PUBLICATIONS 11,ECEIVED.
Boons.
The Henpecked Husband; a Novel. By the Author of " The M.P.'s Wife." In three volumes.
Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia, in search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria. By Lieutenant- Colonel Sir T. L. Mitchell, Kt. D.C.L. Surveyor of New South Wales. A History of Prices, and of the State of the Circulation, from 1839 to 1847 inclusive; with a General Review of the Currency Question, and Reined" on the Operation of the Act 7 and 8 Vict. c. 32. By Thomas Tooke, Esq., F.R.S. Being a Continuation of the His' tory of Prices from 1793 IN 1839.
Archosologia Hibernica. A Handbook of Irish Antiquities, Pagan and Christian; especially of such as are easy of access from the Irish Metro- polls. By William F. Wakeman. With numerous Illustrations. (A skilful and useful compilation for the resident or tourist in Ireland, especially in Dublin. To the traveller with the least turn for antiquities it is an indispen- sable little book; and is not without interest to any reader, for the view it pre- sents of the claims slid character of Irish antiquities, and the account it gives of their remains. Mr. Wakeman arranges his subjects in three leading branches— Pagan, Early Christian, and Anglo-Irish; which are again subdivided according to the nature of the remains—as cromlechs, pillar stones, sepulchral mounds, cairns, the intrenchments called raths or duns, and the stone circles, all belonging to the Pagan period. The descriptive letterpress is accompanied by illustrative en- gravingspsometiines rather pictorially general, sometimes taking the more useful form of graphic diagrams. Directions are frequently given as to the best way of Ong the remains described; but this feature of the book might be usefully extended, both as regards fuller details in those places which are mentioned, and Berne information as to reaching places about which directions are not now given. A skeleton map would also be a useful addition.] Meditations on Twenty Select Psalms. By Sir Anthony Cope, Chamberlain to Queen Katharine Parr. Reprinted from the edition of 1547. With a Biographical Preface and Notes, by William IL Cope, M.A., Minor Canon and Librarian of St. Peter's, Westminster.
[Fir Anthony Cope, the author of this work, was born between 1490 and 1500, of an ancient and respectable but not distinguished family. He was educated at Oxford, and became remarkable for his day as a man of letters; having published other works besides the Meditations before us, and received the praise of his con- temporaries. Entertaining Anti-Popish opinions, he looked on Henry the Eighth's Reformation with an approving eye, and received some spoils of the Church on the dissolution of the monasteries. Mr. Cope was also appointed Chamberlain to Xatherine Parr, to whom he dedicated his book; and was sufficiently in favour under Edward the Sixth to be knighted by him. These Meditations are chiefly a compilation from St. Augustin's Commentary on the Psalms; and, though rather diffuse, and of the nature of short sermons, are not unworthy of republication. The author's descendant has set forth the book of his ancestor in an elegant form as regards typography, and added a brief notice of sir Anthony, with some bibliographical particulars of the work.] The Count; or Sublunary Life. By One in a High Station. In three volumes. [We think this publication is the greatest mistake iu the literary line we ever met with, strange as are the failures that sometimes pass before us. The "high station" of the title is the moan- whither the writer contrives to arrive after some thirty or forty pages of verbose digression, discussion, and flat emptiness. But when there, no use is made of the elevation-little or nothing done that might not as well have been done by remaining on earth; and nothing which would not have been done better by every ninety-nine out of a hundred mortals who can read and write.] Schinderhcanies, the Robber of the Rhine. By Leitch Ritchie. (Parlour Library.) [Leitch Ritchie s romantic exhibition of the banditti system in Germany, from historical and legal documents-for a shilling.] History of Europe, from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789 to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815. By Archibald Alison, F.R.S.E., Advocate. Volume the Fifteenth. Seventh edition.
[This volume is stirring and varied in its subjects. In Spain there are the siege and assault of Badajoz, the battle of Salamanca, the repulse from Burgos, and the subsequent retreat of the British army. The war between Russia and Turkey, with a review of the Oriental character and Turkish empire, and the accession of Bernadotte to the throne of Sweden, come next. The great catas- trophe of the Empire, the Rtuisian invasion, follows; the volume closing with the advance to Moscow.] Ranke's History of the Popes. Volume IL (Bohn's Standard Library.) [This second volume completes the history: a third part of Ranke's work con sista of an appendix, which contains extracts from the different manuscripts made use of, with other miscellaneous matter. The volume is illustrated by a portrait of Innocent the Tenth, after Velasquez; forcible in lineaments and ex- pression, though rather coarse in the engraving.] Introduction to Zoology, for the Use of Schools. By Robert Paterson, Vice- President of the Natural History and Philosophical Society of Belfast. Part IL Vertebrate Animals. With upwards of 160 Illustrations. The object of Mr. Paterson in this publication, as we observed when noting the first part, is to furnish a text-book of facts and principles in natural history for the use of schools, so as to supply means for laying a sound foundation in natural science in the minds of the young. The same judgment in classifying his sub- jects, and in being fall but not over full, is displayed in this as in the former part; and the division, embracing the higher animals, is more interesting. The cuts, though sometimes rough, are well adapted to-answer the object of illustrat- ing the text.]
The Laws of Harmonious Colouring adapted to Interior Decorations ;
with Observations on the Practice of House-Painting. By D. R. Hay, House-Painter and Decorator to the Queen, Edinburgh. Sixth edition. [Stimulated by success, Mr. Hay has rewritten his sixth edition; expunging "all extraneous matter, in order to make room for additions more intimately connected with the subject." The Laws of Harmonious Colouring is a book essential not only to the house-painter but to those about to paint their houses; as the public seems to have found out.]
The Natural History of the Idler upon Town.
IA clever sketch of the habits and external characteristics of the loungers in Lon- don; illustrated by wood-cats, some of which are more speaking than the text.] Portugal and Galicia. By Lord Carnarvon. Part II. (Murray's Home
and Colonial Library.) [Completes the work, for five shillings, which on its first appearance cost a guinea, and took up more room.]
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