PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

The publishers have instinctively grasped the small nature or slender interest of the new Reform Bill, and proceeded on their course without much reference to Parliamentary agitation. Besides launching his own Quarterly Review, Mr. Bentley has aided the birth of the first volume of Lord John Russell's " Life of Fox,"—rather, we fancy, the story of the public career of the politician than the biography of the man,—and the second volume of Guizot's Memoirs, embracing the Glorious Three Days and their immediate sequentia. Messrs. Blackwood have sent forth a work of great but, as regards numbers, of limited interest; the metaphy- sical Lectures of the late Sir William Hamilton. Originally written for delivery during the session of 1836-37, they have in some things been superseded by later remarks of the author and other philosophers ; but to the student or historian of the faculties of the human mind they must ever remain of great value. Notes are added by the editors, or derived from Sir William's own manuscripts or note-books.

Messrs. Black have published a new edition of M'Culloch's " Miscel- lanies in Political Economy," consisting of treatises on money, exchange, interest, and the usury laws, absenteeism, the letting of land, biographies of distinguished economists, and various papers on the history of com- merce, or on questions relating to commerce. They were originally drawn from various sources.

Lastly, Mr. Murray has at length produced the first two parts of " The Hand-Book for India," containing the way to get there, what to see as you go, and excursion " routes ' from Bombay and Madras as head- quarters. Calcutta and other parts will follow in due time.

Boors.

The Life and limes of Charles James Fox. By the Bight Honourable Lord John Russell, M.P. Volume I.

Memoirs to illustrate the History of my Thee. By F. Gnizot, Author of " Me- moirs of Sir Robert Peel," " History of Oliver Cromwell," &c. litc. Trans- lated by T. W. Cole. Volume II.

Lectures on Metaphysics, by Sir William Hamilton, Bart. Edited by the Reverend H. L. Memel, B.D., Oxford, and John Veitch, M.A., Edinburgh. Volumes 1. and H.

Treatise and Essays 071 Money, Exchange, Interest, the Letting of Land, Ab- senteeism, the History of Commerce, Manfactures, ; with Accounts of the Lives and Writings of Quesnay, Adam Smith, Ricardo. By J. R. M'Cul- loch, Esq. Foreign Associate of the Institution of France. Second edition, enlarged and improved.

A Handbook for India ; being an Account of the Three Presidencies and of the Overland Route; intended as a Guide for Travellers, Officers, and Civilians, with Vocabularies and Dialogues of the Spoken Languages of In- dia. With Travelling Map and Plans of Tours.

Creeds. By the Author of " The Morals of May Fair." In three volumes. Poplar Howe Academy. By the Author of " Mary Powell." In two volumes. Air Gilbert. A Novel.

Wanderings of an Artist among the Indians-of North America, from Canada, to Vancouver's Island and Oregon through the Hudson's Bay Company's Ter- ritory, and back again. By Paul Kane.

Bentley's Quarterly Review. No. I.

The Philological _Essays of the late Reverend Richard Garnett of the British Museum. Edited by his Son.—The late Richard Garnett was one of the out school of scholars who pursued learning for itself, without reference to what might be made by it, or even the celebrity that might be attained through it. Circumstances and a sense of duty led him to enter his father's business, paper manufacturing, but the love of phi- lology was too strong. While yet in his teens he determined to give up his social position and prospects for such scanty livelihood as the Church might furnish to a man without interest. He had already gotten French, Italian, and some German. In fouryears, partly occupied with other tasks, he completed his knowledge of Latin, acquired Greek and Hebrew, and in 1809 (he was born in 1789) became teacher at a echool. In 1813 he was ordained; and till 1838 subsisted on the lower class of church preferments and the mastership of schools. In that year he was appointed Assistant-Keeper of Printed Books in the British Museum ; having for the previous twelve years distinguished himself by his phi- lological or learned contributions to various journals, amongst others the Quarterly Review. He died in 1850 of what is called natural decay.

The present volume is a collection, not of his fugitive works but of his philological Essays only. It is drawn from the Quarterly Review or the Transactions of the Philological Society, and embraces a variety of subjects, some of them special, as English Dialects, while others go to the root of langasee The Causation, and J-'7wention of Disease. By John Parlrin. , M.D., Ice. —This volume. to a great extant is controversial, Dr. Parkin opposing the theory of the Pcard of Health, &tag!" the opinion belongs as much to a body of practiltioners throughout the countty, that exhalations from ani- mal and vegetable matter, overcrowding, dirt, lad drainage, and the hire, are a great cause of disease. That many advocates of sanitary reform exaggerate the evils induced by its absence we quite believe, ascribing to one cause that which originates in several causes, including natural debility, bad food, and the ills of poverty. But Dr. Parkin pushes his arguments much too far, some of the many facts, for example, which he adduces to support his opinions admitting of other explanations. His own view of the subject is, that disease continually originates from earthy exhalations, in fact malaria. His preventive check is cover. As long as marshes are full of water there is no danger ; dis- ease only commences when they are partially dry. In the country, therefore, plant ; in towns pave. He gives instances of courts and other places becoming healthier after they have been paved, The malaria is kept down.

General _Debility and Defective Nutrition. By Alfred Smee, F.R.S., Surgeon to the Bank of England, &c.—The substance of this little book was originally delivered as a lecture to the Hunterian Society. It calls attention to the importance of looking at debility by itael4 as well as in connection with disease, tracing its causes and applying a remedy; a main cure being diet. It is a sensible and useful publication; but not very striking.

Why Should We Learn ? Short Lectures !addressed to Schools. By Emily Shirreff, Author of " Intellectual Education," &c.—A series of lectures, intended to stimulate the youthful to a love of education, by showing the great advantages that have sprung from it, not only to in- dividuals, but to whole classes of society, especially the poor. The au- thor seems aware of the leading defect of treatment ; that the key is pitched rather too high for children in general. She has not allowed herself space to develop the true subject ; which is the influence of edu- cation on the social advancement of mankind, with remarks on its moral and religious effects.

Rival Rhymes in Honour of Burns. Collected and Edited by Ben Trovato.—If this imitation of "the Rejected Addresses" were ten times better than it is, a satire on the poets of the day, in the form of a bur- lesque on the Burn's Centenary Poems, would not obtain the same suc- cess as the work of the Brothers Smith, because it would only be the imitation of an imitation. But Rival Rhymes has no pretensions even to approach its precursor, and in fact proceeds upon a false prin- ciple of treatment. The great merit of " the Rejected Addresses " was that they went beyond imitation. They represented as it were the very mind of the authors burlesqued, though of course in their weaknesses. In some cases they even exhibited types ; as in Fitzgerald we had not merely the tavern poet, but the whole tribe of inconsequential reasoners and foolish reflectors. These Rival Rhymes are often mere parodies. They do not reproduce even the style of an author, much leas his mind. Sometimes they simply parody some particular work. Campbell's Battle of the Baltic is travestied, as the "Bard of Hope's" contribution from Hades. " The Penny-a-Liner's Hope " is in parts almost a verbal echo of Barry Cornwall's Sea.

" I see, I see, I fondly see

That '

mine the Crystal Prize shall be ;

Ma name 'twill mark, and enlarge. my bound,

Till runneth my fame Earth's regions round I'll sing of the clouds and mock the skies,

With plenty of other bright mockeries. I'll have a spree! I'll have a spree !

When the fifty guineas they give to me."

Other poems have less of the mere parody, but perhaps they less dis-

tinctly suggest the original. In short the collection has no other inte- rest than arises from a skit on current topics, while in point of merit the pieces are not equal to the parodies in Punch and some other journals The Martyrs of Lyons and Vienne. By the Reverend Frederick K.. Harford, M.A., F.A.S., Chaplain to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Gibraltar.—The story of the martyrs that perished in the persecution under Aurelius Antoninus as narrated by Eusebius, told in heroic verse with requisite poetical variations. The execution has a scholarly air, but the piece does not rise above the quality of the University prize poem.

Francesca and other Poems. By William J. Notley.—The piece which gives its name to this volume, is the tale of an Italian lady who stabs her sister because she, the sister, is engaged to a gentleman with whom Fran- cesca is secretly in love. Another poem called the Dream seems sug- gested in form by Dante's Vision though in substance it is intended as a satire on the age. The remainder of the pieces are of the occasional kind. There is no spirit of poetry in the volume, and little of mechani- cal cleverness.

Things Worth Knowing about Horses. By Harry Hieover, Author of "Hints to Horsemen," &c.—The subjects of Harry Hieover's present volume are of a more technical or at all events a less general kind, dai is usually the case. Among the topics of this nature are " curby-hooked horses," "faulty hocked horses," and where the matters are of a larger kind they are still limited to practical horsemanship. "Trotting horses" and the economy of stables are the most popular themes. The book seems a reprint of papers.

Poetry : a Lecture delivered in London. By Frederick Mode, M.A., Oxon.—A sort of rhapsody on poetry and poets with copious quotations, chiefly from living authors. There is as little of real criticism or in- formation in the publication as well can be.

Plain Sermons, preached at Archbishop Tenison's Chapel, Regent Street. By John Galloway Cowan, Minister.—Ten sermons on some of the many duties that continually spring up in the Christian's path, treated, as the title expresses it, plainly. The principles of the preacher are High Church, but quite removed from Romanism, and moderately expressed.

Dr. Cumming has collected the addresses to young men he has de- livered at various places for some years past into a goodly volume; Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have included the fifteenth edition of poor Eliot Warburton's "Crescent and Cross " in their Standard Library" ; and Messrs. Routledge complete Disraeli'a "Amenities of Literature.

Lectures to Young Men, delivered on various occasions, by the Rowland iukp Cumming, D.D., F.R.S.E., Minister of the National Scottish Church, crown Court, Covent Garden. The Crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and Realities of Eastern-Tamed. sy

Eliot Warburton. Fifteenth Edition.

Amenities of Literature, consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature. By Isaac Disraeli. A new edition, edited by his son the Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Chancellor of her Majesty's Exchequer. In two volumes. Volume II.

The Works of the _Reverend Sydney Smith. Including his Contribution to the Edinburgh Review.

Tales from Illaellcood. My College Friends : Charles Russell, the Gentleman- Commoner. The Magic Lay of the One Horse Chay.