PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

Booze.

Twenty-seven Years in Canada West; or the Experience of an Early Settler. By Major Strickland, C.M. Edited by Agnes Strickland, Author of " The Queens of England," &c. In two volumes. The Life of Toussaint l' °overture, the Negro Patriot of Hayti. By the Reverend Joseph IL Beard, D.D. With numerous Engravings. Crime : its Amount, Causes, and Remedies. By Frederic Hill, Bar- rister-at-law, late Inspector of Prisons. "My Novel." By Phistratus Caxton; or Varieties in English Life. In four volumes. Vitiate. By Currer Bell, Author of "Jane Eyre, &c. &c. In three volumes. Rigby Grand; an Autobiography. By G. J. iVhyte Melville. In two volumes. The List of the Queen's Scholars of St. Peter's College, Westminster, admitted on that foundation since 1663 ; and of such as have been thence elected to Christ Church, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cara- bridge, from the foundation by Queen Elizabeth,. 1561, to the present time To which is prefixed, a list of the Deans of Westminster, &c. Collected by Joseph Welch. A new edition, with very numerous ad- ditions relating to persons educated at the School, as well as those on the foundation. By an Old King's Scholar.

The Plaint of Freedom.

Daisy Burns; a Tale. By Julia Kavanagh, Author of " Nathalie," &c. In three volumes.

Lares and Penates; or Cilicia and its Governors : being a short His- torical Account of that Province from the Earliest Times to the Pre- sent Day. By William Burekhardt Barker, M.R.A.S. &e. Edited by W. F. Ainsworth, F.R.G.S., &c. [The late Mr. Barker, our Consul-General in Egypt, resided in the East for fifty years, having settled in Syria when he retired from public service. His son, the author of the volume before us, drew in the languages and habits of the Orient as part of his nurture, and he has already distinguished himself by memoirs on the state of his real rather than his adopted country.. The Tares and Penates is of a more elaborate character than contributions to "-Transactions" ; involving the ancient and modern history of Cilicia; its antiquities, to whose number Mr. Barker has added; its geography, inha- bitants, productions, sports, and so forth. The subject is local or subordinate, though the fate of empire has been decided on its territory from the battle of Issue to the final establishment of the Turkish power; and Mr. Barker has not always treated it with the fulness of a particular theme, or he wants the vivid and descriptive power which is necessary to endow topographical history with a living interest.] A Legend of Pembroke Castle, and other:Tales. By Frances Georgiana Herbert. In two volumes. [These volumes contain three tales. "Pembroke Castle," a story of the last Plantagenets, (the hero, however, being Henry the Seventh,) by Frances Georgians Herbert. A Spanish tale of love, romance, and revenge, con- nected with the last days of Granada, by Maria Justine Herbert, Chanoiness of the Royal Chapter of St. Anne of Munich. "Adeline," a tale of modern life, though with a strong spice of mystery in it, is by Frances again. Of these short novels, "Adeline " we think the best ; because the authoress is dealing with matters about which she has an actual knowledge, whereas both writers are deficient in the imagination, perhaps the learning, necessary to revive the past.] The Flight of the Pigeon ; or a Trip from Paris to Vienna. By Drapeau Blanc. [A journey from Paris to Vienna, and the misfortunes of a Countess de M. . . . , whose husband was "missing" in the Revolution of 1848, form the leading topics- of The Flight of the Pigeon. These are varied by a sort of'innocent flirtation on the road between the writer and a young German governess of the Countess returning to her family, who tells the story by the way. There is not much in the matter, and the manner is overdone : the book is a faint and diluted imitation of Stern's "Sentimental Journey," so far as the sentiment is concerned.] History of France for Children. In Letters to his Nieces. By Vis- count Cranborne. The leading events in the history of France told in a style adapted to chil- dren. Viscount Cranborne is not always to be implioitly followed. Whether the Albigenses "were a body of heretics who did not believe the same as the rest of their fellow Christians, and who would set up their own opinions against the faith of the Catholic Church," is to some extent a question of "foregone conclusion." There can be no question that the leader of the Crusade was not the Simon de Montfort, "Earl of Leicester, whom you may have read of in the history of England." The imputed founder of the Eng- lish House of Commons was the son of the Crusader.] Suggestions on the Ancient Britons. Part I. [An antiquarian work of a character rather dry, from a want of the distinct purpose and animation which are requisite to render interesting inquiries or speculations into a remote period, of which only scanty facts remain.] Notes of the Flood at the Bed River, 1852. By the_Biehop of Rupert's Land.

[Rupert's Land is that portion of the Hudson's Bay Territory which extends Northward from Canada ; and this volume contains a diary of the flood that in 1852 devastated the neighbourhood of the settlement where the Bishop resides. The narrative exhibits a kindly and pious spirit, but is so much mixed up with religious feeling that the natural phenomena are im- perfectly impressed.]

;Tillage Sermons. Second Series. By R. D. B. Bawnsley, M.A., Vicar of Shiplake, Oxon, &c. [If we remember rightly, the first series of Mr. Rawnsley's discourses were chiefly on the Catechism. The present volume takes a wider range of to- pics, adapted to the comprehension of a village congregation, and treated in a simple manner.] Sermunis on Passing Seasons and Events. By Robert Lamb, M.A., St. John's College, Defend, 803. [A. series of sermons inculcating practical lessons. The Christianity is Pro- testant ; the matter substantial ; and the style possesses a plain strength.] The Boyhood of Great Men, intended as an Example to Youth: Wiha Eight Illustration by lariat Fester- [This hook is rather notices of the early lives of great men in almost every branch of greatness,. than of their boyhood; indeed, of the boyhood/4 most heroes of biography not very much has been preserved. It is a conimiation drawn from obvious sources.]

Life and Canymigns of the Duke of Wellington..

[A phi ling quarto in double columns, with a. number of wood-outs,. coarse in execution, but striking in duaign.] The Peak and the Plain : Scenes in Woodland, Field, aad. Mountain. By Spencer T. Hall, the Sherwood Forester, Ph.D., 8io.; Author of "The Forester's Offeiring," &c. [A. series of tales and sketches illustrative of English- life-and scenery. It is a pleasant book. Part of it originally appeared as the "ForeetesOffering" and " Rambles in the Country."1 Ferdinand I. and Maximilian IL of Austria ; or a View of the gion and Political State of Germany after the Reformation. By Pro- fessor von Ranke. Translated by Sir Alexander and Lady Duff Gor- don. (Traveller's Library:) Analysis of the History. and Constitution of England, in Question and Answer, for the Use_ofSehools. By J. M. Menzies, B.A.

The most notable new editien. is Pope's Homer with Flaxman's designs and a variety of other illustrations ;, explanatory notes, with " parallel pas-

sages," by the editor, Mr. Buckley; and an introduction, which gives a ju-

dicious estimate of Pope, and enters sensibly into the question of whether there- ever was such a man as Homer. The next in point of literary at- traction is Scott's " Monastery," in the Library edition of the Waverley

Novels ; though, as regards the halo of a name,. sense- may perhaps give a priority to Coleridge's Notes on English Divines," mostly extracted from his Literary Remains : but the notes on Baxter appear for the first time. Mr. Murray has included in his Railway Reading, Lord Malion's essay on Joan of Arc, originally published in the Quarterly Review. Our old friend "The Year-look of Facts" also appears as fresh as ever. The Iliad of Homer, translated by Pope. With an Introduction and Notes, by the Reverend J. A. Buckley, M.A. With Flaxman's De- signs, and other Engravings. In two volumes. Wavcrley Novels. Library EditiOn. Volume X. "The Monastery." Notes on English Divines. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Edited. by the Reverend Derwent Coleridge, M.A. In two volumes. Joan of Arc. By Lord Mahon. (Murrav's Railway Reading.) The lear Book of Facts in Science and Art, &c. By John limbs;

Editor of "The Arcane of Science and Art."

Forest and Fireside Hours. Poems.. By. Westby Tibson. Second. edi- tion.

Sanest..

The Practice Draughtsman's Book of Industrial Design ; forming a complete course of Mechanical, Engineering, and Architectural Draw- ing. Translated from the French of M. Armengaud, alai, Professor of Design in the Conservatoire des Arts at Metiers, Paris, and MM. Armengaud, jeune, and Amouroux, Civil Engineers. Rewritten and arranged, with additional Metter and Plates, by William. Johnson, Assoc. Inst. C.E., Editor of "The Prnetirol Mechanic's Journal." Part I. [This work is divided into nine sections, commencing with simple linear drawing, and ending with exact perspective ; it is to be completed m twelve monthly parts. The present part initiates the first section; after an intro-

ductory list of definitions, and a. table of abbreviations and conventional signs. We presume the preface is one of the portions that has not been "re-

written" ; for it evinces the French habit of growing literary and even eloquent over any subject—so positive a one as mechanical draughtsmanship not excepted. The plates,. of which there are five, era carefully engraved= steel.]

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Manual for the Militia; or Fighting Made Easy. A. Practical Tree. rise on Strengthening and Defending. Military Posts,. Hedges, Woods, Hour a, Walls, &c., Deference to the Duties of a Force engaged in disputing the Advance of an Enemy. By Lieutenant-Colonel Jebb, C.B" Royal. Engineers. [A popular exposition of the principles of field fortifeation, or the bestmeana of delaying 811 enemy by retarding his advance. It is very neatly and plainly done, and accompanied_ by cuts, which are at once diagrams and pictures.' New Strategies in Warfare, &c. By John Mackintosh, C.E.

A Letter to the Bight Honourable the Earl of Malmesbury, Secretary

of State for Foreign Affairs,. &c.,, relative to. the. Proceedings of

Sir James Brooke,. &c., in Borneo.. By Joseph Hume, M.P..

A Scheme for the Governmaitof India. By George Campbell. "Old Things and New." A Sermon preached in the Chapel of Trinity College, on Wednesday 15th December 1852. By W. H. Thompson, ALA., Fellow and Tutor. The Letter and Spitit,of, Scripture. By the Reverend Thomas Wi/sony M.A., &o.

What is Truth?

A' Farmer's- Budget. Correspondence with the National Provident Institution, upon the In- security of a. Nomineeship in the event of Bankruptcy or Insolvency of the Assured, &e. By John Grinsted. The Rimers Case; the. Banger of Conviction on Circum- stantial Evidence, &o.