PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

A History of Greece. By the Rev. CONNOP THIRLWA.LL, late Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. Vol. Vi. (Lardner's Cyclopxdia, No. CXIV.) [This volume is devoted to parts of the reigns of Purraar and ALEXANDER, beginning with the renewal of hostilities between the Macedonian and the people of Athens, after the termination of the Sacred War, and ending with the death or regal murder of GALISTHENES. The scale of Mr. THIRLWALL seems to be enlarged as he proceeds ; and. without any advantage to his work, as it merely induces him to overlay his leading circumstances with details, which impart a heaviness to the perusal, without adding to the knowledge of the reader.] A Praxis in the Latin Potential and Subjunctive Moods ; being an attempt to illustrate their Nature and construction in the way of Exercise. By the Rev. ROBERT MACLURE, LL.D. [A very good collection of rules and exercises on the Potential and Subjunc- tive Moods, in which Dr. MACLURE, in opposition to Mr. GREENLAW, stands up for the old doctrine of the subjunctive mood, that it is the potential form, "subjoined to some pronoun, adverb, or conjunction, the Englisli being at the same time in the indicative." The examples are all taken from the purest authors, whose words and order being given, the pupil's attention is only re- quired tiir the mood and the termination ; and if he should not at the end of his tusk have thoroughly mastered the "true doctrine " of this Tuna° vexatts, he will have got a good way towards writing Latin with classical purity.]

flints on Horsemanship to a Nephew and Niece; or Common Sense and Common Errors in Cornmou Riding. By an Officer of the Household Brigade of Cavalry.

r The views :wear to be original, simple, and derived from practice but though intelligible if patiently worked out, they are not expressed with remarkable lucidity. The principle of the writer is excellent—to make good riding con- sist in an exercise of the rider's will operating upon a well-taught horse, instead of a collection of dry rules, or a mere effort of muscular force. One curious fact he states—that the figures in the remains of the Elgin marbles exhibit the perfection of horsemanship.] 21e Hand-Book to Paris; or Traveller's Guide to the French 'Capital, Boulogne, Calais, Havre, Dieppe, Rou0n, Amiens, Versailles, &c. [Professes to be written by a resident in France, whose avocations lead him frequently to travel between the two capitals : and the internal evidence of the little book supports the assertion ; possessing a good. &al of information of a fresh and practical kind, with fewer of those list's of sights and shows which are copied by common guide-books from came another, and which, as the author truly observes, can more conveniently be learned on the spot. Its data for expenses have also a practical evidence about them—not being too cheap.] Domestic Manners of the Americans. By FRANCES TROLLOPE, Author

of "Time Widow Barnaby," "The Vicar of Wrexhill," &c. Fifth edi- tion. (Bentley's Standard Library of Popular Modern Literature.)

[A cheap reprint of Mrs. TROLLOPE'S most famous, and undoubtedly most able work. Turning over the pages of the Donzestic Manners after a long in- terval, we find in Mrs. TROLLOPE'S travels, more of poetry in the descriptions,

of truth in the sketches of characters and manners, and of comprehension in the remarks, than appear in her fiction, with far less of straining. So much mo- deration and even fairness does there now seem in her narrative, that had it not been for the tetchiness of the Americans, and the busy malice of a certain set on this side of the water, we are inclined to believe the book would not have

attained so much celebrity. The text of the present volume is that of the ori- ginal; whatever the author does by way of modification or confirmation, is done by notes. A portrait is prefixed—taken, we apprehend, a few years ago, and looking personable, with more of humour than spite in the expression.] A Popular Treatise on the Kidney: its hitherto unknown Functions, and its Diseases, in connexion with the Circulating Animal Oils. &c. With Advice to persons on their Secretions. By GEORGE CORTE.

Continental Fragments. By CHARLES RICHARD WELD.

PAMPHLETS.

Speech of Sir George Sinclair, Bart., 31.P. •' delivered in the House of Commons, Friday, April 19, 1839, on Lord John Russell's Motion respecting the Government of Ireland. [Mr. FRASER has published a complete report of this clever attack upon Ministers, in the form of a cheap pamphlet, for extensive circulation by the dozen or hundred. It contains several racy passages omitted or slurred over in the newspaper reports : for instance, a supposed harangue by Lord JOHN RUSSELL at the Home Office to a" Committee of Advice" or" Convention of Estates," embracing all sections of" true Reformers."]

Letter to the Electors of Strotul,on the Principles of the Reform Act. By Lord Joins RUSSELL.

A Reply to the Rev. Sidney Smith's Third Letter to Archdeacon Singleton ; in a Letter to the Venerable Archdeacon Wetherell, Prebendary of Gloucester, &c. By the Rev. A. SAYERS, Vicar of Pauntley, Glouces- tershire, The British Constitution ; or the Safeguartis of our Rights. Extracted from the " Bristol Job Not."

The People's Charter and Old Englund for ever.

SERIALS.

Foreign Monthly Review. No.1. [This new periodical is projected with the useful purpose of giving the Eng- hsh public a monthly review of Foreign publications, thus keeping us more completely up to European literature than a quarterly work can do, and sub- stituting an account of many books for elaborate essays on a few subjects. The first number is not a fair specimen of such a magazine ; which, dealing with the literature of' so many countries, must require time to organize and amalga- mate its contributors, and get into the rough working condition the vast variety of parts, both mental and mechanical, that go to make up such a periodical ma- chine. In the specimen before us, however, there is no lack in the number of the articles or the variety of their topics; although, out of sixteen papers, there are two pairs on kindred subjects. The literary merit is not of the highest kind; the grasp not very comprehensive, the penetration not very keen, and the ars scribendi—the power of working up the materials to the best advantage—not prei:minent. These are points, however, that time and culti- vation may remedy ; and much must be allowed for the difficulties of a first number—mucb, probably, for foreigners called upon to address a strange people in a strange tongue.] Thomson's Seasons, and Castle of Indolence. 'With a Biographical Me- moir of the Author. (Smith's Standard Library.) The Poems and Plays of Oliver Goldsmith. With a Biographical Memoir of' the Author. (Smith's Standard Library.) Locke on the Reasonableness of Christianity. 'With a Biographical Me- moir of the Author. (Smith's Standard Library.) Nature and Art. By Mrs. Belmar.% With a Biographical Memoir of the Author. (Smith's Standard Library.) Knickerbocker's History of New Fork. By WasniNcToN (Smith's Standard Library.) [A farther batch of Mr. SmiTti's cheap contributions to useful and entertain- ing knowledge ; embracing poetry, plays, philosophy, fiction, and humour, the chefs-d'eeuvres of GOLDSMITH, THOMSON, INCHBALD, and, as regards the subjects, of LOCKE and W A SHINGTONIRvINO ; the whole to be had for six shillings and sevenpence—little inure than the price of one volume of cheap copyright works.] The Illustrated Skahspere; revised from the best Authorities. With Annotations, and Introductory Remarks on the Plays, by many distin- guished 'Writers : illustrated with nearly one thousand engravings on wood, from designs bv KENNY MEADOWS, engraved by ORRIN SMITH. Part I.—" Tempest.4 [Beautifully printed, in double columns, On tine paper large octavo size ; the pages inlaid with wood-cuts by ORRIN SMITH, from designs by KENNY MEA- DOWS ; arid published at it price that is cheapest of the cheap. We miss the a annotations " promised; neither is there any glossary—which would be ad- visable in a popular edition of SH A KSPERE. The illustrations have a certain hard force that is effective ; but they are exaggerated and fantastical, rather than poetical or humorous conceptions.] The Pictorial Edition of Shalt.spere. Part NrII.—" King Henry IV. Part II."

[In the supplemental commentary on this play the editor takes a peculiar view of the character of Falstaff; ingeniously attempting to reconcile the vin- dication of his bravery with the 'received notion of his cowardice, by show- ing that Falstaff's indolence and sensuality laid him open to the reproach, anti his natural fondness for badinage led hint to banter his own defects, and make practical jokes on his love of ease and his indifference to the opinion of others as to his character—carrying out in reality the jests of his companions. The views of Smithfield, the Tilt-yard, Wrestminster, " Paul's Walk," and Cheap- side in SHAKSPERE'S time, and the representation of " Arthur's Show," are very curious and characteristic.] The Literary World; a Journal of Popular Information and Improve- ment. Part I.

[A weekly miscellany on the plan of The Mirror ; and conducted by Mr. Trams, formerly editor of that first and favourite of the cheap embellished periodicals : indeed, but for the title, it might be mistaken for its prototype, only that we think the wood-engravings (Old and New Bow Bridge and Sir Walter Scott's Monument) are superior in execution. The Edinburgh monu- ment to Sir WALTER SMUT is a very elegant Gothic "cross," or spire, 135 feet high, adorned with pinnacles, &c. ; having a statue of the poet under the lofty vaultings of the base, which is open, so that the figure is seen through the pointed arches. The design was produced in a few days by an untaught genius named KEMP, a journeyman carpenter, more from impulse than with any ex- pectation of success: it was awarded a prize, however, in a first competition ; and an improved version of it was almost unanimously adopted at a second. In lightness and prodigality of enrichment it may vie with the finest examples of florid Gothic ; nor is it less admirable for beauty of proportion and unity of conception.] A Statistical Account of the British Empire. By J. It. M'Cuttocn, Esq. Second edition, Carrected and enlarged. Part VIII. [This number concludes the periodical publication of this very elaborate work. Besides an Index, the Part contains the Poor-laws by Mr. Coone, which has been rewritten; Mr. FARB'S able and interesting paper on Vital Stat istics ; and Dr. Itiviso's Origin tuel Progress of the English Language.] Heads of the People. No. VII. [By some fatality this clever and amusing periodical has hitherto escaped our notice : it consists of humorous sketches of the peculiarities that characterize the different classes of the community, by some of the popular writers of the day, illustrated by " heads " of each, taken off and laid on the block in the style of a finished executioner by KENNY MEADOWS. Some of the graphic portraits hare more extravagance and grimace than humour, but others embody the spirit of the abstract character capitally. The descriptions are inure various in style than the subjects even ; being alternately sarcastic and kindly, satirical and sentimental, literal and exaggerated. Among the best, are "'rite Monthly Nurse," by LEIGH H UNT ; the "Pew-opener," by DOUGLAS JERROLD ; " The Tee-totaller," by Lama!: Bras:cumin; "The Fashionable Physician," by R. H. HotiNe ; "The Maid of All Work," by EGERTON WEBBE. This publication has also a higher aim, in its beneficial tendency to unmask conventional hypocriAes, and lay bare social evils—as in the instance of "The Governess" and "'Alto Milliner," besides its ridicule of folly and. knavery.] Specimens of the Details of Elizabethan Architecture. Drawn and en- graved by HENRY SHAW, F.S.A. Parts XI. and Xli. [The concluding parts of a graphic record of the characteristics of a style of decoration, that, however incongruous, is not without a richness peculiarly well adapted to the revived taste for old English domestic architecture. Part X1L contains a description of the whole sixty plates, and conveys some curious useful information on the Elizabethan mansions; and a general view of the ornamental features of these edifices.] The Encyclopedia of Ornament. By H. SHAW. No. XIII. [A work of great utility to decorative artists, and manufacturers generally.] Life of Arthur Duke of Wellington. By W. H. MAXWELL. Part I. History of Napoleon. Part III.

The Theory, Practice, and Architecture of Bridges. The Theory by JAMES HANN, of King's College ; ana the Practical and Architectural Treatise by WILLIAM HooKiNo, Architect and Civil Engineer. Part II, A New Translation of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. By EDWARD WILLIAM LANE'. Part XII.

Vegetable Organography. By Atm. P. DE CANDOLLE. Translated by BOUGHTON KINGDON. Parts III. anti IV.

The Pictorial History of England. Part XXVII.

Nicholas Nickleby, No. XIV.

The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, the Ventriloquist. By SHERRY. With Illustrations by ONWHYN, Part II.

Pickwick Abroad. Part XVI.

The Churches of London. No, XXIX.