excellency the Earl De Grey, Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, on the Ameliorated Condition of that Country, more particularly as re- gards the agricultural classes; with suggestions for their further im- provement: to which is subjoined an appendix, containing original and other interesting papers. By W. W. SIMPSON, Member of the Royal Agricultural Society of England and the New Royal Agricultural Society of Ireland.