PROGRESS OF PUBLICATION.
AFTER a period of considerable quiescence in the publishing world, matters have begun to stir. In addition to a variety of smaller publications, we have received, towards the close of our -week, CAMPBELL'S Letters from the South ; RAUMER's Frederick the Second and his Times; Sir ARTHUR BROOKE FAULKNER'S Letters to Lord Brougham, descriptive of a rambling tour through France, Italy, and Switzerland ; and, after a delay of some three months, the last volume of Mr. AINSWORTH'S Crichton, and from Mr. BENTLEY instead of Mr. MACRONE. We wish that authors would not send us part of their books, unless it is certain that the remainder will follow very speedily. The number of living writers whose works will bear a second perusal is small indeed.
Besides these, why se names are a guarantee for at least notice- able merit, we have three late arrivals of a dubious kind-
1. Mr. ANTROHUs'S Phi/amp/ilea/ and Practical View of the Social Bearings and Importance ‘f Education ; a book whose views appear to be fuuuded less upon scientific study and the in- vestigation of facts, than upon the speculations of the author. This notion, however, is jumped at from a glance. Should we be wrong, we will not fail to say so, if it be worth white.
2. het:moss on the Corn-Laws, seems to mix up investigations into the causes and remedies of agricultural distress, with woad and religious directions touching what ought to be the conduct of Christians relating to the Corn-laws. We have even less faith in ILIHOTsON than in ANTROHUS: but, as a set-off to our scepticism, let it be said, that the substance of much of this book was deli- vered at Sheffield in the form of a lecture, and published at the request of the audience.
3. A Sketch of the Commercial Resources and Monetary and Mercantile System of British India, with Suggestions for their Improvement, by means of Banking Establishments ; of which we can only say at present that the subject is good.
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